3 Reasons Your Customers Should Consider HPE Nimble Storage

All-Flash & Adaptive Flash Storage Solutions that Meet Primary and Secondary Storage NeedsYour customers expect immediate access to data — all the time, and without interruption. However, reality does not always equal expectations. IT operations personnel in every organization struggle to ensure data is available to business applications. Users lose productivity, customers become unhappy, and IT ends up spinning its wheels trying to figure out which part of the infrastructure is the source of the problem. Is it the storage, virtual machine (VM), networking, or the application itself? The more you know about flash storage options such as HPE Nimble Storage, the better prepared you’ll be to help your customers overcome these challenges.

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Storage for Any WorkloadHPE Nimble Storage arrays make deploying hybrid IT simple, dependable, and help keep your customers happy. In the digital economy, time to value is paramount. Your customers need to deploy infrastructure resources faster to support their business applications. Simplified storage management leaves more time to work on strategic business initiatives and innovation. The faster problems are resolved, the more the business benefits.

As IT gets more complex, many customers are looking for simplicity. This is where HPE Nimble Storage arrays come in. They deliver balanced value, and customers can choose from all-flash or a mix of flash and even more cost-effective storage options:

All Flash Arrays(HPE Nimble AF-Series All Flash Arrays)

Built for speed and targeted at high-performance or latency-sensitive workloads where all-flash performance is critical. These arrays are ideal for VMWare vSphere, VDI workloads, or back office applications, such SQL Server and Oracle, where all-flash performance is critical.

Adaptive Flash Arrays(HPE Nimble HF-Series Adaptive Flash Arrays)

Combine high-performance flash with cost-optimized disk drives to achieve optimal price/performance. Flash performance of mixed and/or mainstream workloads. These arrays can run the same VM-based applications, but work well where all-flash is not required. The HPE Nimble HF-Series Adaptive Flash Arrays can also work well for customers who are looking to make better use of backup data for testing or QA applications.

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PREDICTIVEOptimize Performance Using Predictive Analytics

One challenge that most IT operations staff face is diagnosing performance issues, such as high latency, and resolving them quickly to minimize the impact. Businesses today can’t wait while applications are starving for data. While in most cases, the storage system is the logical first point of blame for a performance issue, it’s not usually as simple as that. The whole infrastructure stack is complex and issues are often due to a cross stack interoperability problem or resource contention, or something other than the storage. In many cases, a lot of time and energy is wasted through vendor finger-pointing.

HPE Nimble Storage arrays leverage the predictive analytics power of HPE InfoSight to alleviate these issues. Using the information gathered from millions of sensors in storage systems in the field, HPE InfoSight uses cloud analytics to identify patterns and issues that rob application stacks of performance. It can effectively predict issues that may come up in the course of operations and proactively address them. HPE InfoSight is an effective tool through which Hewlett Packard Enterprise can achieve its vision of the autonomous data center: one that is self-managed, self-healing, and self-optimizing.

AI for the Data CenterThrough the use of HPE InfoSight and predictive analytics, enterprises save time and money while maintaining application performance and availability.1

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Lower IT OpEx Fewer storage trouble tickets

Less time spent troubleshooting storage

Faster time to resolution (TTR) when needing Level 3 support

79% 73% 85% 69%

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Common Uses for Cloud-Ready Storage

Long-term data retention: Many IT organizations cannot delete backups in case future restores are needed or for compliance with legal requirements. This drives the need to retain vast datasets for years or decades, potentially raising cost and complexity.

Disaster recovery: Investing in and managing an owned off-site location that prevents the business from coming to a halt in the event of a site outage, ransomware threat, or natural disaster is cost-prohibitive for many businesses. Yet high costs associated with the transfer of large amounts of data to the cloud remain a barrier.

CLOUD READYAs organizations make the transition to hybrid IT, many incorporate cloud-based infrastructure into their environments. The amount of cloud-based resources can vary by organization, but it is increasingly important for IT staff to have the capability to move data among and between their public clouds, private clouds, and on-premises infrastructure. This helps IT support the anytime, anywhere accessibility, but having the flexibility to move data where it is needed based on its value and security attributes is critical.

With HPE Nimble Storage, your customers can seamlessly move data between on-premises environments and the cloud using HPE Cloud Volumes and Cloud Bank Storage.

HPE Cloud Volumes helps get applications to the cloud faster. It is an enterprise-grade cloud storage service for running applications on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, delivering enterprise features, reliability, and security with the freedom to use any cloud.

HPE Cloud Bank Storage is a feature of HPE StoreOnce Systems, industry-leading data protection storage, that delivers highly efficient data transfer to, and storage in, the cloud. The combination of the HPE StoreOnce deduplication and cloud storage delivers a low-cost, high-performance, and zero-risk long-term retention solution.

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Reduce the need for a proof of concept (POC)The HPE Store More Guarantee confirms the excellent effective capacity of the HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays.

What’s the Scoop with SCM and NVMe?SCM is a new class of storage media and NVMe is a high-performance communications protocol. These technologies are designed for high-performance, latency-sensitive workloads.

TIMELESSThe “Timeless” strategy is supported by the HPE 6-Nines Guarantee2 and all-inclusive licensing. In addition, HPE Nimble Storage investments bring value both today and tomorrow via a future-proofed architecture that enables seamless (non-disruptive) technology upgrades. The next-generation HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays are Storage Class Memory (SCM) and Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) Ready, providing your customers an easy upgrade path to better performance.

HPE makes it easier for your customers to make the right choice about flash storage by offering their Store More Guarantee. HPE guarantees that HPE Nimble All Flash Arrays will deliver the most effective capacity per raw TB of flash than other all-flash arrays. Your customers no longer need to worry about how much data can be stored after accommodating overhead and data reduction.

HPE Nimble All Flash Arrays also offer leading price-performance for their category. Recent enhancements deliver up to 220% increase in price/performance (as compared to previous models). HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays leverage inline, always-on dedupe, making them the industry’s most efficient hybrid arrays.

HPE Nimble Storage makes storage simple, predictive, and cloud-ready: the perfect trio to integrate flash storage into your customers’ environments.

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For more information, please contact our SYNNEX Business Development Team at hpe@synnex.com or call us at 800-444-7380, option 1.

SYNNEX – Your HPE Supplier of ChoiceThink of SYNNEX as your Hewlett Packard Enterprise supplier partner. SYNNEX is committed to supporting our partners with a variety of professional and marketing services, including: demand generation; education and training; pre-and post-sales support; end-user enablement; server assessment; design and integration; product life cycle support; contract design and assembly; and IT resource planning.

We are honored to be chosen as the HPE Distributor of the Year for 2017. We carry the full HPE Enterprise portfolio and have the expertise to provide technical support. We provide a variety of flexible financing solutions as well as comprehensive integration solutions. In addition, here are a few things that we offer to specifically help you close more HPE SimpliVity, HPE Nimble Storage, and HPE Synergy sales:

• Solutions Demo Lab — featuring HPE SimpliVity and HPE Nimble Storage — for our partners to provide demos to their customers

• Dedicated HPE Specialists to support HPE enterprise infrastructure solution opportunities

• Two master ASEs for HPE Storage on our HPE Solution Architect Team

• Free training opportunities

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1 Enterprise Strategy Group, “Assessing the Financial Impact of HPE InfoSight Predictive Analytics,” Sept 12, 2017. 2 “HPE Get 6-Nines Guarantee – Nimble Storage”, Hewlett Packard Enteprise, September 2017.3 “HPE Store More Guarantee”, 2018.