Challenges
The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays solutions:
- Addressed the following requirements with HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays:
- Need for high performance
- Need for flexible and scalable capacity
Use Case
The key features and functionalities of HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays solutions that the surveyed company uses:
- Consolidates the following workloads or applications on their HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays:
- Development and testing
- Databases
- Server virtualization
- VDI
- Email / collaboration
- Uses the following apps or database environments in conjunction with HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays:
- Oracle
- VMware
- Microsoft SQL
- MySQL
- File Services
- VDI
- HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays was chosen over or replaced the following solutions:
- Dell/EMC: replaced
- NetApp: replaced
- Pure Storage: replaced
Results
The surveyed company achieved the following results with HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays solutions:
- Rates the value of the following capabilities offered by HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays:
- ability to predict and resolve problems (HPE InfoSight): very valuable
- prescriptive forecasts into capacity, performance, and bandwidth requirements (HPE InfoSight): very valuable
- replication and integration with leading backup software: very valuable
- holistic view across the infrastructure stack: very valuable
- data encryption and secure over-the-wire protection: very valuable
- ability to migrate data between all-flash and hybrid flash: very valuable
- ability to migrate data between on-premises and cloud: valuable
- Reports the following as strengths of HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays over other storage vendors:
- Predictive Analytics with HPE InfoSight is a unique differentiator
- Allows storage of more application data per TB of flash
- Nimble Storage reliability (guaranteed 99.9999% availability) is best in class
- Timeless storage features and benefits for better value over time
- Improved the following metrics since using HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays:
- improved the time required for Performance troubleshooting: >75%
- improved the time required for Storage provisioning: >75%
- improved the time required for Capacity planning/design (predictive analytics): >75%
- improved the time required for Provisioning upgrades: >75%
- improved the time to respond to customer requests: >75%
- saw an improvement in performance (IOPs): >75%
- reduced their power / cooling / rack space: >75%
- increased their managed capacity per admin: >75%
- reduced their unplanned or planned downtime for improved availability: >75%
- improved their cost per performance: >75%
- Agrees with the following statement:
- their experience with HPE since Nimble became part of HPE has been positive: strongly agree
- they continue to have a productive customer support experience since Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s acquisition of Nimble Storage: strongly agree
- the website and product information experience under HPE is better than what they experienced with Nimble before the acquisition of Nimble by HPE: strongly agree
