In the on-going search for speed and agility, all-flash storage is becoming the solution of choice for a growing number of businesses.
According to findings from the IDC, “revenue growth for AFA has continued to outperform expectations as customers are rapidly transitioning from legacy to flash-optimised storage architectures.
“More than 80% of IT organisations believe the ‘all-flash for primary storage’ strategy is right for their environments and will be moving more workloads to all-flash storage platforms over time.”
Earlier this year, HPE completed its acquisition of Nimble Storage, a leading provider of predictive all-flash and hybrid-flash storage solutions. This new partnership has created an unbeatable combined storage portfolio that spans the full range of the market, offering advantages to both partners and customers.
What are the benefits for partners?
With HPE Nimble, partners can address more customer uses cases than ever before, thanks to an optimal flash storage portfolio. You can sell all-flash and hybrid flash arrays that complement HPE 3PAR high-end arrays and entry-level MSA storage.
As well as an improved flash storage portfolio, partners also get access to a number of other Nimble solutions. InfoSight, Nimble’s cloud-based array monitoring and predictive analytics package, powers businesses to anticipate and prevent problems, automatically detecting over 90% of issues within a customer’s infrastructure, resolving over 85% of them and delivering six-nines uptime. HPE is looking to roll out InfoSight across its storage portfolio, enabling partners to offer a stronger, simplified support experience.
Finally, to further expand your portfolio, you can also offer Nimble Cloud Volumes, which store data in the public cloud to support cloud compute, providing data portability across AWS and Azure.
What are the benefits for customers?
For customers, HPE Nimble provides the scope to seamlessly move data and replicate across hybrid flash and all-flash storage, enabling a vast range of primary and secondary workloads. They get integrated data protection via application aware snapshots, encryption, replication and integration with HPE’s ecosystem of leading ISVs.
They’ll also benefit from predictive support automation, which anticipates and prevents problems before they’re even aware there is one.
Finally, they’ll get a cloud-ready array portfolio, enabling multi-cloud environments and simple data migration both on and off-premise.
For the time being, Nimble will continue to operate separately from HPE, with combined HPE and Nimble Storage solutions to be announced later in the year. Tech Data is ready to help partners scope, develop and deliver Nimble Storage business.
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