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Solutions are available that allow faster uptime and more reliability of data whenever it’s needed. Solution provider partners can offer comprehensive storage tools with predictive flash offerings that offer instant access to stored data, such as HPE Nimble Storage.

A company’s most valuable asset is its data, which in today’s business environment lives on smartphones, laptops, servers, and in the cloud. The unprecedented amount of new data generated in today’s digital economy by Big Data, the Internet of Things, and other advances, wreaks havoc on IT infrastructures unable to keep pace.

As the complexity of infrastructure grows to accommodate this influx of data, so do the storage needs of the modern digital business: always-on availability of data coupled with fast, reliable performance and access to stored data without a complete system refresh. Companies demand:

y A storage solution that is reliable as well as fast

y Proven failover capabilities that ensure standby systems will handle the load if the primary system goes down

y Systems that can access multiple backups should the primary source be ransacked by ransomware or another type of breach

y A strategy for storage scale as data volumes increase and decrease according to business needs

y Cost-effective strategies and technology that provide consistent ROI

$51 billionWorldwide spending on data storage by 2019.1

40% growth rateThe amount of data that needs to be stored, managed, and protected each year.2

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Flash: Architected for SpeedThe speed of business dictates that data be reliable and accessible at all times. In response to these mounting business needs, businesses are increasingly adopting all-flash and flash-based storage solutions. Among the reasons for this upward trend:

y All-flash storage solutions work to reduce the storage footprint by 80 percent, reduce costs up to 75 percent, accelerate application performance, and scale storage for business needs.3

y They offer significantly faster speeds than traditional hard-disk drives (HDDs). Simple solid-state drives (SSDs) are about 1,000x faster than HDDs in performing random I/O tasks and boast bandwidth of between 5-100x faster than the fastest HDDs.4

Until recently, flash arrays were thought to be too expensive to be used in enterprise data centers. Yet, the capacity cost differential between SSDs and HDDs is dropping, and enterprises are realizing that this only accounts for one of the many valuable metrics associated with these solutions:

y Greater storage density

y Storage compression

y Minimal power usage

y Longer lifespans than HDDs

y Markedly better performance and bandwidth capabilities

y Deduplication features

y Integration with the entire IT infrastructure

These advantages are intensifying. In July 2017, Gartner predicted that “within the next 12 months, solid-state arrays (SSA) will improve in performance by a factor of 10, and double in density and cost-effectiveness, therefore changing the dynamics of the storage market.” Furthermore, Gartner predicts that

by 2021, “50 percent of data centers will use SSAs for high-performance computing and big data workloads, up from less than 10 percent today.”5

Today’s flash storage solutions deliver cost savings through deduplication, compression, and other data reduction techniques.

Gain Insight with HPE InfoSightHPE Nimble Storage arrays come with HPE InfoSight predictive analytics, one of the main reasons customers prefer Nimble over the competition:

y Insight into problems and proactive prevention. HPE InfoSight has been analyzing millions of diagnostic sensors every second since 2010, helping resolve and even prevent problems or incidents. VMvision correlates storage with other stack layers to find performance problems, and HPE Nimble Storage support helps solve and prevent non-storage related issues.

y The HPE InfoSight development team builds advanced analytics and visualizations by applying data science techniques to give customers unmatched insights. As HPE InfoSight learns, the infrastructure gets smarter and more reliable.

y HPE InfoSight’s clear recommendations help customers predict when performance is problematic, and automatically provide alerts and resolutions.

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AI: Awareness Beyond StorageTo meet the challenges of ensuring data availability and fast application performance, businesses must take a proactive approach to preventing problems before they occur and minimizing the impact on end users. Predictive analytics has become a critical tool in a business’ data center.

Predictive analytics works by mining large amounts of relevant data to rank and correlate past behaviors to predict future ones. It uses machine learning to ingest the incoming reams of data and, using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) engines, learn from previous situations. As the machine-learning algorithm collects more information, it fine-tunes its analyses and leads to progressively faster response times.

One family of flash storage solutions, HPE Nimble Storage, includes predictive analytics as part of its benefits. The new generation of HPE Nimble Storage arrays come with HPE InfoSight predictive analytics, making your infrastructure smarter and more reliable as it learns from the install base.

HPE Nimble Storage: Smart, Flash-Based Storage for Fail-Safe PerformanceStorage keeps your business running — and it’s time to consider more than just capacity and protection. Gain the ability to maximize your options to access the data backups you need to execute your business efficiently with storage solutions from Getronics (formerly Pomeroy), featuring HPE Nimble Storage predictive flash arrays.

Real-Life Solutions in Action

#1: Auto Tech Gets HPE Nimble StorageAn advanced automotive technology company recently chose Getronics and HPE Nimble Storage to solve its configuration, management, and support issues. Its in-house staff was not able to handle the additional issues associated with its previous storage solution, but employing HPE Nimble allowed it to offload support tasks and alleviate the issues surrounding their business needs. With the increased bandwidth and capacity, the company optimized HPE InfoSight predictive analytics for reporting and problem-solving to better focus on critical business tasks — ultimately allowing them to hit the gas on continuity and propel their business forward.

#2: Going Pro with StorageWhen a professional sports team with multiple storage vendors and a small IT staff needed to focus on virtualizing their environment, they chose Getronics and HPE Nimble Storage. The rich features and benefits that come with HPE Nimble allowed the team to manage the virtualization transition smoothly, offered insight into the new virtual platform, and reduced support issues on their already winded staff. The enhanced support of HPE InfoSight helped make a robust environment and decreased management time and efforts.

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HPE Nimble Storage is a radically simple, unified family of all-flash, adaptive flash, and multicloud storage designed to alleviate the problems associated with speed, deduplication, data availability, and compression. The HPE Nimble Storage product offerings consist of three families:

y HPE Nimble All Flash Arrays are built for speed and target high-performance or latency-sensitive workloads where all-flash performance is critical. In addition to blazing speed, they offer up to 66 percent lower TCO than competing all-flash arrays.

y HPE Nimble Adaptive Flash Arrays combine high-performance flash with cost-optimized disk drives to achieve optimal price and performance for mixed workloads. The always-on data reduction delivers up to five times space savings without a performance penalty.

y HPE Nimble Secondary Flash Arrays let enterprises put their backup data to work. With inline deduplication and compression, they provide cost-effective storage for backup and disaster recovery, while combining flash performance that’s fast enough to run real workloads.

In addition to unparalleled availability, the next-generation HPE Nimble Storage arrays offer the following benefits:

y Storage consolidation without compromising services levels

y Integrated data protection

y HPE Store More Guarantee delivers more effective capacity per terabyte of raw flash than other all-flash arrays

y Future-proof architecture that enables seamless technology upgrades: HPE Nimble Storage arrays are Storage Class Memory (SCM) and Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) Ready

y Next-generation hardware that delivers up to 220% better price-performance balance

HPE Nimble Storage solutions are engineered to close the app-data gap — to the tune of 99.9999 percent availability. This 6-Nines level of availability, which has been measured across the entire install base, translates to less than 25 seconds of downtime per year.

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Contact Getronics (formerly Pomeroy) at 859-586-0600 to learn more about HPE Nimble Storage.

1020 Petersburg Road | Hebron, KY 41048 USA | 859-586-0600 | www.getronics.com

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The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for Hewlett Packard Enterprise products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. Hewlett Packard Enterprise shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.

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1Statista, “Forecast information technology (IT) storage spending worldwide from 2013 to 2019 (in billion U.S. dollars),” 2018.2IDC, “IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Datacenter 2016 Predictions,” Nov 2015.3Placeholder4Network Computing, “6 Ways SSDs Are Cheaper Than Hard Drives,” July 12, 2017.5Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays,” July 13, 2017.6HPE, “Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays,” [website], Aug 2017.7The HPE Nimble Storage Operating System (NOS) is built to optimize the use of system resources including the CPU and memory. This enables the arrays to provide Always-on data reduction without affecting the storage performance that is delivered.8HPE, “HPE Store More Guarantee,” May 2018.9HPE, “HPE Get 6-Nines Guarantee,” Sept 2017.

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