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TOP 12 REASONS TO BUY
HPE NIMBLE STORAGE
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HPE Nimble Storage delivers an industry-leading
customer experience. It transforms operations
with artificial intelligence (AI) that predicts and
prevents disruptions and self-optimizes application
performance and resources.
Here are 12 reasons why customers love HPE Nimble Storage:
Artificial Intelligence: The HPE Nimble Storage approach to predictive analytics has
01 completely reimagined infrastructure. Through HPE InfoSight advanced machine learning,
86% of problems1 are predicted and prevented before customers even realize they have an
issue—not just for the array but across the infrastructure stack. HPE InfoSight takes the
guesswork out of managing your storage. It tells you how you can improve performance,
optimize your resources, and plan for the future. And with its cloud‑based portal, it’s easy for
you to take advantage of its intelligence.
Predictive support with direct access to Level 3: Typical tiered support models can
02 take a long time to resolve problems with customers passed from one support engineer to
another with the same information gathered multiple times. Predictive support automation
has enabled HPE Nimble Storage to help eliminate Level 1 and Level 2 support, providing
customers with direct access to Level 3 expert HPE Nimble Storage support engineers—
removing time‑consuming and frustrating escalations. This means 73% fewer support
tickets, 85% less time spent resolving storage-related trouble tickets and 69% faster time to
resolution for events that necessitate Level 3 support.2
Effortless experience: HPE Nimble Storage makes it radically simple for any IT generalist
03 to buy, install, provision, operate, and upgrade. Customers can self-install the system in
minutes. There are no knobs or configurations with always-on data services and app‑aware
intelligence that help eliminate performance and efficiency trade-offs. This effortless
user experience across all aspects of the storage lifecycle means that customers spend
substantially less time and allocate fewer resources to managing HPE Nimble Storage,
resulting in 79% lower IT operational expenses.3 If you want to spend less time managing
storage and firefighting, look to HPE Nimble Storage.
Future proofed investment that never gets old: With Timeless Storage for HPE Nimble
04 Storage, you can enjoy a unique ownership experience by helping eliminate surprises and
enhancing investment protection for the long term. The Timeless Storage program includes
a satisfaction guarantee, a six-nines availability guarantee, a data reduction guarantee,
all‑inclusive software, flat support pricing, and controller upgrades.
Easily scale without disruption: With HPE Nimble Storage scale-to-fit, you can grow the
05 capacity and performance of a running system independently and non-disruptively. You
can also scale out to four arrays with transparent volume mobility between arrays, achieving
linear performance and capacity scaling.
Enable true hybrid cloud: HPE Nimble Storage multicloud flash fabric intelligently extends
06 data services across on-premises primary and secondary storage, and the public cloud.
The multicloud flash fabric automates storage management through a common, integrated
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workload migration, cost-effective DR or backup in the cloud, hybrid test/dev and analytics,
and rapid multicloud DevOps CI/CD pipelines for containerized workloads.
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Proven six nines availability—guaranteed: HPE Nimble Storage has proven availability
07 of 99.9999% across its installed base4 and guarantees it for every customer and every
array. HPE Nimble Storage is driven by a resilient architecture, which gets even better with
HPE InfoSight predicting and preventing problems before your business is impacted.
Extreme data integrity and durability without compromise: HPE Nimble Storage offers
08 Triple+ Parity RAID as standard with zero performance impact, which results in several
orders of magnitude more resiliency than RAID 5 or 6. HPE Nimble Storage Triple+ Parity
RAID can handle three simultaneous drive failures and provides additional protection
through intra-drive parity. The next‑generation architecture from HPE Nimble Storage
means that customers don’t need to make trade-off choices between data resilience and
performance.
Consume storage as a service: HPE Nimble Storage with HPE GreenLake is a managed
09 service for you on-premises with a pay-per-use consumption model that enables your
team to focus on innovation. You can achieve faster time to value for your application
deployments, avoid up-front investment and overprovisioning, as well as easily align cash
flow to usage while maintaining visibility and control of your data.
Delivers the HCI experience: HPE Nimble Storage dHCI is an intelligent platform that
10 disaggregates compute and storage, as well as integrates hyperconverged control for simple
management on a flexible architecture. Powered with HPE InfoSight, HPE Nimble Storage
dHCI gives enterprises ultimate simplicity for their virtualized environments with fast app
performance, always-on data resilience, and resource efficiency.
Simplifies and lowers the cost of data protection: Deliver on your recovery SLAs with
11 fast, simple, and integrated app‑aware backup and recovery—on-premises and in the
cloud. Natively replicate from HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays to HPE Nimble Storage
Adaptive Flash Arrays or to HPE Cloud Volumes for lower cost DR. Easily move your
backup infrastructure to the cloud with HPE Cloud Volumes Backup, a new enterprise cloud
backup service, which delivers a simple, efficient, and flexible way to store backup data. This
on‑demand, pay as you grow service lets you backup seamlessly to the cloud directly from
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Best Practices: All-Flash Storage for Your Intelligent
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Delighting customers year after year: IT administrators and customers have been vocal5
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12 about how their business demands are simplified and their user experience elevated by
HPE Nimble Storage capabilities. Its radical simplicity and transformed support experience
Note: Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute
the subjective opinions of individual end users have resulted in an overall rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars6 in Gartner Peer Insights, with
based on their own experiences and do not
represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.
customers getting enhanced value out of their data in a broad range of use cases supporting
business-critical applications.
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