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Nimble Storage has announced a broad range of new enterprise-grade capabilities to the Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash platform that, they say, “enable enterprise IT organisations to dynamically meet varying service level agreements, reduce costs, and gain greater business agility and responsiveness”. Advances in the Adaptive Flash platform include the ability to deliver an all-flash service level for applications with stringent requirements around responsiveness, an auto-flash service level for mainstream applications, and a disk-only service level for applications requiring low-cost capacity, all within a single storage platform. Additional capabilities announced today include software-based encryption and a REST API-based extensibility framework. All of the new features complement existing enterprise functionality, including granular VM-level monitoring and reporting and integrated data protection.

“Global enterprise IT organisations are tasked with managing hundreds, if not thousands, of business-enabling applications that require a mix of storage attributes across performance, capacity, data protection, reliability, and ease of use – all at a lower total cost of ownership,” said Scott Sinclair, storage analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Traditional wisdom has led IT managers to select and deploy separate storage silos to cater to a particular tier of applications in the data centre. These silos introduce compromises by constraining flexibility, limiting data mobility, and exacerbating storage management complexity. Introducing a dynamic, single architectural approach that can cater to the unique requirements of varying workloads represents a significant departure from dated storage industry doctrine.”

ALL-FLASH SERVICE LEVEL: DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE AND CAPACITY
Enterprise IT organisations now have the flexibility to dynamically deliver all-flash service levels across mission-critical applications that require deterministic latency – without the costs, capacity constraints, and silo sprawl of flash-only storage arrays. The all-flash service level meets the most stringent latency demands – its responsiveness is ideal for transaction processing, data warehouse/business intelligence, and VDI deployments. And unlike flash-only arrays, service levels can be dynamically changed on the fly from operation in one service level to a different service level as workload demands fluctuate over time. Nimble offers a storage platform that brings IT organisations the full benefits of storage consolidation, including lower costs, higher IT productivity, seamless growth and reduced risk, all without compromising service levels of applications and workloads.

ENCRYPT DATA AT THE VOLUME OR ARRAY LEVEL, EFFICIENTLY, AT NO COST
Now with software-based encryption, Nimble SmartSecure, storage administrators have the ability to efficiently enable data encryption in consolidation and multi-tenant storage environments – at no additional cost. This new software feature enables both encryption and shredding on a per-application or per-array level. SmartSecure does not require custom drivers or dedicated firmware to implement. Once data is compressed and encrypted by the company’s CASL flash-optimized file system, it can be securely replicated to another site with the target site understanding the encryption key – dramatically streamlining administration and preserving storage capacity.

In addition to increasing security benefits for large enterprises, SmartSecure encryption enables service providers with multi-tenant environments to isolate and encrypt a particular client’s data. “Today’s heightened sensitivity around data security makes capabilities like encryption vital to our organisation and our clients,” said Patrick Cimprich, vice president and Global Infrastructure Services Chief Architect at Avanade, a global business technology solutions, cloud and managed services provider. “And the way Nimble has implemented it was great: a simple software upgrade and no additional infrastructure to buy. It is a true testament to Nimble’s architecture that we were able to add on a feature like SmartSecure encryption as easily as we did.”

ENHANCED NON-DISRUPTIVE SCALABILITY OF PERFORMANCE AND CAPACITY
The Nimble Adaptive Flash platform enables enterprise IT organisations to seamlessly scale performance and capacity independently. With the latest software release, Nimble now enables administrators to scale non-disruptively to over 3.5PBs of capacity and over 160TBs of flash per cluster to optimise business-critical workloads at scale while maintaining the highest levels of responsiveness.

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