Flash storage (SSD) has been deemed an essential part of today’s data center for its speed and high-performance. Despite this demand, the reality is that it’s only accessible to a small segment of the business population due to its high price tag. As a result, many companies are resorting to creating infrastructure silos to address storage capacity issues, thereby increasing complexity and sprawl, and sacrificing performance. Nimble Storage eliminates the need for these sacrifices by offering an Adaptive Flash platform solution.
How Adaptive Flash Works
Adaptive Flash is the first hybrid storage solution that uses the intelligent allocation of storage and computing resources to maximize efficiency and eliminate inefficient data silos. The application is based on Cache-Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL™) architecture, which allows the platform to be scaled seamlessly and independently to accommodate performance and capacity growth within a data center. This architectural design is complemented by a cloud-based management system, InfoSight™, to satisfy the fluctuating requirements of enterprise applications, eliminating the wasteful overprovisioning of storage resources. Together, these features help make Adaptive Flash the perfect solution for emerging businesses.
Advantages of Adaptive Flash
According to Nimble Storage, Adaptive Flash customers report a reduction up to 10x in data center footprint and an overall decrease in power and cooling requirements. They also experience up to 500K IOPS performance, and greater than five-nines level of system availability. As if that weren’t enough, Adaptive Flash provides these other benefits:
- Eliminates storage silos needed for varying application demands
- Seamlessly scales to deliver enterprise-class performance and capacity, within a dramatically smaller footprint
- Does away with disruptive forklift upgrades
- Comprehensively protects valuable IT assets
- Keeps storage infrastructure running at peak health with powerful, proactive analytics
Find out More
To learn more about Nimble Storage’s Adaptive Flash storage solution, request to speak with a technical expert at Alliance InfoSystems (AIS), an approved supplier of Nimble Storage. If you’re in the Baltimore area, you are welcome to attend a live demo of Adaptive Flash at the AIS lab on Wednesday, July 16th. AIS will host a WhiteBoard Workshop with partners, Nimble Storage and Veeam, titled Revolutionize Your Data Center. The workshop will also include a demonstration on Veeam’s Availability Suite v8, which we’ll discuss further in a blog later this week. To register for the webinar, click here.
Having more than 300 commercial and governmental clients in Baltimore, Washington D.C. and Northern Virginia, Alliance InfoSystems (AIS) offers cloud computing among other support services for companies with or without IT staff. If you have any questions about cloud computing or managed services call AIS at 410-585-9505, or click today.
Sources
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2362700/nimbles-adaptive-flash-goes-bigger-with-beefedup-controller.html
