HPE makes Nimble move

HPE believes that Nimble’s entry to midrange predictive flash storage solutions, coupled with InfoSight, its leading predictive analytics technology, will strengthen HPE’s flash storage portfolio by expanding market reach and enabling a transformed, analytics-based customer experience.  Together, the companies will be able to bring flash optimized data services, which provide the right balance of price, performance, and agility, to customers across SMB, Enterprise and Service Provider segments.  In other words, HPE will have a comprehensive, best-in-class portfolio across the full range of the market:                 

Enterprise class for the all-flash datacenter:  HPE 3PAR supports customers experiencing rapid growth and needing a highly scalable, all-flash data center capable of supporting millions of IOPS, petabyte capacity, and a multi-tenant architecture, priced from the midrange to the high-end.

Straightforward predictive flash:  Nimble is ideal for customers needing advanced, flash-optimized data services, including all-flash, hybrid-flash, and multicloud support, underpinned by machine-learning based predictive analytics, all at entry to midrange price points and designed with ease of use at its core. 

Simple flash acceleration:  HPE MSA and HPE StoreVirtual have an installed base of over 500,000 deployments worldwide and are suited for price-sensitive customers that need simple, flash tiering support at an entry price point.

Built-for-enterprise, hyperconverged infrastructure: Nimble also complements the recent SimpliVity acquisition for the growing hyperconverged market for those deploying turnkey VM-farms with advanced data services.  The combination of SimpliVity, Nimble, and 3PAR enables customers to deploy the right data services across all workloads and deployment types.

Nimble builds on HPE's strategy to make Hybrid IT simple through software defined and machine learning innovations.  The company's portfolio will enable customers to compose the right storage for their exact application needs.  HPE OneView infrastructure management software will help customers seamlessly manage the entire portfolio.  And, HPE will give customers the choice of CAPEX or monthly pay for use consumption with HPE FlexCapacity.