Hewlett Packard Enterprise Delivers The Broadest and Deepest Flash Storage Portfolio for Hybrid IT
May 24 2017 - 7:45AM
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) (NYSE:HPE) today announced a
comprehensive flash portfolio update with new products and data
protection solutions designed to help customers continue their
journey to an all- flash data center. The new offerings include:
- A more powerful midrange HPE 3PAR StoreServ 9450 all-flash
array
- Availability of Nimble Storage primary and new secondary flash
arrays
- Affordable fifth generation HPE MSA Storage
- High-speed, cloud-connected StoreOnce data protection
The adoption of flash storage continues to gain pace, with 51
percent of customers1 predicting that they will have an
All-Flash Data Center within five years. It’s not just enterprises,
smaller companies are also adopting flash as prices come down.
At the same time, IT teams are seeking deeper integration
across servers, storage, networks, and automation tools to maximize
value from investments.
“As flash permeates the datacenter it has become critical to
move beyond the array – from predictive analytics to data
protection to investment strategies,” said Bill Philbin, senior
vice president, Data Center Infrastructure Group, Hewlett Packard
Enterprise. “These new solutions help more customers maximize the
value of flash on-premises and enable flexible off-premises data
mobility.”
Leading All-Flash price-performance and density across
multiple segmentsData growth and app development in the
data center is expanding exponentially and putting pressure on IT
to consolidate more data on less infrastructure while also
evaluating the right mix of on-premises and off-premises
investments. To address these demands, HPE is updating its overall
flash portfolio including the addition of cloud-ready Nimble
Storage flash arrays powered by predictive analytics for a
new-style approach to storage support and monitoring.
For midrange customers hitting performance limits of aging
systems, HPE 3PAR is redefining expectations with the new
HPE 3PAR StoreServ 9450, a highly
scalable, multi-tenant, and performance rich all-flash platform
that builds on the product family’s number one position in the
midrange fibre channel.2 To enable the consolidation of more
data in less space without compromising service levels, HPE is
increasing performance 70 percent, doubling scale to 6PB, and
enabling 3X the front-end connectivity with 80 host ports.3
This new, more powerful member of the 3PAR family enables
consistent and predictable performance at less than half the cost
of EMC VMAX 250F4 and supports consolidation of both block and
file workloads. For those considering long-term investment
strategies, the 3PAR StoreServ 9450 also provides a futureproof
path to next generation Storage Class Memory and NVM Express (NVMe)
using HPE 3PAR 3D Cache.
HPE is also unveiling the fifth generation of its entry SAN
platform, HPE MSA, starting with the introduction of HPE
MSA 2050 and 2052 models. MSA has been the leading entry
fibre channel array for eight years5 and now delivers 2x more
performance than the previous generation starting under $10,0006.
With all-inclusive software and 1.6 terabytes of solid-state disk
(SSD) capacity included, the new HPE MSA 2052
offers a 40 percent cost savings7 on hybrid flash models. Both
MSA platforms are affordable starting points for application
acceleration providing flexibility to mix any combination of SSD
and SAS drives plus including resiliency features such as snapshots
and remote replication.
Flash-optimized protection now cloud-ready and 15x
faster With the scale and speed of flash storage becoming
pervasive it’s critical that customers re-think data protection to
avoid risk and eliminate bottlenecks – this includes taking
advantage of public cloud to achieve the right mix of Hybrid
IT. As part of that shift, HPE has federated primary,
secondary, and object storage to enable zero-impact data protection
while putting backup data to work.
For customers exploring public-cloud tiers for secondary data,
HPE announced StoreOnce CloudBank, a long-term
data retention solution that provides significantly lower cost
protection on multi-cloud destinations such as AWS, Azure or on
premises object storage. Unlike many cloud backup solutions,
StoreOnce CloudBank has been architected to reduce bandwidth
requirements by over 99 percent, helping to lower costs of
cloud-based storage to just $0.001 per gigabyte per month. The
solution also supports the full set of on-premises StoreOnce
features, including 3PAR integration, so customers can
automatically transition data off-premises while assuring rapid and
flexible disaster recovery.
As HPE 3PAR flash customers seek to rapidly protect larger and
larger data sets, HPE Recovery Manager Central
(RMC) already provides the fastest possible
protection of applications running on 3PAR by directly connecting
to secondary StoreOnce data protection systems through patented
block-level integration. RMC is part of 3PAR’s all-inclusive
licensing model and has now been enhanced with a new Express
Restore feature, which enables 15x faster data recovery8 from
on-prem or off-prem StoreOnce repositories. RMC has also now
been integrated with Veeam Explorer so customers can recover
application items such as e-mails, documents and database schemas
directly from RMC-V Express Protect backups.
Many customers moving to an all-flash datacenter are looking for
ways to maximize return on those investments. For some that
includes changing how they utilize data stored as backup copies.
The new Nimble Secondary Flash Array (SFA) allows
customers to put their backup and copy data to work for secondary
applications. The system brings together always-on deduplication
and compression to lower capacity costs for backup with
flash-optimized performance and zero-copy cloning to run production
workloads like dev/test, QA and analytics.
Pricing and Availability
- HPE 3PAR StoreServ 9450 will be available June 2017 with US
street pricing starting at $74,840.
- HPE MSA 2050 will be available June 2017 with US street pricing
starting at $7,750.
- HPE MSA 2052 will be available June 2017 with US street pricing
starting at $9,600.
- RMC 4.1 is included as part of the standard all-inclusive 3PAR
StoreServ licensing package and will be available from September
2017.
- HPE StoreOnce CloudBank is available as part of an Early Access
Program. Contact HPE to see if you qualify.
- Nimble Secondary Flash Array currently available with US street
pricing starting under $40,000.
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1 TechTarget Storage Market Landscape Study 2H16.2 IDC
WW Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, 4Q16, based on
midrange fibre channel product revenues.3 Based on HPE
comparisons with 3PAR 8450. 4 Based on HPE
price-performance ($/IOP) analysis of comparable systems using
available pricing information.5 IDC WW Quarterly Enterprise
Storage Systems Tracker, 4Q16, based on vendor
revenues.6 Based on HPE performance testing
comparisons.7 HPE pricing comparison of MSA2050 with SSDs and
Advanced Data Services suite vs MSA2052 after standard
discounting.8 Based on HPE restore performance testing
comparisons.
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simon.fra.bowers@hpe.com
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