This Solutions Brief provides information about high-growth opportunities, All-Flash products from Nimbus, and resources available to help turn them into profits.
In this presentation from the DDN User Meeting at SC13, Jeff Denworth provides a product update,
Watch the video presentation: http://insidehpc.com/2013/11/13/ddn-user-meeting-coming-sc13-nov-18/
Esta oferta podría ser la solución para el punto de partida de Flash que junto con Spectrum Scale te da una solución de Software Defined Storage escalable, para cumplir con los requisitos del almacenamiento no estructurado y big data.
Tape and cloud storage targets have their pros and cons. There are many differences between these two technologies, which we will explore in this paper. These differences can steer the decision process you may have for getting virtual machine (VM) backups offsite with Veeam® Backup & Replication™.
Introduzione alla nuova famiglia di NAS SnapServerPaolo Rossi
Introduzione alle soluzione NAS SnapServer di Overland Storage e Tandberg Data.
L'agenda prevede un introduzione a Sphere3D, alle soluzioni NAS del portafoglio, carattersitiche tecniche, funzionalit', configurazioni e competition.
La presentazione e' stata utilizzata per un Webinar in Italiano gratuito. Da oggi il portafoglio delle soluzioni Sphere3D, Overland Storage e Tandberg Data comprende soluzioni di storage, backup, archiving, cloud, virtualizzazione e mobile.
In this presentation from the DDN User Meeting at SC13, Jeff Denworth provides a product update,
Watch the video presentation: http://insidehpc.com/2013/11/13/ddn-user-meeting-coming-sc13-nov-18/
Esta oferta podría ser la solución para el punto de partida de Flash que junto con Spectrum Scale te da una solución de Software Defined Storage escalable, para cumplir con los requisitos del almacenamiento no estructurado y big data.
Tape and cloud storage targets have their pros and cons. There are many differences between these two technologies, which we will explore in this paper. These differences can steer the decision process you may have for getting virtual machine (VM) backups offsite with Veeam® Backup & Replication™.
Introduzione alla nuova famiglia di NAS SnapServerPaolo Rossi
Introduzione alle soluzione NAS SnapServer di Overland Storage e Tandberg Data.
L'agenda prevede un introduzione a Sphere3D, alle soluzioni NAS del portafoglio, carattersitiche tecniche, funzionalit', configurazioni e competition.
La presentazione e' stata utilizzata per un Webinar in Italiano gratuito. Da oggi il portafoglio delle soluzioni Sphere3D, Overland Storage e Tandberg Data comprende soluzioni di storage, backup, archiving, cloud, virtualizzazione e mobile.
In this deck from the DDN User Group at ISC 2019, James Coomer from DDN presents: EXA 5 - Innovation at Scale.
"EXA5 brings our customers a whole new level of experience based on the Lustre filesystem. With huge performance boosts, better scaling properties and a strong appliance approach, this is Lustre like you’ve never seen it before. Fully featured, native file management, strong security, data integrity, container integration and a load more. James will talk about the major new features in EXA5 and about how we manage flash for complex and difficult use cases."
Developed and optimized using the latest advances in filesystem software technology, EXA5delivers extreme performance, scalability, capability, reliability and simplicity. Augmented with feature-rich enhancements, EXA5 delivers a true global data platform capable of enabling and accelerating a wide-range of data-intensive workflows, at any scale.
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-kyR
Learn more: https://www.ddn.com/products/lustre-file-system-exascaler/
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
Scalar Decisions: Emerging Trends and Technologies in Storagepatmisasi
From a Feb 2014 TGIF Lunch and Learn event in Toronto, @Scalardecisions' Solution Architect Neil Bunn discusses key emerging trends in storage, (Flash, Object Storage, and Software Defined Storage.) including both concepts and vendor technologies applicable to each major theme.
TGIFs are FREE, technical sessions, helping our community understand architecture and deployment best practices
Hype, Hopes, Hell & Hadoop (#bigdata and the enterprise of everything)jlchatelain
The amount of data in our world has been exploding, and storing and analyzing large data sets—so-called big data—will become a key basis of competition for the new “Enterprise of Things”, underpinning fresh waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus. Leaders in every sector – from government to healthcare to finance – will have to grapple with the implications of big data, as data growth continues unabated for the foreseeable future. The quest to make sense of all this big data begins with breaking down data silos within organizations using the cost appropriate, shared infrastructure to ensure optimal extraction and analysis of data, knowledge and insight.
This presentation highlights all aspect of #bigdata exploitation, good or bad. It also speaks of the infrastructure challenges associated with it, the place of #hadoop in the big picture and areas of opportunity for innovations.
Is Software Defined Storage (SDS) getting hijacked? It seems every vendor, old and new, is claiming that their storage is “software defined”. The original intent was to create software-only solutions that could be deployed on the customer’s choice of servers. But that original intent has evolved, and now hardware vendors are providing what they claim to be software defined storage solutions too. In addition, SDS is being combined with an embedded compute function to create hyper-converged solutions as well.
In this webinar we will discuss the differences in these approaches and you will learn what the four key deliverables of a SDS solution should be so you can decide which makes the most sense for your organization.
Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform, 4000 series, product overview, key features, business value description and technical specifications.
The science of automated storage tiering distills down to monitoring I/O behavior, determining frequency of use, then dynamically moving blocks of information to the most suitable class or tier of storage device. DataCore™ SANsymphony™-V software automatically manages your blocks to best allocate your storage.
Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 Series -- DatasheetHitachi Vantara
HUS and HNAS 4000 series product overview, key features and technical specifications. For more information on Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 Series please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/network-attached-storage/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_hnasp
ProServer - Direct network attached CD / DVD Server and LoaderPrime Array
ProServer is a versatile direct network attach CD/DVD server and tower in one! It allows an organization to easily share large CD/DVD libraries over their network by hard disc caching. For more information, please contact us. PrimeArray Systems, Inc. 1500 District Avenue, Burlington, MA 01803, Call 800-433-5133, 978-455-9488, Visit https://www.primearray.com/
Re-inventing the Database: What to Keep and What to Throw AwayDATAVERSITY
NoSQL has turned many database concepts upside down. Consistency models, transactions, data models, and query interfaces are being reinvented. Tradeoffs between performance, availability, managability, and usability are being re-thought. In this talk 10gen President Max Schireson, reviews some of the different approaches being taken and offers opinions on the right choices for different uses.
Removing Storage Related Barriers to Server and Desktop VirtualizationDataCore Software
An IDC Viewpoint Paper: Virtualization is among the technologies that have become increasingly attractive in the current economic climate. Organizations are implementing virtualization solutions to obtain the following benefits: Focus on efficiency and cost reduction, Simplify management and maintenance, and Improve availability and disaster recovery.
Most medium and large-sized IT organizations have deployed several generations of virtualized servers, and they have become more comfortable with the performance and reliability with each deployment. As IT organizations increased virtual machine (VM) density, they reached the limits of vSphere software, server memory, CPU, and I/O.
A new VM engine is now available and this document describes how it can help IT organizations maximize use of their servers running VMware® vSphere® 5.1 (henceforth referred to as vSphere 5.1).
Application Report: Big Data - Big Cluster InterconnectsIT Brand Pulse
As a leading analytics platform that runs on industry-standard hardware and integrates industry-standard database tools and applications, one of ParAccel’s biggest challenges is to architect and test hardware (servers, storage, interconnects) that make their software perform at its peak. In this case, they have achieved their mission to eliminate a cluster bottleneck by implementing 10GbE NICs to provide the bandwidth needed to-day, and well into the future.
In this deck from the DDN User Group at ISC 2019, James Coomer from DDN presents: EXA 5 - Innovation at Scale.
"EXA5 brings our customers a whole new level of experience based on the Lustre filesystem. With huge performance boosts, better scaling properties and a strong appliance approach, this is Lustre like you’ve never seen it before. Fully featured, native file management, strong security, data integrity, container integration and a load more. James will talk about the major new features in EXA5 and about how we manage flash for complex and difficult use cases."
Developed and optimized using the latest advances in filesystem software technology, EXA5delivers extreme performance, scalability, capability, reliability and simplicity. Augmented with feature-rich enhancements, EXA5 delivers a true global data platform capable of enabling and accelerating a wide-range of data-intensive workflows, at any scale.
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-kyR
Learn more: https://www.ddn.com/products/lustre-file-system-exascaler/
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
Scalar Decisions: Emerging Trends and Technologies in Storagepatmisasi
From a Feb 2014 TGIF Lunch and Learn event in Toronto, @Scalardecisions' Solution Architect Neil Bunn discusses key emerging trends in storage, (Flash, Object Storage, and Software Defined Storage.) including both concepts and vendor technologies applicable to each major theme.
TGIFs are FREE, technical sessions, helping our community understand architecture and deployment best practices
Hype, Hopes, Hell & Hadoop (#bigdata and the enterprise of everything)jlchatelain
The amount of data in our world has been exploding, and storing and analyzing large data sets—so-called big data—will become a key basis of competition for the new “Enterprise of Things”, underpinning fresh waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus. Leaders in every sector – from government to healthcare to finance – will have to grapple with the implications of big data, as data growth continues unabated for the foreseeable future. The quest to make sense of all this big data begins with breaking down data silos within organizations using the cost appropriate, shared infrastructure to ensure optimal extraction and analysis of data, knowledge and insight.
This presentation highlights all aspect of #bigdata exploitation, good or bad. It also speaks of the infrastructure challenges associated with it, the place of #hadoop in the big picture and areas of opportunity for innovations.
Is Software Defined Storage (SDS) getting hijacked? It seems every vendor, old and new, is claiming that their storage is “software defined”. The original intent was to create software-only solutions that could be deployed on the customer’s choice of servers. But that original intent has evolved, and now hardware vendors are providing what they claim to be software defined storage solutions too. In addition, SDS is being combined with an embedded compute function to create hyper-converged solutions as well.
In this webinar we will discuss the differences in these approaches and you will learn what the four key deliverables of a SDS solution should be so you can decide which makes the most sense for your organization.
Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform, 4000 series, product overview, key features, business value description and technical specifications.
The science of automated storage tiering distills down to monitoring I/O behavior, determining frequency of use, then dynamically moving blocks of information to the most suitable class or tier of storage device. DataCore™ SANsymphony™-V software automatically manages your blocks to best allocate your storage.
Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 Series -- DatasheetHitachi Vantara
HUS and HNAS 4000 series product overview, key features and technical specifications. For more information on Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 Series please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/network-attached-storage/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_hnasp
ProServer - Direct network attached CD / DVD Server and LoaderPrime Array
ProServer is a versatile direct network attach CD/DVD server and tower in one! It allows an organization to easily share large CD/DVD libraries over their network by hard disc caching. For more information, please contact us. PrimeArray Systems, Inc. 1500 District Avenue, Burlington, MA 01803, Call 800-433-5133, 978-455-9488, Visit https://www.primearray.com/
Re-inventing the Database: What to Keep and What to Throw AwayDATAVERSITY
NoSQL has turned many database concepts upside down. Consistency models, transactions, data models, and query interfaces are being reinvented. Tradeoffs between performance, availability, managability, and usability are being re-thought. In this talk 10gen President Max Schireson, reviews some of the different approaches being taken and offers opinions on the right choices for different uses.
Removing Storage Related Barriers to Server and Desktop VirtualizationDataCore Software
An IDC Viewpoint Paper: Virtualization is among the technologies that have become increasingly attractive in the current economic climate. Organizations are implementing virtualization solutions to obtain the following benefits: Focus on efficiency and cost reduction, Simplify management and maintenance, and Improve availability and disaster recovery.
Most medium and large-sized IT organizations have deployed several generations of virtualized servers, and they have become more comfortable with the performance and reliability with each deployment. As IT organizations increased virtual machine (VM) density, they reached the limits of vSphere software, server memory, CPU, and I/O.
A new VM engine is now available and this document describes how it can help IT organizations maximize use of their servers running VMware® vSphere® 5.1 (henceforth referred to as vSphere 5.1).
Application Report: Big Data - Big Cluster InterconnectsIT Brand Pulse
As a leading analytics platform that runs on industry-standard hardware and integrates industry-standard database tools and applications, one of ParAccel’s biggest challenges is to architect and test hardware (servers, storage, interconnects) that make their software perform at its peak. In this case, they have achieved their mission to eliminate a cluster bottleneck by implementing 10GbE NICs to provide the bandwidth needed to-day, and well into the future.
TCO Case Study - Cisco and Huawei L2 SwitchesIT Brand Pulse
This case study examines four pairs of comparably equipped L2 switches from Huawei and Cisco — with a different port configuration or level of support for each similar pair of switches.
Application Report: Virtualizing Tier-1 Workloads using FC SANsIT Brand Pulse
This application report describes how a major industrial distributor virtulalized servers running tier-1 eCommerce and SAP applications, and how it impacted their data center infrastructure.
IT Brand Pulse industry brief describing a new approach to configuring virtual networks for virtual machines...layering hypervisor-based virtual networking services on top of hardware based virtual networking services. The result is more efficient management and lower costs.
Cost analysis for acquisition of 250 terabytes of storage growing at 25% per year for five years. Products from EMC, NetAPP, NEC, Dot Hill were compared to a software defined storage solution based on SUSE Enterprise Storage software.
7 steps to storage freedom and avoiding vendor lock in - io fabric 2017Greg Wyman
Data storage costs are exploding. Storage vendors keep you locked-in to their technology and refresh your storage every 3-4 years. Objective-Defined Storage eliminates cost and complexity while delivering incredible performance, reliability and scalability of your existing hardware. Need more performance, just add RAM or commodity SSD. More capacity - add cloud or high capacity. low cost drives.
Historically, the tradeoff of hard disk drives (HDDs) versus solid state drives (SSDs) in enterprises has revolved around three variables: capacity, endurance and price. This whitepaper looks at how increased capacity and durability is expanding SSD applications in the data center.
The flash market started out monolithically. Flash was a single media type (high performance, high endurance SLC flash). Flash systems also had a single purpose of accelerating the response time of high-end databases. But now there are several flash options. Users can choose between high performance flash or highly dense, medium performance flash systems. At the same time, high capacity hard disk drives are making a case to be the archival storage medium of choice. How does an IT professional choose?
Dell Solutions Tour 2014 Norge
Kaj Inge Skjønhaug Storage Spesialist, Dell Norway
Få en teknisk gjennomgang av Dells nyeste løsninger innen SSD og flash basert lagring. Presentasjonen tar for seg All-flash array, hybrid arrays, og FluidCache løsninger. Den tekniske gjennomgangen viser hvordan SSD kan anvendes i ulike løsninger for å gi maksimal effekt. Presentasjonen tar også for seg NAS, og VMware relatert lagringsteknologi
5 advantages of SDS over Traditional All-Flash SAN ArrayTyrone Systems
Software defined software adoption is growing, which puts the spotlight on the costs of SDS. One of the major drivers for adoption of SDS is cost savings. Ideally, SDS enables lower storage costs by reducing capital expenditures and sharply reducing operational costs over proprietary SAN and NAS.
Live CEO Interview and Webinar Update on the State of DeduplicationStorage Switzerland
Learn From Two Deduplication Veterans: George Crump, Founder Storage Switzerland and Tom Cook, CEO Permabit:
* Are All Deduplication Methods the Same?
* Why is Dedupe so Valuable in the All-Flash Use Case?
* What Can Go Wrong Deduplication?
* Ask your deduplication questions to the dedupe panel!
The 2022 Flash brand leader surveys cover 9 Flash products.
This report includes the results of voting for six categories of brand leadership for each service: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation.
The 2020 Storage Brand Leader Survey covers 14 Storage products. This report includes the results of IT Pro voting for six categories of brand leadership for each service: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Innovation, and Service & Support.
The 2019 Servers Brand Leader Survey covers 11 server products. This report includes the results of IT Pro voting for six categories of brand leadership for each service: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Innovation, and Service & Support.
The 2019 Storage brand leader surveys cover 14 storage products. This report includes the results of IT Pro voting for six categories of brand leadership for each service: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Innovation, and Service & Support.
AWS #3 Storage Vendor in 2017 | #1 in 2020IT Brand Pulse
This IT Brand Pulse industry brief uses crowd-sourced data about storage and cloud revenues to estimate the size and ranking of the AWS storage business. The bottom line is AWS is the #3 ranked storage vendor in 2017 and will be #1 in 2020.
The 2018 IaaS brand leader surveys cover fourteen Infrastructure-as-a-Service products. This report includes the results of IT Pro voting for six categories of brand leadership for each service: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation.
This IT Brand Pulse report includes data from the independent, non-sponsored annual survey on Scale-Out File Storage--voted on by IT professionals--covering six categories of brand leadership: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation.
Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information on this or other technology product brand leader surveys.
2017 Servers for Software-Defined Storage Brand Leader ReportIT Brand Pulse
This IT Brand Pulse report includes data from the independent, non-sponsored annual survey on Servers for SDS--voted on by IT professionals--covering six categories of brand leadership: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation.
Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information on this or other technology product brand leader surveys.
This IT Brand Pulse report includes data from the independent, non-sponsored annual survey on Enterprise HDDs--voted on by IT professionals--covering six categories of brand leadership: Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation.
Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information on this or other technology product brand leader surveys.
2017 Flash Storage and NVME Brand Leader Mini-ReportIT Brand Pulse
This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the independent, non-sponsored survey covering six categories of brand leadership—Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation—for twelve Flash Storage and NVMe products.
Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.
2017 AI and Cloud Brand Leader Mini-ReportIT Brand Pulse
This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the independent, non-sponsored survey covering six categories of brand leadership—Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation—for nine AI and Cloud products.
Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.
This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the independent, non-sponsored survey conducted in March 2017 covering six categories of brand leadership–Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation–for twelve Networking & Scale-out Storage products.
Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.
2017 Server & Database Brand Leader Mini ReportIT Brand Pulse
This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the independent, non-sponsored survey conducted in February, 2017 covering six categories of brand leadership–Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation–for fourteen Server and Database products.
Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.
2. All-Flash Storage
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High Growth Opportunity
SSDs are a hot solution for storing or caching frequently accessed data. However, the opportunity to replace HDDs for primary data storage is gigantic.
Analysts View
The SSD market is serving as a powerful growth en- gine for partners who develop experience and ex- pertise in delivering solid-state solutions.
As overall spending for IT equipment grows at a low single digit rate, IDC projects that spending on SSD will more than triple from $800M in 2011 to $2.5B in 2014.
However, many analysts expect SSD growth to come mostly from acceleration solutions for frequently accessed data. This segment is dominated by PCIe cards, and SAS/SATA modules, and is the tip of the iceberg in the overall market for storage systems.
Below the market for acceleration solutions lies the gigantic $30B opportunity to displace HDD storage systems used for primary storage.
Storage visionaries believe that SSD technology is on the verge of an epic migration to displace HDD tech- nology for enterprise storage. They believe this will happen because HDDs will not be able to deliver the application performance and storage densities needed in data centers of the future.
Products to serve this market is what you want, and it’s where Nimbus stands out from the pack with the first SSD system capable of delivering the higher performance, storage densities and lower cost of operation that it takes to displace HDD storage.
$1B
$30B
SSD Storage Systems
HDD Storage Systems
2012 Worldwide SSD & HDD Revenue
This Solutions Brief provides information about high-growth opportunities, All- Flash products from Nimbus, and resources available to help turn them into profits.
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IT Pro View
IT professionals are even more op- timistic about their adoption of SSD than analysts. In an IT Brand Pulse survey of over 200 data center managers, the respondents said that 20% of their combined SSD and HDD capacity would migrate to SSD within 24 months—almost 10X what they say is installed today.
Theses same IT pros said it is their mainstream applications which are driving the need for SSD. The type of server most driving adoption of virtualized servers with an aggrega- tion of I/O from multiple VMs. Con- sidering that over 70% of new workloads are installed on VMs, their is a pervasive need for SSD in the data center.
It’s no longer a matter of “if” SSD will be deployed. It’s now a deci- sion of “what type”, “how much”, and “where”.
SSD will comprise approximately this percentage of my organiza- tion’s combined SSD and HDD disk capacity:
The following application is most driving the adoption of SSD in my environment is:
IT Brand Pulse
IT Brand Pulse
High Growth Opportunity
SSDs are a hot solution for storing or caching frequently accessed data. However, the opportunity to replace HDDs for primary data storage is gigantic.
SSDs are a hot solution for storing or caching frequently accessed data. However, the opportunity to replace HDDs for primary data storage is gigantic.
IT professionals estimate that SSD as a percentage of their combined SSD/HDD ca- pacity will grow almost 10X in the next 24 months.
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Future SSD systems will be unified SAN/NAS systems, support multiple network inter- faces, and offer rich software stacks. Nimbus is already there.
Nimbus is leading the way for the SSD Array Market
HDDs Arrays Evolved into Unified Storage Systems
Until a few years ago, HDD arrays were designed with GbE, iSCSI or Fibre Channel ASICs to form separate NAS and SAN systems. ASICs are now multi-protocol, and most HDD array manufacturers have merged their interfaces and software stacks into uni- fied SAN/NAS systems.
Most SSD systems today are purpose-built for DAS, SAN or NAS, and have little software content. In the future, SSD sys- tems will support multiple net- work interfaces, file storage protocols, and block storage protocols. Future SSD systems will also include a rich storage management stack including failover, snap-shot, replication and de-duplication. Nimbus is already there.
High Growth Opportunity
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Nimbus E-Class Storage
Nimbus S-Class Storage
Stunning Performance
100% Flash
10X faster than HDD arrays
Surprising Economy
80% less power than HDD arrays
70% less Rackspace than HDD arrays
Nimbus Sustainable Storage® systems represent a revolutionary departure from spinning disk arrays—purpose-built all-flash storage with comprehensive unified storage manage- ment and data protection software built-in.
Nimbus Unified Systems
The Nimbus Advantage
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At the heart of Nimbus flash memory systems is the Nimbus HALO operating system--a com- prehensive software suite that provides end-to-end administration, data protection, data opti- mization, data security, and detailed monitoring of Nimbus systems—license free.
Tier 1 Storage for the Data Center
The Nimbus Advantage
S-Class Entry/Midrange Storage
E-Class High-End Storage
2.5 - 250 terabytes
10 - 500 terabytes
Starts at $25,000
Starts at $150,000
Fully redundant except for system board
No-single-point-of-failure
5 terabytes per u
10 terabytes per U
HALO storage operating system
HALO storage operating system
$10 per gigabyte + IO modules
$10 per gigabyte + controllers and IO modules
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The Nimbus Advantage
Solid State Storage for Virtualized Servers and Databases
The midrange Nimbus S-Class flash storage system leverages NAND flash memory to deliver dramatically higher performance than conventional disk arrays, but without tiering, caching, or short-stroking techniques that increase operational complexity, cost, and power consumption.
100% Flash, 5,000% Speed
With latency a mere fraction of a millisecond, S-Class systems can service up to 50x more IO than disk arrays, perfect for random IO intensive virtualization and database deployments. With performance up to 8,000 MBps, a single S-Class shelf can deliver more throughput than 100 hard drives, ideal for streaming, rich con- tent, and scientific applications.
Total SAN+NAS Software
Nimbus S-Class flash systems include comprehensive software for end-to-end storage management and data protection, without additional license fees, complex appliances or third-party code. Nimbus' HALO storage operating system provides full multi-protocol capabilities, including iSCSI and Fibre Channel SAN, NFS and CIFS for NAS, and even native InfiniBand SRP protocol support. Data protection features include snapshots, remote replication, and synchronous mirroring with high availability clustering. Inline deduplication and thin provisioning maximize usable storage, while an intuitive web interface and scriptable CLI make administra- tion a breeze.
80% Lower Data Center Costs
Nimbus S-Class consumes as few as 14 watts per usable TB, generate much less heat and operate safely at higher ambient temperatures than conventional disk arrays. S-Class systems also pack up to 5TB of solid state capacity per rack unit, enabling more storage in less space than traditional disk arrays.
Superior Availability
Nimbus S-Class consumes as few as 14 watts per usable TB, generate much less heat and operate safely at higher ambient temperatures than conventional disk arrays. S-Class sys- tems also pack up to 5TB of solid state capacity per rack unit, enabling more storage in less space than tradi- tional disk arrays.
S-Class data protection features include snapshots, remote replication, and synchronous mirroring with high availability clustering, inline de-duplication and thin provisioning— license free.
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The Nimbus Advantage
#1 in Energy Efficiency and Storage Density for Data Centers
The flagship of the Nimbus Data product line, the E-Class Flash Memory System is the indus- try’s first fully-redundant multiprotocol solid state storage system. The E-Class outperforms and costs less to operate than conventional 15K rpm disk arrays while providing the high- availability, scalability and cost reduction that enterprises and cloud providers demand.
No Single Point of Failure
The E-Class platform consists of a pair of redundant controllers and four active-active IO modules. Nimbus software automatically detects controller and path failures, providing non-disruptive failover. The E-Class al- so supports RAID protection as well as online software updates and capacity expansion.
Most Scalable Flash System
The E-Class Scales from 10 TB to 500 TB, packing twice as much enterprise-grade flash memory as before. All storage is thin-provisioned, maximizing utilization and simplifying storage capacity planning.
Most Efficient Tier 1 Storage
Requiring as little as 5 watts of power per terabyte, the E- Class consumes 80% less than conventional disk arrays.
Maximum Density for Tier 1 Storage
The E-Class packs 20 TB of enterprise-grade flash memory in a compact 2U of rack space. This enables up to 440 TB of solid state storage in a single data center cabinet.
Software Complete
With snapshots, replication, deduplication, and encryption, all at no additional cost, the E-Class helps customers escape dreaded licensing fees.
All Flash Unified SSD System
E-Class Nimbus software automatically detects controller and path failures, providing non-disruptive failover. The E-Class also supports RAID protection as well as online soft- ware updates and capacity expansion.
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9. Broad Industry Recognition
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Among hundreds of large and small suppliers, IT professionals selected Nimbus Data over the competition in all six categories of Unified SAN/NAS SSD brand leadership.
The Nimbus Advantage
Customers
IT Professionals
Experts
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10. FlashPoint Partner Program
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Getting Started
Nimbus' FlashPoint Partner Program enables IT solution providers to capitalize on perhaps the most signifi- cant shift in datacenter storage in decades: the migration away from hard disk arrays to flash memory tech- nology for primary storage.
Award-Winning Solutions
Winner of Storage Magazine’s Product of the Year award and back-to-back Tech Awards Product of the Year recognition, Nimbus enables FlashPoint partners to capitalize on a market that IDC expects to increase at a CAGR of 51.5% from 2010 to 2015.
High Growth High Reward
Nimbus offers all partners an equal opportunity to differentiate themselves with value-added capabilities— ensuring the hard work and evangelism of our partners is well-rewarded. The ideal partners bring unique expertise in key technologies where Nimbus solutions are particularly well-suited:
Server virtualization
VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure)
Databases
Cloud infrastructure
Data warehousing
eDiscovery
Scientific applications and energy
Content creation and delivery
Channel focused Strategy
The FlashPoint Partner Program addresses the biggest challenges facing IT solution providers – lack of both innovative and proven storage solutions, and complex sales and support programs that limit business poten- tial. Rather than relying on direct sales, Nimbus has built a business development team that works hand-in- hand with partners to identify new opportunities and accelerate sales and technical engagements with pro- spective customers. Nimbus solutions are easy to install and administer so partners can spend more time cultivating new business rather than supporting lengthy deployments.
Comprehensive Yet Simple
Nimbus does away with complex pricing typical of traditional enterprise storage vendors. Nimbus’ all- inclusive software eliminates per-feature license fees, providing the full features of Nimbus’ HALO storage operating system at no additional cost. The comprehensive software includes unified iSCSI, Fibre Channel,
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The highly motivated Nimbus business development team works hand-in-hand with partners to identify new opportunities and accelerate sales and technical engagements.
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Ivan Chong, Director of Channels, Nimbus Data
Ivan Chong is responsible for all things channel at Nimbus Data, including partner recruitment, business development and channel marketing. Email Ivan at ichong@ni,busdata.com.