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- 1. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 1#NimbleStorage Introducing Nimble Storage: Flash-Optimized Hybrid Storage Engineered For Maximum Efficiency Rich Fenton, Senior Systems Engineer +447507264721 / @NimbleRichF / rfenton@nimblestorage.com
- 2. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 2#NimbleStorage Please Tweet/Blog/Comment On Social Media #NimbleStorage #VMUGUK @NimbleStorage @NimbleRichF http://connect.nimblestorage.com
- 3. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 3#NimbleStorage Company Snapshot Founded in January 2008; started shipping in August 2010. Headquartered in San Jose, CA; operations in US, Canada, Europe, and Asia UK office opened in October 2011 (Rivington Street, London) Over 400 employees Leadership team brings deep industry expertise and business building experience (NetApp/Data Domain) Rapidly growing installed base of over 1100+ customers and 2000+ deployments Strong alliances with VMware, Microsoft, Cisco and CommVault Partner eco-system expanding quickly, with over 400 VARs
- 4. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 6#NimbleStorage Storage Architectures–The Engine Powering Storage Architected to use disk only; overlaying flash on top results in partial solution Today’s Storage Architectures Purpose-built, Performance Hybrid Designed from the ground up to leverage the best of flash and disk Eliminates compromise between performance, capacity, and data management
- 5. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 7#NimbleStorage Hybrid systems marry flash and disk to deliver the best of both Random IOPS / £ Component Flash Disk Sequential IO / £ Capacity / £ Reliability experience 1x 1x Early 1x Mature 30-100x 3x 20x Mature 30-100x 3x 20x Mature What Is Hybrid Storage?
- 6. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 8#NimbleStorage Accelerating Applications with CASL Accelerate Protect Empower 2-5x better performance / £ 2-5x better capacity / £ ~ 4x reduction in footprint, power and cooling UNIVERSAL COMPRESSION: 30-75% SAVINGS Variable-size blocks enable fast inline compression Elimination of read-modify-write penalty allows compression of all applications WRITE-OPTIMIZED LAYOUT: 100x FASTER WRITES Guaranteed coalescing of random writes to sequential stripes; eliminates dependency on spindle speed Coalesced writes to flash increase lifespan by 500% DISKSSD Cache Cache populated intelligently on first write, instantly on cache miss Metadata in cache accelerates all accesses DYNAMIC CACHING: 50x FASTER READS 4K, 8K, 16K, 32K Blocks 1000’s of IOs 4K, 8K, 16K, 32K Blocks 11 IO Write Stripe 4K, 8K, 16K or 32K Blocks
- 7. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 9#NimbleStorage Exchange 2010 SQL / Oracle / Sharepoint Exchange LogExchange 2003 VMware ESX 32K 8K 16K4K 32K 8K 16K4K 4K4K Variable Block Agility and Application Policies
- 8. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 10#NimbleStorage Scale To Fit: Optimised for You Accelerate Protect Simplify SCALE COMPUTE Scale write & read IOPS by scaling compute SCALE CAPACITY Scale capacity alone using expansion shelves Scale flexibly and non-disruptively at the lowest incremental cost. SCALE CACHE Reduce latency by scaling cache
- 9. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 11#NimbleStorage Gain High Performance and Capacity Savings Actual results across all Nimble customers deploying ESX workloads Disk-basedSystems 5-10 ms 0.5 ms Faster Performance… AVERAGE READ LATENCY AVERAGE WRITE LATENCY Actual results across all Nimble customers TieredSystems withFlash 1-4 ms 0.67 ms ―In an IOmeter test of the CS220, the Nimble out- performed EMC by a factor of 7 to 10 in IOPS, latency, and Mbps‖ Community ―With inline compression alone, we’ve freed up 7.48TB of space. Imagine what we can do with that.‖ – Calvin Levy, Florida Blood Services AVERAGE COMPRESSION Actual results across all Nimble customers deploying SQL server workloads 2X …without Sacrificing Capacity Accelerate Protect Empower ―The IOPS we’re achieving with the Nimble array has proven game- changing for our development team.‖ – Ethan Erchinger, VP of Operations, Plaxo
- 10. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 12#NimbleStorage Average Real-World Compression Figures
- 11. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 13#NimbleStorage Nimble Snapshot Efficiency Advantage Redirect-on-write snapshots consume little space with no performance penalty Enables frequent recovery points Allows for longer retention periods of 30–120 days Production Exchange 2010 deployment; 20GB Exchange Infostor Used DAG to mirror database to EqualLogic and Nimble CS-Series Captured daily snapshots on both systems for ten days Accelerate Protect Empower 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 Snapshot Space Usage: 2.9 GB 102.1 GB Usage(GB) Nimble Competitor 30xLess space with Nimble ―Most recoveries are for data which is less than a month old, often a granular file or object level and where recovery time is paramount, making disk-based protection mechanisms the right choice for almost everyone.‖ – Jason Buffington, ESG
- 12. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 14#NimbleStorage Snapshot Efficiency - Granularity Retain hundreds of snapshots for frequent recovery points Improved RPO and RTO Nimble snapshots consume the least space due to fine snapshot granularity (& compression) Nimble Traditional Array Snapshot granularity: Nimble Snapshot granularity: Traditional array Individual, compressed blocks (4k, 8k, 16k, 32k) Large pages/extents (256K, 512K, 4MB, 15MB)
- 13. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 15#NimbleStorage Average Real-World Snapshot Deltas
- 14. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 16#NimbleStorage Intelligent Data Management Cost-effective, WAN-efficient replication Flexible retention schedules VM and application consistent Zero-copy clones for Test/Dev or VDI Hypervisor SharePoint, Exchange, SQL Server, VMware, Hyper-V Accelerate Protect Empower SNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT “A major advantage of snapshots over backup software is that they scale very well. No data movement means near instant application recoveries.” – Dave Russell, Gartner
- 15. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 17#NimbleStorage Simplify Backups, Protect More Accelerate Protect Empower Actual results across all Nimble customers running SQL workloads 63% Protect More Often CUSTOMERS WITH HOURLY RPOs Actual results across all Nimble customers Actual results across all Nimble customers Protect More WORKLOADS REPLICATED FOR DR 51% 10% Industry Average (Source: IDC) CUSTOMERS RETAINING SNAPSHOTS MORE THAN 1 MONTH 47% Actual results across all Nimble customers running SQL workloads Protect Longer ―The Nimble backups are extremely fast and non-disruptive – they don’t impact our application or storage performance at all.‖ – Steve Tuscher, Director of Information Technology, Grocery Outlet ―With Nimble it takes, literally, a couple clicks of the mouse to establish a backup schedule and meet our data retention policy.‖ – Mike Brester, System Administrator, Mulvanny G2 Architecture ―When you compare Nimble with other disaster recovery products, it’s very effective and very competitive in terms of pricing, and it’s so easy to use.‖ – Jared Call, Director of IT, Imagine Learning
- 16. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 18#NimbleStorage VMware Storage Connectivity Options Nimble has NO preference of storage mapping methods for to vSphere. The ONLY consideration required is the way application data is backed up/replicated.
- 17. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 19#NimbleStorage Gain Peace of Mind and More Accelerate Protect Empower SECURE REMOTE SUPPORT Nimble Support INFOSIGHT – PROACTIVE, DATA ANALYTIC SUPPORT PUSH-BUTTON DEPLOYMENT 5-minute heartbeats and detailed daily telemetry ensure arrays are in top condition 30 million sensors per array Real-time analysis of entire environment with automated case creation before failure occurs Cloud based portal for management All-inclusive features Built-in application profiles eliminate manual tuning Extensive integration with hypervisors and applications Non-disruptive software upgrades Secure tunnel enables fast and easy triage and problem resolution
- 18. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 20#NimbleStorage Infosight – “Big Data” Cloud Analytics & Reporting
- 19. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 21#NimbleStorage Managing Internal Storage and Expansion Shelves
- 20. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 22#NimbleStorage Ideal for Exchange Accelerate Protect Empower Gain Performance MAILBOXES PER DISK Published and verified Microsoft Exchange ESRP benchmark results.3,333 312 294 187 139 Equalogic 32 disks for 10,000 mailboxes EMC 34 disks for 10,000 mailboxes NetApp 64 disks for 12,000 mailboxes Compellent 72 disks for 10,000 mailboxes Nimble 12 disks for 40,000 mailboxes10-24x Save and Protect COMPRESSION CUSTOMERS RETAINING SNAPSHOTS FOR >1 MONTH1.3x 48%Actual results across all Nimble customers deploying Exchange 2010 Actual results across all Nimble customers deploying Exchange 2010 ―We started out deploying SQL workloads primarily on the Nimble array. Very quickly we realized we had enough performance headroom to consolidate our very demanding Exchange 2010 deployment on the same array.” –Ron Kanter, IT Director, Berkeley Research Group ―With Nimble, we were able to run 3 snapshot backups a day and replicate offsite twice daily. Exchange users notice no performance degradation. Backups take minutes, not hours. Snapshot backups require very little space and are recoverable and mountable locally and remotely. A mailbox or Exchange system can be recovered in literally minutes. Best of all, we can regularly test our procedures for Disaster Recovery.‖ –Lucas Clara, IT Director, Foster Pepper LLC
- 21. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 23#NimbleStorage vCenter Plugin – Nimble Array tab Nimble Array tab in vCenter: Shows datastores, associated Nimble volumes, IOPS, throughput, compression & capacity usage. ―Create New Datastore‖ button creates, configures & presents a new volume on Nimble array directly from vCenter (including setting correct performance profile, ACLs, protection, volume mapping to vSphere, & vSphere datastore creation)
- 22. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 24#NimbleStorage vCenter Plugin – Manage Datastore "Manage Datastore" from vCenter – Resize, delete or clone Datastore n-times – Edit snapshot/replication schedules – Restore Datastore from snapshot Showing cloning datastore entirely from vCenter UI
- 23. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 25#NimbleStorage Nimble + VMware SRM Integration Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) Nimble SRA for SRM allows for: Discovery Test Failover Failover Re-protect Nimble brings additional positives: Efficient, policy-driven WAN replication Space efficient zero-copy clones
- 24. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 26#NimbleStorage VDI Demands High-Performance Storage 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000IOPS Writes Reads Nimble Storage Requires 12 Drives Traditional Storage Requires 60+ Drives VDI Storage Requirements for Hundreds of Desktops 9:00 AM 6:00 PM 10:00 PM Time Boot Storm Workday AV Scans and Patches
- 25. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 27#NimbleStorage Boot Storm Example 2,000 desktops 20 minutes boot 50M I/O disk ops 1200 seconds ~42K IOPS
- 26. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 28#NimbleStorage Nimble Storage SmartStack for VDI with Cisco and VMware: 1,000 Users Validated Reference Architecture Nimble Storage CS220G-X2 (3RU) Cisco UCS B- Class Blade Servers VMware View Published a joint end-to-end smart stack reference architecture with Cisco and VMware – Efficiently deliver cost-effective virtual desktops without a large upfront investment – Lower risk of deployments and speed up deployments – Scale to fit VDI needs by scaling performance and capacity independently SmartStack for VDI with Cisco and VMware: 1,000 desktop configuration – Cisco 8x UCS B230 M2 Servers with Fabric Extender – Nimble Storage CS220G-X2 – VMware View 5.1 and vSphere 5.0
- 27. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 32#NimbleStorage 650 User VMware View Deployment – Real World
- 28. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 33#NimbleStorage Nimble Storage CS-Series and ES1-Series Products Storage Shelves ES1-H25 ES1-H45 ES1-H65 Raw Capacity 15 TB 30 TB 45 TB Effective Capacity(1) 11 – 22 TB 23 – 45 TB 34 – 68 TB Flash Capacity 160 GB 300 GB 600 GB IO Modules Dual hot-swappable 2x 6Gb SAS-2 controllers Notes: 1: Effective capacity is usable capacity after no to 2x (or 50%) compression; typical range: 30% to 75% 2: The CS420 model is available in CS420-X2 and CS420-X4 options only. Controllers CS210 CS220/G CS240/G CS260/G CS420/G(2) CS440/G CS460/G Controllers High Performance (15K– 20K IOps) Extreme Performance (35K – 60K IOps) Base Raw capacity 8TB 12TB 24TB 36TB 12TB 24TB 36TB Add on shelves Add 1 shelf Add up to 3 additional shelves Effective Capacity(1) 4-9 TB 8 – 16TB 17 - 33TB 25 - 50TB 8 – 16TB 17 - 33TB 25 - 50TB Flash Capacity— Base/Max 160 GB 320 GB / 1,200 GB 640 GB / 2,400 GB 1,200 GB / 2,400 GB 640 GB / 1,200 GB 640 GB / 2,400 GB 1,200 GB / 2,400 GB Network 4 x 1GbE 6 x 1GbE or 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE (G models) Controller Storage
- 29. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 34#NimbleStorage My IOMeter Test Results • 1x Windows 2008 VM, 2x GbE NIC • 70/30 Read/Write, 4K Blocks, 32 Queue Depth • CS210 – 8x NL- SAS & 2x SSD • 20K IOPS+ • 1-4ms Latency
- 30. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 35#NimbleStorage Large Service Provider Customer Example Nimble Storage CS460-X2 Before Nimble After Nimble 6U of rack space for storage 2x racks for storage
- 31. © 2013 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 36#NimbleStorage Summary High capacity disk Always-on compression High ratio of usable to raw capacity 2-5x More Usable Capacity/$ Responsive flash cache accelerates reads with no RAID overhead Serialized writes eliminate need for high RPM spindles 2-5x More Performance/$ Thin snapshots with no performance penalty Retention for months, not days WAN-efficient replication Instant Backups & Restores Scale just performance, just capacity, or both Scale-out cluster eliminates storage silos Scale with zero downtime Scaling at the Lowest Incremental Cost CASL
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Hinweis der Redaktion
- Introduce yourself and the topic of discussion
- Introduce NimbleThe headcount, # of customers and deployments, as well as the # of VARs changes frequently. Make sure to check with HQ on the latest #s.The idea is to highlight how Nimble is experiencing growth all around and is being lead by storage industry veterans with a strong track record of success.
- DO NOT MODIFY. THIS IS AS PER GARTNER’S APPROVED TEMPLATE
- Next part of the positioning gets into workloads and how these were addressed in the pre-flash era. Point to note is that both the top and bottom tier of workloads are nichey in nature. Bulk of the mainstream workloads are in that middle chunk.We believe the top tier will move to flash resident on server or all flash arrays. These are workloads that demand us latencies and >1M IOPS. Cost economics is not a major factor here.Long term archival and retention will likely move more to the cloud moving forward.The middle chunk is best addressed by hybrid flash optimized storage. Specifically the performance demands of the workloads vary – eg VDI/OLTP much more performance centric vsSharepoint. Bottomline: if you can architect a system which allows you to flexibly vary performance, you can cater to the needs of all mainstream workloads with a single storage architecture
- Part 3 of the positioning:All storage vendors offer flash optimized storage however not all flash optimized storage is created equal.A majority of the ones offered by incumbents layers on flash over an architecture optimized for spinning disk. The improvements you gain are marginal at best.If otoh, you can architect a file system from a clean slate, you have the ability to leverage the best of flash and disk and deliver the performance, capacity, and intelligent data management delivering a well-rounded solution.
- Flash is indeed very effective at addressing random IOHwever disk tends to be better at delivering sequential IO on a per dollar basis.Also the price differential between flash and disk is between 10-20x (depending on type of flash and type of disk).Flash as an endpoint of storage is still unproven (data integrity, bit error rates etc) whereas disk has been around a lot longer and is much more matureCallout at the bottom is what this slide leads uptoie an ideal solution marries the strengths of flash and disk (what we refer to as hybrid)
- Talk about how Nimble delivers the benefits on the previous slideUniversal compression is always turned on and delivers 30-75% savings.Write optimized layout (explain how it works) helps dramatically accelerate writes and eliminates dependency on high rpm spindles; it also helps reduce write endurance increasing flash lifespan and allowing the use of MLC flashFinally dynamic caching helps pull hot data into cache instantly. Even in case of a cache miss, access is expedited owing to metadata always being resident on cache.Net-net you get 2-5 times between performance and capacity on a per $ basis in addition to the footprint/power/cooling savings
- Introduce scale to fit.Nimble allows customers to scale performance by scaling compute in the controller as well as cache in the systemNimble allows customers to grow their capacity through expansiion shelvesClustering allows linear scaling of capacity and performance and allows the management of multiple nodes as one.Best of all, you can scale entirely non-disruptively and at the lowest incremental cost.
- We introduce each of the pillars here. This talks to what we deliver under accelerate.Take a few minutes here to explain what is being showcased. Specifically talk to how Nimble gathers comprehensive telemetry data on install base systems .What we are showing is real customer data culled from install base of over 1000 systems – not empty marketing claimsNimble delvers sub-ms latencies contrasted against the many ms that disk-based systems incur. Similarly on the write latencies as well. use the quotes to illustrate the metricsTalk about how w deliver this performance while at the same time, delivering significant capacity savings
- SO what makes Nimble unique?Nimble’s redirect-on-write snapshots are based on variable logical blocks. This means the block size can be matched to the application resulting in dramatically improved snapshots, For example, 32k for Exchange 2010. Also snapshots are compressed. Finally the system allows 10’s of 1000’s of snapshots. Thus compared to a traditional system like EQL or even NTAP, Nimble offers significantly higher efficiency around snapshots.This means you can afford to take frequent recovery points and keep around these snapshot backups for as long as 3-4 months. Given 90% of restores occur within 30 days of scenarios, you have simplified backup/DR for the bulk of the scenarios.
- Traditional snapshotsHigh capacity consumption due to large page size, lack of primary compressionConsume expensive primary storageNeed large reservesNimble snapshotsExtremely efficient compressed, block level deltasFurther compressed to reduce capacityReside on low cost storage, eliminate large reservesExample of COW snapshot performance:http://www.lionbridge.com/competitive_analysis/reports/netapp/NetApp_FAS3070_vs_EMC_CX3-80_Performance_and_Usability.pdf
- The end goal of DR is quick application recovery. Since flash-optimized systems can be fully featured on the primary and secondary side, a failover/failback process essentially comes down to mounting and presenting the data from secondary to the application. Thus RTO is dramatically reduced.Also, integration with VSS offers granular backup/recovery for all Microsoft apps and Hyper-V. Integration with ESX stack ensures VM consistent snapshots.Note the quote from renowned backup guru and Gartner analyst Dave Russell who talks about how snapshot based backup/recovery provides much quicker app recoveries.
- Customers can protect more often with Nimble. Well over half of our SQL customers snapshot hourly. These customers are also able to protect for longer by keeping these snapshots around, sometimes for more than a month.Finally, Nimble makes DR affordable – over half the workloads running on Nimble are DR protected – contrast against the industry average of 10% that is normally considered DR worthy.Make sure to use customer quotes below the infographics to reinforce above points
- Use cases for: * Guess Connected Volumes for app data* VMDK for app data: SRM* RDM for app data
- How do we empower?Push button deployment enabled by a product that has every feature included.Out of the box tuning available for popular workloads with the built-in profilesExtensive integrations with hypervisors and applicationsProactive wellness ensures your systems are running in top condition at all times. 5-minute heartbeats and daily telemetry data come in from customer systems which are analyzed in real time. Any irregularities are flagged rightaway resulting in a support case being opened.In the event of a true support situation, Nimble support can VPN in and triage/troubleshoot the issue resulting in dramatically lowered resolution time.
- Talk aobut how Nimble works with Exchange.The above illustrates the testing Nimble conducted with Jetstress test harness under the Microsoft ESRP program. Nimble can support 40K mailboxes over 12 spindles which is 10-24 times more efficient than the competition. All reports are public and available on the mSFT website.In addition, Nimble delivers great capacity savings. Also half of our exchange customers choose to protect their mailboxes with Nimble snapshots so they can recover instantly.
- Goal: allow common array operations from within vCenter; minimize configuration requirements by setting default policiesNimble array settings plugin on home page Configure Nimble array specific multi-pathing settings, default protection template, performance profile.
- Nimble SRA is fully certified for SRM (starting with SRM 5.0), the following tasks are offloaded to the Nimble SRA from Vmware SRM:-discovery (discover what datastore is replicated)-test failver (during test failover, SRA clones the latest replica snapshot, and provision the clone to ESX cluster in the recovery site)-failover (during failover, SRA promotes the replica volume on the recovery site, then hand off VM power on to SRM)-reprotect (during reprotect, SRA reverses the replication from recovery site back to protected site)So if people ask why Nimble is good for SRM? Here are the following reasons:-replication is built-in, at no extra $; AND it is efficient as we have inline compression + we replicate only DELTA; additionally nimble replication has policy built-in to control bandwidth usage throttling, based on schedules-the clone that gets created during DR testing uses ZERO bytes, as nimble uses ‘ROW’ snapshot
- Speaker: Nimble StorageTalk about the peak performance needs for storage (boot storm)Talk about the through put
- SmartStack:SmartStack is a Nimble brand used to denote solutions that has been pre-tested, sized and validated. They target specific use cases starting with VDI and are based on a technical reference architecture approved by solution partners involved. Customers get the reassurance of implementing a proven solution.Nimble Storage has a very attractive sub $50/user storage cost with our 1,000 user VDI reference architecture. This is based on current list price of CS220G-X2 and approximately 40% discount to the end user.
- Vmware logo with 3rd set of text
- The first Nimble products are available in 2 compact, high density configurations. When you click, the animation shows the hot-swappable drives behind the bezel, and the hot swappable controllers. Nimble arrays come with dual (redundant), hot swappable controllersAll Nimble software features (including NPM, replication, cloning, snapshots) are included in the base price – no a-la carte pricing.
- This slide may or may not be suitable for all audience types. If audience not familiar with CASL, skip.The core mission for Nimble is to deliver efficiency. Nimble is “engineered for efficiency”This goes beyond just capacity savings. On the capacity front, talk about use of high capacity disk, always on compression and the ability to minimize overhead and deliver more usable to raw capacityNext we move onto performance. Talk about how CASL uses flash very effectively as cache eliminating RAID and write endurance overheads. Further, we are able to squeeze very high write performance from low rpm spindlesOn the data protection front, snapshots are very efficient from both a storage consumption as well as performance standpoint. Retaining snapshots for longer periods eliminates/mitigates the inefficiencies customers have to tolerate from legacy backup models. Finally replication is very efficient, only deltas go across.Lastly Nimble scaling epitomizes efficiency. The notion is one where you only grow (performance or capacity) what you need and when you need it AT THE LOWEST INCREMENTAL COST.
- We’ll be looking at the first of the three value props. Most customers are reconciled to making trade-offs of performance vs capacity efficiency. Nimble takes away the OR from the equation. Here is what Nimble customers have to relate:RPI Print: based out of Seattle and is one of Inc5000 fastest growing companies and are a make-on-demand producer of private label personalized photo books, greeting cards and stationery products. The holiday season also creates unique challenges for IT at RPI. The amount of work received during peak season is 400% more than the rest of the year. This creates intense demands on our storage and networking infrastructures.Forthe first time since deploying Nimble RPI did not have to worry about the storage environment scaling with customer demand according to Matt Anderson, Director of IT at RPI Print.San Diego Convention Center:For SDCC, storage virtualization was emerging as a viable technology for reducing both capital and operating expenditures, but four servers were playing host to 50 virtual machines and application performance had dropped precipitously. That’s when IT execs put a Nimble CS220 converged storage array to the test. In a matter of weeks after adoption of the Nimble array, performance issues had vanished and costs were once again under control per Eric Myers, network engineer at SDCC.
- We’ll be looking at the first of the three value props. Most customers are reconciled to making trade-offs of performance vs capacity efficiency. Nimble takes away the OR from the equation. Here is what Nimble customers have to relate:RPI Print: based out of Seattle and is one of Inc5000 fastest growing companies and are a make-on-demand producer of private label personalized photo books, greeting cards and stationery products. The holiday season also creates unique challenges for IT at RPI. The amount of work received during peak season is 400% more than the rest of the year. This creates intense demands on our storage and networking infrastructures.Forthe first time since deploying Nimble RPI did not have to worry about the storage environment scaling with customer demand according to Matt Anderson, Director of IT at RPI Print.San Diego Convention Center:For SDCC, storage virtualization was emerging as a viable technology for reducing both capital and operating expenditures, but four servers were playing host to 50 virtual machines and application performance had dropped precipitously. That’s when IT execs put a Nimble CS220 converged storage array to the test. In a matter of weeks after adoption of the Nimble array, performance issues had vanished and costs were once again under control per Eric Myers, network engineer at SDCC.
- We’ll be looking at the first of the three value props. Most customers are reconciled to making trade-offs of performance vs capacity efficiency. Nimble takes away the OR from the equation. Here is what Nimble customers have to relate:RPI Print: based out of Seattle and is one of Inc5000 fastest growing companies and are a make-on-demand producer of private label personalized photo books, greeting cards and stationery products. The holiday season also creates unique challenges for IT at RPI. The amount of work received during peak season is 400% more than the rest of the year. This creates intense demands on our storage and networking infrastructures.Forthe first time since deploying Nimble RPI did not have to worry about the storage environment scaling with customer demand according to Matt Anderson, Director of IT at RPI Print.San Diego Convention Center:For SDCC, storage virtualization was emerging as a viable technology for reducing both capital and operating expenditures, but four servers were playing host to 50 virtual machines and application performance had dropped precipitously. That’s when IT execs put a Nimble CS220 converged storage array to the test. In a matter of weeks after adoption of the Nimble array, performance issues had vanished and costs were once again under control per Eric Myers, network engineer at SDCC.
- Moneymailer is a direct marketer with many 100’s of franchisees delivering about 4 billion coupon offers to over 150 million homes a year. Provisioning and supporting new remote users were a major problem for Moneymailer. VDI and Nimble have made onboarding a franchisee a very easy operation allowing easy spooling up of new franchises with required sales resources and being able to grow a large sales territory in relatively short order.Interesting Moneymailer also runs SQL and Exchange in all hosting about 250 VMs over a CS240 array. Snapshots provide the basis for data protection.
- We’ll be looking at the first of the three value props. Most customers are reconciled to making trade-offs of performance vs capacity efficiency. Nimble takes away the OR from the equation. Here is what Nimble customers have to relate:RPI Print: based out of Seattle and is one of Inc5000 fastest growing companies and are a make-on-demand producer of private label personalized photo books, greeting cards and stationery products. The holiday season also creates unique challenges for IT at RPI. The amount of work received during peak season is 400% more than the rest of the year. This creates intense demands on our storage and networking infrastructures.Forthe first time since deploying Nimble RPI did not have to worry about the storage environment scaling with customer demand according to Matt Anderson, Director of IT at RPI Print.San Diego Convention Center:For SDCC, storage virtualization was emerging as a viable technology for reducing both capital and operating expenditures, but four servers were playing host to 50 virtual machines and application performance had dropped precipitously. That’s when IT execs put a Nimble CS220 converged storage array to the test. In a matter of weeks after adoption of the Nimble array, performance issues had vanished and costs were once again under control per Eric Myers, network engineer at SDCC.
- We’ll be looking at the first of the three value props. Most customers are reconciled to making trade-offs of performance vs capacity efficiency. Nimble takes away the OR from the equation. Here is what Nimble customers have to relate:RPI Print: based out of Seattle and is one of Inc5000 fastest growing companies and are a make-on-demand producer of private label personalized photo books, greeting cards and stationery products. The holiday season also creates unique challenges for IT at RPI. The amount of work received during peak season is 400% more than the rest of the year. This creates intense demands on our storage and networking infrastructures.Forthe first time since deploying Nimble RPI did not have to worry about the storage environment scaling with customer demand according to Matt Anderson, Director of IT at RPI Print.San Diego Convention Center:For SDCC, storage virtualization was emerging as a viable technology for reducing both capital and operating expenditures, but four servers were playing host to 50 virtual machines and application performance had dropped precipitously. That’s when IT execs put a Nimble CS220 converged storage array to the test. In a matter of weeks after adoption of the Nimble array, performance issues had vanished and costs were once again under control per Eric Myers, network engineer at SDCC.