15 March 2017
Nimble Storage AF100 series
New all-flash storage from Nimble Storage promises lower prices and the ability to start small and scale up to 8PB. Like others from the company, the AF100 series includes InfoSight Predictive Analytics designed to predict and prevent storage and non-storage issues across the infrastructure stack.
Nimble says the AF100 makes it affordable for organisations of any size to benefit from an all-flash platform with the same capabilities and scalability found in high-end arrays.
The AF1000 starts at up to 20TB effective capacity and is expandable up to 165TB in 4U. The firm says it can also scale-up and scale-out non-disruptively to achieve more than 1.2m IOPS and 8PB of all-flash capacity.
It adds that because all of its flash products run the same NimbleOS, management and functionality is identical and arrays of any type can be clustered and managed as a single entity in a Unified Flash Fabric. Furthermore, customers who use all flash for primary applications can leverage adaptive flash for backup, disaster recovery, and archival at a third of the cost of all flash.
In addition, Nimble has introduced the CS-Series adaptive flash arrays. It claims these deliver flexible performance and capacity for mixed mainstream workloads at one-third the total cost of ownership of legacy hybrid arrays.
