Commvault Powers New HPE GreenLake Backup Solution to Bring Enterprise-class Data Protection and Reliability to Customers

Mumbai, Maharashtra, New Delhi, Delhi, India @Commvault, the global leader in #enterprise #backup, #recovery, #archive and the cloud, today announced that its Commvault Data Platform has been selected by @Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( #HPE) to power its new HPE #GreenLake Backup solution. Available today and managed through HPE’s outcome-based flexible IT consumption service, Commvault Software which is pre-integrated on HPE servers, storage and networking technology will provide customers with enterprise-class data protection and reliability covering the entire lifecycle of a backup environment. Through its support of HPE GreenLake Backup, Commvault is simplifying the backup experience for customers by providing the required hardware, software, and services to meet evolving data protection & compliance challenges, tightening resource requirements, and ever-expanding data growth. HPE GreenLake Backup is an on-premises deployment but priced like a cloud offering. “Today’s announcement brings together two industry leaders in Commvault and HPE for the benefit of our mutual customers with an end-to-end back up service, deployed and delivered in the privacy of their own data center,” said N. Robert Hammer, chairman, president and CEO of Commvault. “Through this strategic technology partnership, we are delighted to extend our presence in the vital enterprise market with HPE with a new service offering that enables IT staff to focus on more strategic initiatives, while lowering operational expenses and reducing risks related to security, business continuity and regulatory compliance.” “We are excited to partner with Commvault to deliver a complete ‘pay as you go’ backup solution that removes the complexities inherent in capacity planning and the burdens of provisioning backups and managing data growth. Instead we deliver a successfully executed backup, the outcome that our customers care about,” said Ana Pinczuk, SVP and GM of HPE Pointnext. “With HPE’s metering technology and management services to run our customers storage needs on either HPE StoreOnce or HPE 3PAR Storage, organizations are able to gain instant backup capacity, within the control and security of their own data center, deployed ahead of time and ready to be activated when needed.”

https://businesswireindia.com/news/fulldetails/commvault-powers-new-hpe-greenlake-backup-solution-bring-enterprise-class-data-protection-reliability-customers/56660

Like its CEO, HPE storage in transition phase

@MegWhitman says it’s time for “a new generation” to take over @Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( #HPE ). She was talking about the CEO change when she made that comment during the company’s earnings call last week, but she could have been talking about the HPE storage portfolio as well.

Independent of the CEO switch from Whitman to @AntonioNeri that will take place in February, the HPE storage technology focus is shifting from @3PAR arrays to @Nimble Storage. The #3PAR arrays still generate most of HPE’s storage revenue but #Nimble is growing much faster in revenue and influence inside the company.

HPE acquired Nimble for $1.2 billion last March. Whitman said the Nimble deal “completed our storage offering from entry-level to the high-end and accelerated our transition to all flash.”

The transition is ongoing. HPE storage revenue of $871 million last quarter grew only five percent over last year, a disappointing number for the vendor considering the 2016 results did not include Nimble. But Whitman said Nimble revenue increased 80%, while 3PAR sales were “soft.”

She blamed 3PAR problems on “a tough competitive environment in the mid-range and some go-to-market challenges in America.”

HPE hasn’t given up on 3PAR, and is working on changes to give the platform new life and bolster its sales team. But those changes rely on Nimble.

They include porting Nimble’s InfoSightpredictive storage analytics across all PAR arrays. “This is going to be a game-changer for our storage business,” Whitman said. “Leveraging advanced machine learning, HPE InfoSight is the next step in our vision for an autonomous data center.”

HPE is also combining the 3PAR and Nimble sales teams under Keegan Riley, who led Nimble sales before the acquisition. Riley, who worked in Hewlett Packard storage from 2008-2012, is the VP and GM of HPE’s North America Storage Business Unit. Whitman said the HPE storage unit is also hiring more field specialists to support sales.

All-flash revenue increased 16% from last year, which pales compared to HEP’s 30% year-over-year all-flash growth in the previous quarter. Both Nimble and 3PAR storage includes all-flash and hybrid arrays.

HPE gave no results for its other 2017 storage-related acquisition, SimpliVity.Whitman several times mentioned SimpliVity among HPE’s significant acquisitions but did not break out any hyper-converged results.

When asked if the HPE storage platform needed to grow by picking up new products, Whitman said HPE would be “very disciplined” about acquisitions.

“If we found something that we thought was important in the storage business … and it was priced right, we might think about doing it,” she said. “And I promise you that Antonio and [CFO] Tim [Stonesifer] will continue that disciplined approach to acquisitions. And I will be on the board to make sure they do.”

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/blog/Storage-Soup/Like-its-CEO-HPE-storage-in-transition-phase

Partners: HPE InfoSight On 3Par, AI Recommendation Engine Puts HPE Into Enterprise Storage Leadership Fast Lane

@Hewlett Packard Enterprise's new #InfoSight on #3Par product combined with a breakthrough #artificialintelligence-based recommendation engine tilts the balance of power in the intensely competitive storage market in #HPE's favor, partners told CRN. Infosight on 3Par marks the first time a major storage vendor has been able to predict and proactively resolve storage issues in complex enterprise IT environments, said partners. "Nobody else has this capability," said Michael Goldstein, CEO of LAN Infotech, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based solution provider. "This is a big deal. It gives channel  partners as well as storage administrators a bird's eye view of what needs to be done. Putting the AI recommendation engine behind the storage makes everyone smarter. It's going to make storage management more dynamic." Goldstein expects to drive big midrange storage sales growth by leveraging the AI capabilities of InfoSight on 3Par. "This is the first time we have ever had a true AI application that helps us with enterprise storage optimization," he said. "This gives us the insights to keep the storage up and performance tuned." The high praise from partners came after HPE Tuesday unveiled what it is calling the industry's "first" artificial intelligence-based recommendation engine as part of its new InfoSight on 3Par product launch. The recommendation engine brings InfoSight from what was predictive analytics to proactive recommendations. HPE, in fact, is bringing enterprise storage into the AI-based age where machine learning and big data are driving a new era of autonomous data centers, said Goldstein. "What is exciting about the machine-learning capabilities of InfoSight is it can be performance-tuned to each individual customer environment," he said. "This gives every customer their own storage knowledge base." The 3Par release of InfoSight comes just seven months after HPE acquired Nimble – the all-flash superstar that developed the breakthrough predictive InfoSight analytics product – in a $1.1 billion blockbuster deal. Nimble's predictive analytics – considered years ahead of competitors – is credited with lowering storage IT operating expenditures by 79 percent. HPE said InfoSight on3Par with the recommendation engine will be available starting in January at no additional charge to 3Par customers on the latest OS release with an active support contract. The new AI recommendation will also be available to current Nimble customers free of charge with an active support contract. Dan Molina, chief technology officer at San Diego-based Nth Generation Computing, one of HPE's top enterprise partners, said InfoSight's AI-based recommendation engine and deep predictive analytics platform combined with 3Par is a "tremendous combination" that will be tough for HPE competitors to match.

https://www.crn.com/news/storage/300095776/partners-hpe-infosight-on-3par-ai-recommendation-engine-puts-hpe-into-enterprise-storage-leadership-fast-lane.htm

Will NVRAM replace SSDs or DRAM?

I attended a @Hewlett-Packard Enterprise ( #HPE) event in California a couple of weeks ago. @EduardoDuarte, a Senior Product Manager for media in HPE's 3PAR group, gave an excellent talk on the role he expects storage class memory to take in systems. STORAGE CLASS MEMORY Storage Class Memory ( #SCM ) is a concept that has been talked about for years, and for good reason: it will radically change how we architect systems. It has two essential features: 1) contents are persistent (non-volatile), like storage; and, it is byte addressable, like memory. Since it has the characteristics of both, which market will it invade? A first approximation analysis: it replaces the costlier technology, i.e. DRAM. BONES Mr. Duarte began by postulating that each revolution in storage has been driven by new media. Disks wiped out a slew of media - magneto-resistive delay lines, magnetic drums, primary tape - in the then tiny computer market. 3.5" disks killed 5.25" disks. Thumb drives killed floppies, QIC, Zip drives, and others. SSDs have destroyed 15k disks and, soon, 10k disks. As he looked into the future the big change is the arrival of low-cost TLC (tri-level or 8 bit) and, later, QLC (quad-level or 16 bit) flash memory. TLC will be the mainstream flash technology in 2020, with QLC winning by 2025. QLC's superpower? It's cheaper than MLC flash - which is good, because almost every other spec is worse. In Eduardo's opinion, 3D XPoint will find its niche as a DRAM replacement. Intel will ensure it is cheaper, and engineering will ensure reasonable performance.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/will-nvram-replace-ssds-or-dram/

Why HPE No Longer Wants to Sell Cheap Servers to Cloud Giants

The recent decision by @Hewlett Packard Enterprise to stop selling commodity servers to companies that operate the world’s biggest cloud platforms and focus its efforts on selling hardware and services to smaller cloud companies, other types of service providers, and enterprises is a smart strategy, industry analysts say. With commodity servers, “there is no money to be made in the Super 7 cloud providers, [but] the tier 2 market is the fastest growing [portion], percentwise, of the cloud market,” said Patrick Moorhead, president and principal analyst of Moor Insights & Strategy. Companies that make up the “Super 7” (an Intel expression) are Alphabet, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Alibaba, and Tencent. Related: Taiwanese Firms to Sell Latest NVIDIA AI Hardware to Cloud Giants HPE this month announced it is exiting the business of selling commodity Cloudline servers to these companies, also often referred to as tier 1 service providers. But it will continue selling its higher-margin products, including high-end Apollo servers, 3PAR storage systems, and networking equipment to these large providers, a company spokesperson said. The company will continue selling a standardized set of Cloudline servers to smaller cloud companies and service providers, such as Salesforce and eBay. “We are shifting our resources and doubling down on tier 2 and tier 3 providers,” the spokesperson said. Related: HPE Says Storage, Networking Gear Sales Rising Industry analysts say HPE’s decision to abandon the hyper-scale commodity server business is a sound strategy, because the vendor is no longer getting a return on investment from its partnership with original design manufacturer (ODM) Foxconn, which built the custom commodity servers for HPE. HPE and Dell used to sell a lot of servers to the tier 1 providers, Moorhead said. But in recent years, their sales have plummeted, as cloud providers began designing their own servers and buying them directly from Asian ODMs – the likes of Foxconn. HPE partnered with Foxconn in 2014 to get a piece of the action, analysts say. But earlier this year, HPE chief executive Meg Whitman said her company faced significantly lower demand for the commodity servers from one tier 1 customer, which was reportedly Microsoft. The heavy competition from Asian ODMs has forced traditional server vendors, such as HPE and Dell EMC to decide how best to serve these customers or walk away entirely from the low-margin business, said Jeffrey Fidacaro, senior analyst of data center technologies at 451 Research. While HPE is pulling out of the hyper-scale custom commodity server market, Dell has no plans to do so anytime soon, said Ravi Pendekanti, senior VP of server solutions, product management and product marketing, at Dell EMC. “We continue to ship and keep our customers happy,” he said, responding to a question about Dell’s plans in selling hardware to the biggest cloud companies. Aiming at Smaller Providers The smaller providers don’t have the staff to design their own hardware and service it in their data centers like the hyper-scalers do, so they need the hardware and services OEMs like HPE provide, Fidacaro said. The same goes for enterprises. “For second- and third-tier service providers, colocation companies that aren’t very large, and enterprises, the services ecosystem that includes design, procurement, testing, and validation is still important,” Fidacaro said. “It’s something they can’t replicate internally because they don’t have the resources. This is where HPE can offer a lot of value.” Ashish Nadkarni, IDC’s program director of computing platforms, said HPE’s move resolves the awkwardness of having Foxconn build its custom commodity servers while competing with the ODM for the same business. The move is also part of HPE’s continuing effort to focus on higher-margin businesses, he said. Last year, HPE spun off and merged its non-core software with Micro Focus in a deal worth $8.8 billion. “It cleans up their business model,” he said. “HPE is shedding all the low-margin products and becoming more streamlined and nimble and only focusing on areas where it can make money.” For example, the company in 2017 has beefed up its product portfolio and now offers customers hyper-converged infrastructure, technology it gained through its SimpliVity acquisition in January, and flash storage hardware gained through its Nimble Storage acquisition in March. HPE can bolster revenue through its broad portfolio of products for smaller providers and enterprises, Nadkarni said. “There is money to be made with the whole solution.” HPE is a member of the Open Compute Project, the organization through which Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and others open source custom specs and have suppliers compete among each other for large orders of data center hardware. An HPE spokesman didn’t immediately respond when asked whether the company plans to stay in the organization. Moorhead, however, still sees value in HPE staying put. “I still see the value of HPE’s continued participation in OCP, as it can drive specifications for Cloudline, [which is] very much still an entity in tier 2 providers,” Moorhead said.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/hardware/why-hpe-no-longer-wants-sell-cheap-servers-cloud-giants

Global Enterprise Storage Systems Market 2017: Dell, Buffalo, Isilon Systems, 3PAR, Hitachi Data Systems, LSI Corporation

Global Enterprise Storage Systems Market 2017-2022 QY Market Research include new Enterprise Storage Systems market research report "2016-2022 Report on Global Enterprise Storage Systems Market Competition, Status and Forecast, Market Size by Players, Regions, Type, Application" to its huge collection of research reports. This report on the global Enterprise Storage Systems market is highly useful as it covers all the aspects which are important in determining the future of this industry. The Enterprise Storage Systems report is collated by experienced analysts who have made use of their market intelligence to cover all basic and important data about the global Enterprise Storage Systems industry.The Enterprise Storage Systems market report makes use of tables, charts, graphs, maps, and statistics to present the data in the easiest to understand way. The Enterprise Storage Systems market report is a comprehensive analysis of the key factors impacting the global Enterprise Storage Systems industry. This Enterprise Storage Systems market report includes both the driving factors as well as the restraining factors that are influencing the market's performance positively and negatively, respectively. Top Manufacturers Analysis Of This Research Report, #IBM #HewlettPackardEnterprise #EMCCorporation #Dell #Buffalo #IsilonSystems #3PAR #HitachiDataSystems #LSICorporation #NetGear #OverlandStorage #Oracle #Panasas #SGICorporation #Intel #Seagate #IntegratedDeviceTechnology #WesternDigital The current trends shaping the global Enterprise Storage Systems market and how it will influence the Enterprise Storage Systems market in the future are also studied. In addition to this, the future opportunities within the Enterprise Storage Systems market that have the potential to help the market to expand are also given in the Enterprise Storage Systems report.

http://www.openpr.com/news/708983/Global-Enterprise-Storage-Systems-Market-2017-Dell-Buffalo-Isilon-Systems-3PAR-Hitachi-Data-Systems-LSI-Corporation.html

HPE Americas Channel VP: SimpliVity Sales Momentum Is Off Charts, Surpassing Initial Aruba, 3Par Sales Strength

#HewlettPackardEnterprise Vice President, Americas Channel Jeremiah Jenson on Tuesday told CRN the #SimpliVity #hyperconverged channel sales momentum in the U.S. is off the charts with growth, exceeding even the robust initial channel numbers from red-hot past acquisitions like #Aruba and #3Par. "The growth we are seeing with SimpliVity is hotter than previous acquisitions whether it is 3Par – which was incredibly successful (out of the gate) or Aruba – which was even more successful," said Jenson in an interview with CRN. "This acquisition is even hotter than those and the [sales] ramp is going that much faster. The market acceptance has been greater. The partner uptake has been greater. This is a $6 billion market and we intend to take more than our unfair share. This is the fastest growing acquisition we have had in the channel."  [Related: HPE Chief Richardson On 100 Percent Channel Pledge For Nimble And SimpliVity, Dell EMC And Distie Commitment] The $650 million HPE SimpliVity acquisition – which was completed in February – is already on a strong sales ramp in the channel in the Americas with deal registration up triple digits in the most recent quarter both year-over-year and sequentially, said Jenson. "This is already a multimillion dollar business in our first full integrated quarter (with SimpliVity)," he said. "It's an eight-figure business almost immediately. We have been really, really pleased with the [sales] ramp." HPE's sales momentum comes with Cisco announcing this week that it is acquiring hyper-converged software provider Springpath Inc. for $320 million. HPE is fueling the SimpliVity sales momentum with a 100 percent commitment to drive all of the SimpliVity sales through partners. In addition, HPE has come out of the gate with a heavy investment in incentives to drive sales growth including a new spiff program, effective August 1, that rewards partners up to 10,000 points in additional rewards, said Jenson. In addition, HPE is offering customers up to $400 for every older server and appliance take out that is returned to HPE. That incentive helped close a $1.2 million deal that included SimpliVity. "We are seeing $100,000 transactions on a daily and weekly basis at this point," said Jenson. Dan Sytsma, vice president and general manager of Melillo Consulting, one of HPE's top Platinum enterprise partners, said Melillo added SimpliVity to its portfolio after the HPE acquisition and expects the product to account for as much as 25 percent of its sales within a year. Melillo, No. 306 on the CRN SP500, has already closed two SimpliVity deals and has a half dozen more in the pipeline, said Sytsma. One of the deals was with a telecom service provider on a fast growth path looking for a more flexible and agile infrastructure with expansion capabilities, said Sytsma. The SimpliVity hyper-converged product is providing a "huge ROI (return on investment)" for customers looking to consolidate infrastructure into a more "manageable and more cost effective" platform, said Sytsma. "The technology is a definitely a difference maker for us and customers," he said. "What we see is the ROI customers are getting is huge. HPE has done a great job stepping up into the marketplace, seeing what was out there and offering a great solution to customers." The 100 percent channel commitment with SimpliVity is also helping fuel sales, said Sytsma. "That is huge," he said. "HPE is 100 percent behind the channel to deliver this value to customers. There is no direct conflict. Having that confidence from HPE that this is a channel focused only solution is huge for Melillo and other partners." Snowcap Technologies, one of HPE's top enterprise partners, expects its HPE business to be up about 30 percent this year as a result of what the systems integrator is calling the flat out best and most complete storage and compute portfolio with the addition of SimpliVity and Nimble, said Matt Cavanagh, a partner and vice president of engineering at Lynnfield, Mass.-headquartered Snowcap Technologies. "SimpliVity is a winner," Cavanagh said. "We like the way it manages data and extends capabilities to remote offices with backup and replication." Snowcap is also excited about the acquisition of Nimble with the InfoSight predictive analytics functionality moving across the complete HPE portfolio, said Cavanagh. "InfoSight is a game changer," he said. "We love the fact that HPE is making investments to improve customer experience and get at root cause issues faster." Steve Hilts, a managing partner at Snowcap, said the SimpliVity and Nimble acquisitons have provided a "big competitive advantage" for customers and HPE partners. The new offerings are signs of a faster moving and more agile HPE, he said. Hilts praised HPE CEO Meg Whitman for getting partners and HPE laser-focused on driving next generation software defined infrastructure sales. "Meg has righted the ship and helped move our business forward," he said. "Over the past year, we have seen fantastic growth with HPE." HPE's field engagement with partners has improved considerably over the last year, said Hilts. "We see the field more in lock step with us," he said. "We have more converations in lockstep with HPE. We are fighting the fight more together than separately. We are seeing great things in the field." Erik Krucker, CTO at Comport Consulting, an HPE Platinum partner and No. 379 on the CRN SP500, said Comport's HPE storage sales will be up 20 to 30 percent this year with acquisitions like SimpliVity and Nimble. "SMB customers are really starting to gravitate toward Nimble and SimpliVity," he said. "I see more SMB conversations around Nimble and SimpliVity. As an HPE partner, we are able to accomplish a lot of different things for customers when you look across the entire HPE portfolio. HPE is moving faster than competitors into new disruptive technologies, said Krucker. "Customers sometimes look at the big OEMs as old stodgy companies that are unwilling to change," he said. "By bringing SimpliVity and Nimble into the conversation it shows customers that HPE is willing to adapt to the marketplace so customers can get the most value out of their IT investments."

http://m.crn.com/news/storage/300090996/hpe-americas-channel-vp-simplivity-sales-momentum-is-off-charts-surpassing-initial-aruba-3par-sales-strength.htm

Global Enterprise Storage Systems Market 2017- Oracle, Panasas, SGI Corporation, Intel, Seagate, Integrated Device Technology

The worldwide Enterprise Storage Systems Market report is an in-depth research on the current situation of the Enterprise Storage Systems industry. The research study of Global Enterprise Storage Systems Market 2017 offers a strategic assessment of Enterprise Storage Systems market. The industry report focuses on the growth opportunities, which will help the Enterprise Storage Systems industry to expand operations in the existing markets globally. Firstly, Enterprise Storage Systems Market report introduces a basic overview of the Enterprise Storage Systems industry, which includes Enterprise Storage Systems definitions, applications, classifications and Enterprise Storage Systems industry chain structure. Worldwide Enterprise Storage Systems market analysis is provided for the international market including Enterprise Storage Systems industry competitive analysis, Enterprise Storage Systems market development history and major sectors development status on Enterprise Storage Systems industry scenario.

Global Enterprise Storage Systems Market 2017: Competitive Landscape and Key Vendors

1 #IBM
2 #HewlettPackardEnterprise
3 #EMC Corporation
4 #Dell
5 #Buffalo
6 #Isilon Systems
7 #3PAR
8 #Hitachi Data Systems
9 #LSI Corporation
10 #NetGear
11 #Overland Storage
12 #Oracle
13 #Panasas
14 #SGI Corporation
15 #Intel
16 #Seagate
17 Integrated Device Technology
18 #Western Digital
19 #Lenovo

https://dailyhover.com/global-enterprise-storage-systems-market-2017-2/

Enterprise Storage Systems Market Size, Status And Forecast 2022 : IBM, Dell, 3PAR, NetGear, Oracle

The global Enterprise Storage Systems market, analyzes and researches the Enterprise Storage Systems development status and forecast in United States, EU, Japan, China, India and Southeast Asia. This report focuses on the top players in global market, like #IBM #HewlettPackardEnterprise #EMC Corporation #Dell #Seagate #IntegratedDeviceTechnology #WesternDigital

http://www.openpr.com/news/577677/Enterprise-Storage-Systems-Market-Size-Status-And-Forecast-2022-IBM-Dell-3PAR-NetGear-Oracle.html

HPE Expands Storage Offerings

At the 2017 #HPE Discover Conference HPE and its partners showed how HPE plans to boost its storage business across all the major storage market segments. HPE is pushing an open #hybridcloud model since on-premise hardware and services will co-exist with full cloud services for some time to come. In addition, HPE showed how it is creating digital transformation in business and introduced its Project New Stack. #Nimble was acquired by HPE in April 2017. Nimble offers hybrid and all flash array products, it’s very useful monitoring and reporting software (Infosight), a future proof guarantee and impressive customer service. Nimble flash-based products join those of older acquisition #3PAR. Between the two types of products HPE can now deliver to the high end and mid-range all flash market. These products also provide support for hyperconverged infrastructure that supports HPE’s drive to open hybrid enterprise infrastructure. The Infosight monitoring capability from Nimble collects data from many sensors which are processed using cloud analytic capabilities in order to look for abnormalities and trends, including imminent failures or problems, whether storage-related or not. In some cases, these issues can be fixed without user intervention or even awareness, and in other cases a warning and recommendation is sent to the customer. Nimble said that 86% of what could otherwise become customer support issues are recognized and resolved before the customer even notices it. HPE intends to use the Infosight analytics to improve service on its other storage products.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2017/06/07/hpe-expands-storage-offerings/?c=0&s=BigData

HPE Enhances Entire Storage Portfolio For Flash, Intro's New 3Par 9000 Family

#HPE on Wednesday expanded its entire portfolio of #allflash storage arrays and added new data protection capabilities and cloud connections to its midrange and enterprise 3Par family. The enhancements mean significant opportunities for HPE's channel partners through whom the majority of its storage sales flow, said Brad Parks, HPE's director of products and solutions for storage and big data.  "We're bringing out a complete end-to-end flash lineup for SMBs to the enterprise to MSPs to generate new business opportunities for our partners," Parks told CRN. "And we're adding new data protection that will help partners tackle the rearchitected of storage for customers' flash-centered data centers." [Related: 9 Things Partners Need To Know About HPE's $1B Acquisition Of Nimble Storage] The biggest change to HPE's storage line-up is the addition of a new 3Par 9000-series. Unlike last year's introduction of the 3Par 8000 series, which was focused on basic capacity consolidation, the new 9000 series is aimed at bridging midsized and higher-end storage requirements for customers hitting performance and scale limits, Parks said. New to HPE is the 3Par StoreServ 9450 which provides all-flash performance to scalable and multi-tenant environments. Parks said the 3Par 9450 offers an 80-percent boost in performance over the previous 3Par midrange systems, with close to 2 million IOPs at less than 1 millisecond of latency. It scales to up to 6 petabytes of capacity. "It competes with the Dell EMC VMAX 250F midrange array," he said. It delivers the same performance and scalability at half the cost per IOP." #HPE also updated the #3Par 20000 enterprise arrays with new hardware and cache. Parks said the new 20000 series competes well against the new #DellEMC #VMAX 950F. The introduction of the HPE 3Par 9000 series fills a huge gap between the 8000 and 20000 series, said Dhruv Gulati, executive vice president of business development and sales at Inpixon, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based solution provider and HPE channel partner. "There's a big gap between them from a cost point-of-view," Gulati told CRN. "It can be 50 percent or more. Customers get the controllers they need with the 8000, but want more direct-attach capability. And customers are really asking for more all-flash capacity." For customers looking to the cloud for data protection, HPE introduced StoreOnce CloudBank as a way to add low-cost protection via AWS or Azure public clouds or on-premises object storage. Parks said StoreOnce CloudBank, when integrated with 3Par storage, brings the cost of cloud-based storage to about $0.001 per gigabyte per month. Data protection on the HPE 3Par all-flash storage systems was further enhanced with a new Express Restore feature for the HPE Recovery Manager Central, or RMC, data protection application. With Express Restore, RMC can provide up to 15 times faster data recovery from on-premises or off-premises StoreOnce repositories, Parks said. RMC also can now be integrated with Veeam Explorer as well, he said. HPE is also celebrating its acquisition last month of Nimble Storage by integrating the line into the HPE price list and offering HPE training and certification, Parks said. "We're starting with the entry-level SKUs, and will bring in the rest of the line over time," he said. "We want to help channel partners take advantage of the comprehensive portfolio of Nimble Storage and 3Par systems." HPE is also working to integrate Nimble Storage's Infosight analytics platform into the HPE storage line, although there is no date for this to be complete, Parks said. "We're not announcing anything at this time, but it's one of the next things on the roadmap," he said. HPE also introduced two new models of its HPE MSA entry-level hybrid flash and disk storage platform.

http://m.crn.com/news/storage/300085741/hpe-enhances-entire-storage-portfolio-for-flash-intros-new-3par-9000-family.htm?itc=most_pop

How HPE Is Aiming to Grow through Acquisitions

#Nimble Storage acquisition valued at $1 billion In April 2017, Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( #HPE ) announced that the firm had completed the Nimble Storage (NMBL) acquisition. According to the terms of the deal, HPE paid $12.5 per share in cash, valuing the acquisition at $1 billion. In addition, HPE also paid Nimble’s unvested equity awards worth $200 million. This acquisition might be highly beneficial to HPE as the flash storage market is projected to reach $20 billion in 2020 from $15 billion (according to IDC) at the end of 2016, growing at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of almost 17%. As per Nimble Storage’s press release, this acquisition “Creates a comprehensive, leading-edge storage portfolio by bringing together Nimble’s predictive flash offerings for the entry to midrange segments with HPE’s scalable midrange to high-end #3PAR solutions, #SimpliVity solutions and affordable MSA products.”
http://marketrealist.com/2017/05/how-hpe-is-aiming-to-grow-through-acquisitions/

HPE To Acquire Nimble Storage

Just weeks after filing a portfolio hole by acquiring $Simplivity for $650 million, #HPE is back at it, this time doling out $1 billion (plus $200 million in unvested equity awards) for once-hybrid-startup #Nimble Storage. HPE feels Nimble will fill a gap in the midmarket, where apparently HPE is not resonating well, even with low-cost #3PAR bundles, #MSA, #StoreEasy NAS, #StoreVirtual and even #vSAN Ready Nodes. Both purchases are relatively low risk for HPE, as Simplivity and Nimble were both perpetually operating at a loss. Nimble was clearly in a dire situation having to accept $12.50 per share. Though a 45% premium over yesterday's close, that's still roughly half of where it traded in the fall of 2015 and way off the peak of almost $53 in 2014. For its part though, HPE has the marketing team, engineering resources and support infrastructure to continue to offer Nimble's 10,000 customers a good experience, while mapping out a plan to integrate with HPE's other storage assets over time.

http://www.storagereview.com/hpe_to_acquire_nimble_storage

HPE brags its latest 3PAR OS shrinkwrapper better protects data

Chris Mellor #HPE says its latest #3PAR OS, v 3.3.1, has better data reduction, faster iSCI networking, upgraded data protection and an extra helping of automation to help admin staff. The Adaptive Data Reduction ( #ADR ) feature can reduce capacity needs by up to 75 per cent*, it claims. It includes both in-line deduplication and compression, and can be selectively applied. HPE also includes a data-packing algorithm to manage writes to flash so as to minimise garbage collection. HPE also says the ADR code helps to avoid wasting system resources, without explaining what it does. The improved iSCSI networking involves: Express Writes optimisation reduces latency by up to 40 per cent, Expanded host connectivity and multi-tenant IP networking said to help with cloud computing, Data protection boosted This is the main event area of the updated OS as we see it. Recovery Manager Central (RMC), which provides application-managed snapshots and data movement from 3PAR to secondary StoreOnce Systems, has received many improvements. It’s claimed to provide 23x faster backup and 7x faster restores than the leading backup ISV - thought to be Veritas - with 9x lower CPU consumption. HPE has lowered RMC cost with all-inclusive 3PAR licensing, and says it can save up to $500K over three years compared to traditional non-HPE backup software. Data held in StoreOnce Systems can be replicated to the Azure public cloud via StoreOnce VSA software in Microsoft Azure. This has support from RMC, Data Protector and other backup applications. The new Peer Copy feature enables bi-directional snapshot data transfer between StoreVirtual VSA and 3PAR arrays. Peer Copy can be used with StoreVirtual VSA Ready Node reference architectures to help protect remote and branch offices by pumping data to central 3PAR arrays. There are other point data and system protection updates: File Persona updates double scalability, automate provisioning and enable cross-protocol file sharing, Peer Persistence has three-data centre support for disaster recovery (transparent application and host failover) across greater distances. Other matters An improved 3PAR StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) can automate and schedule large-scale data migrations of up to 24 3PAR or supported third-party storage systems. It has Smart SAN integration for automated, one-click SAN zoning of Fibre Channel networks, which can, HPE claims, lower fabric provisioning effort by 90 per cent. The HPE StoreFront Remote cloud analytics portal will provide 3PAR customers with best practice recommendations to help reduce risk, manage software updates and assist in capacity planning. A 3PAR Flash Now initiative enables acquisition of an upgraded 3PAR flash array plus networking and data protection for just pennies per usable gigabyte per month via a cloud-like consumption model.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/13/latest_3par_os_shrinks_data_more_and_protects_it_better/

VCs: Can't see an IPO or acquisition for your startup? Don't throw in the towel

There surely must be an alternative to the two preferred exits for VC-backed startups – IPO or acquisition – in these times of near-VC funding drought and what seems like IPO fatigue. It used to be simple: build a storage startup that could take money and customers from the mainstream vendors, sit back and wait for competitors to come running with open wallets or bankers singing songs of IPO riches. Acquisition was more certain and we have seen round after round of acquisitions. In no particular order: #EqualLogic, #3PAR, #Compellent, #DataDomain, #CleverSafe, #Storwize, #TMS, #XtremIO, #DSSD, #SolidFire, and many more. IPOs in the storage space have been fewer, and many have been problematic. #ViolinMemory is still fighting the problems that came with it to its IPO. #Nimble Storage has had its hiccup. #PureStorage still has everything to prove and has had a mini-hiccup. #Nexsan tried and tried again for an IPO and was eventually acquired by Imation, where it is now the core product line. #Nutanix has filed for an IPO but delayed it. Why is the storage IPO scene such a troubled one?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/19/the_third_way/

HP 3PAR StorServ 20850 AFA Sets World Record For SPC-2 Results

Today #HP announced that, according to the #StoragePerformanceCouncil, its #3PAR #StorServ20850 All-Flash Array set a new world record #SPC-2. The 3PAR StorServ 20850 AFA was able to take the top spot in the SPC-2 test displacing the former record holder, #EMC #VMAX 400k. The 3PAR StorServ 20850 AFA also took number 6 in price-performance, making it the first AFA to enter in the top ten table of price-performance.

http://www.storagereview.com/hp_3par_storserv_20850_afa_sets_world_record_for_spc2_results