![]() What was the thinking behind holding off so long? Does this mean you’re putting your bets on all-flash now? ![]() IA: Nimble Storage has traditionally always been a hybrid flash company, but finally this year rolled out your first all-flash array. This is what led to the formation of our storage company. It could be things like interoperability, or not followed best practises between how set to windows machine and that is causing problems. It came about that storage-related bottlenecks account for about 45% of the issue that causes apps to not perform really well.Īnother 55% of disruptions are caused by interaction between the various elements of the infrastructure spanning hypervisor, compute, network and storage. We’re in the process of publishing research next week or so where we surveyed thousands of organisations in our install base, and the focus for us was trying to understand what the causes are of apps not performing as well as they should in our customer base. On a higher level, when we think about ingredients like flash and analytics and how they relate to the app data gap, it’s useful to take a step back. So what Nimble has done is think how to design infrastructure in the way that gets apps working seamlessly, getting performance they need and not getting disrupted by the infrastructure in any way. When we think about what happens when apps encounter any sort of delay in the delivery of underlying data you are ultimately impacting business productivity. More and more of our customer base was moving to having hundreds thousands of apps for a variety of business processes, as any core process in any large business is now underpinned by many apps. The problem we are are solving is: how do we build a platform that eliminates the app data gap? We viewed the problem fundamentally from a customer standpoint- in many ways infrastructure is a building block and compute, network and storage hypervisors constitute the building block to run apps. ![]() > See also: High on the agenda: the future of flash tiering in enterprise There were two big catalysts drove creation of Nimble: flash as a storage medium and the transition from disk to flash and how that impacts the design of storage and the second big ingredient was cloud-based predictive analytics that allowed people to managed data in much more proactive ways than traditionally done in the past. You could prevent the vast majority of disruption, and even when you can’t necessarily prevent it you should be able to rapidly diagnose what’s going on and fix it quickly. ![]() The second belief Nimble had is that if you could monitor the systems that customers deploy using predictive analytics on a real time basis by gathering enormous amounts of data on sensors on a minute by minute basis, and also monitor the network it’s connected to, then you could bring all data back to the cloud and use analytics, what we should be able to do is predict what will cause a breakdown in the app environment and prevent that happening in the first place. SV: The belief, quite simply, that if you hold the right storage architecture, designed for flash instead of just putting flash into disk storage architecture, you can accomplish two simultaneous goals: apps will start to see much faster performance, while at the same time you can lower the cost of storage by as much as 50% compared to traditional storage systems. ![]()
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