HPE 3PAR StoreServ, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors

REASONS FLASH STORAGE IS THE LOGICAL CHOICE FOR ENTERPRISE BUSINESS5 How to increase operational efficiency and agility with the flash-optimized data center

For every business challenge, there’s a storage solution Some of the biggest operational challenges of business are caused by

storage incapacity. The fact is, storage capacity sits at the core of a

business’ ability to scale resources and respond on demand. It’s all about

the bits and bytes of data that determine how business gets done and how

innovation gets to market. Data drives efficiency and is the foundation

of decision-making. Within stores of data reside intellectual property,

business intelligence, analytic insight — everything that makes an

operation run.

It takes an advanced storage solution to accommodate the vast amounts

of structured and unstructured data now in existence. Case in point: It’s

estimated that data storage requirements are growing at a rate of 40

percent per year.1 The reason? Applications demand it, users generate

it, and now IT managers must optimize it. The problem? Data demand is

straining the capacity of legacy server technology.

Flash forwardStorage relief can be found in the all-flash approach that provides

density-optimized appliances that deliver flexible, scalable, and reliable

storage for about the cost of spinning disk. Within the next 24 months,

data centers will be running about 50 percent of their storage on flash.2

Storage solutions like HPE 3PAR StoreServ, powered by Intel® Xeon®

processors, deliver petabyte-scale capacity with high input/output

operations per second (IOPS). It’s turning storage from a cost center to a

business enabler.

What’s your storage story? � 79 percent of IT professionals say management of storage growth is a

leading challenge1

� 47 percent of enterprises report data growth rates as one of their top

three challenges1

Did you know?The world’s data will grow 50 times

over the next decade.1

Storage performance matters. In fact, performance is the number-one

driver of storage characteristics — even more so than price.2 This comes

as no surprise since companies won’t realize a healthy return on

investment (ROI) on their applications if storage causes application

performance to fail.

What’s holding them back? IOPS. It’s an app killer made famous by legacy

hard-disk drives (HDD) that operate at 2-4ms latency speed with an IOPS

throughput in the thousands.3 That might have been adequate for last-

generation apps but today’s innovation is moving at sub-millisecond rates.

Flash-optimized storage arrays built with solid-state disks (SSDs) can

process at the speed of millions of IOPS per second, outperforming the

pace of HDD in every way that counts.3

Get the power to performProducts like HPE 3PAR StoreServ, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors,

deliver with high-density flash drives that yield higher IOPS with lower

latency to keep applications up and running. How fast does it move? As

fast as 3M IOPS with less than 1ms of latency to ensure that nothing gets

in the way of your application performance.4

Latency holding your apps back? Fix it in a flash

#1 PERFORMANCE TO POWER YOUR PATH TO IT MODERNIZATION

4 ways flash keeps apps going:

1. Reduced latency

2. Higher IOPS

3. Persistent memory

4. Unified block, file, and object access

With HPE 3PAR File Persona, you can unlock the native file and object

graphical access capabilities within any of your HPE 3PAR StoreServ

Storage arrays, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors. This approach

offers a unique solution that incorporates multi-protocol support into the

system architecture to deliver a tightly integrated, converged solution

for provisioning both block volumes and file shares from a single storage

system. Unlike traditional solutions, this converged solution extends

the architectural benefits that the HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage system

already delivers for block workloads to file shares and object access in a

way that is simple to deploy and administer.

HPE 3PAR File Persona enables a rich set of file protocols, file data

services, and an Object Access API (REST), and gives you the ability to

provision file shares in addition to block volumes from a single graphical

user or programmatic management interface. This solution extends

the spectrum of storage workloads natively addressed by the system’s

default Block Persona. The Block Persona is ideal for your virtualization,

database, and application workloads with the File Persona enabling

home directory and user shares, enhanced content management and

collaboration, and data preservation and governance.

Serve a broad spectrum of workloads

#2 HPE 3PAR FILE PERSONA EXTENDS STORAGE UTILIZATION

Get more storage done � Storage volume provisioning

in 15 seconds5

� One-click storage deployment5

HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors,

supports federated data mobility across HPE 3PAR and other arrays so

you can manage resources at the data center level rather than the system

level. Peer-based storage federation lets you move data and workloads

between arrays without impact to applications, users, or services. Scale

massively without sacrificing simplicity, pool resources without the cost

and complexity of external virtualization appliances, and flex to meet

unpredictable workloads and business demands.

Improve business continuityMaintain business continuity in the event of a disaster or data

center-wide outage with replication and recovery between systems.

Use these relationships to allow server and application maintenance

operations to take place non-disruptively. Workloads can be

unpredictable but that doesn’t mean storage has to be. As business needs

shift, flash storage aligns with 100 percent predictability and 6 nines of

reliability. HPE 3PAR StoreServ, strengthened by Intel®, takes storage

availability to a higher level by assuring 99.9999 percent data availability4

and safeguarding every byte of your data with built-in redundancy and

fault tolerance, along with point-in-time snapshots to help you store and

recover with less risk of application error or data loss.

Handle unpredictable and dynamic application demands with ease

#3 SCALABILITY AND AVAILABILITY YOU CAN RELY ON

Flash reliability: What’s in it for you?

� Business continuity

� Less risk of data loss

� Security of mission-critical apps and data

HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, leads

the industry in providing array management features that remove the

layers of complexity typically weighing down storage administration

and products that enhance visibility and control while eliminating

costly, repetitive, and error-prone manual tasks. Included in the HPE

3PAR Operating System software, Hewlett Packard Enterprise offers a

range of software products to enhance the agility and efficiency of your

infrastructure and enable you to eliminate compromise, most at no extra

charge to simplify purchasing and reduce costs.

Protect: Safeguard your most mission-critical applications

� HPE 3PAR Remote Copy offers simple and cost-effective data

protection for efficient multi-tenant disaster recovery.

� HPE 3PAR Virtual Copy Software protects and shares data affordably

with rapid recovery using reservationless, non-duplicative, copy-on-

write snapshots.

� HPE Recovery Manager Central allows you to create, manage, and

automate crash-consistent snapshots for any application and app-

consistent snapshots for VMware vSphere, Microsoft SQL Server,

Oracle, and SAP HANA.

� HPE 3PAR StoreServ Data-at-Rest Encryption protects data from

both internal and external security breaches by securely encrypting

all data as it is written to the drive.

� HPE 3PAR Peer Persistence ensures transparent autonomic failover

over metropolitan distances.

� HPE 3PAR Cluster Extension Software enables automatic failover

across data centers using Remote Copy Asynchronous mode.

HPE 3PAR Software — Built-in Data Protection

#4 Software-defined storage simplifies and protects

HPE 3PAR StoreServ, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, includes

software tools to help you maximize the amount of data you can store.

Data efficiency is at the heart of any storage investment. Using built-in

data reduction and compression software, you can rest assured you are

maximizing your investment, while delivering flash-based performance

required from mission-critical applications.

Efficient: Get maximum performance with minimum expenditure

� HPE 3PAR Zero Detect reduces the cost of storage by identifying and

removing repeated data from incoming data streams.

� HPE 3PAR Deduplication helps reduce the amount of flash needed to

store data by preventing the storage of duplicate data.

� HPE 3PAR Compression helps reduce the amount of flash needed to

store data by reducing the data footprint.

� HPE 3PAR Data Packing helps improve storage efficiency and

bandwidth by condensing multiple smaller data sets together.

� HPE 3PAR Thin Technologies — including HPE 3PAR Thin

Provisioning, Thin Conversion, Thin Persistence, and Thin Copy

Reclamation — achieve data compaction by leveraging built-in

hardware capabilities.

#5 SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE REDUCES TCO

HPE 3PAR Software — Store more data with tremendous efficiency

Who uses the most data? Here’s how data use stacks up:1

� Manufacturing — 966 petabytes

� Government — 848 petabytes

� Communications/Media — 715 petabytes

� Banking — 619 petabytes

� Healthcare — 434 petabytes

� Retail — 364 petabytes

� Education — 269 petabytes

By 2020, IT departments will be managing:

� 50 times more information1

� 75 times more files1

� 10 times more virtual and physical servers1

Hewlett Packard Enterprise specializations include Platinum: Converged Infrastructure, Networking.

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1 Sagiss, “Data Storage: 47 Interesting Facts & Figures,” June 29, 2016. 2 ActualTech Media, sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, “Survey Report: Flash Insights and

Revelations From 1,000 Storage Users,” July 2016. 3 Hewlett Packard Enterprise, “Supercharge Your Apps with All-Flash Storage, Must-Know Strategies

When Migrating from Spinning Disk [eBook], July 2016.4 Hewlett Packard Enterprise, “HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage,” [web page], accessed Feb 2018.5 Hewlett Packard Enterprise, “Eliminate Compromise: HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage Family,” [brochure],

Oct. 2017.

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