SAN JOSE, CA — (Marketwired) — 04/09/13 — Nimble Storage, the leading provider of flash-optimized , today announced a new set of services for its storage arrays called InfoSight. Built on powerful analytics, systems modeling and intelligent, predictive algorithms, InfoSight harnesses the power of the cloud and deep data to simplify and streamline activities across the storage lifecycle, enabling customers to realize the promise of operational efficiency.
Unlike typical “phone-home” systems, InfoSight-s centralized data collection engine collects comprehensive system data spanning various characteristics including performance, capacity, data protection and system health. Data is securely collected at frequent, five-minute intervals, resulting in a rich and deep set of data, totaling 30 million plus sensor values per array, per day. The data is analyzed on a continuous basis by a sophisticated engine that delivers powerful support, monitoring, reporting, forecasting and planning capabilities to customers. Customer data is never collected as part of this process.
This unprecedented wealth of data and analysis enables Nimble Storage to avert the expense and significant productivity loss that accompanies a customer support or outage condition. Through the power of pattern recognition and correlation analysis, InfoSight proactively identifies failure conditions before they occur. As a result, more than 80 percent of Nimble Storage support cases are detected and resolved automatically through proactive wellness capabilities. In addition, intelligent pattern matching and correlation analysis allows Nimble-s support team to quickly and easily triage complex support issues, which typically take days and weeks to resolve using conventional troubleshooting tools and processes.
Building on this deep data analytics is the Nimble InfoSight portal — a cloud-based tool that allows customers to gain accurate monitoring, reporting, forecasting and planning capabilities through a web-enabled interface. Unlike traditional monitoring tools that produce volumes of copious data, InfoSight provides actionable insights that help customers keep their systems running in top condition.
The InfoSight portal allows customers to specify triggers and thresholds around specific system parameters, notifying them when these are not met and enabling them to enforce best practices. Detailed views around capacity, protection and savings give instant visibility to system operating conditions. These rich details allow customers to plan various aspects of their environment, ranging from array upgrades and frequency of snapshotting, to bandwidth provisioning for replication based upon snapshot frequency and change rates.
Sophisticated cache and CPU modeling provides clear recommendations around load balancing, as well as upgrades. This granular guidance combined with Nimble-s Scale-to-fit architecture (allows expansion of capacity, cache and CPU individually) eliminates the waste and under-utilization caused by the over-provisioning of storage typically found with other storage offerings.
In addition, an executive dashboard provides a summary view of the capacity savings, protection benefits, and downtime savings the customer has achieved, with a concise set of recommendations around keeping their environment running at peak condition.
The InfoSight portal is available to all Nimble customers as part of their support subscription package and will be rolled out to the entire customer base in the next 30 days.
To truly help the broader storage community leverage the power of InfoSight-s data capabilities, Nimble is launching — its storage community forum. In addition to access to knowledge-based articles and road-tested best practices, customers can utilize peer insights for superior system performance. The InfoSight services coupled with the Nimble community enable accelerated productivity by freeing IT staff from mundane, day-to-day storage lifecycle administration so they can focus on high-value tasks.
“Historically, managing storage through its lifecycle has been disconnected, manual and complicated,” said Suresh Vasudevan, CEO of Nimble Storage. “Today we are ending that by using sophisticated data sciences to automate an extremely complex set of processes. We believe this is a game-changer in the storage industry and one that will not only differentiate us in the market, but more importantly build long-term customer loyalty.”
“Within a short time of using InfoSight, we have been able to monitor our storage, report on historical trends, plan for future growth, and proactively discover and remediate issues — making management very easy with limited staff,” said Jeff Winter, city/county information systems director, City of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
“While on-premise storage monitoring and management systems generate an abundance of raw data, they invariably struggle to synthesize that data into an easily consumable and actionable format,” said Mark Peters, senior analyst at ESG. “InfoSight-s sophisticated analytics can not only short-cut trouble-shooting and remediation, but can also improve capacity and performance planning. Think of it in terms of a holistic health package — we all know that prevention is better than a cure; InfoSight optimizes both of those aspects, but also adds the Portal and Community that help IT -bodies- to work on their -diet and exercise- best practices as well!”
Nimble Storage believes enterprises should not have to compromise on performance, capacity, ease of use, or price. Nimble has developed the first hybrid storage architecture engineered from the ground up to seamlessly integrate flash and high-capacity drives. Our customers enjoy as much as 10x faster application performance, enhanced backup and disaster recovery, and stress-free operations — all while lowering their TCO. Nimble Storage solutions are available through a global network of world-class channel partners. For more information, visit and follow us on Twitter: @nimblestorage.
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