LANDESK Software Selects Nimble Adaptive Flash Platform to Overhaul Legacy Storage Infrastructure

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Major IT Service Provider Achieves All-Flash Performance for Mixed Workload Environment, Reduces Datacenter Footprint, and Seamlessly Scales Storage Infrastructure

SAN JOSE, CA – Feb 2, 2015 — /BackupReview.info/ — Major software companies today are tasked with managing high volume workloads across multiple IT management disciplines, all while minimizing risk. To keep pace with escalating demands, LANDESK Software, a global leader in delivering user-oriented IT solutions, completed a comprehensive upgrade of its legacy storage infrastructure, selecting the Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL) Adaptive Flash platform Fibre Channel arrays. LANDESK can now optimize applications and workloads across its IT environment while lowering the total cost of ownership for its storage infrastructure.

LANDESK needed to upgrade the performance and capacity of its aging storage infrastructure, the EMC VNX. This upgrade required at least an additional half a rack of EMC VNX to meet capacity requirements, and would result in increased costs for maintenance and support. In its efforts to find an alternative approach, LANDESK adhered to three criteria: ability to non-disruptively scale, achieve all-flash performance without costly expenditures, and the new storage infrastructure had to offer greater longevity than its previous system.

After researching a number of storage systems, LANDESK concluded that the Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash platform, comprised of Nimble’s CASL architecture and InfoSight cloud-based management, was the only platform that met LANDESK’s key purchase criteria. The company made the decision to deploy the Nimble CS300 Fibre Channel arrays. “Frankly, I’ve never seen any other vendor deliver the kind of performance that Nimble does with the same set of hardware,” explained Jeremy Balter, senior systems administrator of LANDESK. “We are seeing all-flash performance without the corresponding expense. Furthermore, Nimble removes all of the complexity from the configuration process, and our Fibre Channel arrays were fully operational in very little time.”

Today, LANDESK is running a broad range of applications and workloads on its Nimble Storage arrays, including SAP databases, Microsoft Exchange, and virtual servers. LANDESK was able to replace half a rack of its previous storage system with just 9U of Nimble storage. LANDESK achieved a 1.5X compression rate for its mixed workload environment saving close to 6TB of space. “We wanted to save space, cut costs, and achieve high performance with our new storage solution. With Nimble, we easily checked all of our requirement boxes,” added Balter.

The Nimble Adaptive Flash platform also provides LANDESK the flexibility it needs to seamlessly scale its IT environment. Since upgrades are modular and dynamic LANDESK can scale storage performance and capacity independently and in line with application and user requirements. Unlike its previous system, the Nimble arrays are able to scale without having to rip-and-replace LANDESK’s storage infrastructure, eliminating downtime along with the associated cost, complexity, and risk.

“The Nimble approach really stood out from the competition and they’ve provided a platform that confirms they will be a longstanding partner of ours,” Balter continued. “The solution exceeded our expectations with all-flash performance without the corresponding expense. We’re realizing additional savings with the datacenter footprint reduction and ability to scale non-disruptively. With our lean IT organization, it is essential that we simplify our IT infrastructure to maximize efficiency. Nimble Storage has played a major role in making that happen.”

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About Nimble Storage
Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL) is redefining the storage market with its Adaptive Flash platform. Nimble’s flash storage solutions enable the consolidation of all workloads and eliminate storage silos by providing enterprises with significant improvements in application performance and storage capacity. At the same time, Nimble delivers superior data protection, while simplifying business operations and lowering costs. At the core of the Adaptive Flash platform is the patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture and InfoSight, an automated cloud-based management and support system that maintains storage system peak health. More than 4,300 enterprises, governments, and service providers have deployed Nimble’s flash storage solutions across 38 countries. For more information about Nimble Storage, visit www.nimblestorage.com and follow us on Twitter: @nimblestorage.

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