Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 25 | Page 21

LATEST INTELLIGENCE Organizations can leverage storage modernization best practices to get ahead of these rapidly growing requirements. Before making your technology decisions and starting a new storage initiative, look for a partner with a broad spectrum of infrastructure, storage, big data, cloud, and IoT expertise. Example: Optimizing with all-flash storage Customer challenges: • Running out of storage capacity • Two-tiered storage model with near-line disk and fully allocated fibre channel disk drives • Rising maintenance costs for years 4 and 5 • Maximum IOPS reached that caused significant performance issues • Costly upgrade. Customer desired outcomes • Improve performance. Extremely high performance with very low latency – improving SLA management • Better economics. Reduce total cost of ownership via power savings, cooling efficiencies and provisioning • Improve reliability. Leverage the 5-year unconditional warranty of flash disk drives – outside of any support contract. Customer solution • Implement new HPE 3PAR StoreServ all-flash storage array n Download whitepapers free from www.intelligentcio.com/me/whitepapers/ www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 21