Oh, 3PAR. One moment you're gliding along. The next, you're in the rain as HPE woos Nimble
Summary
Most recently, space saving technology was enhanced with compression as part of its “Adaptive Data Reduction” feature set. Throughout the evolution of the 3PAR platform, the system has continued to use a dedicated hardware ASIC for some performance-sensitive processes, including zero detect and some of the deduplication tasks. Looking back at the launch deck, it’s interesting to see that the platform was promoted as converged storage, meeting primary, backup and DR needs. The nice feature of the Nimble architecture is the ability to use flash in a different way that isn’t focused on using it as a standard tier of storage or write cache. Conversely, somehow, new startup vendors need to grab market share against an entrenched set of traditional hardware products, that may have more maturity and a bigger customer ecosystem.