The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Modular Smart Array (MSA) storage is the best storage solution for end-users on a budget. The solution is budget-optimized, entry-level storage that provides consolidated storage solution capacity for I.T firms. This solution gives you the pace to compete in the Nigerian I.T industry.
HPE MSA also allows small and medium businesses to ensure their data remains secure and easily accessible by all employees, no matter where they are working from. It’s the best fit for the work from home fans. Through its new data services and a modernized architecture, HPE MSA enables customers who run on-demand businesses – like media streaming and online education – to manage their distributed applications and workloads more easily.
What’s new?
“The HPE MSA is ideal for the clients we serve whose businesses require a reliable, simple and low-cost storage solution that can match today’s workloads, and scale as their performance and capacity needs grow,” said Sky Cumming, Product Manager, Dicker Data, an IT distributor and HPE channel partner. The new HPE MSA Health Check tool protects against attacks and predicts failures before they happen. The new features include:
- Hands-free tiering that delivers workload efficiency with improved performance and lower latencies. This feature boosts delivered performance by 2 – 4x compared to a hard disk drive (HDD)-only configuration and allows the array to respond to changing workloads utilizing a small number of solid-state drives (SSDs). This feature moves the hottest data to the fastest media in real-time, allowing customers to more effectively maximize SSD performance and HDD capacity based on workload needs.
- A new level of in-array data protection with the new HPE MSA Data Protection Plus (MSA DP+). This protection capability spans all drives and eliminates idle HDD spares to improve overall system efficiency and performance. In the event of a drive failure, MSA DP+ would speed rebuild times by 25×2, dramatically minimizing the time the array was in a degraded or vulnerable state.
- Improved MSA Health Check tool that eliminates common causes of downtime. With this tool, data shows that 76% of HPE MSA support calls will be eliminated for customers who utilize the HPE MSA Health Check functionality proactively. This cloud-based tool reduces local administration overhead by searching sensor data for known issues, and adherence to best practices, improving the user experience, and maximizing availability.
- Integration with HPE Cloud Volumes Backup to provide customers a simple and inexpensive route to cloud-based data protection, while saving money on a separate backup appliance. SMBs can instantly start backing up to the cloud with HPE Cloud Volumes Backup, a built-in enterprise cloud backup service using HPE Recovery, without changing any existing backup workloads. HPE Cloud Volumes Backup cloud services are also now available through HPE GreenLake – Selectium Program.