Case Study: Tasmanian Government achieves tenfold faster response times and doubled effective storage with HPE Nimble Storage

Tasmanian Government Improves Response Times with Nimble

The Tasmanian Department of Premier and Cabinet — a small IT team supporting statewide government services — was seeing declining response times for key applications in 2012. The Matrix web server experienced SAN-induced latencies up to 100 ms that were causing systems to fail, and the team needed a cost-effective storage upgrade within a constrained budget.

After trialling and deploying a Nimble CS220 hybrid flash-disk array, the department achieved a tenfold performance improvement and doubled effective capacity through inline compression (8TB raw to ~16TB effective). The array was installed quickly, proved easy to manage and reliable, and now supports the core database and Matrix server with plans to expand for disaster recovery.

Tasmanian Government

Greg Hope

Senior Systems and Network Admin