Nimble Storage Brings Scale into the Storage Equation

One size fits all might work in the garment industry, but not with storage. That’s why Nimble (News - Alert) Storage recently announced its scale-to-fit storage solution that will mold to the size of each individual enterprise.

Companies that find themselves in a tight situation with their storage needs often need to make sacrifices in other areas. Whether it’s a lengthy downtime, sacrificing management or security, or spending significant sums of money, storage strain can have far-reaching effects.

Nimble Storage is taking all those sacrifices and inconveniences out of the equation. To make its products even more enticing, the company is adding value by combining flash with high-capacity drives and providing an easy way to improve disaster recovery practices and backup.

To that end, Nimble Storage is answering the call of companies fed up with the inflexible storage paradigms that were not managed correctly and had short life spans. Nimble Storage’s solution allows customers a choice of scaling according to capacity, by storage or both. With the scale capacity feature, users can access ES-Series storage shelves for companies who need storage, but not extra performance.

There is no downtime with this option. The scale performance choice gives users access to CS400 series arrays to give a boost to applications that need a little extra horsepower. Upgrades with the package also require no downtime.

Some clients need storage and performance packages, and they can get it through Nimble Storage’s scale capacity and performance paradigm that brings powerful upgrades to operating systems and cluster arrays for linear scaling.

As an added extra in this package, clients get unified management. Again, there is no downtime required.

The CS400 series extreme performance arrays also deserve attention as they are made to handle some of the most taxing applications an industry can create. Enterprises with thousands of VDI users and hundreds of virtual machines are using the CS400 with great results.

Many companies today are also fed up with storage silos. They want scale-out clustering to handle their storage needs. Nimble Storage offers this with scale performance that can handle additional arrays without it being a big hassle.

Nimble Storage’s solution creates storage pools where applications can be segmented into clusters and the workloads can be handled on a variety of arrays. Jockey the arrays and clusters while keeping the stream of data flowing without interruption.



“The company was founded in 2008 and has been shipping products since fall of 2010. We have been having amazing market traction,” said Radhika Krishnan. She joined Rich Tehrani in the TMC (News - Alert) newsroom for the Roadshow. Catch their full interview in the video above.

Visit the Nimble Storage website to check on availability of the CS400 series arrays. They will likely be available in the third and fourth quarters of 2012.

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