Nimble Storage

Nimble Storage

Nimble Storage Logo
Type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: NMBL
Industry	Information technology, data storage, solid state drives
Founded	2008
Headquarters	San Jose, California, USA
Key people	Varun Mehta, co-founder Umesh Maheshwari, co-founder and CTO Suresh Vasudevan, CEO
Products	AF-Series Predictive All Flash arrays: AF3000, AF5000, AF7000, AF9000 CS-Series Adaptive Flash arrays: CS200, CS300, CS500, CS700
Number of employees	1000+
Website	www.nimblestorage.com

Nimble Storage is a predictive flash storage solutions company based in San Jose, California founded in early 2008. It produces hardware and software products for data storage, specifically data storage arrays that use the iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols and includes data backup and data protection features.

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Dawn at Nimble Storage's campus in San Jose, California

History

Nimble Storage was founded in January 2008 by Varun Mehta and Umesh Maheshwari. Nimble announced its first product, the CS200 series hybrid arrays in July 2010 at Tech Field Day.

The company received a total of $98 million in venture capital funding in 5 rounds from a total of 7 investors. A third round of $16 million was announced in December 2010 from existing investors Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. In September 2012, Nimble Storage secured $40.7 million from original backers as well as new investors Artis Capital Management and GGV Capital.

Varun Mehta was chief executive until March 2011, when he became vice president of engineering and Suresh Vasudevan became CEO. Umesh Maheshwari became chief technology officer.

In October 2013 the company filed for its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Nimble Storage went public on the NYSE on December 13, 2013, under the ticker symbol NMBL.

In June 2014, Nimble Storage announced the CS700 Series Arrays and an All-Flash Shelf, as well as its Adaptive Flash technology.

In August 2014, Nimble Storage completed an overhaul of their CS-Series, and added the CS300 and CS500 to their line-up.

In November 2014, Nimble Storage released arrays supporting the Fibre Channel protocol.

In July 2015, Nimble Storage announced updates to the Adaptive Flash platform, including Nimble SmartSecure (software-based encryption), all-flash service levels, the addition of REST APIs, InfoSight-VMVision per-VM monitoring, and integrated data protection.

In August 2015, Nimble Storage announces the completion of Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 Certification from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for the Adaptive Flash platform.

In December 2015, Nimble Storage announced an expanded SmartStack Integrated Infrastructure Solution portfolio with Cisco.

On February 23, 2016, Nimble Storage unveiled the Predictive All Flash Array series, combining fast flash performance with InfoSight Predictive Analytics to deliver data velocity.

Products

All Flash Arrays

Nimble Storage's AF-Series, advertised as being the industry's only Predictive All Flash arrays, combines the speed of flash with the power of InfoSight Predictive Analytics to deliver absolute performance and non-stop availability. The AF-Series has 4 product lines for the data center with different configurations available based on the desired workload outcome. The product lines are AF3000, AF5000, AF7000, and AF9000.

Adaptive Flash Arrays

The Nimble CS-Series iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage array has 4 product lines for the data center with different configurations available in each CS-Series. The product lines are CS200, CS300, CS500, and CS700 and combine both HDDs with SSDs in a hybrid fashion. Nimble Storage also provides an All-Flash Shelf to add to existing CS-Series arrays.

SmartStack Integrated Infrastructure Solutions

Nimble Storage also provides SmartStack integrated infrastructure solutions with Cisco Systems. Jointly developed by Cisco and Nimble Storage, these SmartStacks integrate compute, network, and storage resources in one solution. SmartStack solutions provide Cisco Validated Designs and reference architectures that address workloads including desktop virtualization (or VDI), server virtualization and cloud computing, business-critical applications, Oracle database and applications, and SAP HANA.

Technology

NimbleOS

NimbleOS is Nimble's operating system, based on the patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout architecture. It is the foundation for all Nimble Storage arrays. NimbleOS includes: flexible flash scaling, adaptive flash service levels, dynamic flash-based read caching, write-optimized data layout, inline compression, scale-to-fit flexibility, scale out, snapshots and integrated data protection, efficient replication, deduplication, and zero-copy clones.

InfoSight Predictive Analytics

InfoSight is Nimble Storage's cloud-connected storage management and predictive analytics portal. It is designed to help with enterprise storage management as well as customer support. Nimble Storage advertises that nine out of ten problems are automatically detected with prescriptive guidance on how to resolve them. Additionally, Nimble Storage, utilizing InfoSight analytics, has measured an availability of over 99.9997% across their install base.

InfoSight consists of:

• The InfoSight Engine: a data collection and analysis engine composed of data analytics, system modeling capabilities, and predictive algorithms.
• The InfoSight Portal: a secure online portal which serves as a window into the InfoSight Engine.
• Proactive Wellness: proactive alerts for system health, performance, and protection gaps.

Unified Flash Fabric

Nimble Storage's Unified Flash Fabric unifies Nimble's All Flash and Adaptive Flash arrays into a single consolidation architecture with common data services. This architecture is built upon existing CASL architecture and InfoSight. The Unified Flash Fabric is advertised as offering more usable storage capacity in a fraction of the data center footprint that other solutions offer.

Unified Flash Fabric includes:

• Triple+ Parity RAID
• SmartSecure encryption
• Multi-Level Data Integrity

Recognition & Awards

In June 2013, June 2014, and June 2015 Nimble Storage was recognized as a Top Bay Area Workplace by the Bay Area News Group

In 2013, Nimble Storage was named #1 in TechTarget’s Modern Infrastructure Impact Awards for "Best Hybrid Flash Storage Product."

In March 2015, Nimble Storage announced it was awarded a 5-Star rating in The Channel Company's CRN 2015 Partner Program Guide.

In August 2015, Nimble Storage won "Best of Show Innovation Award" and was voted by IT professionals as the "2015 Innovation Leader for the Hybrid HDD/SSD Array" category in an IT Brand Pulse brand leader survey.

In September 2015, Nimble Storage was honored as a "Rising Star" by Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC).

In October 2015, Nimble Storage was named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays. Also in October 2015, Nimble Storage received the 2015 Computerworld Singapore Readers’ Choice Award for Hybrid and Private Cloud.

In November, 2015, Nimble Storage was ranked No. 6 on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and energy tech companies in North America.

External links

• Nimble Storage Website

• http://www.nimblestorage.com/news-events/press-releases/nimble-storage-announces-industrys-first-converged-storage-and-backup-solution
• http://www.topworkplaces.com/frontend.php/regional-list/company/bayarea/nimble-storage