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SNW and Educause, Oct 15 – 17. See You in Southern California!

Sheldon DPaiva - Product Marketing — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 15:47:32 +0000

Nimble Storage is coming to two events in Sunny Southern California next week, and we hope to see you there. If you’re in the area, come by to see how Nimble Storage systems are engineered from the ground-up for efficiency – delivering performance and capacity, data protection, non-disruptive scaling, and management simplicity – all in a 3U package and at a cost-effective price point. You can also learn more about our pre-validated SmartStack reference architectures that can help you speed deployment and eliminate risk for workloads such as desktop and server virtualization, business critical applications, data protection, and Oracle databases.

Storage Networking World

Long Beach Convention Center

The first event is Storage Networking World, taking place Oct 15 – 17 in Long Beach – we’ll be at kiosk #A15. If you’re interested in storage solutions for VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), be sure to attend the session by one of our customers, Daniel Kwong of Sacramento City College, who will deliver a presentation on “Key Storage Strategies for Getting The Most out of Your VDI Deployments.” Daniel will discuss his path to VDI, covering topics that include business drivers, return on investment, and storage needs. He will also discuss how Nimble Storage enabled his VDI environment, which helps serves the college’s 25,000 students and 5,000 staff. The session will take place Tuesday, Oct. 15 from 5:00 pm – 5:40 pm.

EDUCAUSE

Next week, we’ll also be at EDUCAUSE, which runs from Oct 16 – 17 in Anaheim. EDUCAUSE focuses on the best IT solutions for higher education, and we’ll be there to showcase how Nimble Storage arrays are a great fit for the storage needs of educational institutions – from running critical applications, to desktop and server virtualization workloads. Come visit us there at booth #727 to find out more.

VMworld 2013, August 25 – 29: See you in the City by the Bay

Sheldon DPaiva - Product Marketing — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:00:38 +0000

VMworld is an important event for Nimble Storage, because many of the storage and virtualization experts coming to San Francisco are interested in learning more about the best storage technologies, such as flash-optimized storage solutions.

It’s been a busy year around here. Since VMworld last August, Nimble Storage has:

Reached the 1,500-customer milestone, with accelerating adoption every quarter
Launched our InfoSight services to help customers manage their arrays more efficiently
Launched our SmartStack pre-validated reference architectures in collaboration with VMware and Cisco
Debuted in the Visionaries quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays
Launched NimbleConnect, our online community for Nimble Storage customers, partners, and other IT professionals

If you’re going to VMworld, come by our booth, #921, and see for yourself what the buzz is about – we’d love to catch up with you on all the latest happenings at Nimble Storage, and hear your thoughts on storage and virtualization as well. If you’re rushed for time, our recurring in-booth presentations will tell you what you need to know in a matter of minutes, on topics that include the breakthrough CASL architecture, our SmartStack solutions, and InfoSight.

Visit booth #921 at VMworld to learn more about Nimble Storage flash-optimized storage solutions. Live demos, a Brainiac Bar, and a chance to win a 2-week fantasy rental of a Maserati convertible!

This year we’ll have specific stations with live demos and experts focused on four topics: end user computing, business critical applications, InfoSight, and a tech preview where we’ll give you an early sneak peek at some of the amazing things our engineers are working on in their labs. And our “Brainiac Bar” will have our top technical experts waiting, whiteboard marker in hand, to answer your most pressing storage questions.

The VMworld conference sessions are one of the key reasons attendees make the trip. Here are a few we’re especially excited about and think you may find valuable:

STO6572 – Evaluating Storage Advances for the Virtualized Datacenter : Nimble CEO, Suresh Vasudevan, will discuss the latest storage advancements for the virtual datacenter. George Mitsopoulos, CTO at service provider Virtacore, will also present on how his firm leverages elastic compute and hybrid storage to deliver scalable, efficient cloud services.
STO5559 – The Future of Storage: A Panel Discussion: Nimble Founder and Vice President of Engineering, Varun Mehta, will participate in a panel discussion with executives from IBM, HP, Dell, EMC, NetApp and VMware on trends shaping next-generation datacenter architectures. Topics include software defined storage, solid state storage architecture evolution, granular data management, cloud file systems and cloud storage.
BCO5431 – Customers and Service Provider’s Perspectives on DR Strategy, Tips and Tricks for Private and Hybrid Cloud Environments: Nimble vExpert Wen Yu will be moderating this panel on DR for private cloud and DRaaS. Panelists include Virtacore Systems, eMeter, City of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and Foster Pepper.
EUC5610 – Virtualized Inception: Mobility Dream within a VDI Dream; Realized!: Robert Dixon, Director of IT for CU Boulder, and his colleagues will explore the journey to desktop virtualization to support BYOD and mobile users around his campus.
STP1003 – Nimble Storage SmartStack: Proven Reference Architectures from VMware, Cisco, and Nimble Storage : Nimble technical expert Michael McLaughlin and I will present on how our SmartStack solutions with VMware and Cisco help organizations accelerate deployment and reduce risk.

VMworld promises to be a great event this year, and we really hope to see you there. So don’t forget to come by and visit Nimble Storage at booth #921 – you may even get lucky and get a chance to drive around in a Maserati convertible for a couple of weeks!

See you in San Francisco!

Cisco Live, June 23 – 27: See You in Sunny Orlando

Sheldon DPaiva - Product Marketing — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:08:54 +0000

Enterprise IT is in the midst of a historic shift – moving away from piecing together standalone products in favor of data centers built around pre-validated solutions with reference architectures. This transition will be a key topic of discussion at Cisco’s annual IT and communications conference, Cisco Live, which runs from June 23 through 27 in Orlando, Florida. It promises be a great event, showcasing Cisco and its partners, and Nimble Storage is excited to be there to show off all the hard work we have done together.

Nimble has partnered with Cisco to bring to market the Nimble Storage SmartStack, an integrated solution including best-of-breed storage, servers, networking, and virtualization technology. Working closely together, Cisco and Nimble have jointly produced reference architectures that have been tested for interoperability, performance, and fast deployment.

Cisco and Nimble pre-validated SmartStack solutions have also been developed in collaboration with Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft to address both desktop virtualization, and server virtualization for private cloud deployments. Storage is not purchased in silos, so we’ve developed reference architectures with the key industry-leading ecosystem partners to provide a complete range of solutions.

Come by booth #225 to learn how SmartStack solutions can help your organization accelerate deployments and reduce risk, improve IT productivity, and flexibly scale as needs change. Nimble Storage hybrid arrays will also be featured in the Cisco Unified Data Center Partner Ecosystem Technology Demonstration, so be sure to visit us there as well.

To learn more and to have a chance at winning a $100 Amazon gift card, check out our special Cisco Live site that’s filled with great content, such as product briefs, details on our reference architectures, and SmartStack customer case studies: http://info.nimblestorage.com/cisco-live-2013-nimble-storage.html

See you in Orlando!