Fastest-Growing Startup, Nimble Storage, Comes to Europe
Breakthrough Flash-Enabled Storage Architecture Simultaneously Delivers High Performance and High Capacity; Appoints former EMC Data Domain Country Manager
London, UK - Oct 13, 2011 – Nimble Storage, developer of the first converged data storage and backup solution, today announced its official launch into the European market with the appointment of Philip Turner to the position of EMEA sales director and the recruitment of a number of system engineers and support technicians. At the same time the company has started partnering with a number of channel organisations to accelerate adoption of its technology. Nimble's new approach converges storage, backup, and disaster recovery into a single solution. Its breakthrough Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL™) architecture is designed from the ground up to leverage flash memory in combination with high-capacity, low-RPM drives to provide high performance and high capacity at a low cost. In addition, WAN-efficient replication enables disaster recovery to a remote Nimble array, giving enterprises of almost any size a complete, cost-effective business continuity solution.
Some customers share their thoughts about Nimble's technology: "Nimble blew away the competition. At the outset we achieved approximately 15 times the performance of our previous systems, and substantially greater performance than other systems we had considered. Now we're getting data compression of 40 percent across the board. That's phenomenal," said Eric Myers, Network Engineer, San Diego County Convention Center. Ethan Erchinger, VP of operations at Plaxo is just as satisfied: "Performance is absolutely critical, and that's all about getting the highest achievable IOPS for the dollar. The IOPS we're achieving with the Nimble array has proven game-changing for our development team."
Nimble's CS-Series arrays give organisations the functionality, performance, and capacity of three primary storage and one backup devices, all in a single 3U solution. Benefits realised through the deployment of the product include primary storage performance for demanding applications like virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), instant backups and restores, and over 60% in Capex reduction.
Nimble's team and groundbreaking solution have driven unprecedented early success: in the first year of shipping, the company gained over 150 customers in the high tech, architecture, financial services, legal, healthcare, and public sector markets, and its revenue ramp exceeds the most successful storage start-ups of the past decade during a similar period. In July, Nimble raised $25 million in an oversubscribed Series D round of funding, capping a total investment of $58 million over the life of the company.
The CS-Series arrays are built on Nimble's CASL architecture which stores all data as variable-size blocks, enabling real-time 2-4x data compression with no added latency. Randomly written data is coalesced into full-stripe writes for consistent high performance. In addition, CASL keeps a copy of active "hot" data in flash memory for fast reads, while all data, included an extended set of snapshots, is stored in cost-effective, high-capacity disk.
"During my years at Data Domain I learned that true innovation tends to come from new players as they are not tied to existing technologies and can start from a blank canvas. I joined Nimble Storage because it has a fresh, forward-thinking approach to the storage market, one that is unique and that meets a number of needs end users are trying to meet," said Philip Turner, EMEA sales director at Nimble Storage.
About Nimble Storage
Nimble Storage has developed the first converged storage and backup solution that significantly reduces the cost and complexity of storing, accessing, and protecting data for enterprises. The company's CASL architecture uniquely combines flash and high-capacity disk to support the most demanding primary applications and reduces backup windows and restore times from hours to seconds, all for at least 60 percent lower cost than existing solutions. Nimble Storage also provides a simple, cost-effective disaster recovery solution that offers business continuity and long-term data protection. Nimble Storage solutions are available through a nationwide network of IT solution providers. For more information visit www.nimblestorage.com.
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