On-Demand Webinars
General / Technology
| Title | Description | Format |
| Introduction to Nimble Storage: Scale-to-Fit |
Director of Storage Architecture Devin Hamilton provides an overview of the Nimble Storage solution. Learn how Nimble's game-changing approach to storage eliminates backup windows and enables WAN-efficient disaster recovery. | 68-Minute Webinar |
| Technical Deep Dive: Nimble's CASL Architecture |
A technical deep dive into the inner workings of Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL), Nimble's core architecture. | 58-Minute Webinar |
| Storage Performance Technical Deep Dive and Demonstration |
VMware performance engineer Chethan Kumar and Nimble Storage technologist Wen Yu go deep to discuss the various dimensions of storage performance as it relates to specific workloads and virtualized environments. There is a live demo near the end using esxtop to monitor and troubleshoot storage performance issues in a VMware ESXi environment. | 55-Minute Webinar |
Desktop Virtualization
| Title | Description | Format |
| Making VDI a Reality | Learn how to overcome the 3 storage-related barriers to a successful VDI deployment. Includes a boot storm demo. Watch 2,000 desktops come alive all at once! | 55-Minute Webinar |
| Nimble Storage SmartStack™ for VDI with Cisco and VMware |
Technical marketing engineer Michael McLaughlin describes the VDI reference architecture developed by Cisco, VMware, and Nimble Storage that supports 1,000 virtual desktops with only 3U of storage. The architecture uses Cisco UCS blade servers, VMware View, and VMware vSphere to provide a tested and preconfigured architecture for organizations looking to reduce their risk when deploying a VDI solution. | 47-Minute Webinar |
Data Protection
| Title | Description | Format |
| Disaster Recovery | Learn now Nimble Storage brings a game-changing approach to disaster recovery. Backup windows, software, and devices are eliminated, replaced with capacity-efficient snapshots that can be easily replicated over cost-effective bandwidth for DR and failover. | 61-Minute Webinar |
| VMware Data Protection with Microsoft VSS |
Nimble Storage Technologist Wen Yu and VMware Engineer Alton Yu provide a technical look at backup and recovery for VMware environments using Microsoft VSS. | 48-Minute Webinar |
| Modern Data Protection with Veeam | In this on-demand webinar, learn how IT organizations can reduce costs and protect their virtualization investments while simplifying backup and disaster recovery with Veeam® and Nimble Storage. | 48-Minute Webinar |
| Data Protection with CommVault | CommVault and Nimble Storage have teamed up to deliver centralized snapshot management, integrated catalog and indexing, and granular recovery of files and objects. View this on-demand webinar for a solution overview, including a live technical demonstration. | 45-Minute Webinar |
VMware
| Title | Description | Format |
| VMware vCloud Suite on Nimble Storage | Wen Yu and Neil Glick get technical with VMware vCloud and vSphere tips and tricks on Nimble Storage. A live demo is included. | 49-Minute Webinar & Demo |
| Nimble Storage Integration with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) |
Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Wen Yu leads a lively and interactive session on Nimble's integration with VMware SRM, including a live demo of a disaster recovery, failover, and recopy. | 49-Minute Webinar & Demo |
| Storage Design for VMware vSphere 5.0 with Mostafa Khalil |
This on-demand webinar features special guest Mostafa Khalil, senior engineer at VMware and author of the book "Storage Implementation in vSphere 5.0." Mr. Khalil provides a highly-technical presentation, derived from his book. Questions are answered realtime during the presentation. Wen Yu, senior technical marketing engineer at Nimble Storage, provides a brief live demo at the end of the presentation, showing command line interaction with vSphere and Nimble arrays. | 85-Minute Webinar & Demo |
Citrix
| Title | Description | Format |
| Nimble Storage SmartStack for VDI with Cisco UCS and Citrix XenDesktop |
The Nimble Storage SmartStack solution for VDI with Cisco UCS and Citrix XenDesktop, with some introductory contextual remarks about the evolution of the desktop computer. |
Microsoft
| Title | Description | Format |
| Nimble Storage for MS SQL Server: The End of Database Tuning is Here! |
Nimble Storage eliminates storage tuning for database applications like SQL Server by caching hot data to flash SSD in real-time so that it's ready when needed, not waiting on tier transition. Add to that Nimble's highly efficient snapshot and replication technology and you have a instantaneous backup solution that spans months versus days. | 57-Minute Webinar |
| Nimble Storage Solutions for Microsoft Exchange |
Technical marketing engineer Nicholas Schoonover describes the Nimble Storage solution for Microsoft Exchange. This on-demand webinar also contains a live demonstration, showing the simplicity of the Nimble GUI for provisioning and protection MS Exchange data. | 57-Minute Webinar & Demo |
| Private Cloud with Windows Server 2012 and HyperV, and Nimble Storage |
Guest speaker Claude Lorenson from Microsoft describes how Nimble Storage plays a key role in a new reference architecture for private cloud deployments. The new architecture is part of Microsoft's Private Cloud Fast Track program, which helps customers reduce risk and accelerate their transition to cloud. | 53-Minute Webinar |
| Product Demo: Configuring Nimble Storage for Windows Server 2013 Hyper-V Clusters |
This video demonstrates the configuration steps required to leverage Nimble Storage volumes with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Clusters. The demo also includes setup information for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). Take advantage of Nimble's market leading performance, capacity savings and VSS-integrated snapshot backups to provide application consistent protection. | 11-Minute Demo |
| Microsoft Fast Track Program for Private Cloud and Nimble Storage |
Claude Lorenson from MIcrosoft describes the Fast Track program and specifically, the SmartStack solution with Cisco and Nimble Storage for private cloud deployments. | 11-Minute Video |
Oracle
| Title | Description | Format |
| Oracle Data Protection Deep Dive and RMAN Demo |
Nimble Storage technologists Tom Dau and Wen Yu provide a technical look at backup and restore of Oracle database using Oracle RMAN and Nimble Storage zero-copy clone technology. An 11-minute command line demo is included. |
Analyst
| Title | Description | Format |
| Forrester Research: IT Analytics and the Future of Storage Management |
Senior Storage Analyst Henry Baltazar from Forrester Research looks at the current state of IT analytics, within the context of storage management. Guest customer Jeff Winter from City of Hot Springs, Arkansas, describes his experiences with Nimble Storage's InfoSight offering. InfoSight uses deep data analytics to help customers forecast compute, cache, and capacity requirements. | 54-Minute Webinar |
| Forrester Research: Best Practices for VDI Success |
Guest analyst Andrew Reichman shares findings from users and vendors about the rapid adoption of VDI, and how storage is a critical success factor. | 40-Minute Webinar |