Nimble Storage, founded in 2008, produced hardware and software products for

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, specifically data storage arrays that use the

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and

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protocols and includes

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and

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features. Nimble is now a subsidiary of

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Dawn at Nimble Storage's new 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. In September 2012, Nimble Storage secured $40.7 million from original backers as well as new investors

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and

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. 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

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on the

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. Nimble Storage went public on the

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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

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 announced the completion of

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140-2 Certification from the

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for the Adaptive Flash platform. In November 2015, Nimble Storage was sixth on

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's ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and energy tech companies in North America. In December 2015, Nimble Storage announced an expanded SmartStack technology for

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products. On February 23, 2016, Nimble Storage unveiled the Predictive All Flash Array series, combining fast flash performance with InfoSight Predictive Analytics. On August 10, 2016, Nimble Storage announced the AF-1000 Series All Flash array as well as an updated CS-Series Adaptive Flash array portfolio. On October 17, 2016,

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announced a strategic partnership with Nimble Storage. The first line of offerings from this partnership is the ThinkAgile CX Series solution. On March 7, 2017,

announced they are to buy Nimble Storage for approximately $1.09 billion cash. The acquisition became final on April 5, 2017.

Products

All Flash Arrays

Nimble Storage's AF-Series arrays utilize flash performance as well as InfoSight Predictive Analytics. The AF-Series has product lines for data centers with different configurations based on the desired workload. The product lines are AF1000, AF3000, AF5000, AF7000, and AF9000.

Adaptive Flash Arrays

The Nimble CS-Series

and

storage array has 4 product lines for data centers available in each CS-Series. The product lines are CS200, CS300, CS500, and CS700 and combine both HDDs with SSDs in a hybrid fashion. In August 2016, Nimble Storage updated their CS-Series arrays to the following: CS1000/H, CS3000, CS5000, and CS7000. Nimble Storage also provides an All-Flash Shelf to add to CS-Series arrays.

Secondary Flash Arrays

The Secondary Flash Array was the first new Nimble product to be launched post merger with

. It is a hybrid system based around the standard Nimble architecture but with enhanced de-duplication. The product is intended as a target for backups.

SmartStack reference architectures

Nimble Storage provides SmartStack integrated infrastructure technology for

. Jointly developed by Cisco and Nimble Storage, these SmartStack integrates compute, network, and storage resources. SmartStack provides Cisco Validated Designs and reference architectures that address the following workloads:

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(or VDI), server virtualization and

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, business-critical applications,

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and applications, and

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Technology

NimbleOS

NimbleOS is Nimble's

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. It utilizes a patented file-system architecture and cache accelerated sequential layout (CASL). NimbleOS includes flexible flash scaling, adaptive flash service levels, dynamic flash-based read

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, write-optimized data layout, inline compression, scale-to-fit flexibility, scale out,

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and integrated

, efficient

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, deduplication, and zero-copy clones.

InfoSight Predictive Analytics

InfoSight is Nimble Storage's storage management and

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portal. It is designed to help with

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as well as customer support. InfoSight consists of: * The InfoSight Engine: a data collection and analysis engine composed of

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, 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 consolidated architecture with common data services. This architecture is built upon existing CASL architecture and InfoSight.

References

External links

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