Nimble Storage Introduces the First Multicloud Storage Service

Nimble Storage Introduces the First Multicloud Storage Service

Nimble Cloud Volumes Provide the Only Enterprise-grade Multicloud Block
Storage Service for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure

Singapore – February 28, 2017 – Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL), the leader in
predictive cloud infrastructure, today announced Nimble Cloud Volumes, the only
enterprise- grade multicloud storage service for running applications in
Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Nimble Cloud Volumes will provide
enterprise-grade availability and data services that have previously not been
readily available in block storage for the cloud. These capabilities are
necessary for moving the next wave of applications to the cloud — traditional
transactional workloads — which place stringent requirements on storage.

Organizations are developing a cloud strategy to support various
applications, each with different performance, reliability, and scalability
requirements.  According to a recent report from Forrester Research, “Many enterprises are
challenging the truism that public clouds are not for core business
applications. Having had success using public cloud platforms for new
applications built to engage with their customers (systems of engagement), a
growing number of enterprise application development and delivery (AD&D)
leaders want to bring the same benefits of fast delivery and iteration, high
security, and cost flexibility to their core business applications.”1

The first wave of applications moving to the cloud saw organizations
implement native cloud applications, mostly web and mobile. Now a new wave is
taking place in which organizations are starting to migrate test and
development instances and even some production instances of traditional
workloads — CRM, financial applications, and other business applications — to
the cloud. These applications often control important transactional business
processes, place far higher demands on storage, and depend on enterprise-grade
availability and data services that are not provided by native cloud storage.
These factors, along with a lack of data mobility and very limited visibility
across clouds, have slowed enterprise cloud adoption for business applications.

Breaking Cloud Barriers: Enterprise-grade Reliability and Features

Nimble Cloud Volumes is designed to combine the simplicity of a cloud
service with the features and functionality enterprise applications need. IT
can leverage public cloud for compute and Nimble Cloud Volumes for storage
capacity. Nimble Cloud Volumes is managed with the same simplicity as native
cloud storage, but provides the reliability and data durability enterprises
expect. Data protection is flexible and cost effective, as customers only pay
for changed data, not for additional full copies. IT will also be able to
easily create instant zero-copy clones in the public cloud enabling rapid
deployment of test and development, analytics and bursting. 

Like the entire Nimble Predictive Cloud platform, Nimble Cloud Volumes
is designed to deliver six nines (99.9999%) measured storage availability and
offer data durability one million times greater than native cloud block
storage.

Breaking Cloud Barriers: Data Mobility Eliminates Vendor Lock-in

Customers’ requirements are dynamic and they need the flexibility to
evolve their multicloud data center without fear of lock-in. The built-in data
mobility of Nimble Cloud Volumes will give customers the freedom to move data
between multiple public clouds and on-premise data centers without large data
egress charges.

Breaking Cloud Barriers: Visibility Across Clouds & Data Center and
Predictive Analytics

Nimble Cloud Volumes include powerful predictive analytics capabilities,
providing customers with visibility into their data across multiple clouds.
Customers can rapidly pinpoint and resolve performance issues, and can leverage
insights that can help to optimize storage costs and data placement.

“With Nimble Cloud Volumes, enterprises can finally migrate critical
applications to the cloud with complete confidence that they will have the same
data durability and enterprise-capabilites they have on-premise,” said Ajay
Singh, vice president of product management, Nimble Storage. “Enterprises
maximize flexibility by using a multicloud storage service that allows mobility
between public clouds and their data center. By using Nimble Cloud Volumes in
conjunction with Nimble All Flash and Adaptive Flash arrays they take a major
step in ensuring their data centers are cloud ready.”

“Cloud is a strategic priority in every organization
today and IT teams are migrating their enterprise applications. Nimble Cloud
Volumes provide enterprise storage features and ease of migration to minimize
disruption,” said Nicole Herskowitz, senior director, product marketing at
Microsoft Corp. “Enterprises are able to move faster, achieve more and save
money with the combination of Microsoft Azure and Nimble Cloud Volumes.”

Nimble Cloud Volumes is currently in beta. There are 50 companies from a
range of industries in the beta process – more than 40% of them are Global 5000
enterprises. Customer preview will commence within the current fiscal quarter
in the United States. Nimble Storage plans to make this service available to
additional regions over the next six to 12 months. Nimble Cloud Volumes will
start at $0.10/GB/month.

For more information on Nimble Cloud Volumes, please visit www.nimblestorage.com.

IT teams can join peers globally at the Nimble vConference on March
15 to learn the latest trends in flash storage, data protection, and a
keynote with Rod Bagg, Nimble’s vice president of Analytics and Customer
Support. The vConference requires zero cost and no travel time. Register here:http://nimblestorage.regsvc.com/E9