Customers

Nimble Storage solutions are deployed worldwide in a wide range of industry verticals including finance, retail, accounting, media, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and high tech. Selected quotes and case studies are below.

Florida Blood Services struggled with a complex, three-vendor storage environment that caused snapshot failures and required weekend-long backups. With Nimble Storage, they reduced complexity and costs, and slashed backups from hours to seconds.

“Nimble seems like the next evolution in technology. They’ve created a cost-effective device to provide the highest performance at the lowest cost.”

Dan Higley, senior systems engineer, Florida Blood Services
Global law firm Howard Rice faced mounting data storage requirements and uncontrolled storage costs. Nimble Storage’s capacity optimization and zero-copy cloning cut TCO, while hybrid SSD/SATA architecture accelerated performance.

“With Nimble, we can run our storage operations for a lot less money, with the same reliability and superior performance. Nimble has become a major part of our overall storage solution across the fabric of the firm.”

Matt Reynolds, CIO, Howard Rice

Central Minnesota Jobs & Training Services’ single Nimble converged-storage array supports scores of VDI users, slashes capital costs and user support requirements, boosts performance 10X, and reduces storage footprint 75 percent.

“Not only are new users productive in their first couple of hours, but the implications are huge for management. It’s truly no-risk VDI.”

Tony Banken, Network Administrator, Central Minnesota Jobs & Training Services

With its Nimble CS220, First Choice Health Network addressed inadequate performance and long backup/recovery times for VDI, webservers, Exchange, SQL, Oracle, and other applications.

“With our mixed workload, having Nimble’s flexible I/O pool is incredibly valuable. Instead of managing storage, now we can focus on our core competencies.”

Darren Hoffman, Senior Systems Engineer, First Choice Health Network
Vision Critical, a leading Business Intelligence application provider, faced rapidly growing storage requirements as its code base grew 50 percent annually.

“Where Nimble stands out, and why I made the investment in Nimble, was its ability to provide high-performance primary storage with real-time capacity optimization for our virtualized, mission-critical development environment.”

Diraj Goel, Director of Information Technology, Vision Critical

Plaxo, the originator of the “smart address book,” leverages Nimble Storage CS240 arrays to protect the company’s vital intellectual property and give application developers a new tool for maximizing their productivity.

“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.”

Ethan Erchinger, VP of Operations, Plaxo

Premier Medical, a physician-owned healthcare group, deployed Nimble Storage CS-Series arrays to address challenges around its large and growing storage requirements, slow backups, and regulatory compliance.

“We made a good value investment with Nimble Storage. We’ve met all our goals for storing important data and managing primary storage. Plus, performance has been fantastic.”

Russell Roberts, Chief IT Administrator, Premier Medical

“The large capacity of the Nimble CS240, along with its tight integration with Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange, allows us to completely rethink the backup process, significantly reducing complexity and costs associated with data protection.”

Craig Condie, Information Systems Director, Mohler Nixon Williams
San Diego County Convention Center deployed a converged storage array from Nimble to host all of its virtual machines and make access to customer data nearly instantaneous.

“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.”

Eric Myers, Network Engineer, San Diego County Convention Center

Clackamas County provides high-quality IT services and rapid response to its 400,000 citizens. But adding high-performance primary storage capacity was cost-prohibitive until they deployed their Nimble arrays.

“Nimble arrays fit seamlessly into the rest of our storage strategy, so adding them into our existing environment was not disruptive. There is nothing that even comes close to the Nimble solution today in terms of performance and price.”

Chris Fricke, IT Administrator, Clackamas County

Grocery Outlet,a leading discount grocery chain, leverages Nimble Storage to accelerate primary storage performance, slash backup and restore times, and streamline storage management.

“The Nimble platform is fast, simple, and cost effective. We no longer need to maintain our older disk backup devices.”

Steve Tuscher, Director of Information Technology, Grocery Outlet

Mulvanny G2 Architecture, a top-50 global architecture firm, relies on data compression, seconds-long backups, and raw storage performance to harness massive 3D design files.

“Backups today take under a minute, versus the hours or days in the past with the legacy hardware and software we had in place.”

Mike Brester, System Administrator, Mulvanny G2 Architecture

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