Strategic Alliances
Building on the Power of Partnerships

Nimble Storage partners with leading IT vendors to develop and deliver pre-tested storage solutions.

	Nimble partners with Cisco to deliver data center and virtualization solutions that allow a faster IT response to business demands, reduced capital and operating expenditures, and simplified IT operations. With Nimble Storage, the Cisco Unified Computing System combines computing, networking, storage access, and virtualization into one cohesive system. Furthermore, a low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric is integrated with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers and next-generation datacenter storage.
	Combining market-leading Citrix desktop virtualization solutions with Nimble Storage enables businesses to transform Windows® desktops, apps, and data into a cloud-like service that is accessible on any device, anywhere. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure allows customers to streamline management and costs by consolidating and centralizing desktops while delivering mobility and freedom to end users.
	CommVault's Simpana combines Nimble Storage's array-based snapshot and replication platforms into a single solution that efficiently captures, moves, retains, finds, analyzes, and recovers data. Redefining traditional backup, Simpana software quickly captures application-consistent copies without impacting the performance of production applications. Customers can maximize investments on high-performance Nimble Storage arrays to tackle the 24x7 uptime and accessibility challenges surrounding critical mission and business data.
	Nimble Storage supports Microsoft with innovative storage and data management solutions across the Microsoft Windows Operating System — for applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint, as well as Microsoft management solutions. Nimble Storage continues to partner with Microsoft as they help customers go beyond virtualization technology to a complete platform for a private cloud.
	Nimble Storage solutions for Oracle Linux and Oracle Database can help customers improve performance and enhance their data protection and availability. Nimble Storage's non-disruptive and efficient scale-to-fit and cloning/replication capabilities can match the needs of growing Oracle environments. Our joint customers can deploy applications to production quickly and efficiently, saving the Oracle DBA and administrator precious time and budget.
	VMware and Nimble Storage enjoy a close, collaborative development and go-to-market partnership that helps our joint customers maximize value from their virtualized application, server, and desktop environments. Customers achieve higher consolidation and efficiency, greater energy savings, faster application delivery, higher levels of availability and business continuity, and lower costs. With our deep management and data protection integration, VMware and Nimble Storage help IT drive business agility by simplifying the infrastructure and supporting trends such as Mobile Secure Desktop and bring your own device (BYOD) to create a more dynamic and flexible data center.
	Brocade and Nimble Storage work together to help customers achieve a smooth transition to a virtualized world where applications and information can reside on any platform, anywhere. As a result, organizations in a wide range of industries can realize their most critical business objectives with greater simplicity and a faster return on investment.
	Nimble Storage draws on Intel's industry-leading server, storage, and networking components in building our Adaptive Flash storage platform. Nimble is an Intel Platinum Partner.
	Nimble Storage and Kroll Ontrack together deliver an efficient and highly available solution for Microsoft Exchange environments. Our joint customers benefit from improved application responsiveness, simplified IT procedures for granular search and restore requests, and lower costs through higher IT productivity and efficient infrastructure.
	SAP is at the center of today’s technology revolution, and is a market leader in enterprise application software, enabling more than 263,000 customers with SAP applications and services. Nimble Storage is partnering with SAP to meet the growing demands of SAP’s business-critical applications with its Adaptive Flash storage solutions.
	Nimble Storage and Symantec have partnered together to provide mid-market to enterprise storage product and business continuity solutions.
	Splunk Inc. provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. More than 7,400 customers use Splunk to search, monitor, analyze and visualize their machine-generated big data.
	Nimble Storage and Unidesk deliver no-compromise VDI storage and manageability for businesses of all sizes. With support for both Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View™, customers will reduce storage costs, enhance IO performance, and enjoy stress-free desktop provisioning, Windows patching, and application delivery.
	Unitrends ReliableDR leverages Nimble Storage's efficient array-based snapshot and replication to deliver disaster recovery assurance and compliance proof for vSphere environments. ReliableDR eliminates the disruption, time, and expense of recovery testing while measuring RTO and RPO and ensuring 100 percent automated failover and failback of complete applications across Nimble arrays.
	Nimble Storage arrays and Veeam backup and replication software create a powerful data protection solution for all types of customer environments by combining high-performance storage with integrated data protection. With Veeam and Nimble Storage, customers can ultimately reduce costs and protect their virtualization investments while simplifying their backup process and environment.

Top Reasons to Choose Nimble Storage for Microsoft Applications

Deliver great storage performance and low latencies that Microsoft applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint demand
Get high IOPS at sub-millisecond latencies on random reads and writes with dynamic caching of active data and a write optimized data layout.
Maximize storage utilization and efficiency to control costs
Store 30 to 75 percent more data—mailboxes, databases, application and end-user files—in the same storage space with inline universal compression without any performance impact.
Bring applications to production quicker and lower risk of failed projects
Create individual test and development environments without taking up much additional space by instantaneously cloning entire volumes including production databases using spaceefficient Nimble Storage zero copy clones.
Protect your investment and scale storage performance and capacity to meet growing mailboxes, additional transactions and file growth
Non-disruptively and independently grow storage capacity by adding additional storage shelves, and increase performance by upgrading storage controllers and the flash SSD cache.
Protect more critical data and keep months of online backups without the complexity of a separate backup storage solution
Do away with traditional backup windows and increase retention periods for applications such as Exchange 2010, with efficient, instant, and application-consistent backups and restores.
Deploy affordable disaster recovery and keep key applications up and running
Efficiently replicate data over the LAN or WAN to a secondary system with the ability to fail over quickly if needed.
Get optimal performance, reliability and protection right out of the box
Use pre-optimized storage settings and application templates for simplifying operation and protection— minimizing worries about correctly setting parameters such as RAID levels, tiering, and backup policies.
Benefit from proven pre-validated Nimble Storage SmartStack solutions for Windows Server
Leverage validated designs including compute, networking and applications to accelerate deployment, reduce project risk and improve IT staff efficiency.
Lower operational risks and administrative overhead making IT more productive
Benefit from Nimble Storage InfoSight, the data sciencesdriven customer support portal with cloud-based monitoring, capacity forecasting, performance recommendations, proactive alerting, and automated case creation.
Keep critical applications up and running through software, performance, and capacity upgrades
Minimize or even eliminate planned downtime with non-disruptive software and hardware upgrades, and highly available controllers.