Description
Nimble Storage Inc was incorporated in the state of Delaware in November 2007. The Company designs and sells a flash-optimized storage platform; comprised of a Unified Flash Fabric that provides single consolidation architecture with common data services across a portfolio of All Flash and Adaptive Flash arrays and InfoSight predictive analytics with integrated support and service offerings. It enables IT organizations to optimize performance, capacity and cost for all applications running across the data center and maintain a 99.9997% measured uptime with InfoSight cloud-based management software. Adaptive Flash that it believes is disrupting the market by enabling improvements in application performance and storage capacity with superior data protection, while simplifying business operations and lowering costs. With the combination of the Company's file system, CASL, and its cloud-based storage management and support service, InfoSight, the Company's platform serves a broad array of enterprises and cloud-based service providers, and the Company's software and storage systems effectively handle mainstream applications, including virtual desktops, databases, email, collaboration and analytics. Its storage systems are optimized for the mainstream IT applications used by mid-sized enterprises, large enterprises and cloud-based service providers. The Company offers a CS-Series of systems with a range of capacities and processing power. Its systems provide adaptive performance for high-I/O applications and high-capacity environments, including Exchange, Oracle, SharePoint, SQL Server, virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI, and server virtualization. The Company packages its CASL file system software with all of its systems and offer InfoSight as a service to all its customers. Its products include CS210, CS215, CS300, CS500, CS700, ES-1 Expansion Shelves and All-Flash Shelf. Its contract manufacturer generally procures the components used in its products directly from third-party suppliers. Its marketing strategies include product marketing, programs marketing, field marketing, channel marketing, and public relations functions. Marketing activities include demand generation, advertising, managing its partner portal, trade shows and conferences, press and analyst relations, and customer awareness. The Company competes to a lesser extent with a number of other smaller companies and certain well-established companies. Its competitors fall into two categories which includes large storage system vendors such as EMC and NetApp that offer a broad portfolio of storage systems targeting varied use cases and end markets; and large systems companies such as Dell and HP that have acquired specialist storage vendors in recent years to complement their internally-developed storage offerings and have the technical and financial resources to bring competitive products to the market. The Company have registered the trademark Nimble Storage in the Un