"Although the reason we went with Nimble Storage was to support VDI and improve application performance — a great side benefit for us was the dramatic cost savings compared to our previous storage platform. Better performance at a lower price is a rare combination for any IT solution."

“In retail, everything happens so quickly. From one day to the next, we don’t know where we are going to be or how the company may expand. Expansion is always on the horizon for us. But we know that if we do acquire another company or develop future brands, we …

"We’ve reduced a full rack of storage down to just 6RU, so we’re using less than a quarter of a rack for twice the storage space. And the power savings are dramatic."

"Storage is no longer the bottleneck that it used to be. With other systems, you have to schedule backups and make sure you don’t ever fall into a ‘lag timeframe’ between the time you dump the data on the appliance and the time you actually dedupe it. But with Nimble, …

"The fact that we have so many different workloads running on one SAN is astounding. And the ability to reach our storage goals with such a small number of disks is simply stunning."

"From everything I have learned about storage, Nimble shouldn’t be able to deliver 125,000 write IOPS from their adaptive flash arrays. I don’t know how Nimble does it, but it works like a dream."

"Not only have we simplified our day-to-day storage management tasks — we have gained the ability to plan for both performance and capacity going forward. I’ve yet to come across a storage management tool that has the range of functionality provided by Nimble InfoSight."

"Staff have been able to access their drives and file shares a lot faster. Now, we have the ability to add additional data quickly without bringing the storage down. It has provided improved functionality and increased performance."

"The average response time for SAP requests immediately dropped from 1,400U on NetApp’s product to under 400U on the Nimble platform. Our SAP users went from wanting to hang me, to wanting to thank me!"

"One of the big attractions for us was the fact that Nimble was using flash as a front-end cache for frequently accessed data."

“HPE InfoSight gives us the predictive analytics to make growth projections and anticipate when to buy additional hardware to support our growing customers. That’s why we use HPE, because they’re not just providing hardware, but also great software for managing our infrastructure.”

“HPE Nimble Storage allows us to accommodate many different types of workloads and deliver the performance required for each. Operationally and financially, it would be a nightmare to need specialized arrays for our customers’ unique use cases or applications. HPE Nimble Storage is much simpler and gives us the best …

"We don’t spend time babysitting our backups anymore. With Nimble, data protection is robust and reliable, and the management overhead is almost zero. If we do look at the Nimble console during a backup, it’s just for curiosity’s sake, not because we need to!"

"It almost seems like Nimble designed and built the arrays specifically for the needs of our organization. I really appreciate that!"

"We can now do everything we were doing with 42U of Compellent with just 6U of Nimble Storage."