"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."
"A single Nimble array was not only able to meet the higher IOPS requirements, but also to deliver the needed capacity increases, all at a lower cost to CMJTS. That move also meant that they could demote the legacy SAN to a data protection role."
"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."
"One of the big attractions for us was the fact that Nimble was using flash as a front-end cache for frequently accessed data."
"“On the day the Nimble arrays went live our performance problems went away. It was instant. In IT you never get any praise, but we stopped getting complaints."
"he storage is critical because our file servers are constantly used by heads of departments, teachers and support staff. We can’t afford for that to go down. Nimble is a good fit because it has the balance we require between price, capacity and performance."
"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!"
"With flexible storage arrays and a highly responsive design, Nimble Storage has proven to be a great partner for Ask’s growing storage needs and will be critical to supporting our future needs as well."
"We really liked the design of Nimble’s technology and the use of flash storage to speed up responses. The hardware replication was good and so was the compression. We looked at a few different compression technologies during the review as a way of optimising our storage, but we really liked Nimble’s approach. The other thing about Nimble that impressed us was their whole support strategy."
"The spectacular ROI result was a huge surprise. I kicked myself for not doing something about the issue in the years prior. But the traditional SAN array usually means sending someone away for weeks training and the configuration of it can be quite a long and arduous project of itself."
"By moving data to the Nimble arrays, our storage IOPS limitations simply went away. Our customers’ Oracle environments are now running 60% faster and we are experiencing much lower latency on the VMware hosts."