Nimble Announces Scale-Out SSD Storage Arrays

Nimble Storage, a provider of scalable storage solutions, is offering a "scale-to-fit storage architecture" that enables customers to acquire storage arrays that "exactly" match their storage needs.

The product consists of storage expansion shelves that allow organizations to add capacity without downtime. There is also a CS400 upgrade for the company's CS200 arrays, which can be applied seamlessly in environments that demand greater performance.

Nimble OS 2.0 is the fabric that ties the hardware together, enables clustering, device management as well as "linear scaling of both capacity and performance," Nimble Storage said.

“Traditional scale-up systems and more modern scale-out systems are rooted in an era when storage capacity and storage performance were tethered together,” said Suresh Vasudevan, CEO of Nimble Storage. “Our scale-to-fit architecture delivers an unparalleled ability to independently scale the controller performance, cache capacity or storage capacity of any node while also allowing multiple nodes to become part of a cluster. Starting with a small footprint, our customers can continually and nondisruptively scale and evolve their infrastructure in small, granular increments across the widest range of workloads.”

Nimble's cluster solution supports dynamic storage pools that balance performance as the amount of storage increases or decreases and features direct, parallel host connections since hosts connect directly to the storage array. The company originally launched its first flash storage products in 2010 and claims that it has signed "hundreds of customers" since then.

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