As the storage is separate from both AWS and Azure you could detach it from an AWS VM and attach it to an Azure VM without moving any data around, I can see the use in that. It would immediately be available to connect to your AWS/Azure instance.
It was in beta and the provisioning process would be connecting to Nimble’s Cloud Volumes web portal, provisioning a volume, choosing what IOPS and capacity you want and whether you need things like replication, snapshots, encryption etc. initially) so you could connect your AWS and Azure instances to Nimble with better storage SLAs than the public cloud’s native offerings. These would be geographically close to AWS and Azure regions (U.S. Nimble planned on running its own block based storage cloud using its flash arrays for much higher availability than AWS EBS or Azure Disks could provide with block storage. Nimble also has Cloud Volumes which is an interesting cloud storage platform. Nimble’s Infosight predictive analytics is a cloud based tool which uses machine learning to let you know what’s wrong before it becomes a problem. This is Cloud Field Day, not Storage Field Day so I’m most interested in how Nimble and “cloud” come together. Is HPE going the same route or will it have more clearly delineated offerings.
EMC could always sell you something for what you needed even if some products overlapped. HPE has 3PAR for the mid to high end, MSA and StoreVirtual for smaller, cost concious sites, Nimble and also SimpliVity which is a hyper-converged offering it purchased just before snapping up Nimble.ĮMC (now DellEMC) has always been known to have a very broad storage product portfolio. I’d love to hear how Nimble fits in with the rest of HPE’s storage portfolio and strategy. HPE was planning on announcing combined HPE and Nimble storage solutions in late 2017 so perhaps we are the lucky lot to hear first what HPE and Nimble have in store.
#Nimble infosight portal software
HPE also wanted to extend Nimble’s InfoSight predictive analytics software across the rest of HPE’s storage portfolio. During the purchase HPE said Nimble was a complement to its mid to high end 3PAR flash solutions. We haven’t heard anything from Nimble since the acquisition so it will be very interesting to hear what HPE has in store. Fast forward to March 2017 when Nimble was purchased by HPE for just over $1 Billion. Nimble has an interesting Tech Field Day history as it announced its original product, the CS200 hybrid array at Tech Field Day 3 in Seattle in 2010. The premise is their wording, certainly not mine, really should be premises, Nimble! Nimble Storage is a storage company with lofty goals of “giving users the fastest, most reliable access to data – on-premise and in the cloud”. We are hearing from a number of companies about how they cloud!
Cloud Field Day 2, part of the Tech Field Day family of events is happening in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, from 26-28 July and I’m super excited to be invited as a delegate.
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