![]() I’d love to see some hard statistics on this from their analytics engine.Īll travel expenses and incidentals were paid for by Gestalt IT to attend Storage Field Day 6. That’s pretty amazing confidence in the array if that is true. With shocked looks on our faces we asked them to repeat that statistic and they held fast. ![]() Also, on the topic of upgrades, Nimble mentioned to the delegates of Storage Field Day 6 that about 60% of their customers will run firmware upgrades to the array during the middle of the day. For instance, if you are on 2.0 and a 2.1 bug is identified for something your array is doing, you might only see an upgrade path from 2.0 to 2.2. When it comes to firmware updates, Nimble Storage will use the telemetry data from your array and if any issues might affect your particular array, they will remove the version of firmware that could affect it from their support portal on a customer basis. I’ve heard already of an issue that had happened with a particular workload on a certain firmware version that caused a problem with an array and after InfoSight collected it, Nimble was able to tell their customers that also had similar environments exactly when the array would start encountering problems. Nimble is using the data from all of their customers who choose to enable phone home (about 94% of their install base) to proactively alert other customers of upcoming issues. Maybe this is selfish of Nimble to get this data, after all, their solution to fixing this “not enough cache” problem would likely be to sell you more SSDs but as a customer, don’t you want this to be the case? You’ll be able to see this data in your InfoSight portal, and if you choose to give your preferred partner access to this data, they can help get you the hardware you need to fix it.Īlright, if that doesn’t knock your socks off, then how about this. Nimble can take this data to help determine if there is enough solid state cache in the system for the array to function well. Nothing too special here right? It’s nothing new for a storage array to phone home to send faults, but Nimble is sending additional telemetry data about workloads as well. This solution is being used for a variety of analytical purposes to both improve their product as well as improve the customer’s experience with their array purchase. However, Nimble Storage has an impressive phone home solution called InfoSight that they are leveraging for more than just fault notifications and opening tickets on failed hardware. More to come on this breaking story.It’s hard to get too excited about a monitoring system, especially one that’s main focus is to notify a hardware vendor of a problem. Nimble intends to use the net proceeds from the IPO for “working capital and other general corporate purposes,” according to the filing. The San Jose, Calif.-based company counts organizations like eBay, Cisco, and Northrim Bank as customers, but it faces stiff competition from EMC, NetApp, and Dell-owned EqualLogic. ![]() The company targets data storage managers who want to combine their flash and capacity storage devices into one, speeding up the amount of time it takes to back up data. Register today!įounded in 2008, Nimble manufactures flash-optimized hybrid storage solutions for enterprises. 5 in Redwood City, will focus on the most compelling opportunities for businesses in the area of big data analytics and beyond. ![]() Editor’s note: Our upcoming DataBeat conference, Dec.
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