Krista Macomber, senior analyst at TBR, said this feat will be challenging for HPE, but its streamlined operating model will enhance its ability to execute. The deal would notch another point of competitive consolidation in the data center space spurred by HPE, forcing Nimble partners including Cisco Systems and Lenovo to create new alliances or potentially acquire in flash storage, storage performance monitoring and analytics, and hybrid IT management. “The storage industry is no stranger to consolidation, and as flash and hybrid flash arrays become the norm in the enterprise data center, it makes sense that the big players would seek to acquire advanced solutions that will give them a competitive edge,” said Andy Vandeveld, VP of Global Alliances at Veeam. The integration of Nimble Storage, SimpliVity and Cloud Cruiser technologies are accelerants of HPE’s innovation and differentiation as it approaches the future-forward ecosystem of modern, data-centric and cloud-hosted workloads, said Technology Business Review. “This acquisition validates our technology leadership in flash and in the use of cloud-based predictive analytics,” said Suresh Vasudevan, CEO at Nimble Storage. Over 10,000 enterprises are using Nimble Storage because its Predictive Cloud Platform is simple, and cloud ready. Nimble, founded in 2007 and has approximately 1,300 employees worldwide, delivered revenue of $402 million (+25 percent) in its most recent fiscal year. “Nimble Storage’s portfolio complements and strengthens our current 3PAR products in the high-growth flash storage market and will help us deliver on our vision of making Hybrid IT simple for our customers,” said Meg Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. This reduces the amount of time and effort a customer’s IT team spends on support activities. Nimble’s InfoSight automatically detects 90 percent of all issues within a customer’s infrastructure, and resolves over 85 percent of them. HPE plans to incorporate Nimble’s InfoSight Predictive Analytics platform across its storage portfolio. This deal to acquire the San Jose, California-based Nimble Storage will enable HPE to deliver a full range of flash storage solutions for customers across every segment. Nimble’s predictive flash offerings for the entry to midrange segments are complementary to HPE’s midrange to high-end 3PAR solutions and affordable MSA products. The overall flash market is expected to be nearly $20 billion by 2020 from approximately $15 billion in 2016, with the all-flash segment growing at a nearly 17 percent compound annual growth rate. The Hybrid Flash Array (HFA) segment of the market clocked $2.5 billion in revenue and 38.4 percent market share. The all Flash Array (AFA) market generated almost $1.7 billion (+61.2 percent) in revenue during the quarter. Storage shipments rose 18.3 percent to 52.4 exabytes during the quarter. IDC said enterprise storage revenue fell 6.7 percent to $11.1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2016. IBM (with 10.1 percent) NetApp (with 10 percent) and Hitachi (7 percent) are the next top storage companies.ĭell Technologies has 32.9 percent share in the global storage market in the fourth quarter of 2016. Predicts and prevents issues to help deliver 99.9999% guaranteed availability %22%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A%2F%2Fand resolves 86% of issues %22%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A%2F%2Fbefore you even know there’s a problem.HPE, according to IT research firm IDC, is the second ranked storage company with a market share of 10.2 percent.
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