Nimble Storage Kicks Off EMEA Channel Program

Nimble Storage, LLC launched
its EMEA channel programme with the announcement of its partnership with Solid State Solutions Ltd. (S3) to grow its presence in the UK.

According to the agreement, the reseller will use Nimble’s CS-Series
arrays to bring primary storage, backup and (DR in a box to
SMEs that lack the technical resources and budget to manage multiple silos of
technology within their datacentres but who require enterprise
performance to meet the demands of applications such as virtualisation and
virtual desktops.

The partnership is generating significant interest in the CS-Series
arrays; S3 has a track record of finding new technologies
and companies to complement its existing portfolio of mainstream vendors.

Philip Turner, EMEA sales director at Nimble Storage, said "As the pioneer of a disruptive technology it
is important for us to have partners that understand how our solution is going
to help end users address the challenges that they are experiencing today in
their storage environment, and S3 fits the bill. It’s early days but we are
already seeing the fruits of this partnership, which is going from strength to
strength."

The CS-Series arrays combine iSCSI primary storage, backup and disaster
recovery in a single solution specifically aimed at SMEs, a market segment where performance is becoming more and more
critical. They bring together flash and high-capacity SATA drives to deliver a
storage system that gives users a
reduction in cost and complexity. This partnership will allow Nimble Storage to
leverage S3’s established team to  begin to fill a market gap for
products that couple file systems with affordable
hardware.

Gurdip Kalley, business development manager at S3, said: "Though this is the first time we are working with Nimble, we have had
past experience with its team and we are keen to work with them again. Nimble
offers enterprise-class data protection and disaster recovery that were
previously only available as a multi-vendor, costly solution, and this is very
attractive to many of our customers, who can also rely on these systems to
rectify performance-related issues in their VDI and database deployments."