Nimble Storage Expands In Singapore

Nimble
Storage, Inc. announced the opening of its Singapore office as a strategic
foundation for its expansion into the rest of Asia.

Singapore will be the company’s second office in the AsiaPac region and is
part of a targeted investment plan to expand operations as advances are made
towards an IPO. The Singapore office opens ahead of plan, just four months
after it opened its first APAC office in Sydney, Australia in September 2012.

Nimble Storage, is expanding
into markets that have high growth in data centre projects.
Singapore is estimated to hold more than 50% of the commercial carrier
and carrier neutral data centre space in Southeast Asia, according to the country’s
Economic Development Board.

"Our
storage systems provide the perfect scenario of extremely high-performance and
high-capacity at a very attractive price point for companies in the Singapore
market. Nimble provides ideal solutions for enterprises of all sizes allowing
customers to grow storage without disruption, from small to large, at the
lowest possible cost, said," Suresh Vasudevan, CEO of Nimble Storage.

Nimble Storage developed a flash-optimized storage
architecture designed to leverage the best of flash
performance and the price/capacity of high capacity HDDs. Solution delivers higher performance and larger
capacities at a lower price than traditional storage systems. Since launching
its first flash-optimized products in 2010, customers have benefited from
Nimble Storage’s products by reducing
their TCO, by improving on their RTOs and RPOs, and through enhanced data
management functionality.

The Singapore office will be staffed by
industry veterans Rachel Ler and Sathish Murthy. Ler, who joins Nimble Storage
to head sales, has previously held senior sales positions at Microsoft, NetApp
and IBM. Murthy comes to Nimble Storage as its technical engineering lead from
EMC and NetApp where he has held roles in product management, professional
services and consulting.

"We
are very excited about our entry into Singapore and believe that the local
market is more than ready for an innovative, high performance hybrid storage
solution. We also see Singapore as an important hub from which we can quickly
expand into the rest of Asia. In fact, we plan to move our Asia Pacific
headquarters from Sydney to Singapore within the next 18 months to take full
advantage of its strategic location," Peter O’Connor, VP for Nimble
Storage Asia Pacific, said.

Nimble Storage has already established a
strong beach-head in Singapore by appointing six local resellers
including Biomedia IT Holdings, Genesis Networks, Infront Consulting Group, IT
Access, SoftSource and TVC.
Consistent with its early results in Australia, where more than twenty
resellers were signed and a list of new customers acquired within the
first few months, Nimble Storage anticipates strong demand for its
technology and also continued headcount growth in Singapore.

What
local partners are saying:
Tracy Lim, CEO of Biomedia IT Holding Pte Ltd.,
said: "We have been seeking out the
perfect storage solution for many years. In Nimble Storage, we have found a
robust and highly differentiated technology that combines the best of flash and
disk to achieve superior performance coupled with a full suite of software
features. We are extremely confident that this technology will be successful in
Singapore"

Allen Lee, MD, Genesis Networks, said:
"Genesis Networks is thrilled to be
partnering with Nimble Storage in the Singapore market. We believe the Nimble
Storage technology is ideally suited to the Singapore market."

Stanley Lee, Sales Manager, SoftSource
Solutions Pte Ltd., said: "SoftSource
has a strong track record of delivering compelling and best-of-breed solutions
to our customers. We expect Nimble Storage to be an important partner and a
strong addition to our storage portfolio this year."

The Nimble Storage Singapore Team:

Peter O’Connor, VP AsiaPac: He has more than 20 years’
experience in senior technology management roles across Australia, New Zealand
and Asia Pacific (including seven years in Singapore), most recently leading
NetApp in Australia and New Zealand for six years and South East Asia for two
years. Under his leadership, O’Connor oversaw revenue growth of 500%
and achieved more than 2,000 new customer acquisitions for NetApp.

Gavin Cohen, director of marketing AsiaPac: He is Nimble Storage’s first employee in AsiaPac and
has 20 years of data storage industry experience, most recently working as director of technology and strategy for NetApp Asia Pacific – the most senior
technical role in the region. There, he was responsible for driving the
company’s product and technical strategy, developing key initiatives in the
region and evangelising the company’s solutions.

Rachel Ler, ASEAN sales manager: She
joins Nimble Storage from Microsoft Singapore where she spent two years
managing key enterprise partnerships in Singapore for the business applications
and solutions markets. She was previously with NetApp for four years leading
the commercial segment and seven years in IBM in the System and Technology
Group. He brings experience spanning sales, client and channel
management.

Sathish Murthy, ASEAN systems engineering manager: He worked at EMC for over eight years in various
roles and was most recently responsible for the product management/marketing of
the mid-tier VNX product line for the Asia Pacific and Japan Regions. He also
worked at NetApp for five years as a technology consultant for the ASEAN
region. He has various certifications and brings an experience in product management, systems engineering and
professional services.