Nimble Storage Flash Platform Certified for IBM SAN Volume Controller

Nimble Storage, Inc. announced the Nimble Predictive Flash Platform, comprising of All Flash and Adaptive arrays, has been certified with IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC), offering joint customers additional options to achieve HA, data protection, and mobility for mission-critical applications.

IBM SVC provides enterprise customers with a storage virtualization system that can handle massive volumes of data from mobile and social applications, enabling rapid and flexible cloud deployment services, and can support multi-vendor storage devices as a virtualized storage resource pool. SVC provides enhanced storage virtualization and management functionality, including services that implement multi-site configurations for HA and data mobility, and improved network utilization for remote mirroring.

Large enterprises can configure SVC with Nimble Storage arrays to provide primary site storage, HA, and capacity efficient storage for secondary backup and DR.

“This certification allows Nimble Storage customers to receive complimentary benefits from the Nimble Storage Predictive Flash platform and IBM SVC, including greater cost savings and fewer disruptions to their data,” said Dan Leary, VP of corporate development, solutions and alliances, Nimble. “Additionally, this certification allows our joint customers to combine Nimble’s comprehensive features with IBM SVC’s virtualization and management functions for a highly available storage environment.“