Nimble Storage Delivers SmartStack Integrated Infrastructure for Enterprise IT Environments Running SAP HANA(R)

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - May 5, 2015) - Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL), the flash storage solutions company, today announced that its Adaptive Flash CS-Series arrays, the CS500 and CS700, are now certified by SAP as enterprise storage solutions for the SAP HANA® platform. By leveraging the Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash CS-Series arrays with SAP HANA, enterprise IT organizations can quickly deploy and optimize the performance of workloads running on SAP HANA while maintaining high levels of capacity, data protection, and availability in alignment with their changing business requirements. The certification enables Nimble to participate in SAP's program for SAP HANA tailored data center integration using its certified solutions. Through participation in the program, customers can leverage their existing hardware and infrastructure components for their SAP HANA-based environments, providing further choice for organizations even when working in heterogeneous environments.

SAP HANA tailored data center integration provides enterprises with greater flexibility and choice in their hardware infrastructure selection and mitigates risk while optimizing time to value by leveraging existing ecosystems. The Nimble Adaptive Flash platform provides SAP customers with a storage consolidation platform that adapts and optimizes to support and speed up deployments of new workloads running on SAP HANA and existing non-SAP HANA application workloads. As part of the Nimble Adaptive Flash platform, Nimble's cloud-enabled management engine, InfoSight, allows storage workloads to be auto-tuned to maintain high levels of performance.

Leveraging its product certification, Nimble has developed a SmartStack integrated infrastructure platform built on Cisco UCS for SAP HANA that delivers high levels of performance as well as the ability to easily scale storage. SmartStack for SAP HANA provides an end-to-end tested and validated solution so that customers can accelerate deployment and eliminate risks associated with their datacenter infrastructure. The SmartStack for SAP HANA solution is featured in Cisco's "SAP Build and Price" portal as a reference configuration for end-to-end small, medium and large-sized landscape environments using SAP® Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. Through this integrated offering, Nimble SmartStack becomes an integral part of a mission-critical technology platform. In addition, customers leveraging Nimble's SmartStack integrated infrastructure platform can obtain end-to-end support through Cisco's Solution Support for Critical Infrastructure offering.

"The industry recognizes SAP as offering a trademark enterprise application deployed by large global organizations. Earning certification as a enterprise storage solution for SAP HANA demonstrates the enterprise-ready nature of Nimble arrays and enhances the confidence large enterprise customers place in our Adaptive Flash platform," said Radhika Krishnan, vice president of product marketing and alliances, Nimble Storage. "SAP HANA customers now have more flexibility and choice in their hardware infrastructure and, with the new SmartStack, they can realize high levels of capacity and reduce overall footprint, all with a cloud-enabled proactive management engine in InfoSight. Enterprises can now mitigate risk and speed time-to-value by leveraging this new integrated infrastructure platform."

SAP HANA combines database, data processing, and application platform capabilities in-memory. The platform provides libraries for predictive, planning, text processing, spatial, and business analytics. By providing advanced capabilities such as predictive text analytics, spatial processing and data virtualization on the same architecture, it further simplifies application development and processing across big-data sources and structures. This makes SAP HANA a highly suitable platform for building and deploying next-generation, real-time applications and analytics.

The SmartStack integrated infrastructure platform will be showcased at SAPPHIRE NOW. To learn more about Nimble's product certification from SAP, and for a demonstration of SmartStack for SAP HANA, please visit Nimble Storage's booth #1222 at SAPPHIRE NOW, being held May 5-7 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. SAPPHIRE NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference are the world's premier business technology event and largest SAP customer-run conference, offering attendees the opportunity to learn and network with customers, SAP executives, partners and experts across the entire SAP ecosystem.

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About Nimble Storage
Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL) is redefining the storage market with its Adaptive Flash platform. Nimble's flash storage solutions enable the consolidation of all workloads and eliminate storage silos by providing enterprises with significant improvements in application performance and storage capacity. At the same time, Nimble delivers superior data protection, while simplifying business operations and lowering costs. At the core of the Adaptive Flash platform is the patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture and InfoSight, an automated cloud-based management and support system that maintains storage system peak health. More than 5,000 enterprises, governments, and service providers have deployed Nimble's flash storage solutions across 38 countries. For more information about Nimble Storage, visit www.nimblestorage.com and follow us on Twitter: @nimblestorage.

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