HPE's Antonio Neri Discusses Nimble Storage Acquisition And Nimble's Lenovo And Cisco Relationships

Antonio Neri, executive vice president and general manager of #HewlettPackardEnterprise 's Enterprise Group, spoke with CRN about #HPE ' s planned $1-billion acquisition of #Nimble Storage and how that company's products will impact HPE's storage portfolio. Nimble Storage will provide the future entry-level storage counterpart to HPE's #3Par enterprise line. But an even more important element is the plan to use Nimble Storage's InfoSight predictive analytics technology to manage HPE's entire storage portfolio and interface with its #OneView infrastructure management solution. Nimble Storage, when combined with HPE's acquisition last month of #SimpliVity, means that HPE is ready significantly enhance its ability to compete with its major storage competitors. For details about how it will do so, and to learn the fate of Nimble Storage's relationships with HPE rivals #Lenovo and #Cisco, turn the page.

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Lenovo Launches Converged Infrastructure Solution With Nimble Storage

Server vendor #Lenovo and flash storage vendor #Nimble Storage are partnering on a new converged infrastructure solution that Lenovo hopes will be its first, big step down the road to becoming a data center powerhouse. Partnering with San Jose, California-based Nimble Storage will give Lenovo a tier-one storage offering, said Stuart McCrae, director of the Lenovo storage product group. "Lenovo storage is still young and growing," McCrae told CRN. "We started with file and block storage, and added software-defined storage. Now we're offering tier-one, all-flash and hybrid flash storage."

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Nimble Storage (NMBL) Posts Lower-than-Expected Q2 Loss

Shares of #NimbleStorage, Inc. NMBL were up nearly 2% yesterday following strong second quarter fiscal 2017 results. Nimble Storage reported second quarter loss of 47 cents a share that was narrower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of 49 cents. Nimble reported non-GAAP loss (excluding stock based compensation) per share of 19 cents compared with a loss of 10 cents reported in the year-ago quarter.

The company added 133 AFA customers of which 79 customers came “with deal sizes substantially above our overall average." Overall, the company added 700 new customers in the quarter, up 43% year over year, taking the total customer base to 8,850 customers.

The company’s revenues from products increased 16.3% to $77.7 million in the quarter, while the same from support and services business improved a robust 46% to $19.5 million.

The company’s gross margin (non-GAAP) was 67%, a decrease of 80 basis points (bps) from the year-ago quarter. Non GAAP operating loss widened to $15.5 million compared with $7.2 million reported in the prior-year quarter.

Nimble Storage exited the quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $194.2 million, compared with $211.2 million as of Jan 31, 2016.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/nimble-storage-nmbl-posts-lower-120712225.html

New Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 to Be One of the First Availability Solutions to Include Full Integration with Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V Technologies

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#Veeam® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™, today announced that the new Veeam Availability Suite™ 9.5, available later this year, will fully integrate with Windows Server 2016 and #Hyper-V technologies used in the data center. Veeam, in collaboration with Microsoft, will deliver greater security and offer easy integration between Microsoft’s releases of #WindowsServer2016, Hyper-V 2016 and enterprise applications.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160713005812/en/Veeam-Availability-Suite-9.5-Availability-Solutions-Include

INVESTOR ALERT: Investigation ofNimble Storage, Inc. Announced by Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, Company Insiders Allegedly Profit at Investors’ Expense

BENSALEM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces an investigation on behalf of investors of Nimble Storage, Inc. ("Nimble Storage" or the "Company") (NYSE: NMBL) concerning the Company’s and its officers’ possible violations of federal securities laws through affirming allegedly false and speculative earnings projections while selling Company shares. Law Offices of Howard G. Smith is preparing a lawsuit on behalf of injured investors.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160107005043/en/INVESTOR-ALERT-Investigation-Nimble-Storage-Announced-Law

Large Outflow of Money Witnessed in Nimble Storage, Inc.

#Nimble Storage, Inc. (NYSE:NMBL) managed to eke out gains of 0.18% in intraday trade. The share price increased by 0.04 points to $22.55. Till last observation, the net money flow was recorded at a negative $(-44.28) million. The total inflow of $6.69 million in upticks was completely overshadowed by an outflow of $50.97 million in downticks, giving the up/down ratio a value of 0.13. The shares have seen a change of -0.22% in the past week.A block trade occurred in the shares in which the composite value of the upticks was $1.15 million and the composite value in downticks was $45.36 million. The resultant up/down ratio for the block exchange was 0.03. The block trade had a negative money flow of $(-44.21) million.

http://newswatchinternational.com/news/large-outflow-of-money-witnessed-in-nimble-storage-inc.html