Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash CS-Series Arrays Achieve Oracle VM Ready and Oracle Linux Ready Status

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 10, 2014) - Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL), the flash storage solutions company, today announced that its Adaptive Flash CS-Series arrays have achieved Oracle VM Ready and Oracle Linux Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), demonstrating that Nimble Storage has tested and supports Adaptive Flash CS-Series arrays on Oracle Linux and Oracle VM.

Nimble addresses the requirement for mixed workload Oracle environments, in which enterprises running both transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads can experience improvements in application performance and storage capacity. In addition, organizations can help accelerate Oracle application deployments by leveraging Oracle VM templates with Nimble Storage. Nimble is a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).

Oracle Linux Ready and Oracle VM Ready are part of the Oracle Exastack Ready program which allows partners, such as Nimble Storage to be recognized by Oracle for developing, testing and tuning their applications on the latest component products of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle SuperCluster, Oracle Database Appliance or Oracle Big Data Appliance engineered systems.

Enterprises are under intense pressure to scale performance and capacity in line with the requirements of business-critical applications -- while containing cost and complexity. Nimble has engineered a single flash storage architecture designed to leverage the fast read performance of flash and the cost-effective capacity of hard disk drives, a combination suited to demanding Oracle environments. Nimble's Adaptive Flash platform can help deliver a high level of performance and capacity for both OLAP and OLTP workloads. Nimble Storage can enable database administrators and application developers to create full functioning clones of Oracle application data in real time, simplifying the management and deployment of a test and development environment.

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"IT organizations are required to meet the needs of business-critical applications, which demand storage that supports mixed workloads. Our Adaptive Flash platform intelligently meets this requirement, while providing benefits such as integrated data protection, easy to deploy testing environments, and seamless capacity and performance scaling. Achieving Oracle VM and Oracle Linux Ready Status is validation that customers can obtain support and optimized performance of the Oracle software stack when running on Nimble Storage."
- Radhika Krishnan, vice president, product marketing and alliances, Nimble Storage

"The Oracle Exastack Ready program enables partners to deploy their applications with a complete, integrated and cloud-ready infrastructure that will help them accelerate innovation, unlock new features and functionality, and deliver faster, more reliable solutions. By achieving Oracle Linux Ready and Oracle VM Ready status, Nimble has established a foundation for their application to efficiently run on and leverage the latest features in Oracle Linux and Oracle VM to deliver superior value to customers."
- Kevin O'Brien, Senior Director, ISV and SaaS Strategy, Oracle

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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 3,700 enterprises, governments, and service providers have deployed Nimble's flash storage solutions across 37 countries. For more information about Nimble Storage, visit www.nimblestorage.com and follow us on Twitter: @nimblestorage.

About the Oracle Exastack Program
The Oracle Exastack program helps enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and other members of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) to rapidly build and deliver faster, more reliable applications. Leveraging the Oracle Exastack program, qualifying OPN members have access to Oracle performance experts and dedicated labs for testing and tuning their applications on Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle SuperCluster, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Oracle Database Appliance and Oracle Big Data Appliance. Customers can be confident when selecting Oracle Exastack Optimized applications that they are supported, and have been tested and tuned with the goal to achieve optimal performance, scalability and reliability. Also part of the program, Oracle Exastack Ready is dedicated to helping ISVs run their solutions on the latest major release of Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Oracle SuperCluster, Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Big Data Appliance and their component products, including Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and Oracle VM. These products provide partners with a low cost and high performance infrastructure for database and application workloads across on-premise and cloud based environments. With an Oracle Exastack Optimized or Oracle Exastack Ready status achievement, partners will receive access to corresponding Oracle branding, logos and related benefits to effectively differentiate their offerings. To find out more, visit http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/exastack

About Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more, visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

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