Company Achieves 500 Percent Growth and Adds More Than 100 New Customers in Fourth Quarter
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 15, 2012) - Nimble Storage, the provider of flash-accelerated, no-compromise storage solutions, today announced it closed the last year with record growth and revenue. Nimble Storage achieved 500 percent growth over the same quarter in 2010 and 80 percent quarter-over-quarter growth, while adding more than 100 new customers in Q4 alone. The company's ability to execute has propelled it ahead of the industry's most successful storage companies at a similar stage. The company also expanded into Canada and the European market, opening offices in Vancouver, Toronto, London, Amsterdam and Hamburg. Current customers include Grocery Outlet, Premier Medical, Howard Rice and Plaxo, and represent a variety of industries, including retail, services, financial, government, legal and healthcare.
To support its rapid international sales growth and bolster R&D, last July the company raised $25 million in an over-subscribed Series D round of funding led by Artis Capital Management, which was joined by existing investors Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital. To date, the company has received total funding of $58 million. Demand for its products also drove rapid employee hiring, particularly in engineering and sales, bringing the company's total to more than 150 employees, up from 38 a year ago.
"Nimble Storage designed its CS-Series arrays to be simple to buy, simple to install and simple to use. The system takes the guesswork out of having to optimize and re-optimize for changing workloads -- allowing storage and virtualization administrators to concentrate on higher-value business objectives," said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst of Enterprise Strategy Group. "If Nimble Storage continues to execute as it has, it will have the opportunity to alter the storage landscape as we know it. Eliminating guesswork and automating the optimization of the two primary metrics -- performance and cost -- will have the IT community singing the praises of the company."
Industry Recognition
Nimble Storage's innovative storage technology garnered important industry awards in 2011:
Continued Product Innovation
During 2011, Nimble Storage added to its product line at both the high and low end of the market.
Industry Alliances
"We ended last year with orders that were almost twice what we thought was feasible at the beginning of the year. Nimble Storage has been able to capitalize on our disruptive technology with strong execution across the board to achieve a level of maturity unmatched by most young companies," said Suresh Vasudevan, CEO of Nimble Storage. "We believe that we can continue to set a scorching pace in terms of top-line growth, customer acquisition and geographic expansion as well as in broadening our channel partner base this year."
About Nimble Storage
Founded and led by storage industry veterans, Nimble Storage is the fastest growing storage vendor in history. Nimble Storage solutions are built on the idea that enterprises should not have to compromise between performance, capacity, ease of management, and price. Nimble's patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout architecture, designed from the ground up to effectively combine flash with high capacity drives, makes high performance affordable, simplifies and enhances disaster recovery and backup, and delivers pain-free operations. Nimble Storage solutions are available through a global network of world class channel partners. For more information, visit www.nimblestorage.com.
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