SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 21, 2015) - Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL), the flash storage solutions company, today announced that it is a recipient of the Global Technology Distribution Council's (GTDC) prestigious "Rising Star" Award, which recognizes technology companies for exceptional regional sales growth through distribution partners over the past year. In 2013, Nimble signed a distribution agreement with Avnet Technology Solutions, a leading global technology distributor, enabling Avnet to sell the Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash platform and SmartStack integrated infrastructure solutions. Nimble Storage received the organization's U.S. Gold Rising Star in the Hardware revenue of $100 - $500 million category.

Winners are selected based on year-over-year sales growth rates within the NPD Group's Distributor Track^®, which aggregates actual distributor sell-through data to facilitate insight into technology channel sales and pricing trends. Nimble Storage was among only 12 U.S. winners chosen from hundreds of manufacturers and publishers who rely on distributors to meet the product and service requirements of technology solution providers nationwide.

"We thank the Global Technology Distribution Council for recognizing the efforts and successes of our sales teams and global partner distribution model," said Denis Murphy, vice president of Worldwide Sales, Nimble Storage. "Our sales teams place significant importance on offering a single storage architecture, based on the Adaptive Flash platform, to provide high-levels of performance and capacity without compromise. Our distribution partnerships have enabled us to dramatically expand the reach of our flash storage solution portfolio to more enterprises across the US."

The Nimble Adaptive Flash platform is now the preferred choice for more than 6,200 customers in over 50 countries around the world. In contrast to legacy and flash-only storage architectures and systems that are deployed and managed in disparate silos to support applications based on their unique characteristics and requirements, the Nimble Adaptive Flash platform offers a single storage architecture that dynamically caters to the needs of enterprise-wide workloads across performance, capacity, and data protection -- delivering on the full potential and benefits of storage consolidation.

GTDC members are recognized as the world's most successful technology distributors, driving more than $135 billion USD in product sales around the globe. The organization presented its 10^th U.S. Rising Star Awards on Sept. 9 in San Francisco, Calif., at the annual dinner event kicking off the organization's two-day Summit conference the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport.

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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 6,200 enterprises, governments, and service providers have deployed Nimble's flash storage solutions across more than 50 countries. For more information about Nimble Storage, visit www.nimblestorage.com and follow us on Twitter: @nimblestorage.

Rising Star Awards Methodology 
Sales results for U.S. Rising Star award winners are based on regional sales growth over the past year, as reported by industry research organization The NPD Group using its Distributor Track® service. Available by subscription, the Distributor Track aggregates actual distributor sell-through data to enable sharp insight into channel sales and pricing trends with the ability to drill down into specific product subcategories, including detailed attributes based on specific areas of interest. To be eligible for a Rising Star award, companies are required to have sold corresponding products through technology distributors for a minimum of one year.

About The NPD Group, Inc.
The NPD Group provides market information and analytic solutions that drive better decision-making and better results. The world's leading brands rely on us to help them get the right products in the right places for the right people. Practice areas include apparel, appliances, automotive, beauty, consumer electronics, diamonds, e-commerce, entertainment, fashion accessories, food consumption, foodservice, footwear, home, mobile, office supplies, retail, sports, technology, toys, video games, and watches / jewelry. For more information, visit npd.com and npdgroupblog.com. Follow us on Twitter: @npdtech @npdgroup.

About The Global Technology Distribution Council
The Global Technology Distribution Council is the industry consortium representing the world's leading tech distributors. GTDC members drive more than $135 billion in annual worldwide sales of products, services and solutions through diverse business channels. GTDC conferences support the development and expansion of strategic supply-chain partnerships that continually address the fast-changing marketplace needs of vendors, end customers and distributors. GTDC members include AB S.A (ABPL), ABC Data, ALSO (ALSN), Arrow Electronics (ARW), Avnet (AVT), Computer Gross Italia, D&H Distributing, Esprinet (PRT), Exertis, Ingram Micro (IM), Intcomex, Logicom (LOG), Redington (REDI), SiS Technologies (0529), ScanSource (SCSC), SYNNEX (SNX), Tarsus, Tech Data (TECD), Westcoast LTD and WestconGroup.