HPE's acquisition of Nimble a couple of years ago made a lot of sense for them.  As I tell people today, no one buys storage or servers because of the specs.  It's now all about management.  In fact, if you sit through a Nimble Storage dog and pony preso, you probably will notice, there are no slides on hardware.

We had a fantastic time at the ACC Conference this week which we hosted with our partner HPE. Part of the personal interaction opportunity we had at the conference was a 45-minute session around IoT, which ran over to 1 hour.

Typically, I’m used to attending sessions at tech conferences where everyone walks in the room with enough knowledge to at least be dangerous and potentially belligerent to the speaker.

This week I had the opportunity to attend the local IBM Employee Charitable Contribution Campaign (ECCC) kickoff at the IBM office in Coppell, TX.  As I watched my best friend give an amazingly impassioned speech about ALS (he was diagnosed 4 weeks ago), I began to think about all of the things that our partners do to help others.

Recently, I attended one of the regularly scheduled HPE Nimble storage hands-on training sessions offered in the North Texas area.  These training sessions focus on the Gen 5 updates to the product and some additional hands-on with the HTML5 Management GUI.
Nimble: A Cima Partner
Cima has been a Nimble Partner since before the HPE acquisition and the greatest achievement of the HPE merger so far has been that the outstanding Nimble support has remained top tier! This isn't always the case,  as we have been front row to several of these mergers over the years and support is often the first "cost reduction" victim.

Infrastructure Matters
In our last blog we introduced you to the Software Defined Data Center built around the foundation that is Nutanix. With Cima being a company who grew up predominantly as a hardware company, I thought we would start with the physical layer.

The Software Defined Evolution

I can remember 15 years ago when I first learned about the IBM San Volume Controller (SVC), and thinking to myself, why is every hardware company not thinking this way. The SVC simply made the hardware irrelevant in your storage environment by delivering a software-defined model that allows you to manage a heterogeneous storage environment through a single pane of glass.

Disaster recovery 101: What you need to know about disaster recovery (and how the cloud changes things)
(This article was written by Wayne Rash and originally appeared on hpe.com)

The term "disaster recovery" has been bandied around the world of IT for decades.