1. Faster and Easier with Built-in Data Protection Ryan Troy – NorthEast System Engineering Manager 12/13/13

2. © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 2 Nimble Fact Sheet  Founded in January 2008  Headquartered in San Jose, California (Silicon Valley)  Operations in US, Canada, Europe, and PacRim  Successful IPO Dec’13, NYSE: (Up From $21 to $40+) #1 Build the world’s most efficient storage #2 Make it the most simple storage to use #3 Give customers the most upgrade options #4 Simplify Backup and DR #5 Provide the best support in the industry What We Do:

3. How is Nimble Different? 3 –We developed a Filesystem called CASL that allows us to write to disk faster than flash »We can sustain 50,000 4k IOPS with 12 disks –We include all features bundled with the Array »Snapshot, Replication, Compression, many more… –Our install takes less than 1 hour »Our storage is very simple to use –Built-in data retention and offsite rotation »Simple way to replace or augment backup »“Keep 500 hourly copies locally and 100 remotely” –Low cost expansion options »Add a disk shelf for capacity »Add Flash for more read performance »Add CPU for more write performance through a low-cost controller upgrade »Scale-out our arrays with true storage clustering

4. CASL: First Filesystem to Optimize Disk & Flash 4 1.Application-Tuned Block Sizes »Match the volume block size to the application block size »Benefit: Better performance and Better snapshots 2.Compress & Consolidate Small Blocks »With LZ Compression we achieve 2:1 compression »Benefit : 50% less IO to disk »Benefit: Reduces storage footprint by 50% »Package 4K-32K writes into 512K writes to disk »Benefit: 100 times less operations to disk 3.Sequential Write Anywhere Layout »Large sequential write stripes »Benefit: Eliminates random writes to disk 4.No RAID Penalty »No IO penalty for RAID6 »No Modify-Write RAID penalty 5.Offload 98% of read workload from disk to Flash »Virtually 50% of the disk workload eliminated »Disk is primarily only used to write sequential stripes »Benefit: Disk no longer the bottleneck

5. © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 5 The Best Investment in the Industry + FLASH AND CPU SCALE CACHE, COMPUTE PERFORMANCE + DISK SCALE CAPACITY CAPACITY Flexible. Non-disruptive. Cost-effective. SCALE OUT + NODES

6. © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 6 Designing a storage file system from the ground up has many advantages Scale Performance (IOPS) Incumbents Nimble Compression Response Time Early 1x Mature 3x 20x Mature Add CPU Speeds Mature A new approach to performance and scale Add Spindles Slows 5-20 ms Scaling Storage limited <1 ms scale to fit Sell More Built-In Data Protection

7. © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. 7 Gain Peace of Mind and More SECURE REMOTE SUPPORT PROACTIVE WELLNESS PUSH-BUTTON DEPLOYMENT  5-minute heartbeats and detailed daily telemetry ensure arrays are in top condition  Real-time analysis of entire environment with automated case creation before failure occurs  All-inclusive features  Built-in application profiles eliminate manual tuning  Extensive integration with hypervisors and applications  Non-disruptive software upgrades  US Based Support  All Tier3 and VMware trained  Secure tunnel enables fast and easy triage and problem resolution

8. © 2012 Nimble Storage. Proprietary and confidential. Do not distribute. Select New York Based Clients

9. InfoSight Engine: Data Collection –Comprehensive telemetry –Log files, sensors, status –5-minute heartbeats >30M sensor values per array per day