CEO Thomas Isakovich (2006–) | Founded 2003 | |
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Tom isakovich positions nimbus data in the flash market
Company
Founded in 2006, Nimbus Data develops flash memory systems and software. Publicly announced customers include eBay, Meritrust Credit Union, Sierra Nevada Corporation, St. Joseph Healthcare, CloudMark, and OGSystems. The company is rumored to have major wins at Apple, Thomson Reuters, University of Michigan, DreamWorks, Citrix Systems, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Walt Disney Feature Animation. The privately held company is led by CEO and founder Thomas Isakovich.
Products
In April 2010, Nimbus Data announced the S-Class system, a multi-protocol all-flash array with up to 100 TB of solid state storage supporting Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand networks.
In January 2012, Nimbus Data announced the E-Class system. It offers redundant controllers and up to 500 TB of solid-state storage. Each controller supports the same interfaces: Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand. Nimbus Data software detects controller and path failures, providing failover as well as online software updates and online capacity expansion.
In August 2012, Nimbus Data announced the Gemini system, with an available 10-year warranty. Gemini includes dual controllers for no single point of failure and non-disruptive software updates. In a 2U form factor, the Gemini array supports 48 TB of capacity, 1 million IOPS, 12 GB/s, and less than 0.1 ms latency. Certified benchmark results of over 4,032 simultaneous virtual desktop (VDI) users has been achieved on a single Gemini system. In August 2013, Nimbus Data announced the Gemini F400 and F600 systems with increased performance of up to 2 million read IOPS at less than 0.05 ms latency (4 KB block I/O rates). Nimbus Data's HALO software, embedded in its flash memory systems, handles both block storage (storage area network) and file systems (network attached storage) by supporting several protocols. Data management features include thin provisioning, automatic capacity reclamation, encryption, replication, snapshots, inline deduplication, compression, and automatic self-healing capabilities.
In August 2016, Nimbus Data unveiled an all-new all-flash platform called ExaFlash. Consisting of a new operating system and four hardware models, ExaFlash scales from 50 terabytes to multiple petabytes (and theoretically exabytes), targeting the needs of cloud infrastructure and big data. ExaFlash is expected to become generally available at the end of 2016.