Ingram Micro Signs Distribution Agreement with Nimble Storage for Asia Pacific Region

Apr 20, 2015 14:00 JST

Source: Ingram Micro Inc.

Ingram Micro to sell Nimble Adaptive Flash amd SmartStack Platforms across SE Asia

SINGAPORE, Apr 20, 2015 - (ACN Newswire) - Ingram Micro, the world's largest wholesale technology distributor and a global leader in IT supply-chain and mobile device lifecycle services, today announced it has entered into a distribution agreement with Nimble Storage, the flash storage solutions company. Through the agreement, Ingram Micro will sell Nimble Adaptive Flash arrays and Nimble SmartStack integrated infrastructure solutions to organizations within Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Ingram Micro Signs Distribution Agreement with Nimble Storage

The Nimble Adaptive Flash platform, which has been embraced by more than 5,000 customers across 38 countries, enables IT organizations to predict, manage and deliver the storage required to optimize business applications and workloads across the enterprise. To provide optimal performance and the highest level of interoperability, Nimble has developed SmartStack, an integrated infrastructure platform built on Cisco UCS and pre-validated through ecosystem partners including VMware, Oracle, Citrix, and Microsoft.

Ingram Micro will leverage its strong relationships with the Cisco channels team and the Cisco partner community, together with Nimble, to make SmartStack integrated infrastructure available to end users.

"Nimble believes enterprise IT organizations should not have to compromise on performance, capacity, ease of use, or price. Therefore, we've established a global partner ecosystem to provide enterprises access to our adaptive flash storage platform. Further, we believe Ingram Micro's strong relationships with our alliance partners make this partnership even more beneficial for customers seeking converged infrastructure solutions," said Kristin Carnes, vice president of channel sales, Nimble Storage.

"Nimble's market success has proven that flash storage solutions represent the next generation of storage. This partnership enables us to build upon our strong vendor and solutions ecosystem, in order to offer next generation storage within a converged infrastructure solution. The Nimble SmartStack integrated infrastructure provides yet another fast-growth, profitable opportunity for our company to meet end-user technology needs and evolving market demands in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam," said Francis Choo, vice president, SEA at Ingram Micro.

About Ingram Micro Inc.

Ingram Micro is the world's largest wholesale technology distributor and a global leader in IT supply-chain and mobile device lifecycle services. As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics and mobile solutions, technical support, financial services and product aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving approximately 170 countries on six continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services. Visit www.IngramMicro.com.

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