Nimble revenue diet gets fibre supplement

IPOed hybrid array market star Nimble Storage beat the street with fourth-quarter revenues of $68.3m, and lost less money than last quarter as Fibre Channel sales kicked in. Can it keep on like this? The revenue was up 64 per cent on an annual compare. Losses of $24.7m were less than the previous quarter's $28.4m, but almost …

[ToddR]

Why hybrid flash?

The inflection point will not be towards a hybrid flash array such as Nimble, but straight to standard server based SDS, such as Nutanix.

The hybrid boys will get squeezed from incumbents, (EMC, Netapp, et al), at the top and Nutanix, Symplivity, etc from the bottom.

[CheesyTheClown]

I don't understand the "Added fiber... moving from legacy" thing

Hey!!! We implemented a storage technology from 1978 to be able to emulate an LSI SAS controller or Buslogic controller with no acceleration across a network topology we specifically designed to handle the archaic nearly 40 year old protocol which was broken... but less broken that other things then and hasn't fixed the underlying problems up until now.

So what we're saying "Now that we're supporting the most legacy crap protocol on the market which will be a core business for us, you can use us to move away from legacy!"

They are serially trying to make a really fast 40 year old storage system and call it modern?