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"I've even seen more deployments of Nimble in the wild than I have 3Par "

Well that just really goes to show you aren't getting around as many customer DC's as you'd have us believe and it sounds like your mate at a HP reseller obviously isn't doing his job, either that or he's desk bound.

3PAR's install base, even excluding service providers dwarfs Nimble by a huge margin. Q.E.D.....