Re: And there goes Nimble
While I agree with some of your points, I disagree on the support side of things. Nimble's Infosight is an awesome platform, years ahead of what any other storage vendor has got. As others have already suggested, the Infosight support / analytics platform is likely to have been a big incentive for the HPE buyout.
Infosight's continuous polling of array info and cloud analytics has accelerated Nimble's growth and probably reduced their losses over the past 5+ years as it has removed the need for 1st and 2nd line support engineers. This is why when you call up Nimble today you quickly get through to someone who knows what they're talking about.
Who knows, if HPE extended Infosight to support other HPE products (Simplivity, 3PAR, - hell, maybe even their compute products) it might actually IMPROVE their support!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
