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Best be Nimble, best be quick. You're out of a job at HPE – and that's sh*t

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Re: Slow Like a Sports Car

I firmly believe the only reason HPE bought Nimble wasn't for the arrays or even the install base, it was for InfoSight. For $1 billion they got several years worth of storage metrics from many many customers, and also the analytics platform itself.

If it hadn't been for InfoSight, I don't think HPE would have bought them. And even with InfoSight, nobody else wanted Nimble. Recall the SEC filing that said they approached a few other companies about an acquisition, and none of them resulted in another offer. HPE was the only one.

It's an interesting cautionary tale to other young storage companies. You think your IP might be in your storage product, but if all you're doing is building a better mousetrap (yawn), you better have another ace up your sleeves. I bet Nimble didn't build InfoSight for that purpose, but it's a damn good thing for them they did.

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