Nimbus Data Accelerates Expansion of Global Sales and Support Operations

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Nimbus Data Systems, Inc., the leading provider of unified all-flash storage systems for enterprise and cloud infrastructure, today announced substantial expansion of its US and EMEA support operations and executive sales team to meet the rapidly-accelerating demand for its award-winning Gemini all-flash systems and software.

Opens Largest Office to Date in Austin, Texas
Nimbus Data has expanded its US operations to Austin, Texas, establishing a corporate sales and customer engineering headquarters at 9601 Amberglen Boulevard. The new facility will employ customer-facing account executives and storage engineering specialists to support Nimbus Data's growing end-user and partner community throughout North America.

Opens Worldwide Service Centers
Nimbus Data has further expanded its worldwide support capabilities, making spare parts for Nimbus Data all-flash systems available at 571 field service centers throughout the world, including 173 locations in the United States alone. The service center locations, available at http://www.nimbusdata.com/support, give Nimbus Data worldwide support coverage with 4 hour response time in virtually every major market.

US Sales Expansion
Nimbus Data also announced the appointment of Christian O'Brien to Vice President of Americas Sales. Christian joined Nimbus Data from Dell, where he was Director of Large Institution Storage Sales, responsible for over $700 million in annual sales across Dell's storage portfolio consisting of Compellent midrange arrays and EqualLogic iSCSI solutions. In previous positions, Christian led the Public Sector and Healthcare verticals for Dell, tripling the size of Dell's field sales organization during his tenure.

EMEA Sales Expansion
Nimbus Data also announced the appointment of Timothy Polland as Director of EMEA Sales. Previously, Tim represented Texas Memory Systems for 13 years, establishing the memory-based storage systems market, brand and channel partners throughout Europe for TMS up until its acquisition by IBM.

"Demand for Nimbus Data all-flash solutions has accelerated, particularly in the last six months as customers recognize the need for performance and efficiency, as well as the limitations of tiering or hybrid offerings," stated Thomas Isakovich, CEO and Founder of Nimbus Data. "We are delighted to welcome proven leaders to the team, establish a worldwide support and service center infrastructure with 4-hour service, and to expand our existing profitable operations to dynamic Austin, Texas."

About Nimbus Data Systems
Nimbus Data develops an award-winning portfolio of all-flash memory storage systems purpose-built for virtualization, databases, cloud infrastructure, and technical computing. Combining unified multiprotocol storage, comprehensive data management software, and patent-pending hardware architecture, Nimbus Data all-flash systems deliver the industry's best performance, data center efficiency, scalability, and total cost of ownership. For more information, visit nimbusdata.com, or follow us at twitter.com/nimbusdata.  

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