by Angela Guess
According to a new press release, “Nimble Storage, the leader in predictive cloud infrastructure, today announced Nimble Cloud Volumes, the only enterprise- grade multicloud storage service for running applications in Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Nimble Cloud Volumes will provide enterprise-grade availability and data services that have previously not been readily available in block storage for the cloud. These capabilities are necessary for moving the next wave of applications to the cloud — traditional transactional workloads — which place stringent requirements on storage.”
The release continues, “Organizations are developing a cloud strategy to support various applications, each with different performance, reliability, and scalability requirements. According to a recent report from Forrester Research, ‘Many enterprises are challenging the truism that public clouds are not for core business applications. Having had success using public cloud platforms for new applications built to engage with their customers (systems of engagement), a growing number of enterprise application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders want to bring the same benefits of fast delivery and iteration, high security, and cost flexibility to their core business applications’.”
It goes on, “The first wave of applications moving to the cloud saw organizations implement native cloud applications, mostly web and mobile. Now a new wave is taking place in which organizations are starting to migrate test and development instances and even some production instances of traditional workloads — CRM, financial applications, and other business applications — to the cloud. These applications often control important transactional business processes, place far higher demands on storage, and depend on enterprise-grade availability and data services that are not provided by native cloud storage. These factors, along with a lack of data mobility and very limited visibility across clouds, have slowed enterprise cloud adoption for business applications.”
Read more at PR Newswire.
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