Nimble Storage’s Secondary Flash Array Hits a Sweet Spot for Backup/Disaster Recovery and Copy Data Management

As enterprise flash costs have decreased over the past several years, the use of flash technology for primary enterprise storage workloads has accelerated. All-flash revenue in 2016 grew at 69.7% and drove more than 70% of all primary storage spend that year.

This growth helped offset revenue decreases in the enterprise storage market overall for hybrid flash arrays (HFAs) and hard disk drive (HDD)-only arrays.