Enterprises are often forced to scale up storage to meet capacity needs rather than just scaling out. Nimble Storage is addressing the problem with what it calls a “scale to fit” approach, a storage architecture that allows customers to choose performance or capacity as required.

Nimble’s new architecture gives enterprises the ability to scale the capacity and performance of their storage arrays individually based on immediate and near future requirements and budgets, says Dan Leary, the company’s VP of marketing. Often, companies often have to predict capacity and performance needs several years in advance.  [Full Story]