The acquisition of Nimble is HPE’s fourth acquisition in the past month, as HPE continues to scoop up disruptive technologies in an effort to boost its leadership in the hybrid cloud market.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $1.09 billion acquisition of Nimble Storage is set to alter the balance of power in the all-flash data center market.
Partners said the blockbuster deal is sure to have repercussions on Nimble’s partnerships with HPE competitors such as Cisco Systems.
«It’s a total land grab,» said Michael Knight, president and CTO of Encore Technology Group, a Greenville, S. C.-based solution provider, No. 376 on the 2016 CRN Solution Provider 500. «Nimble partners with Cisco and a lot of other providers with ecosystem integrations. In the storage space, this is just as big as Aruba being acquired by HPE. All the OEMs that work with Nimble are taking four steps backward right now thinking what the hell just happened? »
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The acquisition is HPE’s fourth acquisition in the past month as it moves quickly to grab the most disruptive technologies aimed at providing HPE technology leadership in the hybrid cloud market.
The deal comes even as HPE’s recently completed $650 million acquisition of hyper-converged provider SimpliVity forces competitors like Cisco, Lenovo and Huawei – who had teamed with SimpliVity — to alter their hyper-converged path.
