This Startup Should Be Scaring The Pants Off Of Dell And EMC

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Today it announced another $40.7 million round of funding, led by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners. Although Nimble was founded five years ago, its only been shipping its product since 2010, CEO Suresh Vasudevan told Business Insider. Its especially important in todays cloud world, where companies are storing fewer files on PCs and servers and a lot more on on centralized (and traditionally very expensive) storage systems in the data center. 11 at NetApp and the former vice president of engineering for Data Domain, a disruptive backup-storage provider sold to EMC for $2.1 billion in 2009. It now has 600 enterprise customers and added 175 new ones just in the last quarter, Vasudevan, Nimbles CEO, told Business Insider.

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