Nimble Storage Awarded NASPO ValuePoint Master Agreement

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Nimble Storage Awarded NASPO ValuePoint Master Agreement for U.S. State and Local Government

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 27, 2015) - Nimble Storage ( NYSE : NMBL ), the flash storage solutions company, today announced it has been awarded the National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) ValuePoint Master Agreement for Computer Equipment, Peripherals and Related Services. NASPO is a non-profit association dedicated to strengthening the procurement community through education, research, and communication. The new contract will enable Nimble to further simplify and expedite the purchasing process for public-sector organizations and agencies across the state and local government markets, as well as the K-12 and higher education sectors.

The NASPO ValuePoint Cooperative Purchasing Organization is a nationally-focused cooperative purchasing program that leverages the expertise of NASPO to aggregate the demand of all 50 states and their political subdivisions, helping to spur innovation in the marketplace of competitively sourced public contracts.

The Nimble Storage NASPO ValuePoint agreement includes the entire portfolio of Nimble Adaptive Flash CS-Series arrays. The Nimble Adaptive Flash platform, which has been embraced by more than 5,000 customers across 38 countries, enables IT organizations to predict, manage, and deliver the storage required to optimize business applications and workloads across the enterprise. Nimble has established a strong track record for delivering innovation in the state, local, and educational (SLED) market. Since shipping the first CS-Series array in 2010, Nimble has acquired more than 800 SLED customers in the United States.

"This is an important contract award for us, as we view the NASPO ValuePoint contract as a means to assist SLED organizations in efficiently fulfilling their infrastructure requirements with innovative technology," said Dan Leary, vice president of worldwide marketing at Nimble Storage. "We've experienced strong customer adoption across SLED IT organizations looking to support a broad range of applications and workloads on a consolidated platform. This award will enhance our ability to deliver innovative Adaptive Flash storage solutions to the SLED marketplace with a simplified and expedited purchasing process."

The Nimble Storage contract commenced on April 1, 2015 and extends for two years. For additional information, please visit http://www.nimblestorage.com/naspo/ .

Nimble Storage Resources

About Nimble Storage Nimble Storage ( NYSE : NMBL ) is redefining the storage market with its Adaptive Flash platform. Nimble's flash storage solutions enable the consolidation of all workloads and eliminate storage silos by providing enterprises with significant improvements in application performance and storage capacity. At the same time, Nimble delivers superior data protection, while simplifying business operations and lowering costs. At the core of the Adaptive Flash platform is the patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture and InfoSight, an automated cloud-based management and support system that maintains storage system peak health. More than 5,000 enterprises, governments, and service providers have deployed Nimble's flash storage solutions across 38 countries. For more information about Nimble Storage, visit www.nimblestorage.com and follow us on Twitter: @nimblestorage.

Forward Looking Statements This press release contains "forward-looking" statements that are based on our management's beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management. We intend for such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include all statements other than statements of historical fact contained in this press release, including information concerning future growth in certain customer segments and future personnel returning.

Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors including, but not limited to, unforeseen delays in product development or introduction, uncertainty around market acceptance of our solutions, our ability to increase sales of our solutions, our ability to attract and retain customers and to sell additional solutions to our existing customers, our ability to develop new solutions and bring them to market in a timely manner, pricing pressure (as a result of competition or otherwise), introduction of new technologies and products by other companies, our ability to maintain, protect and enhance our brand and intellectual property, the effectiveness of our channel partners and sales team, our ability to recruit new or keep our existing key talent, global economic conditions and fluctuations in foreign currency rates and our ability to continue to expand our business and manage our growth. Moreover, we operate in very competitive and rapidly changing environments, and new risks may emerge from time to time. It is not possible for our management to predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make. Further information on these and other factors that could affect our financial results are included in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied by our forward-looking statements.

You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Although our management believes that the expectations reflected in our forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee that the future results, levels of activity, performance or events and circumstances described in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or occur. Moreover, neither we, nor any other person, assume responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements for any reason after the date of this presentation to conform these statements to actual results or to changes in our expectations, except as required by law.

Nimble Storage, the Nimble Storage logo, CASL, InfoSight, SmartStack, and NimbleConnect are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimble Storage. Other trade names or words used in this document are the properties of their respective owners.

Media Contact: Maria Brown Matter Communications 978-499-9250 Email Contact Investor Relations Contact: Edelita Tichepco 408-514-3379 Email Contact

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