Case Study: DMB Associates achieves 6x faster backups, dramatic performance gains and cost savings with HPE Nimble Storage

DMB Associates Builds a Solid IT Foundation on Nimble Storage

DMB Associates, a Scottsdale-based real estate developer, was struggling with slow, business-critical applications (SharePoint, Exchange, SQL) and nightly backups that bled into business hours. IT director Aaron Britt also faced heavy SAN management overhead—admins spent about six hours per week on routine storage tasks—and wanted hardware-based replication to reduce reliance on software backups and simplify operations.

DMB deployed Nimble Storage CS260/CS260G with a Cisco UCS reference architecture and Nimble InfoSight. Results included dramatic performance gains (Citrix load time from ~2.5 minutes to 20 seconds; SharePoint logins from 30s to under 5s), a 6x reduction in nightly backup time (now ~2 hours), cloning cut from ~6 hours to 5–20 minutes, a 300% reduction in datacenter footprint and 50% lower colocation costs, admin time down to six hours per quarter, and roughly $40,000/year in OPEX savings.

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