SimpliVity Shipments Climb Amid Acquisition By HPE

HPE completed its $650 million acquisition of SimpliVity in February, bringing one of the hottest hyper-convergence software firms in-house. According to NPD, SimpliVity shipped 46 units through the channel during the quarter, an improvement of 36 percent over the previous year and good for about 1 percent unit share. HPE said it would immediately qualify SimpliVity's OmniStack software on HPE ProLiant DL380 servers. Those units began shipping in May.