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Global Unified Communications and Collaboration Service Provider Selects Nexenta Software-Defined Storage to Meet Challenges of Growing Software Defined Data Center Requirements
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – December 11, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, has announced it has been chosen by Arkadin to meet its rapidly expanding enterprise storage requirements. The NTT Communications Company is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing providers of Collaboration and Unified Communications services. After collaborating with partner Actualis, Arkadin selected the Nexenta solution to meet its rapidly expanding enterprise storage requirements.
Founded in France in 2001, Arkadin offers a complete range of integrated audio, web, video conferencing and Unified Communications solutions via a network of 53 offices in 32 countries across the globe, delivering its business solutions using a software as a service (SaaS) model that provides customers with fast, scalable deployments with a high ROI.
With storage requirements at Arkadin’s R&D data center, which holds more than 600 virtual machines (VMs), growing at more than 20% annually, it was important to have an alternative storage solution to support its current capacity and future growth needs. The solution needed to be simple to use and efficient for hosting all of its environments, in addition to delivering optimal performance and resiliency with limited administration at a competitive price.
Arkadin was keen to explore open storage solutions to avoid being locked into proprietary hardware platforms. After exploring alternatives, it selected Nexenta’s state-of-the-art NexentaStor solution, opting for a NexentaStor Enterprise Edition license coupled with the NexentaStor High Availability (HA) Cluster option, as well as hard drives from Nexenta partner, Supermicro.
“Working closely with Arkadin we were able to design a solution to match their exact storage requirements,” said Eric Pinatton, CTO at Actualis. The combination of Nexenta’s scalability and management simplicity coupled with Supermicro hardware gives Arkadin the high-performance storage the business needs. This highly-available storage environment is ideally suited to growing enterprises and we are delighted to be partnered with such a dynamic, industry-leading SDS provider.
Vincent Thinselin, Senior Technical Architect at Arkadin said: “Installing an SDS solution from Nexenta has enabled us to address current and future capacity and performance requirements in a cost-effective manner. If additional storage capacity is required, the Nexenta solution can be seamlessly scaled for delivering reliable, uninterrupted service, a key requirement for ensuring an excellent customer experience.”
“As one of the world’s fastest growing Collaboration Service Providers, it is vital that Arkadin’s R&D infrastructure is underpinned by a scalable, reliable storage platform,” explained Mark Jordan, VP and General Manager EMEA at Nexenta. “Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage solutions are ideally suited to this type of environment, where mission critical data needs to remain highly available. Our scalable Software-Defined offering allows our customers to step away from the Massively Expensive Storage Systems (MESS) offered by legacy vendors, and are designed with business growth in mind.”
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Further resources:
Link to NexentaStor Datasheet
Link to Arkadin Case Study
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organisations to realise "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. For more information visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.
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Nexenta Partners with Silicon Valley Leadership Group for 2nd Annual Turning Red Tape into Red Carpet (RT2RC) Award Reception
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – December 10, 2014 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced sponsorship support for the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s (SVLG) 2nd Annual Turning Red Tape into Red Carpet (RT2RC) Award Reception in San Jose, CA, December 11, 2014. SVLG is a public policy business trade organization representing more than 390 of Silicon Valley’s most respected employers on issues, programs and campaigns that affect the economic health and quality of life in Silicon Valley. Turning Red Tape into Red Carpet is a competitive award program that honors the best practices and innovative services of government entities in the Silicon Valley region.
The award reception will be held at SunPower Corporation, 7 Rio Robles in San Jose, and run from 5:30 to 7:30 PM with a thirty-minute award ceremony starting at 6:00 PM. Nexenta Chairman and CEO, Tarkan Maner, is proud to be presenting the award for the “Innovative Use of Technology” category. This award recognizes government entities for utilizing technology to advance and improve their services in a sustainable way, and to produce efficiency and cost effectiveness, improving the ease of service to the public program for both the government entity and the community at large.
WHAT: 2nd Annual 2nd Annual Turning Red Tape into Red Carpet (RT2RC) Award Reception
WHEN: Thursday, December 11, 2014, 5:30-7:30 PM (PST)
WHERE: SunPower Corporation, 7 Rio Robles, San Jose, CA 95134
For more information about SVLG and the awards ceremony visit: http://svlg.org/redcarpet
For more information on Nexenta and Software-Defined Storage visit: http://www.nexenta.com/
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. For more information visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.
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Nexenta
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Leading Big Data Cloud Service Provider Relies on Nexenta Software-Defined Storage Solutions in Its Software Defined Data Center
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – December 9, 2014 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced the deployment and case study for EngineRoom.io®. Based in Sydney, Australia, EngineRoom.io is a leading Secure Private Cloud Service for Big Data, offering not only compute cycles, but also a full range of tuning and other services for Big Data and High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. Businesses from all industries come to EngineRoom.io, because it enables them to derive insight and revenue from their data by giving them the capacity to aggregate structured and unstructured data, to handle high-velocity streaming data, and to process large data sets at scale; the end result is a 500x improvement in “time to insight”.
“EngineRoom.io has built a successful and growing business across an impressive array of industries, from media and entertainment, life sciences, financial services, oil & gas, engineering and more," said Anthony Davis, VP/GM APAC at Nexenta. “We are very excited to be able to work with EngineRoom.io and help provide a solution that gives them a competitive advantage that is high-performance, scalable and economical.”
As the business began to grow in early 2013 they faced a critical build or buy decision to meet their expanding storage needs. “We looked closely at between twenty and thirty different storage solutions, or hybrids thereof,” according to CTO Nicky Ladas. “We weren’t satisfied with any of them for a wide variety of reasons. After extensive R&D and production testing at scale, we finally decided on Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage offering.”
EngineRoom.io had to deal with massive amounts of data; but data that also fluctuated wildly based on platform usage. If you’re going to collect terabytes, and even petabytes, of business-impacting information, it needs to be stored properly. Nexenta provided the Software-Defined Storage performance solution that met all of EngineRoom.io’s criteria.
“We made the decision to move ahead with Nexenta because they met our somewhat unique list of requirements we had in place,” said CEO Stefan Gillard. “We were pleasantly surprised, however, when the implementation came in at one-twentieth the cost of competing solutions.”
NexentaStor is now up and running across multiple locations, with petabytes of data under management. To make this possible, EngineRoom.io also partners with other leading Software-Defined Data Center solution providers including Brocade, SanDisk (FusionIO) and VMware along with Nexenta.
Please refer to the EngineRoom.io case study for more implementation details.
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. For more information visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.
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Nexenta
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Join the Nexenta Webinar on How Software-Defined Storage could Save Public Sector Organizations 70% in IT Spending
Nexenta to discuss the results of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) survey that revealed most central and local government organizations are overspending on legacy storage solutions
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and LONDON – December 8, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage) (SDS), today announced a live webinar to discuss why the public sector should understand better the benefits of SDS. The webinar comes after a Freedom of Information Act survey revealed that the public sector is still purchasing legacy storage, even though it costs on average 3x more per terabyte (TB) than the Software-Defined alternative. Hosted by BrightTalk as part of the Storage Networking Summit, the webinar will be held on Tuesday, December 9th at 08:30 – 09:30 AM PST (16:30 – 17:30 GMT).
Join Nick Baker, EMEA Systems Engineer at Nexenta, for a thought-provoking discussion on the benefits of SDS and how it could cut IT costs for public sector organizations. The discussion is aimed at central and local government IT decision makers and intended to provoke a wider discussion on Software-Defined Storage and how a future-proof data center can be achieved.
Nick Baker said, “Data center managers are under constant pressure to deliver high performance systems on tight budgets. The FOIA results really show that more needs to be done to educate public sector IT professionals on what they can do to reduce costs, and make the most of their limited funds. Not only must they have a scalable, fail-safe IT infrastructure, but also the freedom to control and minimize initial and operational expenditure.”
To join the webinar, please register here.
Tweet this: Join @Nexenta webinar on Dec 9 at 8:30am PT to find out how #SDS reduces public sector spending #savings #futureproof http://goo.gl/wFX0mH
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organisations to realise "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. For more information visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.
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Nexenta Continues its Market Expansion via New Operations and Partnerships in Japan
Taking Advantage of Rapid Market Growth in Asia around Software Defined Storage-centric Cloud Computing
Santa Clara, CA and Tokyo, Japan - December 4, 2014 -- Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced the launch of its Japanese office located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, and led by Jun Matsuura, Japan Country Manager. The goal of the office is to further expand Nexenta’s purpose-built storage OS offerings in the Japanese market. Nexenta Japan will achieve its growth goals by distributing Software-Defined Storage solutions through partners Core Micro Systems Inc. and Ascentech K.K.
NexentaStor, the first Software-Defined Storage solution released by Nexenta in 2008, is deployed on close to an Exabyte of raw capacity, across thousands of customer deployments in the United States, European and Asia Pacific markets. In Japan, Nexenta solutions have already been proven as enterprise class storage solutions delivered on industry standard x86 servers and disk enclosures (JBOD). Nexenta Software-Defined Storage solutions deliver high capacity storage with performance, flexibility and scalability on par with traditional storage offerings and at a lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The performance and robustness of Nexenta offerings enables end users to address the issue of exponentially growing data stores, managed under a shrinking IT budget.
Nexenta specializes in software development of storage solutions, and enables organizations to integrate with various hardware providers via certified reference architectures. Additionally, in cooperation with virtualization and cloud platform partners including VMware, Citrix, OpenStack, CloudStack, and others, Nexenta engages industry-wide in the challenge of managing data growth. In Japan, Nexenta will offer products and support through distributors and system integrators.
Nexenta's Software-Defined Storage Products
NexentaStor, the flagship product of Nexenta, is based on the proven ZFS file system. In addition to high reliability and availability, NexentaStor has features essential for enterprise systems, such as High Availability (HA) Cluster and replication, easy management though a web console and integration with VMware and OpenStack. The NexentaConnect product suite accelerates VDI environments, and supports performance monitoring and other enhancements of Citrix XenDesktop, VMware Horizon View, Virtual SAN and others.
Supporting quotes:
Mr. Naohiro Sato, President and CEO, Ascentech K.K.
“Ascentech welcomes Nexenta’s Japan entity. Nexenta provides very trusted storage software based upon ZFS file system. We are pleased to work with Nexenta as the Global Leader of Software-Defined Storage which has the rich experience and strong growth in the market. The opening of the Nexenta Japan entity will bring a revolution in the storage market in Japan and this is truly beneficial for those customers who want to have an enterprise level storage solution with reasonable pricing. Ascentech as Nexenta Distributor in Japan, will work with existing partners to expand this new Software-Defined Storage market together.”
Mr. Yasuo Miki, President, VMware K.K.
“VMware K.K. welcomes the opening of the Nexenta Japan entity. Nexenta Software-Defined Storage solutions work very well with VMware virtualization solutions. Both companies will bring a great benefit to the Japan market for our customers. Our combined solution can deliver more efficient and high performance in IT infrastructure with great management.”
Mr. Shozo Takahashi, President and CEO, Core Micro Systems Inc.
“Core Micro Systems welcomes Nexenta’s new Japan entity. We have been working with Nexenta solutions for the last 5 years as a Premium Partner in Japan, and sold more than 50 customers with 10PB under management so far. We are pleased that the support and service will be more enhanced for Japanese customers. Core Micro Systems is also bringing our own technology to enhance the performance for ZFS file system in Japan and will work together with Nexenta to expand this technology to the rest of the world. We are expecting that the Nexenta Japan entity supports our vision for storage solutions: “the most effective QoS appliance for any workload” and “the most effective storage solution in terms of performance, capacity, pricing.”
Mr. Michael King, President and CEO, Citrix Systems Japan K.K.
“Citrix Systems Japan is very pleased to welcome the opening of Nexenta Systems Japan Inc. Today, VDI customers are expecting high performance with the best price storage solution to appreciate the best ROI. Nexenta Software-Defined Storage solutions have proven to bring the best ROI for the VDI with the Citrix XenDesktop solution under Citrix VDI Capacity Program analysis examination. We are very pleased that Citrix will work with Nexenta to bring the best solution for our VDI customers to grow their business.”
Mr. Shinichiro Kohri, President and CEO, Dell Japan
“Dell is very pleased to welcome Nexenta Japan entity to expand their business. Dell is No.1 solution provider for Software-Defined field for the new IT world. We already integrate Nexenta software with Dell PowerEdge servers in the Japanese market to strengthen our storage solution. We are very pleased to work with Nexenta to expand our solution combined with Open Source technology and bring the best benefits to all our Japanese customers to support their business.”
Mr. Shoichi Morita, President and CEO, Networld Corporation
“We at Networld Corporation are very pleased with the establishment of Nexenta Systems Japan. Through the cooperation of virtualization solutions provided by Citrix, Microsoft and VMware, we are convinced that Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage solutions enables IT efficiency and enforcement of performance. As we boast experiences as a leading IT solution distributor with a wide range of product portfolio for our customers in Japan, Networld will closely work with Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage solutions.”
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. For more information visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.
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Company Contact:
Allison Darin
Nexenta
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pr@nexenta.com
Nexenta Implements Software-Defined Storage (SDS) Platform for Leading Cloud Infrastructure Provider
ServerCentral Deploys NexentaStor for SDS Service
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – December 4, 2014 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced the deployment and case study for ServerCentral. Recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest-growing companies in America for five consecutive years, Chicago-based ServerCentral is an established provider of IT infrastructure solutions.
Working with a number of other storage solutions, ServerCentral has a great deal of experience in this area. The growing demand for elastic, highly scalable storage presented the perfect opportunity for ServerCentral to add SDS to their toolkit.
Having a scalable solution in place to handle dynamic storage demands was one of the main benefits to deploying NexentaStor.
“Given the nature of our business, we have to think three to five years out,” said George Nelson, Managed Services Manager at ServerCentral. “Growing demand for elastic, highly scalable storage is the perfect opportunity for us to add Nexenta’s SDS platform to our managed service offerings.”
NexentaStor is now available across multiple locations, with petabytes of data under management.
“ServerCentral has built a successful and growing business helping meet the high availability needs for an impressive roster of customers," said Craig Cagle, VP/GM Americas, Nexenta. “We are very pleased to be able to work with ServerCentral and help provide a solution that is both scalable and economical.”
Please refer to the ServerCentral case study for more implementation details.
Tweet This: It's a privilege working with @ServerCentral. Check out our new case study at http://tinyurl.com/ktl5yqk #storage #softwaredefinedstorage
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. For more information visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.
About ServerCentral
ServerCentral is an IT infrastructure solutions provider. Since 2000, leading technology, finance, healthcare, and e-commerce firms have put their trust in ServerCentral to design and manage their mission-critical infrastructure. With data centers in North America, Europe and Asia, ServerCentral works with customers to develop the right solution for their business. Whether it is colocation, managed services, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) or cloud, ServerCentral designs the optimal solution for each client. Learn more at http://www.servercentral.com/about/ or email sales@servercentral.com
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Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage Solution, NexentaStor, Wins ‘Storage Management Product of the Year’ at the 2014 SVC Awards
Nexenta also named as ‘Storage Company of the Year’ runner up
Santa Clara, CA, and London, UK – December 2, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced that won “Storage Management Product of the Year” at the Storage, Virtualization and Cloud (SVC) Awards. The winning product, NexentaStor, allows customers to experience a high performance enterprise grade solution without the vendor lock-in and high TCO associated with legacy vendors.
The SVC Awards reward the products, projects and services as well as companies and teams operating in the cloud, virtualization and storage sectors. The SVC Awards recognize the achievements of end-users, channel partners and vendors alike.
NexentaStor 4.0 is the leading commercial-grade SDS platform and a key component of the mounting shift towards the Software-Defined Data Centre (SDDC). It delivers high performance, ultra-scalable cloud and virtualization optimized solutions for data centre environments. The solution runs on industry standard hardware providing open, unified storage management at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems, eliminating the vendor lock-in and aging technologies of legacy storage.
“This award reinforces our global traction and leadership in this space,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at Nexenta. “We are privileged that SVC has continued to support us and reinforce our belief in the future of the Software-Defined Data Center. It is an honor to be recognized as a leader in such a competitive space.”
With demand for flexible storage capabilities growing, Nexenta’s solutions provide the scalable infrastructure needed to extend storage capacities. Software-Defined Storage offers the ability to keep up with the innovation in both hardware and software that is necessary given today’s IT challenges.
Tweet This: It’s official: @Nexenta has won Storage Management Product of the Year at the #SVCAwards Find out why at http://bit.ly/1rUC3pD
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. For more information visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.
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Nexenta Sponsors CIO Executive Summit 2014 in San Francisco
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – December 2, 2014 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced sponsorship support for the 11th annual CIO Executive Summit in San Francisco, CA, December 3, 2014. Nexenta is honored to have been nominated by Randy Spratta, CIO of McKesson, and Tom Andriola, CIO of the UC System, to sponsor this event that attracts CIOs from the Bay Area.
The CIO Executive Summit will be held at the Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St., San Francisco. This exclusive conference is built “by CIOs, for CIOs” to deliver peer insight and unparalleled networking to San Francisco’s IT leaders. This year’s host is the UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education (CEE) at the Haas School of Business.
The CIO Executive Summit Governing Body holds the invitation-only summit to offer an agenda to innovative, strategic solutions and collaboration across industries. This year’s 150+ attendees represent CIOs and executives from organizations across the greater Bay Area, including Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Bio-Rad Laboratories, California State Transportation Agency, Chevron, City of Palo Alto, Dell, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, First Republic Bank, Franklin Templeton Investments, Greylock Partners, IBM, San Francisco 49ers, San Francisco Giants, Sequoia Capital, Tesla Motors, VMware, and Wells Fargo.
WHAT: CIO Executive Summit San Francisco 2014
WHEN: Wednesday, December 3, 2014
WHERE: Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St., San Francisco, CA
For more information about CIO Executive Summit San Francisco 2014, please visit: http://www.evanta.com/cio/summits/san-francisco
For more information on Nexenta and Software-Defined Storage, visit: http://www.nexenta.com/
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. For more information visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.
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Company Contact:
Allison Darin
Nexenta
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Nexenta to Showcase and Present Software-Defined Data Center Technologies at Dell Desktop Virtualization Forum
SANTA CLARA, Calif and VIENNA, Austria – November 19 (12am PST), 2014 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced its Gold sponsorship at the Dell Desktop Virtualization Forum in Vienna, Austria on November 20th.
As a key technology partner of Dell, Nexenta will be showcasing its integration within Dell’s end-to-end virtualization solutions, including the most flexible and scalable Software-Defined Storage offerings in the market. These industry-leading solutions provide benefits such as SAN and native NAS protocol support, unlimited snapshots and cloning, block and file replication, inline deduplication, and comprehensive management capabilities. Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage solutions are also integrated into Dell Engineered Solutions for EVO: RAIL, including NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN, completing the hyper-converged solution.
Dell’s vForum aims to help IT professionals to understand how to transform, connect, inform and protect their data wherever they need to. Dell is supporting IT professionals in industries as diverse as healthcare, education, retail, manufacturing and financial services.
Keynote speaker
Speaker: Mark Jordan, VP & General Manager EMEA at Nexenta
Date: November 20th at 11.50 am – 12.00 pm local time
Location: Wien, Vienna, Austria.
“Nexenta’s partnership with Dell is providing our customers the flexibility and scalability they require. Software-Defined Storage is the most efficient and cost effective way to manage data. In fact SDS is a great replacement for any legacy storage as it prevents vendor lock-in saving companies time and money,” said Mark Jordan, VP & GM at Nexenta.
Stephane Armanet, System Administrator, Institut Laue-Langevin comments: "We were looking for a storage solution that could scale out as we grew. Dell, who already worked closely with the institute, suggested that Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage (SDS) combined with its servers could provide the solution we needed. As a Nexenta partner, Dell was well aware of the software’s capabilities and its suitability for our requirements. The result is a storage solution that can manage data efficiently and cost effectively."
To register for this event, please visit: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dell-desktop-virtualization-forum-austria-tickets-13328859979
Tweet this: Discover the latest @Nexenta has to offer in the Software-Defined world @Dell #vForum event in Austria. #SDS #Cloud #data #softwaredefined
Further resources
NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN datasheet
NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon datasheet
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. For more information visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.
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Nexenta Announces Availability of Innovative Software-Defined Storage Solution for VMware Virtual SAN
The new solution allows customers to create a hyper-converged storage solution managed through VMware vCenter on Virtual SAN deployments.
Santa Clara, CA – November 18, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced the availability (GA) of its NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN™. The solution, which simplifies and streamlines the provisioning and management of file services on top of VMware Virtual SAN™, allows users to create a hyper-converged solution without the need for costly external storage arrays. Join the VMware and Nexenta webinar tomorrow, 11/19 at 8AM PST for the complete Software-Defined hyper-convergence story.
Designed for VMware vSphere® environments, VMware Virtual SAN is the first policy-driven storage product that automates manual storage tasks, delivering a more efficient and cost-effective operational model. Taking advantage of the VM-level storage policies, NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN, sits on top of the Virtual SAN automatically and dynamically matching the systems requirements with the correct storage.
NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN utilizes local Virtual SAN storage in servers to deliver high performance NFS and SMB file services to Virtual Machines and Virtual Desktops (VDI), all managed through a single VMware vCenter™ console. Combining Nexenta's SDS solution with VMware Virtual SAN enables read/write caching using server-side flash, optimizing the I/O data path to deliver better performance than a virtual appliance or an external device. The hyper-converged solution also has an extremely low TCO, because Nexenta’s SDS solution is at least a third of the price of deploying an external NAS solution.
“3rd platform computing requirements are driving significant evolution in data center infrastructure requirements, driving the demand for increased agility,” said Eric Burgener, research director at IDC. “Software-defined hyper-converged solutions are raising to prominence as a very flexible, scalable, and extremely economical alternative to shared storage solutions for certain workloads, and VMware Virtual SAN promises to be a key player in this market. With NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN, customers now can deploy the VMware solution on top of Nexenta’s high performance and well integrated NFS and SMB file services to provide additional software-defined storage options for both virtual server and virtual desktop environments.”
“We are focused on helping enterprises simplify, scale and automate their entire IT environments,” said Gaetan Castelein, senior director, product management, Software-Defined Storage, VMware “Nexenta’s latest SDS solution, NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN, complements our VMware Virtual SAN™, creating a hyper-converged storage infrastructure for the Software-Defined Data Center.”
"NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN™ supports our goal of helping enterprises unlock the potential of their storage and ultimately their data centers. Working closely with VMware we have created a solution that offers users a hyper-converged solution that can granularly scale-up or scale-out your storage environment giving users the flexibility to grow their storage environment without costly over provisioning. It's hardware-agnostic and it’s very simple, easy-to-use design increases operational efficiency, saving enterprises both time and money,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta.
Other features of NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN include:
- Easily provisions file services (NFSv3, NFSv4, SMB) on Virtual SAN within minutes
- Integrates management through VMware vCenter
- Provides Security and Domain integration, AD with AAA and Kerberos support
- Delivers capacity savings using inline compression and deduplication
- Can store all files needed to maintain the virtual infrastructure
- Provides IO acceleration with inline compression and advanced caching logic
- Enhances performance and health monitoring
- Delivers folder and volume level snapshots, replication and backup capabilities for DR scenarios
- Maintains data integrity during various stress, network/disk/host recovery
- Is 100% compatible with VMware HA and DRS
- Is serviceable via Rest APIs
- Is validated for VDI workloads up to thousands of users
- Leverages VSAN data protection and high availability
The solution is available immediately through Nexenta's network of value added distributors and resellers globally.
More information on NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN is available at nexenta.com/nexentaconnect.
Further resources
Press Release: Dell and Nexenta Deliver Software-Defined Storage Solutions for VMware EVO: RAIL
Press Release: Supermicro Enhances Their VMware EVO: RAIL and Virtual SAN Offerings with Nexenta
NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN datasheet and Joint VMware/Nexenta Whitepaper
NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon datasheet
NexentaStor datasheet
See product pages for validated and certified reference architectures with Cisco, Dell, HP, Supermicro, and others.
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organisations to realise the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. For more information, visit, www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centres (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.
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