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SANTA CLARA, Calif.—April 18, 2016—Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced they will join ATTO Technology at the NABShow, April 18-21, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nev., to showcase their joint solution, NexentaStor MetroHA.

Nexenta is sponsoring a pod in ATTO Technology’s booth #SL8511, where the companies will provide a live demo of NexentaStor MetroHA, which serves as a stretch cluster—a cluster configured with host systems located at multiple sites—allowing data to scale across different floors, buildings or cities, located up to 50 kilometers apart. 

The collaboration between Nexenta and ATTO offers customers synchronous storage solution with the ability to store data on two disparate sites, providing ZFS end-end data integrity. This delivers a solution with the best possible uptime, but also ensures data integrity when transferred over the WAN.

NABshow brings together every sector of the media and entertainment industry to provide a unique event spotlighting dynamic innovation and cutting edge technologies from around the world.

What: NABShow 2016
When: April 18-21, 2016, ATTO Booth #SL8511 (South Lower Hall).
Where: Las Vegas Convention Center, 3150 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas, NV

Tweet this: Join @Nexenta and @ATTO at @NAB and see how they’re transforming the #SDDC and providing unparalleled scalability. #OpenSDS #OpenSDx

About Nexenta

Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 42 patents, and more than 1,500 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates deep software-only “Open Source” collaboration with one of the largest and most vibrant Open Source communities (46,000 members) and a comprehensive vision around a commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation enabling ANY app, cloud platform and protocol. Nexenta is 100% Software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, cloud platform-, and app-agnostic providing organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive “vendor-lock-in,” “vendor-bait-n-switch,” and “vendor-rip-n-replace” gimmicks. Nexenta provides enterprises with the "true" benefits of “true” Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta enables everyday apps 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 – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions along with enterprise-scale 24x7 - around the globe - All Love - service and support with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, HPE, Lenovo, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta:  100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love.

For more information, visit, www.nexenta.com, Twitter(link is external), Facebook(link is external), LinkedIn(link is external) and YouTube(link is external). Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.

Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nexenta Systems Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks and company names mentioned in this document are properties of their respective owners.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.—April 13, 2016— Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that Chairman and CEO, Tarkan Maner, will present at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s (SVLG) CEO Business Climate Summit, on April 15, in Mountain View, Calif. Nexenta is  a Co-Title sponsor of the event, along with Bank of America.

Tarkan’s session titled “U.S. Competitiveness Introduction” will discuss next generation investments and the innovative themes that are emerging in today’s business and technology market. The session will feature a panel of leaders including:

• Dr. France A. Córdova, Director, National Science Foundation
• Charles H. Rivkin, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
• Shellye Archambeau, CEO, MetricStream
• Ken Kannappan, CEO, Plantronics
• Marci Harris, ‎CEO and Co-founder, POPVOX
• Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO, Nexenta

Hosted by Microsoft, the CEO Business Climate Summit will bring together a select group of CEOs and executive officers, top elected officials and community leaders for three in-depth panels, analysis and discussion on how we can work together to strengthen our region, state and nation’s competitiveness in a global economy. Panel discussion topics include the Trans-Pacific Partnership, data privacy, traffic, housing and the environment.  This event also will mark the release of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s 2016 CEO Survey consisting of CEO responses on everything from hiring and business and employee challenges, to local, state and federal policy issues. 

Additional details on this event can be found below.

Who: Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO, Nexenta
What: “U.S. Competitiveness Introduction” at CEO Business Climate Summit 
When: April 15, 2016 from 9:20-10:15 a.m. PT
Where: Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus, 1065 La Avenida St. Mountain View, CA 94043

A full agenda for this event can be found here: http://bit.ly/1VOLRCX

Tweet this: .@nexenta’s Chairman & CEO @TarkanManer to speak at @SVLeadershipGrp’s CEO Business Climate Summit in Mountain View, 4/15 #OpenSDS #OpenSDx
 

About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 42 patents, and more than 1,500 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates deep software-only “Open Source” collaboration with one of the largest and most vibrant Open Source communities (46,000 members) and a comprehensive vision around a commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation enabling ANY app, cloud platform and protocol. Nexenta is 100% Software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, cloud platform-, and app-agnostic providing organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace” gimmicks. Nexenta provides enterprises with the "true" benefits of “true” Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta enables everyday apps 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 – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions along with enterprise-scale 24x7 - around the globe - All Love - service and support with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, HPE, Lenovo, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta:  100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love.

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.

Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nexenta Systems Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks and company names mentioned in this document are properties of their respective owners.

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Director of Communications and Public Relations, Nexenta
831-359-8208
pr@nexenta.com

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GleSYS Internet Services AB runs on Nexenta and SanDisk’s combined NexentaStor/InfiniFlash™ system, the market’s first Open Software-Defined Storage All Flash Array

SANTA CLARA and MILPITAS, CA – April 13, 2016 (12am PT) – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), and SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions have today announced that their joint All Flash Software-Defined Storage solution has been deployed at GleSYS Internet Services AB (GleSYS), a next-generation cloud platform provider.  The solution delivers cost effective, high performance storage architecture, empowering GleSYS and its customers to quickly scale capacity as required.  Additional information is detailed in the case study as well as next week’s webinar.  

GleSYS provides flexible, scalable, hosted Internet solutions to nearly 3,500 customers around the world.  Based in Sweden, the organization specializes in offering its public cloud services to small- and medium-sized businesses on a self-serve basis.  Prior to selecting the Nexenta/SanDisk joint solution, GleSYS was struggling to ensure the reliability of its storage solutions for customers, many of whom require extra performance provisioning instantly.  What’s more, the company has grown 100 percent over the last three years and, with similar growth projected for the future, requires a cost-effective scalable solution to keep up with its growth.

Following the advice of Layer 8 IT-Services, a company focused on delivering smart data center solutions based on software-defined innovations, GleSYS began to consider flash storage to solve the issues it was experiencing.  The company had previously deployed NexentaStor as a traditional hybrid solution and, with a good working relationship already in place, Layer 8 suggested the company investigate the joint solution from Nexenta and SanDisk.  GleSYS implemented the NexentaStor/InfiniFlash solution in its facility within weeks, intending to use the new system for primary storage and the existing architecture for secondary storage.

“We needed to find a solution provider that could actually understand our use case and what we wanted to do,” said Glenn Johansson, founder and chief executive officer at GleSYS. “We weren’t interested in buying bells and whistles that we didn’t need.  We had a working relationship with Layer 8 and Nexenta and they presented the solution to us and promised it would deliver what we wanted. And it does.”

“With the breakthrough economics in the combo of NexentaStor and InfiniFlash, an All Flash solution with superior performance, density and reliability with a very compelling cost per gigabyte (GB), GleSYS sets a new standard in cloud delivery.” said Johan Tungström, CEO and co-founder at Layer 8 IT-Services.

GleSYS’s previous solution was only able to reach a maximum of 12k Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS).  With the NexentaStor/InfiniFlash solution it runs at a constant 20k IOPS, with a latency of less than 1.5ms in its daily operations.  While IOPS currently peak at around 80k, GleSYS believes this is not the limit of the solution, but rather the max utilization that it has seen from its current load.  When it comes to data center footprint, GleSYS has a 64TB hybrid storage solution allocating 16U. The solution based on NexentaStor/InfiniFlash IF100 can hold up to 512TB in only 7U.

The new solution has also had a positive impact on GleSYS daily business operations.  Where previously its team was spending between 40 and 50 hours a month on administration and dealing with its customers’ storage related challenges, this reactive problem solving has now been reduced to two to four hours per month.  Furthermore, the set-up has greatly benefited GleSYS’ customers.  Its low TCO means users are receiving a solution with integrated SSDs for the price of HDDs and, due to its high performance and reliability, GleSYS has not experienced any service outages since installation.  The NexentaStor/InfiniFlash solution and the relationship GleSYS has built with both companies have proven to be hugely valuable to the organisation and its clients, and it anticipates GleSYS will be able to grow with this solution in place for as many as ten years. 

“We’re delighted at the success of this project to date along with many other enterprise customers around the world,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at Nexenta. “Our joint solution with SanDisk was intended to be a game-changer, offering a high performance solution at the fraction of the TCO of legacy hardware vendors.  We look forward to our continuing relationship with GleSYS and hope to help the company expand to even greater heights.”

“SanDisk’s InfiniFlash system and Nexenta’s NexentaStor succeeded in providing GleSYS with a seamless, simple-to-manage, cost-efficient solution, that delivers substantial performance gains over traditional hard disk drive-based systems,” said Ravi Swaminathan, vice president and general manager, Systems and Software Solutions, SanDisk. “By partnering with Nexenta, we are delighted to provide GleSYS with a scalable solution that ensures the reliability of its storage solutions for customers during this time of phenomenal growth.”

Webinar
The GleSYS success story will be discussed in more detail during an upcoming webinar, April 20^th 2016, 7am PT.  Executives from GleSYS, Nexenta, SanDisk and Layer 8 will take a deep dive into the challenges that the organization was facing with its legacy storage set-ups, and how the NexentaStor/InfiniFlash system is ensuring better storage performance and reliability for the company and its customers. Register for the webinar here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12587/198547

For additional resources about the GleSYS deployment, visit:
Nexenta GleSYS Case Study
SanDisk GleSYS Case Study
Layer 8 GleSYS Press Release (in Swedish)
Layer 8 GleSYS Case Study (in Swedish)

Tweet this: .@nexenta and @SanDisk partner to provide hybrid #NexentaStor and #InfiniFlash storage solution to @glesysab #OpenSDS

Tweet this: .@Layer_8_IT combines @nexenta and @SanDisk to provide all-flash #NexentaStor and #InfiniFlash storage solution to @glesysab #OpenSDS

About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 42 patents, and more than 1,500 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates deep software-only “Open Source” collaboration with one of the largest and most vibrant Open Source communities (46,000 members) and a comprehensive vision around a commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation enabling ANY app, cloud platform and protocol. Nexenta is 100% Software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, cloud platform-, and app-agnostic providing organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace” gimmicks. Nexenta provides enterprises with the "true" benefits of “true” Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta enables everyday apps 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 – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions along with enterprise-scale 24x7 - around the globe - All Love - service and support with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, HPE, Lenovo, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta:  100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love.

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.

Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nexenta Systems Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks and company names mentioned in this document are properties of their respective owners.

About SanDisk Systems & Storage Solutions
SanDisk’s Systems and Storage Solution portfolio enables the flash-transformed data center through integrated, tested and supported flash solution building blocks for today’s enterprise and cloud workloads, including virtualization, tier-1 databases, Big Data Analytics and Digital Media Repositories, for an experience never before thought possible with extreme performance, massive capacity and immediate access to information.

In addition to InfiniFlash System, the portfolio includes the leading solid state devices of Fusion ioMemory, Lightning Series, Optimus Series and CloudSpeed Series and SanDisk enterprise SSDs and systems integrated with software such as FlashSoft™, SanDisk ION Accelerator™ and InfiniFlash OS Ceph.  

For more information about SanDisk Systems Solutions from SanDisk, visit www.sandisk.com/business/datacenter

About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For more than 27 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of storage, providing trusted and innovative products that have transformed the electronics industry. Today, SanDisk’s quality, state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of the world's largest data centers, in advanced smartphones, tablets and PCs. SanDisk’s consumer products are available at hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.

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Strategic Collaboration around Joint R&D and GTM; Support for Any App, Stack, Infrastructure, or Cloud   

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—April 12, 2016 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced it has entered into a strategic relationship with Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) and Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) to engineer and deliver innovative solutions for next-generation all-flash data centers.

Data centers traditionally based on proprietary frame-based array hardware are transitioning to digital and cloud infrastructures offering high levels of agility and performance. All-flash array (AFA) storage solutions, considered integral to digital and cloud infrastructures, are rapidly gaining ground. According to IDC, worldwide sales of AFAs were $2.58B in 2015, and the market is expected to grow at a 21.6 percent CAGR through 2019 to reach $5.65B in revenue*.

“For customers running mixed virtual workloads, the use of all flash configurations is becoming increasingly popular,” said Eric Burgener, research director, Storage, at IDC. “As flash $/GB costs continue to rapidly decrease, we will see more and more customers accelerate their use of it.”

To accelerate enterprises’ continued adoption of all-flash in the data center, Nexenta, Micron and Supermicro are jointly engineering the Micron-Accelerated NexentaEdge for block and object storage, and will demonstrate the solution at today’s opening of the Micron Storage Solutions Center in Austin, Texas.

Micron-Accelerated NexentaEdge Solution
The Micron Accelerated NexentaEdge Solution will be optimized to cost-effectively provide high performance native block, iSCSI block, Swift and S3 object services to OpenStack, VMware and Container-based infrastructures.

NexentaEdge provides unlimited instant snapshots and clones, as well as patented cluster-wide inline deduplication and compression that can lower the effective cost of storage for virtual machines (VMs) by a factor of 5:1 or more. The all-flash scale-out solution delivers up to 100,000 random 8KB IOPS per node, with a typical five node cluster easily capable of half a million IOPS.  The solution also implements real-time self-balancing, continuously distributing loads across all devices in the cluster to maximize flash endurance, and simple management through CLI, REST API and an intuitive graphical user-interface. This collaboration is expected to result in a joint reference architecture and purchasable solution from Supermicro in the summer of 2016. For more information on the Micron Accelerated NexentaEdge Solution, read the Solution Preview brief. For more information, please visit: https://nexenta.com/partners/components-micron

Use cases include:

• OpenStack Clouds
• VMware Clouds
• Object based Active Archives
• Container infrastructure
• Big Data infrastructure

“The market is demanding new solutions designed from the ground up, so we’re collaborating with an industry leading peer to create next generation software-defined storage that will help future proof today’s data centers,” said Eric Endebrock, vice president Solutions Marketing, Micron Technology.

“We are excited about our strategic relationship with Micron, one of the leading flash memory manufacturers in the business,” said Tarkan Maner, CEO and Chairman at Nexenta. “We believe the combination of open source collaboration, software-defined engineering innovation at Micron, Supermicro and Nexenta, coupled with business solution-oriented go-to-market execution, will take the enterprise storage market by storm due to fast growth in Big Data and Software-Defined Cloud Deployments for any app, via any stack, and on any infrastructure.”

“As the leader in server and storage innovation, Supermicro drives advanced technologies such as high-performance NVMe in our Simply Double architecture first to market, delivering solutions with maximum performance, density and efficiency,” said Eric Sindelar, Senior Director of Operations, Supermicro. “Our close collaboration on the Micron-Accelerated NexentaEdge Solution ensures today's open standards based, scale-out storage solutions benefit from Supermicro innovation, accelerating and simplifying deployment and scalability in next generation software-defined data center environments.”

Tweet this: .@nexenta & @micron partner to create #all-flash storage solutions based on #NexentaEdge. #OpenSDx

*Source:  Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker®, IDC, March 2016

About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 42 patents, and more than 1,500 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates deep software-only “Open Source” collaboration with one of the largest and most vibrant Open Source communities (46,000 members) and a comprehensive vision around a commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation enabling ANY app, cloud platform and protocol. Nexenta is 100% Software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, cloud platform-, and app-agnostic providing organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace” gimmicks. Nexenta provides enterprises with the "true" benefits of “true” Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta enables everyday apps 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 – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions along with enterprise-scale 24x7 - around the globe - All Love - service and support with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, HPE, Lenovo, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta:  100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love.

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.

Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nexenta Systems Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks and company names mentioned in this document are properties of their respective owners.

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Karbo Communications
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Company Contact:
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Director of Communications and Public Relations
Nexenta Systems, Inc.
831-359-8208
pr@nexenta.com

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