Press Releases Archive
Nexenta Raises $20 Million to Accelerate Market Growth and IP Innovation in Software-Defined Storage; SoftBank Leads the Strategic Financing Round along with a Strategic Agreement
Nexenta Continues to Disrupt Hardware-Only Legacy Storage Market via Complete Software- Only Enterprise Storage Solutions, Services and Support
Nexenta Extends its Capabilities for Any Hybrid or Multi-Cloud Deployment, on Any Hardware Infrastructure, Supporting Any Enterprise Application via Any Edge, Private or Public Cloud Data Center
TOKYO, Japan and SANTA CLARA, Calif.—November 28, 2017 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced it is raising $20 million to accelerate its global market growth and solidify its innovation and market leadership. SoftBank Corp. is leading the financing round along with a Strategic Distribution and Go-To-Market agreement. The round also attracts leading strategic and financial investors, including; Javelin Venture Partners, SV Booth Investments, SAB Capital, Lake Trail Capital, TRB Equity, and Tarkan Maner, CEO at Nexenta.
“Nexenta is continuing its massive market disruption where legacy hardware storage companies had dominated the industry for the past 30+ years. We are delighted with our solid market growth via our tight customer and partner relations, deep IP innovation and unmatched operational excellence. We believe with this strategic financing round supported by SoftBank and some of the leading global strategic and financial investors, Nexenta will extend its market and innovation leadership into new geographic, vertical and differentiated IP markets from IoT to Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and Big Data supporting any type of computing from the Edge to Core and Cloud Data Center Computing – on any type of hardware or compute platform, via any protocol, for any app on any hybrid or multi-cloud deployment,” said, Tarkan Maner, CEO at Nexenta.
SoftBank and Nexenta entered a strategic agreement that involves commercial dimensions around SoftBank’s distribution and usage of Nexenta portfolio, and collaborative integrated OpenSDS systems development with SoftBank and its preferred hardware partners.
“SoftBank is focused on partnering with market-leading technology companies around the world. Nexenta is an innovator and disruptor with its deep IP portfolio, strong OEM relationships, and proven management team. We are excited to partner with Nexenta and realize the advantage of software defined storage at SoftBank and our eco-system partners,” said Ken Miyauchi, President & CEO of SoftBank Corp.”
SoftBank and Nexenta will announce the details of the strategic investment and commercial agreement in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday, November 28th at SoftBank HQs with a Signing Ceremony with an audience of joint customers, partners and press.
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the market creator and leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) software solutions for Hybrid and Multi Cloud enterprise environments via Nexenta AnyCloud vision; with nearly 6,000 customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 2,000 petabytes of storage capacity under management; disrupting and democratizing one of the largest and most oligopolistic IT market segments nearing $100B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates its hardware-agnostic software-only enterprise OpenSDS innovation with deep “open source” collaboration via some of the most active communities with 45,000+ members. Nexenta enables a wide variety of workloads from legacy enterprise to next-gen cloud-native apps, on any cloud platform, any protocol and any hardware infrastructure to power the largest and most cost/performant data centers globally. Nexenta OpenSDS solution portfolio is 100% software-based for both on and off premise settings. Nexenta provides organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive legacy storage hardware vendor practices including, long term “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace.” Beyond its industry-leading software innovation and multi-channel distribution, Nexenta also provides comprehensive enterprise-class support and services 24x7, globally.
For more information, download the Nexenta Overview and visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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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Nexenta Delivers the Future of Storage with Advanced Scale-Out Software-Defined Storage (SDS) Platform Available on Any Hardware
Multi-Service Scale-Out SDS Platform Enables Enterprise-Ready Container-Converged Infrastructures and Cloud-Native Applications; Provides iSCSI Block, NFS File, S3 and Swift Object Services
NexentaEdge 2.0 Revolutionizes High-Performance and Reliable Multi-Protocol Services with Simple GUI-Based Management for Large Archives and Seamless Docker Datacenter Integration
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—May 3, 2017 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today introduced the latest version of its award-winning scale-out block, file, and object storage platform, NexentaEdge. Purpose-built for today’s leading enterprise IT environment with rapidly expanding application needs, NexentaEdge 2.0 is a flexible and future proof multi-service storage platform.
According to Gartner, by 2021 more than 80% of enterprise unstructured data will be stored in scale-out system and object storage systems in enterprise and cloud data centers, which is an increase from 30% today. * The newest release of NexentaEdge has a unique feature set to support this rapid market growth, including performance object storage and exceptional integration with Docker and OpenStack environments. In addition, Nexenta has rounded out their multi-service platform to include a shared namespace between file and object storage as well as container-converged capabilities to support next generation applications.
NexentaEdge 2.0 Product Enhancements Include:
- Multi-service scale-out platform delivering iSCSI block, NFS file and S3 and Swift object services
- Simple to manage web-based GUI for daily management and service provisioning
- Patent-pending Quick Erasure Coding technology, manage both active and cold object archives with storage speed and efficiency
- Superior data protection with cluster-wide inline deduplication, compression and unlimited snapshots/clones
- Scale-out platform for Docker Container-Converged infrastructure with seamless integration with Docker Universal Control Plane for single pane of glass management of containerized applications
- High performance, all-flash deployment profiles with support for SSD SATA, SAS and NVMe-based storage SSDs
- Shared namespace between File and Object Storage
“NexentaEdge scale-out block, file, and object storage delivers performance optimizations for all-flash and hybrid configurations, and is tightly integrated with both OpenStack cloud and Docker environments,” said Oscar Wahlberg, Director of Product Management at Nexenta. “With the introduction of NexentaEdge 2.0, features like Quick EC allow customers to build multi-petabyte, capacity-optimized object archives without sacrificing performance and use the same solution to create a container-converged storage infrastructure with tight integration and seamless management.”
High-performance object storage capabilities are one of the key differentiators of NexentaEdge in archive environments. This performance is powered by advanced data reduction technologies and further enhanced by the newly added feature, Quick Erasure Coding. NexentaEdge’s Quick Erasure Coding (Quick EC) technology reduces the storage overhead required to maintain the redundancy of data across servers, without affecting read or write performance. Quick EC eliminates the performance penalty usually associated with accessing objects in traditional erasure coded solutions and is especially beneficial for large capacity S3 object clusters.
NexentaEdge 2.0 also extends functionality to containerized applications with new Docker Engine volume plug-ins and tight integration with Docker Universal Control Plane (UCP). NexentaEdge enables complete integration into any Docker Enterprise Edition deployment and allows users to seamlessly deploy storage and application services as containers across servers that provide both storage and compute in a container-converged model.
Container Converged architecture can create an enterprise-class scale-out compute, network, and storage infrastructure powered by NexentaEdge and is ideal for consolidating applications and storage for maximum hardware utilization. With advanced data reduction and container awareness with multi-tenancy capabilities, it is simple to deploy, manage and scale your containerized applications with NexentaEdge 2.0.
Additionally, a feature-rich, web-based graphical user interface (GUI) is now available to all NexentaEdge customers, streamlining daily management and operations, and integrating directly with Docker Datacenter for seamless management of container storage.
For more information, please contact sales@nexenta.com or visit http://nexenta.com/products.
Supporting Quotes:
“NexentaEdge is an ideal storage solution optimized for Canonical OpenStack clouds and can be purchased and deployed via our Juju Charm Store,” said Dustin Kirkland, Head of Ubuntu Product and Strategy. “Nexenta is a proud partner of Canonical’s, resolving the petabyte-scale storage challenges of our customers with a complete, scale-out storage solution.”
“Software-defined storage is an important component of OpenStack and containerized cloud platforms,” said Kevin Deierling, VP of Marketing at Mellanox Technologies. “We’ve integrated the Mellanox end-to-end Ethernet solutions with the NexentaEdge scale-out storage solution to simplify these deployments and achieve both high-performance and cost efficiency for customers.”
“The Pluribus Networks Adaptive Cloud Fabric provides the scale-out network foundation that enhances the value of NexentaEdge deployments. Our joint solution delivers customers the elasticity, high-performance and resiliency needed for storage to achieve the promise of the Software-Defined Data Center with a high time-to-value and low TCO,” said Robert Drost, co-founder and chief operations officer at Pluribus Networks. “We are excited to share the enhanced offerings of NexentaEdge 2.0 with our customers and believe that our joint solutions continue to enable the scalable infrastructure needed to meet growing data demands.”
“Together, Nexenta and Supermicro have formed a long-standing partnership to help customers free themselves of legacy shackles by partnering Nexenta’s OpenSDS solutions with our leading server system and storage hardware,” said Michael McNerney, General Manager Marketing and Solutions at Supermicro. “NexentaEdge furthers this objective, providing unparalleled block, file, and object services, accelerated by our appliances, to deliver a scalable, high-performance storage infrastructure.”
* Gartner 2017 Strategic Roadmap for Storage Report released on March 8th 2017 (ID G00324339)
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the inventor and market leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with nearly 6,000 customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 1,500 petabytes of storage under management; disrupting one of the largest IT market segments nearing $100B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “open source” collaboration with one of the most active communities with 45,000+ members, and a comprehensive vision around commodity hardware-centric OpenSDS innovation enabling any app, any cloud platform and any protocol to power the largest and most performant data centers globally in the most cost effective way. Nexenta OpenSDS solution portfolio is 100% Software-based. Nexenta provides organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive legacy hardware vendor gimmicks via “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace”. Nexenta also provides comprehensive enterprise-class support and services with All Love. Nexenta leads organizations with the "true" benefits of “true” Software-Defined Everything-centric cloud computing deployments. Nexenta enables everyday apps from rich media-driven social living to mobility; from the internet of things to big data; from legacy enterprise app deployments to do-it-yourself and web-scale cloud app deployments – on all types of clouds – private, public, and/or hybrid. Founded on an "open core” platform Nexenta disrupts the legacy storage industry with its end-to-end scale-up and scale-out storage management software via integrated and advanced predictive management capabilities. Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions along with enterprise-scale 24x7 global service and support with a market-leading global partner network, including Canonical, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, Google, HPE, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, Micron, Microsoft, Quanta, Samsung, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta: 100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love.
For more information, download the Nexenta Overview and visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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.
Christina Adams
Marketing Manager
408-791-3330
pr@nexenta.com
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Nexenta Recognized on CRN’s Inaugural Software-Defined Data Center 50 List
Nexenta Offers Enterprises the Industry’s First Hardware- and Protocol-agnostic Software-Defined Storage (SDS) Portfolio; Delivering Complete Freedom from Storage Hardware Vendor Lock-in
Santa Clara, CA, March 13, 2017 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS),announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Nexenta to its 2017 Software-Defined Data Center 50 list. This inaugural list recognizes channel-friendly companies that provide some of the most innovative data center technology available.
Selected by CRN editors, the 2017 Software-Defined Data Center 50 list recognizes technology vendors that are leading the way in meeting a growing need for state-of-the-art offerings that virtualize infrastructure and deliver it as a service. These vendors are instrumental in helping solution providers select and deploy the right tools for building virtualized environments—a critical first step in transitioning customers to the cloud. In addition to honoring vendors for outstanding products and services, the list serves as a valuable guide for solution providers looking for best-in-class software-defined data center technology suppliers.
CRN editors select companies for the Software-Defined Data Center 50 list on the basis of multiple criteria, including each company’s overall impact on the market, its influence on the channel as a whole, and the desirability of the technology and services it makes available to its partners.
With over 1,500 petabytes under management, Nexenta was selected for its enterprise class scale-up and scale-out storage solutions that are flexible, scalable and cost-effective. Nexenta’s storage software delivers unified file, block and object storage for all-flash, hybrid and all-disk configurations. Because Nexenta is software-only, customers have the freedom to choose from easy to deploy pre-configured appliances or select customizable certified reference architectures that fit specific use cases. Overall, Nexenta SDS enables organizations to simplify their storage management at a lower TCO.
"Data centers are evolving rapidly, with the rise of software-defined solutions enabling centralization, automation and scale on an unprecedented level," said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company. “The vendors on CRN’s Software-Defined Data Center 50 list enable solution providers to reap the powerful benefits of this new technology: optimal computing speeds, superior data storage and management capabilities, reliable power and excellent energy efficiency. We congratulate this year’s Software-Defined Data Center 50 on the technical ingenuity and effective partnership-building that have earned them this important place in the IT channel.”
“It is a honor to be recognized in the inaugural CRN Software-Defined Data Center 50 list,” said Don Lopes, Vice President, Marketing & Channels. “As a leader in SDDC technologies, this award reflects the success we’ve achieved with our partners as they look to deliver agile, multi-protocol SDS solutions, running on all-flash to all-HDD.”
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the inventor and market leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with nearly 6,000 customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 1,500 petabytes of storage under management; disrupting one of the largest IT market segments nearing $100B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “open source” collaboration with one of the most active communities with 45,000+ members, and a comprehensive vision around commodity hardware-centric OpenSDS innovation enabling any app, any cloud platform and any protocol to power the largest and most performant data centers globally in the most cost effective way. Nexenta OpenSDS solution portfolio is 100% Software-based. Nexenta provides organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive legacy hardware vendor gimmicks via “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace”. Nexenta also provides comprehensive enterprise-class support and services with All Love. Nexenta leads organizations with the "true" benefits of “true” Software-Defined Everything-centric cloud computing deployments. Nexenta enables everyday apps from rich media-driven social living to mobility; from the internet of things to big data; from legacy enterprise app deployments to do-it-yourself and web-scale cloud app deployments – on all types of clouds – private, public, and/or hybrid. Founded on an "open core” platform Nexenta disrupts the legacy storage industry with its end-to-end scale-up and scale-out storage management software via integrated and advanced predictive management capabilities. Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions along with enterprise-scale 24x7 global service and support with a market-leading global partner network, including Canonical, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, Google, HPE, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, Micron, Microsoft, Quanta, Samsung, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta: 100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love.
For more information, download the Nexenta Overview and visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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.
Christina Adams
Marketing Manager
408-791-3330
pr@nexenta.com
About the Channel Company
The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education, and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers and end users. Backed by more than 30 years of unequaled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelco.com
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Nexenta Solutions Now Docker Certified Enabling Persistent Storage for Container-Converged Infrastructure and Applications
Docker Volume Plugins for NexentaStor and NexentaEdge Available in the Docker Store
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—March 1, 2017 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced its Nexenta Volume Plugins, for both NexentaStor and NexentaEdge, have been accepted as part of the Docker Certification Program, a framework for partners to integrate and certify their technology to the Docker Enterprise Edition commercial platform. The Nexenta Volume Plugins support high performance file systems storage for Docker containers and are currently available to download on the new Docker Store.
“We would like to congratulate Nexenta on their acceptance into the Docker Certification Program,” said Marianna Tessel, EVP, Strategic Development. “Enterprise IT teams are looking to Docker to provide recommendations and assurances on the ecosystem of container content, infrastructure and extensions. Nexenta’s inclusion into the program indicates that the Nexenta Volume Plugins have been tested and verified by Docker, confirming for customers that the container images have been evaluated for security and are supported and built according to best practices.”
The exclusive Docker Store is Docker’s new marketplace for customers and partners to discover and distribute certified Docker partner content. Nexenta delivers storage file services for container images and the applications they run. The new Docker Store also includes enhanced container content discovery, simple, commercial-grade distribution, and direct Docker support.
Through its portfolio of solutions, Nexenta delivers a comprehensive set of software-defined storage services to Docker environments running:
- Simple container-converged infrastructure purpose-built on servers running NexentaEdge data containers for reliable persistent storage of images and application data, accessible via native block, NFS file or S3 object interfaces
- Containerized cloud native applications requiring high performance S3 object and file services from NexentaEdge scale-out storage clusters
- Traditional databases and enterprise applications on high performance block and file services with enterprise grade data services provided by NexentaStor all-flash and hybrid appliances
Docker containers and microservice architectures have changed the way new applications are developed, deployed and managed at scale. Nexenta delivers the next stage of infrastructure evolution, building Software-Defined Storage management for containers and enabling high performance persistent storage services and seamless stateful container mobility on container-converged infrastructure powered by NexentaEdge.
“Nexenta’s comprehensive container-converged infrastructure SDS solutions are solving today’s enterprise challenges and the need for scalable and persistent storage for container environments. Our solutions combine powerful enterprise class storage functionality and are optimized to support and protect Docker containerized applications and their data,” said Thomas Cornely, Chief Product Officer at Nexenta. “We are excited by the joint opportunities and collaboration ahead as a Docker partner and one of the first storage companies to deliver a Docker Certified Volume Plugin through the new Docker Store
Pricing and Availability
The NexentaStor and NexentaEdge Enterprise Edition, Docker Volume Plugins are available immediately, free of charge on the Docker Store. To download visit:
Additional Resources:
For more information, please visit:
NexentaStor product page
NexentaEdge product page
NexentaEdge DevOps Edition white paper
Nexenta Container page
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the inventor and market leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with nearly 6,000 customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 1,500 petabytes of storage under management; disrupting one of the largest IT market segments nearing $100B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “open source” collaboration with one of the most active communities with 45,000+ members, and a comprehensive vision around commodity hardware-centric OpenSDS innovation enabling any app, any cloud platform and any protocol to power the largest and most performant data centers globally in the most cost effective way. Nexenta OpenSDS solution portfolio is 100% Software-based. Nexenta provides organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive legacy hardware vendor gimmicks via “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace”. Nexenta also provides comprehensive enterprise-class support and services with All Love. Nexenta leads organizations with the "true" benefits of “true” Software-Defined Everything-centric cloud computing deployments. Nexenta enables everyday apps from rich media-driven social living to mobility; from the internet of things to big data; from legacy enterprise app deployments to do-it-yourself and web-scale cloud app deployments – on all types of clouds – private, public, and/or hybrid. Founded on an "open core” platform Nexenta disrupts the legacy storage industry with its end-to-end scale-up and scale-out storage management software via integrated and advanced predictive management capabilities. Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions along with enterprise-scale 24x7 global service and support with a market-leading global partner network, including Canonical, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, Google, HPE, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, Micron, Microsoft, Quanta, Samsung, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta: 100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love.
For more information, download the Nexenta Overview and visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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.
Contact Information:
Christina Adams
Marketing Manager
408-791-3330
pr@nexenta.com
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Leading Open Source-Driven Software-Defined Storage Company Recognized on CRN’s Data Center 100 List
Santa Clara, CA February 27, 2017 –, Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Nexenta to its 2017 Data Center 100 list. This annual list recognizes technology suppliers that excel at powering, supporting and protecting the complex and demanding data centers on which today’s businesses rely.
CRN editors select companies for the Data Center 100 list on the basis of multiple criteria, including each company's overall impact on the market, its influence on the channel as a whole, and the types of technology and services it makes available to its partners.
In addition to recognizing technology suppliers for outstanding products and services, the Data Center 100 serves as a valuable guide for solution providers looking for best-in-class vendors providing data center infrastructure, data center management tools, software-defined data center technology and data center services.
With over 1,500 petabytes under management, Nexenta was selected for its enterprise class scale-up and scale-out storage solutions that are flexible, scalable and cost-effective. Nexenta’s storage software delivers unified file, block and object storage for all-flash, hybrid and all-disk configurations. Because Nexenta is software-only, customers have the freedom to choose from easy to deploy pre-configured appliances or select customizable certified reference architectures that fit specific use cases. Overall, Nexenta SDS enables organizations to simplify their storage management at a lower TCO.
“The construction and operation of a reliable data center requires wide-ranging expertise and resources across a number of key technologies,” said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company. “Our annual Data Center 100 list identifies the top vendors in these areas, helping solution providers find proven data center experts who can deliver the necessary depth and breadth of materials, services and expert guidance.”
“It is truly an honor to be recognized as a CRN Data Center 100 company,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta.“ This award reflects our deep, ongoing commitment to delivering storage innovation for enterprise workloads and cloud native applications. We continue to work closely with our partner community to build upon this innovation and to enable our partners to deliver the value of SDS to their customer base.”
The Data Center 100 list will be featured in the February 2017 issue of CRN and online at www.crn.com/datacenter100.
To learn more about Nexenta complete portfolio of Software-Defined Storage solutions visit, http://www.nexenta.com/products
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the inventor and market leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with nearly 6,000 customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 1,500 petabytes of storage under management; disrupting one of the largest IT market segments nearing $100B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “open source” collaboration with one of the most active communities with 45,000+ members, and a comprehensive vision around commodity hardware-centric OpenSDS innovation enabling any app, any cloud platform and any protocol to power the largest and most performant data centers globally in the most cost effective way. Nexenta OpenSDS solution portfolio is 100% Software-based. Nexenta provides organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive legacy hardware vendor gimmicks via “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace”. Nexenta also provides comprehensive enterprise-class support and services with All Love. Nexenta leads organizations with the "true" benefits of “true” Software-Defined Everything-centric cloud computing deployments. Nexenta enables everyday apps from rich media-driven social living to mobility; from the internet of things to big data; from legacy enterprise app deployments to do-it-yourself and web-scale cloud app deployments – on all types of clouds – private, public, and/or hybrid. Founded on an "open core” platform Nexenta disrupts the legacy storage industry with its end-to-end scale-up and scale-out storage management software via integrated and advanced predictive management capabilities. Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions along with enterprise-scale 24x7 global service and support with a market-leading global partner network, including Canonical, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, Google, HPE, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, Micron, Microsoft, Quanta, Samsung, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta: 100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love.
For more information, download the Nexenta Overview and visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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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Nexenta’s Head of Channels & Marketing Recognized as 2017 CRN® Channel Chief
Santa Clara, CA February 20, 2017 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Don Lopes, Vice President, Marketing & Channels at Nexenta to its prestigious list of 2017 Channel Chiefs. The executives on this annual list represent top leaders in the IT channel who excel at driving growth and revenue in their organizations through channel partners.
Channel Chief honorees are selected by CRN’s editorial staff on the basis of their professional achievements, standing in the industry, dedication to the channel partner community and strategies for driving future growth and innovation. Each of the 2017 Channel Chiefs has demonstrated loyalty and ongoing support for the IT channel by consistently promoting, defending and executing outstanding channel partner programs.
As the VP Marketing & Channels for Nexenta, Don Lopes serves the channel in a multitude of ways. Don drives Nexenta’s go-to-market strategy, which is entirely channel driven, by managing the Nexenta Partner Program. Through this program, Nexenta provides Distributors, Resellers, System Integrators, and Service Providers with the most innovative software-defined storage solutions to streamline the transition to a software-defined enterprise. Don combines excellent sales, support and marketing skills to ensure Nexenta’s channel partners have everything they need to make their businesses successful and continue to build and grow strong partnerships.
“The executives on our 2017 Channel Chiefs list have distinguished themselves by building strong partner programs, developing and executing effective business strategy and helping to advance the channel as a whole,” said Bob Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company. “They represent an extraordinary group of individuals who lead by example and serve as both invaluable advocates and innovators of the IT channel. We applaud their achievements and look forward to their successes in the coming year.”
“I am beyond grateful to be honored by CRN with this prestigious award again this year,” said Don Lopes, Vice President, Marketing & Channels at Nexenta. “CRN strives to cultivate the channel and initiate important relationships across the IT industry, and this recognition reflects Nexenta’s continuous commitment to our customers and partners in the same regard.”
The 2017 CRN Channel Chiefs list is featured in the February 2017 issue of CRN and online at www.crn.com/channelchiefs.
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the inventor and market leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with nearly 6,000 customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 1,500 petabytes of storage under management; disrupting one of the largest IT market segments nearing $100B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “open source” collaboration with one of the most active communities with 45,000+ members, and a comprehensive vision around commodity hardware-centric OpenSDS innovation enabling any app, any cloud platform and any protocol to power the largest and most performant data centers globally in the most cost effective way. Nexenta OpenSDS solution portfolio is 100% Software-based. Nexenta provides organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive legacy hardware vendor gimmicks via “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace”. Nexenta also provides comprehensive enterprise-class support and services with All Love. Nexenta leads organizations with the "true" benefits of “true” Software-Defined Everything-centric cloud computing deployments. Nexenta enables everyday apps from rich media-driven social living to mobility; from the internet of things to big data; from legacy enterprise app deployments to do-it-yourself and web-scale cloud app deployments – on all types of clouds – private, public, and/or hybrid. Founded on an "open core” platform Nexenta disrupts the legacy storage industry with its end-to-end scale-up and scale-out storage management software via integrated and advanced predictive management capabilities. Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions along with enterprise-scale 24x7 global service and support with a market-leading global partner network, including Canonical, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, Google, HPE, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, Micron, Microsoft, Quanta, Samsung, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta: 100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love.
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Leading Global Cloud Service Provider Deploys Market-Leading Nexenta Open Software-Defined Storage Solutions on Western Digital All Flash Platform
Peak 10 Achieves 35% Lower TCO while Providing Higher Performance, Simplified Management, and Increased Agility
Santa Clara, CA - February 1, 2017- Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced, in conjunction with the release of IDC’s Buyer Case Study, that Peak 10 (@Peak_Ten), a national IT infrastructure, connectivity and cloud service provider, selected the NexentaStor and Western Digital® InfiniFlash™ platform storage solution. This decision has enabled Peak 10 to future-proof their Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offerings and provide an economic, agile, and flexible solution to their customers.
With 16 datacenters in key US markets, Peak 10 provides thousands of enterprise customers with both production and disaster recovery services, expanding their cloud business at an impressive rate of 25 percent year over year. Peak 10’s Recovery Cloud delivers disaster recovery that supports a wide range of workloads and offers DRaaS for colocation customers using Peak 10 production workloads as well as those who need disaster recovery in the cloud.
As Peak 10 was refreshing their hardware, they looked to newer software-defined storage all-flash solutions to provide higher performance, greater efficiencies, lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and to simplify the management of their storage infrastructure. It was also crucial for Peak 10 to ensure that their storage supported their rapid growth while simultaneously offering their customers flexibility across a variety of workloads and ensuring that the SLAs related to performance and availability were met or exceeded.
After deploying over 2.5 petabytes of NexentaStor and the Western Digital InfiniFlash all-flash platform (AFP) solution, Peak 10 has accomplished the following:
- Dramatically increased storage performance and reduced latency to 1-2 milliseconds
- Greater scalability and enterprise-class data services, including improved datacenter ecosystem integration capabilities
- Reduced in rack space requirements by more than 90 percent and energy consumption by 75 percent
- 35 percent TCO reduction relative to their legacy storage
“With the all-flash NexentaStor and InfiniFlash deployment, we’ve seen a number of performance, ease-of use, and scalability benefits,” said Chad Buzzard, Director of Cloud Infrastructure at Peak 10. “Many of our customers regularly perform DR tests, and depending on exactly what a customer was testing, concerns around disk performance could arise. Since switching to software-defined storage on flash with lower latencies and higher throughput, those concerns have virtually disappeared."
“Peak 10’s experience with both All-Flash Appliances and Software-Defined Storage is being replicated across many enterprises and cloud providers alike,” said Eric Burgener, Research Director, Storage, IDC. “AFAs are clearly the future of primary storage, and products like InfiniFlash - when running on enterprise-class unified storage software platforms like NexentaStor - are bringing the benefits of flash to additional workload types, such as DR, that have traditionally been considered secondary."
" Software-Defined Storage on all-flash is breaking down storage economic barriers and is enabling our customers to take flash to workloads they would never have considered in the past " said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO, Nexenta. "At Nexenta, we combine performance, cost-optimization, and scalability to deliver storage that provides simplicity and flexibility with a rich enterprise feature set to our customers, such as Peak 10, so that they can deliver superior solutions and service to their own customers.”
“Cloud service providers like Peak 10 must depend on the ability to deliver reliable, scalable, and agile storage infrastructures for their customers,” said Gary Lyng, senior director of marketing, Data Center Systems business unit, Western Digital. “Data is critical to the success of both Peak 10 and to their customers as they depend on it to drive business and deliver value. We are pleased that they selected our award-winning InfiniFlash platform and the NexentaStor SDS solution to optimize their infrastructure and offerings.”
For more detailed information on Peak 10’s deployment, read the IDC’s Buyer Case Study titled, “Cloud Provider Peak 10 Deploys Nexenta to Improve Efficiency and Performance While Lowering Cost” here: http://www.nexenta.com/IDCPeak10
In addition, Peak 10, Nexenta, and Western Digital are hosting a webinar to expand on how this decision has benefitted their business.
- Title: Solution Provider Peak 10 Deploys Storage Smarter with All-Flash SDS to Improve Efficiency and Performance
- Speakers: Chad Buzzard, Director of Cloud Infrastructure at Peak 10, Michael Letschin, Field CTO at Nexenta, Fred Vasofsky, Senior Director at SanDisk
- When: Wednesday February 1st, 2017 10:00AM PT
- Register: http://bit.ly/2kO45qE
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS). Founded in 2005 with 6,000+ customers and more than 1,500 petabytes of storage under management, our privately held company delivers 100% Software-based storage solutions, providing organizations with Total Freedom to choose an easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage solution to fit their needs. Nexenta enables everyday apps; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack to CloudStack – and 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 24x7 - around the globe - service and support. Nexenta has an All Love approach with its global partner network, including solution integration with top hardware partners to deliver validated and certified OpenSDS solutions to fit your business requirements.
For more information, download the Nexenta Overview and visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter (link is external), Facebook (link is external), LinkedIn (link is external) and YouTube (link is external). Also, download the 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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