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Nexenta and Mirantis Collaborate on Innovative OpenStack-based Cloud Deployments
Industry Leaders Join with ScaleMatrix and Other Leading Cloud Providers and Enterprises in Disrupting the IT Industry with a Software Defined Data Center Vision
SANTA CLARA and MOUNTAIN VIEW, California – December 18, 2013 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions, and Mirantis (@Mirantisit), the number one pure-play OpenStack vendor, today announced a partnership to develop and deliver enterprise-class solutions that help cloud solution providers and enterprises simplify and harden large-scale, cloud deployments based on Nexenta’s industry-leading Software Defined Storage platform and Mirantis OpenStack distribution.
Through this partnership, NexentaStor, the number one Software Defined Storage platform on any commodity hardware, will integrate with Mirantis OpenStack to help simplify customer experience for large-scale and complex OpenStack deployments in both public and private cloud environments.
Nexenta and Mirantis solutions help customers escape from vendor lock-in, in cloud deployments and tap into the innovation of the OpenStack community. Customers include ScaleMatrix, the leading large-scale cloud service provider based in San Diego, CA. ScaleMatrix is a premier provider of cloud services to public and private sector organizations along with infrastructure technologies from leading systems vendors, including Nexenta, Mirantis and Dell. “Augmenting Nexenta’s Software Defined Storage model with Mirantis OpenStack helps us simplify and accelerate our business service delivery to customers without being forced to rely on the cloud offerings of just one vendor. Our partnership with innovative leaders like Nexenta, Mirantis and Dell, helps us to do what we we’ve always been focused on: providing superior customer services and results,” said Mark Ortenzi, Founder and CEO at ScaleMatrix.
“Nexenta has tapped into the dynamism and innovation of the open source community by making significant code contributions to the upstream OpenStack codebase and enabling its innovative storage technology to work well with OpenStack,” said Adrian Ionel, President and CEO of Mirantis. “We see a lot of interest in Nexenta storage management from our customers, and this partnership will help us provide the best possible experience for them. Through this partnership, Mirantis and Nexenta will be able to free the data center by providing customers with the greatest amount of choice in cloud solutions, allowing them to take advantage of the latest and greatest open source innovations on the fly.”
“Mirantis has a great track record in helping customers deploy OpenStack,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta. “By integrating Nexenta’s leading Software Defined Storage platform with the Mirantis OpenStack platform, we are providing enterprises and cloud service leaders like ScaleMatrix with simplicity, agility and efficiency in their cloud deployments so that they can achieve levels and profitability for their customers.”
Nexenta to Showcase Latest Software-Defined Storage Solutions at Dell World
Nexenta to Showcase Latest Software-Defined Storage Solutions at Dell World
SANTA CLARA, California – December 10, 2013 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced it will showcase its enterprise class, hardware-independent storage software at the Dell World IT Conference (@Dell) in Austin, TX, December 11 - 13, Kiosk #1E2B.
Dell World is the premier IT event for professionals looking to find out new trends, exchange ideas or learn how Dell is evolving to deliver solutions for the future.
Nexenta will have demos of its enterprise storage software, NexentaStor™, as well as its VDI technology, Nexenta VSA for VMware Horizon View™, available at the kiosk.
“Our partnership with Dell allows Nexenta customers to take advantage of Dell’s leadership in customer service, technology and innovation from the data center to end user solutions while leveraging Nexenta’s industry-leading Software-Defined Storage solutions. Our joint solutions are delivering optimized performance and scalability in cloud hosting environments and changing the economics of storage across the enterprise landscape. ” stated Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta.
“Dell’s customers and channel partners are realizing tremendous value from our innovative data center infrastructure solutions coupled with targeted technology and solution partnerships. We are committed to extending Dell’s market leadership in storage and data center infrastructure and providing our customers with end-to-end enterprise solutions,” said Alan Atkinson, Vice President and General Manager, Dell Storage. “Nexenta is one of our key partners in the Software Defined Storage solution space to deliver the best value to our customers and partners.”
With increasing demand for flexible storage capabilities, 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.
Nexenta is a sponsor of the hugely popular grassroots #vBBQ Tuesday night at 7:30pm at the SaltLick in Driftwood, TX. Nexenta is also hosting a VIP cocktail party for customers and partners on Thursday, December 12 from 5:30-8:30pm at the Four Seasons.
Nexenta Extends Industry Leadership in Software-Defined Storage Around Virtualized Data Centers and End Users
Nexenta Extends Industry Leadership in Software-Defined Storage
Around Virtualized Data Centers and End Users
SANTA CLARA, Calif., — December 3, 2013 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions announced today the latest release of Nexenta VSA for VMware Horizon ViewTM v.2.2.1 which is now available for customer download from Nexenta.com.
Nexenta's solution-centric vision is built around the industry leading cloud and virtualization technologies and applications being deployed by customers today, including OpenStack (#openstack), CloudStack (#cloudstack) and VMware (@vmware). With this latest release of VSA for VMware Horizon View 2.2.1, Nexenta is again enhancing its application-defined storage solution designed specifically to address the storage requirements associated with deploying VMware Horizon View.
Nexenta VSA for VMware Horizon Viewv.2.2.1 provides virtual desktop administrators the ability to accelerate the performance of their desktops while providing greater density at a much lower price point. This release includes new and improved capabilities such as:
- enhanced replication support
- improvements in user interface and in user experience.
This is in addition to the industry best virtual desktop acceleration and desktop performance analysis, providing 38x SAN offload and 72 percent increases in density versus traditional Horizon View deployments, all while integrating directly with the VMware Horizon View suite and VMware features.
These features include the use of vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) for Network File Systems (NFS) to accelerate deployment times, providing faster desktop deployment, recomposes and reconfigurations. Key enhancements include:
The Re-tether feature
- Ensures that all virtual desktops and the VSA that serves as their storage are located on the same VMware ESXi host, reducing latency and increasing desktop performance.
- Enables users to choose between VMware vMotion and VMware Storage vMotion providing further integration with the full VMware vision.
VSA auto-start policy
- Reduced auto-start time for VSA improving availability of the desktops Horizon View is serving.
- Additional integration with the vSphere suite configuring high restart priority for the Nexenta VSA.
Extended Backup and Replicated High Availability (RHA) support
- Improved replication progress monitoring to give the administrator greater insight into their infrastructure.
- Added support for bare-metal NexentaStor™ 4.0 as a backup and RHA appliance giving the full benefits of the latest in ZFS file system technology and more reliability.
- Added capability to select a separate network interface for replication traffic increasing performance of backups and reducing recovery times.
Optimized UI load time
Nexenta to Discuss Software-Defined Storage Trends and Myths at Enterprise 451 Storage Summit
Nexenta to Discuss Software-Defined Storage Trends and Myths
at Enterprise 451 Storage Summit
SANTA CLARA, California – November 26, 2013 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced that Tarkan Maner, Nexenta CEO, will host an executive round table, as well as join a panel discussion, at the Enterprise 451 Storage Executive Summit in New York City on December 2, 2013 at the JW Marriott Essex House.
Enterprise 451 events are exclusive summits providing a 360° perspective for the enterprise IT decision maker. The focus of this one-day Summit is “Modernizing the Storage Infrastructure”.
Mr. Maner will host a round table on ‘The Drive for Better Storage Economics’ from 9:50 – 10:30am on the 2nd floor in the Tivoli West Room, discussing why the current storage model is unsustainable based on escalating costs, flat IT budgets and data center limitations. Maner will show organizations how to dramatically reduce their storage spend while simultaneously gaining a highly scalable, feature rich storage platform.
Mr. Maner will also be joining a panel discussion from 5:05 – 5:45pm in the Petit Salon. The focus of the panel will be on “Leading Disruptive Trends in Storage and Success Stories from Enterprise End-Users .” Other panelists include Sara O'Neill, Global Head of Distributed and Mainframe Storage, BNY Mellon (@bnymellon), Darrell Westbury, Regional Director of Storage Operations, Credit Suisse (@creditsuisse) and Doug Soltesz, VP and CIO of Budd Van Lines (@BuddVanLines).
“Software-Defined Storage is on the minds of IT leaders.” states Tarkan Maner, CEO Nexenta, “SDS can reduce storage spend as well as deliver tangible, quantified business benefit as an alternative to the current approach in the face of data center optimization and consolidation. ”
"Software-defined storage is still an emerging term in the industry, but we believe it has the potential to make a significant impact on enterprise storage infrastructure through its ability to enable high-value software to run on commodity hardware,” states Simon Robinson, Research VP - Storage of The451Group, “This has been Nexenta's model from day 1, and as a visionary in the space, I look forward to them participating in the discussion at our summit.”
Nexenta Wins Product of the Year Award in Software Defined StorageAround Cloud Deployments
Nexenta Wins Product of the Year Award in Software Defined Storage
Around Cloud Deployments
Santa Clara, CA - November 25, 2013 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced that its flagship product, NexentaStor, has won "Storage Management Product of the Year" at the Storage, Virtualization, and Cloud (SVC) Awards.
The SVC awards reward the products, projects and services as well as honor 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.
"Nexenta's software is disrupting the market. Its Software-Defined Storage fits perfectly into the Software-Defined Data Center of the future and the industry is starting to sit up and realise the true value of opting for this route. It's no surprise to us that their solution is winning industry recognition. Not only does it offer superior performance, but it gives users the ability to easily scale up and out when needed but at a fraction of the price of legacy storage providers," said Mark Robson, Network Services Administrator, North Devon Homes, Ltd.
"SVC's recognition of Nexenta's revolutionary software storage technology validates our global traction and leadership in this space," said Tarkan Maner, CEO of Nexenta. "We are honored to continue to be recognized for our approach to open source storage and are proud to receive this industry achievement."
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.
Nexenta to Extend its Industry Leadership in Software-Defined Storage via Strategic Collaboration around CloudStack Solutions
Nexenta to Extend its Industry Leadership in Software-Defined Storage via Strategic Collaboration around CloudStack Solutions
Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Santa Clara, CA USA, 20 November 2013—Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) today announced a collaboration with Opscode® Enterprise Chef™ to help CloudStack customers provision and automate their storage, creating the Software-Defined Data Center of the future. The solution will be demonstrated at the CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, 20-22 November.
The combination of Opscode Enterprise Chef and Nexenta, which is already installed at leading Netherlands-based IT outsourcer Schuberg Philis (@schubergphilis), helps users configure their entire hybrid cloud application including the compute, network and storage infrastructure all the way through to application delivery. By augmenting CloudStack with Enterprise Chef and Nexenta, customers can guarantee 100 percent functional uptime on their mission critical application infrastructure, bolstered with the right amount of storage.
The integrated Chef code with NexentaStor allows the entire storage systems for primary or secondary CloudStack storage to be tuned and delivered in a consistent reliable way. This removes the human error from the equation, increasing reliability. Automation of numerous NexentaStor arrays brings software defined storage to the next step in the Software Defined Data Center.
“Chef code can be deployed to tune NexentaStor as needed for each unique group within an organization,” states Ken Cheney, VP of Business Development for Opscode. “This combination presents a unified storage pool to both the CloudStack deployment and any other systems simultaneously via NFS, automating storage resources at the software layer to minimize management.”
Nexenta will demonstrate the solution at the conference. In addition, Nexenta will present a cloud storage workshop with Schuberg Philis:
Date: 20th November
Time: 4pm for one hour
Topic: Automating storage for the cloud workshop
Speaker: Mike Letschin, Tarkan Maner, Nexenta and Brenn Oosterbaan, Schuberg Philis
Dmitry Yusupov, Co-founder of Nexenta, said, “Having 100 percent uptime is business critical for cloud providers. By combining Opscode and NexentaStor, cloud providers can create a unique, highly flexible hybrid cloud that delivers maximum flexibility and availability and combines the best of storage and networking to create a true Software-Defined Data Center.”
To arrange an interview with Nexenta at Cloudstack contact nexenta@touchdownpr.com.
Nexenta Highlights Software Defined Storage at Sponsored ZFS Developers Summit
Nexenta Highlights Software Defined Storage at
Sponsored ZFS Developers Summit
Santa Clara, CA - 18 November 2013—Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) today announced that it is sponsoring this week’s OpenZFS Developer Summit in San Francisco. This is a developer-focused event for OpenZFS (#openzfs) with the goal of fostering cross-platform community discussions of OpenZFS work, and to make progress on some of the projects proposed for the OpenZFS community.
This event will be streamed live from the website. Nexenta developers will be presenting topics on storage tiering and scalability on large systems.
Nexenta Continues to Grow Global Presence in Software Defined Storage
Nexenta Continues to Grow Global Presence in Software Defined Storage
Sievers Group Gains Nexenta Premium Partner Status
Munich, GERMANY and Santa Clara, CA USA - 7 November 2013 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced that Sievers Group has become a Nexenta Premium Partner. Sievers Group is an IT system house, providing a wide spectrum of innovative IT solutions, ranging from infrastructure and network systems to ERP and telecommunications.
Sievers Group has a strong focus on storage and virtualization (#virtualization), CTI and unified communication, as well as custom-developed logistic products. It also provides a tailored range of solutions for its customers, as well as 24/7 monitoring and support service.
Sievers Group has been one of Nexenta’s partners since early 2013. Due to the increase in demand for openstorage (#openstorage) solutions, the company has now built a certified team of 10 Nexenta storage consultants and created a dedicated division for support and training on OpenStorage products from Nexenta. With offices in Mannheim, Frankfurt, Osnabrück, Hamburg and Dortmund and more than 270 highly-skilled employees, Sievers Group is able to support customers that have reached their capacity and performance limits and are looking for a sustainable storage technology that will grow and evolve with their demands without the need to rip and replace.
Sievers Group provides a wide range of business services for mid to enterprise-sized companies. It has established relationships with key players from various industries such as trade, energy and healthcare. In terms of storage requirements the typical target group ranges from between 5TB to 10PB, with most clients having high demands in both performance and high-availability.
Sievers Group can meet customers' needs with Nexenta’s flagship solution NexentaStor™. NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at a competitive cost. The open source-based solution delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage.
With increasing demand for flexible storage capabilities, 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.
“We needed to provide a solution to our customers which was more sustainable over the average lifecycle compared to other storage solutions. Nexenta fit the bill,” said Knut Seifert, Senior Consultant at Sievers Group. “The reliability and quality of Nexenta coupled with a rich set of features and no vendor lock-in, confirmed our decision to move forward and partner with Nexenta.”
“Sievers Group has had a very successful year with several major NexentaStor deployments in Germany, including deployments with Metro HA Clusters. The Sievers team of Nexenta experts understand the market and how OpenStorage can benefit its customers,” said Jacco van Achterberg, sales director EMEA at Nexenta. “With Nexenta, a strong set of features is included in the base license, providing customers the maximum amount of flexibility within their financial limitations.”
Software-Defined Storage Leader Sponsors Educational Foundation Event
Software-Defined Storage Leader Sponsors Educational Foundation Event
Nexenta and Silicon Valley Education Foundation partner
to bolster academic support for local students
SANTA CLARA, California – November 6, 2013 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced its Visionary Sponsorship for Silicon Valley Education Foundation’s (SVEF) Ninth Annual Pioneers & Purpose event which will be held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA on November 6, 2013 from 6-9pm.
SVEF partners with local businesses, such as Nexenta, to drive scholastic achievement in the critical areas of math and science. The Pioneers & Purpose event has raised more than five million dollars for programs that have assisted teachers with their classroom needs and ultimately helped to prepare thousands of underserved youth for college and careers.
Nexenta believes strongly in giving back to the community, especially supporting education through technology in order to provide the resources and knowledge students need to become productive members of the future workforce.
“Education is something I am very passionate about, and I am honored to be part of something as valuable and worthwhile as the Silicon Valley Education Foundation,” states Tarkan Maner, Nexenta's CEO. “Muhammed and his team are a driving force in Silicon Valley and California to improve education and provide opportunities for underprivileged youth.”
“SVEF engages companies like Nexenta and individuals like Tarkan Maner to join forces on the shared goal of supporting the academic needs of children who live in Silicon Valley and preparing them for college and careers,” states Muhammed Chaudhry, CEO of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation.
Nexenta CEO to Speak on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Internet Economy
Nexenta CEO to Speak on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
in the Internet Economy
Santa Clara, CA — November 5, 2013 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced that Nexenta CEO Tarkan Maner will participate in a Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NTFE) panel with entrepreneurs, business leaders and philanthropists on November 5th. Mr. Maner will draw upon his experience leading disruptive start-up companies, like Nexenta, to discuss the importance and value of thinking like an entrepreneur in today’s economy and how to incorporate innovation into every aspect of the company.
For more information, visit: http://www.nftebayarea.com/nfte-entrepreneurship-panel.html.