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Nexenta Delivers Most Advanced Software-Defined Storage Solutions for All-Flash Arrays, VMware Horizon 6.0, and VMware Virtual SAN at VMworld 2014
This new release of Nexenta solutions bring unmatched economic benefits to high-performance all-flash storage; improved data reduction, analytics, reporting, availability, reliability, and management; widest range of platform and protocol support, while delivering full-featured file services managed through VMware vCenter on Virtual SAN deployments.
Santa Clara, CA. – August 20, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced new updates to its NexentaConnect and NexentaStor solutions. The latest addition to the NexentaConnect family, NexentaConnect for VMware® Virtual SAN™, adds full-featured SMB and NFS file services to VMware’s Virtual SAN offering. NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon is also updated and improves upon the automation and acceleration for VMware Horizon® Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI). NexentaStor release 4.1 now supports a performance optimized ‘all flash mode’ for low latency all flash reference architectures, VAAI integration and VMware vCenter™ Management Plug-in. These solutions will be revealed and demonstrated for the first time at VMworld 2014 US, August 24-28 in San Francisco.
"Nexenta's integration with VMware is a good move in today’s fast-evolving SDS market. VMware is rapidly advancing its capabilities to enable the Software-Defined Data Center," said Simon Robinson, Research Vice President at 451 Research. “Nexenta’s offerings augment and enhance the virtualization journey for customers as they seek to realize improvements in manageability, flexibility and efficiency.”
“’Software-Defined’ is changing the industry and allowing customers to simplify their infrastructure, reduce costs and achieve new levels of automation and scale,” Gaetan Castelein, senior director, product management, Software-Defined Storage at VMware. “Nexenta’s latest Software-Defined Storage solutions for all flash arrays and hyper-converged infrastructure powered by VMware Virtual SAN are great complements to VMware cloud infrastructure deployments.”
"Enterprises today are challenged by ever-growing storage requirements driven by trends like virtualization, mobility, social media, the Internet of Things, and Big Data," according to Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta. "Nexenta and VMware are changing the game with our full featured Software-Defined Storage VDI deployments by delivering flexibility, simplicity and lower total cost of ownership.”
NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN
NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN integrates with and augments VMware Virtual SAN by adding enterprise-class Windows and UNIX based file services without the need for any additional hardware purchases. NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN completes hyper-converged Virtual SAN deployments by utilizing local Virtual SAN storage in servers to deliver high performance NFS and SMB file services to Virtual Machines and Virtual Desktops, all managed through a single vCenter console. Additionally, NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN:
- Runs seamlessly on VMware Virtual SAN
- 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 saving 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
More information on NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN is available at nexenta.com/nexentaconnect, with the solution being made available in Q3 2014.
NexentaConnect 3.0 for VMware Horizon®
NexentaConnect 3.0 for VMware Horizon provides improved acceleration and automation for VMware Horizon 6 Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI). This new release builds on NexentaConnect’s advanced features provided by both the VMware Horizon Suite as well as the core VMware vSphere® products. NexentaConnect helps users better integrate storage and desktop management, and also offers up to a 75% increase in desktop density per host and up to a 10x improvement in end user experience via reduced latency. Additionally NexentaConnect 3.0 provides:
- Advanced analytics on a per desktop and pool basis
- Simplified desktop management
- Read cache acceleration to accelerate non-persistent environments
- Advancements in write caching capabilities and SAN offload to accelerate all virtual desktops
- Support for graphics intensive desktops utilizing Blast or GPU acceleration
- Ability to import existing Horizon desktop pools seamlessly into a NexentaConnect storage and acceleration solution
- Support for VMware Horizon 6 or Citrix XenDesktop on vSphere infrastructures
- Simple to configure disaster recovery functionality for maximum availability
NexentaStor 4.1
NexentaStor 4.1 brings the economic benefits of Software-Defined Storage to high performance, low latency all flash block and file shared storage configurations. This update to the market-leading SDS solution also hardens support for VMware and Microsoft integration. For IT executives and storage administrators who have been grappling with new demands on high performance, enterprise-class storage environments, NexentaStor 4.1 introduces all-SSD reference architectures with inline data de-duplication and compression and support for the latest hardware. Among other enhancements in NexentaStor 4.1:
- VMware VAAI and vCenter Management Plug-in
- Performance optimized “all flash mode” for all-SSD reference architectures
- Reference architectures with up to 150TB of raw SanDisk or HGST SSDs
- All flash, block and file storage configurations with unlimited snapshots, clones and long distance replication
- High performance inline data reduction (compression and deduplication)
- Support for high performance 12Gbps SAS and 16Gbps FC
More information on NexentaStor 4.1 is available at nexenta.com/nexentastor, with the solution being made available in 4Q2014.
Supporting Quotes:
“Coupled with Aberdeen’s ZXP Series of Nexenta optimized storage configurations, Nexenta continues to help enterprises liberate themselves from the traditional proprietary hardware storage approach, and have a full-featured, unified storage solution that scales to meet growing storage requirements.” said Moshe Ovadya, President and CEO at Aberdeen LLC. “Our customers will benefit from the new products and features in their software-defined storage portfolio.”
“Our mission is to provide the latest high-performance, power-optimized technologies into the data center and Nexenta is a key partner in making that happen,” said Dan Johns, Head of Technical Services at Boston Limited. “They have proven that they can solve the price and performance conundrum in VDI implementations. The new product enhancements that Nexenta is unveiling will continue to impress our customers who need high performing storage to work in a wide variety of environments without paying a fortune.”
"Cisco’s UCS E-Series servers and NexentaConnect for Horizon simplify your branch office infrastructure with a converged platform,” said Jay Chokshi, Manager, Product Management at Cisco. "The combination of Cisco, Nexenta and VMware technology gives virtual desktop administrators the means to accelerate performance, provide greater desktop density, and keep TCO in line."
“Citrix XenDesktop offers great value for delivering joint VDI customer deployments using NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN in combination with VMware Virtual SAN. When used in a XenDesktop environment running on top of VMware vSphere, this integrated solution gives our customers a full and comprehensive storage offering at the lowest cost per desktop with the easiest options to deploy and maintain.” Calvin Hsu, Vice President of Product Marketing, Desktop and Applications Group, at Citrix.
“Nexenta is a trusted partner of Dell, and enables us to provide end-to-end solutions to our customers,” said Sam Greenblatt, VP&CTO Engineered Solutions and Technology at Dell. “NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN is another example of Nexenta helping enterprises get the most of storage and unlock the true potential of the data center.”
“HGST’s broad portfolio of enterprise storage solutions are engineered with high-performance, high-capacity, reliability and endurance in mind,” said Ulrich Hansen, vice president of SSD product marketing, HGST. “Together with Nexenta, who continues to advance the Software-Defined Storage Market with its NexentaStor platform, we are able to provide enterprise customers with powerful hardware and software solutions that are built to enhance the modern data center infrastructure by enabling enterprise-class scalability, accelerated performance, while minimizing latency and TCO.”
“We are constantly looking for ways to helping the medical staff create a collaborative care environment with better patient outcome, while keeping an eye on IT costs,” said Aivars Apsite, Technology Strategist at Metro Health. “We look forward to the new features in NexentaConnect 3.0 for VMware Horizon that will allow us to further integrate storage and improve desktop management while leveraging our investment in our virtualized infrastructure.”
“NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN is another step towards a software-defined data center,” said William Bell, VP of Product Development from PhoenixNAP. “Solution providers coupling vSAN with NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN can now provide file services allowing customers to deploy robust, private cloud architectures. NexentaConnect fills the needs that our customers are looking for.”
“We believe that in order to realize the full potential of enterprise solid state storage, we must deliver innovations in both hardware and software,” said John Scaramuzzo, senior vice president and general manager, Enterprise Storage Solutions, SanDisk. “We are excited to work with Nexenta to bring all the benefits of flash to IT executives and storage administrators who are grappling with new demands on high performance, enterprise-class storage environments.”
“Supermicro Green Computing Solutions integrate the most advanced Enterprise-class compute, storage, networking and software technologies to meet the evolving demands of any scale virtualization application,” said Wally Liaw, Sr. Vice President of Sales at Supermicro. “Our ongoing collaboration with Nexenta is delivering customers an all SSD storage system and combined with our VMware certified Virtual SAN storage platforms, customers can achieve extreme performance with reduced latency in a highly energy-efficient next generation software-defined storage solution.”
“Public safety agencies rely on TriTech to store, manage and secure emergency data from a variety of devices, sensors and end-points,” said Scott Key, System Administrator, TriTech Software Systems. “Nexenta has proven to us that we don't have to sacrifice on price, simplicity, or manageability and integrates seamlessly with our VMware implementation. The updates to NexentaStor will only enhance the mission-critical services that we provide. “
“We are delighted to partner with Nexenta to integrate Vital Labs vSphere storage management plugin with NexentaStor,” said Tapesh Goyal, Founder of Vital Labs. “This joint solution will help VMware customers to manage NexentaStor seamlessly in vSphere environment. Using this plugin, administrators can provision, take snapshots, restore, clone and monitor NexentaStor from vCenter web console itself.”
“VM Racks provides enterprise-class virtualization solutions and managed hosting to government, healthcare, and business organizations worldwide,” said GIl Vidals, CEO, VM Racks. “As a vetted HIPAA hosting provider, VM Racks' maintains the highest level of audits and certifications. Compliance is critical to our business and that of our customers, and we can't compromise on storage. NexentaStor has provided us with an enterprise-quality solution. We look forward to the next version of NexentaStor as we continue to rely on Nexenta to help us balance scalability, performance, and cost in our storage system.”
“As the system integrator for Nexenta, the new releases of Nexenta with updated feature sets like flash capability and high performance SAS will help us to move critical workloads of our customers from massively expensive storages to cost efficient ones, with zero performance impact. This also helps enhance our globally recognized Storage infrastructure optimization services,” said Anuj Bhalla, VP & Global BU Head, Product, System Integration and Maintenance Services, GIS Wipro Ltd.
“With NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN, we are able to simplify storage administration, scale storage capacity, and help keep costs in line while delivering a seamless storage solution for our VDI implementation internally and to our VirtuaDeskTM customers,” said Andrey Zhulenev, General Manager and VirtuaDeskTM Practice Head, Wipro."
Further resources
NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN datasheet and Joint VMware/Nexenta Whitepaper
NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon 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 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.
VMware Horizon,vCenter,vSphere and VMware Virtual SAN are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.
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Nexenta Launches Revolutionary Software-Defined Scale Out Object Storage Solution for OpenStack and Big Data Infrastructures
NexentaEdge Delivers High-Performance Block, Swift and S3 Object Services with Industry First Global Inline Deduplication on Petabyte Scale Cluster
Santa Clara, CA. – August 19, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced the launch of NexentaEdge 1.0 – the industry’s first software-only scale out block and object storage solution designed to deliver high performance global inline deduplication on petabyte scale clusters. NexentaEdge is ideally suited for next-generation open source cloud infrastructures and Big Data repositories requiring performance, scale and low total cost of ownership. The solution will be demonstrated for the first time at VMworld US 2014, August 24-28 in San Francisco.
Object storage is increasingly taking center stage as a required storage option to support emerging cloud-based and Big Data applications. Breaking with the constraints of legacy enterprise storage, modern object stores are specifically designed to run on extremely low cost shared nothing clusters and present all capacity as one single pool. Key characteristics include scaling to virtually unlimited sizes while remaining easy to manage and highly resilient to device and node failures. IDC forecasts that worldwide revenue for file-based and object-based storage will reach $38 billion by 2017, a 65% increase from the estimated $23 billion revenue in 2013. Even more significantly, IDC forecasts total capacity shipments for file and object storage to reach 173 exabytes by 2017, more than 4 times the capacity shipped in 2013.
"The challenge for IT decision makers is that the growth in unstructured data is placing huge pressure on already tight IT budgets," said Ashish Nadkarni, Storage Systems Research Director, IDC. "File-based and object-based solutions are much more versatile and will quickly outpace more rigid, hardware-based options. Software-based storage solutions based on commodity hardware platforms will lead the charge in the file- and object-based storage market."
NexentaEdge is a new scalable solution that helps enterprises store and manage the growing amount of unstructured data including film, medical images, graphic designs and cloud backup/archive. The solution allows users to store any amount of data in a single, highly available repository with industry leading TCO thanks to inline data deduplication functionality.
Complementing the existing NexentaStor solution, NexentaEdge 1.0 features include:
- Industry-standard x86 server utilization running Ubuntu or Red Hat Linux
- iSCSI Block, Cinder, Swift and S3 Object APIs
- Scale out, shared nothing architecture of any scale
- Always on, high performance global inline deduplication and compression
- Continuous real-time optimization of performance and capacity utilization
- Network optimization to reduce bandwidth requirements and avoid congestion
- Self-healing capabilities using strong cryptographic hashing to guarantee data integrity
- Designed to take advantage of key/value drives optimized for next generation scale-out object storage (e.g. Seagate Kinetic)
"The explosion of unstructured data driven by today's trends of social, mobile, the Internet of Things, and Big Data is hard to ignore. The legacy hardware- and new appliance-based systems are not designed to handle these sorts of workloads, data types and volumes. However, it has become the norm for the legacy vendors to keep chucking more hardware at the problem," said Tarkan Maner, CEO at Nexenta. "Nexenta delivers the most comprehensive Software-Defined Storage portfolio on any hardware platform, across any type of protocol or workload. With today's announcement of NexentaEdge we are extending our disruptive technology capabilities.Now, we are providing enterprises and cloud service providers with a state-of-the-art Software-Defined Solution portfolio delivering ultra-scale, performance and TCO from block and file to object storage on any platform and for any workload or app."
Availability
NexentaEdge will be available worldwide in Q4 2014. For more information, visit: http://www.nexenta.com/products/nexentaedge
Supporting Quotes
“Citrix CloudPlatform is a turn-key cloud orchestration solution based on an open and flexible architecture that can run every application workload at scale and with simplicity,” said Krishna Subramanian, VP of Marketing, Cloud Platform Group at Citrix. “NexentaEdge complements that philosophy with an object storage software solution that is both storage and network optimized for great performance. We are looking forward to making the power of NexentaEdge available to our global install base of CloudPlatform customers.”
"As a company at the forefront of the OpenStack movement, we are focusing on building the next generation of enterprise infrastructure that will support future cloud applications,” said Randy Bias, Founder and CEO of Cloudscaling. “Object Storage will play a fundamental role in enabling that vision and is important for enterprises who need cost-effective petabyte scale storage for storage hungry applications. Delivering on innovation in the object storage space, NexentaEdge helps enterprises avoid vendor lock-in with proprietary hardware, reduce the cost of storage with deduplication, and manage 100s of petabytes with ease."
"As the pure-play OpenStack vendor we work with companies globally to provide them with the right infrastructure," according to Boris Renski, co-founder and CMO at Mirantis. "Customers are realizing that one of OpenStack's greatest benefits is its openness and interoperability. By adding an open Software-Defined Storage solution to the stack, NexentaEdge creates a great solution to support scale-out storage that will underpin petabytes of data.”
"Software-Defined Storage is a core component of the hosting services that we provide to our clients across North America," according to Chris Orlando, Co-founder and CSMO at ScaleMatrix. "As our customers grapple with managing and storing unstructured data, object storage is becoming an important technology for us to have in our repertoire. NexentaEdge will be a perfect complement to our cloud, hosting and IaaS solutions for customers."
"Seagate is delivering breakthrough innovation and economics in scale-out object storage, with our Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Platform," according to Kaustubh Das, vice president, Advance Storage Solutions at Seagate Technology. "This technology represents an opportunity to substantially address the inefficiencies of traditional data centers whose legacy architectures are poorly adapted to a world of exploding unstructured data and applications. NexentaEdge is a perfect complement to the Seagate Kinetic vision and we look forward to a continued partnership as both products come to market."
Further resources
Tweet this: .@Nexenta launches #NexentaEdge -- industry first software-only Object Storage http://tinyurl.com/m6l6fgk #OpenStack #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.
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Innovative Building Design and Construction Company Improves IT Performance with Nexenta’s Software Defined Storage
Santa Clara, CA and Almere, Amsterdam - August 18th, 2014 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced that Architecten aan de Maas has chosen Nexenta for its new, mirrored, storage environment. By adopting NexentaStor, the architectural practice has been able to upgrade its storage and boost its performance capacity allowing all of its team to collaborate more effectively, quickly and successfully.
Nexenta addressed two key challenges for Architecten aan de Maas. The company was managing huge quantities of data every day – a typical project needs 25 GB of storage and then it must be kept on file and archived after the projects are completed. Architecten aan de Maas also needed to boost their infrastructure performance because the incumbent storage solution couldn’t meet the needed requirements.
Peter Hilkens, system manager with Architecten aan de Maas, explained: “We were busy virtualizing our physical servers while also improving our storage performance. The physical servers had reached their maximum capacity, so it was critical that we upgraded the entire storage environment. We needed a scalable storage solution with high read and write speeds, which would also be able to meet the future growth requirements of the company.”
After reviewing a number of storage suppliers, Architecten aan de Maas opted for Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage solution, NexentaStor, combined with 4 HP Proliant 360 G6 servers.
“With NexentaStor’s High Availability feature we can now guarantee 24/7 accessibility to our storage,” noted Hilkens. “Given that our team creates and saves huge quantities of data every day, and that this data is mirrored across both locations for continuity purposes, it’s vital for us that our data centre is always available.”
The migration trajectory to the Nexenta platform was set up by IT service provider NLcom and was problem-free: “During the migration we didn’t have to do any physical unplugging, which was welcome and a bonus for us. With the old systems, if we needed to change discs and migrate data to their replacements, the storage servers were offline for at least an hour. The transition to Nexenta was flawless, and in the future too, adding and changing discs will be far easier and less disruptive.”
“Our success in vertical markets, such as the engineering industry, demonstrates the versatility and the universal added value that Nexenta brings to market. We are extremely happy to have provided an effective solution that can grow to match the anticipated storage needs of Architecten aan de Maas over the next five years and beyond. Together with our partners in the region, we will continue to help businesses across different market segments to manage and support their data growth,” concluded Jacco van Achterberg, Sales Director, Benelux at Nexenta.
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For more information about Architecten aan de Maas, please read their case study in Dutch here, and in English
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 Holds Annual Executive Summit on Open Source and Software-Defined Everything
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Keynote at Nexenta OpenSDx Summit 2014
Speakers Include CEOs and Key Executives at Citrix, Cloudscaling, CERN, Dell, Ernst & Young, HP, Mirantis, SanDisk, Softbank, Supermicro, Teradici, University of California System, VCE, VMware, Western Digital, and Wipro
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – August 18, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced that the company will host its annual invitation-only Nexenta OpenSDx Summit, one of the technology industry’s leading executive forums, on Thursday, August 28th, at St. Regis Hotel, in San Francisco, CA. The Summit will feature a full day of thought-provoking discussions where attendees will hear from today’s industry leaders on emerging Open Source and Software-Defined Data Center technologies – and take part in executive networking opportunities.
“We are super excited to host one of the most innovative executive events in the industry, including many leading technology thought leaders and sought-after speakers in the industry. We are honored to bring two of the most innovative political leaders, committed to IT innovation, education, and economic growth via public and private partnerships; University of California system President, Janet Napolitano, and Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at Nexenta. “Our Summit also rides on the heels of VMworld 2014, where we are announcing some of the most disruptive new solutions around Open Source-driven Software-Defined Data Center technologies.”
In addition to Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Napolitano, several top hi-tech leaders and innovators will be speaking at the event, including:
- Mark Templeton, CEO at Citrix Systems
- Randi Bias, Founder and CEO at Cloudscaling
- Marius Haas, President and COO at Dell Enterprise Solutions Group
- Gunther Dissertori, Distinguished Professor at ETH Zurich/CERN
- Maria Pinelli, Global Vice Chair at Ernst & Young
- Tom Bradicich, VP, Engineering at HP
- Boris Renski, Founder at Mirantis
- Tarkan Maner, CEO and Chairman at Nexenta
- Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO at SanDisk
- Andrew Schwabecher, Head of Cloud Computing at Softbank
- Charles Liang, CEO at Supermicro
- Dan Cordingley, CEO at Teradici
- Praveen Akkiraju, CEO at VCE
- Pat Gelsinger, CEO at VMware
- Steve Milligan, President and CEO at Western Digital
- Andrey Zhulenev, Partner at Wipro
Nexenta’s OpenSDx Summit is open to all press. To request a media pass and receive media requirements, please email Allison.Darin@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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Ask Tarkan Maner Anything
Nexenta CEO Participates in 2nd Reddit.com AMA to Discuss How Open Source and Software-Defined Everything Technologies Are Changing Our World
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — August 14, 2014 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage) (SDS), today announced that Chairman and CEO Tarkan Maner will participate in his 2nd Reddit.com Ask Me Anything (AMA). Tarkan is looking to answer questions related to Software-Defined Storage, networking and data centers and the revolutionary impact these solutions can have on businesses worldwide.
Details are as follows:
| Topic: | Ask Tarkan Anything! |
| Date/Time: | Monday, August 18, 2014 at 1:00 pm Pacific Time |
| Host: | Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at Nexenta, @TarkanManer |
| Real-time link: | http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ |
| Twitter: | @nexenta, @reddit_AMA, @TarkanManer |
Tarkan joins the likes of President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Malcom Gladwell, Brian Krzanich, Blake Irving, Larry King, David Spade, Shaquille O’Neal, 50 Cent, Johnny Knoxville, and many others, as he participates in his 2ndreddit.com AMA (Ask Me Anything).
To ask a question, please go to http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/. On the upper right hand side of the page, click “login or register” and proceed appropriately. Once logged in, from the IAmA page, click on the Tarkan’s feed, which will be blue, and then submit your question.
Nexenta is a Platinum Sponsor at VMworld 2014 on August 24th-28th and will be hosting OpenSDx Summit on August 28thin San Francisco, CA. Questions on both events welcomed.
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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Award Winning European Visual Effects Company Selects Nexenta's Software-Defined Storage to Manage its Growing Storage Needs
Award Winning European Visual Effects Company Selects Nexenta's Software-Defined Storage to Manage its Growing Storage Needs
BlueBolt has “Great Expectations” with Nexenta
Santa Clara, CA and London, UK, August 5th, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software- Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, has announced it has been chosen by BlueBolt an award-winning visual effects (VFX) firm, to manage its growing enterprise storage needs.
Founded in 2009, BlueBolt has quickly grown into one of London’s most respected boutique VFX organisations. It has provided the visual effects for many award-winning productions including BBC’s Great Expectations (BAFTA Winner), Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom, the Emmy award winning TV show Game of Thrones (Season One) along with being part of multiple vendors on a sections of shots on Pirates of the Caribbean, The Fast and The Furious, and the Oscar-winning 007 movie Skyfall.
An adaptive storage solution that can manage the growing workload of BlueBolt’s creative and technical staff is imperative to keep up with the evolving demands in the industry. As with any business where data is mission critical to its operations, it is vital that BlueBolt can rely on its storage solution to deliver high-performance. It must also have the ability to grow with the demands of the company, whilst remaining cost effective.
Working with Escape Technologies, BlueBolt selected Nexenta’s SDS solution to centralise and manage its storage infrastructure and replace the various storage platforms it had in place. Collaborating with its technology partner, Dell, to provide the hardware, and utilising the open-source ZFS-based operating system, BlueBolt implemented a two node HA Cluster with 144TB of raw NexentaStor capacity, which provides 68TB useable capacity. The entire solution is designed to manage its ever-growing data needs.
“The amount of critical data we are creating at BlueBolt is always growing. Data loss or system failure would be unacceptable. We needed to implement a secure, reliable, scalable storage solution and chose Nexenta because of its growing reputation in the visual effects community,” said George Siddiqui, CTO, BlueBolt. “We now have peace of mind that our storage can cope with our workloads. Nexenta has all of the features we would expect from an enterprise storage platform while remaining one of the most cost-effective solutions on the market.”
Jacco Van Achterberg, EMEA Sales Director at Nexenta, said: “Our SDS offering is perfectly suited to the media space, where large files need to be easily accessible at the touch of a button. We pride ourselves on stepping away from the Massively Expensive Storage Systems (MESS) provided by larger vendors and work in partnership with our customers to make sure the solution they implement is the best fit for them. We are delighted that BlueBolt has chosen to implement a future-proof SDS solution to support it as it grows.”
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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 "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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Leading European Energy Supplier Powers its Business with Nexenta Software-Defined Storage
Leading European Energy Supplier Powers its Business with Nexenta Software-Defined Storage
Cost-effective and scalable unified storage solution boosts reliability and performance
Munich, Germany and Santa Clara, CA, USA, August 4th, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage) (SDS), today announced that Stadtwerke Tuttlingen (SWT), a regional German energy supplier, has chosen Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage solution to underpin its entire infrastructure.
Founded in 1896, SWT is responsible for providing electricity, gas, and water utilities to over 34,200 residents across 980 square miles in the South West area of Germany. Along with its responsibility for the power grid, SWT also supplies natural gas to private and business customers while managing two-thirds of Tuttlingen’s drinking water and urban drainage.
SWT was running multiple high performance databases (Oracle, MSSQL) but the existing storage solution was hampered by relatively bad optimisation. The system was only four years old but also incapable of supporting a planned VDI deployment.
After testing and evaluating a system that was recommended by Nexenta’s German premium partner Sievers Group, SWT opted for a 60TB NexentaStor license to underpin the entire SWT infrastructure at its headquarter’s data centre.
Meik Müller, IT Manager at SWT commented: “To keep our IT-system flexible enough to react with a rapidly evolving energy market, we were looking for a new storage system that offered high performance, flexibility and high availability. We already had experience with software-defined storage but it was when we met Nexenta that we knew we had the right solution.”
Using NexentaStor, SWT has significantly increased the performance of its storage environments while keeping its costs low. One of the key selling points for SWT was the simplicity of Nexenta: There was no need for complex licensing. NexentaStor features, such as, unlimited snapshots, thin provisioning and hybrid storage pooling, helped SWT to implement cost-effective storage with high performance.
Mark Jordan, VP and GM, EMEA at Nexenta said: “Our SDS solution cuts vendor lock-in, radically improves TCO and offers improved performance and scalability. Our solution helps companies like SWT avoid the MESS (Massive Expensive Storage Systems) and concentrate on growing and building their business – boosting productivity and customer service. It’s a win win for everyone.”
For more information please read the full case study: http://info.nexenta.com/rs/nexenta2/images/Stadtwerke_Tuttlingen_Case_St...
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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 "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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University of Sussex Graduates to Software-Defined Storage from Nexenta
University of Sussex Graduates to Software-Defined Storage from Nexenta
Nexenta Scores Top Marks for Flexibility, Scalability and Cost
London, UK and Santa Clara, CA, USA, July 31, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced that the University of Sussex, a world leading teaching and research institution, has selected NexentaStor™ to improve network performance and prepare for the future development of its diverse, flexible IT infrastructure.
The IT department at the University of Sussex provides support for the entire university – 13,000 students and over 2,100 staff – with a single home directory service that enables users to access files from whatever device and operating system they are using, wherever they are on the campus.
With the original solution approaching the end of its useful life, the IT department needed to explore new solutions. Working with NAS UK to replace its existing system, the university looked at a number of options including sticking with the incumbent supplier, or switching to other solutions, including Nexenta. After weighing up all the options, Nexenta was selected because of its flexibility, scalability and attractive economics.
James Goodlet, head of infrastructure services, IT services, University of Sussex, explains: “Nexenta was actually the most cost effective but that wasn’t why we chose it. We got a really good feel from the company, talked with them extensively and did a thorough evaluation with their support. They even sent developers on to the campus to talk through some of the issues we saw. We were very impressed with that level of support and feedback. It’s unusual to have such an open relationship with a vendor.”
Alongside NexentaStor, the university chose Dell R720 servers which NAS UK arranged with particular SAS HBA cards and solid state disks (SSDs) to support optimal integration. The resulting solution delivered the performance the university sought, and paved the way for sustainable expansion. Indeed, as a result of the stability, scalability and performance of Nexenta, the University of Sussex’s IT department is now looking to other campus storage systems and even further opportunities to consolidate, increase speed, and grow efficiently.
Mark Jordan, VP and GM, EMEA at Nexenta, comments: “The Nexenta implementation marks a milestone for the university and a move towards an industry- leading, best of breed Software Defined data enterprise that will support the campus, its students and staff now and for the future.”
For more information please read the full case study: http://info.nexenta.com/rs/nexenta2/images/Univ_Sussex-CaseStudy.pdf
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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 "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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Join the Nexenta and 451 Research Webinar: “Software. Defined. Everything. The Next Big Thing.”
Join the Nexenta and 451 Research Webinar: “Software. Defined. Everything. The Next Big Thing.”
Nexenta CEO, TarkanManer (@TarkanManer) and 451 Research Storage VP, Simon Robinson (@simonrob451) to discuss Software-Defined Storage in today’s digital world
Santa Clara, CA and London, UK – July 31, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage) (SDS), today announced it is hosting a live webinar in collaboration with 451 Research on Thursday, August 7th at 10.00 – 11.00 AM PDT (18.00-1900 BST) to discuss Software-Defined Storage in today’s digital world and the disruptive role it will play in the future of global infrastructure.
Join Nexenta’s CEO, Tarkan Maner and 451 Research’s Storage VP, Simon Robinson for a dynamic, entertaining and educational discussion about how the erupting Software-Defined trend is radically revolutionizing the way enterprises think about and execute on their evolving IT infrastructure.
This discussion, aimed at C-Level executives and senior IT decision makers, will offer real world insight into trending topics like, why the Software-Defined Everything movement is already real, disruptive and changing everything; game-changing software-defined storage infrastructure innovation; and how organizations are dealing the data explosion from today’s big trends in social media, mobility, the Internet of Things, Big Data, and cloud computing. The webinar will also discuss the real life benefits of SDS solutions, including delivery of flexible, hybrid architectures, eliminating vendor lock-in, and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).
To register for the webinar, please visit: http://www.nexenta.com/webinars/451-software-defined-everything
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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 "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 Recognized by CRN as a 2014 Emerging Vendor
Nexenta Recognized by CRN as a 2014 Emerging Vendor
List Highlights Hottest Tech Startups Impacting the IT Channel, Technology Industry
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – July 30, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) solutions, announced today it has been recognized as one of 2014’s hottest emerging technology vendors by CRN, the top news source for solution providers and the IT channel. The annual Emerging Vendors list identifies up-and-coming technology vendors that have introduced innovative new products, creating opportunities for channel partners in North America to create high-margin, cutting-edge solutions for their customers.
Nexenta’s software-defined storage portfolio includes its flagship product NexentaStor – a full-featured NAS/SAN software platform that can be installed on standard commercial hardware with capabilities that meet and exceed the capabilities of legacy storage systems. NexentaStor is the leading hardware-independent OpenStorage solution, and has been implemented by thousands of enterprises. Its revolutionary ZFS-based architecture delivers a set of features that make it the unsurpassed choice for enterprises looking for cloud storage options, either for public or internal use.
The Nexenta Partner Program (NPP) provides Value Added Distributors, Value Added Resellers, System Integrators, and Service Providers globally with the most innovative software-defined storage solutions to enable the move to a software-defined enterprise. The NPP is designed for worldwide channel partners who want to market, sell, manage, deliver, and support Nexenta's complete suite of SDS solutions. NPP enables, promotes, and rewards partners for investing in and delivering pre- and post-sales value-added services to their customers.
“Solution providers are always on the hunt for the next big technology trend so that they can bring new solutions to their customers before they even know they need them. These vendors are on the forefront of IT innovation and are offering products and services that channel partners can use to stay ahead of the competition,” said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company, publisher of CRN. “We congratulate 2014’s Emerging Vendors for creating the next wave of technology that will drive the IT industry forward and for opening the door to new, unique solutions from the IT channel.”
“Nexenta and our channel partners collaborate to provide enterprises with flexible, scaleable and cost-efficient software-defined storage solutions,” said Don Lopes, Director of Channel Sales and Marketing, Americas at Nexenta. “We are honored to be named to the Emerging Vendors list as an innovator laying the groundwork for a software-defined future and liberating enterprises from legacy storage hardware."
Companies included in CRN’s 2014 Emerging Vendors list were founded in 2008 or later and are actively working with channel partners in North America. The list, along with information about each vendor, will be published in CRN’s August 2014 issue and will also be available online at www.crn.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 "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 The Channel Company
The Channel Company is the channel community's trusted authority for growth and innovation, with established brands including CRN, XChange Events, IPED, and SharedVue. For more than three decades, we have leveraged our proven and leading-edge platforms to deliver prescriptive sales and marketing solutions for the technology channel. The Channel Company provides Communication, Recruitment, Engagement, Enablement, Demand Generation and Intelligence services to drive technology partnerships. Learn more at www.thechannelcompany.com.
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