Nexenta Creates Unprecedented Demand for OpenStorage Solutions
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 2011-- Nexenta Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced continued momentum, with 486 percent revenue growth in the first three quarters of 2011--highlighted by 100 percent quarter on quarter growth between the second and third quarters. In 2011, with the release of Namespace Cluster, NexentaStor emerged as the ideal back-end storage for cloud deployments and for virtualized and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments, as demonstrated by notable customers such as VMware for their Hands-on Labs at VMworld Las Vegas and its upcoming Copenhagen show and major VDI users such as VESK and Delano Regional Medical Center.
Nexenta’s growth is fueled by the enormous demand for cost-effective, enterprise-class storage that meets the exploding growth of data. Other factors include wide ranging dissatisfaction with the lock-in-based business models of monolithic storage providers, the unique capabilities of NexentaStor in cloud deployments and virtualized environments, and the growth in the Nexenta partner network which now includes 256 resellers selling NexentaStor-powered storage appliances.
Nexenta Announces the Following 2011 Growth Metrics:
Nexenta: Customers' Storage Choice for VDI:
Based on revolutionary ZFS technology, NexentaStor solves storage-related issues for VDI by offering systems that scale performance as needed to industry-leading levels and that include deduplication, compression, replication, unlimited snapshots, the use of linked clones and thin provisioning. By natively supporting hybrid storage pooling, NexentaStor overcomes the random IOPS issues associated with VDI and eradicates the difficulties associated with the very high percentage (as much as 80 percent) of writes in a VDI environment. By coupling NexentaStor with industry standard hardware, customers reduce VDI costs by 70 percent over a three year period compared to using a proprietary storage solution. Additionally, the NexentaStor Virtual Machine DataCenter (VMDC) plug-in is the only solution that supports storage for Citrix Xen, VMware, and Microsoft Hyper-V from one management console.
Delano Regional Medical Center: Delano Regional Medical Center (DRMC) is a full-service community and regional teaching hospital located outside of Bakersfield, California. DRMC faced increasing volumes of medical data and needed to update its data storage and recovery environment without exceeding its IT budget. The company was happy with VMware View, however as the deployment continued, end user productivity suffered thanks to storage that could not keep up with performance demands.
After deploying solutions from EMC and Netapp, DRMC chose NexentaStor to minimize storage costs and to better manage the technical hurdles. By switching to NexentaStor, DRMC served the random IOPS required, improved end user productivity, and accelerated VDI adoption and satisfaction--all while achieving greater flexibility and dramatically reducing current and future capital costs.
VESK: Founded in 2009,VESK is the fastest growing supplier of virtual desktops to companies ranging from small three-person operations to organizations with 500 users.For its back-end storage, VESK faced a challenge: in order to get its Citrix XenDesktop to work as efficiently as possible, it required bigger IOPS and higher availability and performance.
After weighing solutions from Dell and EqualLogic, VESK turned to NexentaStor to deliver the IOPS needed to support its VDI environment while delivering a meaningful ROI to justify it.
“We immediately saw the benefits of Nexenta as a key infrastructure technology supporting our business,” said James Mackie, technical director, VESK. “It enabled us to overcome the technology challenges and reduce the costs associated with rolling out VDI to our customers, which will help fuel our rapid growth in this market.”
VMworld Las Vegas: NexentaStor’s superior performance in virtualized and cloud environments recently was demonstrated as it played a critical role in supporting the Hands-on Labs at the VMworld conference in Las Vegas in August. Nexenta was chosen, along with NetApp and EMC, to power this important and unique element of the conference, which further solidified NexentaStor as the ideal OpenStorage solution for virtualized environments. Key accomplishments at the Hands-on Labs included:
“Our growth continues to accelerate because we’re at the forefront of a fundamental change in the storage industry. The lock-in based business models and legacy technologies of most storage vendors are in the way of progress in IT,” said Evan Powell, CEO, Nexenta Systems. “Whereas legacy vendors constrain choice, drive up costs, and fail to perform, we are thriving because we have better solutions especially for cloud and VDI environments and because we do not take advantage of our customers.”
Later this month, Nexenta Systems will host the second-annual OpenStorage Summit at the Wyndham Hotel in San Jose, Calif. October 26-27, 2011. The event is a must-attend for IT systems administrators, architects, CIOs and CTOs who are looking for low-cost, high-performance solutions to solve the most complex storage issues. The full agenda is available at: http://www.openstoragesummit.org/
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the world’s leading provider of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. The company’s flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage management. NexentaStor is a storage software solution built upon ZFS technology. It operates on industry standard x86 servers and
provides NAS and SAN capabilities, including support for CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel storage access.
Running on any industry-standard hardware, NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems.
More information about Nexenta Systems, and free trials of the ZFS-based NexentaStor, can be found at www.nexenta.com or call (877) 862-7770.
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