Nexenta Showcases Leading Software-Defined Storage Solutions at OpenStack Summit in Paris

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and PARIS — October 28, 2014Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced it will be showcasing its portfolio of storage solutions with a number of its ecosystem partners at the OpenStack Summit in Paris, November 3rd – 7th, 2014. 

The OpenStack Summit is a five-day conference for developers, users, and administrators involved in the creation of open source software for public and private clouds. The event includes a number of collaborative educational forums where the community of OpenStack developers comes together to discuss the requirements for the next software release and connect with other members.

Nexenta has invested heavily in its award winning SDS solutions to ensure they match the technical capabilities set out by the OpenStack movement. Its solutions enable enterprises to create optimized storage clusters for open, agile and secure OpenStack environments that scale quickly and easily.

Attendees to the OpenStack event can see Nexenta’s unified Software-Defined Storage Technology portfolio at the Mirantis, Seagate and Solinea booths, including NexentaStor, which supports Icehouse and OpenStack’s latest release, Juno; also, the recently announced NexentaEdge, the industry’s first Software-Defined scale-out block and object storage solution. Designed to combat the explosion of unstructured data, the solution will support key value drives, like Seagate Kinetic drives, which are optimized for next generation scale-out object storage.

Nexenta is also hosting its exclusive OpenSDx VIP Reception with our OpenStack ecosystem partners:

Venue: Jazz Club Etoile, Le Meridien Etoile Lobby Level
81 Boulevard Gouvion Saint- Cyr, 75017
Time & Date: Wednesday, November 5th, 18:00-21:00
RSVP: http://bit.ly/ZNJzLa  

Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta, said: “OpenStack continues its rapid growth and momentum, which illustrates the demand for open source software by enterprises globally. Many of the largest companies around the world are now using OpenStack technology to underpin their business. As a leader in the Software-Defined revolution, Nexenta is proud to attend and support the OpenStack Summit. We are 100% open, eliminate vendor lock-in and have a much lower TCO, making us a natural fit for OpenStack.”

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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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