Nexenta Welcomes EMC to the Software-Defined Storage Market
Nexenta looks forward to educating enterprise customers about this burgeoning market
May 6, 2013 Santa Clara, CA — Nexenta® Systems, Inc., the leading Software-Defined Storage company, today issued a warm welcome to EMC Corporation as it announces its intent to enter this exciting and growing market in the second half of 2013. EMC announced its plans during the EMC World conference getting underway today in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Nexenta, founded in 2004, has been shipping its NexentaStor solution since 2008. Now in its third generation, the company has more than 5,000 customer deployments around the world and over 700 petabytes of data under management. The NexentaStor solution is based on OpenStorage ZFS technology and combines state-of-the-art software with an open architecture, which is certified and supported on a wide choice of industry standard hardware.
Customers have embraced this approach because it is significantly cheaper than proprietary storage solutions, eliminates vendor lock-in, and gives them total flexibility in terms of architecting and refreshing their storage hardware configurations. Historically, storage solutions offered by the large suppliers consist of proprietary operating system software that only runs on that same vendor’s hardware. This results in expensive, long-term commitments especially when storage needs grow. The recent trend toward Software-Defined Storage, led by Nexenta, separates the software layer from the hardware platform, giving customers control, flexibility and significant cost-savings compared to the old model.
“This is an exciting day for Nexenta and our solution partners,” commented Mark Lockareff, Nexenta CEO. “Having a company like EMC enter our market certainly validates what we have been saying all along; namely, that the old storage model is broken. Customers deserve to have a choice when it comes to selecting the hardware solutions that best fit their needs, and not be held hostage by their primary storage vendor. Because our software can run on a wide choice of hardware offered by our many partners including Dell and Cisco, it is quickly gaining market acceptance. As we learn more about EMC’s solution, I am confident we will continue to be seen as a leader in this important market space.”
More information about Nexenta Systems and NexentaStor can be found on the company’s website at www.nexenta.com.
About Nexenta Systems:
Nexenta Systems is the world leader in Software-Defined Storage. Its flagship software platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology and running on a broad choice of industry-standard hardware, NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at significantly less cost than legacy systems.
More information about Nexenta Systems, and free trials of the ZFS-based NexentaStor, can be found at www.nexenta.com. Partners selling NexentaStor-based hardware/software appliances can be found at: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/store/resellers-search.
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