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NexentaVSA for VMware View™ Accelerates VDI Deployments with VMware's Rapid Desktop Program
NexentaVSA for VMware View™ Accelerates VDI Deployments with VMware's Rapid Desktop Program
Nexenta System’s Proven Virtual Storage Appliance Helps Streamline Desktop Deployments for VMware Cloud Infrastructure Customers
Mountain View, CA — April 26, 2012 — Nexenta® Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced that NexentaVSA for VMware View™ has received certification from VMware’s Rapid Desktop Program, and is certified for deployment on any industry standard hardware. This enables Nexenta to further streamline and accelerate virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).
As part of VMware’s Rapid Desktop Program certification process, NexentaVSA for VMware View successfully completed a number of rigorous benchmark tests, including simulating various VDI workloads on standard Intel-based servers. NexentaVSA for VMware View is a pre-defined, out-of-the-box solution for enterprises looking to accelerate the process of identifying, evaluating, selecting and deploying VDI solutions.
This certification embodies the commitment of Nexenta Systems to make VDI deployments simple and straightforward, while lowering total cost of ownership. NexentaVSA for VMware View is a breakthrough approach for simplifying and streamlining the configuration and deployment of storage associated with virtual desktops. By working closely with VMware, we are empowering our customers to fast-track their VDI deployments. 
— Evan Powell
CEO, Nexenta Systems
NexentaVSA for VMware View is purpose built to simplify the deployment and management of storage for VDI installations by integrating with VMware vSphere®, VMware vCenter™ Server, and NexentaStor virtual storage. The solution provides real-time analytics to troubleshoot, measure and monitor the deployment. Customers are also empowered to optimize the process of sizing, configuring and scaling their storage infrastructure for VDI.
VMware’s Rapid Desktop Program was created to help VMware partners create solutions that facilitate the rapid deployment of VDI desktops on a proven and certified configuration, with pre-installed and pre-configured software.
With the surge of big data in the enterprise, storage of that data is a critical aspect of a successful VDI deployment, which enables customers to implement a modern end-user computing architecture that improves desktop administration and management for the new era of IT. We are pleased to be working with Nexenta as a premier partner in the VMware View™ Rapid Desktop Program as they continue to bring VDI storage services to the enterprise.
— Mason Uyeda
Director, End-User Computing Technical Marketing, VMware
AMAX, a Nexenta and VMware reseller, has bundled all the hardware components required to deploy VMware View and NexentaVSA. This integrated solution provides customers a solution that can expedite the process of deploying storage required to support VMware View deployments.
VDI is a very necessary technology in today’s enterprise landscape where companies are trying to consolidate operational expense and stay as lean and green as possible. Taking VDI one step further, customers need a plug-and-play solution that is easy to deploy, optimized for random IO workloads, and scales according to business needs. The AMAX solution integrates VDI and storage components into a single hardware platform, making it both simple and cost effective to manage.
— Jean Shih
President, AMAX
To sign up for the NexentaVSA for View beta program, contact Nexenta at: +1 (855) NEXENTA (639-3682) or visit: www.nexenta.com/vsa4view.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions and is one of the most widely deployed systems leveraging flash and SSDs for high performance. Built upon ZFS technology, and 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 +1 (855) NEXENTA (639-3682). Partners selling NexentaStor-based hardware/software appliances can be found at www.nexenta.com/partners.
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TerraTel Saves Two Thirds of its Storage Budget with Nexenta’s Enterprise OpenStorage Solution
TerraTel Saves Two Thirds of its Storage Budget with Nexenta’s Enterprise OpenStorage Solution
London, UK — 24 April, 2012 — Nexenta® Systems, the world’s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions for the enterprise, today announced that Web hosting provider, TerraTel, has chosen two NexentaStor SAN solutions to underpin its entire virtual infrastructure. This has led to the Swedish company saving two-thirds of its storage costs.
Established in 1994, TerraTel provides high quality Web hosting, email solutions, and backup services to hundreds of customers across Sweden, Scandinavia, and Europe. For TerraTel, managing and protecting its clients’ mission critical data is serious business. An integral part is ensuring guaranteed uptime, superior performance, and data protection.
After moving to a VMware infrastructure, it became apparent that the company’s existing storage infrastructure, which included a number of different SAN solutions, was unable to cope. The company required a consolidated, reliable enterprise storage solution to underpin its virtual environment but at the most competitive price.
After carefully evaluating several solutions, with the help of channel partner Layer 8, TerraTel selected NexentaStor. Mattias Palsson, CTO, TerraTel, explains: “NexentaStor offers great performance and is incredibly flexible. The biggest benefit for TerraTel is that we can implement enterprise class storage for a fraction of the cost of a legacy system. With Nexenta, we no longer have to choose between features or performance, we can effectively provide both and satisfy our clients’ needs when provisioning new virtual servers.”
NexentaStor, which is exclusively used for TerraTel’s VMware infrastructure, is built on enterprise hardware from Cisco, creating two SANs. Each uses 2U rack servers with 16 disks to create a combined total raw capacity of 12TB. Features include hybrid storage pooling, unlimited snapshots, deduplication, and thin provisioning.
Palsson concludes: “We estimate that by buying two Nexenta solutions, we have spent less than one third of the investment we could have made with one Oracle SAN unit. This cost saving provides TerraTel with additional capital, which can be used for other IT resources to ensure we are meeting all our service level agreements.”
Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta. ''TerraTel’s use of NexentaStor to manage its virtual environment shows that OpenStorage is a viable alternative to traditional legacy storage companies. TerraTel’s hosting business needs enterprise storage that can support and grow with it. No other approach to storage can match the scale and flexibility of the commercially supported OpenStorage-based NexentaStor. We look forward to a long relationship with TerraTel.”
Find out more about Nexenta at its EMEA OpenStorage Summit 2012
Nexenta hosts the OpenStorage Summit EMEA 2012 in Amsterdam on May 22-24. This event offers both strategic and hands-on guidance for OpenStorage IT infrastructures demonstrating how virtualisation, high-availability, and cloud technologies work together to make businesses more agile and efficient. Key note speakers include: Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta; Randy Bias, Co-Founder and CTO of CloudScaling; Douglas Gourlay, VP of Marketing, Arista Networks; and Simon Phipps, Open Source Evangelist and Technology Writer.
For more information, visit: www.openstoragesummit.org.
Visit Nexenta at IP Expo Sweden
Join Nexenta and our Partner Layer 8 at IP Expo taking place in Stockholm, Sweden, May 9-10.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualisation-optimised storage solutions and is one of the most widely deployed systems leveraging flash and SSDs for high performance. Built upon ZFS technology, and 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. Partners selling NexentaStor-based hardware/software appliances can be found at www.nexenta.com/partners.
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Nexenta Systems Goes Big on OpenStack
Nexenta Systems Goes Big on OpenStack
Leader in OpenStorage Provides Backup/Restore to OpenStack, others; Launches Technology Preview of Swift Object Storage
OpenStack Design Summit & Conference, San Francisco, CA — April 16, 2012 — Nexenta® Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today made four significant announcements at the OpenStack Conference, at which it is attending and presenting. These announcements include:
- Nexenta has increased its contributions to OpenStack to support openness in cloud management.
- The company today released NexentaStor Cloud Archive Plug-in, which delivers seamless backup and restore capabilities for Nexenta customers to and from the most popular cloud storage providers, including OpenStack-based clouds.
- Nexenta announced a technology preview of storage-as-a-service software that demonstrates the first integration of ZFS-based storage and object storage. It is available at cloudstorage.nexenta.com.
- Finally, the company has delivered to the OpenStack community additions to the Swift interfaces, making them even more compatible with Amazon’s S3.
“We are committed to OpenStack and its community, and to open approaches to cloud computing more generally,” said Nexenta CEO Evan Powell. “The Nexenta Cloud Archive Plug-in, along with and our contributions to the Nova Project, and with our technology trial of Object Storage for OpenStack’s Project Swift (at cloudstorage.nexenta.com), are part of our overall strategy of producing our ZFS-based storage software to improve storage for the cloud and cloud storage services.”
Nexenta has contributed substantially to, and invested in, the OpenStack Community, as evidenced by the NexentaStor volume driver for OpenStack, which provides the best file system support for users of Project Nova, the OpenStack virtual server management effort. For more information on Nexenta’s OpenStack work, see www.nexenta.com/openstack.
With the Nexenta Cloud Archive Plug-in, the thousands of organizations using NexentaStor-powered storage can move to a hybrid cloud architecture for storage with ease, relying on the industry’s leading OpenStorage solution for on-premise primary storage, along with proven cloud providers for backup, restore, and business continuity. First and foremost, this plug-in allows for backup and restore to any cloud-based service. Cloud storage services from Amazon, Google, Rackspace, and others can be used. One unique feature is that data archived to any of these clouds can be retrieved to any NexentaStor deployment, not just to the deployment that initially wrote the data to the cloud. The Cloud Archive Plug-in is available today at www.nexenta.com/store for $899, for a limited time.
Nexenta has long been a favored option for OpenStack storage under Project Nova. Nexenta has participated in a technology trial of an Object Storage Service based on OpenStack’s Project Swift. This trial, which is running on the award-winning NexentaStor product, can be seen at cloudstorage.nexenta.com. Visitors can request credentials and try out the service for a limited time. The trial will be available through mid-May 2012.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions and is one of the most widely deployed systems leveraging flash and SSDs for high performance. Built upon ZFS technology, and 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 +1 (855) NEXENTA (639-3682). Partners selling NexentaStor-based hardware/software appliances can be found at www.nexenta.com/partners.
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Keynote Speaker Line-up for Nexenta OpenStorage Summit EMEA 2012 Announced
Keynote Speaker Line-up for Nexenta OpenStorage Summit EMEA 2012 Announced
Deadline for the early bird promotion has been extended to 15th April 2012 — 20% off Summit Admission and 25% off Nexenta Training
Amsterdam, the Netherlands — 11 April 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world’s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions for the enterprise, today revealed its full line up of keynote speakers who will be presenting at the OpenStorage User Summit, running from May 22-24, 2012, at the Mercure Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The Nexenta OpenStorage Summit EMEA 2012 will feature world-class industry leaders in the OpenStorage industry who will participate in panels, present case studies, and provide technical vendor presentations. Focusing on OpenStorage, industry keynote speakers will cover cloud, virtual desktop infrastructure, data corruption, and the storage technologies that are accelerating innovation and how they are poised to replace costly legacy storage technologies.
The full speaker line-up includes:
- Evan Powell, CEO, Nexenta Systems
- Simon Phipps, Open Source Evangelist and Technology Writer
- Randy Bias, Co-Founder and CTO, Cloudscaling
- Douglas Gourlay, VP of Marketing, Arista Networks
- Marc Groetelaars, Director, Northern EMEA Partner Organization, VMware
- Daniel Tschudi, Sr. Manager of Cloud Business Strategy Development, Seagate
- Funs Kessen, Mission Critical Engineer, Schuberg Philis, (customer story)
- Daniel Jakobsson, IT Infrastructure Manager, Ballou Hosting Intelligence, (customer story)
Quotes
At last year’s event, attendees had the opportunity to speak directly with well-known industry leaders, as well as customers and partners from all over Europe. The Nexenta OpenStorage Summit EMEA 2012 is all about technical education and skills training; networking; and relationship-building activities. OSS also will provide the latest updates on Nexenta’s OpenStorage computing vision, roadmap, and product portfolio, including NexentaVSA for View.
— Evan Powell, CEO, Nexenta Systems
The OpenStorage Summit EMEA is a ‘must’ attend event. The attendees’ passion and high quality discourse make it a unique gathering for those keen on discerning the future of open storage today.
— Christopher George, Founder and CTO of DDR Drive
During the two days immediately preceding the Summit (22nd - 23rd May), Nexenta will be offering numerous training classes, including an introduction to its VDI solution—NexentaVSA for View.
To register and see the full Nexenta OpenStorage Summit EMEA 2012 agenda, please visit: http://www.openstoragesummit.org or follow us on Twitter at @nexentaoss.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions.
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Nexenta ‘Most Improved Company of the Year’ at the 2012 Network Computing Awards
Nexenta ‘Most Improved Company of the Year’ at the 2012 Network Computing Awards
Unprecedented European growth of 410 percent in 2011 generates industry recognition
London, UK — 28th March 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world’s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions for the enterprise, has won ‘Most Improved Company of the Year’ at the Network Computing Awards. It also was runner up in the ‘New Product of the Year’ category with its flagship OpenStorage platform NexentaStor 3.1.
Now in its fifth year, the awards, which are hosted by the UK’s Network Computing Magazine, were presented at a ceremony on 22nd March at Hotel Russell, London.The awards recognise the hardware, software, services, and the companies behind them, which have most impressed the readers of the UK’s longest established computer networking publication.
The win is a reflection of Nexenta’s continued successes. It recently announced that sales were up by 410 percent from 2010 and that it had grown its partner and employee numbers in Europe. It also added a slate of seasoned executives to its management ranks and strengthened its more than 4,000-member customer list
Evan Powell, CEO, Nexenta, said: "I would like to thank Network Computing for this prestigious award. I would also like to thank our UK resellers, including VA Technologies, NAS UK, Boston, and Dell, for using NexentaStor as a part of their customers’ solutions. Together, we are bringing choice and openness, massive scalability and superior data integrity to enterprises coping with explosive data growth. Today's announcement is really an award for the broader OpenStorage movement, which Nexenta is proud to lead."
Find out more about Nexenta at its EMEA OpenStorage Summit 2012
Nexenta hosts the OpenStorage Summit EMEA 2012 in Amsterdam on May 22-24. This event offers both strategic and hands-on guidance for OpenStorage IT infrastructures demonstrating how virtualisation, high-availability, and cloud technologies work together to make businesses more agile and efficient. Key note speakers include: Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta; Randy Bias, Co-Founder and CTO of CloudScaling; Douglas Gourlay, VP of Marketing, Arista Networks; and Simon Phipps, Open Source Evangelist and Technology Writer.
For more information, see www.openstoragesummit.org.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and 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 at www.nexenta.com.
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Nexenta Named to CRN's 2012 5-Star Partner Programs Guide
Nexenta Named to CRN’s 2012 5-Star Partner Programs Guide
Prestigious Honor Highlights Nexenta’s Robust Partner Program
and Recent Channel Momentum
Santa Clara, California — March 26, 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced it has been named to CRN’s 2012 Partner Program Guide and was awarded the highest possible rating of a CRN 5-Star Partner. The 2012 Partner Program Guide and CRN 5-Star Rating is the definitive listing of manufacturers and software publishers that service solution providers or provide products to the IT Channel. Nexenta works with more than 250 resale and technology partners, including industry leaders Dell Computer, Intel, Quanta Computer, Supermicro, Cisco Systems, Arista, LSI, Qlogic, Emulex, Symantec, CommVault, VMware and Citrix to deliver enterprise-class storage solutions for more than 4,000 commercial deployments.
Nexenta’s Partner Program previously was honored in February 2012 when Jon Ash, vice president of sales, was named one of CRN’s 2012 Channel Chiefs. Today’s news comes shortly after Nexenta announced it will be supporting Intel’s newly announced Intel® Xeon® E5 Server Platform, and that its ecosystem of partners can deliver value on this transformative platform for storage systems beginning immediately.
Said Nexenta Vice President of Sales Jon Ash: “We are thrilled by CRN’s ringing endorsement of Nexenta’s extensive and robust partner program. We would also like to thank our partners for our success to date for their work to help us build an award-winning partner program. Together with my recognition as a CRN 2012 Channel Chief, Nexenta’s 5-Star Rating is further validation that our work with partners to deliver NexentaStor plus partner hardware solutions is enabling partners to beat the legacy storage systems while building a high-margin, high-value storage business for themselves. At Nexenta we believe partner is a verb – every single employee and contractor signs a pledge to be partner- and customer- focused. Together with our partners, we are transforming the storage industry, which comprises some 30-40 percent or more of total enterprise IT spending. I am personally committed to helping our partners continue to grow at the 400 percent and greater pace we have seen in the last two years.”
In building the list, UBM Channel Research developed a methodology in which the objective criteria takes into account each vendor’s investments in program offerings, partner profitability, partner training, education and support, marketing programs and resources, sales support and communication.
“The companies listed in CRN’s 2012 Partner Program Guide represent a comprehensive list of the best channel programs in the market today,” said Kelley Damore, vice president and editorial director for UBM Channel’s CRN. “The 5-Star Rating is reserved for vendors that understand that a successful partnership does not rely solely on the technology. By offering their partners tools, education and regular updates, vendors on this list go above and beyond traditional support to ensure a mutually beneficial partnership.”
The 2012 Partner Program Guide and 5-Star Partners listing will be featured on CRN.com and in the March 2012 issue of CRN.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and 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 +1 (855) NEXENTA (639-3682).
Partners selling NexentaStor-based hardware/software appliances can be found at www.nexenta.com/partners.
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Nexenta Supports New Intel® Xeon® E5 Server Platform
Nexenta Supports New Intel® Xeon® E5 Server Platform
New Platform to Triple Storage Performance
NexentaStor and OpenStorage Customers Can Use Immediately
Hannover, Germany (CeBIT) — March 6, 2012 — Nexenta® Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced that it has been working with Intel on supporting its newly announced Intel® Xeon® E5 Server Platform, and that its ecosystems of partners can deliver value on this new product beginning immediately.
“Nexenta has been an excellent partner to work with,” said David Brown, general manager of Intel’s Enterprise Products and Systems Division. “We’re pleased that its community of partners and resellers will deliver world-class products almost immediately. This will improve storage performance across the board for end users.”
The Intel® Xeon® E5 Server Platform creates an environment that is massively scalable, eliminating the historic I/O bottlenecks of interconnects, and creating wire-speed connections between the CPU and storage media. Intel has worked closely with Nexenta to make sure that NexentaStor™ is among the first-to-market to have a certified storage software solution on top of the new platform.
“The release of the Intel® Xeon® E5 Server Platform will drastically change the performance profile for any company that uses it,” said Nexenta CEO Evan Powell. “NexentaStor, along with its core ZFS technology, is a perfect market solution that can take full advantage of this advancement, providing performance scaling that meets the demands of customers. It is available now from our network of resellers, months before legacy storage vendors.”
Example “recipes” using Nexenta and Intel products are listed on Intel’s website at: http://bit.ly/zJfvyL.
The OpenStorage Summit
Nexenta is a leader in the OpenStorage movement, which delivers high-performance storage software based on an open source core. Nexenta will be hosting the OpenStorage Summit in Amsterdam, May 22-23, 2012. For more information, see http://www.openstoragesummit.org.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and 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 +1 (855) NEXENTA. Partners selling NexentaStor-based hardware/software appliances can be found at www.nexenta.com/partners.
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Demand for OpenStorage Solutions Fuels Nexenta's European Expansion and Channel Growth
Demand for OpenStorage Solutions Fuels Nexenta’s European Expansion and Channel Growth
45 channel partners in 25 countries support company growth of 410 percent in 2011 in Europe
LONDON, UK. – 20 February 2012 – Nexenta Systems, the world’s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions, today announced unprecedented European growth in 2011. With the company’s channel focus on high quality reseller partners, Nexenta revenue in Europe is almost a third of all global sales.
This comes as a result of growing demand for the company’s award-winning OpenStorage software platform across the region. Storage resellers, such as Proact in Netherlands, Thomas Krenn in Germany and VA Technologies in the UK are responding to the strong customer demand for a better-priced alternative to legacy proprietary solutions from companies such as NetApp and EMC.
Jacco van Achterberg, sales director EMEA, was recruited at the beginning of 2011, and has been responsible for the development of Nexenta’s partner channel across Europe. He explained: “Nexenta’s unique software-only storage approach allows our partners to add value to NexentaStor in terms of hardware, services and support. 2012 is already looking very positive with 350% revenue growth planned in Europe.”
Nexenta addresses a critical need for businesses and cloud service providers struggling to balance growing data volume with legacy business model lock-in and aging technologies. The company’s open business model and proven track record with large, enterprise-class customers including Shazam, VESK, Coltex, Synergics and Trinkwasserversorgung Magdeburg prove its product is the best fitted storage solution for cloud deployments, virtualised data centres, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments.
Commenting on the company’s record growth, Evan Powell, CEO at Nexenta, said: “2011 was a pivotal year for the company and it follows three years of growth exceeding 400% year-over-year. Nexenta has been committed to putting in place the right management team and we have tripled the headcount from 60 to 180 to support the increasing demand and to provide high levels of service and support to our growing customer base.”
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the world’s leading provider of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. The company’s flagship software-only platform, 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.
More information about Nexenta Systems, and free trials of the ZFS-based NexentaStor, can be found at www.nexenta.com.
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Nexenta’s Jon Ash Named a 2012 Channel Chief by Everything Channel’s CRN
Nexenta's Jon Ash Named a 2012 Channel Chief by Everything Channel's CRN
Santa Clara, CA — February 20, 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced that its Vice President of Sales Jon Ash has been named one of Everything Channel’s CRN Channel Chiefs. This prestigious list of the most influential and powerful leaders in the IT channel recognizes those executives directly responsible for promoting and executing effective channel partner programs and strategies, while consistently evangelizing and defending the importance of the channel throughout the entire IT industry.
Since Jon Ash joined Nexenta in 2009, the OpenStorage leader has seen a tremendous growth in its sales, partner and customer programs – becoming the fastest growing company in enterprise storage with more than 4,000 active customers. 2011 particularly was a banner year for Nexenta, as the company celebrated a 400 percent growth in year-over-year sales, a tripling of its workforce and a $21 million Series C investment led by Menlo Ventures, in which Sierra Ventures and Razor’s Edge Ventures also participated.
“This is a great honor for me and for my outstanding coworkers at Nexenta,” said Jon Ash, vice president of sales at Nexenta. “This recognition highlights the overwhelming success of Nexenta’s channel program, which has well over 200 partners. It also validates Nexenta’s game-changing model that offers superior performance at lower cost – in some cases by 75 to 80 percent – over the outdated lock-in models of our legacy vendor competition.”
For the ninth consecutive year, Channel Chiefs were selected by the CRN editorial team based on channel experience, program innovations, channel-driven revenue and public support for the importance of IT channel sales.
“The 2012 Channel Chiefs list recognizes vendor executives dedicated to driving channel programs in the IT marketplace,” said UBM Channel Editorial Director and Vice President Kelley Damore. “These are the people, the products and the programs that any savvy solution provider needs to know. We congratulate this year’s Channel Chiefs for their stellar record of business innovation and applaud them for their continued dedication to the partner community.”
The 2012 Channel Chiefs list is featured in the February issue of CRN Magazine and will be featured online at www.crn.com.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and 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 +1 (855) NEXENTA (639-3682). Partners selling NexentaStor based hardware/software appliances can be found at http://www.nexenta.com/partners.
About UBM Channel
UBM Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, UBM Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. UBM Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about UBM Channel, visit us at www.ubmchannel.com.
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Nexenta Systems Sales Up 400 Percent in 2011
Nexenta Systems Sales Up 400 Percent in 2011
Leader in OpenStorage Adds Major Fortune 500 Customers, New Round of Funding on Top of Record Year and Bolsters Executive Talent
Mountain View, CA — February 13, 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced it finished the 2011 fiscal year with record results. Nexenta announced that sales were up by 400 percent from 2010, it added a slate of seasoned executives to its management ranks and bolstered its more than 4,000-member customer list with some widely known names.
Nexenta more than doubled its staff in 2011 and added brand name customers, including the U.S. Army, Cisco Systems, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ForEx.com, Splunk, Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau, VESK, VocaLink, Volkswagen, NTT Data, Honda, Nissan, Juniper, Checkpoint, Zend, VMware, Citrix and Zappos.com.
"We've grown sales by 1,600 percent in the last two years. There is clearly massive pent up demand for enterprise class storage without the antediluvian business practices and technologies of legacy storage," said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta. "My thanks go to our partners and the tens of thousands of users who continue to spread the word that NexentaStor delivers on our mission of Enterprise Class Storage for Everyone."
Nexenta built out its roster of world-class executive talent in the last three months. Bill Fuller, whose experience includes leadership positions at Tandem, Auspex and Quest Software, joined as the vice president of engineering. Bill Roth joined as vice president of marketing and brings experience as a senior marketing and operations leader at firms including BEA, Sun and GSI Commerce.
In addition, Nexenta continued to enhance its partner programs. Active resale partners can enjoy large joint marketing funds, as well as industry leading margins, with NexentaStor. Nexenta now has more than 250 resale partners, including Dell Computer, and is investing heavily in the success of new and existing partners.
Nexenta recently announced that it received more than $21 million in Series C financing, in a round led by Menlo Ventures that also included Razor’s Edge Ventures and Sierra Ventures.