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Leading IT & Managed Services Provider Runs on Nexenta Open Software Defined Storage Platform; Replacing Legacy Hardware-based Storage Systems
Northern Backup Improved Systems Performance by 300%, Reduced Systems Latency by 50%, Delivering 100% Uptime for Its Customers, while Reducing Data Storage Costs by 40%.
SANTA CLARA, Calif.— September 22, 2015 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that leading IT and data center provider Northern Backup Inc (@NorthernBackup) has chosen NexentaStor to ensure the highest levels of service, performance, agility, capacity, and redundancy. Northern Backup Inc (NBI) is a firm that specializes in the design, implementation, and support of information systems, using sound business principles, leading practices, and proven technologies. Using NexentaStor allows Northern Backup to deliver four times greater performance of IT application and data delivery at 60% of the price. Nexenta not only helps Northern Backup to meet and exceed current requirements, but also enables the company to offer new services and chart a path to greater growth.
Over the last several years, Northern Backup has experienced exponential growth. Customers range from small companies storing an SQL database on a simple server to enterprises that employ large numbers of servers dedicated to sophisticated ERP systems. Northern Backup identified the ability to dynamically provide storage according to specific user needs while ensuring high levels of performance, security, and ease of management as a critical requirement for customers. Companies use the data center and professional services provider to ensure their critical applications run at optimal levels and their data remains secure and accessible.
Prior to moving to Nexenta, Northern Backup used traditional SANs from Hitachi, Dell and HP. Their practice is run on the leading server virtualization platform, VMware vSphere. As their needs grew, they were forced to buy a large batch of storage every six months, yet they were also forced to retire SANs after 28 months due to restrictive storage hardware licensing and support cycles.
“While we were able to meet our customers’ needs, we felt like were weren’t in control of our own destiny when it came to storage,” said Brent Thumlert, Chief Architect, Northern Backup. “We knew there had to be a better way, so we started evaluating alternatives. Software-Defined Storage was rising in popularity, and gave us the flexibility not to be locked into anyone’s hardware so we investigated further. We found that not all SDS is created equal. In fact much of SDS looks a lot like old school storage.”
Northern Backup evaluated several storage alternatives based on storage capacity, performance, agility, reliability, ease of manageability and deployment. They wanted the flexibility and performance of SDS coupled with the freedom and cost effectiveness of off the shelf commodity hardware. The Northern Backup team evaluated VMware vSAN, Nexenta, Simplivity and Nutanix. The company selected NexentaStor after it clearly out-performed all the options.
“With NexentaStor, we not only control our own ecosystem, but we’re seeing impressive performance improvements. For example, we measured performance using Microsoft SQL IO tool, a read/write-intensive application and the most demanding query for that application. It is a random write to a bunch of disks in small increments. We saw 27K IOPS performance with NexentaStor compared to 2K IPOS for our previous systems. This translates into faster delivery of data-intensive applications such as SAP reports and CRM application use. Writes and the speed of writes are done at an incredibly fast rate and Nexenta doesn’t affect the backend at all. Overall we’re seeing a 50% average write latency coupled with a four times performance improvement,” added Thumlert.
Northern Backup also compared each alternatives’ cost per terabyte. Compared to their typical SAN installation and the current alternatives, NexentaStor delivers these improvements at a 40% savings. Nexenta reduces the cost per terabyte by $100 yet increases performance and Northern Backup’s footprint. NexentaStor also provides the level of continuity required of high availability customers including instant hot disk replacement of any failed disk. This allows customers to set metrics for failover times.
“The bottom line is that NexentaStor is the best alternative across the board today and going forward. As technology gets denser, we can increase density with any hardware vendor we choose. We’ll use the same Nexenta storage platform and it will easily adjust as content adjusts,” concluded Thumlert.
NexentaStor has a proven track record of successful deployments across a diverse set of industries, including higher education, hosting, media and service providers. Customers have realized millions of dollars in cost savings, exponential increases in performance, and the improved flexibility and scalability required to support growing data volumes. Additional features of NexentaStor include:
- Unified File (NFS and SMB) and Block (FC and iSCSI) services
- Built on ZFS for enterprise grade data integrity, scale and performance
- Scales from 10’s of terabytes to petabytes
- Unlimited file system sizes
- Inline data reduction for additional storage cost savings
- Unlimited space optimized snapshots and clones
- Periodic asynchronous long distance replication
- Seamless integration with VMware environments
NexentaStor 5.0 integrates with NexentaFusion and VMware vCenter to deliver dramatically simplified deployment, configuration and on-going management of Software-Defined Storage infrastructures, large and small. NexentaStor’s new, built-from-the-ground-up, high performance management framework provides an easy to program, self-documenting REST API for new levels of orchestration and integration with end-user and partner ecosystems. This REST API eases the overall management of large storage configurations through the introduction of a new UI (user interface), simplifying the support of additional arrays, and a powerful new CLI for automation and configuration management. For VMware environments, NexentaStor builds on its existing VAAI Block support with a new vCenter Plug-in, enabling multi-tenant management of NexentaStor systems, deployed on physical hardware or in virtual machines for easy to scale multi-tenant file services.
Tweet this: .@NorthernBackup chooses @Nexenta over other storage for highest levels of service, performance, agility & redundancy. http://bit.ly/1FqKAwD
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 33 patents, and more than 1,200 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “Open Source” collaboration with commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are 100% software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic providing organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta OpenSDS enables everyday apps 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 – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others.
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.
Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nexenta Systems Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks and company names mentioned in this document are properties of their respective owners.
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Nexenta Co-Founder and CTO to Share Best Practices on How to Optimize Scalability and Performance at Web Scale via Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage at SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference
Santa Clara, Calif.—Sept. 17, 2015—Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that Alex Aizman, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, will speak at SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference (SDC).
Caitlin Bestler, Nexenta’s Senior Director of Architecture, and Aizman co-authored the presentation titled “Beyond Consistent Hashing and TCP: Vastly Scalable Load Balanced Storage Clustering”, which Aizman will share with the SDC attendees on Sept. 21. The presentation discusses how to optimize scalability and clustering in your storage environment. Successive generations of storage solutions have increased decentralization. Early NAS systems made all the decisions on a single server, down to sector assignment. Federated NAS enabled dynamic distribution of the namespace across multiple storage serves. The first Object Clusters delegated CRUD-based management of both object metadata and data to OSDs.
Current generation of Object Clusters uses Consistent Hashing to eliminate the need for central metadata. However, Consistent Hashing and its derivatives, combined with the prevalent use of TCP/IP in storage clusters results in performance hot spots and bottlenecks, diminished scale-out capability and dis-balances in resource utilization.
These shortcomings will be demonstrated with a simulation of a large storage cluster. An alternative next generation strategy that simultaneously optimizes available IOPS "budget" of the back-end storage, storage capacity, and network utilization will be explained. Practically unlimited load-balanced scale-out capability using Layer 5 (Replicast) protocol for Multicast Replication within the cluster will be presented.
“I’m looking forward to conversing with fellow storage industry leaders and demonstrating how CCOW (Cloud Copy-on-Write) and Replicast can provide infinite scale-out,” said Aizman. “The objective is to help companies achieve high performance and scalability by creating more affordable clusters.”
SNIA is a non-profit organization advancing IT technologies, standards, and education programs for all IT professionals. The organization is more than 400 companies strong, spanning the global storage market, and connects the IT industry with end-to-end storage and information management solutions. SNIA’s SDC conference attracts more than 400 developers, technical professionals, and engineers from the worldwide storage community. The conference offers a broad range of topics including File Systems, Software-Defined Storage, SMB, Security, Performance, and more.
Additional details on the event can be found below.
Tweet this: .@nexenta Founder/CTO, Alex Aizman to present #OpenSDS best practices @SNIA @SDConference: http://ow.ly/SdeA8 #OpenSDx
Event Details
What: SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference, Sept. 21-24
Where: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara, CA
When: 3:35 p.m. PT, Sept. 21, 2015
Who: Alex Aizman, Founder and CTO, Nexenta
For more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://ow.ly/Sdfk1
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 33 patents, and more than 1,200 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “Open Source” collaboration with commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are 100% software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic providing organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta OpenSDS enables everyday apps 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 – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others.
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.
Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nexenta Systems Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks and company names mentioned in this document are properties of their respective owners.
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Nexenta's Industry Leading Open Source-Driven Software Defined Storage Platform and CEO Receive 2015 American Business Awards℠ for Innovation and Leadership
Santa Clara, Calif.– September 17, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that CEO and Chairman, Tarkan Maner, was presented with a Bronze Stevie® Award in the “Executive of the Year” category, and NexentaStor 4, the company’s flagship OpenSDS platform, was presented with a Silver Stevie® Award in the “New Product or Service of the Year” category, at The 13th Annual American Business Awards on Sept. 11.
The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.
Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word for “crowned,” the awards were presented to winners during a gala banquet on Friday, September 11 at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco. More than 250 nominees and their guests attended for the presentation of new product awards, management awards, app awards, and more.
This year’s American Business Awards were presented at two events. Stevies for excellence in customer service, human resources, marketing, websites, publications, videos, management, and other disciplines were announced in Chicago in June. Last night’s event focused on new product and technology-related categories, tech-related management, and select company/organization categories.
More than 3,300 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including Tech Startup of the Year, Software Executive of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, and App of the Year, among others.
Tarkan Maner, CEO and Chairman at Nexenta, was named a winner in the “Executive of the Year” category for “Computer Services & Software” with up to 500 employees. Maner is accredited with driving Nexenta’s continued success in leading the software-defined storage market and is recognized for his leadership as a global thought leader, investor and advisor in the Information Technology industry. NexentaStor 4 has also been a critical part of Nexenta’s success and was named a winner in the “New Product or Service of the Year--Software” category for “Cloud Platform, Storage & Backup Solutions.” The product was recognized for delivering unified file and block storage services, allowing thousands of customers around the world to evolve their storage infrastructure by increasing performance, scalability and flexibility while significantly reducing cost.
“We are honored to be named leaders in innovation by The American Business Awards and am thrilled Nexenta’s innovation in OpenSDS has been further validated through this recognition of NexentaStor 4,” said Tarkan Maner, CEO and Chairman at Nexenta. “Our success would not be possible without the unwavering support of our customers, partners and the entire Nexenta team.”
“We are extremely impressed with the quality of the entries we received this year. The competition was intense and every organization that won should be proud,” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards. “To those outstanding individuals and organizations that received Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards, the judges and I are honored to celebrate your many accomplishments. You are setting a high standard for professionals nationwide.”
Details about The American Business Awards and the lists of Stevie winners who were announced on September 11 are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.
Entries for the 2016 edition of the ABAs will open in October.
Tweet this: #NexentaStor 4 and @nexenta CEO,@tarkanmaner, named winners of @TheStevieAwards: http://ow.ly/Scvhi http://ow.ly/ScuhJ #OpenSDS
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 33 patents, and more than 1,200 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “Open Source” collaboration with commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are 100% software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic providing organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta OpenSDS enables everyday apps 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 – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others.
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.
Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nexenta Systems Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks and company names mentioned in this document are properties of their respective owners.
About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in six programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 10,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 60 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
Sponsors and partners of The 2015 American Business Awards include BizTalkRadio, CallidusCloud, Engility, Fareportal, John Hancock, PetRays, and Softpro.
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Nexenta Brings Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage to the Dell Solutions Tour 2015 in Europe
London and Santa Clara, CA – 16 September 2015 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that it will be gold sponsor of the 2015 EMEA Dell Solutions Tour.
Covering some 17 countries and 18 cities, the Dell Solutions Tour will bring together industry leaders and IT professionals from across EMEA to discover technologies and solutions that are uniquely transforming the IT landscape and giving organisations a competitive edge – helping them not just compete, but thrive and grow.
As a gold-sponsor at each event, Nexenta’s booth and speaking presentation will showcase how its OpenSDS solution portfolio with revolutionize the data center. Attendees are invited to meet with Nexenta executives during the Dell Solutions Tour and hear first-hand how OpenSDS solutions can provide organisations with total freedom when it comes to their storage needs and plans, while protecting them against punitive vendor lock-in.
Offering comprehensive enterprise-class management features that streamline storage administration and improve utilisation, as partners, Dell and Nexenta help IT organisations efficiently manage and protect their most important asset – their data. Delivering highly flexible software-defined storage, Dell - Nexenta solutions offer enterprise customers several benefits, including high performance, SAN and NAS protocol support, unlimited snapshots and cloning, block and file replication, inline de-duplication, and comprehensive management capabilities. This partnership gives customers more choices, including performance and capacity-optimised configurations to handle large-scale virtualisation and file-based workload requirements.
Key dates:
Dell Solutions Tour Sweden – 22nd September
Münchenbryggeriet, Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2, 104 62, Stockholm, Sweden
Speaker: Rob Bloemendal, Regional Manager, Nexenta
14.40-15.30, Storage on Your Terms: Dive into Software-Defined Storage Technologies and Use Cases
Dell Solutions Tour Copenhagen - 24th September
Radisson BLU Falconer Hotel, Falkoner Alle 9, 2000 København
Speaker: Rob Bloemendal, Regional Manager, Nexenta
Storage on Your Terms: Dive into Software-Defined Storage Technologies and Use Cases
Dell Solutions Tour Brussels – 1st October
The Egg, Barastraat 175, 1070 Brussels, Belgium
Speaker: Rob Bloemendal, Regional Manager, Nexenta
15:40-16:10, Storage on Your Terms: Dive into Software-Defined Storage Technologies and Use Cases
Dell Solutions Tour Paris – 20th October
hôtel de Ville de Paris, 5 rue Lobau, 75004 Paris
Speaker: Fred Million, Regional Manager, Nexenta
Storage on Your Terms: Dive into Software-Defined Storage Technologies and Use Cases
Dell Solutions Tour Zurich – 27th October
Trafohallen Baden, Brown Boveri Platz 1, 5400 Baden
Speaker: Christian Browers, Regional Manager, Nexenta
Storage on Your Terms: Dive into Software-Defined Storage Technologies and Use Cases
How to register:
https://contact.dell.com/dellsolutionstour/
Tweet this: Visit @Nexenta at the @Dell #DellST15 in Europe, showcasing #OpenSDS #SoftwareDefinedStorage solutions http://dell.to/1UHJ1kW
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 33 patents, and more than 1,200 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “Open Source” collaboration with commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are 100% software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic providing organisations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organisations with the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centres to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta OpenSDS enables everyday apps 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 – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others.
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 Bolsters Its Market-Leading Open Source Software-Defined Storage Platform and Partnerships for Containers and Cloud Native Apps
Advanced Scale-out Technology Innovation and Integration; Tighter Collaboration with the Linux Foundation, Open Container Initiative (OCI) and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
SANTA CLARA, CA – September 15, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta) the global leader in Open Source-Driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) solutions, today announced its comprehensive plan and strategy for bringing enterprise and cloud grade storage and data management to container-based cloud-native application deployments. Nexenta is integrating container technology with its scale-out NexentaEdge Software-Defined Storage solution, embracing microservice architectures to provide a high performance, enterprise-grade storage foundation for could-native applications.
The agility, simplicity and efficiency of microservices and container-based architecture have established them as the de facto standard for developers building cloud applications at scale. This is particularly true for stateless applications that require little or no persistent storage capability from the infrastructure. As enterprises look for ways to bring these same agility, simplicity and efficiency benefits to stateful applications, the need for persistent storage solutions that tightly integrate with, and seamlessly support container deployments has developed and come to the forefront.
1- Nexenta’s Container-Converged infrastructure: App containers and NexentaEdge microservices all running on the same serversNexenta is actively working with its partners to address these emerging requirements with its open software-defined storage solutions, enabling customers to simply deploy cloud-native applications whether they require persistent storage or not. In the process, Nexenta is enabling true software-defined container-converged infrastructure: scale-out server based infrastructure that concurrently runs NexentaEdge storage microservices and application microservices, providing high performance persistent storage services and simple container mobility.
Nexenta's portfolio of OpenSDS solutions provides an ideal foundation for agile container-based infrastructure. As part of this initiative, Nexenta is:
- Joining the Open Container Initiative (OCI) and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Other members include: Apcera, AT&T, AWS, Cisco, ClusterHQ, CoreOS, Datera, Docker, EMC, Fujitsu, Google, Goldman Sachs, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Kismatic, Kyup, the Linux Foundation, Mesosphere, Microsoft, Midokura, Nutanix, Oracle, Pivotal, Polyverse, Rancher, Red Hat, Resin.io, Suse, Sysdig, Twitter, Verizon, VMware
- Integrating container technology into NexentaEdge, enabling NexentaEdge nodes to be deployed as microservices on any scale-out cluster of Linux servers, providing high performance block and object storage services with enterprise grade functionality (inline deduplication, inline compression, unlimited snapshots, clones, etc.)
- Enabling low latency data access between application microservices and NexentaEdge storage microservices running concurrently on the same server infrastructure, eliminating the overhead associated with traditional iSCSI block access methods and delivering true container-converged infrastructure
- Delivering unlimited container mobility across the entire cluster by leveraging NexentaEdge scale out architecture for any time, any server access to any container image or any application backend data
- Ensuring seamless integration and management of NexentaEdge storage microservices with Kubernetes
- Building ClusterHQ Flocker volume plug-ins for NexentaEdge and NexentaStor to support customers who prefer to keep compute and storage running on separate physical infrastructure
- Compatibility with Canonical's Juju, Charms and LXD
"Containers and microservice architectures have changed the way new applications are developed, deployed and managed at scale. At Nexenta, we’re focusing on the next stage of infrastructure evolution, building software-defined storage management for containers and enabling seamless stateful container mobility on truly container-converged infrastructure. NexentaEdge is a natural fit for enabling these new architectures," said Thomas Cornely, Chief Product Officer at Nexenta.
"Containers are revolutionizing the computing industry and delivering on the dream of application portability," said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. "We applaud Nexenta’s vision for making software defined storage a critical part of OCI and CNCF and the next generation of cloud applications."
"Canonical has invested in bringing container technology to the masses for the last 5 years, and with LXC and LXD we are now delivering infrastructure which makes containers as simple and familiar to provision as legacy virtual machines," said Christian Reis, VP of Hyperscale Computing, Canonical. "Nexenta's vision for storage with containers fully aligns with ours, and we are pleased to have them commit to using Juju and LXD as underlying technologies for container-based NexentaEdge deployments on Ubuntu."
"The integration of Flocker with NexentaEdge and NexentaStor is bringing enterprise-grade storage and data management to container based cloud native application deployments. We’re pleased to have Nexenta join ClusterHQ’s growing partner network to increase storage options for customers interested in building stateful microservices on Docker," said Mark Davis, CEO, ClusterHQ.
"Rancher is pioneering how Docker will be implemented in the Enterprise by helping organizations build private container services that run on any infrastructure," said Sheng Liang, Rancher Labs CEO. "A big part of that transformation will be around the adoption of software defined storage for containers. We’re excited to work with Nexenta to incorporate their software defined storage technology into Convoy, our recently announced open source storage driver for Docker."
"Nexenta’s integration with containers expands the choice of storage platforms for enterprise customers looking to deploy containers which require data persistence. We look forward to new innovations from ecosystem partners like Nexenta and working with them on VMware's container initiatives," said Kit Colbert, vice president and CTO, Cloud-Native Apps, VMware.
Tweet this: .@Nexenta collab. w/ @linuxfoundation, OCI, CNCF to bring enterprise storage to containers & #cloud native apps http://bit.ly/1URsQfu #SDS
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 33 patents, and more than 1,200 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “Open Source” collaboration with commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are 100% software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic providing organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta OpenSDS enables everyday apps 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 – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others.
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.
Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nexenta Systems Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks and company names mentioned in this document are properties of their respective owners.
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Nexenta to Showcase its Open Source-driven Software Defined Storage Solutions at OpenStack Benelux Conference 2015
Netherlands / Santa Clara, CA – 15 September 2015 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that alongside its partner Supermicro, a leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing, it will be co-sponsoring the OpenStack Benelux Conference, taking place on Thursday 17th of September 2015.
As the largest OpenStack event in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, the event will see developers, cloud computing specialists, IT decision makers and others in the region come together to be informed about the latest developments and practical implementations of OpenStack Cloud Software.
At the conference, Nexenta’s Regional Sales Manager for the Benelux & Nordics, Rob Bloemendal, will give a business presentation entitled ‘Open the Stack with SDS’ at 15:10 – 15:40 at Business – Podium 10. In this session, Rob will discuss the business value of an Open Software-Defined Storage architecture.
Event details:
When: September 17th 2015, 8:00 – 17:40 (CEST)
Where: Spant in Bussum, Doctor Abraham Kuyperlaan 3 1402 SB Bussum
Organised by: Fairbanks NV
Register for your free ticket: http://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-openstack-benelux-conference-2015-17223339472?aff=es2
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 33 patents, and more than 1,200 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “Open Source” collaboration with commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are 100% software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic providing organisations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organisations with the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centres to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta OpenSDS enables everyday apps 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 – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others.
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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SanDisk and Nexenta to Deliver the First Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) All Flash Array in the Market
Pre-validated Nexenta and SanDisk solutions for ultra large scale, low-cost, high performance data centers available on Dell and Supermicro platforms
SAN FRANCISCO— VMworld 2015 U.S. - September 2, 2015 — SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, and Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that NexentaStor, the company’s flagship software-only platform, has been integrated with SanDisk’s all-flash InfiniFlash™ IF100 system. This all-flash joint solution provides data center customers with a pre-tested, full-featured, cost-effective, high-performance system for addressing today’s increasing Big Data challenges.
Capable of scaling from 64 Terabyte (TB) to two Petabyte (PB) configurations, this unique software and hardware solution supports a broad range of deployment scenarios and workloads including, virtualization, Big Data analytics, data warehousing, and dynamic modeling. Built on ZFS, this resilient scale-up, unified block (FC and iSCSI) and file (NFS and SMB) storage solution provides enterprise customers with peace of mind and the assurance needed around functionality and performance. Key differentiators of this joint solution include NexentaStor's inline data reduction and high performance dual parity raid capabilities as well as the InfiniFlash IF100’s extra low space, power and cooling requirements, resulting in industry leading TCO.
“The coupling of our NexentaStor software and SanDisk’s InfiniFlash systems delivers the industry lowest cost solutions for high performance (ultra-low, consistent, sub-millisecond response times and more than 8 Million flash IOPS in a rack) mature unified block and file services to cloud service providers and enterprise customers,” said Tarkan Maner, CEO of Nexenta. “These solutions literally break new ground and make all flash storage economically practical for a wide range of use cases, from high performance databases, to virtualized environments, big data lakes and extra dense active archive repositories.”
The integrated system monitoring and event management capabilities of the new solution, eases system management which ensures a better customer experience. NexentaStor’s ability to support block and file services allows customers to address use cases such as: VMware vCloud® Air™, OpenStack and CloudStack backend storage, generic NAS file services and Home Directory storage, etc.
“By design, InfiniFlash provides data center customers with a seamless, simple to manage, cost efficient solution, that delivers substantial performance gains over traditional hard disk drive-based systems,” said Ravi Swaminathan, Vice President and General Manager, Systems and Software Solutions, SanDisk. “By integrating with Nexenta, we are disrupting the status quo and changing the industry dynamics in favor of dramatically broader flash adoption throughout the data center.”
Availability, Support and Pricing
Tested for use with both Dell PowerEdge R730 and Supermicro SuperServer® SYS-6028U-TR4+, the all-flash architecture will be available through select channel partners. List price for the solution including, perpetual software licenses, controllers, InfiniFlash, 3 year support and installation starting as low as $1.5/Raw GB based on configuration and capacity requirements.
“The combination of Nexenta’s software-defined storage software, SanDisk InfiniFlash and Dell PowerEdge servers allows us to offer customers an all-flash array solution with performance and capacity-optimized configurations to handle large-scale virtualization and file-based workload requirements,” said Alan Atkinson, vice president and general manager, Dell Storage.
“Supermicro is the go to provider of leading edge server, storage and networking infrastructure solutions optimized for Enterprise, Data Center, and Cloud scale environments,” said Wally Liaw, Sr. Vice President of Sales at Supermicro. “Our open collaboration to develop market leading solutions featuring advanced technologies such as Nexenta’s NexentaStor and SanDisk’s InfiniFlash delivers customers the best performance, scalability and manageability in pre-configured, full-featured all-flash software-defined storage solutions.”
For more information, please refer to the All-Flash-Array Meets SDS Solution Brief.
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SanDisk at VMworld 2015 U.S.
To learn more and experience the power of the flash-accelerated, software-defined data center, please visit SanDisk in booth #1920 during VMworld, taking place at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, August 30-September 3, 2015. You can join Serge Shats for session STO5704 on “Using Virtual Data Services for IO Acceleration in vSphere,” taking place on Monday, August 31, from 12:30 – 1:30 PM; panel session VAPP5737 with industry experts such as Tarkan Maner and Rawlinson Rivera on Software Defined Storage, from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM on Tuesday, September 1; or our two Solution Exchange sessions on Wednesday, September 2: FlashSoft 1:50 – 2:10 PM and All Flash Virtual SAN from 3:20 PM – 3:40 PM; and session STO5157 on “Running Business Critical Applications with VMware All Flash Virtual SAN” on Thursday, September 3 from 12:00PM to 1:00PM. SanDisk will also be showcasing its newest FlashSoft software solution during Tech Field Day Extra with Stephen Foskett taking place on Tuesday afternoon from 3:30-4:30pm. SanDisk’s Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer and General Manager of Enterprise Solutions, Sumit Sadana, will be speaking at Nexenta’s OpenSDx Summit at 9:35 AM on Thursday, September 3. You can also see SanDisk solutions at work in our technology partner booths including: VMware, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Nexenta, CloudByte, Tegile, SIOS, Supermicro and Maxta. For more details on SanDisk’s presence and solutions for VMworld, visit: http://www.sandisk.com/events/vmworld-us/.
About VMworld 2015 U.S.
VMworld 2015 U.S. is the industry's largest virtualization and cloud computing event. With more than 400 unique breakout sessions and labs, and more than 240 sponsors and exhibitors, attendees will have unparalleled access to the knowledge and tools they need to master the new cloud landscape and transform their business. To learn more about VMworld, please visit: www.vmworld.com
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 33 patents, and more than 1,200 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “Open Source” collaboration with commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are 100% software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic providing organisations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organisations with the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centres to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta OpenSDS enables everyday apps 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 – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others.
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 SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For more than 27 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of storage, providing trusted and innovative products that have transformed the electronics industry. Today, SanDisk’s quality, state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of the world's largest data centers, and embedded in advanced smart phones, tablets and PCs. SanDisk’s consumer products are available at hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.
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(Supermicro press release) Supermicro® Debuts 115TB All-Flash Software-Defined Storage Solution for Enterprise and Cloud Scale Environments
New High Performance, High Availability, Unified Storage Solution Supporting Nexenta and HGST Technologies Accelerates I/O and Simplifies Integration, Management and Scalability through Advanced SDS and SSD Technologies
San Jose, CA, September 1, 2015 - Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing, in collaboration with Nexenta andHGST, has developed a turnkey scale-up high performance unified block and file storage solution optimized for high performance data-centric environments. Supermicro’s 2U Ultra SuperServer® integrates NexentaStor, Nexenta’s flagship Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) platform combined with 2U SuperStorage featuring HGST’s Ultrastar® SSD800MH.B and Ultrastar® SSD1600MM high-performance Flash-based storage delivers cluster solutions in 19TB, 38TB, 76TB and 115TB configurations. NexentaStor OpenSDS, designed for Enterprise class performance provides unified file (NFS and SMB) and block (FC and iSCSI) storage services and robust data management functions for maximum data integrity and high availability. The all-SSD solution supports the most demanding mission-critical applications in physical or virtualized infrastructure environments.
“Supermicro’s best-in-class server, storage and networking solutions optimized for Enterprise, Data Center and Cloud scale environments drive business growth and innovation,” said Wally Liaw, Sr. Vice President of Sales at Supermicro. “Collaboration with Nexenta and HGST offers choices to our customers who are looking for high-performance all-flash SDS solutions and this highlights our strengths in advanced technology integration for high performance data workloads of any scale. This unified storage solution provides customers a scalable high IOPS storage infrastructure that delivers performance, reliability and cost effectiveness as well as ease of management with robust automation features.”
“Nexenta is unrivaled in the industry as the only pure software-only provider of SDS for all platforms, stacks and workloads,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta. “For businesses to scale with the exponential growth demands of data and analytics the industry needs to evolve from appliance-based storage to the dynamic flexibility of software-defined storage. Our collaboration with Supermicro and HGST on this new all-flash solution opens the door for organizations to accelerate business applications and dramatically increase performance, visibility and control across their storage infrastructure and lower both CAPEX/OPEX to reduce overall TCO.”
“With decades of proven expertise, HGST is the de-facto market leader of high-performance and high-reliability enterprise-class SAS SSDs,” said Renate Quigley, senior vice president of product marketing, HGST. “Organizations are contending with both a growing data deluge and the need for instant data accessibility to drive real-time insight. Our collaboration with Nexenta and Supermicro on this new, all-Flash SDS solution delivers the acceleration, reliability and scalability required to handle today’s demanding enterprise and cloud scale storage requirements.”
Solution Specifications
Controller Node
- 2x 2U Ultra SuperServer® (SYS-6028U-NEX2) – dual Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2643 v3 (3.4GHz, 6-core), 256GB (16x 16GB DIMMs), NexentaStor 4.0 software, 12Gbps SAS HBAs, 2x dual 10GbE SFP+ ports (NFSv3, NFSv4, CIFS, SMB 2.1, iSCSI)
Storage Enclosures
- 19TB JBOD Cluster (SRS-NSM019-HGST-01-NS017) – 24x 2.5” hot-swap HGST 800GB SSDs
- 38TB JBOD Cluster (SRS-NSM038-HGST-01-NS017) – 24x 2.5” hot-swap HGST 1600GB SSDs
- 76TB JBOD Cluster (SRS-NSM076-HGST-01-NS017) – 48x 2.5” hot-swap HGST 1600GB SSDs
- 115TB JBOD Cluster (SRS-NSM115-HGST-01-NS017) – 72x 2.5” hot-swap HGST 1600GB SSDs
Performance
- Sub millisecond latency
- Up to 200,000 32KB IOPS and 6 GB/s maximum throughput
- List price ranges between $2/Raw GB to $3.5/Raw GB depending on the configuration
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VMware Selects Nexenta Open Software-Defined Storage Platform for VMware Virtual SAN File Services for Complete Software-Only Hyper-Convergence Solution
SANTA CLARA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA – September 1, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta) the global leader in Open Source-Driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) solutions, in partnership with VMware, today announced that any validated VMware Virtual SAN customer could receive an exclusive promotion of NexentaConnect to achieve file services. NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN provides file services for VMware Virtual SAN environments by adding NFS and SMB access on top of an existing Virtual SAN to complete the software hyper-convergence model.
This promotion is available for a limited time starting September 1st:
- NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN license
- Unlimited raw storage capacity to match VMware Virtual SAN Licenses
- Nexenta technical support for 12 months (technical support purchase required after 12 months)
Additionally during VMworld 2015, Nexenta will showcase this combined solution within VMware’s Hands-on Lab (HOL). This much-anticipated participation in VMware’s Virtual SAN A-to-Z HOL session will provide event attendees with the opportunity to discover NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN ™. This is the only file services offering for VMware Virtual SAN in the HOL. In 45 minutes, HOL guests will experience everything from initial installation and configuration to storage policy management and data recovery via snapshots. This training will also be available after VMworld here.
“Of all the solutions we evaluated, NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN was the most mature, the easiest to implement and use, and delivered the best performance. If you’ve got a VMware Virtual SAN set up already, implementing NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN takes about ten minutes,” said Phil Bedard, Principal Network Design Engineer for Cox Communications. “Full integration into our infrastructure was easy, too. My team and the network designers we serve, don’t want to become storage experts. Our real job is testing. While I have experience with storage, I was looking for a product that would be easy for my network experts to manage.”
“We are thrilled to select Nexenta as our file services component of VMware Virtual SAN,” said Gaetan Castelein, Sr. Director Product Management at VMware. “Nexenta’s disruptive OpenSDS solutions, combined with VMware’s SDDC vision is empowering users with agile, scalable and sustainable architectures, and the booth demos, joint promotion and HOL will provide attendees with first-hand experience of what our partnership is all about.”
“Now, more than ever, as storage requirements grow, end-users demand their data centers are built on a simplified infrastructure, reducing costs and achieving automated scalability,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at Nexenta. "Nexenta and VMware are changing the industry with our full featured Software-Defined Storage solutions that can deliver flexibility, simplicity and lower total cost of ownership for the SDDC.”
Additional Resource: https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 33 patents, and more than 1,200 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “Open Source” collaboration with commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are 100% software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic providing organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta OpenSDS enables everyday apps 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 – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others.
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.
Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nexenta Systems Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks and company names mentioned in this document are properties of their respective owners.
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Nexenta Systems
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Wipro Selects Nexenta Open Software-Defined Storage Platform for Its Hybrid Cloud
Wipro Leverages Nexenta's Open Source-driven Data Center Software to Create a Scalable Data Storage Infrastructure for Thousands of Virtual Desktop Users
San Francisco and Santa Clara, Calif. – August 28, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (#OpenSDS), today announced at VMworld® 2015 US that Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), a global information technology, consulting and business process services company has selected NexentaStor to create a storage infrastructure for Wipro’s virtual desktop requirements based on VMware Horizon® 6.
Wipro will deploy NexentaStor, Nexenta’s flagship OpenSDS platform, on x86 hardware in its facility in Bangalore, India. Subsequent to successful internal deployment of VDI Infrastructure, Wipro will also deploy the Borderless business project infrastructure to 4,000 users in its Bangalore facility. The deployment of Nexenta SDS, SSDs, NL-SAS disks as well as VMware Horizon and VMware NSX, will enable employees to work seamlessly from anywhere and get the respective desktop image, while ensuring data security.
"We needed a cost-effective storage solution that could scale with our VDI implementation. Nexenta demonstrated that we can achieve great performance metrics while being able to scale the storage capacity at an optimal cost," said Raja Ukil, Chief Information Officer, Wipro Limited. He added, “We are excited to work with Nexenta for our internal storage requirements and also offer the same solution to our customers."
“The combination of VMware Horizon 6 and NexentaStor solutions enables streamlined deployments of virtual desktops and applications,” said Shankar Iyer, vice president, Products, End-User Computing, VMware. “Together, the two solutions offer customers the ability to realize enhanced value and improved return on investment.”
"Skyrocketing storage costs and vendor-specific legacy hardware lock-in via long-term punitive contracts are paralyzing organizations across the globe, but it doesn't have to be that way," said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO, Nexenta. "At Nexenta, we combine cost-optimization, performance, and scalability to deliver a software-defined storage solution that provides economic viability, flexibility, and open source-driven customization for Wipro and, more importantly for its customers."
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 33 patents, and more than 1,200 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “Open Source” collaboration with commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are 100% software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic providing organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta OpenSDS enables everyday apps 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 – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others.
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. Tweet this.
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