Press Releases
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
Tweet this: Attending #OpenStack Benelux? Attend @Nexenta’s session ‘Open the Stack with SDS’ at Podium 10, 3.10pm CEST http://bit.ly/1Qt6kZX #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 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.
Media Contacts:
Kasia Murphy / Astor Sonnen
Johnson King PR
+44 (0)20 7401 7968
Nexenta@johnsonking.co.uk
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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.
Tweet This: With @Nexenta and @SanDisk all-flash-array meets #SoftwareDefinedStorage. Read more here http://bit.ly/1Jx7Uax #Flash #Storage #OpenSDS
SanDisk Handles and Hashtags: @BigDataFlash, @SanDiskDataCtr, #bigdataflash, #InfiniFlash
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.
Media Contacts:
Allison Darin
Director of Communications & Public Relations
Nexenta Systems, Inc.
831-359-8208
pr@nexenta.com
Siobhan Lyons
Senior PR Manager, Enterprise and Client Solutions, SanDisk
202-431-9411
Siobhan.lyons@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
Visit /Nexenta/ for more information on Supermicro/Nexenta SDS solutions.
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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/
Tweet this: Get Hands On with all things #SoftwareDefinedStorage #OpenSDS with Nexenta and @VMware #VSAN
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.
Company Contact:
Allison Darin
Nexenta Systems
831-359-8208
pr@nexenta.com
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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."
Tweet This: .@Wipro selects @Nexenta and @VMware for thousands of virtual desktop employees. #opensds #opensdx #virtualization www.nexenta.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 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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Nexenta to Host CEO Panel at VMworld 2015 around the Latest Trends, Challenges, and Success Stories on Open Source and Software-Defined Data Center Technologies
C-Level Executives from Aberdeen, Canonical, ClusterHQ, LoadDynamix, Northern Backup, ScaleMatrix, VMware and Wipro to join Chris Mellor at The Register for the Panel Discussion
SAN FRANCISCO and SANTA CLARA, CA - August 26, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta) the global leader in Open Source-Driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) solutions, today announced that Tarkan Maner, Nexenta Chairman and CEO, will be speaking at VMworld 2015, on Monday, August 31st at 4:30pm at Moscone West, Level 3, Room 3014.
The panel discussion will focus on the future trends and real-life real-world challenges and solutions around Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS). They will discuss unique vertical perspectives around how Software-Defined Storage and Infrastructures are changing the data center as we know it, and what you will need to do to prepare. Join Tarkan as he moderates a panel featuring Nexenta customers and partners like Aberdeen, Canonical, ClusterHQ, LoadDynamix, Northern Backup, ScaleMatrix, The Register, Wipro and VMware; each of whom have designed, created and had experience with OpenSDS solutions.
In this session you’ll learn about:
- Real-world challenges and solutions for Big Data and hybrid-cloud deployments, and the interconnections among them
- Myths and beliefs regarding software-defined solutions vs. what leading enterprises are actually doing and experiencing
- How trends in storage technology over the next three years will transform your data center and how you can capitalize on them for competitive advantage
Open Software-Defined Storage – Nexenta Customers & Partners Tell Their Story
STO6597SPO
Monday, August 31st, 4:30PM - 5:30PM
Attend a panel discussion with Nexenta partners and customers to explore the real world problems of hybrid-cloud deployments and how OpenSDS offers a whole new approach. Audience members will have a chance to win three Apple Watches.
Moderator: Tarkan Maner, Chairman & CEO, Nexenta
Panelists include:
- Moshe Ovadya, President & CEO, Aberdeen
- Christian (Kiko) Reis, VP of Hyperscale Computing, Canonical
- Luke Marsden, CTO & Founder, ClusterHQ
- Tim Van Ash, VP of Products, LoadDynamix
- Brent Thumlert, Systems Architect, Northern Backup
- Chris Orlando, CMO & Co-Founder, ScaleMatrix
- Chris Mellor, Storage Reporter, The Register
- Michael Haag, Product Marketing Manager, VMware
- Anuj Bhalla, VP, Wipro
Tweet this: Join us at #VMworld for our exciting panel with @Nexenta to find out how #SDS is revolutionizing the #datacenter. http://ow.ly/R743p
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.
Company Contact:
Allison Darin
Nexenta Systems
831-359-8208
pr@nexenta.com
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Nexenta to Introduce New Industry-leading Open Source-Driven Software-Defined Storage Solutions, Partnerships, and Promotions at VMworld 2015
Nexenta’s New Initiatives at VMworld Include; Hands-on Labs, an Exclusive VMware Virtual SAN Promotion, Live Demos, Theatre Sessions, Two Breakout Sessions, and Leading CEO Panel with Chris Mellor from The Register
SAN FRANCISCO and SANTA CLARA, CA - August 26, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta) the global leader in Open Source-Driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) solutions, today announced that it will showcase its unified product portfolio for file, block and object storage at VMworld 2015, August 30 – September 3, in San Francisco, as a platinum sponsor. Nexenta will demonstrate the latest in Software-Defined Storage solutions for cloud and virtualized environments through a VMware Hands-on Lab (HOL), live demos and technology previews, and interactive theatre sessions with a variety of partners at booth #1613. Nexenta will also speak in three breakout sessions.
Another reason to make sure attendees visit Nexenta’s booth will be to experience the 1970 VW bus that’s been transformed into a vintage photo booth. Attendees are encouraged to jump in to capture their best VMworld moments and then post them on social media tagging @nexenta, #OpenSDS and #NexentaBoothBus. The best daily picture will win an Apple TV.
Nexenta’s award-winning OpenSDS solutions will be on display at booth #1613:
- NexentaStor, for unified file and block storage, ranging from spinning disk to hybrid to all flash solutions
- NexentaStor 5.0 preview, with a new high performance management framework utilizing a self-documenting REST API that serves as the foundation for a modern user interface and increased VMware integration through the vCenter ™ Plugin and VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes
- NexentaEdge, the industry’s first software-only scale out block and object solution designed for VMware and OpenStack clouds providing scale out storage for multi-tenant vSphere environments
- NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN, the only fully integrated file services solution for all versions of VMware Virtual SAN
- NexentaStor and NexentaEdge will also be on display with the latest vCloud Suite, Update VMware Virtual SAN and validation on vCloud ® Air™ to provide true hybrid cloud storage solutions
Nexenta will also speak in several breakout sessions and in our partner booths:
Monday, August 31st
10:30AM-11:00AM
vExpert Daily, Michael Letschin, Field CTO
3:30PM-4:30PM
Micron Booth, Ricardo Antuna, VP of Corporate and Business Development
4:30PM - 5:30PM
STO6597-SPO: Open Software-Defined Storage – Nexenta customers & partners tell their story
Attend a panel discussion with Nexenta partners and customers to explore the real world problems of hybrid-cloud deployments and how OpenSDS offers a whole new approach. Audience members will have a chance to win an Apple Watch.
Moderator: Tarkan Maner, Chairman & CEO, Nexenta
Panelists include:
- Moshe Ovadya, President & CEO, Aberdeen
- Christian (Kiko) Reis, VP of Hyperscale Computing, Canonical
- Luke Marsden, CTO & Founder, ClusterHQ
- Tim Van Ash, VP of Products, LoadDynamix
- Brent Thumlert, Systems Architect, Northern Backup
- Chris Orlando, CMO & Co-Founder, ScaleMatrix
- Chris Mellor, Storage Reporter, The Register
- Michael Haag, Product Marketing Manager, VMware
- Anuj Bhalla, VP, Wipro
5:30PM-5:45PM
Cluster HQ Booth, Oscar Wahlberg, Director of Product Management
Tuesday, September 1st
10:30AM-11:00AM
vExpert Daily, Michael Letschin, Field CTO
12:30PM - 1:30PM
STO6596-SPO: Storage on your terms: deep dive into SDS technologies and use cases
Software-Defined Storage means different things to different people. Cut through the jargon with Michael Letschin, Field CTO, and Oscar Wahlberg, Director of Product Management at Nexenta and discover the right SDS solution for you.
12:30PM - 1:30PM
VAPP5737-SPO: Super-charge virtualized business critical applications with flash storage
This interactive panel will see a number Nexenta and other industry experts in storage and flash technologies share best practices and information on the newest validated reference architectures for deploying software-defined data center solutions with enterprise-wide flash and SDS.
Panelists include:
- Tarkan Maner - Chairman and CEO, Nexenta
- Chuck Hollis - Chief Strategist, Storage and Availability, VMware
- Sergey Razin - CTO, SIOS Technology Corp
- Robert Ober - Sr. Fellow, SanDisk
- Patric Chang - Senior Director, SanDisk
3:30PM-4:30PM
Micron Booth, Ricardo Antuna, VP of Corporate and Business Development
Wednesday, September 2nd
10:30AM-11:00AM
vExpert Daily, Michael Letschin, Field CTO
1:30PM-1:45PM
Cluster HQ Booth, Oscar Wahlberg, Director of Product Management
3:30PM-4:30PM
Micron Booth, Ricardo Antuna, VP of Corporate and Business Development
In Nexenta’s booth theatre on the expo floor, Nexenta technologists will present alongside a variety of the company’s technology partners during Next.Talk sessions – including ATTO, Canonical, Cisco, Dell, HGST, Micron, SanDisk, Supermicro, Unitrends and Wipro. At the end of each session we'll conduct a raffle for a "Re-Charge with Nexenta" gift bag as well as every person in attendance will receive a special giveaway.
Sunday, August 30th
- 5PM- Nexenta - “Software Defined Storage for Your Enterprise” - Eric Rife
- 6PM - Nexenta - “Software Defined Storage for Your Enterprise” - Andy Bennett
Monday, August 31st
- 1PM - HGST - “HGST, Nexenta and VMware: Better Together.” Walter Hinton
- 2PM - SanDisk - “Infiniflash with Nexenta for Software Defined All-Flash” Randy Pierce
- 3PM - Supermicro - “Supermicro's New 90bay, Now Nexenta Software-Defined” Michael Huang
- 4PM - Nexenta - “Software Defined Storage for Your Enterprise” - Eric Cho
- 5PM Unitrends - “Recover More than Just your Data with Unitrends” David LeClair
Tuesday, September 1st
- 12PM - Canonical - “Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab” Ron Bassett
- 1PM - ATTO - “Building your own Stretch Cluster with Nexenta and ATTO Storage Controllers” Jim U'Ren
- 2PM - Wipro - “Wipro OpenSDx” - Amit Puri, Somnath Guha
- 3PM - ClusterHQ - “Making Docker Work for Databases in a vSphere Environment” - Madhuri Yechuri
- 4PM - VMware - “Virtual SAN & NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN” Jase McCarty
Wednesday, September 2nd
- 11AM - Canonical - “Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability” Ron Bassett
- 12PM - Cisco - “ Software Defined Storage on Cisco UCS” Richard Jacobik
- 1PM - Nexenta - “Software Defined Storage for Your Enterprise” - Andy Bennett
- 2PM - Dell - “Software Defined Everything with Dell & Nexenta” Ganesh Padmanabhan
- 3PM - Micron - “Micron SSD for VSAN and Nexenta” Alex Medvedev
Nexenta is also giving VMworld 2015 attendees a chance to win $500 gift cards and Apple TVs every day at the event. Check your backpack for the Nexenta raffle post card, or simply stop by booth #1613 to enter.
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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 Extends Its Global Market Leadership in Open Source-Driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) Platform Arena with Simplified Management, Advanced Automation and Real-Time Analytics Capabilities
Nexenta Showcases Seamless and Complete Integration with VMware Solution Portfolio for Any User, Any App, Any Protocol, Any Server, Any Hybrid or Any All-Flash System for Any VMware Cloud; from Scale-Out Block Storage to Virtualized Multi-Tenant Block and File Services; from VMware vSphere and vCenter to VMware Virtual SAN and vCloud Air
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.— August 25, 2015 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), announced its next wave of OpenSDS innovation for VMware solutions, and enhanced VMware interoperability for its entire portfolio. NexentaStor, the company’s flagship SDS solution, along with NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion, together provide the foundation for a high performance, highly scalable, simple to manage Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).
NexentaStor has a proven track record of successful deployments across a diverse set of industries, including higher education, hosting, media and virtual servers. 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
- Interoperability with VMware environments (VAAI support, vCenter plugin, etc.)
NexentaStor 5.0 connects NexentaFusion and VMware vCenter Server to deliver 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. 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.
At VMworld 2015, Nexenta will showcase:
- NexentaStor 5.0 and NexentaFusion for simplified management, automation and real-time performance analytics of OpenSDS storage infrastructure
- High performance block and file services ideal for any cloud storage needs, near-line archive and generic file sharing use cases
- Multi-tenant management of virtualized NexentaStor 5.0 storage with vCenter Plug-in for vSphere 6, enabling simple management of advanced virtual NAS services
- Upcoming NexentaStor 5.0 support for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumns
- NexentaEdge, which provides scale-out iSCSI block storage with inline deduplication and compression for VMware vSphere, highlighting NexentaEdge’s market leading performance capabilities for virtual machine storage for both VMware and OpenStack clouds
- NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN, offering full featured, easy to deploy, file services for a VMware powered hyper-converged infrastructure
- vCloud Air for NexentaStor and NexentaEdge, allowing a simple, cost-effective solution to transition storage environments to the cloud
- Scale-out object storage with NexentaEdge to support VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) deployments
“At VMworld 2015, we ’ll will demonstrate Nexenta’s continued leadership in the field of OpenSDS and we will give VMware users a close look at how Nexenta can help them simplify and optimize their vSphere deployments,” said Thomas Cornely, Nexenta’s Chief Product Officer. “Nexenta OpenSDS is changing the economics of storage and our upcoming NexentaStor 5.0 and NexentaFusion releases will make it much easier for customers to make the transition to an all Software-Defined Data Center.”
“VMware and Nexenta share a vision of enabling IT to break down physical barriers that currently binds data to specific hardware in order to drive greater operational efficiency and availability at lower costs,” said Skip Bacon, vice president of Products, Storage and Availability, VMware. “VMware and its partners continue to work closely to enable customers to realize the benefits of software-defined storage.”
“In partnership with Nexenta, we have already achieved a near 200 percent performance increase compared to similar hyper-scale cloud service offerings, and are setting the performance standard for virtual machines and cloud hosting services,” said Chris Orlando, Co-founder and CSMO at ScaleMatrix. “We look forward to continuing to leveraging Nexenta’s market leading storage solution to provide more flexibility, control, and performance to our hybrid colocation, cloud, and managed service clients nationwide.”
“The need for better alignment between the data center and the broader business needs is driving organizations to look for cost-effective storage solutions that streamline storage management and increase agility of data center staff,” said Eric Sheppard, Research Director for IDC’s storage practice. “NexentaStor 5.0, with support for VMware integration, offers a highly scalable software-defined storage solution that helps address exactly these core issues.”
Supporting Quotes:
“Our partnership with Nexenta has already provided customers with immense value, allowing data storage environments to scale to different floors, buildings and cities via the NexentaStor MetroHA stretch cluster,” said Tim Klein, CEO at ATTO Technology. “The introduction of NexentaStor 5.0 will deliver additional benefit, offering ease of management unavailable anywhere else in the market.”
“The combination of Nexenta’s software-defined storage software and Dell server and storage solutions allows us to offer customers a wide variety of 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. “We expect NexentaStor 5.0 to deliver excellent value to our shared customers, further simplifying deployment and on-going management of their software-defined storage infrastructure.”
As a storage leader, we are proud to work with Nexenta to deliver market-leading software-defined storage technologies,” said Renate Quigley, senior vice president of product marketing, HGST. “Utilizing our industry-leading hard disk drives and Flash solutions, NexentaStor and NexentaEdge deliver greater capacity and scalability, while lowering TCO and increasing performance. Our technology, as seen in their VMworld demos, enable companies like Nexenta and server builders like Supermicro to create a high-performance and high-density compute infrastructure.”
“As a leading worldwide full service systems integrator that delivers data center infrastructure and cloud solutions, we see Software-Defined Storage and the innovation NexentaStor is delivering to be in line with what our customers are asking for,” said David Cantu, Co-Founder & COO from Redapt. “NexentaStor 5.0 combined with solutions like the Dell SC280 are allowing Redapt to offer best-of-breed technology solutions that lower TCO and providing maximum investment protection.”
“We’re happy to partner with Nexenta to package their a virtualized multi-tenant block and file software-solution with our InfiniFlash storage system to provide customers with the flexibility and performance needed to manage today’s growing data volumes,” said Ravi Swaminathan, vice president and general manager, enterprise systems and software solutions, SanDisk. “We’re confident that together, the NexentaStor 5.0 and InfiniFlash will continue to drive value for VMware customers.”
“Supermicro’s Industry leading storage platforms optimized for Enterprise, Data Center, Cloud and VMware environments maximize performance, density, efficiency and reliability while lowering overall TCO,” said Don Clegg, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Supermicro. “Along with VMware vSphere 6.0 and NexentaStor 5.0 software-defined storage technologies, we enable rapid and efficient deployment of highly scalable solutions to accelerate the most challenging applications in highly distributed and dynamic workload environments.”
“Nexenta’s SDS solution is an integral part of Wipro’s Open Datacenter Platform and it continues to deliver benefits to our customers in multiple use cases. In addition, we have successfully implemented Nexenta’s SDS solution for our internal VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) deployments,” said Raja Ukil, Chief Information Officer, Wipro Limited. “NexentaStor has allowed us to achieve a high-performance storage environment without additional cost, and we expect the same benefits with greater management capability via NexentaStor 5.0.”
About NexentaStor
With NexentaStor, enterprises can continue to liberate themselves from the traditional hardware-centric storage approach and have a fully featured, unified solution that scales to meet growing storage requirements on any platform. NexentaStor offers enterprise capabilities for data integrity and workload performance, providing customers the flexibility to select their storage operating system independently from the hardware on which it runs, while commodity storage hardware tends to lack defense against silent data corruption, is difficult to manage, and suffers in performance as storage needs grow.
A premiere VMware partner, Nexenta offers integrated management within VMware vCenter and Virtual SAN. Additionally, Nexenta has joined VMware in participation on multiple new VMware programs launched in 2015.
Tweet This: .@Nexenta announces enhanced @VMware integration with #NexentaStor and #NexentaEdge at @VMworld 2015. #OpenSDS #OpenSDx
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.
VMware, Virtual SAN, vCloud Air and vSphere are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.
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Nexenta via Its Industry-Leading Open Software-Defined Storage Platform Collaborates with Veeam to Provide Availability Solutions for Virtualized Data Centers
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – August 24, 2015 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) is collaborating with Veeam® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™), to provide fast, flexible, reliable and cost-effective recovery and availability solutions for modern data center providers and enterprises. Customers can realize recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for applications and data via a single storage solution that manages all tiers of storage: production, backup, and archive.
With Veeam and Nexenta solutions, organizations can enhance their ecosystem resilience by continuing to deliver services—even from tertiary storage systems—if production storage systems are interrupted or backing up. They can:
- Gain enterprise-grade capabilities across all tiers of source and target storage with a single easy-to-use solution
- Reduce capital investment by selecting the most cost-effective storage hardware for each tier and create higher utilization rates with market leading inline data reduction
- Reduce operational costs by streamlining and unifying management of all storage resources
Companies looking for cost-effective backup and recovery on premises or in the cloud turn to Veeam Backup & Replication™ for fast, flexible, and reliable recovery of virtualized applications and data. Combining Veeam with NexentaStor—the leading Software-Defined Storage solution for unified block and file —provides companies with a comprehensive backup tool and storage environment that delivers fast, flexible, and reliable backup, recovery and availability.
Nexenta offers Veeam customers a single solution for enterprise-grade capabilities across all tiers of target storage, from high-performance production-grade configurations to archival backup, so companies can continue to deliver services from tertiary systems while backing up their primary systems. Because NexentaStor is an OpenSDS solution, companies can select the most cost-effective level of hardware for each tier, including existing hardware. While NexentaStor can serve as both source and target storage, you can use any storage array as your source and manage a diverse set of storage appliances as one seamless solution.
Companies have two options for using NexentaStor as storage for their Veeam backup environment. They can back up VMware production workloads running on NexentaStor primary NFS storage, using NFS to connect with a Veeam proxy and then to a NexentaStor backup. Or they can snapshot data from primary to secondary NexentaStor storage then back it up with a Veeam proxy and store it in a backup repository.
NexentaStor is the most widely deployed OpenSDS platform, allowing thousands of customers all around the world to transform their storage infrastructure to realize:
- Increased flexibility, agility and innovation capability
- Simplified management and ease of use
- Reduced costs without compromise
“Trying to backup and store virtualized data with 20- to 30-year-old tools just isn’t going to cut it,” said Oscar Wahlberg, Sr. Director of Product Management at Nexenta. “The combination of Veeam’s VM-aware backup and NexentaStor is a nice marriage. It allows the IT administrators to figure out which VM is associated with which array to simplify management and provide ease of use while ensuring that backups and restores occur with their required SLAs and with the right economics.”
“Veeam is committed to providing Availability for the Modern Data Center, which for us means taking advantage of modern technologies such as virtualization, cloud and software-defined storage like Nexenta’s NexentaStor. The combined validated solution strengthens both our enterprise and service provider offerings,” said Doug Hazelman, vice president of product strategy at Veeam.
NexentaStor 4.x is now officially verified by Veeam.
Tweet This: .@Nexenta collaborates with @veeam to offer RTPO of < 15 minutes for all apps and data via a single storage solution. #OpenSDS #OpenSDx
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 Honored for Bringing Differentiated Offerings to Market with 2015 Cloud Computing Excellence Award
NexentaStor Brings Innovation in Open Source-Driven Software Defined Storage to Cloud Computing
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—August 20, 2015— Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named NexentaStor, which delivers unified file (NFS and SMB) and block (FC and iSCSI) storage services, as a 2015 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner.
The Cloud Computing Excellence Award, presented by Cloud Computing magazine, recognizes companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market.
“In developing NexentaStor, we aimed to leverage the cloud to deliver the flexibility and scalability that growing storage environments demand,” said Michael Letschin, Field CTO at Nexenta. “We are honored that Cloud Computing magazine and TMC have recognized this achievement by awarding NexentaStor in Cloud Computing Excellence.”
NexentaStor is the company’s flagship OpenSDS platform with thousands of successful deployments worldwide, delivering customers increased flexibility, reduced storage costs and simplified management capabilities. The platform offers unified file and block storage services, eliminates vendor lock-in and is a critical ingredient for enterprises make the move to a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).
“Recognizing leaders in the advancement of cloud computing, TMC is proud to announce NexentaStor as a recipient of the Fifth Annual Cloud Computing Excellence Award,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “Nexenta Systems, Inc. is being honored for their achievement in bringing innovation and excellence to the market, while leveraging the latest technology trends.”
For more information on NexentaStor, please visit: http://nexenta.com/products/nexentastor.
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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.
About TMC
TMC is a global, integrated media company that supports clients' goals by building communities in print, online, and face to face. TMC publishes multiple magazines including Cloud Computing, IoT Evolution, Customer, and Internet Telephony. TMCnet is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries, and is read by 1.5 million unique visitors monthly. TMC produces a variety of trade events, including ITEXPO, the world's leading business technology event, as well as industry events: 2015 Connecticut Mobile Summit; Asterisk World; AstriCon; ChannelVision (CVx) Expo; DevCon5 - HTML5 & Mobile App Developer Conference; Drone Zone 360; IoT Evolution Conference & Expo; IoT Evolution Developers Conference; IoT Evolution Fog, Analytics & Data Conference; IoT Evolution Connected Transportation Conference; IoT Evolution Connected Home & Building Conference; MSP Expo; NFV Expo; SIP Trunking, Unified Communications & WebRTC Seminars; Wearable Tech Conference & Expo featuring Fitness and Sports Wearable Technology (FAST) Expo; WebRTC Conference & Expo; and more.
For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.
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