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New Forrester Research Market Study Confirms Nexenta Software Defined Storage Customers Enjoy High Return on Investment

SANTA CLARA, Calif., - February 19, 2014 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced a Total Economic Impact (TEI) commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting that focuses on enterprise Software Defined Storage and examines the potential return on investment (ROI) using NexentaStor™ technology.

The study provides readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of NexentaStor on their organizations. The TEI model and methodology help companies demonstrate, justify and realize the tangible value of IT initiatives. The methodology consists of four components to evaluate investment value: benefits, costs, risks and flexibility. Forrester determined that Nexenta’s Software Defined Storage solution, NexentaStor, resulted in material cost savings and avoidance and scalable business benefits.

A customer in the study noted that by configuring the SSD-accelerated system to use NFS, NexentaStor reduced connectivity costs by about 70 percent. The study found that NexentaStor offered an ROI of 81 percent over three years. The various benefits for the interviewed customer included:

"Adopting SDS and NFS creates opportunities to use nonproprietary hardware and avoids 'built-in' markups from legacy storage providers," according to the Forrester Consulting study. "The customer estimated that it reduced hardware costs by 70 percent. Not only does this allow the customer to source hardware more competitively, the customer also gets the flexibility to upgrade to the highest-end storage as needed."

"This study provides detailed and quantitative proof on how our customers are leveraging Nexenta's SDS solutions for CAPEX and OPEX flexibility, virtualization enhancement, and increased performance," according to Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta. "As with many of our customers, in an environment of shrinking IT budgets and increasing expectations, the cost savings and flexibility are key reasons for the choice of Nexenta."

This study provided additional findings on the value of the Nexenta Software Defined Solution. Contact sales@nexenta.com for additional information.

About Nexenta

Nexenta is the inventor and global leader in Software Defined Storage. Nexenta delivers secure, easily-managed, highly available, reliable, and scalable storage software solutions via ultra-low TCO. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, workload-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom for organizations to realize "true" benefits of Cloud Computing via virtualization-enabled Software Defined Data Centers. Nexenta enables workloads from rich media-driven Social Media to Mobility; from Internet of Things to Big Data. Built on an "open source platform," Nexenta delivers award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global channel partner network. For more information, visit www.nexenta.com

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 10, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced that Yale New Haven Hospital, one of the nation's leading healthcare innovators, has selected NexentaConnect™ as their storage solution for the innovative private cloud deployment.  

The VMware Horizon View, Cisco UCS and NexentaConnect solution provide Yale with one platform, one architecture, one solution for an innovative cloud deployment.   This integrated offering has been validated in the Cisco IVT (Interoperability Verification Testing) Lab, and demonstrated increased desktop density, thereby eliminating crippling I/O bottlenecks. This integrated offering delivered a solution that met Yale's aggressive budget expectations.

Nexenta worked with ePlus, a leading provider of advanced technology solutions and a valued partner of both VMware and Cisco, to successfully deploy thousands of virtual desktops across multiple industries and organizations.  

"We were faced with a significant challenge at Yale," said Dave Franco and Matt Openshaw, System Managers, Yale New Haven Hospital. "We needed a solution that was high performance, scalable and cost effective.  With an Integrated Solution including NexentaConnect we were able to have a single architecture that met the needs of our users. We were very pleased with both the solution and the support we received from all the vendors in this project."  

"Working with Nexenta to meet Yale's requirements has been a great experience," said Mason Uyeda, Senior Director, End-User Computing-Solution Marketing and Management, VMware. "Yale has a great reputation of being at the leading edge of technology adoption. Their implementation of Horizon View was a great endorsement of our solution and the NexentaConnect assures that storage challenges will not be an issue."  

Jim Fitzgerald, Vice President of Business Development, Nexenta states; "NexentaConnect delivers on all the promise of Software Defined Storage.  The NexentaConnect deployment tool allowed Yale to define their storage needs, which then enabled the software to intelligently synch the storage and desktops for deployment, monitor the storage with real-time feedback to synch the entire environment.  Software Defined Storage for desktop virtualization and all applications is the future and Yale is showing the way in the healthcare industry."

NexentaConnect provides a 38x physical SAN data retrieval reduction, a 2.5x SAN write I/O reduction and a 72 percent increase in VM density per host.  It is able to do this by effectively utilizing compression, de-duplication and advanced caching methods that are core design characteristics of NexentaConnect.  Additionally, NexentaConnect's application defined deployment tools is the industry's first implementation of true Software Defined Storage, allowing the IT manager to define the needs of the applications and then having NexentaConnect automatically deploy the storage for the maximum performance and benefit.

Santa Clara, CA—February 3, 2014—Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage) (SDS), today announced that it will be attending a number of key partner events, in order to demonstrate its market-leading enterprise storage solutions. With the growing demand for flexible storage capabilities, Nexenta’s solutions provide the scalable infrastructure solution needed to extend storage capacities.

Nexenta is focusing on the Software Defined Data Center market and will be showcasing its innovative Software Defined Storage solutions, to educate and update its partners and channel communities. Nexenta will have demos of its enterprise storage software, NexentaStor™, as well as its VDI technology, Nexenta VSA VMware for Horizon View™, available at the kiosk.

VMware PEX: February 10-12 – San Francisco, CA

• Moscone Center West
  
  • Kiosk 1E23E-B
  • Presentation: Michael Letschin, Nexenta Product Management, on “No MESS with SDS”
    • Tuesday, 11^th, 4pm
    • Solutions Exchange Theater
• Nexenta will host a gathering for customers and partners on February 12^th from 5-8pm at the St. Regis Hotel.

“As the interest in Nexenta continues to grow rapidly, it is important to educate and share our solutions with our partners, customers and industry communities,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO, Nexenta. “SDS has been brought to the forefront of the storage agenda and it will be a core issue at this event.”

SANTA CLARA, California and LONDON, UK – January 27, 2014 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced a distribution deal with leading UK distributor Getech Ltd. The agreement is set to disrupt the UK storage market, providing more enterprises with access to a SDS solution that provides innovative enterprise features at a significantly lower cost than the traditional storage vendors.

As a certified distributor of HP, VXL, Samsung and Dell Wyse Thin Clients, Getech Distribution is the leading distributor for Thin Client Desktop Devices and associated products in the UK.  Getech works with most of the leading resellers throughout the country, wrapping its superior value-added services solutions and provides and helps all of its vendor partners to dramatically grow their market share.

“Nexenta is looking forward to working with Getech as we take Software Defined Storage technology mainstream in the UK market.  We want to disrupt the MESS (massively expensive storage systems) providers that are currently holding storage users hostage,” states Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at Nexenta. “With data volumes growing at record rates and austerity biting hard, customers are looking for innovative and cost effective approaches to storage and data management.”

Guy Watts, Managing Director, Getech Ltd, said: “Nexenta’s SDS solution offers an exciting opportunity for us in the storage arena. Our goal is to disrupt the stranglehold that the likes of NetApp and EMC have on the market. After meeting and speaking to a number of key resellers and customers it is clear the market is keen to explore new alternatives to the big hardware storage providers. The software-defined world offers a real alternative and Nexenta’s storage is underpinning the data centre of the future. As with all the solutions we supply, Getech will be offering a fully certified technical support team to support the roll out of Nexenta, providing a total supply and support service.”

NAS UK Ltd, one of Nexenta’s largest UK resellers, welcome the appointment of Getech. Barry Griffiths, Managing Director of NAS (UK) Ltd, concluded: “Nexenta’s Software Defined Storage platform NexentaStor enables us to disrupt the vendor lock in commonly associated with industry giants such as EMC and NetApps. It also allows us to deliver well supported, high performance, feature rich and flexible scale out solutions for our demanding Enterprise customer base using affordable, commodity, server and storage hardware from tier 1 partners such as Dell.”