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New Forrester Research Market Study Confirms Nexenta Software Defined Storage Customers Enjoy High Return on Investment
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:
- Hardware cost savings
- Enabled capabilities and business impact
- Solution efficiency
"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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Software Defined Storage Leader Continues Global Expansion with New Partnership in Japan
Nexenta Extends its Leadership into Asia Pacific Market with Channel Distributor
SANTA CLARA, Calif., – February 12, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, continues its worldwide expansion with today’s announcement of a distribution deal with top Japanese distributor Ascentech. This agreement will help fulfill demand for enterprise SDS solutions that break vendor lock-in, lower costs, and support data center transformation. It will also increase the need for cloud solutions, hybrid architectures and agnostic platforms.
Ascentech is a leading distributor in Japan. They maintain a large ecosystem of top resellers throughout the region, leveraging them to develop disruptive solutions that help vendors and end-user customers to increase efficiency and competitive advantage.
Nao Sato, President and CEO of Ascentech Ltd., said, “This distribution agreement will enable Ascentech’s technology partners, resellers and customers to respond with more quality and speed to the growing demand for Software Defined Data Center solutions. Today’s businesses agree that Software Defined Data Centers are the data centers of the future – and we are eager to team with global SDS leaders like Nexenta, to develop innovative cloud solutions. Nexenta’s patented award-winning solutions will help Ascentech’s end-user customers realize significant benefits with greater efficiency, higher productivity, and ultimately more opportunity for innovation.”
Shoichi Morita, President and CEO of Networld Corporation, a partner of Ascentech, commented, “We are proud of our partnership with Nexenta in delivering innovative Software Defined Storage cloud solutions. We have already helped many Japanese organizations realize the benefits of Software Defined Data Centers. Networld looks forward to partnering with Ascentech and others to deliver a flexible, high performance, cost effective infrastructure solution that will scale as our company grows. We’re thrilled to see these business partners increasing their presence and commitment to the fast growing storage market in Japan.”
“Nexenta now has a great partner network with some of the leading channel players in Japan, and in the world. Together, we will bring Software Defined Storage to the Japanese market, where the storage market is under-served with a few legacy hardware products. Nexenta and its partner network are committed to delivering innovative and flexible software-only storage solutions to realize the promise of cloud-enabled enterprises,” states Tarkan Maner, Nexenta Chairman and CEO. “With record data volumes driven by some of the world’s highest levels of mobility and social media, Japanese organizations are demanding lower cost solutions that improve efficiency and drive innovation.”
Leading Healthcare Network Selects Nexenta Software Defined Storage and VMware Virtualization Solutions to Deliver Innovative Private Cloud
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.
Nexenta Wins “Most Promising Storage Company” Award
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 5, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage), announced that it has won CIO Review magazine’s top storage company award. The CIO Storage20 is an annual award listing the most promising storage companies.
A panel of CEOs, CIOs, industry analysts and the CIO Review editorial board selected Nexenta as a company tackling the most pressing storage challenges based on value and impact in the marketplace. Nexenta and the CIO Storage20 appear in the January 2014 issue of CIO Review and can be found online.
“The Software Defined Data Center market is changing rapidly, and general market trends are forcing CIOs to approach their challenges around the extended enterprise in more agile and simpler ways while cutting costs. Nexenta and other leading players in this fast-paced segment are innovating in multiple areas from the network to the storage layer, to find ways to disrupt the overall market. The next 36 months will offer exciting opportunities for these players and CIOs to turn the industry on its head,” said Patrick Moorhead, Founder and President at Moor Insights & Strategy.
“Nexenta is making great strides and our customers and partners are taking notice,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta. "We’re proud to have won the CIO Review award and view it as proof of our potential and future success.”
Nexenta to Showcase Leading Software Defined Solutions at VMware Partner Conference
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, 11th, 4pm
- Solutions Exchange Theater
- Nexenta will host a gathering for customers and partners on February 12th 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.”
Nexenta Wins Leading Innovation Award for Software Defined Storage
Santa Clara, CA – January 29, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced that it has won the 2014 BIG Innovation Award from Business Intelligence Group. The judges selected Nexenta VSA for VMware Horizon View™, a combined all-in-one virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) automation, storage auto-deployment and storage acceleration solution, as one of the top innovations in business and technology.
"Our inaugural year of rewarding great innovations turned up some amazing products and services that clearly deserve recognition," said Russ Fordyce, managing director of the Business Intelligence Group. "If these innovations are any indicator, 2014 will prove to be one of the most innovative years in recent history. The winners are driving business and consumer change with creativity and intelligence. Congratulations."
"Business Intelligence Group's recognition of Nexenta and our software defined storage offering validates our global traction and leadership in this space," said Tarkan Maner, Nexenta CEO. "As IT departments embrace the cloud and virtualization, Nexenta will continue to innovate to solve the most pressing storage demands and challenges that customers face."
The Nexenta VSA for VMware Horizon View technology increases VDI I/O throughput and desktop capacity for desktop and mobile users. The overall user experience is improved with lower latency levels. Plus, responsiveness in user sessions can be improved by upwards of 75%
Software Defined Storage Leader Nexenta Continues to Expand Global Footprint
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.”
Oscar-Winning Production Company Turns to Nexenta to Manage Massive Data Growth
Economics and Innovation Benefits Lead Framestore to Software Defined Storage Leader
London, UK and Santa Clara, CA, USA, January 22, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced that Framestore, an Oscar-winning visual effects company for film and advertising, has selected Nexenta to manage its multi-petabyte data storage needs.
In a world where a picture can be worth millions of dollars, Framestore is known for creating extraordinary images and visual effects for movie houses around the world. Established in 1995, it has locations in London, New York, Montreal and Los Angeles. Recent projects include movie blockbusters Gravity and Skyfall, as well as global advertising campaigns for Audi and Pepsi, and TV shows including Doctor Who.
Managing petabytes of mission-critical data is a challenge, particularly in this creative and fast-paced global business environment. Without access to this data, Framestore wouldn't be able to meet the production demands of the media and entertainment industry. The IT team at Framestore needed a flexible, scalable, reliable, enterprise storage system to manage its massive data growth, enhance its disaster recovery capabilities and ultimately to maintain its reputation as a leader in visual effects.
Framestore chose Nexenta's Software Defined Storage solution over other storage solutions to create an innovative storage infrastructure. Working with its technology partner Dell to provide the hardware, and utilizing the open-source ZFS operating system, Framestore selected Nexenta for its combination of technical acumen and an economic product offering.
"Nexenta is a progressive and forward thinking company with a team of highly technical and knowledgeable engineers, who integrated well with the Framestore technology team and have been a pleasure to work with," said Steve MacPherson, CTO, Framestore. "I believe Nexenta is on the crest of a wave, one that has a strong potential to disrupt the storage industry status quo. The coupling of affordable enterprise grade hardware, a strong and open ZFS base, and Nexenta software features provide us with great flexibility in how we design and deploy production storage. Nexenta provides that last critical software and support component that allows us to move everything forward and to re-architect our global storage strategy."
Tarkan Maner, CEO, Nexenta, said, "Our SDS offering is ideal for the entertainment industry. Unlike the Massively Expensive Storage Systems (MESS) provided by larger vendors who focus on hardware boxes and expensive 'rip and replace' models as users hit full capacity, Nexenta has the ability to keep scaling and growing. SDS is the future and Framestore is embracing it as a business-critical function in order to continue its huge success globally."
Nexenta and Daystrom Technologies Create Unrivaled Media Storage Solution for “The Newest Hottest Spike Lee Joint”
Software Defined Storage Integrates With Software Defined Systems to Meet Demanding Production Schedule
SANTA CLARA, California – January 6, 2014 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced that Daystrom Technologies has turned to the NexentaStor™ (#nexentastor) Software Defined Storage platform to complete the production archiving support of "The Newest Hottest Spike Lee Joint," recently funded on Kickstarter.
The famed director recently raised over $1.4 million in funding from 6,421 backers. With the upcoming demanding shooting schedule and relatively short time span (18 days), the challenge was to securely archive all original video and audio files based-on multiple formats with several copies kept on-set during the shooting.
With as much as 2.8TB of raw video shot each day, disk capacity needed to be added to Daystrom’s NexentaStor-based data store as shooting progressed. Nexenta's NexentaStor had been chosen to deploy a Network Attached Storage (NAS) because of its ability to easily and inexpensively add capacity when needed. In addition, NexentaStor plus LTO backups which utilized the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) delivered as close to a bulletproof media management system as Daystrom could get.
"Daystrom turned to Nexenta to provide a secure self-healing storage file and backup system immune from silent data corruption and simplified disk management though either a command line or graphical user interface which are standard features of the NexentaStor SAN/NAS storage operating system," according to Stephen B. Cohen, Daystrom’s Sr. Solutions Architect. "Nexenta provided a validated copy on write and checksum ensuring the highest levels of reliability and data integrity in both archiving and playback."
"The need for multiple data backups in the media and entertainment industry continues to grow as archival technology requirements behind movie-making becomes more stringent," said Tarkan Maner, Nexenta CEO. "Our technology helps this industry prevent potentially devastating losses from silent data corruption and preserves the creativity of the cast, camera crew, editors and post production team. Together, we are creating a safer storage environment for all businesses including media and entertainment."
Nexenta and Mirantis Collaborate on Innovative OpenStack-based Cloud Deployments
Industry Leaders Join with ScaleMatrix and Other Leading Cloud Providers and Enterprises in Disrupting the IT Industry with a Software Defined Data Center Vision
SANTA CLARA and MOUNTAIN VIEW, California – December 18, 2013 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions, and Mirantis (@Mirantisit), the number one pure-play OpenStack vendor, today announced a partnership to develop and deliver enterprise-class solutions that help cloud solution providers and enterprises simplify and harden large-scale, cloud deployments based on Nexenta’s industry-leading Software Defined Storage platform and Mirantis OpenStack distribution.
Through this partnership, NexentaStor, the number one Software Defined Storage platform on any commodity hardware, will integrate with Mirantis OpenStack to help simplify customer experience for large-scale and complex OpenStack deployments in both public and private cloud environments.
Nexenta and Mirantis solutions help customers escape from vendor lock-in, in cloud deployments and tap into the innovation of the OpenStack community. Customers include ScaleMatrix, the leading large-scale cloud service provider based in San Diego, CA. ScaleMatrix is a premier provider of cloud services to public and private sector organizations along with infrastructure technologies from leading systems vendors, including Nexenta, Mirantis and Dell. “Augmenting Nexenta’s Software Defined Storage model with Mirantis OpenStack helps us simplify and accelerate our business service delivery to customers without being forced to rely on the cloud offerings of just one vendor. Our partnership with innovative leaders like Nexenta, Mirantis and Dell, helps us to do what we we’ve always been focused on: providing superior customer services and results,” said Mark Ortenzi, Founder and CEO at ScaleMatrix.
“Nexenta has tapped into the dynamism and innovation of the open source community by making significant code contributions to the upstream OpenStack codebase and enabling its innovative storage technology to work well with OpenStack,” said Adrian Ionel, President and CEO of Mirantis. “We see a lot of interest in Nexenta storage management from our customers, and this partnership will help us provide the best possible experience for them. Through this partnership, Mirantis and Nexenta will be able to free the data center by providing customers with the greatest amount of choice in cloud solutions, allowing them to take advantage of the latest and greatest open source innovations on the fly.”
“Mirantis has a great track record in helping customers deploy OpenStack,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta. “By integrating Nexenta’s leading Software Defined Storage platform with the Mirantis OpenStack platform, we are providing enterprises and cloud service leaders like ScaleMatrix with simplicity, agility and efficiency in their cloud deployments so that they can achieve levels and profitability for their customers.”