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Nexenta Appoints BOS-IT as First European Training Partner
Nexenta Appoints BOS-IT as First European Training Partner
Growing demand for OpenStorage solutions fuels need for qualified training programme
Munich, Germany, 9th February 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced the appointment of BOS-IT as its first officially certified NexentaStor training partner in Europe.
German based BOS-IT will provide Nexenta training for all European users of the Nexentastor solution, including IT administrators, managers and channel partners. The award winning OpenStorage software training schedule will kick off today with a half day training on virtualisation and ZFS with Andy Bennett, Nexenta’s Technical Sales Director EMEA, at BOS-IT’s training facility in Hamburg.
Jacco van Achterberg, Sales Manager EMEA at Nexenta Systems commented on the new partnership: “Enterprises are sick of being locked in to expensive proprietary systems. This is leading to a mind-shift as many realise the benefits of OpenStorage. This growing momentum means we need the support of a proven partner in Europe to train our growing partner and user database. BOS-IT has strong experience in the storage sector, which makes them the ideal partner to train our users on the NexentaStor solution.”
“OpenStorage is independent from hardware vendors and I am excited that we are now supporting the global leader in this area,” said Thomas Mitzka, CEO and founder of BOS-IT. ”We have years of experience with OpenSolaris and we are primed to train Nexenta’s clients and partners in the future.”
To find out more about the courses, which are free of charge, please visit the BOS-IT website.
Nexenta® Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions today announced it has secured more than $21 million in Series C financing, with Menlo Ventures as its new lead investor...
Nexenta Raises $21 Million in Series C Funding
Funding Lead by Menlo Ventures: Sierra Ventures and Razor's Edge Also Participate
Capital for Global Expansion of the Fastest Growing Company in Enterprise Storage
Mountain View, CA - January 18, 2011 - Nexenta® Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions today announced it has secured more than $21 million in Series C financing, with Menlo Ventures as its new lead investor. Sierra Ventures and Razor's Edge Ventures also participated in this round. They join current investors Javelin Venture Partners and TransLink Capital.
The infusion of funding follows three years of growth exceeding 400% year-over-year, which makes Nexenta the fastest growing company in enterprise storage. In the past year, Nexenta reached a number of significant corporate milestones, including driving $300 million in hardware sales through the channel, serving more than 4000 customers, tripling its workforce while staying very capital efficient, and funding most operations from sales proceeds. This round of funding will be used to sustain the company’s growth, pace of innovation, and global expansion to meet the rapid demand for the company’s solutions.
“We had choices when we decided to raise a growth round, and are delighted to be working with Pravin Vazirani from Menlo Ventures. Menlo has had a strong track record of successful investments in the storage space including investments in 3Par, Spinnaker Networks, Pliant, and Carbonite and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table. We are also excited that Tim Gulleri from Sierra Ventures will be working with us, as his experience will add value to the board as well.”
“Legacy storage companies, with their reliance on customer lock-in and out of date technical foundations, are not able to address today’s exponential growth in storage demand,” said Nexenta CEO Evan Powell. “Most new storage start-ups simply perpetuate the same old “lock ‘em in” business model, with a snazzier name plate on the array and unproven software under the hood. This investment will enable us to make enterprise class storage for everyone a reality for tens of thousands more partners and end users around the world. I also am happy to announce that Tim Gulleri, from Sierra Ventures, will be working with us. We had choices when we decided to raise a growth round and I couldn’t be happier to be partnering with Menlo Ventures and Sierra Ventures as we seek to open up one of the last bastions of antediluvian lock-in based business models in enterprise IT. ”
Nexenta Products
Nexenta’s high-performance unified storage software runs on any industry standard hardware, addressing a critical need for enterprises and cloud service providers struggling to balance growing data volume with legacy business model lock-in and aging technologies. The company’s open business model and proven track record with large, enterprise-class customers, like the U.S. Army, NOAA, and Korea Telecom, along with partners such as VMware, Citrix, Cisco, Intel, Dell, and Arista, make its flagship NexentaStor product the ideal storage solution for cloud deployments, virtualized data centers, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and running on any industry-standard hardware, NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems.
More information about Nexenta Systems, and free trials of the ZFS-based NexentaStor, can be found at www.nexenta.com or call (877) 862-7770. Partners selling NexentaStor based hardware/software appliances can be found at www.nexenta.com/partners.
About Menlo Ventures
Menlo Ventures provides smart capital for seed through growth technology companies in the consumer and enterprise sectors. For decades, the firm’s market-driven research analysis has led to the identification of and successful exits in innovative technology markets. Notable research-areas of investment include Mobile (Siri, MobiTV, TeleNav), Enterprise storage (3Par), Communications (Acme Packet, Cavium Networks), and Consumer (Carbonite, Roku). Founded in 1976, Menlo’s portfolio includes 70 public companies and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions. Throughout our history, Menlo’s deep network of portfolio entrepreneurs, angels and advisors are a key resource made available to all of our family of investments. Menlo Ventures has $4 billion under management and is currently investing Menlo Ventures XI, a $400m fund with $20m allocated to our Menlo Talent Fund for fast seed funding.
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Nexenta Lands in Beijing's Cloud Valley
NEXENTA LANDS IN BEIJING’S CLOUD VALLEY
Global Leader in OpenStorage Signs Agreement with Organization Founded by the Father of China’s Internet to Establish Beachhead in Greater China
Mountain View, CA and Beijing China—December 12, 2011—Nexenta® Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced that the company had signed an agreement to base its Greater China presence in Beijing’s Cloud Valley. Nexenta will use its presence in Cloud Valley to support its growing ranks of customers and partners.
Cloud Valley is a 7,000-square-meter technology campus and the creation of Edward Tian, widely regarded as the father of China’s internet. Cloud Valley combines investment, technology development, R&D, product development, manufacturing and systems ’integration to address the cloud computing market in China and abroad.
Nexenta intends to leverage Cloud Valley’s extensive resources and unique positioning as a cloud business platform in China in order to build out its local market presence, and offer the same affordable OpenStorage solutions, via its NexentaStor™ product, that it has been offering in other parts of the world.
“We welcome Nexenta as part of Cloud Valley’s ecosystem in order to strengthen its Cloud Storage vendor presence,” said Tian, “and we welcome them as part of our efforts to increase cooperation between Silicon Valley and China.”
“This opportunity could not be more perfect,” said Evan
Powell, CEO of Nexenta. “Cloud Valley provides the infrastructure we need to rapidly capitalize on the opportunity in China. It also provides a community of companies that will make it easy to build long-term sustainable partnerships in the region.”
About NexentaStor
NexentaStor is the leading storage software solution built upon the ZFS file system. NexentaStor runs on industry standard x86 servers sold by a network of more than 250 certified resellers. It provides NAS and SAN capabilities, including support for CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, and Fiber Channel storage access. Customers experience the benefits of enterprise storage, including high performance and air tight data integrity with multiple replication methods, without the vendor lock-in and aged technologies of legacy storage vendors.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the world’s leading provider of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. The company’s flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, is a storage software solution built upon ZFS technology. It operates on industry standard x86 servers and provides NAS and SAN capabilities, including support for CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel storage access.
More information about Nexenta Systems, and free trials of the ZFS-based NexentaStor, can be found at www.nexenta.com or call (877) 862-7770.
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Nexenta Systems Partners with Emulex to Deliver High Performance, Converged Networking
Nexenta Systems Partners with Emulex to Deliver High Performance, Converged Networking
Mountain View, Calif., November 8,2011 - Nexenta Systems, the leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Emulex Corporation to enable customers of Nexenta’s unified storage management platform, NexentaStor, to leverage Emulex's industry-leading portfolio of enterprise-class connectivity solutions. Nexenta has certified and now supports Emulex OneConnect™ 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) Universal Converged Network Adapters (UCNAs) andLightPulse™ 8Gb Fibre Channel (8GFC) Host Bus Adapters (HBAs).
The NexentaStor 3.1 certification of Emulex OneConnect adapters includes the OCe11102-N 10GbE Network Interface Card (NIC). The certified solutions provide customers with high-performance, 10GbE-based network connectivity which removes the overhead of network and storage traffic from the CPU with Emulex's vEngine™ TCP/IP hardware offload technology. Emulex's UCNA platform consolidates network and storage traffic on one adapter, helping clients reduce complexity and lower networking costs.
In addition to Emulex OneConnect UCNAs, Nexenta certified Emulex's LightPulse 8GFC Fibre Channel HBAs, which enable the throughput, scalability and reliability necessary for I/O-intensive applications and high-density virtual server environments.
With the adoption of open standards and best-of-breed solutions, Emulex and Nexenta provide customers with cost-effective, industry standard storage solutions. By providing world-class I/O connectivity solutions, Emulex adds great value to the OpenStorage movement. Customers now have the flexibility to deploy storage that meets or exceeds their business requirements without a proprietary hardware stack.
“The shift from locked-in, legacy storage to the new OpenStorage environment, allows companies of all sizes to deploy enterprise-class storage solutions,” said Brad Stone, vice president of product management, Nexenta. “We welcome the addition of Emulex and believe the storage monoliths of yesteryear are in for some stiff competition from the OpenStorage ecosystem that includes vendors like Emulex and Nexenta.”
“We've worked with Nexenta to create a solution that enables customers adopting OpenStorage to leverage our industry-leading 10GbE and Fibre Channel adapters," said Shaun Walsh, vice president of marketing, Emulex. "Together, we are providing solutions using the NexentaStor platform that meet the storage and server connectivity needs of our customers."
In a related effort, Emulex has joined the Illumos Foundation to ensure embedded support for current and upcoming products. The Illumos project is a community-driven fork of the OpenSolaris operating system.
“Illumos was created to stand independently from OpenSolaris, and provide a point of collaboration for the OpenSolaris and Solaris communities,” said Illumos Community Leader Garrett D’Amore. “Emulex will prove to be a crucial contributor to the advancement of the Illumos conservancy.”
With this certification, Emulex HBAs, CNAs and NICs are now available for use in the NexentaStor installed base and the Illumos community. For more information about the partnership and a list of all Emulex certified products and updates, please visit http://www.emulex.com/partners/strategic-alliances/nexenta.html orhttp://www.nexenta.com. For more information on Illumos please visit http://www.illumos.org.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the world’s leading provider of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. The company’s flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage management. NexentaStor is a storage software solution built upon ZFS technology. It operates on industry standard x86 servers and provides NAS and SAN capabilities, including support for CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel storage access.
Running on any industry-standard hardware, NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems.
More information about Nexenta Systems, and free trials of the ZFS-based NexentaStor, can be found athttp://www.nexenta.com or call (877) 862-7770.
DataON Provides Enterprise Storage Solutions Based on NexentaStor: DataON to Demo DNS & DMS Products at OpenStorage Summit 2011
DataON Provides Enterprise Storage Solutions Based on NexentaStor: DataON to Demo DNS & DMS Products at OpenStorage Summit 2011
DataON Storage, the leading supplier of enterprise-class storage enclosures, will be demonstrating its new released 6G SAS disk shelves providing high-availability, high-density, and scalability features and built in Nexenta Certified Storage Solutions Partner at this year’s OpenStorage Summit, held in San Jose on October 26-27.
With the storage industry landscape changing rapidly, DataON has seized the opportunity to create industry standard disk shelf products purposely designed for the OpenStorage community. The DataON NX-2260 Unified Storage System, powered by NexentaStor, is a NAS appliance that incorporates true enterprise features without incurring the customarily exorbitant prices of proprietary hardware and software. By leveraging the power of NexentaStor, DataON Enterprise Storage products provide many features previously found only with expensive proprietary solutions—and many innovative features entirely unique to ZFS.
“We see the market for OpenStorage and ZFS products exploding. By partnering with Nexenta, we are in the right market at the right time,” says William Huang VP – Sales, DataON Storage. “Today, companies are evaluating projects for cloud, for virtualization, for VDI, and looking for alternative storage solutions that go beyond legacy solutions. We have successfully assisted numerous customer deployments of enterprise-class storage, and we are committed to giving our customers the best product at the best price.”
The OpenStorage Summit 2011 features storage experts leading in-depth sessions on key storage technologies, including virtualization, high-availability, and cloud technology. As a sponsor of this year’s event, DataON Storage will be demonstrating its products including DNS-1660 4U 60-bay 3.5” and 2U 24-bay 2.5” ultra-density disk shelves and its flagship DNS-1600 4U 24-bay the high-density and the bestselling disk shelf. All of these models have been certified by NexentaStor 3.1 and DataON DSM 3.1 Disk Shelf Management Software for NexentaStor 3.1
“Today’s expanding OpenStorage ecosystem has countless companies building storage solutions on top on NexentaStor,” states Evan Powell, CEO, Nexenta Systems. “The collaborative work between companies such as DataON and Nexenta only add value to the end user. Anyone attending this year’s event can see that OpenStorage technology is creating a more level playing field where technology innovation and price to performance ratios will drive business.”
As a member of the OpenStorage community, DataON products has successfully completed both the rigorous Nexenta Certification testing process and NexentaStor HA Cluster Solution Certification testing program thus providing end users with the confidence and ability to tackle mission critical applications. Along with these qualifications and by providing proven solutions with superior performance, quality, scalability and enterprise-class storage monitoring, DataON has increased its customer count by 200% and its revenue growth by over 100% in 2011.
Certified storage solutions by DataON include multi-level data protection, inherent I/O virtualization, an easy and intuitive interface with integrated search, and reliable high-performance storage. These innovative features constitute proven solutions that are evident in DataON customers such as Washburn University and Delano Regional Medical Center. These satisfied customers have been asked to tell their success stories at this year’s OpenStorage Summit.
Stop by our table at OpenStorage Summit 2011 and discover the advantages that DataON Storage can provide.
About DataON:
DataON™ Storage is the leading provider of Enterprise-Class Storage Enclosures with 6G/b SAS technology delivering high availability, scalability, flexibility and high performance storage solutions. Since 2008, DataON Storage offers disk shelf products including; 4U 60-bay 3.5” ultra-dense JBOD, 4U 24-bay 3.5” best-of-breed and 2U 24-bay 2.5” high-density, high performance and green storage disk shelf. In addition to the SAS JBODs DataON also developed its disk shelf management software well known as DSM 3.x specifically for NexentaStor™, OpenSolaris and Solaris OS. More information about DataON call 1.877.512.0432 or visit http://www.DataONStorage.com.
OCZ Technology Talos 6Gbps SAS Solid State Drives Now Certified With Nexenta System's NexentaStor Storage Management Software for Enterprise Applications
OCZ Technology Talos 6Gbps SAS Solid State Drives Now Certified With Nexenta System's NexentaStor(TM) Storage Management Software for Enterprise Applications
Storage Appliances Using OCZ and NexentaStor to be Showcased at the OpenStorage Summit, October 26-27 in San Jose, California
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct 26, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced certification of the Talos 6Gbps SAS SSD products with Nexenta System's NexentaStor(TM) unified storage solution software, and will be showcased together at the upcoming OpenStorage Summit, October 26-27 in San Jose, California.
"We are pleased that our enterprise class OCZ Talos SAS solid state drives have been tested and certified by Nexenta Systems for use with their leading edge NexentaStor software, and together we are able to deliver a seamless cloud-ready virtualized storage solution to the datacenter," said Alex Mei, CMO at OCZ Technology Group. "This total solution will be showcased with Nexenta Systems at the 2011 OpenStorage Summit which brings together storage experts to address key technologies including utilizing SSDs to address challenges relating to virtualization, high-availability, and cloud computing."
"We are very pleased to work with OCZ Technology to bring the latest innovation in SSD products to our end customers," said Jim Fitzgerald, VP of Business Development, Nexenta Systems. "We believe the combination of OCZ Talos SAS and NexentaStor will provide fantastic value for today's customers facing exploding I/O challenges and a great opportunity for our mutual channel partners."
NexentaStor is a unified storage software platform that features a breadth of data management features, including unlimited snapshots, block level mirroring, integrated search, and industry leading software for the management of storage for virtualized environments. NexentaStor is ideal for use with OCZ SSDs, enabling customers to create shared pools of storage from any combination of storage hardware such as SSDs, and provides full integration with virtualization approaches even for mixed vendor environments.
At the OpenStorage Summit, OCZ Technology will demo NexentaStor integrated with Cirrascale's CirraStor storage blades and OCZ Talos SAS 6Gbps enterprise SSDs, which offer superior mixed-workload performance for increased throughput in servers and workstations. OCZ Technology will also showcase the Company's complete lineup of enterprise-class SSDs including Z-Drive, Talos, and Deneva Series storage solutions at the event.
About OCZ Technology Group, Inc.
Founded in 2002, San Jose, CA-based OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (OCZ), is a leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of high performance and reliable Solid-State Drives (SSDs) and premium computer components. OCZ has built on its expertise in high-speed memory to become a leader in the enterprise and consumer SSD markets, a technology that competes with traditional rotating magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs). SSDs are faster, more reliable, generate less heat and use significantly less power than the HDDs used in the majority of computers today. In addition to SSD technology, OCZ also offers high performance components for computing devices and systems, including enterprise-class power management products as well as leading-edge computer gaming solutions. For more information, please visit: www.ocztechnology.com .
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About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and running on any industry-standard hardware, NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems. www.nexenta.com .
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Nexenta Systems and Zmanda Release Next Generation Backup and Recovery Solutions
Nexenta Systems and Zmanda Release Next Generation Backup and Recovery Solutions
Zmanda to present and demo the NexentaStor integration at OpenStorage Summit 2011
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) October 26, 2011 Zmanda™, the industry’s leading provider of open source based back-up solutions, and Nexenta Systems, the leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced availability of jointly developed and certified back-up solutions. Amanda Enterprise (AE), Zmanda’s flagship network back-up product, now natively supports backup of NexentaStor powered storage appliances, as well as back-up of heterogeneous environments to NexentaStor.
Newly released Zmanda NexentaStor Client provides fast and efficient back-ups of data stored on NexentaStor. Data ships directly from NexentaStor to the Amanda Enterprise backup server, saving valuable network bandwidth. Zmanda Nexenta Client leverages various ZFS and zVol backup methods and is configurable to meet the needs of a specific workload. Zmanda NexentaStor Client also provides direct backups of raw volumes (zVols). For example if VMware based VMs are using volumes stored on Nexenta (accessed via iSCSI or Fiber Channel), Zmanda Nexenta Client provides raw backups of these volumes (while maintaining thin provisioning) without installing any client software in the VMs.
In addition, NexentaStor now has been formally certified as the destination of back-up files for the Amanda Enterprise server. Amanda Enterprise can perform network-wide back-up of heterogeneous systems, including Linux, Windows, Solaris, and OS X-based systems onto NexentaStor. NexentaStor, built upon ZFS technology, eliminates redundant back-ups, reduces business downtime, and ensures critical information is always protected and can be restored in seconds. With it, corporate compliance and rules of governance for data retention are managed easily. Users can reuse information across lines of business and industry. And the entire back-up environment can be managed from a single console.
“Zmanda provides extremely cost-effective and simple to use back-up solutions for our customers who prize openness and efficiency,” said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta. “Optimized back-ups of NexentaStor storage from Zmanda will enable our users to realize even more value from our platform.”
“NexentaStor provides open, enterprise-class storage based on ZFS, making it a perfect storage repository for Amanda Enterprise,” said Chander Kant, CEO of Zmanda. “With this integration, our customers will find NexentaStor a scalable and robust choice for storing their back-up files.”
Amanda Enterprise is an enhanced and supported version of the world’s most popular open source back-up and recovery software. Amanda Enterprise allows users to easily and affordably back-up, archive, and recover servers, workstations, desktops, and business-critical applications across a network. The back-up data and archives can be stored on disks, tape, optical devices, or storage clouds such as Amazon S3.
The Nexenta Client for Amanda Enterprise is available immediately for $300 and may be purchased from Zmanda Sales (zsales(at)zmanda(dot)com).
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and running on any industry-standard hardware, NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems. http://www.nexenta.com.
About Zmanda
Zmanda, based in Sunnyvale, California, is the global leader in open source based enterprise backup and disaster recovery. The company’s products — Amanda Enterprise, Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL, and Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB) — make it simple and affordable to backup and recover data in an increasingly complex and heterogeneous IT environment. Amanda Enterprise is an enterprise-grade, network backup solution based on Amanda, the world’s most popular open source backup and recovery software with more than half a million active installations worldwide. ZRM for MySQL is the first mission-critical backup solution designed specifically for MySQL databases. ZCB is the first Windows backup solution to backup both files and live applications to the Amazon S3 storage cloud. Businesses in more than 60 countries trust Zmanda to protect their corporate data. For more information about Zmanda, please contact zsales(at)zmanda(dot)com or go to http://www.zmanda.com/.
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Avere and Nexenta Announce Partnership for Scalable, High Performance Open Storage Solutions
Avere and Nexenta Announce Partnership for Scalable, High Performance Open Storage Solutions
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Avere Systems today announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Nexenta Systems to deliver scalable, high performance, OpenStorage solutions based on a combination of Avere's FXT Series of appliances and Nexenta's NexentaStor open source ZFS technology.
With this new partnership, Avere and Nexenta enable the delivery of a complete storage solution that scales application performance to millions of IOPS, provides petabyte scale capacity with enterprise-class data management features, such as unlimited snapshots, inline deduplication, and thin provisioning.
Avere FXT Series appliances are the first-ever solution to bring the benefits of automated performance tiering and scale-out clustering to any NAS environment. The FXT Series provides NAS optimization by enabling customers to achieve unlimited performance scaling for their applications, global access to data independent of where the storage is located, and dramatic cost savings in both capital and operating expenses.
"Scalar Decisions welcomes the partnership of two of our most exciting technology partners," said Pat Misasi, Vice President, Strategic Partners at Scalar Decisions. "The combination of Avere and Nexenta allows Scalar to provide a winning combination of high performance, scalable petabyte class storage solutions at a price point and total cost of ownership that most customers will find very compelling."
ZFS-based NexentaStor, is a fully supported commercial software package that runs on industry standard x86 servers and provides joint customers and resellers unified storage capabilities, including support for CIFS and NFS storage access. NexentaStor customers typically experience cost savings of 75% or greater versus proprietary solutions.
"Nexenta's OpenStorage products are the perfect complement for Avere's NAS optimization solutions, allowing enterprises to achieve scalability without limits for performance, as well as capacity, at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage systems without sacrificing any data management features," said Rebecca Thompson, Vice President of Marketing at Avere.
"A technology shift in storage is underway in how businesses deploy storage solutions. The OpenStorage Summit 2011 will demonstrate how partner solutions like Avere can help deploy massively scalable storage solutions, at the best price to performance ratio," said Jim Fitzgerald, VP of Business Development, Nexenta Systems.
About Avere Systems
Avere Systems brings to the market NAS Optimization solutions designed specifically to scale performance and capacity separately and take advantage of new storage media using real-time tiering. Avere's products allow organizations to achieve unlimited application performance scaling, free applications from the confines of the data center by eliminating latency and cut storage costs by more than half. Learn more at www.averesystems.com, and you can follow the company on Twitter.com/averesystems.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the world's leading provider of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. The company's flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage management. NexentaStor is a storage software solution built upon ZFS technology. It operates on industry standard x86 servers and provides NAS and SAN capabilities, including support for CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel storage access.
Running on any industry-standard hardware, NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems.
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Cirrascale Announces CirraStor Appliance with NexentaStor: Built for Cloud Storage Scale Out
Cirrascale Announces CirraStor Appliance with NexentaStor: Built for Cloud Storage Scale Out
San Diego, Calif., October 25, 2011 – Cirrascale, a premier developer of build-to-order, blade-based computing and storage platforms, today announced it has integrated Nexenta System’s NexentaStor™ unified storage management software into its CirraStor Petascale Storage Appliances. This exceptional combination of industry-leading, standards-based storage appliances and open enterprise-class software enables Cirrascale to offer the highest performance, density, and flexibility with the lowest power utilization in the industry. CirraStor appliances are designed for a broad range of storage applications that include high-availability SAN and iSCSI solutions for public and private clouds, and large pools of unstructured data in low cost NAS, DAS, and bulk-tier storage deployments. Cirrascale will showcase its new CirraStor appliances at the OpenStorage Summit, October 26-27 in San Jose, California.
Cirrascale’s breakthrough Vertical Cooling Technology™ (VCT) makes it possible to provide high density server and storage solutions that move the application servers closer to the physical storage, minimizing network bottlenecks, thereby increasing performance. Combining VCT with the powerful NexentaStor ZFS technology, Cirrascale enables easy configuration and scalability of cost-effective, multi-tiered storage arrays. CirraStor appliances with NexentaStor offer tremendous flexibility with rich functionality to configure highly available storage arrays. This advanced functionality includes right-sized compute performance, network I/O, and SATA, SAS, and high-performance solid-state drive (SSD) storage technology to meet the demands of a multitude of workloads in hybrid storage systems.
CirraStor appliance components include a range of head nodes and storage blades, integrated in the company’s BladeRack2 chassis. For example, a high performance cluster incorporating CirraStor storage blades with OCZ (Nasdaq:OCZ), Talos SAS 6Gbps enterprise SSDs, which offer superior mixed-workload performance for increased throughput, and managed by NexentaStor, provide up to 2 Petabytes (PB) of storage capacity in a single namespace, all in a 24-inch (609mm) x 46-inch (1168 mm) BladeRack2 chassis footprint.
“Cirrascale represents the epitome of a technology partner—one that matches Nexenta’s vision of leveraging industry leading, standards-based platforms to address the storage industry’s biggest hurdles, including cost-effectively scaling out storage for private and public clouds, SaaS applications, and PaaS offerings,” said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta Systems. “Our expanding open community of partners ensures customers will have continued access to the newest, most innovative OpenStorage solutions.”
“Our relationship with Nexenta is a welcome addition to Cirrascale’s already rich product and professional services offering,” said Dave Driggers, CEO at Cirrascale. “Combining NexentaStor with our petascale storage appliances means that we can more finely tune our products to meet the needs of customers who face scale out challenges. CirraStor represents a feature rich, cost-effective solution that combines high density, high reliability, and optimal performance with low power consumption and the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry.”
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and running on any industry-standard hardware, NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems. www.nexenta.com.
About Cirrascale
Cirrascale Corporation is a premier developer of blade-based cloud computing and storage platforms for conventional and containerized data centers. Cirrascale provides the industry’s most energy-efficient and reliable standards-based solutions with the absolute densest form factor and the lowest possible total cost of ownership due to its patented Vertical Cooling Technology. Cirrascale sells to large-scale infrastructure operators, hosting and managed service providers, Cloud Service Providers, and HPC users. Cirrascale also licenses its award winning technology to partners globally. To learn more about Cirrascale and its unique data center infrastructure solutions, please visit http://www.cirrascale.com or call (888) 942-3800.