Nexenta Continues to Grow Global Presence in Software Defined Storage
Sievers Group Gains Nexenta Premium Partner Status
Munich, GERMANY and Santa Clara, CA USA - 7 November 2013 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced that Sievers Group has become a Nexenta Premium Partner. Sievers Group is an IT system house, providing a wide spectrum of innovative IT solutions, ranging from infrastructure and network systems to ERP and telecommunications.
Sievers Group has a strong focus on storage and virtualization (#virtualization), CTI and unified communication, as well as custom-developed logistic products. It also provides a tailored range of solutions for its customers, as well as 24/7 monitoring and support service.
Sievers Group has been one of Nexenta’s partners since early 2013. Due to the increase in demand for openstorage (#openstorage) solutions, the company has now built a certified team of 10 Nexenta storage consultants and created a dedicated division for support and training on OpenStorage products from Nexenta. With offices in Mannheim, Frankfurt, Osnabrück, Hamburg and Dortmund and more than 270 highly-skilled employees, Sievers Group is able to support customers that have reached their capacity and performance limits and are looking for a sustainable storage technology that will grow and evolve with their demands without the need to rip and replace.
Sievers Group provides a wide range of business services for mid to enterprise-sized companies. It has established relationships with key players from various industries such as trade, energy and healthcare. In terms of storage requirements the typical target group ranges from between 5TB to 10PB, with most clients having high demands in both performance and high-availability.
Sievers Group can meet customers' needs with Nexenta’s flagship solution NexentaStor™. NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at a competitive cost. The open source-based solution delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage.
With increasing demand for flexible storage capabilities, Nexenta’s solutions provide the scalable infrastructure needed to extend storage capacities. Software-Defined Storage offers the ability to keep up with the innovation in both hardware and software that is necessary given today’s IT challenges.
“We needed to provide a solution to our customers which was more sustainable over the average lifecycle compared to other storage solutions. Nexenta fit the bill,” said Knut Seifert, Senior Consultant at Sievers Group. “The reliability and quality of Nexenta coupled with a rich set of features and no vendor lock-in, confirmed our decision to move forward and partner with Nexenta.”
“Sievers Group has had a very successful year with several major NexentaStor deployments in Germany, including deployments with Metro HA Clusters. The Sievers team of Nexenta experts understand the market and how OpenStorage can benefit its customers,” said Jacco van Achterberg, sales director EMEA at Nexenta. “With Nexenta, a strong set of features is included in the base license, providing customers the maximum amount of flexibility within their financial limitations.”