Nexenta Increases Demand for OpenStorage Solutions
Fastest Growing Storage Company the Choice for Enterprises and Service Providers, Particularly Supporting Virtualized and VDI Deployments
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nexenta Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced a 486 percent revenue growth in the first three quarters of 2011. This is partly due to NexentaStor emerging as the ideal back-end storage for cloud deployments and for virtualised and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments, as demonstrated by notable customers such as VMware for its Hands-on Labs (HOL) at VMworld and major VDI users such as VESK.
Nexenta 2011 Growth Metrics:
- Revenue Growth: Increased by 486 percent; a further acceleration from 243 percent growth in the same period a year ago.
- Expansion of Partner Programmes: 256 partners overall including a recently launched OEM partner in China.
- Channel Success: Partners have sold $225 million of hardware using NexentaStor as the software component of their storage solutions. This represents a 329 percent increase over the same period in 2010.
- Talent: Expansion of its team by more than 100 people, with offices established in Amsterdam, South Korea, United Kingdom and the United States.
Customers’ Storage Choice for VDI:
Based on ZFS technology, NexentaStor solves storage-related issues for VDI by offering systems that scale performance as needed. By natively supporting hybrid storage pooling, NexentaStor overcomes the IOPS issues associated with VDI and eradicates the difficulties associated with the very high percentage (up to 80 percent) of writes in a VDI environment. By coupling NexentaStor with industry standard hardware, customers reduce VDI costs by 70 percent over a three-year period compared to a proprietary storage solution.
As one of the fastest growing UK VDI providers, VESK required bigger IOPS, higher availability and performance. James Mackie, technical director, VESK, explains: “We immediately saw the benefits of Nexenta as a key infrastructure technology supporting our business. It enabled us to overcome the technology challenges and reduce the costs associated with rolling out VDI to our customers, which will help fuel our rapid growth in this market.”
VMworld Europe
Throughout VMworld Europe, Nexenta will be running a near-identical VMware Ready-certified configuration to the one it ran with great success at VMworld Las Vegas at the end of August.
The HOL, classified as a true public cloud, is considered one of the most popular aspects of the conference. Running the VMworld Europe HOL is about delivering high availability and sheer performance. During the Las Vegas event, 7.9 billion storage operations were performed by four NexentaStor™ systems.
“Our growth continues to accelerate because we’re at the forefront of a fundamental change in the storage industry. While legacy vendors constrain choice, drive up costs, and fail to perform, we are thriving because we have solutions designed especially for cloud, virtualisation and VDI environments,” said Evan Powell, CEO, Nexenta Systems.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the world’s leading provider of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. www.nexenta.com
Contacts
Touchdown PR for Nexenta Systems
Emily Gallagher
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