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Small to Medium Businesses Receive Enterprise Class Service Offerings
SMALL-TO-MEDIUM BUSINESSES RECEIVE “ENTERPRISE-CLASS” SERVICE OFFERINGS FOR THE NORDISK ZFS UNIFIED STORAGE APPLIANCE THROUGH NEW KODAK AGREEMENT
Kodak has been recently selected as the service provider for Nordisk System, Inc.’s global customer offerings, with a focus on the U.S. and Canada. KODAK Service and Support will now provide call center and onsite support to customers using Nordisk’s enterprise-level storage applications—specifically, the NorStor NS2000 Storage Solution, which runs Nexenta’s industry leading NexentaStor™ Storage Foundation Software. The NorStor NS2000 Solution, powered by NexentaStor™ Software is a ZFS-based unified storage appliance that helps break through the cost barrier and complexity associated with legacy shared storage solutions to support server and desktop virtualization.
“The agreement enables Nordisk customers in mid-sized organizations to supplement their enterprise clustered storage systems with Kodak’s exceptional service and support,” said Terence McClelland, Senior VP, Nordisk Systems. “Small-to-medium-sized businesses continue to evaluate strategic, cost-effective ways to implement long-term storage solutions, which enable the migration from physical servers to virtual servers. Kodak’s professional services team offers an added value to the Nordisk and Nexenta Solution—helping customers implement enterprise-class storage on industry standard hardware that delivers on the promise of ending vendor lock-in associated with legacy storage solutions. This allows Nordisk customers to have greater predictability around long term infrastructure investment needs.”
Nordisk helps customers overcome data center, desktop and network challenges. The NorStor NS2000 Series, includes high performance storage units that provide comprehensive data management—including unlimited snapshots, in-line deduplication, asynchronous and synchronous replication, unlimited file size, and thin provisioning for block and file level protocols to support virtualized environments.
“With the Kodak service offering, Nexenta and Nordisk are bringing true world class enterprise support for the NorStor NS2000 powered by NexentaStor™ Solution,” said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta Systems. “Our customers worldwide can rely on trained service professionals ready to address any issues with the total solution and minimize their business risk.”
According to a 2010 study by Forrester Research, improving disaster recovery and business continuity is the top spending priority for small-to-medium sized businesses and the number two priority for enterprises. As businesses consider options for long-term data archival and retrieval, many will use virtualized storage units, for the easy access and monitoring of information. Professional, 24/7 services can help to supplement customers’ use of the products and address their business needs for data management.
“Kodak’s global footprint, service infrastructure and service-parts supply chain competencies leverage robust training and issue escalation to support customers that range from large enterprises to small-business operations,” said Kathy Clas, Director of Multi Vendor Services, KODAK Service and Support. “Data integrity, security and protection are top of mind for all businesses looking for long-term growth opportunities. Storage providers, like Nordisk, receive a range of professional service consultant expertise with KODAK Service and Support and can provide their customers a team that consistently supports their critical business resources.”
KODAK Service and Support is made up of more than 3,000 professionals in 120 countries. It is a leading multi-vendor integrated services provider, delivering consulting, installation, maintenance and support services for commercial printing, graphic communications, document imaging, data storage and retail industries. KODAK Service and Support professionals are uniquely qualified to provide services that control costs, maximize productivity, and minimize business risk.
About Nordisk
Nordisk Systems, Inc. was founded in 1983 as a disk drive distributor. We steadily expanded our product offerings to provide solutions that address data center, desktop and network challenges. Today, Nordisk has partnerships with “best of breed” manufacturers such as Nexenta, Supermicro, KODAK, CISCO, IBM, Lenovo, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Qlogic, Quantum, Citrix and VMware. The Nordisk sales and technical staff are highly skilled in systems design, integration, installation and deployment. All staff members are sales and/or technically certified with the vendors we represent.
With offices in Oregon, Washington, California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico coupled with a current customer base of more than 1,000 organizations in education, research, government, oil and gas, healthcare, financial services, utilities and transportation verticals, Nordisk Systems is uniquely positioned to address the challenges IT organizations face today and into the future.
About Kodak
As the world’s foremost imaging innovator, Kodak helps consumers, businesses, and creative professionals unleash the power of pictures and printing to enrich their lives.
To learn more, visit http://www.kodak.com and follow our blogs and more at http://www.kodak.com/go/followus.
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Joyent and Nexenta Announce Strategic Cloud Computing Partnership
JOYENT AND NEXENTA ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC CLOUD COMPUTING PARTNERSHIP TO PROVIDE NEXT GENERATION CLOUD SOLUTION TO SERVICE PROVIDERS
Joyent’s cloud software suite and Nexenta’s open storage solution combine to give price/performance ratio, scalability and real-time operational visibility.
Nexenta Customers Leverage OpenStorage for Mission Critical Applications and High Availability
NEXENTA CUSTOMERS LEVERAGE OPENSTORAGE FOR MISSION CRITICAL APPLICATIONS AND HIGH AVAILABILITY
NexentaStor Offers Enterprise-Class HA to Deliver Uninterrupted Storage Service and Reliably Back-up Mission Critical Data
LSI Buy May Disrupt OpenStorage Channel Growth: NetApp may become OEM supplier to rivals Dell and Oracle
LSI buy may disrupt OpenStorage channel growth
By Will Garside
NetApp may become OEM supplier to rivals Dell and Oracle
Published on Mar 11, 2011
NetApp is to buy LSI Corporation’s external storage systems business for $480m in cash as part of LSI’s move to become a “pure-play storage and networking semiconductor company,” according to Abhi Talwalkar, LSI president and CEO.
The LSI external storage systems business which develops and delivers Engenio external storage systems generated revenues of $705m in 2010. However, the LSI RAID adapter business, including its MegaRAID and 3ware storage controllers andsoftware for direct-attached storage environments, will remain with LSI. The company also announced today that its board of directors has authorised a new stock repurchase program of up to $750m.
“NetApp will build upon the success of the Engenio storage platform and OEM business model to expand our total addressable market and extend our market reach,” says Tom Georgens, NetApp president and CEO. “We’re excited about the talented team that will join NetApp and the valuable OEM partner relationships we’re committed to supporting and making successful.”
On the significance of the deal, Simon Robinson, research director, storage at The 451 Group comments, “… though Engenio was profitable for LSI and brought in decent revenues, it was not nearly as profitable as its silicon products.
“For NetApp there are two areas where it should benefit; first, it gets more vertically integrated, allowing it to reduce its own costs going forward. Second, it gets to expand its own addressable market by moving into niche but fast growing areas such as video-driven storage and data warehousing.”
Robinson believes that there is also an impact for the wider OpenStorage market, “Many LSI/Engenio OEM partners such as Dell and Oracle are also NetApp rivals; they may decide to pursue alternative sourcing strategies, though that's not going to happen anytime soon.”
Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta, a pioneer in OpenStorage software questions whether NetApp will continue to invest in LSI’s growing channel business which has been doubling year on year: “Or will they, as appears more likely, shut down this business in order to attempt to slow the growth of the OpenStorage channel?”
Powell is also surprised by the relatively low sale price, “Is it because of the loss of the IBM OEM, the oncoming end of hardware RAID, the threat from Intel, and the looming competition from much larger JBOD makers? As the market moves towards JBODs connected directly to the Intel CPU, did this threaten the on-going storage business? How else can one explain NetApp being able to pay a reported $480m for a reported $700m in revenues last year?”
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Nexenta Powers Asia’s Largest Public Cloud
NEXENTA POWERS ASIA’S LARGEST PUBLIC CLOUD
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.– Nexenta Systems, the leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced that KT, the largest fixed-line operator and second largest mobile carrier in Korea, is using NexentaStor to power the largest public cloud in Asia. KT officially launched its commercial public cloud service earlier this month. KT’s selection of NexentaStor as the storage standard for its public cloud is a clear signal to the market that OpenStorage solutions provide the price/performance ratio, scalability and interoperability that is impossible to achieve with legacy storage solutions.
The promise of cloud computing is that it can deliver the economies of scale and flexibility required to support a wide range of enterprise applications on demand. To achieve this goal, the building blocks in a cloud – servers, storage, networking gear – must be available in commodity markets in which there is real vendor choice and must be able to be deployed, configured and managed in a fully automated manner. Such open, flexible solutions have not been available for data storage, which has meant that the leading cloud companies have had to write their own software-based OpenStorage solutions since the hardware-based solutions from legacy vendors are too inflexible, expensive and difficult to manage, until now.
Nexenta’s widely available OpenStorage software running on top of commodity hardware drastically reduces storage costs, helping KT to be profitable while beating the market prices set by Amazon and other cloud service providers. In addition, NexentaStor-powered storage provides KT with the ability to provision, on demand, petabytes of high performance enterprise class storage by fitting into the automated provisioning and management systems used by KT and other cloud service providers.
“In a world in which data growth rates are exploding, innovative storage technologies have become the secret ingredient to rolling out public cloud services,” said Jung-sik Suh, senior vice president, Cloud Services Business Unit, KT. “Translink Capital, a venture capital firm in the Bay Area, helped us conduct the due diligence of all existing storage solutions and selected Nexenta as the best partner for KT because NexentaStor was the leader in three crucial categories: scalability, interoperability and cost-effectiveness. With NexentaStor, KT was able to develop a public cloud within six months and at unprecedented low cost. Now, Nexenta is KT’s OpenStorage solution for both our private and public cloud offerings.”
NexentaStor, which leverages the revolutionary open source ZFS file system, is a fully supported commercial software package that runs on industry standard x86 servers and provides NAS and SAN capabilities including support for CIFS, NFS, iSCSI and Fiber Channel storage access. NexentaStor customers typically experience 75 percent or greater cost savings versus proprietary solutions as well as increased efficiency through compression, thin provisioning, deduplication and industry leading usage of hybrid storage pools that leverage SSDs plus disks to provide unmatched price/performance especially of the random work loads of virtualized and cloud environments. NexentaStor also offers a variety of other must-have capabilities for cloud deployments including Rest-APIs, boot from SAN, self-cloning from master configurations, high availability, synchronous and asynchronous replication and, most importantly, airtight end-to-end data integrity with the ability to find and detect silent data corruption.
“KT’s deployment of NexentaStor in their private and public clouds is an enormous validation of our technology and company and of the broader OpenStorage movement,” said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta. “It signals that there is now a real alternative to ‘business as usual’ in storage and that breakthrough innovation is still possible despite the recent acquisition frenzy of legacy storage companies. KT’s public cloud performance and economics demonstrate that no other approach to storage can match the scale and flexibility of the commercially supported OpenStorage based NexentaStor. NexentaStor helps make it possible for public clouds to be financially viable for companies like KT that have massive scale and yet do not want to undertake the risk and cost of writing their own storage solution. We look forward to a long strategic relationship with our partners at KT.”
For more information on Nexenta and NexentaStor, please visit http://www.nexenta.com/corp/.
For more information on KT, please visit http://www.kt.com/eng/index.jsp.
About KT
KT is Korea's largest fixed-line operator, second largest mobile carrier and leading cloud services company. The company is providing individuals, families and companies with advanced IT services, including voice and text data, wired and wireless networks, and broadcasting and telecommunications services and cloud computing services. ucloud is the comprehensive brand under which KT offers a full suite of cloud services. For more information about ucloud CS (KT's on-demand computing service) visit http://cs.ucloud.com/
About Nexenta Systems
Founded in 2005 and privately held, Nexenta Systems, Inc., has developed NexentaStor™, the leading OpenStorage enterprise class hardware independent storage solution and sponsors NexentaCore, an open source operating system that combines the high performance and reliability of OpenSolaris with the ease-of-use and breadth of applications of Linux. Both solutions leverage the revolutionary file system ZFS. Nexenta’s products have achieved VMware Ready status with VMware, CitrixReady status with Citrix Systems, Inc., and other certifications.
More information about Nexenta Systems, Inc. and free trials of the ZFS-based NexentaStor can be found at www.nexenta.com or call (877) 862-7770
Schwartz Communications
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Nexenta@Schwartz-pr.com
BOSTON Ltd. Present Their Most Advanced Storage Solution at CeBIT 2011
BOSTON LIMITED PRESENT THEIR MOST ADVANCED STORAGE SOLUTION AT CEBIT 2011
Rochester, MN / Hanover, Germany (1st March, 2011) - At Cebit 2011 Boston Limited will be presenting the latest in their range of Igloo storage appliances, the Igloo NXStor SBB.
With around 4,000 attendees from more than 100 countries, CeBIT is the world's largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments. And keeping with CeBIT Global Conferences theme – ‘the power of creativity and innovation!’ – Boston are proud to showcase their innovative NXStor at Hall 2, Stand D32.
Optimized for mission-critical, enterprise-level storage applications, Boston’s ground-breaking Igloo NXStor SBB, designed with Nexenta, is a fully redundant, fault-tolerant, high-availability Storage Cluster “in-a-box”.
The Igloo NXStor SBB supports 16x 3.5” Hot-swap SAS HDDs and 2x L2ARC SSD cache drives with the option to expand beyond 16 drives via dual 24 GB external SAS connections. For enhanced read and write performance, the Igloo NXStor SBB can incorporate multiple SSD devices for use as non-volatile cache.
The unique feature of a High Availability (HA) Cluster Plugin in the NXStor eliminates a single point of failure. It enables two NexentaStor instances to be configured as an active / active pair.
Industry leading publication Storage Magazine says, “The Igloo NXStor SBB offers a superb range of network storage features along with top performance and a remarkable expansion potential. Best of all, it delivers a fault tolerant storage cluster in a single system that’s very easy to deploy and manage”.
The multi award-winning range of Igloo storage servers are ideal solutions for companies looking for industry leading performance at great value for money.
Manoj Nayee, Managing Director of Boston Limited, says “Our innovative NXStor solution harnesses the power of NexentaStor to provide an all-encompassing platform, optimized to deliver a flexible, scalable solution.
“Thanks to the relationship with Nexenta, we are able to work alongside resellers to provide them with a fully redundant, high availability storage solution at great value.”
Jon Ash, VP of Sales at Nexenta says, “We are delighted to have Boston Limited as one of our certified partners. Given the award winning levels of performance that the Igloo series delivers, we are proud to be associated with Boston!”
About Boston Limited
Founded in 1992 Boston Limited is uniquely placed with nearly 20 years of experience in the design, build, and test of high performance solutions to meet clients’ exact needs possessing the unique ability to ascertain the detailed requirements and then create a fully bespoke platform based on Supermicro hardware with customer branding, documentation and packaging. In addition to the technical expertise, Boston is able to offer global on-site warranty and a range of financial solutions including leasing. Boston has key offices in the UK, Germany and India.
For further details visit www.boston.co.uk or e-mail sales@boston.co.uk
About Nexenta
Founded in 2005 and privately held, Nexenta Systems, Inc., has developed NexentaStor™, the leading OpenStorage enterprise class hardware independent storage solution and sponsors NexentaCore, an open source operating system that combines the high performance and reliability of OpenSolaris with the ease-of-use and breadth of applications of Linux. Both solutions leverage the revolutionary file system ZFS. Nexenta's products have achieved VMware Ready status with VMware, CitrixReady status with Citrix Systems, Inc., and other certifications. More information, visit www.nexenta.com or call (877) 862-7770.
Nexenta Systems to Demonstrate Enterprise-Class OpenStorage Solutions at CeBIT 2011
NEXENTA SYSTEMS TO DEMONSTRATE ENTERPRISE-CLASS OPENSTORAGE SOLUTIONS AT CEBIT 2011
Boston Limited, Thomas Krenn AG and LSI Logic to Showcase Storage Appliances Based on NexentaStorTM Platform
LONDON, UK. - 28 February, 2011 - Nexenta® Systems, the world's leading provider of OpenStorage solutions, will be showcasing the latest version of NexentaStorTM, its enterprise-class OpenStorage software, at CeBIT 2011, Hannover, from March 1-5 at Hall 2, Stand A37.
In addition, LSI Corp (NASDAQ: LSI), Boston Limited and Thomas Krenn AG will be demonstrating storage solutions based on the NexentaStor software at their booths (LSI at Hall 15, Stand G25, Boston Limited at Hall 2, Stand D32 and Thomas Krenn at Hall 2 Stand B46).
Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta Systems, said: "In terms of price/performance and price/capacity metrics, appliances that leverage OpenStorage deliver unprecedented savings for businesses around the world, often in the region of 80 to 90 percent. Clearly, OpenStorage represents a dramatic change for the industry, and is one of the biggest opportunities for resellers and integrators who compete with traditional legacy storage vendors to get the upper hand."
Jon Ash, vice president of worldwide sales at Nexenta Systems, will be available for demonstrations and briefings to discuss how OpenStorage is changing the industry landscape for end users and the channel. To book a demonstration or briefing, please email your request to: nexenta@touchdownpr.com
About Nexenta SystemsFounded in 2005 and privately held, Nexenta Systems, Inc., has developed NexentaStor, the leading OpenStorage enterprise class hardware independent storage solution and sponsors NexentaCore, an open source operating system that combines the high performance and reliability of OpenSolaris with the ease-of-use and breadth of applications of Linux. Both solutions leverage the revolutionary file system ZFS. Nexenta's products have achieved VMware Ready status with VMware, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC), CitrixReady status with Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), and other certifications.
More information about Nexenta Systems, Inc. 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 Leads Emergence of OpenStorage Market as Alternative to Proprietary Storage Vendors
NEXENTA LEADS EMERGENCE OF OPENSTORAGE MARKET AS ALTERNATIVE TO PROPRIETARY STORAGE VENDORS
OpenStorage Solutions Provider Announces Record Growth in 2010 and Continued Momentum in 2011
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—February 22, 2011—Nexenta Systems, the world’s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions, today announced that 2010 marked a year of approximately 400 percent growth for the company, with revenue expected to at least triple again in 2011. Last year, Nexenta launched successful partner programs including alliances with LSI Corp., Supermicro and Compellent, expanded its team with proven industry leaders, secured strategic funding and hosted the first annual OpenStorage Summit. The company achieved the milestone of 2,000 total commercial sales in only its second year of commercial availability, a rate of growth believed to be unprecedented in the enterprise storage market.
The company attributes its extremely rapid growth to pent-up demand for affordable enterprise class storage. Other factors contributing to the record-setting growth include broad dissatisfaction with the lock-in-based business models of aging legacy storage providers that produce adversarial relationships with customers and the unique capabilities of NexentaStor, particularly in virtualization and cloud deployments.
Nexenta Announces the Following 2010 Growth Metrics:
- Revenue Growth: Year over year percentage increase in revenue from 2009 to 2010 was 385 percent.
- Capacity Under Management: Approximately 330 petabytes of capacity are currently under NexentaStor management, with over 100 of those petabytes in commercial deployments.
- Channel Success: Nexenta channel partners sold between $70-100 million of hardware using NexentaStor as the software component of the storage solution. The total value of solutions sold based upon NexentaStor is projected to increase to $400 million in 2011.
- Talent: Nexenta’s growth fueled the expansion of its team by over 250 percent.
Other 2010 Company Milestones Include:
Partners: Nexenta now has over 145 companies that are members of the Nexenta Reseller Partner Program. Twenty-five have made the transition from entry-level partnerships to Certified Nexenta Resellers. In addition, Nexenta’s Technology Partner Program has expanded to include cloud management software vendors including Abiquo, Mezeo and Desktone, and several solid state drive (SSD) makers including Intel, Pliant, STEC and DDRDrive. Finally, LSI Corp. and Nexenta launched a significant partnership under which NexentaStor is now certified for integration with all major LSI storage hardware including LSI SAS JBODs, HBAs, and the LSI SAS switch, which was launched at the OpenStorage Summit.
“As a leader in the storage market, LSI Corp. is committed to delivering storage solutions that provide our system builder channel partners with leading-edge capabilities and rock solid stability,” said Brent Blanchard, director of worldwide channel marketing and sales, LSI Corp. “We were extremely pleased with the results of working with Nexenta in 2010. Together we succeeded in delivering superior integrated solutions to the system builder channel that combine proven LSI storage technologies with the NexentaStor implementation of the ZFS file system. We are further increasing our activities with Nexenta in 2011 and expect to grow our joint sales dramatically."
OpenStorage Summit: In October, Nexenta hosted the first-ever OpenStorage Summit in Palo Alto, Calif. Participants spanned the entire OpenStorage value-chain and included Citrix Systems, VMware, Area Data Systems, Supermicro, Aberdeen LLC, LSI Corp. and Nordisk Systems, Inc. Speakers and presenters included Nexenta’s CEO, Evan Powell, Terri McClure, data storage analyst from Enterprise Strategy Group, Daniel Beveridge, senior desktop architect in the office of the CTO at VMware, Scott Cleland, senior manager of channel product strategy at LSI Corp., and Robert Read, WhamCloud’s principal engineer and a noted expert on the Lustre HPC computing platform. ZFS co-creator and Nexenta Advisor Bill Moore was the keynote of this event. The 2011 OpenStorage event will be held October 17-19. In addition, Nexenta is hosting a customer event in Amsterdam May 25–27; more details about these and dozens of other 2011 events at which Nexenta and NexentaStor will be featured are available at http://www.nexenta.com/corp/events.
Expanded Executive Team: In 2010, Nexenta added to its deep bench of industry experts to help drive innovation and development of the NexentaStor software platform. Hires included Garrett D’Amore, a former Sun engineer and the leading contributor to the OpenSolaris operating system for the past five years, Richard Elling and Craig Morgan, each notable ZFS training and deployment experts, Rick Hayes, vice president of technical operations and former principal consultant for the data center practice at GlassHouse Technologies, and Jason Yoho, vice president of business development and former CEO of Quail Technologies.
Strategic Funding: Nexenta received funding from Translink, a U.S.-based venture capital fund with close relationships with a number of Nexenta customers, including co-investor KT, as well as additional investment from existing investor Javelin Venture Partners. The endorsement of Nexenta by strategic investors and customers serves as yet more recognition that Nexenta is emerging as a leader of a fundamentally better enterprise storage industry.
Significant Customers: Nexenta added almost 1,000 additional customers in 2010. Sales included European customers Max Plank Institute and Porsche Motors in Germany, Dutch National Broadcasting in the Netherlands, dozens of customers in the United Kingdom including Bounty and Trend Micro, and leading infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company ITCORE in Japan. KT is now a marquee customer; their public cloud, which is comparable to offerings from Amazon, Rackspace and others, is based upon NexentaStor and has been measured as the world’s fastest cloud. In the United States, hundreds of organizations became commercial users, ranging from Disney to Ford to NOAA to Citrix to Juniper to dozens of universities and hosting companies.
Awards/Honors: Nexenta is one of eight finalists named in the storage management tools category in Storage magazine's and SearchStorage.com's 2010 Products of the Year competition. In June 2010, Nexenta was selected by Everything Channel as a CRN Emerging Storage Vendor. The annual list recognizes companies that are delivering high margins for solution providers with innovative and easy-to-use technology.
“In 2010, we made extremely rapid progress towards achieving our mission of enterprise class storage for everyone,” said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta. “Our success indicates that there is an untapped demand for storage solutions that offer enterprise class capabilities without the aging technologies and lock-in based business models of legacy storage solutions. Together with our partners, we are proud of the progress we have made in transforming the storage industry. We will be launching additional capabilities throughout 2011 and expect the transition to OpenStorage to accelerate.”
NexentaStor is a software-only solution built upon the ZFS file system. NexentaStor is typically purchased from systems integrators and VARs as a part of a total solution comprised of NexentaStor plus certified storage hardware from vendors such as LSI Corp., Quanta, Dell, Supermicro and Intel. NexentaStor provides NAS and SAN capabilities including support for CIFS, NFS, iSCSI and Fiber Channel storage access. In addition, NexentaStor is the only solution that gives storage administrators a unified view into their virtualization environment, including Hyper-V, Citrix and VMware hosts and their related storage. NexentaStor provides customers with the capabilities of enterprise class unified storage, including massive throughput and IOPS, air tight data integrity with multiple replication methods, and tight integration with leading virtualization solutions, all without the vendor lock-in and aged technologies of legacy storage vendors.
About Nexenta Systems
Founded in 2005 and privately held, Nexenta Systems, Inc., has developed NexentaStor™, the leading OpenStorage enterprise class hardware independent storage solution and sponsors NexentaCore, an open source operating system that combines the high performance and reliability of OpenSolaris with the ease-of-use and breadth of applications of Linux. Both solutions leverage the revolutionary file system ZFS. Nexenta’s products have achieved VMware Ready status with VMware, CitrixReady status with Citrix Systems, Inc., and other certifications.
More information about Nexenta Systems, Inc. and free trials of the ZFS-based NexentaStor can be found at www.nexenta.com or call (877) 862-7770.
Media Contact:
Katy Garlinghouse
Schwartz Communications
(415) 512-0770
Nexenta Systems Joins Open Invention Network as a Licensee
Nexenta Systems Joins Open Invention Network as a Licensee
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and DURHAM, NC--(Marketwire - January 18, 2011) - Open Invention Network (OIN), the company formed to enable and protect Linux, today extended its community with the signing of Nexenta as a licensee. By becoming a licensee, Nexenta has joined the growing list of organizations that recognize the importance of leveraging the Open Invention Network to further spur open source innovation.
"Given its leadership in open source enterprise class storage software solutions, we are pleased to have Nexenta become a licensee," said Keith Bergelt, CEO of Open Invention Network. "By doing so, Nexenta affirms its continued support for open source. We applaud their foresight in taking this step to support both itself and the open source community broadly."
"We view an OIN license as one of the key methods through which open source innovators can deter patent aggression," said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta. "We are committed to freedom of action in open source, and in taking a license we help to encourage ongoing development of open storage solutions, which benefits everyone. I'd like to call upon other storage vendors to join OIN as well."
Patents owned by Open Invention Network are available royalty-free to any company, institution or individual that agrees not to assert its patents against the Linux System. This enables companies to continue to make significant corporate and capital expenditure investments in open source -- helping to fuel economic growth. By developing a web of developers, distributors, sellers, resellers and end-users that license its patent portfolio, Open Invention Network is creating a supportive and shielded ecosystem to ensure the growth and adoption of open source solutions.
OIN has amassed a broad portfolio of patents, including patents held by nominees on its behalf. These patents are available to all licensees as part of the patent portfolio that OIN is creating around and in support of Linux. Its license agreement can be found at www.openinventionnetwork.com/pat_license_agreement.php.
About Nexenta
Founded in 2005 and privately held, Nexenta Systems, Inc., has developed NexentaStor™, the leading OpenStorage enterprise class hardware independent storage solution and sponsors NexentaCore, an open source operating system that combines the high performance and reliability of OpenSolaris with the ease-of-use and breadth of applications of Linux. Both solutions leverage the revolutionary file system ZFS. Nexenta's products have achieved VMware Ready status with VMware, CitrixReady status with Citrix Systems, Inc., and other certifications. More information, visit www.nexenta.com or call (877) 862-7770.
About Open Invention Network
Open Invention Network is a collaborative enterprise that enables innovation in open source and an increasingly vibrant ecosystem around Linux. It does this by acquiring and licensing patents, influencing behaviors and policy and protecting the integrity of the ecosystem through strategic programs such as Linux Defenders. OIN enables the growth and continuation of open source software by fostering a healthy Linux ecosystem of investors, vendors, developers and users.
Open Invention Network has considerable industry backing. It was launched in 2005 by IBM, NEC, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony. OIN has received supplemental financial support from Canonical. For more information, visit www.openinventionnetwork.com.
Open Invention Network, the Open Invention Network logo, Linux Defenders, Linux Defenders 911 and the Linux Defenders 911 logo are registered trademarks or the property of Open Invention Network, LLC. All other names and brand marks are the property of their respective holders.
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