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European Market Embraces OpenStorage as Nexenta Continues Annual Growth
European Market Embraces OpenStorage as Nexenta Continues Annual Growth
London, UK — 18 October 2012 — Nexenta® Systems, the world leader in Software-defined Storage solutions, today announced that it has grown 212 percent quarter-on-quarter in Europe for the first three quarters of 2012, with Q3 being the best in its history.
Fueled by an unmatched pace of product innovation, Nexenta has seen significant additions to its European customer base over the last 12 months. With a laser focus on building and supporting its channel programme, the company is seeing a dramatic demand for its award-winning OpenStorage software solution. Storage resellers in Europe, including Transtec in Germany, NAS in the UK, Q5 Switzerland, S3S Belgium and Layer8 in Sweden are all responding to the strong customer demand for a cost effective alternative to legacy proprietary solutions from proprietary storage vendors.
Nexenta solves a critical pain point for companies 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, including Ballou, Hamburg University of Technology, LeaseWeb, National Library of Wales and Simply Mail, proves its product is the best suited storage solution for cloud deployments, virtualised data centres, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments.
Other significant Nexenta milestones in 2012 include:
- A 130% percent increase in active partners across Europe since the beginning of 2012
- Employee growth in Europe by 89%
- The debut of NexentaVSA for View, which simplifies the complexity of VDI deployments
- Active partnerships with Dell, SGI
- A slate of contributions to OpenStack in April
- A partnership with Intel to optimise the Xeon E5 Server Platform in March
Jacco van Achterberg, sales director EMEA for Nexenta, said: “By delivering choice, flexibility, air-tight data protection and industry-leading price performance and breakthrough innovation such as NexentaVSA for View, we are achieving record-setting growth. A lot of the credit should go to our network of more than 100 reseller partners across EMEA, many of whom provide comprehensive storage solutions, powered by NexentaStor, for their customers.”
Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta, said: “The proprietary storage industry has a stranglehold on IT innovation. OpenStorage solves this problem. Our NexentaStor platform delivers an unmatched breadth of capabilities, a software-only business model that enables hardware choice and industry-leading price performance particularly for high IO and high capacity unified storage workloads. In addition, NexentaStor is able to deliver massive improvements on storage total cost of ownership that the IT industry is demanding.”
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of Software-defined Storage solutions. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualisation-optimised 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. Partners selling NexentaStor-based hardware/software appliances can be found at: www.nexenta.com/partners.
Nexenta and NexentaStor are trademarks of Nexenta Systems, Inc. All other marks are held by their respective owners.
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Nexenta Systems Receives 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award
Nexenta Systems Receives 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award
NexentaStor Honored for Innovation
Santa Clara, Calif. — October 16, 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world leader in Software-defined Storage for the enterprise, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named NexentaStor as a 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner presented by Cloud Computing Magazine.
“With NexentaStor Software-defined Storage, cloud providers can develop a public cloud within a matter of months and at an unprecedented low cost,” said Evan Powell, CEO, Nexenta. “We are grateful for awards such as this that highlight the significant shift that is occurring in the storage landscape, in which Nexenta is a leading player.”
Hardware-agnostic NexentaStor™ provides open, unified storage management at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems, allowing for high-efficiency scalability while eliminating costly vendor lock-in. Built upon ZFS technology, NexentaStor is the leader in three crucial categories: scalability, interoperability and cost-effectiveness. Nexenta’s solutions are used in some of the world’s largest public clouds, including KT’s uCloud, the largest public cloud in Asia.
NexentaStor-powered storage provides cloud companies 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 cloud service providers. With Nexenta, cloud providers can amplify performance and IT efficiency while dramatically decreasing administrative costs.
“Nexenta has been recognized for its achievement in bringing innovation and excellence in the market while leveraging the latest technology trends to create an enriched user experience,” said Erik Linask, group editorial director, TMC.
“Recognizing leaders in the advancement of cloud computing, TMC is proud to announce Nexenta as a recipient of the second annual Cloud Computing Excellence Award,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “NexentaStor has demonstrated innovation as well as the ability to improve the cloud.”
The Cloud Computing Excellence Awards recognize the companies that have most effectively leveraged cloud computing in their efforts to bring new, differentiated offerings to market. Winners of the Cloud Computing Excellence Award are published in the October 2012 issue of Cloud Computing Magazine.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the world leader in Software-Defined Storage. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and running on industry-standard hardware, NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at less than half 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 +1 (855) NEXENTA. Partners selling NexentaStor-based hardware/software appliances can be found at: www.nexenta.com/partners.
About TMC
TMC is celebrating its 40th anniversary as a global, integrated media company that helps clients build communities in print, in person, and online.TMC publishes the TMC’s CUSTOMER Magazine (formerly Customer Interaction Solutions), INTERNET TELEPHONY, Next Gen Mobility, and Cloud Computing magazines. TMCnet.com, which is read by 1.5 million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world’s leading B2B communications event. In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: Cloud Communications Expo; Cloud4SMB Expo; CVx (ChannelVision Expo); DevCon5; HTML5 Summit; LatinComm Conference & Expo; M2M Evolution Conference & Expo; Mobility Tech Conference & Expo; MSPAlliance MSPWorld; StartupCamp; Video World Conference & Expo and more.
For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.
Nexenta and NexentaStor are trademarks of Nexenta Systems, Inc. All other marks are held by their respective owners.
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jpierret@tmcnet.com
Nexenta Systems Appoints Rick Martig as Chief Financial Officer
Nexenta Systems Appoints Rick Martig as Chief Financial Officer
Santa Clara, Calif. — October 16, 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world leader in Software-Defined Storage, announced today Rick Martig has been appointed to serve as the company’s chief financial officer, effective immediately. Most recently, Martig served as the vice president of File & Content at Hitachi Data Systems, following the company’s acquisition of BlueArc in September 2011.
“Rick’s twenty-six years of senior leadership, finance and accounting experience in public and private companies made him the natural choice for Nexenta Systems’ CFO,” said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta. “Nexenta is transforming the industry with Software-defined Storage, and expanding our executive leadership team with strategic hires like Rick furthers our company’s long-term growth objectives. Rick has a proven track record of effective financial leadership, and we are excited to welcome him to Nexenta.”
Commenting on his role, Martig said, “I’m excited and honored to serve as Nexenta’s CFO. Nexenta has allotted me a tremendous opportunity to contribute to the company’s rapid pace of growth and innovation, and I look forward to being a part of Nexenta’s continued success.”
Prior to joining Nexenta Systems, Martig served as BlueArc’s chief financial officer where he managed the Finance, Human Resources and IT departments. During his tenure, BlueArc filed its S-1 Registration for IPO, before the company was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems. Prior to BlueArc, Martig was CFO at Genesis Microchip, a $200 million public company, which was acquired by ST Micro. He also spent 12 years at Xilinx, where he was responsible for managing a global organization of 80+ in Asia, Europe and California. Martig holds a master of business administration from St. Mary’s College, Moraga and a bachelor of science in commerce-finance from Santa Clara University.
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the world leader in Software-Defined Storage. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and running on industry-standard hardware, NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at less than half 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 +1 (855) NEXENTA.
Partners selling NexentaStor-based hardware/software appliances can be found at: www.nexenta.com/partners.
Forward-looking Statements:
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Nexenta and NexentaStor are trademarks of Nexenta Systems, Inc. All other marks are held by their respective owners.
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NexentaVSA for VMware View + Cisco UCS Achieve Rapid Desktop Certification with VMware
NexentaVSA for VMware View + Cisco UCS Achieve Rapid Desktop Certification with VMware
Santa Clara, Calif. — October 9, 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced the successful completion of the VMware Rapid Desktop Appliance certification through a combination of Nexenta software and the Cisco UCS platform. At present, there are 10 vendors in the VMware Rapid Desktop Appliance program. Four of the certified solutions offered by these participants are based on NexentaVSA for VMware View deployments.
This new deployment includes Cisco UCS (with no other physical storage appliance required) and VMware View®. NexentaVSA for VMware View simplifies the provisioning and deployment of virtual desktops and associated storage. The combined VMware Rapid Desktop-certified solution takes advantage of an all-UCS configuration, which provides compute, virtualization, storage, and networking in one platform.
“The Cisco UCS platform, with NexentaVSA for VMware View, is designed to enhance traditional VDI deployment and address management challenges,” said Mason Uyeda, director, Technical and Solutions Marketing, End User Computing, VMware. “VMware is pleased to see this new offering from Nexenta and Cisco, which delivers out-of-the-box unified networking, virtualization, and storage value to VMware View® customers.”
NexentaVSA for VMware View has VMware NAS VAAI support and is capable of increasing performance and reducing the time taken to deploy VMs by up to 60 percent. It can be flexibly deployed in a compute blade and/or rack combination, depending on customer business requirements.
“VDI projects can face cost overruns when it comes to storage deployments and NexentaVSA for VMware View is proud of its ability to drive down costs while providing end users with high performance computing,” said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta. “This complete solution, with Cisco UCS, VMware View®, and NexentaVSA for VMware View, is capable of supporting almost any number of floating and dedicated desktops, and can do so in an HA environment.”
This combined Nexenta and Cisco solution can scale without limits. Customers can start small with a proof of concept with as few as 50 seats, and then scale to support thousands of desktops within the same architecture and with a similar per-unit desktop cost. NexentaVSA for VMware View currently lists at $35 per concurrent desktop, which includes unlimited local storage and 16 TB of external storage for VDI workloads.
Contact Nexenta for more details about this solution and click http://nexenta.com/corp/solutions/cisco-ucs-and-nexenta.
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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 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 +1 (855) NEXENTA.
Nexenta and NexentaStor are trademarks of Nexenta Systems, Inc. All other marks are held by their respective owners.
VMware and VMware View are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.
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Institute of Aircraft Cabin Systems Selects NexentaStor as a Unified Storage Solution for Scalability and Flexibility
Institute of Aircraft Cabin Systems Selects NexentaStor as a Unified Storage Solution for Scalability and Flexibility
Munich — 3rd October 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world’s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions for the enterprise, today announced that the Institute of Aircraft Cabin Systems at Hamburg University of Technology has chosen Nexenta as its OpenStorage solution to support its entire virtualised environment. Using a NexentaStor SAN, the Institute will have access to the advanced storage features it needs, with the ability to use in-house hardware, and without being locked into a single vendor.
Budd Van Lines Solves Big Data Storage Challenge with Nexenta Systems
Budd Van Lines Solves Big Data Storage Challenge with Nexenta Systems
OpenStorage Solution NexentaStor Yields Moving Company 148 Terabytes of Storage, a 300 Percent Improvement in I/O Ratio, and Disaster Recovery Solution
Santa Clara, CA — October 2, 2012 — Nexenta Systems, a world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced it is powering executive moving company Budd Van Lines’ storage area network (SAN) with its flagship NexentaStor storage solution. Budd Van Lines, a leading nationwide independent household goods carrier, recently saw a dramatic surge in storage demand resulting from the company’s switch to 1080p security cameras, designed to better improve freight security and employee safety. Using Nexenta’s OpenStorage technology, Budd Van Lines increased its video storage capacity from one terabyte to 84TB, its VMware capacity from 11TB to 32TB and its replication and archive capacity from 0TB to 32TB – yielding 148TB of raw data in total. This capacity accommodated the new cameras, improved its I/O (input output) ratio by nearly 300 percent, and established an off-site backup location to keep the company online in the event of a disaster.
“Before we discovered Nexenta, choosing a storage area network was a shot in the dark,” said Douglas Soltesz, chief information officer at Budd Van Lines. “Being software-based, Nexenta empowered us to rigorously test their product in the lab first and become comfortable with the solution and its features. Now we cannot believe all the places in which it fits.”
Nexenta’s OpenStorage solutions solve the storage challenges of Big Data by empowering customers to grow and manage their storage capacity cost effectively, while ensuring all of their information is secure today and into the future. With NexentaStor, Budd Van Lines benefits from higher performing storage management, replication, disaster recovery, and the ability to use in-house hardware to make the entire solution cost efficient.
Download a Trial Edition of NexentaStor for a free-of-charge 45 Day trial by visiting http://www.nexenta.com/corp/nexentastor-download.
“Budd Van Lines came to us with a common problem – Big Data growth due to the introduction of new applications that are improving their business, but straining their IT systems,” said Evan Powell, CEO, Nexenta. “NexentaStor, with inline compression and deduplication, is the only software-based, enterprise-class unified storage solution capable of solving their video storage challenges as well as their private cloud, replication, and disaster recovery needs all on one system by providing a combination of block and file access. No other solution on the market today comes close to offering that combination of power and flexibility.”
Nexenta and Budd Van Lines will co-present a webinar discussing the deployment on October 11, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. PDT. Visit http://bit.ly/Nexenta-Budd-Van-Lines to register.
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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 virtualisation-optimised storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and running on 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 +1 (855) NEXENTA.
About Budd Van Lines
Budd Van Lines is a nationwide independent household goods carrier specializing in relocating the top executives of Corporate America since 1975. Through its unique TEAM PACK and HAUL system, each employee is provided a highly personalized and superior moving experience. Budd Van Lines is proud to be recognized as America’s top rated carrier in the Surveys of Corporate Relocation Managers and Relocating Employees performed by Trippel Survey & Research LLC. Headquartered in Somerset, N.J., Budd Van Lines relocates well over 6,000 families each year. Visit www.buddvanlines.com for more information.
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Nexenta Systems Welcomes Orange Business Services as a Premium Partner
Nexenta Systems Welcomes Orange Business Services as a Premium Partner
Orange Adds OpenStorage to Its Network of Business Services and Offers Broad Support for NexentaStor Products
Santa Clara, CA — October 1, 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced that Orange IT&L@bs Canada (subsidiary of Orange Business Services) is now a Premium Partner in the Nexenta Partner Program. The invitation-only designation recognizes the rigorous criteria Orange met to become a Premium Partner.
Under Nexenta’s new Premium Partner membership, top-level resellers must meet specific guidelines, above basic or certified requirements, to achieve Premium Partner status. The requirements include offering a complete line of certified solutions engineered by the reseller and the ability to deliver comprehensive support for NexentaStor-based products and network storage solutions.
“Orange IT&L@bs Canada looks to innovative technologies like OpenStorage to help its customers achieve maximum returns on their business infrastructure investments,” said Yves Laurin, sales and marketing director at Orange IT&L@bs Canada. “Collaborating with Nexenta as a Premium Partner supports our continued effort to expand our portfolio of network-related business solutions and provide the latest in advanced enterprise-class technology.”
“Orange is a significant addition to the Nexenta Premium Partner Program,” said Nexenta CEO Evan Powell. “Orange is a renowned expert in business-critical infrastructure technology, and its commitment to OpenStorage is further evidence of the explosive market demand.”
The Nexenta Partner Program is a tiered Value-Added Reseller program, which offers resellers a wide array of technical, marketing and monetary benefits. To learn more about this program, visit: http://nexenta.com/partners.
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 virtualisation-optimised storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and running on 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. Partners selling NexentaStor-based hardware/software appliances can be found at: www.nexenta.com/partners.
About Orange Business Services
IT&L@bs Canada is a subsidiary of Orange Business Services, a leading global integrator of communications solutions for multinational corporations. With the world's largest, seamless network for voice and data, Orange Business Services reaches 220 countries and territories with local support in 166. Offering a comprehensive package of communication services covering cloud computing, enterprise mobility, M2M, security, unified communications, videoconferencing, and broadband, Orange Business Services delivers a best-in-class customer experience across a global landscape. Thousands of enterprise customers and 1.4 million mobile data users rely on an Orange Business Services international platform for communicating and conducting business. Orange Business Services is a four-time winner of Best Global Operator at the World Communication Awards.
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Nexenta Wins Best Storage Product of the Year at 2012 TechWorld Awards
Nexenta Wins Best Storage Product of the Year at 2012 TechWorld Awards
London, UK — 18 September 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world’s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions for the enterprise, has announced today that its flagship product, NexentaStor, has been awarded Best Storage Product of the Year at the 2012 Techworld Awards, held September 14th at Dartmouth House, London.
The product was selected by the judging panel ahead of other leading industry solutions because it allows customers to experience the benefits of enterprise storage. Features include high performance and airtight data integrity with multiple replication methods, without the vendor lock-in and aged technologies of legacy storage vendors.
Now in its ninth year, the awards, which are hosted by the UK’s Techworld Magazine, have firmly established themselves as the major infrastructure and networking awards event on the UK IT calendar. Recognising products and users, the Techworld Awards highlight innovation on all sides of the IT industry.
NexentaStor, which runs on any industry standard hardware, helps organisations implement high-performance, yet cost-effective data storage solutions with features such as inline deduplication, unlimited snapshots and cloning, unlimited file size, and high-availability support.
Evan Powell, CEO, Nexenta, said: "I'd like to thank Techworld and their expert panel for selecting NexentaStor as Storage Product of the Year. This prestigious honour confirms that we provide customers not just with a fundamentally better way to purchase enterprise class storage free from the lock-in and predatory pricing of legacy vendors.
“We and our partners also deliver a fundamentally better – more scalable, easier to use, feature rich product - able to deliver everything from cutting edge all flash performance in excess of 1 million IOPS to best of breed scale out with a theoretical capacity in excess of all the data ever written to disk. Our innovation pipeline is also packed – we intend to lead the accelerating transition of the storage industry towards a software-centric future."
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage 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.
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Simply Mail Solutions Saves Two Thirds of its Storage Budget and Cuts Storage Management Time by 90 percent with Nexenta
Simply Mail Solutions Saves Two Thirds of its Storage Budget and Cuts Storage Management Time by 90 percent with Nexenta
London, UK — 11 September 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world’s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions for the enterprise, today announced that Simply Mail Solutions (SMS), a leading email hosting company, has chosen a NexentaStor SAN solution to underpin its entire international email hosting business. Using Nexenta for its customers’ mailboxes, it has saved two thirds of its storage costs and cut its storage management time by as much as 90 percent.
Based in Warrington in the UK, SMS prides itself on providing innovative, reliable and cost effective email services to customers all over the world. Although email hosting is its core business, it also offers web and server hosting, enabling companies of any size to eliminate the hardware and administration costs of maintaining in-house solutions. To remain competitive, high availability and performance of its systems are crucial.
An increase in its customer base and a significant influx in the level of email and web traffic on a daily basis led to SMS exploring the best option for replacing its existing storage infrastructure. SMS needed a solution that was agile, reliable and could handle the IOPS requirements. Nexenta met all of these requirements at a lower cost than the current provider. With help from VA Technologies, a value added reseller of high performance servers, storage and workstations based in Bedfordshire, SMS selected a NexentaStor based SAN.
Myles Winstone, marketing manager at Simply Mail Solutions explains: “Nexenta’s OpenStorage software provides advanced caching and when it is coupled with SSDs it offers performance that far outstrips our current requirements, allowing us to stay ahead of our customers’ needs whilst still giving us the ability to easily scale up. It also offers enterprise class redundancy with replication capabilities including unlimited incremental snapshots and cloning.”
Central to SMS’ technical strategy, the NexentaStor SAN is dedicated to running MS Exchange Mailboxes and provides the company with 128 TB of raw capacity. In addition to unlimited snapshots, Nexenta’s OpenStorage solution provides enterprise class features including hybrid storage pooling, deduplication and thin provisioning.
Winstone concludes: “Nexenta has allowed us to upgrade the storage systems used for our critical business applications, at one third of the price of competing storage solutions. In addition it has heavily reduced the time spent on management, in some cases by as much as 90 percent, allowing us to provide an even more competitive solution to our customers in the future.”
Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta says: “Nexenta is ideal for service providers facing increasing data growth and web traffic demands as it offers superior performance, flexibility and scalability at a low cost. An alternative to traditional legacy storage systems from big vendors, it helps service providers such as SMS meet client needs effectively and remain competitive in a tough economic climate.”
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 virtualisation-optimised storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and running on 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. Partners selling NexentaStor-based hardware/software appliances can be found at: www.nexenta.com/partners.
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nexenta@touchdownpr.com
Nexenta and Cirracore Demo a new product at Intel Developers Forum.
Enterprise Cloud Appliance and Integrated NexentaStor Storage Software will be highlighted at IDF Booth #118 in San Francisco, Calif., September 11-13
San Francisco, CA -- September 10, 2012 Nexenta® Systems, the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions, and Cirracore, a leading supplier of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, today announced that they will jointly demonstrate Cirracore’s Enterprise Private Cloud Appliance, integrated with NexentaStor® storage software at the 2012 Intel® Developer Forum Nexenta Booth #118, taking place September 11-13, 2012.
The Cirracore Enterprise Private Cloud Appliance is platform built upon the Intel® Modular Server that businesses trust to handle critical computing needs while maintaining regulatory and governance compliance. Cirracore offers a robust cloud platform as a service in a secure, redundant, and carrier-neutral environment that offers fast, secure network access to the world's top performing Tier I carriers. Built upon ZFS technology, NexentaStor™ combines with Cirracore’s Private Cloud Appliance to provide an elastic compute and storage model with no upfront capital requirements. NexentaStor, which is optimized for the Intel® Xeon® E5 Server Platform , allows OEMs and VARs within the Intel/Nexenta ecosystem to deliver the ideal storage platform for compute density with maximum I/O capacity for ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. VMware vCloud Director provides a simple Web interface to manage and configure virtual servers bundled with graphical analytics and performance monitoring software.
Cirracore can provide a hosted model using one of Cirracore’s cloud data centers in world class Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX®) facilities or deliver the appliance to any data center. Cirracore provides managed cloud services from the hypervisor down to the hardware stack.
To learn more, and to see a demonstration, stop by Nexenta Booth #118 at the Intel Developer Forum, taking place September 11-13, 2012 in San Francisco, Calif.
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 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 +1 (855) NEXENTA. Partners selling NexentaStor-based hardware/software appliances can be found at http://www.nexenta.com/partners.
About Cirracore
Cirracore is a global provider of managed enterprise, private and hybrid cloud solutions for mission critical applications that allow enterprises to scale operations while reducing costs and IT infrastructure support.
Cirracore has rapidly become one of the most respected high-performance Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers in the industry serving a global enterprise customer base. Cirracore has partnered with premier companies that are leaders in their respective industries to provide best in class service to our customers. Visit Cirracore to learn about cloud hosting at http://www.cirracore.com