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Demand for OpenStorage Solutions Fuels Nexenta's European Expansion and Channel Growth
Demand for OpenStorage Solutions Fuels Nexenta’s European Expansion and Channel Growth
45 channel partners in 25 countries support company growth of 410 percent in 2011 in Europe
LONDON, UK. – 20 February 2012 – Nexenta Systems, the world’s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions, today announced unprecedented European growth in 2011. With the company’s channel focus on high quality reseller partners, Nexenta revenue in Europe is almost a third of all global sales.
This comes as a result of growing demand for the company’s award-winning OpenStorage software platform across the region. Storage resellers, such as Proact in Netherlands, Thomas Krenn in Germany and VA Technologies in the UK are responding to the strong customer demand for a better-priced alternative to legacy proprietary solutions from companies such as NetApp and EMC.
Jacco van Achterberg, sales director EMEA, was recruited at the beginning of 2011, and has been responsible for the development of Nexenta’s partner channel across Europe. He explained: “Nexenta’s unique software-only storage approach allows our partners to add value to NexentaStor in terms of hardware, services and support. 2012 is already looking very positive with 350% revenue growth planned in Europe.”
Nexenta addresses a critical need for businesses 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 including Shazam, VESK, Coltex, Synergics and Trinkwasserversorgung Magdeburg prove its product is the best fitted storage solution for cloud deployments, virtualised data centres, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments.
Commenting on the company’s record growth, Evan Powell, CEO at Nexenta, said: “2011 was a pivotal year for the company and it follows three years of growth exceeding 400% year-over-year. Nexenta has been committed to putting in place the right management team and we have tripled the headcount from 60 to 180 to support the increasing demand and to provide high levels of service and support to our growing customer base.”
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.
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Nexenta’s Jon Ash Named a 2012 Channel Chief by Everything Channel’s CRN
Nexenta's Jon Ash Named a 2012 Channel Chief by Everything Channel's CRN
Santa Clara, CA — February 20, 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced that its Vice President of Sales Jon Ash has been named one of Everything Channel’s CRN Channel Chiefs. This prestigious list of the most influential and powerful leaders in the IT channel recognizes those executives directly responsible for promoting and executing effective channel partner programs and strategies, while consistently evangelizing and defending the importance of the channel throughout the entire IT industry.
Since Jon Ash joined Nexenta in 2009, the OpenStorage leader has seen a tremendous growth in its sales, partner and customer programs – becoming the fastest growing company in enterprise storage with more than 4,000 active customers. 2011 particularly was a banner year for Nexenta, as the company celebrated a 400 percent growth in year-over-year sales, a tripling of its workforce and a $21 million Series C investment led by Menlo Ventures, in which Sierra Ventures and Razor’s Edge Ventures also participated.
“This is a great honor for me and for my outstanding coworkers at Nexenta,” said Jon Ash, vice president of sales at Nexenta. “This recognition highlights the overwhelming success of Nexenta’s channel program, which has well over 200 partners. It also validates Nexenta’s game-changing model that offers superior performance at lower cost – in some cases by 75 to 80 percent – over the outdated lock-in models of our legacy vendor competition.”
For the ninth consecutive year, Channel Chiefs were selected by the CRN editorial team based on channel experience, program innovations, channel-driven revenue and public support for the importance of IT channel sales.
“The 2012 Channel Chiefs list recognizes vendor executives dedicated to driving channel programs in the IT marketplace,” said UBM Channel Editorial Director and Vice President Kelley Damore. “These are the people, the products and the programs that any savvy solution provider needs to know. We congratulate this year’s Channel Chiefs for their stellar record of business innovation and applaud them for their continued dedication to the partner community.”
The 2012 Channel Chiefs list is featured in the February issue of CRN Magazine and will be featured online at www.crn.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.
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 (639-3682). Partners selling NexentaStor based hardware/software appliances can be found at http://www.nexenta.com/partners.
About UBM Channel
UBM Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, UBM Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. UBM Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about UBM Channel, visit us at www.ubmchannel.com.
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Scott Regan
UBM Channel
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Schwartz MSL
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Nexenta Systems Sales Up 400 Percent in 2011
Nexenta Systems Sales Up 400 Percent in 2011
Leader in OpenStorage Adds Major Fortune 500 Customers, New Round of Funding on Top of Record Year and Bolsters Executive Talent
Mountain View, CA — February 13, 2012 — Nexenta Systems, the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced it finished the 2011 fiscal year with record results. Nexenta announced that sales were up by 400 percent from 2010, it added a slate of seasoned executives to its management ranks and bolstered its more than 4,000-member customer list with some widely known names.
Nexenta more than doubled its staff in 2011 and added brand name customers, including the U.S. Army, Cisco Systems, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ForEx.com, Splunk, Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau, VESK, VocaLink, Volkswagen, NTT Data, Honda, Nissan, Juniper, Checkpoint, Zend, VMware, Citrix and Zappos.com.
"We've grown sales by 1,600 percent in the last two years. There is clearly massive pent up demand for enterprise class storage without the antediluvian business practices and technologies of legacy storage," said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta. "My thanks go to our partners and the tens of thousands of users who continue to spread the word that NexentaStor delivers on our mission of Enterprise Class Storage for Everyone."
Nexenta built out its roster of world-class executive talent in the last three months. Bill Fuller, whose experience includes leadership positions at Tandem, Auspex and Quest Software, joined as the vice president of engineering. Bill Roth joined as vice president of marketing and brings experience as a senior marketing and operations leader at firms including BEA, Sun and GSI Commerce.
In addition, Nexenta continued to enhance its partner programs. Active resale partners can enjoy large joint marketing funds, as well as industry leading margins, with NexentaStor. Nexenta now has more than 250 resale partners, including Dell Computer, and is investing heavily in the success of new and existing partners.
Nexenta recently announced that it received more than $21 million in Series C financing, in a round led by Menlo Ventures that also included Razor’s Edge Ventures and Sierra Ventures.
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.
Contacts
Merrill Freund or Lauren Connelly
Schwartz MSL
(415) 512-0770