​Nexenta’s New Initiatives at VMworld Include; Hands-on Labs, an Exclusive VMware Virtual SAN Promotion, Live Demos, Theatre Sessions, Two Breakout Sessions, and Leading CEO Panel with Chris Mellor from The Register

SAN FRANCISCO and SANTA CLARA, CA - August 26, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta) the global leader in Open Source-Driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) solutions, today announced that it will showcase its unified product portfolio for file, block and object storage at VMworld 2015, August 30 – September 3, in San Francisco, as a platinum sponsor. Nexenta will demonstrate the latest in Software-Defined Storage solutions for cloud and virtualized environments through a VMware Hands-on Lab (HOL), live demos and technology previews, and interactive theatre sessions with a variety of partners at booth #1613. Nexenta will also speak in three breakout sessions.    

Another reason to make sure attendees visit Nexenta’s booth will be to experience the 1970 VW bus that’s been transformed into a vintage photo booth.  Attendees are encouraged to jump in to capture their best VMworld moments and then post them on social media tagging @nexenta, #OpenSDS and #NexentaBoothBus.  The best daily picture will win an Apple TV.

Nexenta’s award-winning OpenSDS solutions will be on display at booth #1613:

• NexentaStor, for unified file and block storage, ranging from spinning disk to hybrid to all flash solutions
• NexentaStor 5.0 preview, with a new high performance management framework utilizing a self-documenting REST API that serves as the foundation for a modern user interface and increased VMware integration through the vCenter ™ Plugin and VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes
• NexentaEdge, the industry’s first software-only scale out block and object solution designed for VMware and OpenStack clouds providing scale out storage for multi-tenant vSphere environments
• NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual  SAN, the only fully integrated file services solution for all versions of VMware Virtual SAN
• NexentaStor and NexentaEdge will also be on display with the latest vCloud Suite, Update VMware Virtual SAN and validation on vCloud ® Air™ to provide true hybrid cloud storage solutions

Nexenta will also speak in several breakout sessions and in our partner booths:

Monday, August 31st

10:30AM-11:00AM
vExpert Daily, Michael Letschin, Field CTO

3:30PM-4:30PM
Micron Booth, Ricardo Antuna, VP of Corporate and Business Development

4:30PM - 5:30PM
STO6597-SPO: Open Software-Defined Storage – Nexenta customers & partners tell their story

Attend a panel discussion with Nexenta partners and customers to explore the real world problems of hybrid-cloud deployments and how OpenSDS offers a whole new approach.  Audience members will have a chance to win an Apple Watch.

Moderator: Tarkan Maner, Chairman & CEO, Nexenta

Panelists include:

• Moshe Ovadya, President & CEO, Aberdeen
• Christian (Kiko) Reis, VP of Hyperscale Computing, Canonical
• Luke Marsden, CTO & Founder, ClusterHQ
• Tim Van Ash, VP of Products, LoadDynamix
• Brent Thumlert, Systems Architect, Northern Backup
• Chris Orlando, CMO & Co-Founder, ScaleMatrix
• Chris Mellor, Storage Reporter, The Register
• Michael Haag, Product Marketing Manager, VMware
• Anuj Bhalla, VP, Wipro

5:30PM-5:45PM
Cluster HQ Booth, Oscar Wahlberg, Director of Product Management

Tuesday, September 1st

10:30AM-11:00AM
vExpert Daily, Michael Letschin, Field CTO

12:30PM - 1:30PM
STO6596-SPO: Storage on your terms: deep dive into SDS technologies and use cases

Software-Defined Storage means different things to different people. Cut through the jargon with Michael Letschin, Field CTO, and Oscar Wahlberg, Director of Product Management at Nexenta and discover the right SDS solution for you.

12:30PM - 1:30PM
VAPP5737-SPO: Super-charge virtualized business critical applications with flash storage

This interactive panel will see a number Nexenta and other industry experts in storage and flash technologies share best practices and information on the newest validated reference architectures for deploying software-defined data center solutions with enterprise-wide flash and SDS.

Panelists include:

• Tarkan Maner - Chairman and CEO, Nexenta
• Chuck Hollis - Chief Strategist, Storage and Availability, VMware
• Sergey Razin - CTO, SIOS Technology Corp
• Robert Ober - Sr. Fellow, SanDisk
• Patric Chang - Senior Director, SanDisk

3:30PM-4:30PM
Micron Booth, Ricardo Antuna, VP of Corporate and Business Development

Wednesday, September 2nd

10:30AM-11:00AM
vExpert Daily, Michael Letschin, Field CTO

1:30PM-1:45PM
Cluster HQ Booth, Oscar Wahlberg, Director of Product Management

3:30PM-4:30PM
Micron Booth, Ricardo Antuna, VP of Corporate and Business Development

In Nexenta’s booth theatre on the expo floor, Nexenta technologists will present alongside a variety of the company’s technology partners during Next.Talk sessions – including ATTO, Canonical, Cisco, Dell, HGST, Micron, SanDisk, Supermicro, Unitrends and Wipro. At the end of each session we'll conduct a raffle for a "Re-Charge with Nexenta" gift bag as well as every person in attendance will receive a special giveaway.

Sunday, August 30th

• 5PM-  Nexenta - “Software Defined Storage for Your Enterprise” - Eric Rife
• 6PM - Nexenta - “Software Defined Storage for Your Enterprise” - Andy Bennett

Monday, August 31st

• 1PM - HGST - “HGST, Nexenta and VMware: Better Together.” Walter Hinton
• 2PM  - SanDisk - “Infiniflash with Nexenta for Software Defined All-Flash” Randy Pierce
• 3PM - Supermicro - “Supermicro's New 90bay, Now Nexenta Software-Defined” Michael Huang
• 4PM - Nexenta - “Software Defined Storage for Your Enterprise” - Eric Cho
• 5PM  Unitrends  - “Recover More than Just your Data with Unitrends” David LeClair

Tuesday, September 1st

• 12PM - Canonical - “Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab” Ron Bassett
• 1PM - ATTO - “Building your own Stretch Cluster with Nexenta and ATTO Storage Controllers”  Jim U'Ren
• 2PM - Wipro - “Wipro OpenSDx” - Amit Puri, Somnath Guha
• 3PM - ClusterHQ -  “Making Docker Work for Databases in a vSphere Environment” - Madhuri Yechuri
• 4PM - VMware  - “Virtual SAN & NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN” Jase McCarty

Wednesday, September 2nd

• 11AM - Canonical - “Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability” Ron Bassett
• 12PM - Cisco - “ Software Defined Storage on Cisco UCS”  Richard Jacobik
• 1PM - Nexenta - “Software Defined Storage for Your Enterprise” - Andy Bennett
• 2PM - Dell - “Software Defined Everything with Dell & Nexenta” Ganesh Padmanabhan
• 3PM - Micron - “Micron SSD for VSAN and Nexenta” Alex Medvedev

Nexenta is also giving VMworld 2015 attendees a chance to win $500 gift cards and Apple TVs every day at the event. Check your backpack for the Nexenta raffle post card, or simply stop by booth #1613 to enter.

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About Nexenta

Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 33 patents, and more than 1,200 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “Open Source” collaboration with commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are 100% software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic providing organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta OpenSDS enables everyday apps from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. 

For more information, visit, www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.

Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nexenta Systems Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks and company names mentioned in this document are properties of their respective owners.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – August 24, 2015 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) is collaborating with Veeam^® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™), to provide fast, flexible, reliable and cost-effective recovery and availability solutions for modern data center providers and enterprises. Customers can realize recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for applications and data via a single storage solution that manages all tiers of storage: production, backup, and archive.

With Veeam and Nexenta solutions, organizations can enhance their ecosystem resilience by continuing to deliver services—even from tertiary storage systems—if production storage systems are interrupted or backing up.  They can:

• Gain enterprise-grade capabilities across all tiers of source and target storage with a single easy-to-use solution
• Reduce capital investment by selecting the most cost-effective storage hardware for each tier and create higher utilization rates with market leading inline data reduction
• Reduce operational costs by streamlining and unifying management of all storage resources

Companies looking for cost-effective backup and recovery on premises or in the cloud turn to Veeam Backup & Replication™ for fast, flexible, and reliable recovery of virtualized applications and data. Combining Veeam with NexentaStor—the leading Software-Defined Storage solution for unified block and file —provides companies with a comprehensive backup tool and storage environment that delivers fast, flexible, and reliable backup,  recovery and availability. 

Nexenta offers Veeam customers a single solution for enterprise-grade capabilities across all tiers of target storage, from high-performance production-grade configurations to archival backup, so companies can continue to deliver services from tertiary systems while backing up their primary systems. Because NexentaStor is an OpenSDS solution, companies can select the most cost-effective level of hardware for each tier, including existing hardware. While NexentaStor can serve as both source and target storage, you can use any storage array as your source and manage a diverse set of storage appliances as one seamless solution.

Companies have two options for using NexentaStor as storage for their Veeam backup environment. They can back up VMware production workloads running on NexentaStor primary NFS storage, using NFS to connect with a Veeam proxy and then to a NexentaStor backup. Or they can snapshot data from primary to secondary NexentaStor storage then back it up with a Veeam proxy and store it in a backup repository.

NexentaStor is the most widely deployed OpenSDS platform, allowing thousands of customers all around the world to transform their storage infrastructure to realize:

• Increased flexibility, agility and innovation capability
• Simplified management and ease of use
• Reduced costs without compromise

“Trying to backup and store virtualized data with 20- to 30-year-old tools just isn’t going to cut it,” said Oscar Wahlberg, Sr. Director of Product Management at Nexenta.  “The combination of Veeam’s VM-aware backup and NexentaStor is a nice marriage.  It allows the IT administrators to figure out which VM is associated with which array to simplify management and provide ease of use while ensuring that backups and restores occur with their required SLAs and with the right economics.”

“Veeam is committed to providing Availability for the Modern Data Center, which for us means taking advantage of modern technologies such as virtualization, cloud and software-defined storage like Nexenta’s NexentaStor.  The combined validated solution strengthens both our enterprise and service provider offerings,” said Doug Hazelman, vice president of product strategy at Veeam.

NexentaStor 4.x is now officially verified by Veeam.

Tweet This: .@Nexenta collaborates with @veeam to offer RTPO of < 15 minutes for all apps and data via a single storage solution. #OpenSDS #OpenSDx

About Nexenta

Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 33 patents, and more than 1,200 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “Open Source” collaboration with commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are 100% software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic providing organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta OpenSDS enables everyday apps from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. 

For more information, visit, www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.

Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nexenta Systems Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks and company names mentioned in this document are properties of their respective owners.

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The First Ever North America Business Appearance of Pepper, Aldebaran and SoftBank’s Humanoid Robot; Keynotes Include Jill Ellis, World Cup Champion Coach of U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team; Geoff Colvin, Senior Editor at Fortune and Author of “Humans are Underrated,” Chris Mellor, Industry-leading Tech Journalist at The Register

Other Speakers Include CEOs and Key Executives at California Department of Education, Canonical, Cisco, Dell, GoDaddy, HP, Samsung, SanDisk, SoftBank, Supermicro, Teradici, Turkcell, VCE, VMware, Western Digital, and Wipro

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – August 19, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) solutions, today announced the keynote speakers and agenda for its annual invitation-only Nexenta OpenSDx Summit, one of the technology industry’s leading executive forums, on Thursday, September 3^rd, at the St. Regis Hotel, in San Francisco, CA. The Summit will feature keynotes from Jill Ellis, U.S. Woman’s National Soccer Coach - World Cup 2015 Champions, Geoff Colvin, Senior Editor-at-Large and Author of “Humans Are Underrated”, Pepper, the world’s first humanoid robot designed to live with humans, as well as a full day of thought-provoking discussions on emerging Open Source and Software-Defined Data Center technologies and their ability to deliver innovation, business agility, and competitive advantage to the marketplace.

“We are thrilled to host one of the most innovative executive events in the industry and are honored to bring such inspirational and innovative leaders to our stage again this year, including the first North America appearance for business of Pepper the humanoid robot!” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at Nexenta. “Riding on the heels of VMworld 2015, OpenSDx Summit brings together the public and private sector to provide the innovation and compassion needed to solve key technology and business issues and deliver a better way of doing business for years to come.”

​As the eighth head coach in U.S. Women’s National Team history, Jill Ellis comes to us having led her team to the International Algarve Cup title, the CONCACAF Championship, and the 2015 FIFA World Cup Championship.  Prior to taking the reins of the U.S. Women’s National Team, Ellis served as Development Director for the U.S. Women’s Youth National Teams.  Ellis also has an extensive history with U.S. Women’s National Team programs, having served as an assistant coach for the gold-medal U.S. Women’s National Team at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, and head coach for the U21 and U20 Women’s National Teams.

Geoff Colvin comes to Nexenta’s OpenSDx Summit after recently releasing Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will.  This is Geoff’s fourth bestselling book in addition to his regular column and cover stories with Fortune magazine and CBS Radio Network broadcasts. As one of the most respected voices in business journalism, Colvin helps businesses look ahead at the key issues impacting business today. The insights he delivers are remarkable in their clarity, giving leaders the perspective they need to make better decisions about the future of their business.  During his keynote, Geoff will take the Summit to a new level by testing the importance of "higher level" human functions and emotions with Pepper, the first humanoid robot designed to live with humans.

​In his first North America appearance for business, Pepper is a social robot that is able to  converse, recognize and react to the emotions of others, including Nexenta’s CEO, Tarkan Maner, as well his fellow keynotes. Engaging and friendly, Pepper is much more than a robot, he’s a companion able to communicate through the most intuitive interface we know: voice, touch and emotions, as well as move and live autonomously. 

“We at thrilled to introduce Pepper for the first time to the U.S. technology community at Nexenta’s OpenSDx Summit,” said Fumihide Tomizawa, CEO of SoftBank Robotics Holdings. “Pepper definitely has a real personality conveyed by his body language and will surely win the hearts and minds of the audience.”

In addition to Jill Ellis, Geoff Colvin and Pepper, several top hi-tech leaders and innovators will be speaking at the event, including:

• Tim Klein, CEO, ATTO
• Jane Silber, CEO, Canonical
• Balaji Sivasubramanian, Product Management and Strategy Executive, Cisco
• JR Rivers, CEO/Engineer, Cumulus Networks
• Alan Atkinson, VP/GM Dell Storage, Dell
• Oneal Bhambani, CFO, Flywheel
• Elissa Murphy, CTO/EVP, GoDaddy
• Tom Bradicich, Dr., VP Engineering, Servers, HP
• Mark Hirsch, Vice President Global Supplier, Product & Business Development, Inventec
• Phillipe Vincent, CEO, LoadDynamix
• Martin Hoerhammer, Owner, Medialine
• Mark Glasgow, VP, Worldwide Enterprise Sales, Micron
• Ben Woo, CEO, Neuralytics
• Matt Ahrens, Co-Founder/CEO, OpenZFS.org
• Luke Kanies, CEO, Puppet Labs
• Shaun Walsh, VP of Sales & Marketing, QLogic
• Sheng Liang, CEO, Rancher
• Chris Mellor, Storage Reporter, The Register
• Duncan Logan, Founder & CEO, RocketSpace
• Dan Neault, VP, Samsung
• Sumit Sadana, EVP Chief Strategy Officer, SanDisk
• Chris Orlando, Co-Founder & CMO, ScaleMatrix
• Terry Vahey, VP, SJSU
• Andrew Schwabecher, Senior VP, Cloud Computing Services, SoftBank
• Francesco Paola, CEO, Solinea
• Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction
• Muhammed Chaudhry, CEO, SVEF
• Dan Cordingley, CEO, Teradici
• Gita Alaghband, Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC Denver
• Praveen Akkiraju, CEO, VCE
• Gaetan Castelein, Senior Director, Product Marketing and Product Management, Cloud Infrastructure, VMware
• Carl Eschenbach, President and CEO, VMware
• Arvind Soni, Product Line Manager, VMware
• Mike Telang, Chief Architect, Wells Fargo
• Steve Milligan, CEO, Western Digital
• TK Kurien, CEO, Wipro

Nexenta’s OpenSDx Summit is open to all press. For more information, please email Nexenta.

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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 33 patents, and more than 1,200 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “Open Source” collaboration with commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are 100% software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic providing organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta OpenSDS enables everyday apps from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. 

For more information, visit, www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.

Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nexenta Systems Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks and company names mentioned in this document are properties of their respective owners.

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Nexenta Systems
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Nexenta Software-Defined Storage Platform Enables ScaleMatrix to Out-Perform Competitors, add New Tiered Services and Ultimately Save Millions of Dollars

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – July 29, 2015 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that ScaleMatrix, a respected hybrid solutions provider, has successfully utilized NexentaStor to improve cloud operations and support for the rapidly growing cloud service portfolio. With Nexenta, ScaleMatrix has demonstrated a 200% performance increase when comparing virtual machine and application hosting within its cloud platforms, and estimates the savings over more traditional storage services in the millions of dollars.  NexentaStor helped ScaleMatrix out-perform top competitors including Amazon, Google, Rackspace and Azure.

ScaleMatrix, in partnership with Nexenta, conducted cloud performance trials at the company’s advanced data center in San Diego.  A variety of cloud workloads and applications were tested against a number of traditional hosting service platforms.  The results were compared against ScaleMatrix’ performance cloud service, driven by Nexenta and SanDisk.

“Our clients have demonstrated an ever increasing need for storage performance, and they rely on us to deliver those services in a cost-effective manner,” said Chris Orlando, Co-Founder of ScaleMatrix. “They want to know that they can see performance benefits end-to-end over the entire stack.  Nexenta plays a key role to helping us deliver both competitive and cost-effective services for our clients. We’ve been able to deliver more IOP per dollar with Nexenta than we could with any other platform.”  

ScaleMatrix views Nexenta as a key contributor to its competitive advantage.  The company counts on the open-source nature of the Nexenta product to provide the flexibility to easily manage data between its platform and other service platforms. 

“The bottom line is how fast our customers’ applications respond and how fast it works end-to-end.  We design and maintain performance levels that exceed our customers’ expectations which translate to more business and greater loyalty,” added Orlando.

“ScaleMatrix’s testing shows that open source, software-defined storage provides results that help companies differentiate themselves,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at Nexenta.  “SDS has a significant impact in real-world use and performs at the highest levels given the demands of today’s multi-tenant, end-to-end environments.  Better performance means better profits.”

ScaleMatrix offers customers a mix of colocation and managed services, plus a cloud portfolio that includes public, private, and IaaS hosting. Since 2011, ScaleMatrix has served its clients—from small startups to Fortune 500 businesses—by architecting, deploying, and managing complete hybrid solutions from their innovative and cutting edge US data centers.

ScaleMatrix founders recognized early on that the ease-of-use and scalability were going to be paramount when supporting the exponential data growth anticipated in their customer base. ScaleMatrix evaluated all of the major players in the storage industry during an extensive review process, looking for the platform that could offer the greatest performance, flexibility, scalability, and cost effectiveness.

Nexenta provided exceptional value in all categories plus the open-source nature of the software-defined storage platform provided additional benefits to the dynamic and fast-growing cloud providers such as ScaleMatrix.

“We started small with a couple hundred terabytes on Nexenta, but now we have almost two petabytes, and we plan on doubling that each year.  Nexenta scales easily while keeping manageability incredibly easy.  If we had to scale up by tying together huge arrays, we’d be struggling.  Nexenta helps us avoid that completely.” said Orlando.

Today, ScaleMatrix leverages NexentaStor to manage, monitor and deploy IOPs based on customers’ requirements. The flexibility of the Nexenta interface and its simplification of SAN-to-SAN migration makes it easy for ScaleMatrix to offer each customer a seamless combination of different performance tiers with different percentages of SD and spinning disk for unmatched performance, at the lowest possible cost.

“We chose Nexenta for its technological strength,” says Orlando. “But over time we’ve come to appreciate the knowledge and support we’ve received from all the Nexenta people we’ve worked with, from tech sales support up through Tarkan Maner, the CEO.  They’ve become a big part of our success.”

Please refer to the ScaleMatrix Written Case Study, Video Case Study and the ScaleMatrix Benchmark Testing Results Report for more implementation details.

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About Nexenta

Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 33 patents, and more than 1,200 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “Open Source” collaboration with commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Storage” innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are 100% software-based; and 100% hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic providing organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing – from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta OpenSDS enables everyday apps from rich media-driven Social Living to Mobility; from the Internet of Things to Big Data; from OpenStack and CloudStack to Do-It-Yourself Cloud deployments – for all types of Clouds – Private, Public, and Hybrid. Founded around an "Open Source” platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Quanta, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. 

For more information, visit, www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.

About ScaleMatrix

ScaleMatrix is a Hybrid Service Provider delivering an array of cloud, colocation, managed services, data protection and connectivity under one simple umbrella.  As developers of ground-breaking data center efficiency technology, our company offers a cutting edge product catalog with white-glove support services at market prices which benefit from these proprietary cost-saving innovations.  With a focus on helping clients choose the right platform and performance criteria for a variety of IT workloads, ScaleMatrix aims to be a one-stop shop for those looking to simplify and reliably manage development, production, and disaster recovery workloads with a single partner.

Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nexenta Systems Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks, service marks and company names mentioned in this document are properties of their respective owners.

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