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PARIS, France & SANTA CLARA, Calif. – 20, May 2015 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced its participation at the second OpenZFS European User Conference on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at Ecole 42 in Paris. With a growing ZFS community in attendance and a keynote from the founder of ZFS, the European event is the go to event for anything OpenZFS, the truly open source implementation of the ZFS project. Nexenta’s sponsorship at the event reinforces its support for ZFS along with its growing developer and end user community. 

Following the success of the OpenZFS Developer Summit conference last year, Nexenta is proud to sponsor the growing event in Europe. The goals of OpenZFS European User Conference are to collaborate with and connect with end users and ZFS engineers and to kick start the ZFS user community in Europe. Matt Ahrens and George Wilson, co-founders of the ZFS project will deliver a keynote at the event on the future of ZFS and the growth of the ecosystem. The full event will be live streamed to over 1,000 listeners globally. One of Nexenta’s ZFS experts will deliver a presentation on Nexenta’s Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage solutions.

OpenZFS is an outstanding storage platform that encompasses the functionality of traditional file systems, volume managers, and more, with consistent reliability, functionality and performance on illumos, FreeBSD, Linux and OS X. Nexenta uses ZFS for its Software-Defined Storage portfolio including its flagship product, NexentaStor and NexentaEdge. OpenZFS combines DRAM, flash, and hard disk drives to achieve the right balance of cost and performance for any given working set. This reduces the need for administrators to constantly monitor storage for I/O bottlenecks. Nexenta ends up with a system that performs far better than legacy storage systems, while having a much lower total cost of ownership (TCO), all by reducing both read and write latency with the use of flash in a ZFS hybrid storage pool.

Mark Jordan, VP of EMEA, Nexenta said: “The success of last year’s conference is a testament of how much interest in OpenZFS has grown across Europe. ZFS is at the core of everything we do at Nexenta. As a part of this community, we are always keen to learn as well as educate on the benefits of this unique file system. At Nexenta we value our partnerships and we are delighted to sponsor this successful event in Paris.”  

Ryan Tyler, OpenZFS comments: “This is our second year hosting the OpenZFS European User Conference and it is growing each year. The success of the OpenZFS Developer Summit event in the US is spilling over into Europe and long may it continue. We are delighted to see such strong interest year on year.”

What:       OpenZFS European User Conference
Topic:       Nexenta Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage Solutions
When:      Tuesday, May 26, 2015, 13.30 p.m. (CET)
Where:     Ecole 42, 96 Boulevard Bessières, Paris

For more information about OpenZFS European User Conference, please visit: http://www.meetup.com/OpenZFS-Europe/events/218873174/   

For more information on Nexenta and ZFS, visit: http://www.nexenta.com/company/downloads/zfs-education  

For more information on Nexenta’s OpenSource-driven Software-Defined Storage portfolio, please see our product page: http://www.nexenta.com/products

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About Nexenta

Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 1,000+ partners, 30+ patents, and more than 1,000 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 Extends its Market Leadership with its “Total Freedom” Hardware-, Cloud Platform-, and Protocol-agnostic Open Source-Driven Software Defined Storage (OpenSDS) Platform

NexentaEdge Delivers Industry’s First Cluster-Wide Inline Deduplication, Compression, and Enterprise Class Data Integrity at Hyper-scale

Scale-Out Block and Object Storage Services for OpenStack Clouds, Active Archives, and Big Data Infrastructures

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and VANCOUVER, BC – May 18, 2015 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced the general availability (GA) of NexentaEdge®.

The award-winning Block and Object Storage platform offers high-performance, simplified management of petabyte-scale repositories, and is the first software-only scale out storage solution to deliver cluster-wide inline deduplication and compression. NexentaEdge is optimized to support OpenStack clouds, object based active archives and Big Data applications.

“Big Data applications, object based active archives and OpenStack cloud environments are driving the need for disruptive new storage solutions, built on scale out clusters of industry standard servers” said Thomas Cornely, Chief Product Officer at Nexenta. “OpenStack clouds in particular require both high performance block services and extremely scalable object repositories. NexentaEdge is unique in its ability to concurrently meet these requirements and further drive down storage costs with inline deduplication and compression of all data at any scale.”

NexentaEdge is Software-Defined Storage that runs on shared nothing clusters of low cost industry standard Linux servers. Featuring Intel® Xeon® processors designed for storage workloads, it builds on Nexenta IP and patent pending Cloud Copy on Write (CCOW) technology to break new grounds in terms of performance, reliability, ease of operation and cost efficiencies with market-leading features like cluster-wide inline deduplication, compression, real-time self-balancing, and unlimited instant snapshots and clones.

“Open Source-driven Software Defined Storage is driving a new style of IT in the enterprise,” said Simon Robinson, Research Vice President at 451 Research. “While scale-out object storage holds significant promise as a foundational technology for this new era, adoption is still nascent. NexentaEdge, with its key value-driven architecture, ability to handle a variety of workloads, and replicast technology to ensure efficiency and redundancy, is a potential game-changer. NexentaEdge will have a significant impact on an organization’s ability to transform their storage infrastructure, lower TCO and make the shift to the Software-Defined Data Center.”

Key features of NexentaEdge include:

• The only scale-out storage delivering low latency iSCSI Block and high performance Swift and S3 Object Services
• Deployed as a storage service on 10GbE connected clusters of Intel-based Linux servers running Ubuntu, CentOS or RedHat Enterprise Linux
• Innovative ground-up design delivering best in class performance for small random I/O generated by virtual machine boot images in OpenStack Clouds
• Enterprise grade data integrity and unlimited space optimized snapshot and clone capabilities with Cloud Copy On Write. 
• The only fully distributed, in-line deduplication and compression of all data ingested in the cluster, at any scale
• Ability to scale storage capacity and performance (I/O per second or throughput) independently of each other, supporting all HDD, hybrid and all SSD configurations
• Low touch operational model with automated capacity and performance balancing that unlike any other solution, keeps large, complex clusters constantly optimized.

"As one of the initial adopters of Nexenta OpenSDS, we have enjoyed a special relationship with Nexenta’s engineering team,” said Joe Little, Principal Systems Architect at Stanford University. “With NexentaEdge, we are extremely excited by the addition of a distributed scale-out storage solution deployed on Linux servers to Nexenta’s portfolio and look forward to benefiting from its scalability, performance, and industry leading data reduction capabilities for our internal storage needs.”

“Rising data management challenges are forcing companies to rethink traditional storage options,” said Bev Crair, Vice President, Data Center Group and GM, Storage Group, Intel Corporation. “By deploying scale-out solutions like NexentaEdge on Intel-based servers, customers can increase scalability, use intelligent storage services to improve capacity, and enhance performance, all while meeting the daunting challenges of managing Big Data.”

NexentaEdge GA will be demonstrated for the first time at Nexenta’s OpenSDx VIP Reception at OpenStack Summit Vancouver on May 19.

“We are excited that Nexenta has chosen to offer the first GA demo of NexentaEdge at OpenStack Summit,” said Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation. “We expect Nexenta to continue making an impact within the OpenStack community, both with the public release of NexentaEdge and in future innovation.”

Pricing

NexentaEdge’s perpetual license lists from $0.15/GB to less than $0.10/GB at capacity plus maintenance and support.  NexentaEdge with its advanced capabilities, including inline compression and dedupe continue’s Nexenta’s leadership in bringing great value solutions to market.  For more information, please contact sales@nexenta.com, or click here to register.

For more information on NexentaEdge, please visit: http://nexenta.com/products/nexentaedge.

Further resources:

NexentaEdge Datasheet

NexentaEdge Blog

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Arista Networks

“Arista’s software-driven cloud networking solutions and NexentaEdge deliver the scale, agility, performance and extensibility to achieve high performance computing environments and data centers,” said Ed Chapman, vice president of Business Developments and Alliances at Arista Networks. “The combination of the open programmability of Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS), deep buffered 7280 and 7500 switches and NexentaEdge scale out storage performance and deduplication directly contribute to enhancing our joint customers’ data management.”

Ascentech K.K.

“We are very pleased to have NexentaEdge in market. Nexenta already provides very trusted software based storage solution and now NexentaEdge release will bring more powerful solution in its portfolio,” said Mr. Naohiro Sato, President and CEO, Ascentech K.K.  “As customers' data grows, Peta Byte class high scale storage solution like NexentaEdge will bring more benefits to our partners/customers.”

Big Switch Networks

"Software-defined data center is transforming IT towards agile, responsive and elastic infrastructure demanded by modern applications”, said Prashant Gandhi, Vice President of Product Management & Strategy at Big Switch Networks. “The NexentaEdge software-defined storage and SDN-based Big Cloud Fabric accelerate customers’ journey to deliver infrastructure as a service clouds.  In addition to enabling a low-touch operational model for application deployment, we leverage open hardware for servers and switches to dramatically reduce TCO and provide complete vendor choice.”

Bluechip

"We supply our customers with proven products that compliment foundation technologies and offer unique benefits within the market," said Phil Lancaster, Director, Enterprise at Bluechip. "Nexenta continues to introduce high-performance and cost-efficient solutions that help our customers manage continuously growing volumes of data. With the introduction of NexentaEdge, we can continue our leadership by offering the first software-only scale-out Object Storage solution available."

Canonical

"With Ubuntu at the heart of the transition to cloud and scale-out, we are directly engaged with our customers' petabyte-scale storage challenges." said Christian Reis, VP Hyperscale at Canonical.  "We are delighted that Nexenta is meeting the challenge by providing NexentaEdge running on Ubuntu, a complete scale-out storage solution providing auto-balancing, inline deduplication, and extreme integrity and durability, perfectly suited to this growing market."

Citrix

“Citrix is excited that we can now offer our CloudPlatform customers the scalability provided by NexentaEdge,” said Steve Wilson, Vice President, Converged Infrastructure at Citrix. “The Object Storage solution from Nexenta is a complementary asset to our open and flexible architecture, optimizing performance.” 

Core Micro Systems Inc.

"Core Micro Systems welcomes NexentaEdge release in market. We have been working with Nexenta solutions for the last 5 years as a Premium Partner in Japan, and sold more than 50 customers with 10PB under management so far,” said Mr. Shozo Takahashi, President and CEO, Core Micro Systems Inc. “NexentaEdge will expand Nexenta solution and bring our customers benefits especially multi Peta Byte class solutions. We are very excited to have this new solution."

Cumulus Networks

“We share with Nexenta the goal of helping customers avoid vendor lock-in with open solutions,” said Reza Malekzadeh, VP Business at Cumulus Networks. “NexentaEdge and Cumulus Linux, the OS for open networking, enable the kind of automated, affordably-scalable infrastructure customers require in order to realize the software-defined data center.”

DataON Storage

"A scale-out object-based architecture such as NexentaEdge is designed to minimize manual intervention of storage expansions, optimize IOPS performance and reduce storage growth costs,” states Trenton R. Baker VP Business Development, DataON Storage. "The combination of NexentaEdge and DataON’s Cluster-in-a-Box present the industry’s densest scalable storage platform, enabling IT organizations to more efficiently absorb cost-efficient petabyte-scale storage growth in a manner that is predicable for the long term."

Dell

“The implementation of Nexenta software running on Dell’s trusted hardware enables us to offer customers highly flexible software-defined storage options,” said Alan Atkinson, vice president and general manager, Dell Storage. “Dell offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of tested and validated SDS solutions. Our Nexenta offerings provide customers a fully hardened storage solution based on Dell servers with global support of the total solution in a variety of performance- and capacity-optimized configurations.”

GMO Internet, Inc.

“We are excited to hear about the release of NexentaEdge. I look forward to seeing the benefits to Nexenta’s customers/partners,” said Mr. Kimihiro Kodama, Director, General Manager, Business Division and Hosting Department, GMO Internet, Inc. “Nexenta has a solid product portfolio and we are very pleased to work together now and in the future.”

HGST

“HGST is a storage leader offering the broadest portfolio of enterprise-class SSDs, Flash accelerators and the highest capacity HDDs in the world,” said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing at HGST. “Utilizing the world’s only HelioSeal helium filled HDDs, with the highest reliability; NexentaEdge can effectively increase the capacity and scalability of its Object Storage solution while delivering better TCO for its customers in terms of lower power, greater storage density and better cost per terabyte as compared to traditional air-filled drives.”

Mavenspire

"We pride ourselves on delivering the most powerful technologies available in the market for successful data center management," said Michael Tanenhaus, President and CEO at Mavenspire. "Nexenta Software-defined products allow us to deliver end-to-end solutions and we are excited to share the benefits of NexentaEdge's scale-out Object Storage."

Micron

“Scalable storage solutions are critical to cloud infrastructure and Big Data workloads that need petabytes of high performance storage,” said Steve Moyer, VP of storage software engineering at Micron (Nasdaq:MU). “With NexentaEdge, customers can harness the performance potential of our SSDs and share it on a vast scale.”

Mirantis

“Nexenta was one of the first Mirantis Unlocked partners to complement Mirantis OpenStack with best of breed software-defined storage solutions." said Boris Renski, Co-Founder and CMO at Mirantis. “By applying software-only scale out block and object storage with inline deduplication to the stack, we expect NexentaEdge will help our customers extend interoperability in their respective storage and data environments.”

NAS  

"At Network Attached Storage, we help our customers take control of data growth and deliver the solutions needed to fulfill the growing storage needs in the enterprise," said Barry Griffiths, CEO at Network Attached Storage (NAS). "Nexenta has contributed superior Software-defined Storage products and we are excited to include NexentaEdge in our future offerings."

SanDisk

“Nexenta and SanDisk share a similar vision of making storage solutions more economically viable. Nexenta’s software-only storage solutions help enable SanDisk’s InfiniFlash storage system for use with today’s Big Data workloads,” said Gary Lyng, senior director of enterprise product and solutions marketing, SanDisk. “By integrating Nexenta software with SanDisk flash storage, customers can optimize their data center infrastructures to deliver better performance, efficiency and TCO for massive, scale-out environments.”

ScaleMatrix

"Nexenta, and their NexentaStor product, has been a core and valued asset to our operations here at ScaleMatrix for both cloud and colocation customers," says Roy Bettle, Vice President of Technology at ScaleMatrix. "We are interested in seeing how their object storage product, NexentaEdge can add similar value to our portfolio of services."

Solinea

“As an OpenStack and Open Infrastructure solutions provider, we can speak with confidence that NexentaEdge offers benefits we haven’t seen in other solutions,” said Francesco Paola, CEO at Solinea. “Enterprises are demanding powerful and cost-effective storage solutions and NexentaEdge’s deduplication and rapid scalability is not only driving down cost, but is achieving higher performance and increased agility for the business.”

SSG-NOW

“We’re excited that NexentaEdge is now available,” said Deni Connor, Founding Analyst at SSG-NOW. “We believe that flexible, Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage solutions for object storage that offer ease-of-management and scalability, with an eye towards the efficient distribution of data, are where the market is headed. NexentaEdge’s deduplication technology will allow enterprises to keep up with the growing big data demands of the enterprise.”

SuperCloud

"Nexenta has already demonstrated the benefits of Software-Defined Storage to thousands of businesses around the world," according to Yuzhen Fang, CEO at SuperCloud.  "We are very much looking forward to combining our expertise in cloud computing hardware, software and services for the betterment of Chinese industry."  

Supermicro

“Supermicro’s advanced server, storage, and networking solutions are the premiere building blocks for cloud-scale infrastructure,” said Wally Liaw, Sr. Vice President of Sales at Supermicro. “For customers facing extreme data workloads, NexentaEdge, combined with our SuperStorage solutions deliver a super-scalable, high-performance SDS platform featuring sophisticated data management of scale-out block and object storage services with the benefit of overall lower TCO.”

VMware

“VMware looks forward to its continued collaboration with Nexenta, and we congratulate them on the general availability of NexentaEdge,” said Howard Hall, Senior Director, Global Technology Partnering Organization, VMware. “NexentaEdge’s object storage capabilities combined with VMware Integrated OpenStack enables our mutual customers to call OpenStack Swift services for unstructured data sets to realize high performance and versatility in the software-defined data center.”

Wipro Ltd.

“Wipro’s Open Datacenter Initiative envisages Storage Environments to be software defined and thereby delivering web scale IT like elasticity, agility and cost efficiency. Nexenta is a strategic partner in this global initiative and we have jointly invested in creating reference architectures for multiple use cases for brownfield and greenfield scenarios.  We have successfully deployed Nexenta Solutions for our customers and are currently seeing significant traction in this area,” said Anuj Bhalla, Vice President and Global Head of Systems Integration, Wipro Ltd. “We have been anticipating the general availability of NexentaEdge and are looking forward to leverage its ability to offer universally applicable storage solutions across block, file and object storage requirements for Virtualized and Cloudified Workloads.”

About Nexenta

Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 1,000+ partners, 30+ patents, and more than 1,000 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.

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OpenStack Foundation, 451 Research, Solinea, Canonical, Mirantis, Wipro and GMO of Japan Join Nexenta on Live Partner Panel Around OpenStack Market Momentum  

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – May 13, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced its participation in the OpenStack Summit, which will be held from May 18 – 22, 2015 at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.  Nexenta will be present within Solinea’s booth # T-10 and Canonical’s booth # P-3, where demonstrations of NexentaEdge will be shown daily from 2-4pm PT.

Nexenta is also announcing availability of its updated NexentaStor Cinder Driver, which offers new certification for the Kilo release of OpenStack.   Nexenta was first to offer the first commercially available cinder driver. The new NexentaStor Cinder Driver, reflects its continued contribution to the cinder project for OpenStack, providing high performance block storage services for OpenStack cloud-based solutions using NexentaStor.

While at the Summit make sure to attend the #vBrownBag TechTalk featuring Nexenta, Wipro and Canonical open source experts.  Their talk, “Open Source From Your OS to Your Data Center” will discuss how deploying OpenStack can require multiple different solutions for storage of files and VMs, utilizing Nexenta software-defined storage solutions eases deployment and management whether for block, file, or object use cases. Combining OpenSDx systems with OpenStack results in the next generation of the data center, the Open Data Center.

Date:                    Monday, May 18 at 1:00 pm PT
Location:              Level 1, Room 106 (across from Registration / Summit entrance)

Speakers:            Mike Letschin, Field CTO, Nexenta
                             Anuj Bhalla, VP & Global SI, Maint, Srvs & Products, Wipro Technologies
                             Christian Reis, Storage CTO, Canonical

Nexenta will also host an evening of stimulating networking with hors d’oeuvres and cocktails at the Nexenta OpenSDx VIP Reception on Tuesday, May 19, from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm PT at the Fairmont Pacific Rim. Dell, Canonical, Intel and Solinea are platinum sponsors of this event and will present during the welcome session.  Other sponsors of the reception include: Big Switch, Cumulus, Micron, Puppet Labs, Rancher Labs, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, VMware and Wipro.

Nexenta will be conducting a Passport Program, requiring attendees to visit the booths of Big Switch, Canonical, Cumulus, Puppet Labs, Rancher Labs and Solinea, as well as attend the Nexenta OpenSDx Reception.  A fully stamped passport will be entered into a raffle at the reception, for a chance to win 1 of 3 Apple Watches and Apple TV’s.  Must be present to win.

On May 20 at 8:00 am PT, Nexenta will also deliver a live webinar from the show floor entitled, Leading Insights on OpenStack, Today and Tomorrow. Moderated by Nexenta’s Chairman and CEO, Tarkan Maner, this webinar will feature thought leaders from the OpenStack Foundation, 451 Research, Solinea, Canonical, Mirantis, Wipro and GMO. The panelists will offer their insights and projections surrounding OpenStack and offer examples of how OpenStack implementations are evolving and maturing with new and growing customer deployments.

“Nexenta Software-Defined Storage solutions have been integrated into OpenStack since the Essex release and Nexenta continues to expand its support as OpenStack evolves, in collaboration with our marquis group of OpenStack ecosystem partners,” said Tarkan Maner, CEO and Chairman for Nexenta. “We’re honored to showcase this ongoing support by applauding and inviting others to celebrate OpenStack, bringing together an inspiring group of thought leaders and continuing our legacy as a pioneering contributor to the cinder project. 

“Nexenta continues to advance the goals of the OpenStack community,” said Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation. “Innovation and choice are key benefits of OpenStack, and Nexenta offers both via their software-defined storage solutions based on Cinder and Swift.”

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About OpenStack and Nexenta’s Support for OpenStack

OpenStack® is the most widely deployed open source software for building clouds. Companies use OpenStack to control large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface. OpenStack has support for both Object Storage and Block Storage, with many deployment options for each depending on the use case. 

Nexenta is an active participant and contributor to OpenStack efforts, helping to promote the standard. The company not only participates in the vibrant software development community via the Nexenta Community, but also contributes through multi-OS support (e.g., Illumos, BSD, LINUX, OSX, etc.), and along with other major brands, through open-zfs.org efforts.

About Nexenta

Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 1,000+ partners, 30+ patents, and more than 1,000 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. Tweet this.

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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NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop and NexentaStor are Trusted to Enhance Citrix Networking, Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure Solutions

 

SANTA CLARA, CA – May 12, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that its NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop® and NexentaStor have been verified as Citrix Ready®. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud infrastructure from Citrix.  NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop and NexentaStor completed a rigorous verification process to ensure compatibility with Citrix XenDesktop providing confidence in joint solution compatibility. 

 

The Citrix Ready program makes it easy for customers to identify complementary products and solutions that can enhance Citrix environments. Customers can be confident that NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop and NexentaStor have successfully passed a series of tests established by Citrix, and can be trusted to work effectively with Citrix XenDesktop in order to provide storage and acceleration of storage for VDI infrastructures. Demos and information about NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop and NexentaStor can easily be found in the Citrix Ready xChange Marketplace, an online catalogue of over 20,000 partner offerings verified to work with Citrix products.

 

The NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop solution utilizes NexentaStor to aid in delivering greater density at a much lower price point by reducing the cost per desktop and the amount of storage required for a Citrix XenDesktop deployment. The solution also provides real-time visibility and management of individual virtual desktops using storage resources. With NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop, virtual desktop administrators have the ability to integrate storage and desktop management for Citrix XenDesktop Machine Creation Services (MCS) without purchasing complex and expensive hardware extras.

 

Other features of NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop include:

• Reduces existing SAN workload by 60-80% depending on workload via I/O offload. 
• Optimize persistent and stateless desktop on any SAN
• Optimize stateless desktops on shared nothing
• Simple to deploy and operate through an intuitive GUI
• Support for Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 on VMware ESX 5.x

 

“We are pleased to have Nexenta a part of the Citrix Ready program,” said Sid Rabindran, director, Citrix Ready program, Citrix. “Citrix Ready makes it easier for customers to select the most suitable virtualization infrastructure products for their specific needs.  By taking part in our program, Nexenta has enabled its customers to obtain the highest quality user experience available today, and the simplest means for making an informed product purchasing selection.”

 

"We are thrilled to be able to provide Citrix customers with an acceleration and analytics tool based on open source technologies without any dependence on proprietary software systems," says Michael Letschin, Field CTO at Nexenta. "This software-only solution allows for customers to use a Citrix Ready solution on existing SAN storage as an accelerator or manage the storage hardware themselves to develop a fast shared-nothing architecture."

 

More information on NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop please visit, http://nexenta.com/products/nexentaconnect/nexentaconnect-xendesktop

 

More information on NexentaStor please visit, http://nexenta.com/products/nexentastor

 

 

Further resources:

NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop Press Release

NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop Datasheet

NexentaStor Datasheet

 

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About Citrix Ready

The Citrix Ready program identifies verified solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including XenDesktop®, XenApp®, Cloud Portal™, XenServer®, NetScaler®. The Citrix Ready designation is awarded to third-party products that have successfully met verification criteria set by Citrix, and gives customers an added confidence in the compatibility of the joint solution offering. The Citrix Ready program leverages industry-leading alliances across the Citrix partner eco-system to meet a wide variety customer needs, and currently incorporates partners who have demonstrated more than 25,000 product verifications. It also includes the Citrix Ready Community Verified program which allows customers to see thousands of products that have been verified by other customers to work in their production environments. More information about the Citrix Ready program can be found at www.citrix.com/ready.  Reach Citrix Ready using social media via the Citrix Ready blog site and Twitter.

 

About Nexenta

Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 1,000+ partners, 30+ patents, and more than 1,000 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.

 

 

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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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Allison Darin

Director of Communications and Public Relations, Nexenta

pr@nexenta.com

831-359-8208

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