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Nexenta Showcases its Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage Solutions with EUROstor and Supermicro at CeBIT 2015
Santa Clara, CA and Hannover, Germany – March 11, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that it will be showcasing its Software-Defined Storage portfolio at CeBIT on March 16th – 20th 2015.
Nexenta will be participating with top German reseller EUROstor and global provider of end-to-end computing solutions, Supermicro (@Supermicro_SMCI) by offering demos on its latest disruptive storage technologies. EUROstor develops, manufactures and sells high quality storage systems for large and medium enterprises, research centers and universities. CeBIT attendees can experience the range of solutions including NexentaStor, NexentaConnect software suite and NexentaEdge, the industry’s first software-only scale out block and object storage solution for multi-petabyte enterprise and cloud solutions. Nexenta will be at stand D52 with both EUROstor and Supermicro.
“With Software-Defined Storage making the headlines recently, we are ahead of the wave with our customized Storage Server based on NexentaStor,” said Wolfgang Bauer, Technical Director at EUROstor. “Our customers are looking for a solution that has not only great performance but also comes within budget. NexentaStor is the benchmark for Software-Defined Storage and we are excited to show visitors what it can achieve for them.”
“Supermicro offers the Industry’s widest range of Green Computing solutions optimized for next generation Software Defined Data Centers,” said Wally Liaw, Sr. Vice President of Sales at Supermicro. “With partners such as Nexenta deploying software defined scale-out and object storage solutions across our 2U/4U SuperStorage and VMware certified EVO: RAIL™ and Virtual SAN platforms, customers are enabled with the best performance, density, efficiency and reliability required to meet their exact unified storage infrastructure requirements.”
“CeBIT is a key trade show for Nexenta. Every year we meet many local German partners, potential partners from DACH, and prospective customers,” said Mark Jordan, VP, GM, EMEA at Nexenta. “Teaming up with our key partners helps us to demonstrate how Software-Defined Storage, specifically Open Source technology, can help businesses overcome their current and future storage challenges.”
Tweet This: Don’t miss @Nexenta at #CeBIT2015 with EUROstor and @Supermicro_SMCI showcasing #SoftwareDefinedStorage solutions! #OpenSDS #OpenSDx
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 to Present the Latest Trends and Challenges around Software-Defined Data Center Market
Disruption via Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage Technologies at the Piper Jaffray Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Conference
SANTA CLARA, Calif. —March 10, 2015 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that its Chairman and CEO, Tarkan Maner, will present on a panel at the Piper Jaffray (NYSE: PJC) Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Conference, March 10–11, 2015 in New York. The Next-Generation Storage Platforms panel is comprised of market leading private storage companies and will be delivered to more than 100 industry leaders, investors and upstarts on March 10th at 3:30pm EST.
Piper Jaffray, a leading investment bank and asset management firm, has hosted its Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Conference for several years. The conference is a platform to discuss investment opportunities and trends in technology today. This annual meeting of the minds will cover the disruptive technologies reshaping our daily lives, as well as the companies leading this transformation.
Tarkan plans to discuss Nexenta’s successful Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) strategy for the past, present and future, as well its role within the Software-Defined Data Center. Tarkan will also speak to how Nexenta’s solutions address storage challenges in emerging areas of IT such as Social Media, Big Data, the Internet of Things, Mobility, Open Source and the rise of Software-Defined Everything - OpenSDx.
What: Piper Jaffray Technology, Media & Telecommunications Conference
When: March 10th at 3:30pm ET
Where: Le Parker Meridien
Panel: Next-Generation Storage Platforms
· Nexenta Systems, Inc. (private)
· Permabit Technology Corporation (private)
· Tegile Systems, Inc. (private)
· Tintri, Inc. (private)
The agenda will encompass key themes from across the technology ecosystem and will consist of panel discussions, fireside chats and one-on-one meetings. Company and investor participation in the conference is by invitation only. Clients interested in attending should contact their Piper Jaffray representative.
Tweet This: @Nexenta CEO @tarkanmaner to present at @PiperJaffrayCo Technology, Media & Telecommunications Conf in NYC Mar 10. #OpenSDS #OpenSDx #SDS
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
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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.
European Healthcare IT Project Runs on Nexenta Open Source-Driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS)
Nordic Medtest funded by Sweden’s Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications, gains better performance, scale, resilience, and easier management with Nexenta and Layer 8 IT-Services
Santa Clara, CA and Stockholm, SE – 10 March 2015 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that it has been chosen by Nordic Medtest, a Swedish healthcare IT project, to meet its demand for a safe, stable, flexible and high performing SAN solution. Nordic Medtest has a full range of testing services that help customers to develop, test and safely implement IT services in healthcare.
Nordic Medtest is a project funded by Vinnova, the Swedish agency for innovation, and involves three key groups - the Council of Värmland, Compare - an umbrella organization that provides a community for IT companies to collaborate with each other, and the University of Karlstad, which helped secure the grant for Nordic Medtest. The aim of the project is to provide an independent and open competence centre where healthcare organizations can develop, test and safely introduce new and innovative IT services in healthcare in cooperation with IT system and software suppliers.
The pre-study for the Nordic Medtest project began in September 2012, with a view of securing grant funding by April 2013 and having a technical infrastructure in place by September 2015. The organization’s existing SAN, used for the Compare Testlab, was based on open source software and standard hardware but concerns over its stability grew, particularly around functionality and performance.
Torbjorn Wiger, CTO of Compare and Nordic Medtest, approached Layer 8 IT-Services, Nexenta’s partner in Sweden, to discuss NexentaStor. Wiger was interested in NexentaStor as it is a cost-effective solution, based on open source software. “We wanted a safe, stable, flexible, high performing SAN solution, but we did not want to be locked into a proprietary storage solution. Having an open system on standard server hardware was an important factor for us,” said Torbjorn Wiger.
For the hardware, Layer 8 installed two Dell PowerEdge R720s to run NexentaStor, interconnected with a Dell PowerVault MD3060e storage array in a high availability configuration. The NexentaStor/Layer 8 system ensures that Nordic Medtest can enjoy high capacity and performance to easily meet the requirements when the project comes fully into service in September 2015.
“A high capacity, high performing and flexible solution is vital for Nordic Medtest to grow and succeed. With this project, it’s not just a simple business organization, the IT infrastructure performance can directly affect the welfare of sick and vulnerable people,” explained Mark Jordan, VP and GM, EMEA at Nexenta. “NexentaStor allowed for a secure, stable and more importantly an open source SAN solution with no vendor lock-in.”
To learn more, please find the Nordic Medtest case study here.
Tweet this: @Nexenta & @Layer_8_IT provides @NordicMedtest with higher performance & capacity #OpenSDx #SDS #OpenSDS http://bit.ly/1LLoLqv
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.
Contact Information:
Allison Darin
Nexenta Systems
831-359-8208
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.
Nexenta Showcases Next Generation of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) Solutions for the Cloud of the Future
Award winning SDS solutions will take centre stage at Cloud Expo Europe 2015 in London
London, UK and Santa Clara, CA—March 9, 2015—Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open-Source driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that it will be exhibiting at Cloud Expo Europe on March 11-12 2015, at the London Excel Center. At booth #700, Nexenta will be showcasing its award winning enterprise storage software solutions, NexentaStor™, NexentaConnect™ for VMware Virtual SAN, and NexentaEdge.
The cloud enables businesses to mobilize and connect their workforces in a host of innovative ways. Optimizing Cloud relies on a Software-Defined Data Center foundation, with Software-Defined Storage solutions. Nexenta’s SDS solutions leverage open source collaboration and Software-Defined Storage innovation (OpenSDS) to support multi-petabyte cloud deployments, as organizations globally build Software-Defined Data Centers of the future.
With a combination of performance, reliability and a lower TCO, Nexenta’s SDS solutions are taking the cloud market by storm. At the Cloud Expo event in London, Nexenta will be demonstrating:
- NexentaStor, Nexenta’s flagship solution, a scalable storage platform, which is already deployed in hundreds of cloud service providers around the world, provides the resilience required for cloud and enterprise applications. It offers increased flexibility and agility, simplifies management and dramatically reduces costs without compromising on availability, reliability or functionality.
- NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN is ideally suited for small to medium enterprises cloud platforms and offers high performance snapshots and clones, rack awareness for greater resiliency and expanded scalability. It also simplifies and streamlines the provisioning of file services offering twice the performance without paying for expensive external storage arrays.
- NexentaEdge, the industry’s most efficient software-only scale out object, block and file solution in the market for OpenStack clouds and Big Data applications. Taking a holistic approach to cloud storage architecture, NexentaEdge integrates with Software -efined Networks (SDN) to deliver groundbreaking performance. NexentaEdge will be available within the next 30 days.
Michael Letschin, Director of Product Marketing, Nexenta will be presenting at SNIA Europe’s Presentation. The presentation entitled, “Bringing Clarity to the Software-Defined World” will take place on Thursday, March 12 at 11.15-11.40 in the Software-Defined Data Center and Networks Theatre.
Nexenta will also be hosting a panel discussion focused on how the Software-Defined Data Center can reduce Capex and Opex whilst improving performance, security and reliability within a cloud. Michael Letschin will moderate the panel, featuring influential analysts as well as Nexenta customers and partners who already utilize Software-Defined Storage within their IT infrastructures.
“Cloud Expo Europe is the perfect platform for Nexenta, as a significant portion of our revenues come from cloud hosting providers,” Mark Jordan, GM, VP of EMEA states. “With our complete Software-Defined Storage portfolio, and recent updates to NexentaConnect for VMware VSAN and the launch of NexentaEdge, we’re excited to showcase what’s in store for Nexenta’s SDS portfolio in the coming year. Our customers will be speaking about how the SDDC can reduce costs, while improving on performance, security and reliability.”
Panel session: Can SDDC Reduce Capex/Opex and improve performance, security and reliability?
When: Thursday, March 12 at 15.00-15.45
Where: Keynote Theatre
Moderator: Michael Letschin, Director of Product Marketing at Nexenta
· Simon Robinson, Research VP Storage at 451 Research
· Alex Cruz Farmer, Group Technical Director at C4L
· Simon Green, Technical Director at Wirehive
· Sam Greenblatt, Chief Technologist in Residence at Nexenta
· Sim Upadhyayula, Director Solutions Enablement, Supermirco
· Tom Stockwell, Head of Product, Vodafone Cloud and Hosting
Services, Vodafone
“The cloud service market is developing at such a fast pace that a vendor must differentiate its solution in the market. Nexenta has done this very well with NexentaStor. The solution is fast, reliable and flexible to support any organizations solution and most importantly it is cost effective. Organizations are always on the lookout for a solution that can perform at the highest level at a competitive price, and this is what Nexenta is doing for us,” said Alex Cruz Farmer, Group Technical Director, C4L, the leading collocation specialists.
Simon Green, Technical Director at Wirehive, digital agency hosting specialists commented, “In the cloud services market, organizations want efficiency and flexibility from their storage solutions. As a partner of Nexenta, Wirehive is benefitting from lower TCO, higher performance and reliability allowing us to compete with our competitors. It’s certainly made my life a lot easier.”
On Tuesday March 10th, Nexenta will be hosting a Tech Briefing to educate and update the channel. This event is exclusive to Nexenta’s channel partners and will feature a technical preview of Nexenta’s latest technologies. An in-depth Q&A will allow attendees to get answers to the most technical questions from the Software-Defined Storage experts.
In addition to exhibiting at the event, Nexenta will be hosting its exclusive OpenSDx VIP Reception. Come join an evening of networking, fine food and drinks.
Venue: Sunborn London, Royal Victoria Dock, London, EI6 1XL
Time & Date: Wednesday, March 11th 18.00-20.30
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cloud-expo-europe-2015-opensdx-networking-event-tickets-11120966109
Register here for Cloud Expo Europe.
Tweet this: .@Nexenta presents #SDS @CloudExpoEurope at booth #700. Don’t miss @mletschin host ‘Can SDDC reduce CAPEX/OPEX costs?’ #OpenSDS
Further Resources:
- NexentaStor datasheet
- NexentaConnect VMware vSAN datasheet
- NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon datasheet
- NexentaEdge datasheet
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 and Turkey’s Isbank Host CXO Executive Networking Event on Open Source-driven Software Defined Data Center in Silicon Valley
Santa Clara, Calif.—March 6, 2015—Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), announced tonight in Palo Alto, California it will be hosting the fourth monthly CXO Executive Networking Reception and Dinner in partnership with Isbank, the leading private, commercial bank in the Middle East. Isbank has made leading-edge and disruptive investments worldwide, ranging from data centers to end users, from infrastructure to applications in social commerce, Big Data, the IoT and SDDC-driven cloud systems. Adan Bali, CEO and Hakan Aran, CIO of Isbank join the Nexenta executive team to share insights on global trends and network with market-leading companies.
“We are excited to co-host another successful networking event with our friends from Isbank and contribute to the formation of industry relationships,” said Tarkan Maner, CEO and Chairman of Nexenta.
This event will provide attending companies with the opportunity to explore exciting technologies for potential investment and partnership opportunities. Attending companies include Dell, EMC, Intel, Stanford Healthcare, SuperMicro, VMware and Wipro among other industry leaders.
For additional details on the event, please contact, cesar.guerra@nexenta.com.
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 Accelerates Market Adoption of Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage at its OpenSDx Summit Japan 2015
SANTA CLARA, CA and Tokyo, Japan – March 5, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced the next location for its global OpenSDx Summit Series. Today, Nexenta will host influential executives from partner and end-user organizations at Akiba Plaza for the OpenSDx Summit Japan, in collaboration with its partner Ascentech KK.
Mobility, social media, the Internet of Things, Big Data and cloud have driven storage to the forefront of the CIO agenda, and therefore driving demand for greater flexibility, scalability and cost-effectiveness in the data center. Nexenta Chairman and CEO Tarkan Maner will deliver the keynote session discussing perspectives on the Software-Defined Data Center of the future and the pivotal role of OpenSDS. Joining him as speakers are executives from leading technology companies, including Ascentech and Public Key.
Event: Nexenta OpenSDx Summit Japan
Date: March 6, 2015
Time: 13:00 – 17:00 pm local time
Location: Akiba Plaza 5F, Akiba Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Agenda:
13:40~14:25: Keynote, Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO, Nexenta
14:25~15:10: Japan SDS Revolution, Jun Matsuura, VP, Nexenta
15:25~15:55: Total solution and services with Nexenta, Ascentech
15:55~16:45: Revolution in Cloud and Storage, Junichi Niino, Public Key
Tweet This: #OpenSDx Summit worldwide tour, now coming to Tokyo, Japan. @Nexenta CEO @TarkanManer and Ascentech KK to discuss #SDS revolution. #OpenSDS
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 Systems
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George Washington University Runs on Nexenta Software Defined Storage
Top Ranked Medical Research Institution Improves Information Availability, Accuracy, and Security with Best Cost/Performance
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 5, 2015 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced the deployment of NexentaStor by George Washington University. The School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is using NexentaStor to cost-effectively scale its storage capacity and ensure high availability and security of important data without requiring additional IT resources. Thanks to Nexenta, the university faculty have been able to focus on their efforts on research while minimizing the cost of procuring and managing storage. For example, the university was able to expand their existing Nexenta appliance by 16 TB for less than $7,000.
Founded in 1824, George Washington University SMHS runs highly-ranked programs in the health and biomedical sciences. SMHS research and teaching activities depend on seamless access to state-of-the-art IT to carry out their cutting-edge investigations into areas like cancer, epilepsy and genomics and proteomics,. The IT group supports the school’s 1,500 staff and faculty by taking care of everything from desktop support and user training to managing server and storage resources, including web servers and computational clusters for genomics analysis.
Garrett Fields, Technical Support Analyst, was tasked with looking at alternatives to SMHS’s existing storage infrastructure. Until recently, the university data center housed SMHS’s group and home drives. The university didn’t charge researchers by the terabyte, but contained costs by putting a cap on the amount of storage they could use. As the school’s researchers generated more and more data, this arrangement became increasingly problematic. Researchers were turning to workarounds—such as setting up external hard drives in their labs, which compromised both data security and accessibility.
To address these challenges, SMHS’s IT team was looking for an Open Software-Defined Storage system that could offer greater accuracy as well as the freedom from lock-in to certain vendors or hardware. After evaluating three different solutions, SMHS’s IT team determined that Nexenta was the best choice. Built-in high availability, quality of support, depth of expertise and focus on storage along with open source benefits were the key factors that led SMHS’s IT team to select NexentaStor.
“We needed a better solution,” said Fields. “Our researchers were looking for huge amounts of storage, and we thought we could meet their needs more cost-effectively than the university data center. But we were only going to take on responsibility for storage provision if we could ensure excellent performance and extraordinary reliability, as we achieved cost savings.”
Thanks to the administrative ease of Nexenta, the SMHS IT group was able to take on its new storage responsibilities without adding staff. In addition, eliminating time spent managing and troubleshooting researchers’ external drives allows existing staff to focus on other important IT initiatives. Scaling up is also much more cost-effective -- when the group reached 70 percent capacity on its backup server, it was able to add 16 TB for less than $7,000.
SMHS researchers who used to rely on external hard drives now enjoy much greater data security, availability and ease of access. At the same time, there is no difference in performance for other users.
Stated SMHS’s Fields, “Thanks to Nexenta, we’ve managed to free our researchers from restrictions on their storage, so they can move full steam ahead on their research, confident that they’re capturing and safeguarding all the data their projects generate.”
"We are honored to help The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences increase security and maintain performance for researchers, faculty and students by transitioning to an SDS solution that offers the flexibility of being ableto increase storage capacity as data requirements grow and, at the same time, keep costs low,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at Nexenta. “With high availability from Nexenta, ensuring that SMHS data can be brought up in a relatively recent state, the university also has a practical disaster recovery plan in place and can now avoid risks to data integrity and reliability – which is crucial given the university’s important research.”
Please refer to The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) case study for more implementation details.
Tweet This: .@Nexenta great collaboration with the IT team at @GWU. Check out our new case study at http://tinyurl.com/llxekzo #softwaredefinedstorage
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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Company Contact:
Allison Darin
Nexenta
831-359-8208
pr@nexenta.com
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ScaleMatrix, Dell, Nexenta, and Leading Technology Analyst to Deliver a Panel Discussion on the Latest Trends in Software-Defined Data Centers and Open Source-Driven Software Defined Storage (OpenSDS)
OpenSDS Initiatives Move from Niche to Mainstream at Scale for Enterprise Private Clouds and Public Cloud Service Providers
Santa Clara, Calif.—March 2, 2015—Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), will be hosting a complimentary webinar, “Delivering the Software-Defined Data Centers via Open Software-Defined Storage,” in partnership with global enterprise storage leader, Dell; premier global analyst firm, IDC; and the pioneering public cloud service provider and Nexenta customer, ScaleMatrix. Together this dynamic panel of industry leaders will share diverse perspectives on the Software-Defined Data Center of the future and the pivotal role of OpenSDS.
Featuring Eric Burgener, Research Director for IDC’s Storage Practice; Chris Orlando, co-founder of ScaleMatrix; Alan Atkinson, VP, GM for Storage at Dell; and Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta, the webinar on March 10, 2015 will offer insights into how mobile, social media, enterprise big data and cloud computing are driving demand for greater flexibility, scalability and cost-effectiveness in the data center.
During the webinar, the presenters will outline the challenges that face today’s modern infrastructures and how to solve them in their respective arena. Attendees will learn the difference between real industry trends and the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) hype. They will also discover how Open, Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) can ensure lower TCO and help organizations achieve the power, capacity and space efficiencies they need to operate the data center of the future. Through a series of use cases onOpenSDS, attendees will hear how organizations – whose data is one of their most important assets -- are already achieving a high level of efficiency, flexibility and scalability with OpenSDS solutions.
“Flash, cloud and software-defined storage technologies are key components in agile, software-defined computing environments,” said Eric Burgener, Research Director for IDC’s Storage Practice. “Enterprises are clearly moving in this direction, and this session with Nexenta, Dell, ScaleMatrix, and IDC will help IT practitioners better understand the key concerns in building more performant, available, cost-effective and manageable Software-Defined Data Centers.”
“We’re pleased to announce this highly informative session – offering a 360 degree view of the latest strategies for keeping up with new volumes of critical data and performance that are driving the need for more agile, dynamic storage resource provisioningin the enterprise,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta. “This webinar will offer key insights into how to simplify and optimize network and storage managementfor organizations looking to move to a Software-Defined Data Center.”
“We are thrilled to share what we’ve learned with companies that are looking to take the next step towards an Open, Software-Defined Data Center,” said Chris Orlando, co-founder of ScaleMatrix. “At ScaleMatrix, moving to OpenSDS and the Software-Defined Data Center gives us the high performance and flexible back-end that is integrally tied to our ability to deliver a number of services and out-perform 90 percent of other data center providers in our market.”
“We are pleased to be part of this webinar, offering innovative strategies for dealing with the diverse group of applications, data and systems that are fast becoming standard in today’s data center,” said Alan Atkinson, vice president and general manager, Dell Storage. “Software-Defined Data Center interest has gained significant momentum, and software-defined storage will play a key role in managing data and the network efficiently. We look forward to working with customers to help them develop a more open, flexible architecture across the data center.”
Additional details on the event can be found below.
Event Details
What: “Delivering the Software-Defined Data Center via Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS)” complimentary webinar
When: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 8:00 a.m. PT/11:00 a.m. ET
Who:
- Eric Burgener, Research Director for IDC’s Storage Practice
- Chris Orlando, Co-Founder of ScaleMatrix
- Alan Atkinson, VP, GM for Storage at Dell
- Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta
For more information and to register for this free event, please visit: http://nexenta.com/company/resources/webinars/sddc-via-open-sds
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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Leading Energy Utility Runs on Nexenta Open Source-Driven Software-Defined Storage Solutions
Walton EMC Cuts Data Center Costs without Sacrificing Performance for Highest Ratings in Customer Service and Satisfaction in the Industry
SANTA CLARA, Calif., – February 26, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced that Georgia-based Walton Electric Membership Corporation, one of the nation’s largest electric cooperatives, uses NexentaStor, Nexenta’s flagship OpenSDS platform, in conjunction with VMware to save on storage and maintenance costs. Walton Electric one of the largest of almost 1,000 electric cooperatives in the country and supplies energy to more than 122,000 residential, business and industrial accounts in 10 northeast George counties. The company is known for reliable energy and electric services, delivered efficiently, with extraordinary customer care.
With only six people in the IT group out of 370 employees, Andy Hill, Director of Information Services at Walton EMC, doesn’t have a lot of extra time or resources to be worried about storage. His number one concern is to ensure that they are using their technology budget wisely. Hill and his team turned to Software-Defined Storage by Nexenta and industry-standard storage hardware from Nexsan to replace aging physical storage arrays. The result has been stellar performance, less maintenance and lower TCO.
“I’m interested in systems that require little management,” said Hill. “The Nexenta Software-Defined Storage system falls into that basket. Some IT systems are promised that way, but in the end they aren’t. For us using Nexenta, it’s literally been that way all along.”
“Stories like Walton EMC are commonplace with customers who use Nexenta. Organizations don’t need to dedicate staff resources to storage nor worry about performance or scalability,” said Craig Cagle, VP, GM of Americas at Nexenta. “The fact that Walton’s customers are stakeholders in the company makes Software-Defined Storage even more compelling as Hill and his team have a keen eye on the bottom line are making an investment in the future of their IT infrastructure.”
To learn more, download the Walton Electric Membership Corporation case study.
Tweet This: .@WaltonEMC keeps lights on with #softwaredefinedstorage @Nexenta #OpenSDx #OpenSDS http://tinyurl.com/ok958yj
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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Leading University Embraces Cloud Computing With Nexenta Software-Defined Storage
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced the deployment and case study for Northern Arizona University.
“We kept adding more storage at more cost where the controllers were already having a hard time keeping up, but it felt more like triage than a real solution. We needed to change the way we thought about storage in order to break out of this cycle.”
With a main campus in Flagstaff, NAU accommodates more than 20,000 students, with an additional 7,000 students enrolled in NAU’s 36 extended campuses throughout the state of Arizona. Originally founded in 1899, NAU offers 87 bachelor degree programs, 48 master’s degree programs and 10 doctoral degree programs, along with 38 undergraduate and 26 graduate certificates.
Duane Booher, Software Systems Engineer Senior, and Tobias Kreidl, Academic Team Lead are part of NAU's centralized Information Technology Services (ITS) Department. As NAU’s academic computing virtualization needs grew, the strain on storage capacity began to manifest itself campus-wide in a variety of ways; one issue was slow user response times due to high I/O latency. The NAU ITS team had already exhausted various tuning options, with little improvement. They also experienced high IOPS during usage spikes that saturated the capabilities of the existing storage array. Furthermore, disk storage capacity was running out; hence the desire to look for a solution that also supported thin provisioning. NexentaStor provided that means, especially when NAU became convinced via testing that NFS performance could equal that of iSCSI in their environment.
“It was a vicious cycle,” according to Booher. “We kept adding more storage at more cost where the controllers were already having a hard time keeping up, but it felt more like triage than a real solution. We needed to change the way we thought about storage in order to break out of this cycle.”
Beginning with performance, NAU students and staff no longer have to worry about unacceptably slow computers. Thin clients, thick clients and VMs now have faster performance because of the new storage infrastructure.
According to NAU’s Kreidl: “We now have better than a 93% cache read rate, we very rarely see latency above 10 milliseconds - a speed that’s practically unprecedented here, and this type of performance is consistent even as usage spikes significantly throughout the academic calendar. Our team used to sweat out the traffic spikes around class registration, but that issue is now behind us.”
“We are very excited to be able to work with Northern Arizona University and help them transition from a legacy storage implementation to an SDS solution that provides them with better performance for students, faculty and school administrators,” according to Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at Nexenta. “The scalability of their technology infrastructure is now far more flexible and modular, with the ability to dynamically allocate and re-allocate assets without worrying about performance or storage implications.”
Please refer to the Northern Arizona University Case Study for more implementation details.
Tweet This: .@Nexenta great collaboration with the IT team at @NAU. Check out our new case study at http://tinyurl.com/kx4tlws #softwaredefinedstorage
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage with 6,000+ customers, 1,000+ partners, 30+ patents, and more than 1 Exabyte (1,000 petabytes) of storage under management. Nexenta uniquely integrates software-only “Open Source” collaboration with commodity hardware-centric “Software-Defined Everything” innovation via its industry-leading OpenSDx vision. Nexenta 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 Data Center-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta 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 – from Private to Public to Hybrid Clouds. 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, 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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