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Nexenta Continues its Market Expansion via New Operations and Partnerships in Japan
Taking Advantage of Rapid Market Growth in Asia around Software Defined Storage-centric Cloud Computing
Santa Clara, CA and Tokyo, Japan - December 4, 2014 -- Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced the launch of its Japanese office located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, and led by Jun Matsuura, Japan Country Manager. The goal of the office is to further expand Nexenta’s purpose-built storage OS offerings in the Japanese market. Nexenta Japan will achieve its growth goals by distributing Software-Defined Storage solutions through partners Core Micro Systems Inc. and Ascentech K.K.
NexentaStor, the first Software-Defined Storage solution released by Nexenta in 2008, is deployed on close to an Exabyte of raw capacity, across thousands of customer deployments in the United States, European and Asia Pacific markets. In Japan, Nexenta solutions have already been proven as enterprise class storage solutions delivered on industry standard x86 servers and disk enclosures (JBOD). Nexenta Software-Defined Storage solutions deliver high capacity storage with performance, flexibility and scalability on par with traditional storage offerings and at a lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The performance and robustness of Nexenta offerings enables end users to address the issue of exponentially growing data stores, managed under a shrinking IT budget.
Nexenta specializes in software development of storage solutions, and enables organizations to integrate with various hardware providers via certified reference architectures. Additionally, in cooperation with virtualization and cloud platform partners including VMware, Citrix, OpenStack, CloudStack, and others, Nexenta engages industry-wide in the challenge of managing data growth. In Japan, Nexenta will offer products and support through distributors and system integrators.
Nexenta's Software-Defined Storage Products
NexentaStor, the flagship product of Nexenta, is based on the proven ZFS file system. In addition to high reliability and availability, NexentaStor has features essential for enterprise systems, such as High Availability (HA) Cluster and replication, easy management though a web console and integration with VMware and OpenStack. The NexentaConnect product suite accelerates VDI environments, and supports performance monitoring and other enhancements of Citrix XenDesktop, VMware Horizon View, Virtual SAN and others.
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Mr. Naohiro Sato, President and CEO, Ascentech K.K.
“Ascentech welcomes Nexenta’s Japan entity. Nexenta provides very trusted storage software based upon ZFS file system. We are pleased to work with Nexenta as the Global Leader of Software-Defined Storage which has the rich experience and strong growth in the market. The opening of the Nexenta Japan entity will bring a revolution in the storage market in Japan and this is truly beneficial for those customers who want to have an enterprise level storage solution with reasonable pricing. Ascentech as Nexenta Distributor in Japan, will work with existing partners to expand this new Software-Defined Storage market together.”
Mr. Yasuo Miki, President, VMware K.K.
“VMware K.K. welcomes the opening of the Nexenta Japan entity. Nexenta Software-Defined Storage solutions work very well with VMware virtualization solutions. Both companies will bring a great benefit to the Japan market for our customers. Our combined solution can deliver more efficient and high performance in IT infrastructure with great management.”
Mr. Shozo Takahashi, President and CEO, Core Micro Systems Inc.
“Core Micro Systems welcomes Nexenta’s new Japan entity. 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. We are pleased that the support and service will be more enhanced for Japanese customers. Core Micro Systems is also bringing our own technology to enhance the performance for ZFS file system in Japan and will work together with Nexenta to expand this technology to the rest of the world. We are expecting that the Nexenta Japan entity supports our vision for storage solutions: “the most effective QoS appliance for any workload” and “the most effective storage solution in terms of performance, capacity, pricing.”
Mr. Michael King, President and CEO, Citrix Systems Japan K.K.
“Citrix Systems Japan is very pleased to welcome the opening of Nexenta Systems Japan Inc. Today, VDI customers are expecting high performance with the best price storage solution to appreciate the best ROI. Nexenta Software-Defined Storage solutions have proven to bring the best ROI for the VDI with the Citrix XenDesktop solution under Citrix VDI Capacity Program analysis examination. We are very pleased that Citrix will work with Nexenta to bring the best solution for our VDI customers to grow their business.”
Mr. Shinichiro Kohri, President and CEO, Dell Japan
“Dell is very pleased to welcome Nexenta Japan entity to expand their business. Dell is No.1 solution provider for Software-Defined field for the new IT world. We already integrate Nexenta software with Dell PowerEdge servers in the Japanese market to strengthen our storage solution. We are very pleased to work with Nexenta to expand our solution combined with Open Source technology and bring the best benefits to all our Japanese customers to support their business.”
Mr. Shoichi Morita, President and CEO, Networld Corporation
“We at Networld Corporation are very pleased with the establishment of Nexenta Systems Japan. Through the cooperation of virtualization solutions provided by Citrix, Microsoft and VMware, we are convinced that Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage solutions enables IT efficiency and enforcement of performance. As we boast experiences as a leading IT solution distributor with a wide range of product portfolio for our customers in Japan, Networld will closely work with Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage solutions.”
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads 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. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. 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 Implements Software-Defined Storage (SDS) Platform for Leading Cloud Infrastructure Provider
ServerCentral Deploys NexentaStor for SDS Service
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – December 4, 2014 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced the deployment and case study for ServerCentral. Recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest-growing companies in America for five consecutive years, Chicago-based ServerCentral is an established provider of IT infrastructure solutions.
Working with a number of other storage solutions, ServerCentral has a great deal of experience in this area. The growing demand for elastic, highly scalable storage presented the perfect opportunity for ServerCentral to add SDS to their toolkit.
Having a scalable solution in place to handle dynamic storage demands was one of the main benefits to deploying NexentaStor.
“Given the nature of our business, we have to think three to five years out,” said George Nelson, Managed Services Manager at ServerCentral. “Growing demand for elastic, highly scalable storage is the perfect opportunity for us to add Nexenta’s SDS platform to our managed service offerings.”
NexentaStor is now available across multiple locations, with petabytes of data under management.
“ServerCentral has built a successful and growing business helping meet the high availability needs for an impressive roster of customers," said Craig Cagle, VP/GM Americas, Nexenta. “We are very pleased to be able to work with ServerCentral and help provide a solution that is both scalable and economical.”
Please refer to the ServerCentral case study for more implementation details.
Tweet This: It's a privilege working with @ServerCentral. Check out our new case study at http://tinyurl.com/ktl5yqk #storage #softwaredefinedstorage
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads 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. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. 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 ServerCentral
ServerCentral is an IT infrastructure solutions provider. Since 2000, leading technology, finance, healthcare, and e-commerce firms have put their trust in ServerCentral to design and manage their mission-critical infrastructure. With data centers in North America, Europe and Asia, ServerCentral works with customers to develop the right solution for their business. Whether it is colocation, managed services, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) or cloud, ServerCentral designs the optimal solution for each client. Learn more at http://www.servercentral.com/about/ or email sales@servercentral.com
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Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage Solution, NexentaStor, Wins ‘Storage Management Product of the Year’ at the 2014 SVC Awards
Nexenta also named as ‘Storage Company of the Year’ runner up
Santa Clara, CA, and London, UK – December 2, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced that won “Storage Management Product of the Year” at the Storage, Virtualization and Cloud (SVC) Awards. The winning product, NexentaStor, allows customers to experience a high performance enterprise grade solution without the vendor lock-in and high TCO associated with legacy vendors.
The SVC Awards reward the products, projects and services as well as companies and teams operating in the cloud, virtualization and storage sectors. The SVC Awards recognize the achievements of end-users, channel partners and vendors alike.
NexentaStor 4.0 is the leading commercial-grade SDS platform and a key component of the mounting shift towards the Software-Defined Data Centre (SDDC). It delivers high performance, ultra-scalable cloud and virtualization optimized solutions for data centre environments. The solution runs on industry standard hardware providing open, unified storage management at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems, eliminating the vendor lock-in and aging technologies of legacy storage.
“This award reinforces our global traction and leadership in this space,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at Nexenta. “We are privileged that SVC has continued to support us and reinforce our belief in the future of the Software-Defined Data Center. It is an honor to be recognized as a leader in such a competitive space.”
With demand for flexible storage capabilities growing, Nexenta’s solutions provide the scalable infrastructure needed to extend storage capacities. Software-Defined Storage offers the ability to keep up with the innovation in both hardware and software that is necessary given today’s IT challenges.
Tweet This: It’s official: @Nexenta has won Storage Management Product of the Year at the #SVCAwards Find out why at http://bit.ly/1rUC3pD
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads 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. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. 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 Sponsors CIO Executive Summit 2014 in San Francisco
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – December 2, 2014 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced sponsorship support for the 11th annual CIO Executive Summit in San Francisco, CA, December 3, 2014. Nexenta is honored to have been nominated by Randy Spratta, CIO of McKesson, and Tom Andriola, CIO of the UC System, to sponsor this event that attracts CIOs from the Bay Area.
The CIO Executive Summit will be held at the Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St., San Francisco. This exclusive conference is built “by CIOs, for CIOs” to deliver peer insight and unparalleled networking to San Francisco’s IT leaders. This year’s host is the UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education (CEE) at the Haas School of Business.
The CIO Executive Summit Governing Body holds the invitation-only summit to offer an agenda to innovative, strategic solutions and collaboration across industries. This year’s 150+ attendees represent CIOs and executives from organizations across the greater Bay Area, including Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Bio-Rad Laboratories, California State Transportation Agency, Chevron, City of Palo Alto, Dell, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, First Republic Bank, Franklin Templeton Investments, Greylock Partners, IBM, San Francisco 49ers, San Francisco Giants, Sequoia Capital, Tesla Motors, VMware, and Wells Fargo.
WHAT: CIO Executive Summit San Francisco 2014
WHEN: Wednesday, December 3, 2014
WHERE: Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St., San Francisco, CA
For more information about CIO Executive Summit San Francisco 2014, please visit: http://www.evanta.com/cio/summits/san-francisco
For more information on Nexenta and Software-Defined Storage, visit: http://www.nexenta.com/
Tweet This: .@Nexenta proud to support 11th annual @Evanta CIO Executive Summit in SF #softwaredefinedstorage. http://bit.ly/1uZ2kaM
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads 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. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. 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 to Showcase and Present Software-Defined Data Center Technologies at Dell Desktop Virtualization Forum
SANTA CLARA, Calif and VIENNA, Austria – November 19 (12am PST), 2014 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced its Gold sponsorship at the Dell Desktop Virtualization Forum in Vienna, Austria on November 20th.
As a key technology partner of Dell, Nexenta will be showcasing its integration within Dell’s end-to-end virtualization solutions, including the most flexible and scalable Software-Defined Storage offerings in the market. These industry-leading solutions provide benefits such as SAN and native NAS protocol support, unlimited snapshots and cloning, block and file replication, inline deduplication, and comprehensive management capabilities. Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage solutions are also integrated into Dell Engineered Solutions for EVO: RAIL, including NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN, completing the hyper-converged solution.
Dell’s vForum aims to help IT professionals to understand how to transform, connect, inform and protect their data wherever they need to. Dell is supporting IT professionals in industries as diverse as healthcare, education, retail, manufacturing and financial services.
Keynote speaker
Speaker: Mark Jordan, VP & General Manager EMEA at Nexenta
Date: November 20th at 11.50 am – 12.00 pm local time
Location: Wien, Vienna, Austria.
“Nexenta’s partnership with Dell is providing our customers the flexibility and scalability they require. Software-Defined Storage is the most efficient and cost effective way to manage data. In fact SDS is a great replacement for any legacy storage as it prevents vendor lock-in saving companies time and money,” said Mark Jordan, VP & GM at Nexenta.
Stephane Armanet, System Administrator, Institut Laue-Langevin comments: "We were looking for a storage solution that could scale out as we grew. Dell, who already worked closely with the institute, suggested that Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage (SDS) combined with its servers could provide the solution we needed. As a Nexenta partner, Dell was well aware of the software’s capabilities and its suitability for our requirements. The result is a storage solution that can manage data efficiently and cost effectively."
To register for this event, please visit: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dell-desktop-virtualization-forum-austria-tickets-13328859979
Tweet this: Discover the latest @Nexenta has to offer in the Software-Defined world @Dell #vForum event in Austria. #SDS #Cloud #data #softwaredefined
Further resources
NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN datasheet
NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon datasheet
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads 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. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. 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 Announces Availability of Innovative Software-Defined Storage Solution for VMware Virtual SAN
The new solution allows customers to create a hyper-converged storage solution managed through VMware vCenter on Virtual SAN deployments.
Santa Clara, CA – November 18, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced the availability (GA) of its NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN™. The solution, which simplifies and streamlines the provisioning and management of file services on top of VMware Virtual SAN™, allows users to create a hyper-converged solution without the need for costly external storage arrays. Join the VMware and Nexenta webinar tomorrow, 11/19 at 8AM PST for the complete Software-Defined hyper-convergence story.
Designed for VMware vSphere® environments, VMware Virtual SAN is the first policy-driven storage product that automates manual storage tasks, delivering a more efficient and cost-effective operational model. Taking advantage of the VM-level storage policies, NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN, sits on top of the Virtual SAN automatically and dynamically matching the systems requirements with the correct storage.
NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN utilizes local Virtual SAN storage in servers to deliver high performance NFS and SMB file services to Virtual Machines and Virtual Desktops (VDI), all managed through a single VMware vCenter™ console. Combining Nexenta's SDS solution with VMware Virtual SAN enables read/write caching using server-side flash, optimizing the I/O data path to deliver better performance than a virtual appliance or an external device. The hyper-converged solution also has an extremely low TCO, because Nexenta’s SDS solution is at least a third of the price of deploying an external NAS solution.
“3rd platform computing requirements are driving significant evolution in data center infrastructure requirements, driving the demand for increased agility,” said Eric Burgener, research director at IDC. “Software-defined hyper-converged solutions are raising to prominence as a very flexible, scalable, and extremely economical alternative to shared storage solutions for certain workloads, and VMware Virtual SAN promises to be a key player in this market. With NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN, customers now can deploy the VMware solution on top of Nexenta’s high performance and well integrated NFS and SMB file services to provide additional software-defined storage options for both virtual server and virtual desktop environments.”
“We are focused on helping enterprises simplify, scale and automate their entire IT environments,” said Gaetan Castelein, senior director, product management, Software-Defined Storage, VMware “Nexenta’s latest SDS solution, NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN, complements our VMware Virtual SAN™, creating a hyper-converged storage infrastructure for the Software-Defined Data Center.”
"NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN™ supports our goal of helping enterprises unlock the potential of their storage and ultimately their data centers. Working closely with VMware we have created a solution that offers users a hyper-converged solution that can granularly scale-up or scale-out your storage environment giving users the flexibility to grow their storage environment without costly over provisioning. It's hardware-agnostic and it’s very simple, easy-to-use design increases operational efficiency, saving enterprises both time and money,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta.
Other features of NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN include:
- Easily provisions file services (NFSv3, NFSv4, SMB) on Virtual SAN within minutes
- Integrates management through VMware vCenter
- Provides Security and Domain integration, AD with AAA and Kerberos support
- Delivers capacity savings using inline compression and deduplication
- Can store all files needed to maintain the virtual infrastructure
- Provides IO acceleration with inline compression and advanced caching logic
- Enhances performance and health monitoring
- Delivers folder and volume level snapshots, replication and backup capabilities for DR scenarios
- Maintains data integrity during various stress, network/disk/host recovery
- Is 100% compatible with VMware HA and DRS
- Is serviceable via Rest APIs
- Is validated for VDI workloads up to thousands of users
- Leverages VSAN data protection and high availability
The solution is available immediately through Nexenta's network of value added distributors and resellers globally.
More information on NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN is available at nexenta.com/nexentaconnect.
Further resources
Press Release: Dell and Nexenta Deliver Software-Defined Storage Solutions for VMware EVO: RAIL
Press Release: Supermicro Enhances Their VMware EVO: RAIL and Virtual SAN Offerings with Nexenta
NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN datasheet and Joint VMware/Nexenta Whitepaper
NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon datasheet
NexentaStor datasheet
See product pages for validated and certified reference architectures with Cisco, Dell, HP, Supermicro, and others.
Tweet this: .@Nexenta #SoftwareDefinedStorage for true #hyperconverged VMware Virtual SAN deployments now available globally! http://bit.ly/1oNtQHv
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organisations to realise the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads 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. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. For more information, visit, www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Also, download the newly published Nexenta Special Edition Software Defined Data Centres (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.
VMware Horizon, vCentre, vSphere, VMworld and VMware Virtual SAN are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.
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CRN Names Nexenta as an IT Industry Tech Innovator
Software-Defined Storage Leader is a Two Category Winner in Storage and Virtualization
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – November 17, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) announced today that it has been named one of the industry’s leading tech innovators by CRN. The Tech Innovator Awards recognize companies and products use innovation to advance technology, increase productivity, and reduce cost and complexity in ways that provide value to the channel. These awards guide solution providers toward today's biggest technology breakthroughs so they can incorporate them into advanced solutions for their customers. Nexenta won in two categories: NexentaStor was the overall Storage category winner and NexentaConnect 3.0 for VMware Horizon View and Citrix XenDesktop took top honors in the Virtualization category.
Each year, CRN honors the high-tech companies that have delivered outstanding innovation in hardware and software solutions over the past 12 months. CRN Test Center editors reviewed hundreds of products across 18 hardware and software categories to determine the winners and those worthy of honorable mention.
Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage portfolio includes the flagship SDS platform NexentaStor. NexentaStor delivers unified file and block storage services, runs on industry standard hardware, scales from tens of terabytes to petabyte configurations, and includes all data management functionality by default. NexentaConnect is a complete suite of software solutions to combine Software-Defined Storage with cloud, enterprise, and desktop deployments. Providing acceleration, automation and analytics that can only be delivered when storage is integrated with the entire solution stack.
“Nexenta is helping enterprises the world over on their Software-Defined journey. The recognition from CRN validates that our innovative approach to storage is helping solve IT’s most pressing problems,” said Thomas Cornely, Chief Product Officer, Nexenta. “We will continue to collaborate with our partners, who are so key to our success, to bring Software-Defined solutions to market.”
“Solution providers are facing tough challenges as the IT industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace,” said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company, publisher of CRN. “Being able to quickly and reliably identify the best new solutions in key technology categories that are of great importance to them as they look for innovative ways to earn a competitive advantage. The winners and runners-up in the CRN Tech Innovator Awards represent the best and brightest products and solutions in today’s market, and are some of the most important for solution providers to keep an eye on in the coming year.”
The annual Tech Innovator Awards are showcased in the December issue of CRN magazine, and the complete list of winners and honorable mentions is online at www.crn.com. Award winners will also be spotlighted during the NexGen Cloud Conference & Expo, December 4-5, 2014, in San Diego.
Tweet This: Thank you @CRN for naming @Nexenta Tech Innovator for #storage and #virtualization. Twice as nice!
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads 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. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. 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 The Channel Company
The Channel Company is the channel community's trusted authority for growth and innovation, with established brands including CRN, XChange Events, IPED, and SharedVue. For more than three decades, we have leveraged our proven and leading-edge platforms to deliver prescriptive sales and marketing solutions for the technology channel. The Channel Company provides Communication, Recruitment, Engagement, Enablement, Demand Generation and Intelligence services to drive technology partnerships. Learn more at www.thechannelcompany.com.
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451 Research Storage Executive Summit Welcomes Nexenta to Discuss our Software-Defined World with Industry Leaders and Storage Analysts
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – November 17, 2014 — Nexenta (@Nexenta) the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced that Nexenta will present and showcase its solutions at the 451 Research Storage Executive Summit in New York on November 18th, 2014.
The 451 Research Storage Executive Summits bring together industry leaders and storage analysts to discuss key trends in Flash, Convergence and Cloud and their impact on the storage landscape. During this summit, themed “The Role of the Storage in a Cloudy, Converged, Software-Defined World,” attendees will have the opportunity to learn which solutions deliver the greatest value to their organizations. Speakers will include 451 analysts such as Research Vice President of Storage Simon Robinson, Vice President of Enterprise Strategy Simon Yates, Vice President of TheInfoPro Marco Coulter, and Senior Analyst of Storage Tim Stammers.
As a gold sponsor, Nexenta VP & GM of Americas, Craig Cagle, will be speaking at an Executive Round Table Presentation. He will share how SDS solutions enable the democratization of IT and the realization of the Software Defined Enterprise – starting with the elimination of vendor lock-in and cleaning up the MESS (Massively Expensive Storage System).
Details are as follows:
Topic: Software-Defined Everything. The Next Big Thing.
Speaker: Craig Cagle, VP & GM of Americas
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 from 2:35 – 3:15pm EST
Location: Breakout Room 3, Harvard Club of New York, 35 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036
Hosted by: 451 Research
Tweet this: #SDS is revolutionizing the storage industry! Don’t miss @craigscagle at @451Research Storage Exec Summit 11/18 http://bit.ly/1tvjURY
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads 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. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. 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 Highlights Support of Software-Defined Data Centers at 2014 Citrix Mobility Tokyo
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – November 12, 2014 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced that Jun Matsuura, General Manager, Japan for Nexenta will be speaking at Citrix Mobility Tokyo Japan at the ANA Intercontinental Tokyo on November 18, 2014. Citrix Mobility 2014 Tokyo is a one-day program providing strategic guidance on how to enable mobile workspaces – uniting Applications, Data and Services so that they can be seamlessly and securely delivered to any user on any device over any network or cloud. Nexenta is partnered with Ascentech, a major distributor of leading edge technologies in Japan, as Gold Sponsor for Citrix Mobility 2014 Tokyo.
Nexenta and Citrix have worked together in a close partnership to deliver the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) that is transforming IT and business. The two continue to work jointly on solutions ranging from the desktop to the cloud. This strategic partnership enables IT decision makers to leverage their joint investments to build, deploy, and manage SDDC environments.
At the show, Nexenta’s Jun Matsuura will discuss how Software-Defined Storage is a key component in today’s business mobility environment.
Session: Nexenta SDS, Best storage solution for business mobility environment!
Speaker: Jun Matsuura, General Manager Japan, Nexenta
When: Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 14:40 local time
Location: 1-12-33 Akasaka, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 107-0052 Japan
For more information about Citrix Mobility 2014 Tokyo, please visit: http://www.citrixmobility2014.jp/
For more information on Nexenta's award-winning product portfolio, visit: http://www.nexenta.com/products
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads 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. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. 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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Company Contact:
Allison Darin
Nexenta
831-359-8208
pr@nexenta.com
Nexenta Leads Discussion on Software-Defined Storage at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Brisbane, Australia
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and BRISBANE, Australia – November 12, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced its presence at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2014 in Brisbane, Australia from November 17-20, 2014 at the Gold Coast Convention Centre. Nexenta will exhibit and demo its complete line of Software-Defined Storage solutions in the Emerging Technology Pavilion.
In addition, Nexenta executive Anthony Davis will discuss how Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage solutions combined with HGST’s enterprise-class, solid state drives provide extremely high performance and flexible storage systems that deliver significant benefits to customers in the following session:
Session Title: Software-Defined Storage – The best option for future data growth
Speaker: Anthony Davis, APAC Vice President and General Manager, Nexenta
Date: Wednesday, November 19th at 12:25-12:40 pm local time
Location: Emerging Tech Theater
Visit Nexenta at booth ET1 and learn more about Nexenta’s entire Software-Defined portfolio, which includes NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon View®, NexentaConnect for VMware® Virtual SAN™, NexentaStor 4.1 and NexentaEdge, the industry’s first software-only scale out object, block and file solution.
For more information on Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Gold Coast, visit http://www.gartner.com/technology/symposium/gold-coast/
Click here for more information on the Tracx Nexenta and HGST success story.
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About Nexenta
Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organizations to realize the "true" benefits of Software-Defined Infrastructure-centric Cloud Computing. Nexenta enables workloads 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. Founded around an "open source” platform and industry-disruptive vision, Nexenta delivers its award- and patent-winning software-only unified storage management solutions with a global partner network. 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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Contact:
Allison Darin
Nexenta Systems
831-359-8208
pr@nexenta.com