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Nexenta Software-Defined Storage Underpins Cloud Infrastructure at Acclaimed European Software Company
Software Defined Storage (SDS) Improves Storage Capacity and Reliability of Infrastructure for CRM Specialist, Statigest
Santa Clara, CA and Paris, France, 18 September, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) today announced it has been chosen by the 30 year veteran of French CRM software development, Statigest, to support its entire IT infrastructure. The SDS solution has boosted capacity and performance, significantly increasing Statigest's productivity and service levels.
Founded in 1977, Statigest provides CRM and related applications for sales forces across France, Belgium, Spain and Portugal. With more than 5,000 daily users, the IT infrastructure plays a mission critical role. With so much at stake, the existing mixed environment of Unix and Windows was becoming difficult to manage, particularly because it was using a number of different file services (CIFS and NFS) protocols. Statigest needed a solution that was easier to manage, but that could increase capacity and deliver a performance boost for its users.
After evaluating a number of systems, Statigest chose Nexenta’s SDS solution, NexentaStor, because it supports many different protocols, including CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, Fiber Channel and SATA. This flexibility made it possible for Statigest to introduce hybrid storage pooling and improve the capabilities of the environment.
Christophe Grun, Infrastructure Manager at Statigest explained: “We evaluated the products of a number of suppliers but Nexenta was the best on performance and total cost of ownership (TCO). The clustering capability in NexentaStor was also a major benefit because it delivers enhanced stability with recovery from failover and it takes less than one minute.”
“By using NFS with NexentaStor, numerous database requests can now be launched simultaneously on the server. This has reduced production time by more than two hours and enables us to handle more customers at the same time. Production at Statigest splits storage between 80% write and 20% read. By using SSDs for ZIL and LOG cache, we have experienced a huge boost to NFS write which, in turn, has significantly increased overall performance.”
Philippe Bruiant, Regional Sales Manager, Nexenta said: “Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage solutions help customers implement cost-effective, high-performance storage by taking advantage of features such as hybrid storage pooling, unlimited snapshots, massive scalability and high availability. Our open source technology roots also mean that users like Statigest are not locked in to buying more expensive products from a particular vendor or paying unnecessary mark-ups for standard features.”
For further information please read the full case study: http://info.nexenta.com/rs/nexenta2/images/Nexenta-French-Statigest-CaseStudy-.pdf
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About Statigest
Founded in 1977, Statigest specializes in the development of CRM software solutions and decision support tools. Its services are used daily by more than 3,000 vendors. Headquartered just outside Paris, Statigest has 50 employees and operates in France, Belgium, Spain and Portugal.
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 CEO to Deliver Keynote at Global Investor Summit in China
BEIJING, China and SANTA CLARA, Calif. — September 16, 2014 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage) (SDS), today announced that CEO and Chairman Tarkan Maner was invited to participate in WestSummit’s Annual Investors Conference as a keynote speaker. Tarkan plans to discuss cross-border trends in Big Data, the importance of open source, the rise of Software-Defined Storage and how these shifts will change the world as we know it.
WestSummit Capital invests in several international companies across the Cloud, Digital Media, Mobile and Cross Platform industries. The conference in located in Beijing, China and will start with a General Meeting on Thursday, September 18th from 8:30am to 4:30pm. Tarkan will keynote the Big Data investment portion of the afternoon:
Topic: Cross-Border Trends in Big Data & CEO Perspective
Venue: Kerry Hotel, No. 1 Guanghua Rd. Chaoyang District, Beijing
Date/Time: Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 1:00 pm CST
Hosted by: WestSummit Capital
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 Executive Joins Industry Executives to Discuss Software-Defined Storage and Open Source Business Models at OpenStack Silicon Valley 2014
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — September 16, 2014 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage) (SDS), today announced that Chief Product Officer, Thomas Cornely will speak on September 16th at OpenStack Silicon Valley 2014 in Mountain View, CA. Thomas will join several industry executives on an Open Source Business Models panel to discuss the growing presence of open source software, its ability to support a variety of Cloud infrastructures, and how to achieve profitability in this rapidly evolving space.
Details are as follows:
Topic: Open Source Business Models: Open Core, Service + Support, or: a Third Option
Venue: Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 11:50 am Pacific Time
Hosted by: OpenStack SV
Moderator: Mark Collier, COO, OpenStack Foundation
Panelists:
- Jonathan Donaldson | GM, Software Defined Infrastructure, Intel
- Alex Freedland | Chairman and co-Founder, Mirantis
- Thomas Cornely | Chief Product Officer, Nexenta Systems
- Brian Gentile | VP and GM, Tibco Jaspersoft
Abstract: When it’s free/libre/gratis, who gets to keep the money? Open source software is now the norm, not a niche. Its broad adoption as a defacto standard has exposed enormous unexploited inefficiencies. The breadth of OpenStack adoption will create new forms of monetization, even if you don’t know what they are. Giving up on finding “the next Red Hat” or the “next Cloudera” might mean you’re looking in the rear view mirror.
“A growing number of organizations view OpenStack as the leading platform for private, public and hybrid cloud environments,” said Thomas Cornely, Chief Product Officer of Nexenta, “Nexenta continues to develop Software Defined Storage solutions that integrate with this open source alternative, and end users choose Nexenta and OpenStack to avoid vendor lock-in, deliver flexible, modular and lower cost benefits for their infrastructures.”
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 and Leading Storage Industry Association Partner to Promote Software-Defined Data Centers and Convergence: Where Do We Start With Sustainability?
Santa Clara, CA and London, UK – September 16, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage) (SDS), today announced that it is hosting a live webinar in collaboration with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and BrightTalk on Wednesday 17th September 2014 at 3:00 pm (BST) to discuss how to achieve a sustainable Software-Defined Data Center.
Join Neil Stobart, EMEA Sales Engineering Director at Nexenta, for a thought provoking session about how to deliver against sustainability targets by leveraging Software-Defined architectures in a data center. In the webinar Neil will discuss the challenges facing companies as they try to balance their growing IT infrastructure and power consumption with tightening operational expenses. The discussion will also cover educational advice on how to drive down power consumption through the enablement of effective hardware configurations and the introduction of key storage management capabilities.
Neil Stobart, EMEA Sales Engineer Director, Nexenta comments: “Data center managers are under constant pressure to deliver against sustainability targets. Not only are they expected to contribute towards local and global targets around energy savings, but also to work in a way that minimizes operational costs. Software-Defined architectures enable IT professionals to build Software-Defined Data Centers utilizing industry leading storage technologies for flexible hardware deployment, better cost control, and management ease.”
To register for the webinar, please visit: https://www.brighttalk.com/r/VmJ
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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 realise "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 CEO Joins Board of Directors at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – September 11, 2014– Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced that Nexenta Chairman and CEO Tarkan Maner has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG).
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group is a public policy business trade organization, founded in 1978 by David Packard of Hewlett-Packard. SVLG represents nearly 400 of Silicon Valley’s most respected employers on issues, programs and campaigns that affect the economic health and quality of life in Silicon Valley, including energy, transportation, education, housing, health care, tax policies, economic vitality and the environment. SVLG members collectively provide nearly one of every three private sector jobs in Silicon Valley and contribute more than $3 trillion to the worldwide economy.
"I truly believe that applying technological innovation to public and private partnerships has tremendous potential to improve the quality of life," said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta. "I am passionate about making a difference in our community and am excited to join the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s innovative and widely-respected team."
"I’ve worked with Tarkan for more than a decade. He has been an instrumental voice in making a positive impact in Silicon Valley and beyond by promoting education, healthcare, transportation and environmental initiatives," said Carl Guardino, CEO of Silicon Valley Leadership Group. "We are proud to welcome Tarkan to the Board of Directors and look forward to his passion and contribution as we work toward a common goal of economic, academic and social vitality in Silicon Valley."
Tarkan was a recent guest on Carl Guardino's CEO Show, also with special guest, Santa Clara Major, Jamie Matthews. To listen to the August 5, 2014 edition of the CEO Show, visit: http://svlg.org/press/ceo-show.
Nexenta also recently held its annual OpenSDx Summit, a leading technology industry forum dedicated to open dialogue on today’s leading technology trends, including the support of more open public/private partnerships.
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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 "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 Continues to Showcase Leading Software-Defined Storage Solutions at VMware User Groups (VMUG)
Santa Clara, Calif. — September 10, 2014 — Join Nexenta® (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage) (SDS), at one of several upcoming VMware User Groups (VMUG). As a Silver Sponsor, Nexenta will be showcasing its world class solutions to attendees. Come see demos of Nexenta products and learn more about Software-Defined Storage and its impact in bringing the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) to reality. In Southern California and Atlanta, Nexenta will be present with our partner HGST and also presenting our joint solutions. The VMUGs are from 7:45 am to 5:00pm local time.
Dallas–Fort Worth VMUG
Tuesday, September 16th
Irving Convention Center
Tweet This: Join Nexenta's #softwaredefinedstorage experts at @DFWVMUG on Sept 16. Details at @MyVMUG @VMware #VMUG
Chicago VMUG
Wednesday, September 17th
Rosemont Convention Center
Tweet This: Join Nexenta's #softwaredefinedstorage experts at @ChicagoVMUG on Sept 17. Details at @MyVMUG @VMware #VMUG
Phoenix VMUG
Thursday, September 18th
Phoenix Marriott Temps at the Buttes
Tweet This: Join Nexenta's #softwaredefinedstorage experts at @vmugphoenix on Sept 18. Details at @MyVMUG @VMware #VMUG
Southern California VMUG* in collaboration with HGST
Wednesday, September 24th
Anaheim Marriott
Tweet This: Join Nexenta's #softwaredefinedstorage experts at SoCal #VMUG on Sept 24. Details at @MyVMUG @VMware
Atlanta VMUG* in collaboration with HGST
Thursday, September 25th
Georgia World Congress Center
Tweet This: Join Nexenta's #softwaredefinedstorage experts at @ATLVMUG on Sept 25. Details at @MyVMUG @VMware #VMUG
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
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Nexenta CEO Joins Industry Executives to Discuss Enterprise Infrastructure at AAMA Connect Conference 2014
Santa Clara, CA - September 9, 2014 — Nexenta (@Nexenta) the global leader in Software- Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, announced that Nexenta Chairman and CEO Tarkan Maner will participate in the 2014 Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA) Connect Conference: The Future of Enterprise. Tarkan will join several industry CEOs and executives on a panel to discuss the rapid transformation of enterprise and how companies can innovate at the individual and organizational level.
Panel details are as follows:
Panel Topic: New Enterprise Infrastructure Building Blocks, Maximizing Value for the Enterprise
Venue: Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 at 9:10 - 9:50 A.M. Pacific Time
Moderator: Lilly Huang, Director, Global Gateway, Silicon Valley Bank
Panelists: Bob Wiederhold, President & CEO, Couchbase
Adrian Ionel, President & CEO, Mirantis
Tarkan Maner, Chairman & CEO, Nexenta
Raman Khanna, Managing Director, EMC Ventures
The AAMA Connect Conference will take place from 8:30am- 5:30pm on Tuesday, September 9, 2014 in Mountain View, CA. This conference will bring together leading executives, entrepreneurs, investors, thought leaders and researchers from Silicon Valley and Asia and will focus on the rapid evolution of enterprise in both Asia and the United States as well as the future of the industry as a whole. For the full agenda, please visit, http://www.aamaenterprise2014.com/.
Founded in 1979, Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA), formerly known as Asian American Manufacturers Association, is Silicon Valley’s largest and most established non-profit organization dedicated to the Asia American high-tech community. With a network of 10,000 participants representing over 2,000 companies in Silicon Valley and Chapters in Asia, AAMA is a nexus that provides leading executives and other stakeholders cross-fertilization of ideas and best-of-breed collaboration, resulting in successful business ventures throughout the Asia-Pacific region and global economy.
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
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Nexenta CEO to Share Vision for Software-Defined Everything and Open Source Revolution at VMworld 2014
C-Level Executives from Budd Van Lines, Cloudscaling, Dell, Mirantis, SanDisk, Teradici, Wells Fargo and Wipro to join the Panel Discussion
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – August 21, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced that Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO, will be speaking at VMworld 2014, August 24th- 28th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The discussion will focus on the future trends and real-life challenges around Software-Defined Everything. Tarkan will moderate a panel, featuring influential customers and partners who already take part in planning, defining, creating and executing on a software-defined world.
Session ID: 3036 - Software-Defined Everything. The Next Big Thing
Monday, August 25th at 1:00-2:00 pm
Moderator: Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at Nexenta
- Douglas Soltesz, VP and CIO at Budd Van Lines
- Randy Bias, Founder and CEO at Cloudscaling
- Sam Greenblatt, VP and CTO at Dell ESG
- Boris Renski, Co-Founder and CMO at Mirantis
- Aditya Fotedar, CIO at Nexenta
- Ravi Swaminathan, GM, Emerging Storage Solutions at SanDisk
- Dan Cordingley, CEO at Teradici.com
- Sherrie Littlejohn, EVP, Enterprise Architecture & IT Strategy, Wells Fargo
- Amit Puri, Head, Open Source Practice at Wipro
“Nexenta is at the forefront of the Software-Defined Everything movement, with a complete Software-Defined Storage portfolio. Every day, more and more companies are turning to us to solve their data growth challenges with better scalability, manageability and lower cost,” said Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO, Nexenta. “This lively discussion will offer a window into the future trends associated with the Software-Defined world, and provide our view into the Software-Defined Data Center of the future.”
Further information about Nexenta’s portfolio of Software-Defined Storage solutions can be found by visiting Booth #1713 at VMworld, and requesting a live demo of NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon View, for VMware Virtual SAN, NexentaStor 4.1, and the recently announced NexentaEdge, the industry’s first software-only scale out block and object storage solution.
To find out more about Nexenta at VMworld visit: http://www.nexenta.com/vmworld
Tweet this: .@Nexenta @TarkanManer presents #sds #thenextbigthing @WellsFargo @Cloudscaling @Teradici @Wipro @MirantisIT @buddvanlines 8/25 @VMworld 1pm
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 Systems
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Nexenta Showcases New Partnerships and Disruptive Software-Defined Data Center Solutions at VMworld 2014
Nexenta is a Platinum Sponsor at VMworld 2014
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – August 21, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced that the company, as a Platinum Sponsor, will be showcasing a disruptive and comprehensive Software-Defined Storage portfolio along with new and innovative products and partnerships at VMworld® 2014, August 24th- 28th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
“We are excited to host Nexenta as a Platinum sponsor this year at VMworld 2014,” said, Alberto Farronato, Director, Product Marketing at VMware. “Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage solutions coupled with VMware VDI solutions deliver an advanced category of features and benefits such as high performance, low TCO, and improved manageability, flexibility and efficiency.”
VMworld 2014 attendees can find Nexenta in booth 1713 to see all of Nexenta’s SDS solutions in action including NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon View®, for VMware® Virtual SAN™, NexentaStor 4.1, and the recently announced NexentaEdge, the industry’s first software-only scale out block and object storage solution. Nexenta’s booth will include joint solutions from partners like Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, HGST, Mirantis, SanDisk, Seagate, Supermicro, and Wipro. You’ll also find Nexenta presenters within the Cisco and Citrix booths.
At VMworld 2014 breakout sessions, Nexenta executives and customers will share lessons learned and use cases on virtualization, Software-Defined Storage and the move to a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). In addition to below sessions, Nexenta will hold daily product and strategy sessions at its booth.
Session ID: 3036 - Software-Defined Everything. The Next Big Thing.
Monday, August 25th at 1:00-2:00 pm
Speakers include:
- Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at Nexenta
- Douglas Soltesz, VP and CIO at Budd Van Lines
- Randy Bias, Founder and CEO at Cloudscaling
- Sam Greenblatt, VP and CTO at Dell ESG
- Boris Renski, Co-Founder and CMO at Mirantis
- Aditya Fotedar, CIO at Nexenta
- Ravi Swaminathan, GM, Emerging Storage Solutions at SanDisk
- Dan Cordingley, CEO at Teradici
- Akhil Ahuja Managing Director, Head of Systems Investment Banking at Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
- Amit Puri, Presale Head – Open Source Practice at Wipro
Session ID: 1421 - Healthy and Smart Data Management Practices
Monday, August 25th at 3:30-4:30 pm
Speakers include:
- Michael Letschin, Director of Product Development at Nexenta
- Dario Ferreira, Executive Vice President at CentriNet Corporation
- Randy Phelps, Director of IT at East Side Union High School District
- Joseph Little, Principal Systems Architect at Stanford University
- Bill Hudson, Sr. Healthcare Strategist at VMware
- Matthew Openshaw, Infrastructure Architect, Information Technology Services at Yale New Haven
Session ID: 3032 - Deploying VDI with Software-Defined Storage and Hyper-convergence
Tuesday, August 26th at 5:30-6:30 pm
Speakers include:
- Michael Letschin, Director of Product Development at Nexenta
- Swaroop Dutta, Virtual SAN Product Manager at VMware
Nexenta Annual VMworld 2014 Customer and Partner Party on Tuesday, August 26th at the St. Regis Hotel. For registration, please RSVP here.
This year a special CASH promotion is included in the VMworld registration bags. You can find more information about this opportunity, along with Nexenta’s daily prize drawings, at the booth.
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.
VMware, VMware Virtual SAN, VMworld and VMware Horizon View 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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Nexenta Delivers Most Advanced Software-Defined Storage Solutions for All-Flash Arrays, VMware Horizon 6.0, and VMware Virtual SAN at VMworld 2014
This new release of Nexenta solutions bring unmatched economic benefits to high-performance all-flash storage; improved data reduction, analytics, reporting, availability, reliability, and management; widest range of platform and protocol support, while delivering full-featured file services managed through VMware vCenter on Virtual SAN deployments.
Santa Clara, CA. – August 20, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced new updates to its NexentaConnect and NexentaStor solutions. The latest addition to the NexentaConnect family, NexentaConnect for VMware® Virtual SAN™, adds full-featured SMB and NFS file services to VMware’s Virtual SAN offering. NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon is also updated and improves upon the automation and acceleration for VMware Horizon® Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI). NexentaStor release 4.1 now supports a performance optimized ‘all flash mode’ for low latency all flash reference architectures, VAAI integration and VMware vCenter™ Management Plug-in. These solutions will be revealed and demonstrated for the first time at VMworld 2014 US, August 24-28 in San Francisco.
"Nexenta's integration with VMware is a good move in today’s fast-evolving SDS market. VMware is rapidly advancing its capabilities to enable the Software-Defined Data Center," said Simon Robinson, Research Vice President at 451 Research. “Nexenta’s offerings augment and enhance the virtualization journey for customers as they seek to realize improvements in manageability, flexibility and efficiency.”
“’Software-Defined’ is changing the industry and allowing customers to simplify their infrastructure, reduce costs and achieve new levels of automation and scale,” Gaetan Castelein, senior director, product management, Software-Defined Storage at VMware. “Nexenta’s latest Software-Defined Storage solutions for all flash arrays and hyper-converged infrastructure powered by VMware Virtual SAN are great complements to VMware cloud infrastructure deployments.”
"Enterprises today are challenged by ever-growing storage requirements driven by trends like virtualization, mobility, social media, the Internet of Things, and Big Data," according to Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO of Nexenta. "Nexenta and VMware are changing the game with our full featured Software-Defined Storage VDI deployments by delivering flexibility, simplicity and lower total cost of ownership.”
NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN
NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN integrates with and augments VMware Virtual SAN by adding enterprise-class Windows and UNIX based file services without the need for any additional hardware purchases. NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN completes hyper-converged Virtual SAN deployments by utilizing local Virtual SAN storage in servers to deliver high performance NFS and SMB file services to Virtual Machines and Virtual Desktops, all managed through a single vCenter console. Additionally, NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN:
- Runs seamlessly on VMware Virtual SAN
- 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 saving 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
More information on NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN is available at nexenta.com/nexentaconnect, with the solution being made available in Q3 2014.
NexentaConnect 3.0 for VMware Horizon®
NexentaConnect 3.0 for VMware Horizon provides improved acceleration and automation for VMware Horizon 6 Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI). This new release builds on NexentaConnect’s advanced features provided by both the VMware Horizon Suite as well as the core VMware vSphere® products. NexentaConnect helps users better integrate storage and desktop management, and also offers up to a 75% increase in desktop density per host and up to a 10x improvement in end user experience via reduced latency. Additionally NexentaConnect 3.0 provides:
- Advanced analytics on a per desktop and pool basis
- Simplified desktop management
- Read cache acceleration to accelerate non-persistent environments
- Advancements in write caching capabilities and SAN offload to accelerate all virtual desktops
- Support for graphics intensive desktops utilizing Blast or GPU acceleration
- Ability to import existing Horizon desktop pools seamlessly into a NexentaConnect storage and acceleration solution
- Support for VMware Horizon 6 or Citrix XenDesktop on vSphere infrastructures
- Simple to configure disaster recovery functionality for maximum availability
NexentaStor 4.1
NexentaStor 4.1 brings the economic benefits of Software-Defined Storage to high performance, low latency all flash block and file shared storage configurations. This update to the market-leading SDS solution also hardens support for VMware and Microsoft integration. For IT executives and storage administrators who have been grappling with new demands on high performance, enterprise-class storage environments, NexentaStor 4.1 introduces all-SSD reference architectures with inline data de-duplication and compression and support for the latest hardware. Among other enhancements in NexentaStor 4.1:
- VMware VAAI and vCenter Management Plug-in
- Performance optimized “all flash mode” for all-SSD reference architectures
- Reference architectures with up to 150TB of raw SanDisk or HGST SSDs
- All flash, block and file storage configurations with unlimited snapshots, clones and long distance replication
- High performance inline data reduction (compression and deduplication)
- Support for high performance 12Gbps SAS and 16Gbps FC
More information on NexentaStor 4.1 is available at nexenta.com/nexentastor, with the solution being made available in 4Q2014.
Supporting Quotes:
“Coupled with Aberdeen’s ZXP Series of Nexenta optimized storage configurations, Nexenta continues to help enterprises liberate themselves from the traditional proprietary hardware storage approach, and have a full-featured, unified storage solution that scales to meet growing storage requirements.” said Moshe Ovadya, President and CEO at Aberdeen LLC. “Our customers will benefit from the new products and features in their software-defined storage portfolio.”
“Our mission is to provide the latest high-performance, power-optimized technologies into the data center and Nexenta is a key partner in making that happen,” said Dan Johns, Head of Technical Services at Boston Limited. “They have proven that they can solve the price and performance conundrum in VDI implementations. The new product enhancements that Nexenta is unveiling will continue to impress our customers who need high performing storage to work in a wide variety of environments without paying a fortune.”
"Cisco’s UCS E-Series servers and NexentaConnect for Horizon simplify your branch office infrastructure with a converged platform,” said Jay Chokshi, Manager, Product Management at Cisco. "The combination of Cisco, Nexenta and VMware technology gives virtual desktop administrators the means to accelerate performance, provide greater desktop density, and keep TCO in line."
“Citrix XenDesktop offers great value for delivering joint VDI customer deployments using NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN in combination with VMware Virtual SAN. When used in a XenDesktop environment running on top of VMware vSphere, this integrated solution gives our customers a full and comprehensive storage offering at the lowest cost per desktop with the easiest options to deploy and maintain.” Calvin Hsu, Vice President of Product Marketing, Desktop and Applications Group, at Citrix.
“Nexenta is a trusted partner of Dell, and enables us to provide end-to-end solutions to our customers,” said Sam Greenblatt, VP&CTO Engineered Solutions and Technology at Dell. “NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN is another example of Nexenta helping enterprises get the most of storage and unlock the true potential of the data center.”
“HGST’s broad portfolio of enterprise storage solutions are engineered with high-performance, high-capacity, reliability and endurance in mind,” said Ulrich Hansen, vice president of SSD product marketing, HGST. “Together with Nexenta, who continues to advance the Software-Defined Storage Market with its NexentaStor platform, we are able to provide enterprise customers with powerful hardware and software solutions that are built to enhance the modern data center infrastructure by enabling enterprise-class scalability, accelerated performance, while minimizing latency and TCO.”
“We are constantly looking for ways to helping the medical staff create a collaborative care environment with better patient outcome, while keeping an eye on IT costs,” said Aivars Apsite, Technology Strategist at Metro Health. “We look forward to the new features in NexentaConnect 3.0 for VMware Horizon that will allow us to further integrate storage and improve desktop management while leveraging our investment in our virtualized infrastructure.”
“NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN is another step towards a software-defined data center,” said William Bell, VP of Product Development from PhoenixNAP. “Solution providers coupling vSAN with NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN can now provide file services allowing customers to deploy robust, private cloud architectures. NexentaConnect fills the needs that our customers are looking for.”
“We believe that in order to realize the full potential of enterprise solid state storage, we must deliver innovations in both hardware and software,” said John Scaramuzzo, senior vice president and general manager, Enterprise Storage Solutions, SanDisk. “We are excited to work with Nexenta to bring all the benefits of flash to IT executives and storage administrators who are grappling with new demands on high performance, enterprise-class storage environments.”
“Supermicro Green Computing Solutions integrate the most advanced Enterprise-class compute, storage, networking and software technologies to meet the evolving demands of any scale virtualization application,” said Wally Liaw, Sr. Vice President of Sales at Supermicro. “Our ongoing collaboration with Nexenta is delivering customers an all SSD storage system and combined with our VMware certified Virtual SAN storage platforms, customers can achieve extreme performance with reduced latency in a highly energy-efficient next generation software-defined storage solution.”
“Public safety agencies rely on TriTech to store, manage and secure emergency data from a variety of devices, sensors and end-points,” said Scott Key, System Administrator, TriTech Software Systems. “Nexenta has proven to us that we don't have to sacrifice on price, simplicity, or manageability and integrates seamlessly with our VMware implementation. The updates to NexentaStor will only enhance the mission-critical services that we provide. “
“We are delighted to partner with Nexenta to integrate Vital Labs vSphere storage management plugin with NexentaStor,” said Tapesh Goyal, Founder of Vital Labs. “This joint solution will help VMware customers to manage NexentaStor seamlessly in vSphere environment. Using this plugin, administrators can provision, take snapshots, restore, clone and monitor NexentaStor from vCenter web console itself.”
“VM Racks provides enterprise-class virtualization solutions and managed hosting to government, healthcare, and business organizations worldwide,” said GIl Vidals, CEO, VM Racks. “As a vetted HIPAA hosting provider, VM Racks' maintains the highest level of audits and certifications. Compliance is critical to our business and that of our customers, and we can't compromise on storage. NexentaStor has provided us with an enterprise-quality solution. We look forward to the next version of NexentaStor as we continue to rely on Nexenta to help us balance scalability, performance, and cost in our storage system.”
“As the system integrator for Nexenta, the new releases of Nexenta with updated feature sets like flash capability and high performance SAS will help us to move critical workloads of our customers from massively expensive storages to cost efficient ones, with zero performance impact. This also helps enhance our globally recognized Storage infrastructure optimization services,” said Anuj Bhalla, VP & Global BU Head, Product, System Integration and Maintenance Services, GIS Wipro Ltd.
“With NexentaConnect for Virtual SAN, we are able to simplify storage administration, scale storage capacity, and help keep costs in line while delivering a seamless storage solution for our VDI implementation internally and to our VirtuaDeskTM customers,” said Andrey Zhulenev, General Manager and VirtuaDeskTM Practice Head, Wipro."
Further resources
NexentaConnect for VMware Virtual SAN datasheet and Joint VMware/Nexenta Whitepaper
NexentaConnect for VMware Horizon datasheet
See product pages for validated and certified reference architectures with Cisco, Dell, HP, Supermicro, and others.
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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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