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Cisco and Nexenta Partner to Deliver Enterprise File Services for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Deployments at Cloud Scale
Nexenta's Enterprise Software-Defined File Services (NFS and SMB) Provides Simplicity, Scalability, and Security for Cisco HyperFlex
Enabling New Use Cases Including Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI), Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) and Backup/Disaster Recovery (BDR); Support for Legacy Enterprise, New Cloud-Native, and 5G-driven Telco Cloud Apps; Eliminating Cost for Separate File Servers
SAN JOSE, CA – February 12, 2019 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced a partnership with Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) to deliver Nexenta's software-based enterprise file services to the Cisco HyperFlex solution. This tested, validated, and ready to deploy solution allows the industry-leading, independent scaling, flexible cluster scaling Cisco HyperFlex, to accelerate adoption and expand to new use cases through Nexenta's software storage solution, NexentaStor Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA).
Cisco HyperFlex Further Simplifies and Expands Use Cases for Hyper-Converged Systems
Today's enterprises are finding hyper-converged infrastructures with Cisco's HyperFlex is a great way to modernize IT infrastructures, by making it more efficient, easier to deploy and keep performance high to support use cases including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Remote Office/ Branch Office (ROBO). While hyper-converged architectures are proven to streamline the building and management of new cloud data centers, essential enterprise workloads require file storage protocols like NFS and SMB/CIFS. The answer of the past is legacy monolithic storage filers, which destroy the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and philosophy of going hyper-converged.
Because NexentaStor VSA, full-featured SDS for enterprise applications, can be deployed virtually, customers can easily leverage this software for their Cisco HyperFlex environment. There is no need to buy additional hardware, but instead, they can leverage their existing Cisco HyperFlex hardware saving cost, rack space, and added complexity.
“Nexenta’s software adds file services capability to Cisco HyperFlex which becomes an all-inclusive, full-featured solution for today’s modern data center. We are excited to partner with Nexenta to empower our customers to further simplify and lower their TCO for use cases like VDI,” said Manish Agarwal, Director of Product Management, Cisco.
Software-Based Enterprise-Class File Services to Hyper-Converged Systems
Nexenta’s award-winning fifth-generation storage software, NexentaStor VSA, allows organizations to easily add file services to your Cisco HyperFlex. With added software-based NAS capabilities, customers can leverage an extremely efficient fit-for-purpose storage solution including all of the capabilities expected from an enterprise-class solution including, inline data reduction, snapshots, data integrity, security, and domain control. The management of combined Cisco and Nexenta stack is all done through the familiar VMware vCenter interface.
Cisco HyperFlex Further Streamline VDI Environments
With this solution, Nexenta and Cisco are currently focusing on enabling Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments to eliminate the need for added additional hardware while providing the performance, scalability, and security required by leading enterprises. Simply add the Nexenta software to your Cisco HyperFlex system to add essential support for home directories, user profiles, and home shares for your VDI deployment on Cisco HyperFlex.
Key Cisco HyperFlex and NexentaStor VSA Solution Differentiators
- High-performance SMB and NFS
- Microsoft AD, LDAP, and Kerberos integration
- Concurrent SMB & NFS sharing
- Simplicity of management through VMware vCenter Plugin
- Inline IO acceleration improving performance
- Capacity saving inline data reduction
- Integrated and scheduled snapshots
- Maintains data integrity during stressful tasks – network/ disk, host recovery
- Security and domain control with AD
- High-Performance Replication (scheduled and continuous)
- High Availability
- Designed to meet the high demands for performance in a hyper-converged environment
- Tested and validated by Cisco and Nexenta
"In today's modern private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments enterprises are looking to remove complexity without comprising features. Running a Windows VM or adding a legacy filer is no longer the acceptable answer. This is why Cisco and Nexenta have partnered together to bring two proven solutions engineered to provide the performance needed to support these critical applications," said Ricardo Antuna, VP, Business Development at Nexenta.
How to Purchase
Customers can then work with mutual Cisco and Nexenta global channel ecosystems to purchase this complete solution.
To Learn More About Cisco HyperFlex and NexentaStor VSA
Visit our Solutions Brief on the combine solution, bit.ly/ciscohxnexenta
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the original market maker and leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) market for multi-cloud enterprise environments; with nearly 3,000 enterprise customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 2,000 petabytes of storage capacity under management. Nexenta democratizes one of the most oligopolistic hi-tech market segments nearing $120B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates its hardware-agnostic software-only OpenSDS innovation with deep “open source” collaboration via some of the most active communities with thousands of members worldwide. Nexenta flexibly enables a wide variety of legacy, enterprise and next-gen cloud-native apps, on any cloud platform, protocol and hardware infrastructure to power the most cost/performant cloud and traditional data centers. Nexenta portfolio is 100% software-based that can be used as a “Bare-Metal Appliance” on a partner hardware, as a “Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA)” on a partner virtual machine or container, or as a cloud-based “Software as a Service (SAAS).” Nexenta provides enterprises with total freedom and flexibility via its industry-leading multi-cloud software innovation, multi-channel collaboration, distribution and enterprise-class support, 24x7x365, globally.
Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaCloud, 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 Deepens its Partnership with Veeam via Software-Defined Storage (SDS)
Nexenta Supporting Large Scale Backup, Archive, and Disaster Recovery Environments from Enterprises to 5G-driven Telco/XSP Clouds
Nexenta Extending Support from Enterprise to Cloud-Native Apps via both Scale-Up and Scale-Out SDS
SAN JOSE, CA – February 5th, 2019 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced NexentaEdge, Nexenta’s Scale-Out S3-based SDS solution for Cloud Native Applications, fully supports Veeam® Cloud Tier, part of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4™. Nexenta previously achieved Veeam Ready Repository status for NexentaStor, Full-featured SDS for Enterprise Applications. By offering additional support for this new Veeam Backup & Replication™ capability, customers can confidently leverage Nexenta storage for backups both on-premises and in the cloud.
“Many enterprises across the globe – even smaller hubs and remote branch offices – are looking to cloud architectures to lower backup and disaster recovery (DR) costs,” said Ken Ringdahl, Vice President of Global Alliance Architecture at Veeam Software. “Our ability to work with alliance partners, like Nexenta, through Veeam Cloud Tier enables our customers and service providers to integrate with broader architectures. In the end, we’re able to deliver a simple and effective solution while still ensuring a lower TCO without proprietary hardware platform lock-in.”
NexentaEdge provides scale-out object, file and block storage services optimized for performance on all-flash and hybrid configurations, and are tightly integrated with OpenStack, Docker, and Kubernetes environments. NexentaEdge customers benefit from strong cryptographic checksums and patented Cloud Copy-On-Write technology to guarantee data integrity and provide both advanced self-healing capabilities and enterprise storage functionality such as snapshots clones and object versioning. Combined with Quick Erasure Coding, explicitly designed to eliminate the performance penalty of erasure coding and enable high throughput workloads on encoded data, the solution is an ideal platform for low-cost petabyte archives.
With support for Veeam Cloud Tier, Nexenta strengthens existing solutions to provide a complete portfolio for backup storage. Some benefits include:
- Cost-effective and scalable NFS primary storage for backup data repositories.
- Ability to mount synthetically rehydrated backups from NFS storage to provide direct access to backed up Virtual Machines.
- A cloud-scalable solution designed for archiving backup data through S3 object API's, complete with strong data integrity and self-healing capabilities.
- Data replication technology enabling mobility across data centers or to the public cloud.
"Thanks to Veeam, our customers can rest assured that their data is quickly and safely protected. With NexentaEdge support for Veeam Cloud Tier, customers can deploy high-performance, reliable and secure archival storage on-premises or in public cloud environments,” said Thomas Cornely, Chief Product Officer at Nexenta.
Together with Veeam, Nexenta offers customers a single solution for enterprise-grade capabilities across all tiers of target storage, from high-performance production-grade configurations to archival backup, so companies can continue to deliver services from tertiary systems while backing up their primary systems.
To learn more about Nexenta’s partnership with Veeam, visit https://nexenta.com/partners/solutions-veeam. To learn more Nexenta’s complete solution portfolio visit, https://nexenta.com/products.
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the original market maker and leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) market for multi-cloud enterprise environments; with nearly 3,000 enterprise customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 2,000 petabytes of storage capacity under management. Nexenta democratizes one of the most oligopolistic hi-tech market segments nearing $120B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates its hardware-agnostic software-only OpenSDS innovation with deep “open source” collaboration via some of the most active communities with thousands of members worldwide. Nexenta flexibly enables a wide variety of legacy, enterprise and next-gen cloud-native apps, on any cloud platform, protocol and hardware infrastructure to power the most cost/performant cloud and traditional data centers. Nexenta portfolio is 100% software-based that can be used as a “Bare-Metal Appliance” on a partner hardware, as a “Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA)” on a partner virtual machine or container, or as a cloud-based “Software as a Service (SAAS).” Nexenta provides enterprises with total freedom and flexibility via its industry-leading multi-cloud software innovation, multi-channel collaboration, distribution and enterprise-class support, 24x7x365, globally.
Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaCloud, 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 Achieves VMware Ready™ Status
SAN JOSE, Calif.—January 29th, 2019— Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) today announced that NexentaStor has achieved VMware Ready status. This designation indicates that after a detailed validation process NexentaStor has achieved VMware’s highest level of endorsement and is supported on VMware vSAN for production environments.
“We are pleased that Nexenta qualifies for the VMware Ready logo, signifying to customers that it has met specific VMware interoperability standards and works effectively with VMware cloud infrastructure. This signifies to customers that NexentaStor can be deployed in production environments with confidence and can speed time to value within customer environments,” said Kristen Edwards, director, Technology Alliance Partner Program, VMware.
By using NexentaStor deployed as a virtual appliance with VMware vSAN, organizations can expect:
- High-performance NFSv3, NFSv4, SMB 2.1 and SMB 3
- Microsoft AD, LDAP and Kerberos integration
- Concurrent NFS & SMB sharing
- Simplicity to manage through NexentaFusion or vCenter Plugin
- Inline IO acceleration improving performance
- Capacity savings inline data reduction
- Integrated and scheduled snapshots
- Maintains data integrity during stressful tasks - network/disk, host recovery
- Security and domain control with AD
- High-Performance Replication (scheduled & continuous)
- High-Availability on Shared VMDK
"We're excited to say we are certified as part of the latest VMware vSAN File Services program,” said Michael Letschin, Field CTO at Nexenta. “Having worked with VMware since early days of vSAN we are happy to continue helping customers deploy file services to their HCI solutions, adding in additional reassurance with VMware backing the solution."
The VMware Ready program is a co-branding benefit of the Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program that makes it easy for customers to identify partner products certified to work with VMware cloud infrastructure. Customers can use these products and solutions to lower project risks and realize cost savings over custom built solutions. With thousands of members worldwide, the VMware TAP program includes best-of-breed technology partners with the shared commitment to bring the best expertise and business solution for each unique customer need.
NexentaStor can be found within the online VMware Solution Exchange (VSX) at https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/nexentastor-virtual-storage-appliance-5-x. The VMware Solution Exchange is an online marketplace where VMware partners and developers can publish rich marketing content and downloadable software for our customers.
For more information, please contact sales@nexenta.com or visit https://nexenta.com/deploying-nexentastor-virtual-storage-appliance.
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the original market maker and leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) market for multi-cloud enterprise environments; with nearly 3,000 enterprise customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 2,000 petabytes of storage capacity under management. Nexenta democratizes one of the most oligopolistic hi-tech market segments nearing $120B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates its hardware-agnostic software-only OpenSDS innovation with deep “open source” collaboration via some of the most active communities with thousands of members worldwide. Nexenta flexibly enables a wide variety of legacy, enterprise and next-gen cloud-native apps, on any cloud platform, protocol and hardware infrastructure to power the most cost/performant cloud and traditional data centers. Nexenta portfolio is 100% software-based that can be used as a “Bare-Metal Appliance” on a partner hardware, as a “Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA)” on a partner virtual machine or container, or as a cloud-based “Software as a Service (SAAS).” Nexenta provides enterprises with total freedom and flexibility via its industry-leading multi-cloud software innovation, multi-channel collaboration, distribution and enterprise-class support, 24x7x365, globally.
For more information, download the Nexenta Overview and visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaCloud, 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 Achieves Certification for Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Nexenta on Red Hat OpenStack Platform Enables Enterprises and Telcos to Deliver Multi Cloud Data Management for Any App on Any Infrastructure
SAN JOSE, CA – November 26th, 2018 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that they have further collaborated with Red Hat to support enterprise organizations shift to the cloud through certification on Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13. This certification on Red Hat’s long-life release illustrates Nexenta's support for customers building clouds based on Red Hat’s massively-scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering. By leveraging Nexenta's award-winning and market-leading enterprise-grade unified file and block storage solution, NexentaStor, enterprises and OpenStack-based 5G Telcos can now provide greater scalability, greater elasticity, and increased efficiency in today's data center.
Nexenta delivers a complete storage stack that provides the high performance, flexibility, and enhanced security often required by Red Hat OpenStack Platform implementations. The open source drivers for Nexenta products are part of the OpenStack integration testing framework, which validates Nexenta’s drivers on a continuous basis.
With today's announcement Nexenta’s storage software provides enterprises using Red Hat OpenStack Platform with advanced Cinder and Manila operations including:
Cinder Operations
- Create, delete, attach, and detach volumes
- Create, list, and delete volume snapshots
- Create a volume from a snapshot
- Copy an image to a volume and a volume to an image
- Extend, migrate, and clone a volume.
- Create consistency groups
Manila Operations
- Create delete share
- Manage unmanaged shares and snapshots
- Extend and shrink share
- Create delete snapshot
- Create share from snapshot
- Revert to and mountable snapshots
"We continue to grow our collaboration with Red Hat to deliver our enterprise customers with more innovation for their OpenStack clouds. With the most recent certification of NexentaStor and Red Hat OpenStack Platform we continue to offer a set of best-of-breed storage solutions for Cinder and Manila by adding new features around disaster recovery, high-availability, and SMB support,” said Ricardo Antuna, VP, Business Development at Nexenta.
“Red Hat works with partners like Nexenta that are committed to helping customers get the most out of our open hybrid cloud solutions, including Red Hat OpenStack Platform” said Mike Werner, Senior Director, Global Technology Ecosystems at Red Hat. “We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Nexenta as an important member of Red Hat's OpenStack ecosystem."
To view additional details about NexentaStor certification with RHOSP, visit, http://bit.ly/NexentaOpenStack.
To learn more about NexentaStor's OpenStack Drivers visit, https://nexenta.github.io/openstack.
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the original market maker and leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) market for multi-cloud enterprise environments; with nearly 3,000 enterprise customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 2,000 petabytes of storage capacity under management. Nexenta democratizes one of the most oligopolistic hi-tech market segments nearing $120B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates its hardware-agnostic software-only OpenSDS innovation with deep “open source” collaboration via some of the most active communities with thousands of members worldwide. Nexenta flexibly enables a wide variety of legacy, enterprise and next-gen cloud-native apps, on any cloud platform, protocol and hardware infrastructure to power the most cost/performant cloud and traditional data centers. Nexenta portfolio is 100% software-based that can be used as a “Bare-Metal Appliance” on a partner hardware, as a “Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA)” on a partner virtual machine or container, or as a cloud-based “Software as a Service (SAAS).” Nexenta provides enterprises with total freedom and flexibility via its industry-leading multi-cloud software innovation, multi-channel collaboration, distribution and enterprise-class support, 24x7x365, globally.
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Nexenta Named a Finalist in the 2018 CRN® Tech Innovator Awards
NexentaCloud in AWS Recognized in the 2018 Software-Defined Storage (SDS) Category
Nexenta Provides the Complete SDS Platform for Multi-Cloud Data Management
SAN JOSE, Calf. – November 12th, 2018- Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), announced today that CRN,® a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized Nexenta as a finalist in the 2018 CRN Tech Innovator Awards for their latest product NexentaCloud in AWS. These annual awards honor standout hardware, software, and services that are moving the IT industry forward. In compiling the 2018 Tech Innovator Award list, CRN editors evaluated 300 products across 34 technology categories using several criteria, including technological advancements, uniqueness of features and potential to help solution providers solve end users' IT challenges. NexentaCloud in AWS took top honors in the Software-Defined Storage category.
Released just this last year, NexentaCloud for Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows enterprises to run their core business applications, which utilize file and block storage native to AWS, while fully integrating with on premises solutions. Offering enterprise-class features such as snapshots, cloning, thin provisioning and data compression, NexentaCloud for AWS delivers a comprehensive data storage solution that supports business-critical functions including business continuity and self-service test/development.
NexentaCloud for AWS offers a simple and effective way to manage on-premises and cloud based IT infrastructure. It provides:
- Replication: integrated management of replication and storage operations for all workloads
- Advanced Analytics Insights: utilizes deep storage analytics across data centers and cloud environments
- Pre-configured AWS instances: optimized for size and performance
- Lower TCO: optimizes storage costs with rapid deployment and removal of storage solutions
“We are honored to have NexentaCloud recognized for the Software-Defined Storage category by CRN” said Don Lopes, Vice President, Marketing and Channels at Nexenta “We has always prided themselves on creating the most innovative, modern software-based storage products, and we are happy to say NexentaCloud is no exception, offering customers the ability to leverage the public cloud in just minutes after deploying”.
“Each year, the CRN Tech Innovator Awards recognize technology vendor offerings that are reshaping the IT channel landscape by increasing worker productivity, reducing cost, and minimizing complexity for solution providers, IT departments, and end users,” said Bob Skelley, CEO of The Channel Company. “The winners in this year’s awards bring breakthrough ideas to the table for solution providers and their customers, in areas ranging from cloud to security to business intelligence to IoT. We congratulate all the winners and look forward to their future endeavors.”
The Tech Innovator Awards will be featured in the December issue of CRN and can be viewed online at crn.com/techinnovators.
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To learn more about NexentaCloud in AWS visit, https://nexenta.com/products/nexentacloud
To trial the latest version of Nexenta’s complete SDS portfolio for free visit, https://nexenta.com/downloads.
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the market creator and leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) software solutions for Hybrid and Multi Cloud enterprise environments via Nexenta AnyCloud vision; with nearly 3,000 enterprise customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 2,000 petabytes of storage capacity under management; disrupting and democratizing one of the largest and most oligopolistic IT market segments nearing $120B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates its hardware-agnostic software-only enterprise OpenSDS innovation with deep “open source” collaboration via some of the most active communities with 45,000+ members. Nexenta enables a wide variety of workloads from legacy enterprise to next-gen cloud-native apps, on any cloud platform, any protocol and any hardware infrastructure to power the largest and most cost/performant data centers globally. Nexenta OpenSDS solution portfolio is 100% software-based for both on and off premise settings; delivered as a bare metal solution on a partner hardware system, as a Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) or as a cloud service solution. Nexenta provides organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive legacy storage hardware vendor practices including, long term “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace.” Beyond its industry-leading software innovation and multi-channel distribution, Nexenta also provides comprehensive enterprise-class support and services 24x7, globally.
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Nexenta Announces Enterprise File Services-based Software Defined Storage for Multi Cloud Environments
Software Only Storage Solution Brings Full Featured Enterprise File Services to Hyper-Converged Infrastructures
SAN JOSE, Calf. - August 22nd, 2018- Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) today announced enterprise support and availability of a virtual deployed storage appliance, enabling enterprises to expand their hyper-converged infrastructure, applications, and workload flexibility. In tandem with this comes the latest versions of their leading storage software solutions, adding functionality to further accelerate their support for today’s enterprises in private, public, hybrid, and multi clouds.
The newest version of Nexenta’s full-featured software-defined storage (SDS) for enterprise applications, NexentaStor 5.1.2, offers the ultimate flexibility. This virtual machine deployment model of the award-winning NexentaStor unified storage software provides secure enterprise file services for hyper-converged appliance users as well as VMware users with traditional block only storage arrays without any additional hardware purchase. The use of the virtual storage appliance augments the already industry-leading hardware compatibility list for bare metal installations of NexentaStor.
Some examples for optimizing the combination of NexentaStor and HCI include:
- User Directories & Profiles – for VDI on HCI, adding NexentaStor enables you to add rich NAS capabilities to your server-based infrastructure without any additional hardware.
- Branch Office Consolidation – NexentaStor uses scheduled replication to a central office or public cloud hosted repository for an excellent combination of local user file access and centralized protection.
- Backup – Adding NexentaStor to HCI enables customers to consolidate more workloads and make full use of available hardware resources by providing the NAS interface needed for backup applications.
- Line of Business Applications – Linux and Windows applications migrated to HCI often come with requirements for NFS and SMB file services with strong security and user access controls, making NexentaStor VSA a perfect complement for Enterprise applications on HCI.
- Regulatory Compliance – Increased security of PI data through data at rest encryption regardless of the encrypt-ability of the underlying HCI or traditional Storage
"NexentaStor VSA on Hyper-converged infrastructure adds mature and proven enterprise NAS file services without requiring any incremental hardware and eliminates the need to purchase a separate hardware appliance." explains Thomas Cornely, Chief Product Officer "Our software-only, storage solution features a rich feature set including unlimited snapshots and clones, inline data reduction, thin provisioning and remote replication to any other NexentaStor or NexentaCloud in AWS instance."
To support the growing need for public and hybrid cloud infrastructures, Nexenta’s latest product NexentaCloud in Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows enterprises to run their core business applications, which utilizes file and block storage native to AWS, while fully integrating with on-premises solutions. Offering enterprise-class features such concurrent NFS and SMB file sharing with strong ACLs and Active-Directory integration, snapshots, cloning, data compression and remote replication, NexentaCloud in AWS delivers a comprehensive data storage solution that supports business-critical functions including business continuity and self-service test/development.
Nexenta brings these solutions together under a comprehensive and modern storage framework NexentaFusion, a centralized management and analytics product. NexentaFusion 1.2 provides simplified scaling and management through a single pane for reporting, monitoring, analytics, and orchestration for your storage assets. Now working in tandem with Amazon Web Services API, the new release enables customers through the NexentaFusion UI to quickly provision new instances of NexentaCloud in AWS. Through the “One-Click” deployment model customers can select performance type and capacity and let NexentaFusion automatically take care of provisioning NexentaCloud in AWS.
To trial the latest version of Nexenta’s complete SDS portfolio for free visit, https://nexenta.com/downloads.
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the market creator and leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) software solutions for Hybrid and Multi Cloud enterprise environments via Nexenta AnyCloud vision; with nearly 6,000 customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 2,000 petabytes of storage capacity under management; disrupting and democratizing one of the largest and most oligopolistic IT market segments nearing $100B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates its hardware-agnostic software-only enterprise OpenSDS innovation with deep “open source” collaboration via some of the most active communities with 45,000+ members. Nexenta enables a wide variety of workloads from legacy enterprise to next-gen cloud-native apps, on any cloud platform, any protocol and any hardware infrastructure to power the largest and most cost/performant data centers globally. Nexenta OpenSDS solution portfolio is 100% software-based for both on and off premise settings. Nexenta provides organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive legacy storage hardware vendor practices including, long term “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace.” Beyond its industry-leading software innovation and multi-channel distribution, Nexenta also provides comprehensive enterprise-class support and services 24x7, globally.
For more information, download the Nexenta Overview and visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaCloud, 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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HyTrust and Nexenta Partner to Integrate Security and Software-Defined Storage for Multi-Cloud Environments
Joint Solutions to Extend Existing Hyper-Converged Infrastructures via Encrypted Software-Defined File Services
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Aug 21st, 2018 — HyTrust (@HyTrust), the leader in workload security for multi-cloud infrastructure, and Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announce a partnership and certification for their solutions on added encryption and security when delivering software-defined storage solutions to existing hardware-based storage and hyper-converged environments.
By deploying Nexenta's 5th generation and market leading Software-Defined Storage solution, NexentaStor, and HyTrust's KeyControl KMS, IT infrastructures’ private clouds can easily add secure and encrypted enterprise file storage functionality to an existing, non-encrypted storage environment. No longer is there a need to deploy specialized hardware to add encrypted file-based storage. Easily take advantage of HyTrust KeyControl KMS and the NexentaStor Virtual Storage Appliance to migrate and store files to fully encrypted new shares.
HyTrust KeyControl KMS and NexentaStor capabilities include:
- Universal key management for KMIP-compatible encryption agents
- FIPS 140-2 Level 1 validated. FIPS 140-2 Level 3 compliance via HSM support
- Highly Availability (HA) active-active file services clustering
- Support for file (NFS, CIFS, SMB) and block (iSCSI)
- Unlimited file system size with unlimited space-optimized snapshots, clones, and inline data reduction
- High-Performance Replication (HPR) - both scheduled and continuous asynchronous
- VMware Integration (vCenter 6.7) and Storage QoS
"Today’s complex legal and compliance environment mandates enterprises secure some or all of their data. Until now this required the purchase of additional hardware and complex deployments." explains Michael Letschin, Field Chief Technology Officer at Nexenta. "The combination of the Nexenta and HyTrust solutions allows enterprises to gain the security controls they require for their storage without the need for more hardware, and all through a flexible, convenient software-defined model."
“Managing the security of workloads in a legacy environment is complex and challenging for administrators,” says Steve Pate, Chief Architect at HyTrust. “Modern and proven software approaches from HyTrust and Nexenta provide data centers the agility, flexibility and confidence required for today’s enterprise.”
To learn more visit, http://bit.ly/hytrustnexenta.
About HyTrust
HyTrust’s mission is to make private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure more trustworthy for enterprises, service providers and government agencies. HyTrust provides solutions that automate security controls for software-defined computing, networking and storage workloads to achieve the highest levels of visibility, granular policy control and data protection. HyTrust customers benefit from being able to accelerate cloud and virtualization cost savings while improving their security posture by automating and enforcing security policies in real time, adapting quickly to compliance requirements and preventing unplanned outages.
Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., HyTrust is backed by the leading providers of strategic IT infrastructure including VMware, Cisco, Intel and Fortinet; by the vanguard of innovative solutions for the intelligence community, In-Q-Tel; and by a world-class group of financial investors including AVP Growth, Epic Ventures, Granite Ventures, Sway Ventures, Trident Capital and Vanedge Capital.
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the market creator and leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) software solutions for Hybrid and Multi Cloud enterprise environments via Nexenta AnyCloud vision; with nearly 6,000 customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 2,000 petabytes of storage capacity under management; disrupting and democratizing one of the largest and most oligopolistic IT market segments nearing $100B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates its hardware-agnostic software-only enterprise OpenSDS innovation with deep “open source” collaboration via some of the most active communities with 45,000+ members. Nexenta enables a wide variety of workloads from legacy enterprise to next-gen cloud-native apps, on any cloud platform, any protocol and any hardware infrastructure to power the largest and most cost/performant data centers globally. Nexenta OpenSDS solution portfolio is 100% software-based for both on and off premise settings. Nexenta provides organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive legacy storage hardware vendor practices including, long term “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace.” Beyond its industry-leading software innovation and multi-channel distribution, Nexenta also provides comprehensive enterprise-class support and services 24x7, globally.
For more information, download the Nexenta Overview and visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaCloud, 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, Supermicro, and Seagate to Host Customer Conference in NYC
Highlighting Enterprise-grade Open Software Defined Data Center Solutions for Multi-Cloud Environments
SAN JOSE Calif. and NEW YORK, New York—May 31, 2018— Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that is partnering with Supermicro and Seagate a regional OpenSDS Enterprise Event on Monday June 4th at the Hyatt Centric Time Square in New York City.
This event invites IT and datacenter executives across industries to join us for a night of networking and discussions with SDS leaders from Nexenta, Seagate, Supermicro, and our customers on the solutions driving some of the largest private, public, hybrid, and multi-clouds. Attendees can register for free and engage in face-to-face discussions with executive leaders on the state of software-defined storage and future industry trends, as well as hands-on demonstrations of our joint solutions.
Together, Nexenta, Supermicro and Seagate offer Software-Defined Storage solutions that are fully tested, validated, and easy to deploy and manage. This brings all the benefits of SDS, including flexibility, scalability, and a lower total cost of ownership.
One solution that will be highlighted at the event is the Supermicro Unified Storage Solution powered by Nexenta. This SDS appliance is a purpose-built, small form factor system that delivers enterprise grade, full-featured unified file and block storage services to a wide range of industries including financial services, services providers, physical research, and communications.
The Supermicro Unified Storage solution comes in twenty-five high-availability single SKU configurations including all-flash (2U) and hybrid (4U). These configurations were specifically designed to support your high performance databases, business-critical virtualized environments, generic IT servers and near-line archive use case needs.
Event Details:
What: OpenSDS Enterprise Event with Nexenta, Seagate and Supermicro
Where: Hyatt Centric Times Square New York, 135 West 45th Street, Salons 1& 2, NY, New York 10036
When: June 4th, 2018 at 5:30 PM
Space is limited so register today.
For registration and additional details on this event visit: https://bit.ly/2Ix8Vaq
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the market creator and leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) software solutions for Hybrid and Multi Cloud enterprise environments via Nexenta AnyCloud vision; with nearly 6,000 customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 2,000 petabytes of storage capacity under management; disrupting and democratizing one of the largest and most oligopolistic IT market segments nearing $100B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates its hardware-agnostic software-only enterprise OpenSDS innovation with deep “open source” collaboration via some of the most active communities with 45,000+ members. Nexenta enables a wide variety of workloads from legacy enterprise to next-gen cloud-native apps, on any cloud platform, any protocol and any hardware infrastructure to power the largest and most cost/performant data centers globally. Nexenta OpenSDS solution portfolio is 100% software-based for both on and off premise settings. Nexenta provides organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive legacy storage hardware vendor practices including, long term “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace.” Beyond its industry-leading software innovation and multi-channel distribution, Nexenta also provides comprehensive enterprise-class support and services 24x7, globally.
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Nexenta to Showcase Broadest SDS Portfolio on DellEMC at Dell Technology World 2018
Nexenta Leads with Open Software-Defined Storage Software Portfolio for Hybrid and Multi Clouds
LAS VEGAS, Nevada AND SAN JOSE, Calif. – April 26, 2018 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced its participation at Dell Technology World 2018, April 30-May 3, at The Venetian. Event attendees are invited to meet with Nexenta executives at booth #1754, find out more about Nexenta’s product portfolio for file, block and object storage software and its long-standing partnership with Dell.
Dell and Nexenta's Software-Defined Storage solutions offer a comprehensive suite of storage management services that run on Dell’s world-class servers and storage hardware. Together Dell and Nexenta offer:
- Dell Certified Reference Architectures for ease of deployment and support.
- One software stack for all-disk, hybrid and all-flash storage configurations.
- Petabytes of storage deployed at leading worldwide technology, research, healthcare, and other industry organizations
- Flexible deployment, including on Dell 14G servers, on virtual machines or on the public cloud.
These high-performance yet cost-effective data storage solutions take advantage of features such as inline deduplication, unlimited snapshots and cloning and high availability support. Dell Certified Reference Architectures enable ease of deployment and support – and being fully integrated with Dell ProSupport means that Nexenta customers receive the premium support services they have come to demand and expect.
Dell World attendees can learn more about this at Nexenta's booth #1754 where you can find our very own Nexenta solution Experts. Those that stop by Nexenta’s booth will be given the chance to win one of five $100 Amazon gift cards, courtesy of Nexenta.
To learn more visit, bit.ly/dellnexenta2018.
About Nexenta
Nexenta is the market creator and leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) software solutions for Hybrid and Multi Cloud enterprise environments via Nexenta AnyCloud vision; with nearly 6,000 customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 2,000 petabytes of storage capacity under management; disrupting and democratizing one of the largest and most oligopolistic IT market segments nearing $100B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates its hardware-agnostic software-only enterprise OpenSDS innovation with deep “open source” collaboration via some of the most active communities with 45,000+ members. Nexenta enables a wide variety of workloads from legacy enterprise to next-gen cloud-native apps, on any cloud platform, any protocol and any hardware infrastructure to power the largest and most cost/performant data centers globally. Nexenta OpenSDS solution portfolio is 100% software-based for both on and off premise settings. Nexenta provides organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive legacy storage hardware vendor practices including, long term “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace.” Beyond its industry-leading software innovation and multi-channel distribution, Nexenta also provides comprehensive enterprise-class support and services 24x7, globally.
For more information download the Nexenta Overview and visit www.nexenta.com, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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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CRN Names Nexenta to 2018 Software-Defined Data Center 50 List
Nexenta Leads with Open Software-Defined Storage Software Portfolio for Hybrid and Multi Clouds
SAN JOSE, Calif.—April 16, 2018 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Nexenta to its 2018 Software-Defined Data Center 50 list.
The list recognizes companies that are teaming with solution providers to give dramatic advances in data center compute, storage and network automation and intelligence. The 2018 Software-Defined Data Center 50 is based on ongoing feedback throughout the year from solution providers on the strength of the vendors’ technology portfolio, channel influence, effectiveness and visibility, along with business and sales impact on the channel.
Nexenta offers an all-encompassing portfolio of market-leading software-defined storage products. Designed to give customers scalable and flexible storage while lowering your TCO, Nexenta’s product portfolio ultimately creates a tailored solution to fit your enterprise needs. Nexenta’s portfolio includes:
- NexentaStor: Nexenta’s flagship Open Source-driven Software Defined Storage (OpenSDS) solution 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.
- NexentaEdge: Provides scale-out Object (S3 and Swift), Block, and File storage services supplying cluster-wide inline deduplication, compression and enterprise grade data integrity.
- NexentaCloud: Based on NexentaStor, NexentaCloud in AWS allows customers to leverage the public cloud, for use cases including disaster recovery, to deliver enterprise storage with a consistent storage management framework across your hybrid cloud.
- NexentaFusion: Simplified scaling and management through a single pane for reporting, monitoring, analytics, and orchestration for your storage assets.
“CRN’s 2018 Software-Defined Data Center 50 are being singled out for innovative software that is automating and simplifying compute, storage and networking," said Bob Skelley, CEO of The Channel Company. “These software-defined data center leaders are working hand in hand with partners to deliver intelligent applications and automate once-labor-intensive infrastructure management. We congratulate them for their innovative products and for their commitment to delivering more intelligent and dynamic infrastructure for customers transforming their businesses. These vendors are making the promise of the autonomous data center a reality.”
“It is an honor to be recognized again in CRN Software-Defined Data Center 50 list,” said Don Lopes, Vice President, Marketing & Channels. “As a leader in SDDC technologies, this award reflects the success we’ve achieved with our partners as they look to give agile, multi-protocol SDS solutions, running on all-flash to all-HDD in public, private, hybrid, and multi cloud environments. ”
The Software-Defined Data Center 50 list is featured online at www.CRN.com/sddc50.
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