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Nexenta Awarded Innovation Prize for Leadership in Software-Defined Storage

SANTA CLARA, California – October 28, 2013 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, was recently recognized as an Innovation Leader by IT Brand Pulse, a trust source of data and analysis about IT infrastructure.   The award is based on a survey of IT professionals who voted Nexenta as the company who has Contributed Most to Software Defined Storage Innovation, 2008-2013.

Respondents were asked: “Who do you believe contributed most to Software Defined Storage innovation during the last 5 years?” Nexenta was voted as the winner from among the 7 answer choices as well as the opportunity to write in a vendor name.  Respondents to the survey were solicited from over 1,000,000 members of 100+ online IT groups, and from the IT Brand Pulse IT pro/end user database.

Nexenta CEO Tarkan Maner accepted the award from IT Brand Pulse CEO Frank Berry during a ceremony at Open Server/Open Storage Summit on October 23, 2013.

"We are honored to be recognized by IT Brand Pulse for Nexenta's leadership and innovation," according to Nexenta CEO Tarkan Maner.  "The fact that the award is voted upon by IT end users makes the recognition that much more satisfying."

"An IT Brand Pulse award tells the world that a company is doing the job with the only audience that really counts – their end users," said IT Brand Pulse CEO Frank Berry.  "I know that Nexenta is particularly proud of the recognition given that many of the voters are also their customers."

The survey was conducted in September/October 2013 and asked respondents which vendors they perceived as the leader in 17 product categories: product categories: SDN Platform, SDN Orchestration Software, SDN Controller, SDN Virtual Switch, SDN Switch, Layer 4-7 SDN Services Platform, VXLAN Gateway, SDN ASICs, SDN Monitoring, Microserver, Industry Standard Server, Open Compute Project Server, Open Compute Project Server Processor, Enterprise Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Open Compute Project Storage, Desktop Virtualization (VDI) and Cloud Operating Platform.

Nexenta to Present the Future of Software-Defined Storage at Storage Expo

Almere, the Netherlands and Santa Clara, CA USA – 21 October 2013 — Nexenta, (@Nexenta) the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced that it will be presenting at the Storage Expo in the Netherlands on 30 and 31 October 2013, in the Jaarbeurs, Utrecht.   Nexenta's presentation will focus on why SDS is the preferred choice to administer and manage multivendor storage environments and the advantages of SDS in today’s challenging market. Nexenta’s presentation will be on 30 October 2013, at 10:15 by Jacco van Achterberg, Sales Director EMEA.

Nexenta also will showcase its enterprise class, hardware-independent storage software at booth #B057, and will host a customer case study session on 30 October 2013, at 10.15-10.45 am to be presented by Stefan van den Hurk, IT manager, Armada Music.

With increasing demand for flexible storage capabilities, Nexenta’s solutions provide the scalable infrastructure needed to extend storage capacities. Software-Defined Storage offers the ability to keep up with the innovation in both hardware and software that is necessary given today’s IT challenges.

"Since implementing NexentaStor we have seen a huge improvement to our infrastructure including increased speed, capacity and ease of use. The Storage Expo is a great place for us to share our experience of the straightforward migration and implementation process experienced with the Nexenta solution”, explains Stefan van den Hurk, IT Manager at Armada Music, who will be presenting Nexenta’s customer case session on 30 October.

“SDS has been brought to the forefront of the storage agenda as it offers the ability to keep up with the innovation in the rapidly changing storage market," said Jacco van Achterberg, Sales Director EMEA, Nexenta. "Nexenta plays a critical role in helping to manage and extend any cloud or virtualized storage environment and we are excited to demonstrate Nexenta's vision for SDS at Storage Expo."

Nexenta Introduces Industry Leading Software Defined Solutions for Cisco, Dell and VMware @VMworld^® Europe

Santa Clara, USA and Barcelona, Spain—14 October 2013—Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced that it will highlight the benefit and value it brings to virtual storage accelerator (VSA) strategies at VMworld^® Europe 2013 (@vmworld) October 14 through 17 at the Fira Gran Via.

Nexenta has been certified as part of the Cisco (@cisco) and VMware (@vmware) reference architecture program which provides a comprehensive environment with compute, networking, storage and virtualization functionality.  Nexenta allows for the ability to deploy the latest virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution which  independent tests have shown give improvements in physical SAN data retrieval reduction of up to 38X, in SAN write I/O reduction of up to 2.5x and an outstanding 72 percent increase in VM density per host. Further detail on these results can be found in whitepapers co-developed with Cisco and VMware which include full specifications  on the reference architecture.

Nexenta’s VSA for VMware Horizon View™ and NexentaStor™ (#nexentastor) solutions integrate with VMware Horizon View, providing enhanced acceleration for storage infrastructure.  This policy-driven, high performance and scalability on-demand approach for VDI environments is easy to use, while delivering a fundamentally lower total cost of ownership for both Desktop-As-A-Service (#desktopasaservice) and enterprise VDI infrastructures.

Nexenta will be showcased at the following VMworld sessions, highlighting the benefits received from the joint VMware-Nexenta solution:

	EUC5708 – Low-Cost, High-Performance Storage for Horizon Desktops. Wednesday, 16 October. 11:00am-12:00pm
	EUC5434 – Enterprise Architecture Design for VMware Horizon View 5.2. Wednesday, 16 October.  3:30-4:30pm

“The combination of VMware Horizon View™ and NexentaVSA provides a powerful solution to our customers that can increase performance and reduce costs”, said Erik Frieberg, vice president, Product Marketing, End User Computing, VMware. “Partnering with Nexenta allows our customers to improve the end-user experience without having to worry about underlying infrastructure.”

Visit Nexenta at Hall 8, Booth S-300 where we will be demonstrating the latest Software Defined Storage solutions for virtualization (#virtualization) deployments. See how Nexenta’s simple, secure, scalable data center infrastructure solution works and how that is relevant to today’s storage requirements for the “real” software-defined data center implementations. (#softwaredefineddatacenter).  Nexenta will also be presenting on storage solutions at Dell’s booth each day.  Come by to learn how you can incorporate Nexenta’s technology into your storage needs.

“We are excited to be working with Cisco, Dell and VMware on such a powerful offering to the market,” said Bridget Warwick, CMO of Nexenta, “By delivering greater performance, Nexenta and its partners offer powerful value to enterprises, no matter what storage infrastructure they have deployed.  The combination of View and VSA for Horizon View truly enables the promise of VDI.”

Nexenta has worked with and provided unified storage solutions for many organizations in public and private sectors worldwide, including; Schuberg Philis, Yale New Haven Hospital and Larkin Hospital in Miami, Florida.

“Nexenta’s software is a robust platform with data protection features that all of our technical team love using, but it also offers very high performance that will support our customers’ needs whilst still giving us the ability to easily scale up and out when needed”, said Funs Kessen, Mission Critical Engineer at Schuberg Philis. "With its interoperability and scalability, Nexenta is an important component for our platform. We expect a lot of our customers to take up the opportunity, and as we see exploding data growth rates, Nexenta is our secret weapon.”

VMworld Barcelona is a must-attend networking event with more than 8,000 IT professionals and over 100 sponsors. It provides education and insight to the latest IT trends and best practices across cutting-edge topics such as software-defined data center, hybrid cloud, cloud management and mobility.

To set up a meeting with Nexenta, contact nexenta@touchdownpr.com.

OpenStorage Summit, presented by Nexenta Systems, will be held in conjunction with Open Server Summit October 22-24

Santa Clara, Calif., September 4, 2013– Open Server Summit, a leading Silicon Valley conference for the server industry, has announced that this year’s meeting will join forces with the OpenStorage Summit presented by Nexenta. The combined Summits will be held at the Santa Clara Convention Center from October 22-24, 2013.

The expanded format will offer attendees exposure to both tracks of Summit content, expanding the breadth of the Open Architecture in the Server Industry to include for the first time in-depth insight into OpenStorage. Dr. Lance Levanthal, Open Server Summit Chairperson, said “The joint event further cements our dedication to serve the needs of a global audience focused on open design initiatives in the server industry.”

“After hosting several OpenStorage Summits over the years throughout the United States and Europe, we are thrilled to be joining forces this year with Open Server Summit for the US event,” said Bridget Warwick, CMO, Nexenta Systems. “By creating a more integrated environment of conference content, customers, partners and members of the OpenStorage and Open Server communities will experience a more holistic view of how to create open solutions for today’s data center.”

About Open Server Summit

Open Server Summit (“OSS”), produced by Conference ConCepts (and formerly called Server Design Summit) will take place October 22-24, 2013 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. OSS focuses on the design of nextgeneration servers with topics ranging from semiconductors and network interface cards through powerful high-end systems and overall infrastructure design and operation. The conference also covers data center efficiency, cloud storage, virtualization, ultra-low-power server clusters, DC power, PCIe flash caching, and liquid cooling. Industry visionaries will address the use of SSDs, ARM-based microservers, software-defined networking, software-defined storage, and other efforts toward combining industry-standard hardware with open-source software.

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About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the world leader in Software-Defined Storage. Its flagship software platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology and running on a broad choice of industry-standard hardware, NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and enables open, unified storage management at significantly lower total cost than legacy systems.

More information about Nexenta Systems, and free trials of the ZFS-based Nexenta products, can be found at www.nexenta.com. Partners selling Nexenta-based storage solutions can be found at: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/store/resellers-search.

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