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Exclusive Agreement between Software-Defined Storage Leader and IT Distribution Giant to Impact Storage Market

SANTA CLARA, Calif., – January 21, 2015 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, today announced the signing of an exclusive distribution agreement with SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX), a leading distributor of IT products and services. The agreement provides North American solution providers with access to SDS solutions that provide innovative enterprise features at a significantly lower total cost than legacy systems.

"The Nexenta agreement helps SYNNEX enable resellers to bring innovative solutions to support customers’ Software-Defined needs while aligning with a fast-growth storage company," said Peter Larocque, President, North America Distribution, SYNNEX Corporation. "As storage management grows in cost and complexity, the collaboration among SYNNEX, Nexenta, and our solution provider community enables customers to offer a truly differentiated storage solution."

Nexenta’s sales model is 100 percent channel focused and targets existing and new partners who are rapidly expanding their businesses. The agreement enables Nexenta and SYNNEX to provide partners the ability to expand their solutions with complete, hardware-agnostic, SDS options for their customers.  Whether for the cloud, Internet of Things, Big Data, mobility or other areas of focus, Nexenta is well-aligned with the next technology trends on the horizon.  Nexenta’s Partner Program offers a tiered structure with incentives, training and benefits that help partners provide their customers with one of the most affordable storage solutions.

“With the SYNNEX agreement, Nexenta’s SDS solutions reach is broadened more efficiently and effectively through the channel," according to Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO at Nexenta.  "We are disrupting the MESS (Massively Expensive Storage Systems) by creating new ways to manage and build more efficient storage solutions through the channel today.  The expertise, programs, and relationships SYNNEX brings to our existing and future partners gives them the ability to deliver scalable storage solutions that are developed to open standards and integrate into the orchestration frameworks that power today’s data centers."

To learn more or to engage with the SYNNEX/Nexenta team, contact Nexenta@synnex.com or 800-456-4822.

Supporting Quotes

“SYNNEX is a strategic distributor for Dell, and our mutual relationship with Nexenta helps us deliver a complete, end-to-end enterprise SDS solution with Dell hardware. This is a win-win for Dell and our customers looking to take advantage of the benefits that SDS has to offer“, said Frank Vitagliano, Vice President of Global Channel Strategy and Programs at Dell.

“The combination of SYNNEX, Nexenta and Myriad Supply is a win-win for our customers as we are able to provide the most complete data center and cloud solutions.  Nexenta’s SDS solutions are a key component to our service offerings, and the SYNNEX relationship will increase our ability help organizations be more successful and efficient in their data center,” said Andrew Fisher, CEO at Myriad Supply.

"Storage is a key component of our product and services portfolio," said Dave Levin, Sr. Director of Partner Strategy with Red River. "Nexenta's relationship with SYNNEX bolsters our storage offering and ability to deliver value to our customers."

Tau Leng, Vice President of Global Marketing at Supermicro commented, “Supermicro enables customers with highly scalable, cost-effective enterprise-class storage solutions. Our innovative Software-Defined Storage platforms with collaboration from SYNNEX and Nexenta strengthen the channel community’s ability to rapidly deploy industry-leading hardware, software, and services to help their customers enhance and expand business.”

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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 Centres (SDDC) for Dummies eBook.

Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademark 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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Working with Layer 8 IT-Services, the Sustainable Engineering Company Recognized the Economic Benefits of Implementing a Software-Defined Storage Platform

SANTA CLARA, Calif., & STOCKHOLM — January 13, 2014 —Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced that Goodtech, a leading Nordics-based technology and engineering company dedicated to renewing and developing important public functions, has implemented Nexenta’s highly available SDS solution to underpin its IT systems. 

With customers in various industries including manufacturing, energy and the public sector, Goodtech develops and delivers projects and services through the integration of sustainable solutions. Initially established in Sweden in 1913, the company now employs more than 1,500 people in over 40 locations in Norway, Sweden and Åland. Examples of customers in Sweden are AstraZeneca, LKAB, NCC, PEAB, Trafikverket, Vattenfall and Volvo.

With its incumbent storage solution reaching the end of its life, Goodtech worked with Layer 8 IT-Services, its technology partner, to find a new storage platform that could keep total cost of ownership (TCO) low while delivering high performance, stability and functionality. After initially testing NexentaStor in a controlled environment, Goodtech chose to deploy a Nexenta solution, running on Dell servers, with a NexentaStor High Availability (HA) Cluster to manage, control and protect its data.

Goodtech’s virtualized environment hosts hundreds of virtual machines (VMs) and its data is stored across two data centers. It is vital that Goodtech’s IT infrastructure is supported by a reliable, high performance storage platform that can be scaled appropriately to keep up with capacity demand and ensure business continuity.

“We were initially attracted to Nexenta because of its ZFS based, open source set up that could be adapted to fit our exact needs, and stop us from being tied down to one vendor,” said Anders Hellquist, Senior Systems Engineer at Goodtech. “After comparing it to a number of other offerings, we implemented Nexenta as we were amazed at the cost saving that could be achieved and it now provides us with a rock-solid foundation to build upon.”  

“Goodtech started the journey towards Software-Defined Storage by installing a test-environment with NexentaStor to evaluate functionality, scalability and performance. During their tests they not only found it was enterprise class storage, it also outperformed the current storage in performance and scalability. This made it very easy for Goodtech to take the next step and replace their primary storage platform with NexentaStor,” said Johan Tungström, CEO, Layer 8 IT-Services.

Mark Jordan, EMEA VP at Nexenta, said: “Goodtech is a prime example of a business that can benefit from Software-Defined Storage. When a legacy solution reaches the end of its life, an SDS alternative is the most flexible platform on offer in terms of cost and scalability and avoids enterprises suffering from vendor lock-in in the future. Goodtech has started its journey into the Software-Defined world, and are already reaping the rewards. “

Further resources

NexentaStor datasheet

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About Layer 8 IT-Services

Layer 8 IT-Services was founded in 2010 by three highly motivated IT consultants that together have more than 35 years of experience within the IT Industry. Layer 8’s focus on Smart DataCenters and deliver IT Solutions, Cloud Services, Managed Services as well as IT Consulting within Networks, Security, Storage and Virtualisation. Layer 8 is based in Stockholm, Linköping and Gävle, SWEDEN. For more information visit: http://www.layer8-it.net or follow us on twitter @Layer_8_IT.

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.

Nexenta, NexentaStor, NexentaConnect, NexentaEdge and NexentaFusion are trademarks or registered trademark 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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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – December 11, 2014 – Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage) solutions, has announced it has been chosen by Arkadin to meet its rapidly expanding enterprise storage requirements. The NTT Communications Company is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing providers of Collaboration and Unified Communications services. After collaborating with partner Actualis, Arkadin selected the Nexenta solution to meet its rapidly expanding enterprise storage requirements.

Founded in France in 2001, Arkadin offers a complete range of integrated audio, web, video conferencing and Unified Communications solutions via a network of 53 offices in 32 countries across the globe, delivering its business solutions using a software as a service (SaaS) model that provides customers with fast, scalable deployments with a high ROI.

With storage requirements at Arkadin’s R&D data center, which holds more than 600 virtual machines (VMs), growing at more than 20% annually, it was important to have an alternative storage solution to support its current capacity and future growth needs.  The solution needed to be simple to use and efficient for hosting all of its environments, in addition to delivering optimal performance and resiliency with limited administration at a competitive price.

Arkadin was keen to explore open storage solutions to avoid being locked into proprietary hardware platforms. After exploring alternatives, it selected Nexenta’s state-of-the-art NexentaStor solution, opting for a NexentaStor Enterprise Edition license coupled with the NexentaStor High Availability (HA) Cluster option, as well as hard drives from Nexenta partner, Supermicro. 

 “Working closely with Arkadin we were able to design a solution to match their exact storage requirements,” said Eric Pinatton, CTO at Actualis. The combination of Nexenta’s scalability and management simplicity coupled with Supermicro hardware gives Arkadin the high-performance storage the business needs. This highly-available storage environment is ideally suited to growing enterprises and we are delighted to be partnered with such a dynamic, industry-leading SDS provider.

Vincent Thinselin, Senior Technical Architect at Arkadin said: “Installing an SDS solution from Nexenta has enabled us to address current and future capacity and performance requirements in a cost-effective manner. If additional storage capacity is required, the Nexenta solution can be seamlessly scaled for delivering reliable, uninterrupted service, a key requirement for ensuring an excellent customer experience.”

“As one of the world’s fastest growing Collaboration Service Providers, it is vital that Arkadin’s R&D infrastructure is underpinned by a scalable, reliable storage platform,” explained Mark Jordan, VP and General Manager EMEA at Nexenta. “Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage solutions are ideally suited to this type of environment, where mission critical data needs to remain highly available. Our scalable Software-Defined offering allows our customers to step away from the Massively Expensive Storage Systems (MESS) offered by legacy vendors, and are designed with business growth in mind.”

Tweet this: Learn how @ArkadinServices worked with @Nexenta to find the perfect platform #SDS #Future http://goo.gl/ywllLH

Further resources:

Link to NexentaStor Datasheet

Link to Arkadin Case Study

About Nexenta

Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage, delivering easy-to-use, secure and ultra-low cost storage software solutions. Nexenta solutions are hardware-, protocol-, and app-agnostic, providing innovation freedom and speed for organisations to realise "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 Aaron's Basement

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – December 9, 2014 — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) (#softwaredefinedstorage), today announced the deployment and case study for EngineRoom.io®.  Based in Sydney, Australia, EngineRoom.io is a leading Secure Private Cloud Service for Big Data, offering not only compute cycles, but also a full range of tuning and other services for Big Data and High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads.  Businesses from all industries come to EngineRoom.io, because it enables them to derive insight and revenue from their data by giving them the capacity to aggregate structured and unstructured data, to handle high-velocity streaming data, and to process large data sets at scale; the end result is a 500x improvement in “time to insight”.

“EngineRoom.io has built a successful and growing business across an impressive array of industries, from media and entertainment, life sciences, financial services, oil & gas, engineering and more," said Anthony Davis, VP/GM APAC at Nexenta. “We are very excited to be able to work with EngineRoom.io and help provide a solution that gives them a competitive advantage that is high-performance, scalable and economical.”

As the business began to grow in early 2013 they faced a critical build or buy decision to meet their expanding storage needs.  “We looked closely at between twenty and thirty different storage solutions, or hybrids thereof,” according to CTO Nicky Ladas. “We weren’t satisfied with any of them for a wide variety of reasons.  After extensive R&D and production testing at scale, we finally decided on Nexenta’s Software-Defined Storage offering.”

EngineRoom.io had to deal with massive amounts of data; but data that also fluctuated wildly based on platform usage. If you’re going to collect terabytes, and even petabytes, of business-impacting information, it needs to be stored properly.  Nexenta provided the Software-Defined Storage performance solution that met all of EngineRoom.io’s criteria.

“We made the decision to move ahead with Nexenta because they met our somewhat unique list of requirements we had in place,” said CEO Stefan Gillard. “We were pleasantly surprised, however, when the implementation came in at one-twentieth the cost of competing solutions.” 

NexentaStor is now up and running across multiple locations, with petabytes of data under management.  To make this possible, EngineRoom.io also partners with other leading Software-Defined Data Center solution providers including Brocade, SanDisk (FusionIO) and VMware along with Nexenta. 

Please refer to the EngineRoom.io case study for more implementation details.

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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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