Company Profile and History
Company Summary
Nexenta Systems, Inc. is the leader in open source enterprise class storage software solutions. Nexenta’s passion for breaking the chains forged by legacy storage products forms our mission statement:
Enterprise class storage for everyone
Privately held, Nexenta has operations around the world in the United States, Germany, Russia, and India. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California with a Competency Center located in Dresden, Germany.
History
Beginning in 2004, Alex Aizman and Dmitry Yusupov wrote the iSCSI storage stack as well as founded the Open iSCSI development community (http://www.open-iscsi.org). In 2005, they saw the opportunity to pioneer by combining components of Linux with the OpenSolaris and Open Storage codebases and founded Nexenta. As a result of being one of the earliest companies to work in this area, Nexenta’s products were among the first open source storage products to be brought to market in mid-2008.
The core storage platform, Nexenta NexentaStorTM is a software-only storage operating system based on Linux and a storage-optimized file system based on the OpenSolaris / Open Storage ZFS file system. With this unique combination of Open Source codebases, NexentaStor delivers the ease-of-use and developer-friendly aspects of Linux in tandem with the power and scalability of the revolutionary ZFS file system. Nexenta products built on top of the NexentaStor platform provide unparalleled capabilities in managing multivendor environments, extreme efficiencies in storage administration and management, and core storage capabilities for content management, compliance, and more.
Nexenta Today
Nexenta’s management team has grown to include experienced veterans of name-brand storage, Open Source, Linux, networking, and infrastructure companies. This unique set of talents is propelling Nexenta to the forefront of the open storage industry.
As part of our core mission, Nexenta sponsors:
- Nexenta.org (www.nexenta.org) – a community that provides NexentaCore, an open source operating system
- NexentaStor (www.nexentastor.org) – a community that delivers an open source version of the NexentaStor storage platform.
A vibrant and exciting Nexenta community is growing day by day as evidenced by thousands of downloads and hundreds of licenses sold to date. Further, Nexenta’s products are being embedded into a growing set of products and solutions created and sold by hardware vendors, software developers, systems integrators, and resellers.
Nexenta products are sold largely via resellers, systems integrators, and hardware Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). Nexenta products are available in other languages / character sets, such as Japanese, and sold worldwide.