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Nexenta TCO Model

Nexenta can help you save money on your Enterprise Class Storage costs. Its award winning product NexentaStor can deliver solutions at up 60% less than legacy storage vendors.

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Big Data Solution

Making Big Data Work: Storage is the Key to Exponential Data Growth

With big data, companies are generating breakthrough insights and analysis like never before. Yet they are stymied by how to store and extract the maximum value from vast volumes of raw, unstructured data piles. If you’re going to collect terabytes, and even petabytes, of business-impacting information, you need to store it smartly. Traditional storage products and architectures might no longer be technically or financially suitable to provide the scale needed to support this new paradigm.

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Cloud Solutions

The 451 Group: Interest in open source storage picks up steam

To gain some insight for an upcoming report on open source backup, the 451 Group recently attended the OpenStorage Summit. Judging from activity at the show, IT organizations – particularly cloud service providers – are finally taking a serious look at the open source alternatives to traditional storage systems. More than 425 people participated at the second annual OpenStorage Summit, almost quadruple the 118 attendees at last year's conference.

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Nexenta Enterprise Storage Solutions: Cloud Storage with NexentaStor

Cloud computing and storage providers are under severe price pressure, but they can't sacrifice enterprise-class features like high performance, virtualization support, or bulletproof data integrity. At the same time, they need to manage multiple systems with pooled storage media serving multiple tenants, to increase the power of flexibility of their cloud services while remaining price-competitive. Nexenta has the solutions.

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Intel Cloud Builders Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel Platforms

For service providers, hosting providers, or enterprise IT organizations looking to implement a cloud infrastructure, the knowledge, experience, and best practices gained from previous implementations can help to expedite planning and deployment. This paper outlines a reference architecture for a cloud storage infrastructure that integrates pivotal "scale-out" technologies including NexentaStor from Nexenta Systems, Intel Xeon processor-based servers, and Intel X-25M and Intel X25E SSD Solid State Drives (SSDs).

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Solutions

Optimizing VDI Storage Using NexentaStor

As Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions from Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft have matured, a new trend has emerged - instead of provisioning a single OS environment per seat, administrators tend to provision multiple virtual machines (VMs) per user. Scaling the number of VMs increases the demand for storage capacity and I/O performance, often requiring organizations to cope with greater complexity and cost as they expand legacy storage. Recognizing these challenges, Nexenta takes an OpenStorage approach that effectively counters the high cost, poor performance, and management complexity of traditional VDI storage.

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On the Radar: NexentaVSA for VMware View by Ovum

Storage continues to be the single greatest cost and most common reason for the failure of desktop virtualization projects. In mid-2012, Nexenta will complete beta testing of a virtual storage appliance that promises to solve this issue for desktop virtualization projects based on VMware's View software.

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Jumpstart VDI Deployments with NexentaVSA for View

Desktop virtualization has taken the IT world by storm, and for good reason — it vastly minimizes the headaches associated with desktop operating system upgrades, security patching, and software provisioning in comparison with traditional fat client architectures. Deploying a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment dramatically lowers IT administrative workloads and drives efficiencies that reduce both capital and operating system expenses, resulting in tremendous savings.

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Nexenta Passes 4,000-customer Plateau, Sharpens VDI and Cloud Focus

Storage software specialist Nexenta Systems has gone against the grain by refusing to create its own line of integrated storage hardware appliances, but has still managed to post impressive growth numbers. Although Nexenta's core NexentaStor software is based on ZFS, the vendor continues to provide differentiation through the addition of proprietary add-on packages, such as its new cloud archive module and the NexentaVSA for View product for VDI environments.

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Best Practices for Deploying Citrix XenDesktop on NexentaStor OpenStorage

Desktop virtualization is increasingly popular, allowing organizations to rapidly provision one or more virtual desktop sessions for individual users. As a leading desktop virtualization solution, Citrix XenDesktop transforms Windows desktops into an on-demand service available to any user, any device, anywhere. To do this, XenDesktop lets organizations easily accommodate a wide range of needs without deploying custom desktop hardware to each user.

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ZFS Solutions

We recommend reading the following ZFS white papers in order from first to last as illustrated below:

1.   NexentaStor: ZFS Copy-on-Write, Checksums, and Consistency

This paper started as an explanation of the term “copy on write” as it applies to ZFS, but the foundational concepts relevant to that discussion are equally applicable to many other great features of ZFS as well, so this paper was expanded and then broken apart to cover a broader selection of ZFS highlights often described in a whiteboard session. This first paper in a series starts with three necessary concepts, and the subsequent papers build upon this beginning.

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2.   NexentaStor: ZFS Snapshots and Replication

This paper started as an explanation of the term “copy on write” as it applies to ZFS, but the foundational concepts relevant to that discussion are equally applicable to many other great features of ZFS as well, so this paper was expanded and then broken apart to cover a broader selection of ZFS highlights often described in a whiteboard session. This second paper builds upon the first by describing how ZFS handles snapshots and replication differently from most traditional storage vendors.

Read first: NexentaStor: ZFS Copy-on-Write, Checksums, and Consistency

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3.   NexentaStor: ZFS Initialization and Resilvering

This paper started as an explanation of the term “copy on write” as it applies to ZFS, but the foundational concepts relevant to that discussion are equally applicable to many other great features of ZFS as well, so this paper was expanded and then broken apart to cover a broader selection of ZFS highlights often described in a whiteboard session. This third paper builds upon the first two by describing how ZFS handles initialization of RAID sets and resilvering after disk failures differently from most traditional storage vendors.

Read first: NexentaStor: ZFS Snapshots and Replication

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