Nexenta

Each NexentaStor release has its own dedicated page. You can access the page either below or on the left-hand side navigation.

• NexentaStor 2.2 Landing page can be accessed here.
• NexentaStor 3.0 Landing page can be accessed here.

NexentaStor 2.2

NexentaStor 2.2 offers new features and improvements for storage users who are grappling with explosive data growth and technological and business model limitations of legacy storage providers. Specific new features include:

• Additional support for VM storage management—NexentaStor is the only OpenStorage solution on the market today that is both VMware and Citrix StorageLink certified and provides unlimited cloning and replication capabilities. The NexentaStor VM Data Center module provides complete visibility of a virtual server environment and establishes virtual machine storage policies.
  • Unlike legacy systems, NexentaStor has no limitations on the number of virtual machines that can be created via templates or incremental snapshots. For example, a customer using NexentaStor’s VM Data Center or StorageLink from Citrix can easily create any number of identical virtual machines or desktops with just a few clicks and with no incremental storage capacity consumed or impact on the performance of the virtual server host machines.
  • NexentaStor 2.2 adds additional virtual machine controls to VM Data Center and supplements the capabilities of the VMware virtual machine available for evaluation at no cost from Nexenta Systems at free trial.
• Open virus scanning—NexentaStor 2.2 includes system virus scanning with leading virus definition services. This eliminates the cost of purchasing and managing special purpose servers dedicated solely to virus scanning.
• Open data base integration—NexentaStor’s open, event driven API enables database administrators to easily integrate NexentaStor into their native database environments, where they can leverage its extreme snapshotting performance and flexibility. This capability has been near the top of the list of customer requests since NexentaStor added support for fiber channel earlier in 2009.
• Support for Asian language search—Unlike other ZFS based solutions, NexentaStor includes integrated search capabilities for the easy retrieval of specific file versions for restoration, which now includes the capacity to efficiently index and search Asian language snapshots. NexentaStor ensures that storage administrators can find and retrieve the correct information in order to meet even the strictest mean time to restore SLAs.

Availability and Pricing

• NexentaStor 2.2 was made generally available on 17 November 2009.
• Upgrades to NexentaStor 2.2 are available, at no additional cost to NexentaStor users.

Company
Company Profile
ESG brief

Datasheets
NexentaStor Datasheet - English. NexentaStor Datasheet - German.
Pomona Datasheet
Nexenta Professional Services Datasheet

Vendor Specific Solutions
LSI
Thomas-Krenn

Solution Briefs
Cloud Solutions
Enterprise Content Management Solutions
Operational Scalability
Unstructured Data Solutions

Industry Briefs
Education
Healthcare

Success Stories
Nexenta’s customer base is not only sizable but also is growing rapidly. This page provides a subset of our notable customer success stories.

	Coltex BV is a major player in the European fashion market with more than 380 stores in the Benelux region of Europe. Coltex is well known for the Steps, Didi, SPS Superstar and Forecast brands. The head office is based in the Netherlands with a total of 1680 employees. In the fall of 2008 they selected NexentaStor for their ESX 3.5 virtual machine environment after discussions with Inprove NL, a Netherlands based partner of Nexenta System. Click here for this success story.
	GoWireless, established in 1995, is one of the leading retailers of wireless communication tools across the United States. With 50% growth in stores in just over a year, GoWireless is experiencing enviable growth. This success story shows how Nexenta's product line is not only helping them tame their storage growth today but also lay the foundation for cloud computing in the near future. Click here for this success story.
	This case study reviews the experience of InfoUSA. InfoUSA is a leading provider of business and consumer information products, database marketing and processing services headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska in the United States. InfoUSA uses NexentaStor as a solution for high performance block level replication of large arrays of data. Click here for this success story.
	This case study reviews the experience of Motek Entertainment, an Amsterdam-based animation, motion capture and production studio. Motek uses NexentaStor to improve the performance, ease of management, and security of underlying open source iSCSI targets. Click here for this success story.
	The Dutch Public Broadcasting agency NPO(Nederlandse Publieke Omroep) utilizes NexentaStor to serve television programsto up totwenty thousand people per evening with projected doubling of annual volumes. NPO is now capable of managing the annual doubling amount of data at lower cost than legacy storage approaches. The solution enables the storing and delivering of television programs.Click here for this success story.
	FMS is a systems integrator supplying and supporting a broad range of products and services. This case study explains how NexentaStor using Intel Server Products enable an efficient storage device for the New York Stock Exchange. Click here for this success story.
	Stanford University's Principal Architect, Joe Little, recently updated his whitepaper on OpenStorage and on their use of NexentaStor for a variety of use cases. This whitepaper is fairly technical however it may be interesting to many readers for its discussion of the practical costs and benefits of working with OpenStorage and the discussion of hardware platforms as well. Click here for this success story.
	Trinkwasserversorgung Magdeburg GmbH (TWM) is responsible for the purchase, production, processing and transport of drinking water from deep aquifers to public utilities and associations, municipal utilities and companies. Serving over 800,000 residents in 338 towns and communities, businesses, and farms spread over 5,700 square kilometers, TWM must ensure high availability and highly resilient operations. TWM implemented NexentaStor to provide High Availability and Disaster Recovery capabilities. Click here for this success story.
	The Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel (University of Kiel www.uni-kiel.de) was founded in 1665. During its almost 350-year existence, the University of Kiel has not only advanced efforts but also set new standards in many fields as evidenced by its roll-call of Nobel prize winners. The Laboratory of Specialized Hematological Diagnostics (Hematology Laboratory) provides the wide range of diagnostic methods needed to provide vital information for treatment of hematological malignancies in today’s clinical protocols.  The Laboratory utilizes NexentaStor to consolidate across network protocols and to integrate with legacy systems in a clinical and research environment. Click here for this success story.

In today's demanding business climate IT organizations have no shortage of challenges but continue to be resource constrained. One of the most common complaints that business managers express about IT is the difficulty of meeting the expectations of business benefits from IT investments.

Challenges

Implementing and integrating mission-critical storage configurations lead to the following challenges:

• Implementation and upgrades: Implementation and upgrades in a complex and heterogeneous server, network, and storage environment can be both challenging and time-consuming.
• Integration: Integrating with existing infrastructure and applications may need both expertise and custom-coding – skills that not every business can provide.
• Troubleshooting: Finding the root cause, much less resolve, bugs is both time-consuming and difficult.

Solution Overview

Nexenta can help you address today's particularly difficult environment for IT organizations in at least two ways:

• First, by generating substantial cost savings from a Nexenta deployment.
• Second, by generating higher levels of benefits in a rapid timeframe by having Nexenta professional services engineers work with your team to successfully design, deploy and manage NexentaStor based solutions.

Our Professional Services Philosophy

At Nexenta we focus on providing  "Enterprise storage for everyone".  Our professional services engineers offer deep subject matter expertise combined with years of practical, operational level experience in a broad spectrum of business environments.  We understand that:

• One approach does not fit all.  While we integrate best practices into our implementations, we are keenly aware that each environment and organization has different objectives, resources and capabilities.
• You have a business to run.  Since your storage implementation is not the only item on your list, we are flexible in how we deliver our services, offering the full spectrum of delivery methods from on-site consulting to phone and email support.
• Storage is a relationship.  Our professional services engineers support their work. So, they have a vested interest in getting - and keeping -  it right.  An implementation is just the beginning of your relationship with Nexenta and we stay focused on the long haul.

We Can Help!

In short, whether you are starting out with your first "Enterprise Class" storage implementation or you are breaking the grip of vendor lock-in on petabytes of storage,  Nexenta Professional Services can help you be successful.

To view our current Professional Services offerings as well as to purchase online, please click here. For more information or for proposals for custom services, please contact us at sales@nexenta.com or at +001 (877) 862-7770 today!