Nexenta is a prominent provider in the infrastructure software defined storage market. How cisco and nexenta software defines storage for. Disrupting the storage market with opensource software. Dell, which is also oeming technology from nutanix, plans to add an option to. Nexenta continues to lead storage market disruption with. Software defined storage is not storage virtualization. Storage infrastructure that is managed and automated by intelligent software as opposed to by the storage hardware itself. See how nexenta s virtual storage appliance software, nexentastor vsa, can now run within a hyperflex environment without additional hardware or complex system reconfigurations. Its products are based on open source technology, and they give users a lot of flexibility in regards to scaleup or scaleout architecture and block, file or object storage.
Nexenta is global leader in open sourcedriven software defined storage. Sandisk partners with nexenta to offer open source. Nexenta is a provider of softwaredefined storage, data replication, virtualization and backup solutions for businesses. Supermicro and nexenta storage solutions are a series of optimized reference architectures ra based on supermicros industry leading server hardware and nexentastor, an open sourcedriven software defined storage platform. See how nexentas virtual storage appliance software, nexentastor vsa, can now run within a hyperflex environment without additional hardware or. This enables you to deliver software defined infrastructure for legacy and nextgeneration enterprise applications, virtual workloads, file service applications, and moreall while maintaining the freedom to. Privately owned hpc powerhouse ddn is buying softwaredefined storage business nexenta and becoming a fullscale enterprise storage supplier. Webinars nexenta global leader in softwaredefined storage. Nexenta intended to compete by creating a storage system that did not require specialized hardware. Dell outfitted revionics with nexentas softwaredefined storage system, nexentastor 4. Faced with the challenge of an explosion of data from macro. Nexenta was one of the first companies to bring opensource storage products to market in mid2008 and is now recognised as the global leader in software defined storage.
Their big problem is limited automation and an inability to adapt in real time to dynamic change requirements from the applications. Nexentas flagship software defined storage sds solution, nexentastor, delivers unified file and block storage services, runs on industry standard hardware. We are here to help at every stage of your sddc deployment. Learn how you can add files services to your hyperflex deployment using softwaredefined storage, and extend your vdi use case. How cisco and nexenta software defines storage for hyperflex hci. Ddn announces intent to acquire nexenta, the market leader. Nov 19, 2014 nexenta is the global leader of software defined storage solutions.
Nexenta is a prominent provider in the infrastructure softwaredefined storage market. Nexenta provides a 45day free trial for our complete suite of softwaredefined storage solutions. Cisco and nexenta partner to bring the benefits of software defined storage and hyperconverged infrastructures on the cisco data center fabric. The storage landscape is evolving from premium priced proprietary hardware and software solutions to open industry standard hardware and the benefits are significant. Software defined storage is an approach to data storage and management that virtualises the underlying hardware and enables the flexibility and. Nexenta is the only pureplay software defined storage solution on any protocol, any architecture scale up or scale out, any server, any disk and any cloud platform. Supermicro and nexenta strategic partnership is built to offer customers around the world the most comprehensive softwaredefined storage solution running on the global leader in highperformance and highefficiency server technology. Nexenta is the market creator and leader in open softwaredefined storage opensds software solutions for hybrid and multi cloud enterprise environments via nexenta anycloud vision. Sandisk partners with nexenta to offer open source softwaredefined storage allflash array.
Nexenta continues to lead storage market disruption with new nexentastor 5. Dell and nexenta costeffective softwaredefined storage. Nexenta was one of the first companies to bring opensource storage products to market in mid2008 and is now recognised as the global leader in softwaredefined storage. This research, intended for technology strategic planners, analyzes the state of nexenta s position, and offers strategies for nexenta, as well as its partners and competitors. Nexenta delivers the future of storage with advanced scale. Experience softwaredefined evolution with your new or.
It can be used to introduce storage beyond the vmware environment. Delivering softwarebased files services to cisco hyperflex provides. Nexenta systems is the worlds leading provider of softwaredefined storage solutions. Press release excellent growth of software defined storage market comprehensive study by key players. Dell extends nexenta softwaredefined storage to vmware. Instead of producing hardware, the company would provide software to run on lowercosting commodity computing hardware, a model later marketed as software defined storage. Expand and adapt to business growth without incurring additional software licensing costs and choose from a range of solutions with 44tb to 1. Dell and nexenta softwaredefined storage solutions offer a comprehensive suite of storage management services that run on dell servers and disk enclosures. Nexentas flagship software defined storage sds solution, nexentastor, delivers unified file and block storage services, runs on industry standard hardware, scales from tens of terabytes to multipetabyte configurations, and includes all data management functionality by default. Its flagship product is sansymphony, its software defined storage solution, which recently set a new world record for performance and priceperformance on the storage performance councils spc1 benchmark. Nexentas flagship open sourcedriven software defined storage opensds solution, nexentastor, delivers unified file and block storage services, runs on industry standard hardware, scales from tens of terabytes to petabyte configurations, and includes all data management functionality by default. Based on the zfs file system, nexentastor runs on vmware, windows, red hat enterprise linux rhel or citrix, in a scaleup. Check in with our bloggers and join the conversation here. Oct 17, 2014 nexenta offers a number of possibilities, he said.
Dells multiple software defined storage offerings are not confusing to. Cisco and nexenta partner to bring the benefits of softwaredefined storage and hyperconverged infrastructures on the cisco data center fabric. In their latest deal with nexenta, an open source softwaredefined storage leader, the pairing of nexentastor with sandisks allflash infiniflash if100 system underlines this shift. Nexenta softwaredefined storage with intel thats a tall order. Most data storage systems perform these functions reasonably well. Datadirect networks announced it is purchasing nexenta, a softwaredefined storage sds specialist based in silicon valley. In addition, dell and nexenta are offering an ra for the r730xd in standalone non ha configuration to deploy costeffective softwaredefined storage solutions for your environment. Nexenta deepens its partnership with veeam via softwaredefined. A leader in the softwaredefined storage sds sector is nexenta, a startup founded in 2005 to exploit suns opensource opensolaris operating system, creating.
Nexenta is the global leader in open sourcedriven software defined storage what we call open software defined storage opensds. Storage cost projections are becoming unsustainable, and organizations need new, more costeffective ways of delivering storage. In addition, dell and nexenta are offering an ra for the r730xd in standalone non ha configuration to deploy costeffective software defined storage solutions for your environment. Easily expand as needed expand your environment with a software defined storage architecture that readily adapts to business growth. Sandisk partners with nexenta to offer open source software. Meet the team driving the softwaredefined storage revolution. In this book, you discover how to deploy solutions that support desktops, big data, web hosting, search engines, and massive amounts of storage as a cohesive system that serves your organization well. Software defined storage is sometimes confused with the term storage virtualization, but as an article from crn explains, while the latter term involves separating capacity from specific storage hardware resources and thereby pooling storage devices, sds involves separating the storage capabilities and services from the storage hardware.
Thousands of nexenta customers have come to trust our opensource driven software defined storage software that enables a truly hardware independent storage solution. It was all very exciting and seemed like an amazing opportunity for me to share my softwaredefined storage skills and knowledge to help customers be successful and grow the company. Nexenta promotes its softwaredefined storage sds products as a way to reduce costs. Dell and nexenta solutions are also available in buildtoorder configurations based on dells th generation servers and. Nexenta is the global leader in open sourcedriven softwaredefined storage what we call open softwaredefined storage opensds. Futureproof your storage with software defined storage from nexenta.
May 06, 2019 nexenta is the original market maker and leader in software defined storage sds for multicloudfocused enterprises and 5g and iotdriven telcos and sps. Supermicro and nexenta strategic partnership is built to offer customers around the world the most comprehensive software defined storage solution running on the global leader in highperformance and highefficiency server technology. It was all very exciting and seemed like an amazing opportunity for me to share my softwaredefined storage skills and knowledge. And because revionics is also completely virtualized via vmware technology, revionics now has a onestop.
Ddn announces intent to acquire nexenta, the market leader in. Nexenta competitors, revenue and employees owler company. Nexentas open sourcedriven softwaredefined storage solutions provide organizations with total freedom by protecting them against punitive vendor lockin. Futureproof your storage with softwaredefined storage from nexenta. Softbank leads the strategic financing round along with a strategic agreement. We uniquely integrate software only open source collaboration with commodity hardwarecentric software defined storage sds innovation. Nexenta and cisco have teamed up to create a certified and tested solution to grant enterprise features and nas capabilities to your hyperflex deployment.
Nexenta is a softwaredefined storage leader whose portfolio includes block, file and object solutions to the ever increasing need to intelligently store and access information. Our tightknit teams are constantly collaborating with different departments, partners, and customers around the world to leverage each others knowledge and point of views. Dell and nexenta solutions are also available in buildtoorder configurations based on dells th generation servers and 12gb sas storage enclosures. We provide nexenta storage solutions for the most advance software defined storage in thailand. In this industry perspective we will introduce nexenta, our softwaredefined storage solution portfolio, business model, and market position. Easily expand as needed expand your environment with a softwaredefined storage architecture that readily adapts to business growth. Dell extends nexenta softwaredefined storage to vmware evo. The new revolution in enterprise it and cloud computing. Aug 29, 2014 nexenta explains the economics behind software defined storage posted on august 29, 2014 by eric slack nexenta is a software only, software defined storage sds solution that enables users to create storage systems with the x86based hardware of their choice and disk or flashbased arrays, with support recently added for allflash arrays. Nexenta and dell partner on open sourcedriven software. After three and a half years at nexenta, i joined another storage software company, an early stage start up. Nexentastor for virtual storage appliance is certified by cisco to provide file services for cisco hyperflex hci environments.
Hpes oneview is a complete it management solution that offers software defined storage, compute and networking capabilities. Delivering highly flexible softwaredefined storage, dell and nexenta solutions provide benefits such as san and native nas protocol support. Cisco hyperflex with nexenta softwaredefined nas nexenta. Cisco and nexenta have partnered to extend advanced softwaredefined storage features to ciscos hyperflex hci platform. A leader in the softwaredefined storage sds sector is nexenta, a startup founded in 2005 to exploit suns opensource opensolaris operating system, creating nexenta os as the basis for a zfs. Nexenta explains the economics behind softwaredefined storage. Apr 12, 2019 excellent growth of software defined storage market comprehensive study by key players. Founded in 1998, datacore software was one of the earliest proponents of storage virtualization and software defined storage. Nexenta is a softwareonly, softwaredefined storage sds solution that enables users to create storage systems with the x86based hardware of their choice and disk or flashbased arrays, with support recently added for allflash arrays. Nexenta s open sourcedriven softwaredefined storage solutions provide organizations with total freedom by protecting them against punitive vendor lockin. We offer full enterprise class data services for industry standard nas and san protocols, which have become table stakes, used by virtually all organizations to run their business.
Sep 11, 2019 cisco and nexenta have partnered to extend advanced software defined storage features to ciscos hyperflex hci platform. We offer full enterprise class data services for industry standard nas and san protocols, which have become table stakes, used by virtually all organizations to run their business applications. Thousands of nexenta customers have come to trust our opensource driven softwaredefined storage software that enables a truly hardware independent storage solution. To use it, youll need to be using supported hpe hardware. Nexenta s headquarters is located in san jose, california, usa 95110. We consider ourselves experts within the industry, even across our various teams and job functions. Sep 15, 2015 sandisks refreshed product portfolio and agreement with nexenta on the softwaredefined storage platform indicates an enhanced focus by the company on its enterprise storage segment.
Softwaredefined storage is an approach to data storage and management that virtualises the underlying hardware and enables the flexibility and. Learn how you can add files services to your hyperflex deployment using software defined storage, and extend your vdi use case. Delivering highly flexible softwaredefined storage, dell and nexenta solutions provide benefits such as san and native nas protocol support, unlimited snapshots and cloning, block and file replication, inline deduplication, and. Nexenta is the global leader of software defined storage solutions.
Nov 28, 2017 nexenta is the inventor and market leader in open software defined storage opensds with nearly 6,000 customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 1,800 petabytes of storage under. Nexenta is a provider of software defined storage, data replication, virtualization and backup solutions for businesses. Excellent growth of software defined storage market. Softwaredefined storage saving the economy nexenta. In this way, the pooled storage infrastructure resources in a softwaredefined storage sds environment can be automatically and efficiently allocated to match the.
Nexenta blog global leader in softwaredefined storage. The partnership between supermicro and nexenta touches all aspects of a customers needs including, tight mutual product development, product certification. The companys entry into the data storage included use at stanford. The companys flagship softwareonly platform, nexentastor, delivers highperformance, ultrascalable, cloud and virtualizationoptimized storage management. Nov 28, 2018 nexenta promotes its software defined storage sds products as a way to reduce costs. Software defined data centers for dummies, nexenta special edition, shows you how recent advances in software defined storage sds and software defined networking sdn can work for you as you attempt to unify your systems into a consistent and wellformed architecture.
Nexenta has become the industry leader for software defined storage which is a key component of the software defined data center. Nexenta has a set of file, block and object storage. Dell, nexenta help revionics implement softwaredefined. This research, intended for technology strategic planners, analyzes the state of nexentas position, and offers strategies for nexenta, as well as its partners and competitors. May 26, 2016 nexenta provides a softwareonly storage solution that includes a rich feature set across all block, file, and object storage needs. Nexenta is a proud partner of canonicals, resolving the petabytescale storage challenges of our customers with a complete, scaleout storage solution.
Sandisk and nexenta release opensource, flash software. May 07, 2019 privately owned hpc powerhouse ddn is buying software defined storage business nexenta and becoming a fullscale enterprise storage supplier. Nexenta has always been a software company, starting with their focus on creating storage products that. We uniquely integrate softwareonly open source collaboration with commodity hardwarecentric softwaredefined storage sds innovation. The acquisition will give ddn an expanded presence in the enterprise, telco, and service provider markets, as well as provide a more complete set of storage offerings for the companys traditional hpc and ai customers.