Nexenta Citrix Ready Storage Challenge Winner

Dec. 13, 2011 - PRLog -- London, UK—December 13, 2011—Nexenta® Systems , the world leader in OpenStorage solutions, today announced that it has received the “Innovative Technology” award from the Citrix Ready Storage Challenge based on its flagship solution, NexentaStor™. The challenge was officiated by an independent group of Citrix executives and industry analysts, who judged NexentaStor against a number of other leading virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) storage solutions. The honour is further evidence that Nexenta is changing the dynamics of the storage industry by delivering ideal solutions at an unmatched price that address enterprise and cloud service provider’s biggest requirements, including primary storage, virtualised data centres and VDI deployments.

The Storage Challenge invited Citrix Ready partners to submit a brief video describing their technology, which was judged by an independent panel of experts, including industry analysts. Click here to view Nexenta’s video on their winning product, NexentaStor: http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/4603.

“Our win at the Citrix Ready Storage Challenge further demonstrates that NexentaStor is a game-changing product that is disrupting the storage market,” said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta. “With data volumes skyrocketing, enterprises and cloud providers require storage products that will dramatically cut costs while increasing support for a wide array of compatible open standard technologies in their data centre – and NexentaStor is emerging as the de facto choice.”

About NexentaStor
NexentaStor is the leading storage software solution built upon the ZFS file system. NexentaStor runs on industry standard x86 servers sold by a network of more than 250 certified resellers. It provides NAS and SAN capabilities, including support for CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, and Fiber Channel storage access. Customers experience the benefits of enterprise storage, including high performance and air tight data integrity with multiple replication methods, without the vendor lock-in and aged technologies of legacy storage vendors.


NexentaStor is already a popular solution for many XenServer-based environments. Together with Citrix Xen servers, Nexenta is delivering unmatched enterprise class capabilities at a fraction of the cost of lock-in based solutions.
 
About Nexenta Systems
Nexenta Systems is the leading supplier of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. Its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions. Built upon ZFS technology, and running on any industry-standard hardware, NexentaStor eliminates vendor lock-in and provides open, unified storage management at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems.

More information about Nexenta Systems, and free trials of the ZFS-based NexentaStor, visit www.nexenta.com

Contacts:
Emily Gallagher
Touchdown PR
Nexenta@touchdownpr.com
+44 (0) 1252 717040