Nexenta offers a software‑defined storage platform that delivers file, block, and object services across flash, hybrid, or HDD hardware. The solution supports both scale‑up and scale‑out architectures and integrates natively with VMware, Microsoft Hyper‑V, OpenStack and container orchestration platforms, providing high‑performance, low‑latency storage while reducing storage silos and total cost of ownership.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Enterprises often face fragmented storage infrastructures that lock them into proprietary hardware, leading to high capital and operational expenses, limited scalability, and difficulty supporting diverse workloads such as virtual machines, containers, and legacy applications.
Solution
Nexenta provides a software-defined storage (SDS) platform that abstracts storage resources from underlying hardware, enabling organizations to deploy file, block, and object services on any combination of flash, hybrid, or HDD devices. The solution supports both scale‑up and scale‑out architectures, allowing seamless capacity expansion as workloads grow. Integrated with major virtualization stacks like VMware, Microsoft, and OpenStack, Nexenta delivers high‑performance, low‑latency storage for virtualized and containerized environments. By leveraging open‑source components and a unified management console, the platform reduces storage silos, simplifies operations, and lowers total cost of ownership while remaining adaptable to future application requirements.
Target Audience
Primary customers are mid‑size to large enterprises and service providers that run virtualized data centers, container platforms, or legacy applications and need a unified, cost‑effective storage solution.
Features
- Multi‑protocol support (file, block, object) in a single SDS stack
- Scale‑up and scale‑out deployment models for flexible capacity planning
- Compatibility with all‑flash, hybrid, and all‑HDD hardware configurations
- Native integration and optimization for VMware, Microsoft Hyper‑V, and OpenStack environments
- Container‑ready storage services with APIs for Kubernetes and other orchestration platforms
- Centralized, appliance‑style management console for provisioning, monitoring, and policy enforcement
- Open source‑driven core that avoids vendor lock‑in while providing enterprise‑grade features