PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - March 4, 2009) - Nexenta Systems today announced the
availability of the revolutionary Solaris-based Comstar iSCSI target as a
part of NexentaStor 1.1.5. NexentaStor is the leading provider of
OpenStorage NAS and iSCSI solutions utilizing the ZFS file system.
"Many of our customers access NexentaStor via iSCSI," said Erik Logan,
President and CTO of Pogo Linux. "Pogo is excited that our customers will
benefit from the 200-300% increase in read and write performance gained
from the inclusion of Comstar, all without losing any of the data integrity
and ease-of-use that NexentaStor is known for."
Unlike other iSCSI targets on the market, NexentaStor allows administrators
to back up and protect their data without impacting the performance end
users have come to expect. NexentaStor also enables easy management of
unlimited snapshots that do not impact the CPU performance. The addition of
the multi-threaded, next-generation iSCSI target Comstar adds value to
NexentaStor with its enhanced performance.
Advantages of NexentaStor as an iSCSI target:
-- the ease-of-use and power of NAS and iSCSI capabilities in one
solution
-- software RAIDZ and RAIDZ2 that avoids the 'write-hole' risks of
traditional RAID 5
-- native thin provisioning so administrators can over-provision
capacity, and add disks as needed
-- unmatched protection against silent data corruption, via end-to-end
checksums and automatic error correction
-- elimination of target-imposed limits on the number of clients
accessing the iSCSI target
-- automated use of SSDs to accelerate performance
Prices from Pogo Linux start as low as $3,300 for a powerful 1U appliance
solution that can be easily expanded via SAS ports and JBODs. NexentaStor
and PogoLinux are providing customers with world-class storage at a
fraction of the cost of legacy solutions.
"Especially in India and other emerging markets, iSCSI popularity is
skyrocketing," said Anil Gulecha, Director of Indian Operations for Nexenta
Systems. "With the first commercial, ZFS-based NAS/iSCSI solution to
include the revolutionary Comstar target, NexentaStor is able to provide an
unmatched solution to companies wrestling with booming data demands on a
tight budget."
NexentaStor leverages the ZFS file system to provide exceptional value and
performance, saving customers 70% or more while providing superior data
integrity,
ease-of-use, and scalability compared to legacy storage solutions. The
unique VM Data Center plug-in offered by Nexenta simplifies storage
management and protection of virtual machines. NexentaStor is available as
a software appliance -- a bare-metal installation on standard x86 servers
or virtual machines. NexentaStor is also available as a
pre-configured appliance solution from partners such as Pogo Linux in the
United States and Inprove in the Netherlands. Contact us for a complete
list of certified NexentaStor partners who provide NexentaStor on certified
hardware to their customers worldwide.
About Nexenta Systems
Founded in 2005 and privately held, Nexenta Systems, Inc., has developed
NexentaStor™, the leading open storage enterprise class NAS/iSCSI
solution and sponsors NexentaCore, an open source operating system that
combines the high performance and reliability of OpenSolaris with the ease
of use and breadth of applications of Linux. Both solutions leverage the
revolutionary file system ZFS. More information about Nexenta Systems, Inc.
and free trials of the ZFS based NexentaStor can be found at
www.nexenta.com or call: (877) 862-7770. Day to day info on Nexenta can be
found on Twitter: @nexenta.