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Start-Up's Profile: OS Nexus
By Jean-Jacques Maleval, Fri, January 7th, 2011
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iSCSI/NFS storage OS for clouds
OS NEXUS, Inc.
Headquarters
Mercer Island, WA
Founded in
January 2010
Financial funding
Self-funded
Main executive
Steven Umbehocker, CEO and founder: former engineering director at Citrix, Symantec, and Veritas
Number of employees
5
Technology
OS NEXUS's storage system OS, QuantaStor, was designed to address the needs of public and private clouds. It supports multi-tenancy by enabling administrators to create 'storage clouds' within the storage system where each user, or group of users can be assigned to one or more storage clouds and those users only see and can manage the storage within storage cloud for which they are members. In this way each storage cloud acts as a virtual storage array which can be assigned to specific projects and resource limited via quotas.
QuantaStor also supports auditing and chargeback accounting through APIs which provide cloud service providers a way of collecting the amount of storage and I/O bandwidth utilized by each user and/or storage cloud.
Products description
QuantaStor is a SAN/NAS (iSCSI+NFS) storage system software which runs on any 64-bit server hardware and can also be deployed as a virtual machine under Hyper-V, XenServer, and VMWare. The underlying OS is Linux-based, (Ubuntu Server 10) which makes it easy to update, maintain, and customize. It features unlimited snapshots, compression, thin-provisioning and remote replication.
How to install QuantaStor on You Tube
Platinum Edition includes remote replication and a higher storage cloud limit and is designed for larger companies looking to do site-to-site replication, cloud to local premises replication or vice versa. Enterprise and Platinum Editions both support NFS whereas the Standard Edition is iSCSI only.
Released date
September 2010. V1.4 available since December 3 with Upgrade Manager and Recovery Manager. The company has run into some problems with its current version of btrfs shipping with v1.3 and v1.4 AND is working on a patch to address the issues.
Price range
Free for 2TB, $1,295 for 8TB and $149 per additional TB. Price of support varies between $495 (Bronze) and $3,295 (Platinum) per year.
Roadmap
FC support (2Q11)
Amazon S3 backup (3Q11)
HA support 4Q11
Partners
Canonical, Fusion-io
Market
SME, media and entertainment, cloud service providers
Competitors
EMC, NetApp, HP, Nexenta
Our comments :
That's the fifth storage start-up that we discovered born in 2010 and another one involved in storage cloud with a software only solution dedicated to SMBs. But it could take some time to explain and to convince them to use cloud storage.
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