Dell VAR Redapt Distributor of Osnexus

OSNEXUS, Inc., a specialist in software defined storage (SDS) solutions, announced that it has entered into a North American reseller distribution agreement with Redapt, Inc., Dell’s large VAR partner.

This agreement will enable Redapt to deliver a set of storage solutions based on the OSNEXUS QuantaStor SDS platform including cloud hosting, scale-out-NAS, DR, virtualization and archival storage.

“The market has been lacking an open storage solution that seamlessly allows us to deliver a broad range of features such as scale-out, HA, multi-tenancy, and virtualization” said Jeff Dickey, SVP of cloud solutions, Redapt. “With such a broad spectrum of customer demands we are always looking for innovative ways to deliver best of class systems and support and OSNEXUS has proven to be a great SDS partner.“

MediaAMP, a secure cloud storage provider, focused on servicing the needs of academic environments, utilizes Redapt storage and OSNEXUS QuantaStor SDS platform to deliver its hosted cloud infrastructure.

“We are delighted to have the opportunity to work with Redapt and OSNEXUS,” said Laurens Banker, MD, MediaAMP. “As a leading provider of secure digital content and media management cloud services to higher education, medical and research institutions, it is important to have trusted partners like Redapt and OSNEXUS.“

“Our channel partner network is a critical component necessary to realize our vision and we are delighted to have a relationship with an industry leading organization such as Redapt,” said Steven Umbehocker, president and CEO, OSNEXUS. “The future of storage is software defined and OSNEXUS will continue to deliver on our vision of unified scale-out file, block, and object storage that’s easy to manage.“

QuantaStor SDS delivers enterprise-grade software with consumer-grade simplicity. The QuantaStor storage appliance software is a combined SAN (iSCSI/FC) + NAS (NFS) storage system OS built on top of Ubuntu Server (Linux) which installs on any commodity 64bit Intel or AMD server. QuantaStor was designed for the IT generalist who has to do it all. IT administrators who have been overwhelmed with complicated virtualization, network configuration and storage set up find QuantaStor fast, intuitive and easy to use. The Web 2.0 management interface enables IT to operate provisioning and storage assignment in a few clicks with no management software to install.