Nexenta and Canonical Extend Partnership

Nexenta Systems, Inc.  and Canonical Ltd, the company behind Ubuntu and Ubuntu OpenStack, have announced an extension of their partnership, creating a joint solution which pairs Nexenta’s SDS solution with Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack platform.

At last year’s OpenStack Summit, the companies announced their alliance to support enterprise OpenStack customers and accelerate mainstream adoption of both SDS and OpenStack technologies.

More than half of the world’s OpenStack deployments are built on Ubuntu, and the company has selected Nexenta to help expand its enterprise storage portfolio. Canonical and Nexenta integrated NexentaEdge, which delivers performance object and block storage services, with Juju, a high-level service model for automating the deployment and management of applications. The joint solution allows Ubuntu customers to leverage NexentaEdge as their choice in storage solutions and provides integration with Canonical OpenStack clouds.

Canonical customers can purchase NexentaEdge in two ways: directly from the Juju Charm Store, a collection of installable workloads which allow customers to deploy whatever services they need with Juju, or from their preferred Canonical sales representative or partner.

Nexenta and Canonical are both attending the OpenStack Summit hosted in Austin, TX from April 25-29. In association with OpenStack Summit.

“We’re proud to support Canonical in accelerating mainstream adoption of OpenStack technologies and are excited to provide customers with advanced and enterprise-ready scale-up and scale-out solutions, service and support they need for their OpenStack environments,” said Tarkan Maner, CEO AND chairman, Nexenta. “We joined forces last year and will continue to extend our strategic partnership to meet the needs of an evolving market requiring better scale, service and support via Open Source inspired collaboration and Software-Defined data centre innovation on certified, tested and packaged reference architectures and beyond.“

“Nexenta is a commercial leader in SDS and we are delighted to offer their comprehensive solutions to our enterprise OpenStack customers, and in addition, to collaborate on optimising ZFS for Ubuntu,” said Mark Shuttleworth, founder, Canonical. “Together, we’re combining the benefits of OpenStack and SDS to deliver flexibility unparalleled by anyone else on the market.“