Nexenta and Canonical Join Forces

Nexenta Systems, Inc. and Canonical Ltd, the company behind Ubuntu and Ubuntu OpenStack, announced a strategic alliance agreement.

The alliance will allow Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack customers to benefit from Nexenta’s full spectrum of OpenSDS products for their large scale private and hybrid clouds.

Since its launch in 2004, the Ubuntu OS has become the choice for users of all kinds, from Fortune 500 companies to hardware makers, content providers, software developers and individual technologists. With developers, support staff and engineering centers all over the world, Canonical is positioned to help its partners and enterprise customers make the most of Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a cloud OS and Ubuntu OpenStack is a distribution of OpenStack. According to the OpenStack User Survey, over 55% of production clouds run on Ubuntu, many of whom have large requirements for enterprise quality storage.

Together the two companies will develop and deliver solutions that help customers simplify and accelerate large-scale Ubuntu OpenStack deployments on Nexenta OpenSDS solutions, including NexentaStor for File and Block and NexentaEdge for Object and Block. Nexenta has also joined the Canonical Charm Partner Programme and will provide support for Canonical service model Juju. Juju provides a high-level service model for automating the deployment and management of applications. Nexenta has also become a member of Canonical’s OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL).

Both Canonical and Nexenta plan to further extend their technology collaboration with the integration and availability of NexentaEdge through Canonical’s Charm program and packaging solution Landscape that allows users of Ubuntu OpenStack to choose and deploy Nexenta products as their choice for storage.

“Nexenta is excited to join forces with Canonical. Our goal is to take open source-driven software-defined storage technology mainstream. With data volumes growing at a record rate, customers are looking for innovative cost effective approaches. By working with Canonical we can combine the benefits of OpenStack with our market leading OpenSDS solutions,” said Tarkan Maner, chairman and CEO, Nexenta.

“With Nexenta joining Canonical’s cloud Partner program we plan to further extend our technology collaboration with the integration and availability of NexentaEdge through Canonical’s Juju tools,” said John Zannos, VP cloud alliances, Canonical. “Working together will allow Ubuntu OpenStack and Juju to easily choose and deploy Nexenta storage products for customers using OpenStack.“