NexentaStor 5 Community Preview

Nexenta Systems, Inc. announced NexentaStor 5 Community Preview making an early access version of the next generation of NexentaStor, the SDS (Software Defined Storage) solution and a building block of the Software Defined Data Center, available to the company’s community.

The announcement was made today at Citrix Synergy 2015 in Orlando, FL. Availability of the next generation of NexentaStor – version 5.0 – is expected the end of 2015.

More than 46,000 Nexenta Community Members, who will have access to this early access version of company’s next generation SDS solution, will be able to collaborate with Nexenta to further drive innovation in company’s Open Source-driven Software Defined Storage architectures, solutions and software and hardware platforms. Community members will have an opportunity to influence the direction and development of the next release of NexentaStor.

Nexenta is an active participant and contributor in multiple open source projects. The company not only participates in the software development community via the Nexenta Community, but contributes through multi-OS support (e.g., Illumos, BSD, Linux, OSX, etc.), and along with other major brands, through open-zfs.org efforts.

NexentaStor 5 community preview offers advanced OpenSDS capabilities, easing migration to the Software Defined Data Center, strengthening data integrity and simplifying management.

“I feel privileged to be part of Nexenta’s fast-growing community and partner eco-system – which is evidence in itself that OpenSDS innovation is essential for enterprises who want to move to the Software-Defined Data Center of the future,” said Larry Smith Jr., community member, Nexenta. “Having early access to NexentaStor 5 through this Community Preview not only gives me the opportunity to get a jump on familiarizing myself with the solution, it allows me to take an active role in contributing to the development of technology that is driving change across a wide-range of IT infrastructures.”

“NexentaStor 5 Community Preview reinforces our commitment to OpenSDS principles by actively engaging with members of the Nexenta community and seek their input,” said Thomas Cornely, chief product officer, Nexenta. “Using NexentaStor 5 Community Preview, community members can be first to test the benefits of this latest version, which aims to bring ease of management and ease of programmability via a new self documenting REST API to our market leading NexentaStor solution.”

Nexenta shares the continued innovation of its NexentaStor open storage solution through its newest Community preview.

Enhancements include:

• iSCSI Block and NFS and SMB file storage services, ideal for cloud backend, near-line archive and generic file sharing use cases

• Performance, high concurrency, management framework

• Self-documenting REST API enabling users and partners to simply build powerful automation and storage orchestration

• Updated Command Line Interface for simpler deployment, configuration and management

• Increased performance and efficiency, requiring less rack space, power and cooling resources.