ONStor and Nexenta Partner

Nexenta Systems, Inc. and ONStor, Inc. are working together to deliver total solutions based upon the OpenStorage NexentaStor unified storage solution. This partnership has already resulted in the recently announced Pantera LS 2100 models from ONStor and will result in additional capabilities and products in the future.

Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta Systems, said: "Almost as soon as launching the ZFS based NexentaStor in the fall of 2007 we started looking for the right proven enterprise class NAS provider with which to partner. Over the last several months of collaboration we have learned a lot from ONStor and are extremely optimistic about the market potential for this partnership. Customers can now enjoy a rock-solid solution from one of the best regarded providers of network attached storage, while freeing themselves from the shackles of proprietary storage."

The recently launched OpenStorage based Pantera LS 2100 series is a family of unified IP storage solutions that provides both iSCSI and NAS support in a single system. Targeting small and midsized enterprises (SMEs), the Pantera LS 2100 packs an impressive array of data management features, self-healing capabilities, and advanced storage management to deliver significant cost savings.

"We looked at developing our own management software stack from the ground up using OpenSolaris and ZFS and decided that it was far more prudent to build on top of Nexenta’s storage platform, giving us a faster time-to-market with a proven solution for our Pantera LS series family of storage systems," said ONStor VP of Marketing, Narayan Venkat. "Our development partnership with Nexenta accelerates our ability to deliver on an open storage platform, innovative enterprise storage software and data management features that hitherto have been available only on proprietary and expensive storage systems."