Avere and Nexenta in Partnership

Avere Systems, Inc. has entered into a
partnership agreement with Nexenta Systems, Inc. to deliver scalable, high
performance, OpenStorage solutions based on a combination of Avere’s FXT
Series of appliances and Nexenta’s NexentaStor open source ZFS technology.

With this new partnership, Avere and Nexenta enable the
delivery of a storage solution that scales application performance
to millions of IOPS, provides petabyte scale capacity with enterprise
data management features, such as unlimited snapshots, inline deduplication,
and thin provisioning.

Avere FXT Series appliances bring the benefits of automated performance tiering and scale-out
clustering to any NAS environment. The FXT Series provides NAS optimization by
enabling customers to achieve performance scaling for their
applications, global access to data independent of where the storage is
located, and cost savings in both capital and operating
expenses.

"Scalar Decisions
welcomes the partnership of two of our most exciting technology partners,"
said Pat Misasi, Vice President, Strategic Partners at Scalar Decisions. "The combination of Avere and Nexenta allows
Scalar to provide a winning combination of high performance, scalable petabyte
class storage solutions at a price point and total cost of ownership that most
customers will find very compelling."

ZFS-based NexentaStor, is a fully supported commercial
software package that runs on industry standard x86 servers and provides joint
customers and resellers unified storage capabilities, including support for
CIFS and NFS storage access. NexentaStor customers typically experience cost
savings of 75% or greater versus proprietary solutions.

"Nexenta’s
OpenStorage products are the perfect complement for Avere’s NAS optimization
solutions, allowing enterprises to achieve scalability without limits for
performance, as well as capacity, at a fraction of the cost of traditional
storage systems without sacrificing any data management features,"
said Rebecca Thompson, Vice President of Marketing at Avere.

"A technology
shift in storage is underway in how businesses deploy storage solutions. The
OpenStorage Summit 2011 will demonstrate how partner solutions like Avere can
help deploy massively scalable storage solutions, at the best price to
performance ratio," said Jim Fitzgerald, VP of Business Development,
Nexenta Systems.