Swedish TerraTel Opts for Nexenta Through Partner Layer 8 IT-Services

Nexenta Systems, Inc. announced
that Web hosting provider, TerraTel AB,
has chosen two NexentaStor SAN solutions to underpin its entire virtual
infrastructure.

This has led to the Swedish company saving two-thirds of its storage costs.

Established in 1994, TerraTel provides Web hosting, email solutions
and backup services to hundreds of customers across Sweden, Scandinavia, and
Europe. 

After moving to a VMware infrastructure, it became apparent that the
company’s existing storage infrastructure, which included a number of different
SAN solutions, was unable to cope. The company required a consolidated,
reliable enterprise storage solution to underpin its virtual environment but at
the most competitive price.

After evaluating several solutions, with the help of
channel partner Layer 8 IT-Services, TerraTel selected NexentaStor.

Mattias Palsson, CTO,
TerraTel, explains: "NexentaStor
offers great performance and is incredibly flexible. The biggest benefit for
TerraTel is that we can implement enterprise class storage for a fraction of
the cost of a legacy system. With Nexenta, we no longer have to choose between
features or performance, we can effectively provide both and satisfy our
clients’ needs when provisioning new virtual servers."

NexentaStor, which is exclusively used for TerraTel’s VMware
infrastructure, is built on enterprise hardware from Cisco, creating two SANs.
Each uses 2U rack servers with 16 disks to create a combined total raw
capacity. Features include hybrid storage pooling, unlimited snapshots,
deduplication, and thin provisioning.

Palsson concludes: "We
estimate that by buying two Nexenta solutions, we have spent less than one
third of the investment we could have made with one Oracle SAN unit. This cost
saving provides TerraTel with additional capital, which can be used for other
IT resources to ensure we are meeting all our service level agreements."

Evan
Powell, CEO of Nexenta, said: "TerraTel’s
use of NexentaStor to manage its virtual environment shows that OpenStorage is
a viable alternative to traditional legacy storage companies. TerraTel’s
hosting business needs enterprise storage that can support and grow with it. No
other approach to storage can match the scale and flexibility of the
commercially supported OpenStorage-based NexentaStor. We look forward to a long
relationship with TerraTel."