Simply Mail Solutions Chooses Nexenta for 128TB

Nexenta Systems, Inc.
announced that Simply Mail
Solutions (SMS), an email hosting company, has chosen a NexentaStor SAN
solution to underpin its entire international email hosting business.

Using Nexenta for its customers’ mailboxes, it has saved two thirds of its
storage costs and cut its storage management time by as much as 90%.

Based in Warrington in the UK, SMS provides reliable and cost effective email services to customers all over the world.
Although email hosting is its core business, it also offers web and server
hosting, enabling companies of any size to eliminate the hardware and
administration costs of maintaining in-house solutions. To remain competitive, HA
and performance of its systems are crucial.

An increase in its customer base and a significant influx in the level of email
and web traffic on a daily basis led to SMS exploring the best option for
replacing its existing storage infrastructure. SMS needed a solution that was
agile, reliable and could handle the IOPS requirements. Nexenta met these requirements at a lower cost than the current provider.

With help from VA
Technologies, a VAR of servers, storage and workstations based in Bedfordshire,
UK SMS selected a NexentaStor-based SAN.

Myles Winstone, marketing manager at Simply Mail Solutions explains: "Nexenta’s OpenStorage software provides
advanced caching and when it is coupled with SSDs it offers performance that
far outstrips our current requirements, allowing us to stay ahead of our
customers’ needs whilst still giving us the ability to easily scale up.
 It also offers enterprise class redundancy with replication capabilities
including unlimited incremental snapshots and cloning."

Central to SMS’ technical strategy, the NexentaStor SAN is dedicated to running
MS Exchange Mailboxes and provides the company with 128TB of raw capacity. In
addition to unlimited snapshots, Nexenta’s OpenStorage solution provides
enterprise features including hybrid storage pooling,
deduplication and thin provisioning.

Winstone concludes: "Nexenta has
allowed us to upgrade the storage systems used for our critical business
applications, at one third of the price of competing storage solutions. In
addition it has heavily reduced the time spent on management, in some cases by
as much as 90%, allowing us to provide an even more competitive solution to our
customers in the future."

Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta says: "Nexenta
is ideal for service providers facing increasing data growth and web traffic
demands as it offers superior performance, flexibility and scalability at a low
cost. An alternative to traditional legacy storage systems from big vendors,
it helps service providers such as SMS meet client needs effectively and remain
competitive in a tough economic climate."