Nexenta Grew 212% Q/Q in Europe

Nexenta Systems, Inc. has grown 212% quarter-on-quarter in Europe for the first three quarters of 2012, with Q3 being the best in its history.
            
Fueled by product innovation, Nexenta has seen additions to its European customer base over the last 12 months. With a focus on building and supporting its channel programme, the company is seeing a demand for its OpenStorage software solution.

Storage resellers in Europe, including Transtec AG in Germany, Network Attached Storage (UK) Ltd, Q5 AG in Switzerland, Server Storage Solutions BVBA in Belgium and Layer8 IT-Services in Sweden are responding to the customer demand for a cost effective alternative to legacy proprietary solutions from proprietary storage vendors.
            
Nexenta solves a pain point for companies struggling to balance growing data volume with legacy business model lock-in and aging technologies. The company’s open business model and track record with enterprise customers, including Ballou, Hamburg University of Technology, LeaseWeb, National Library of Wales and Simply Mail, proves its product is a storage solution for cloud deployments, virtualised data centres, and VDI environments.

Other Nexenta milestones in 2012:

• A 130% increase in active partners across Europe since the beginning of 2012
• Employee growth in Europe by 89%
• The debut of NexentaVSA for View, which simplifies the complexity of VDI deployments
• Partnerships with Dell, SGI
• A slate of contributions to OpenStack in April
• A partnership with Intel to optimise the Xeon E5 Server Platform in March

Jacco van Achterberg, sales director EMEA for Nexenta, said: "By delivering choice, flexibility, air-tight data protection and industry-leading price performance and breakthrough innovation such as NexentaVSA for View, we are achieving record-setting growth. A lot of the credit should go to our network of more than 100 reseller partners across EMEA, many of whom provide comprehensive storage solutions, powered by NexentaStor, for their customers."

Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta, said: "The proprietary storage industry has a stranglehold on IT innovation. OpenStorage solves this problem. Our NexentaStor platform delivers an unmatched breadth of capabilities, a software-only business model that enables hardware choice and industry-leading price performance particularly for high IO and high capacity unified storage workloads. In addition, NexentaStor is able to deliver massive improvements on storage TCO that the IT industry is demanding."