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Nexenta NexentaStorTM and OpenStorage A shift is underway in the enterprise data storage market. Systems consisting of proprietary hardware and are moving to Open Storage software running on industry standard hardware. The foundation of enterprise class Open Storage approaches, including NexentaStor, is the ZFS that has been deployed by well over 1,000,000 open source and commercial users. NexentaStor – Enterprise Power with Open Source Flexibility and Cost NexentaStor adds to the Open Source ZFS foundation a breadth of data management features, including unlimited snapshots, level NexentaStor Summary mirroring, integrated search, and industry leading software for the management of storage for virtualized environments. With NexentaStor, • Recognized as the leading customers can both save 70-80% over proprietary solutions and enjoy hardware independent superior functionality and flexibility as well as the support of an open OpenStorage solution. source community that collectively possesses far greater resources than • Created by team with an any single vendor. unmatched history in the OpenStorage market, including Customer Challenges writing the iSCSI stack for Linux and creating the first and most Analysts report that the amount of data that Global 2000 enterprise must successful non-Sun OpenSolaris store is increasing by 30-35% per year, doubling every 2-3 years. And distribution. enterprises that make better use of the information they have gathered are achieving competitive advantages in every market. However, • Deployed by several thousand enterprises and 100’s of enterprises are finding that yesterday’s business models and commercial accounts in just the technologies for delivering storage technologies no longer meet their first year of commercial availability. needs. In particular, customers are finding: • Creates shared pools of storage Expectation gaps are widening: Revolutionary new technologies such from any combination of storage as , Cloud Computing, and Solid State Devices (SSDs) hardware including SSDs. are coming to market. Yet, closed proprietary systems cannot be • Features unlimited snapshots and easily upgraded or expanded which means enterprises cannot benefit unlimited file sizes. from these exponential improvements. • Delivers end to end data integrity, Management overhead is increasing: Storage management integrated search, and inline virus complexity is increasing yet IT best practices developed for managing scanning. enterprise applications, especially virtualization practices, cannot • Provides full integration with apply to the management of traditional proprietary and closed legacy virtualization approaches even for storage solutions. mixed vendor environments. Compliance needs are rising: Corporate oversight, healthcare, and • Enables efficient one-click virtual privacy legislation being enacted worldwide is dramatically increasing machine and other storage the amount of data stored and the timeframe that it must be provisioning. maintained. Yet, even with highly protective RAID schemes, data corruption is increasing thanks to the increased complexity of storage infrastructures and the timeframes for storing data.

NexentaStorTM Rises Above the Challenges Running on industry standard hardware and scaling by simply adding more disks or upgrading processors, NexentaStor is: Cloud ready and Virtualization ready: With features such as 128 bit addressing, nearly unlimited storage file sizes, nearly unlimited numbers of clones, and support for multiple concurrent server virtualization vendors, NexentaStor is both Cloud and Virtualizaton ready. Nexenta has also developed the VM Data Center module, which integrates tightly with NexentaStor, VMware, and Citrix. The VM Data Center module allows for NexentaStor users to easily see and manage their virtual environments. For maximum efficiency, storage policies can be set directly from NexentaStor for particular virtual machines. Consolidation at every level: NexentaStor works seamlessly in heterogeneous storage vendor (including SSDs) environments to provide a low-cost, enterprise class, open source-based, inherently virtualized storage solution necessary to meet the demands of the fast growing storage needs of today’s enterprises. Unparalleled storage management and data quality: NexentaStor is unique in that it detects and corrects the most severe issue in long term data retention – silent data decay. It also provides a host of other data management capabilities including inline compression and virus-checking. Nexenta has also developed add-ons such as Pomona – for automated policy based provisioning and management of storage, active / active High Availability, and other value-added applications.

iSCSI/FC SAN NAS Unique features include: • Unlimited snapshots and clones • Block and file based • Unlimited file size • Ethernet Ethernet End to end data integrity • Thin provisioning iSCSI SAN File • Integrated search Sharing • Hybrid storage pools via Integrated Integrated NAS iSCSI/FC automated use of SSDs • Virtualization management • Cloud ready storage capabilities NexentaStor

About Nexenta

Founded in 2005 and privately held, , Inc., has developed NexentaStor™, the leading OpenStorage enterprise class storage solution and sponsors NexentaCore, an that combines the high performance and reliability of OpenSolaris with the ease of use and breadth of applications of Linux. Both solutions leverage the revolutionary file system ZFS. More information about Nexenta, including free trial software downloads, can be accessed on our website (www.nexenta.com) or our information line at (877) 862-7770 (USA). 2010-03-16

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