Nexenta: Software Defined Storage
The software-defined enterprise is a key industry trend, and there's an evolution going on related to how companies are deploying enterprise infrastructures in the future. IT is evolving to a software-defined solution in which the server is at the center of the infrastructure.
Nexenta Software-defined storage pulls the kinds of storage services performed by typical storage hardware, including such functions as deduplication, replication, snapshots and thin provisioning, out of the hardware and into a software layer which can then be deployed on top of industry-standard server hardware.
Nexenta Systems provides Software-Defined Storage (SDS) solutions. It provides virtualization and cloud-optimized storage solution software for various hardware platforms. The company offers NexentaStor, a Software-Defined Storage (SDS) platform providing file and block storage services for enterprise applications. It also allows clients to transform their storage infrastructure.
Nexenta's award-winning SDS solution is a key building block of the Software-Defined Data Center and one that is helping companies' transition away from massively expensive storage systems. Nexenta is trying to do is abstract storage technology from the hardware and software, and make it into a true virtualized environment. Blue Eye is making sure it's ready for the next wave.
Applications:
Nexenta's flagship product is NexentaStor, a software-based appliance for network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) services. NexentaStor was derived from the former Nexenta OS and based on the illumos operating system. The software runs on commodity hardware and creates resilient storage pools consisting of multiple hard disk drives and solid-state drives. Data can be organized in a flexible number of filesystems and block storage, and files can be accessed over the widely used NFS and CIFS protocols, while block storage uses iSCSI or Fibre Channel.[18] NexentaStor allows online snapshots to be taken of data and replicated to other systems.
- NexentaStor: This service delivers unified file and block storage services to consumers. It runs on industry standard hardware which scales from tens of terabytes to petabyte configurations. It includes all data management functionality by default.
- NexentaConnect: A suite of software solutions to combine Software-Defined Storage with cloud, enterprise, and desktop deployments. It provides acceleration, automation and analytics.
- NexentaEdge: This solution is a scale out object storage system. This service provides Cinder Block and Swift/S3object storage services, for integration with OpenStack through a Horizon management plug-in. Also providing storage for Web 2.0 and other modern application development. It simplifies storage management and capacity planning.
- NexentaFusion: This service provides Analytics and Orchestration Software that automates arrangement, coordination, and management of complex compute systems, data stores, and services without the need for administrators to pre-define the nature and placement of data.