Nexenta reveals fast-growing Open Source User Community and Membership

“As a NexentaStor Community Edition (CE) user for over 4 years now, I continually see the benefit from using the community edition as this provides me with a great solution for home lab use, as well as being able to spread the word into the enterprise and having a solid background on the solution,” said Larry Smith Jr., a Nexenta community member. “If all companies provided a community edition to home users for their labs, now that would be amazing.”

The Community allows a growing base of visionary storage professionals to engage in dialog around OpenSDS issues and leading practices. The Community provides early access to upcoming Nexenta software releases, forums on topics of interest, and a renewed plug-in development programme with Nexenta prizes for winning designs. The latest forum is for NexentaStor on OpenStack, which is based on the company’s leading practice and configuration guides that make use of the Nexenta Cinder driver and its new certification for the Kilo release of OpenStack.

“In a world where data and application growth are exploding, IT staff needs a way to stay on top of the techniques that will keep their companies ahead of the curve,” said Dominic Watts of premium partner, NAS UK. “Nexenta’s commitment to facilitating the contributions of experts from around the world, places them in a class above any other company. Their belief in an open, collaborative environment gives my customers the freedom to develop stronger ecosystems and most importantly, control their own destiny.”

“The software-defined storage market is growing quickly, and it promises to be one of the key enterprise storage technologies of the future,” said Eric Burgener, research director at IDC. “While many enterprises have deployed it, others are still learning about how best to leverage it. Community programmes like Nexenta’s OpenSDS User Community provide easy, free access to this technology, and Nexenta’s proven track record of working with open source software developers provides a welcoming forum for storage professionals to familiarise themselves with its benefits.”

“Our community represents a place where we collaborate with our users on the advancement of OpenSDS,” said Thomas Cornely, Nexenta’s Chief Product Officer. “Nexenta’s open source-based software and our investment in a platform committed to the freedom of choice that open, software-defined storage represents, demonstrates that together we can drive meaningful change. Our growing membership shows that the world wants to move toward the untethered independence that Software-Defined everything –what we call OpenSDx—provides.”