NexentaStor 2.1 Released: Improves Industry-Leading Hardware Independent NAS/SAN Storage Solution for Virtual Environments

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - August 17, 2009) - Nexenta Systems, Inc., delivering on its promise to continuously improve functionality and performance, today announced the release of NexentaStor 2.1. NexentaStor is a unified storage solution delivering enterprise class NAS and SAN functionality, based on the revolutionary ZFS file system. Now with over 11,000 users and in excess of 500 paid customers, NexentaStor offers an unmatched combination of enterprise class features and an open technology and business model that promises to end storage vendor lock-in forever.

A webinar will be co-hosted by Nexenta and Alyseo Systems tomorrow, August 18th, at 12pm eastern time, to review the experience of customers with NexentaStor 2.0 and to discuss new features of NexentaStor.

The focus of the webinar will be the use of NexentaStor to virtualize underlying storage in order to provide high performance, low cost, vendor independent enterprise storage to virtualized environments, including Citrix / Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware. With NexentaStor almost any underlying storage can be managed and presented to virtual servers via NFS or iSCSI or Fiber Channel. The management of the storage for these environments is improved through the use of the VM Data Center optional module from Nexenta that allows for one click storage provisioning and virtual machine cloning.

Alyseo Systems is a Paris, France based solutions provider recently named Citrix / Xen partner of the year for France. Their Director of Technology will co-present the webinar with Nexenta Systems.

Additional information including registration for this webinar is available here: http://www.nexenta.com/v2-webinar

NexentaStor 2.1 adds a number of capabilities to NexentaStor 2.0, including StorageLink integration for the management of storage for Citrix / Xen and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Other additional capabilities include the addition of Fiber Channel support to the Target block level management target as well as additional improvements to both block level and file level replication NexentaStor features.

Partners delivering total solutions, including NexentaStor and certified hardware as well as related technologies and professional services are available world-wide.

For more information about NexentaStor and complete solutions based upon NexentaStor, contact Nexenta Systems at +1-877-862-7770, email sales@nexenta.com or visit www.nexenta.com. Also, free trials of NexentaStor are available at: www.nexenta.com/freetrial.

About Nexenta Systems, Inc.

Nexenta Systems has developed NexentaStor™, the leading open storage enterprise class NAS/SAN solution and sponsors NexentaCore, an open source operating system 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 Systems, Inc. and free trials of the ZFS based NexentaStor can be found at www.nexenta.com.

NexentaStor is a registered trademark if Nexenta Systems, Inc. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.