Nexenta,
the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage
(OpenSDS), and Canonical,
the company behind Ubuntu and Ubuntu OpenStack, have today jointly
announced an extension of their partnership, creating a joint solution
which pairs Nexenta’s award-winning SDS solution with Canonical’s Ubuntu
OpenStack platform.
At last year’s OpenStack Summit, the
companies announced their strategic alliance to support enterprise
OpenStack customers and accelerate mainstream adoption of both
software-defined storage and OpenStack technologies. Today, more than
half of the world’s OpenStack deployments are built on Ubuntu, and the
company has selected Nexenta to help expand its enterprise storage
portfolio. Canonical and Nexenta integrated NexentaEdge,
which delivers high performance object and block storage services, with
Juju, a high-level service model for automating the deployment and
management of applications. The joint solution allows Ubuntu customers
to leverage NexentaEdge as their choice in storage solutions and
provides seamless integration with Canonical OpenStack clouds.
Canonical customers can now purchase NexentaEdge in two unique ways:
directly from the Juju
Charm Store, a collection of immediately installable workloads which
allow customers to deploy whatever services they need with Juju, or from
their preferred Canonical sales representative or partner. For
additional information, please contact the Ubuntu sales team by clicking here.
Nexenta and Canonical are both attending the OpenStack
Summit hosted in Austin, Texas from April 25-29. In association with
OpenStack Summit, Canonical’s CEO, Jane Silber, will be a keynote
speaker at Nexenta’s
OpenSDx Summit on Monday, April 25th at 6:30pm at the
Four Seasons Hotel. This night will continue the industry-wide dialogue
on the next big thing: Open Source inspired collaboration and
"Software-Defined Everything" innovation. Nexenta OpenSDx Summit will be
an exciting evening of stellar networking opportunities, special guest
speakers, delicious cocktails and dinner.
“We’re proud to support Canonical in accelerating mainstream adoption of
OpenStack technologies and are excited to provide customers with
advanced and enterprise-ready scale-up and scale-out solutions, service
and support they need for their OpenStack environments,” said Tarkan
Maner, CEO & Chairman at Nexenta. “We joined forces last year and will
continue to extend our strategic partnership to meet the needs of an
evolving market requiring better scale, service and support via Open
Source inspired collaboration and Software-Defined Data Center
innovation on certified, tested and packaged reference architectures and
beyond.”
“Nexenta is a commercial leader in software-defined storage and we are
delighted to offer their comprehensive solutions to our enterprise
OpenStack customers, and in addition, to collaborate on optimizing ZFS
for Ubuntu,” said Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Canonical. “Together,
we’re combining the benefits of OpenStack and software-defined storage
to deliver flexibility unparalleled by anyone else on the market.”