Leading UK Integrator Offers NexentaStor ZFS Based Storage Appliance With Clustering and High Performance

PALO ALTO, CA and LUTON, UK, Mar 24 (MARKET WIRE) --
Nexenta Systems, Inc., developer of NexentaStor(TM), the leading open
storage solution based upon the revolutionary file system ZFS, has
announced a partnership with VA Technologies, a leading supplier of High
Performance Servers, Storage and Workstations in the UK and Europe.

VA Technologies and Nexenta are partnering to deliver Enterprise Class
storage solutions with optional clustering capabilities. The NexentaStor
based solutions offered by VA Technologies, including their OpenStor
storage array and their COBALTSTOR-Z NAS cluster, are delivering
enterprise class performance at a fraction of the cost of proprietary
solutions. Recent benchmark test results using Bonnie++ and Iozone
demonstrate CobaltStorZ performance at:

-- 1.2 GB/sec per second writes
-- 2 GB/sec per second reads

These results are in a standard configuration with the COBALTSTOR-Z
connecting to 5 OpenStor arrays via 10GbE. More details about the
engineering behind these impressive results are available directly from VA
Technologies.

"We're very excited about joining the community of Nexenta partners.
NexentaStor allows us to deliver enterprise class storage appliances that
provide unprecedented scalability, resilience and performance to the
marketplace," said Andy Bennett Technical Sales Manager of VA
Technologies. "Our OpenStor storage appliance based on NexentaStor(TM)
brings high performance, high availability Block and File I/O to a single
platform. OpenStor also provides a wealth of connectivity options from
standard Gigabit Ethernet as well higher performing connectivity such as
10GbE and low latency Infiniband for HPC clusters all of which can be
configured so that multiple interfaces work together to accelerate
aggregate performance."

The OpenStor storage appliances provide storage for the VA Technologies
COBALTSTOR-Z clustered NAS which is also based upon NexenaStor. The
COBALSTOR-Z delivers Enterprise Class features such as automatic failover
of head nodes, virtually unlimited file system size, single namespace,
integrated search features, block level real time mirroring and infinite
snapshots for backup and for disaster recovery. The revolutionary ZFS file
system at the heart of NexentaStor eliminates the growing risk of silent
data corruption through an integrated approach that includes RAIDZ and
RAIDZ2 as well as end to end checksum algorithms for every transaction
that together identify and correct data corruption before it has a chance
to proliferate through the storage system.

Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta Systems, said, "We are growing quickly thanks
in large part to partners like VA Technologies who are delivering the
storage industry's best price/performance and price/capacity to their
customers. We're extremely pleased to see the work that VA Technologies
has done particularly in the areas of high availability and high
performance. The COBALSTOR-Z is more proof that high quality systems
integrators can deliver industry leading solutions that incorporate
NexentaStor."

About Nexenta Systems

Nexenta Systems, Inc., has developed NexentaStor(TM), the leading open
storage enterprise class NAS/iSCSI 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 or call:
(877) 862-7770.

About VA Technologies

VA Technologies is one of the UK's leading suppliers of High Performance
Servers, Storage and Workstations. VA specialises in designing complete
solutions to solve today's IT Infrastructure issues. The Company has been
involved in building bespoke systems for some of the UK's largest Film and
Television Studios, Research Establishments and Universities, Financial
Institutions and FTSE 500 Companies. VA Technologies sells, supports and
integrates NexentaStor in the UK and Europe.

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