Santa Clara, Calif. - June 3, 2014 - Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Software-Defined Storage (#softwaredefinedstorage) (SDS), today announced it has been nominated for seven awards at the UK Storage Awards (Storries XI). With five nominations for its NexentaStor SDS solution, the awards demonstrate how businesses of all sizes are relying on Nexenta to facilitate the mounting shift towards a Software-Defined Data Centre.
NexentaStor 4.0 is an award-winning SDS solution and a key building block of the Software Defined Data Centre. It offers enterprise capabilities for data integrity and workload performance, providing customers the flexibility to select their storage operating system independently from the hardware on which it runs.
The nominations for NexentaStor 4.0 are as follows:
- One to watch - Product Award
- Value for Money Award
- Storage Virtualisation Product of the Year
- Big Data Company of the Year
- Storage Product of the Year
The other nominations are:
- Storage Company of the Year
- Nexenta is the global leader in Software-Defined Storage and delivers secure, easily managed, highly available, reliable, and scalable storage software solutions via ultra-low TCO.
- Service to Industry Award
- Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO, Nexenta has been nominated for his services to the storage industry.
Tarkan Maner, Chairman and CEO, said: "These nominations prove that Nexenta is at the forefront of the Software-Defined Data Center movement. Our SDS solutions have already disrupted legacy storage vendors globally. Nexenta offers major enterprise business benefits for organisations that are sick and tired of being tied in to inflexible, Massive Expensive Storage Systems (MESS) and are ready to make a change for the future."
The Storries, now in their 11th year, offer readers of the UK's Storage Magazine the chance to reward outstanding products, services and people within the industry. The winners will be announced June 12th at the Grand Connaught Rooms, London.