PALO ALTO, California, December 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Second generation of widely deployed ZFS based OpenStorage solution

Nexenta Systems announced today the release of NexentaStor 1.1. NexentaStor is the most broadly adopted OpenStorage network attached storage and iSCSI solution and has been used by over 4,800 companies world-wide to provide enterprise class storage via easy to use, hardware independent, ZFS based software.

Customers include InfoUSA, the leading provider of business and consumer information products, database marketing and processing services.

Jason Hagerty, System Architect at InfoUSA said: We started using NexentaStor to improve our replication and disaster recovery in the spring of 2008 and have grown into a large user of both the real time block and ZFS file based snapshot capabilities. We're extremely happy with our decision to protect the data which forms the basis of our company with NexentaStor. We expect to use NexentaStor 1.1 even more broadly in the future.

NexentaStor 1.1 includes the following improvements:

-- Fault management for a broader selection of hardware platforms -- Active directory support that corrects many of the previous issues with OpenSolaris based Windows integration -- Easy to configure high availability -- An optional write once, read many (WORM) module which is useful for compliance -- An optional VMware storage management module -- Over 50 other enhancements and optimizations -- Turn-up and configuration services are also now available.

NexentaStor 1.1 is available for as little as US$4,490 as a part of integrated hardware / software solutions via partners such as PogoLinux in the United States, Broadberry Data Systems in the United Kingdom, Inprove Systems in the Netherlands, and TrustIT in Sweden. A complete listing of partners is available on the Nexenta site at www.nexenta.com

This release is our most significant since we launched NexentaStor in April of 2008, said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta Systems. With this release we, and our partners, stake a claim to providing a leading primary tier solution that also delivers amongst the best VMware storage management on the market.

For the remainder of 2008, the optional VMware and High Availability modules are included at no cost with NexentaStor 1.1 licenses. Free trials, best practices guides and community resources are also available at http://www.nexenta.com.

About Nexenta Systems, Inc.

Founded in 2005 and privately held, Nexenta Systems, Inc., has developed NexentaStor(TM), the leading open storage enterprise class storage 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., can be found at http://www.nexenta.com or call: +1-877-862-7770.

Evan Powell of Nexenta Systems, +1-877-862-7770, info@nexenta.com