Nexenta

"This was very significant to us. About 97 percent of the virtual machines(VMs) that we store on Nexenta are Linux VMs which don’t contain anything other than just basic text files. So this meansthat the built-in compression in ZFS saved us about one TB of used data. Thinking of the compression, it’s excellent and when we were looking through the figures and graphs we will not be needing to buy more storage in quite some time.”

"While we were able to meet our customers’ needs, we felt like were weren’t in control of our own destiny when it came to storage. Software-Defined Storage was rising in popularity, and gave us the flexibility not to be locked into anyone’s hardware, so we investigated further. But, we found that not all SDS is created equal. In fact, much of SDS looks a lot like old school storage. With NexentaStor, we not only control our own ecosystem, but we’re seeing impressive performance improvements, including faster delivery of data-intensive applications such as SAP and CRM application use. Overall, we’re seeing a 50% average write latency coupled with a four times performance improvement."

“With IT infrastructure, the main thing is you don’t want to have anything brought to your attention, and since we installed Nexenta there have been no trouble tickets and no reports of performance problems with the file systems, it’s just gone as an issue. It’s performing absolutely magnificently.”