“Cloud providers are aggressive about upgrading their hardware because they want to be competitive, but it’s problematic when they schedule downtime. They’d tell us they just bought a bunch of new servers and they want to move our instances around, so they’re going to have to take us down at …

"The Nexenta solution out of the box gave us 50% more storage at 60% less cost. More importantly, Nexenta already provides all the functionality that we want to implement over the next couple of years plus is innovating leading-edge approaches such as deduplication that legacy vendors probably won’t match."