Below are success stories from satisfied Nexenta customers who have deployed Nexenta-based storage solutions. Here you can discover just how powerful our software is.

Ballou Case Study

Founded by Robert Ballou in 1997, Ballou Hosting Intelligence moved from the United States to Sweden a few years later, and then became part of the Malmo family of companies. Today, Ballou focuses on server operation, Web hosting, cloud computing, virtualization, and storage.

(Hosting, Cost Control, Disaster Recovery, High-Availability, Performance, Scalability, Virtualization)

Value Prop: By deploying Nexenta, Ballou spent 75% less than the potential cost of implementing a competing solution from the likes of NetApp.

BAS Group Case Study

BAS Group is the largest electronics retailer and e-tailer of the Netherlands and is a platform between vendor and consumer. Founded in 1996, Dutch retailer/etailer BAS Group experienced a huge expansion in July last year when it acquired Dexcom, owner of Dixons and Dynabyte, increasing its store numbers nearly tenfold from 25 to 230. In the process, the company’s employee numbers grew to 1400 and it turned into a €500m revenue operation.

BAS Group owns three retail chains (Dynabyte, Dixons and MyCom) and relies on what it terms the “clever integration of online and offline shopping” to give customers in the Netherlands the ability to order products online or in-store and to be no more than 10 minutes walk from expert help and physical products.

(High Availability, Performance, Scalability)

Value Prop: Big reduction in Support and Licensing costs

Budd Van Lines Case Study

Budd Van Lines (www.buddvanlines.com) is a nationwide independent household goods carrier specializing in relocating top executives of Corporate America. Budd Van Lines is an independent nationwide carrier, not an agency system. Its service delivery model, Team Pack & Team Haul, is more efficient, consistent, and provides a higher level of quality control and a better solution than a van line agency system. Every relocation provides a highly personalized and superior moving experience. Having started in 1975, today Budd Van Lines is proud to be recognized as America’s top rated carrier in the Surveys of Corporate Relocation Managers and Relocating Employees, conducted by Trippel Survey & Research LLC. In addition, the company has received numerous industry awards.

(Virtualization, Performance, Scalability, Cost Control)

Value Prop: Saved 75% on storage costs

CADENAS GmbH Case Study

CADENAS GmbH is a leading software manufacturer in the area of strategic parts management and parts reduction (PARTsolutions) as well as electronic CAD product catalogs (eCATALOGsolutions). With its customized software solutions the company acts as a link between component manufacturers, their products, and buyers. With its 300 employees in 12 locations worldwide, the name CADENAS (Spanish for "chains") has stood for success, creativity, support, and process optimization for over 18 years. In this success story, you can find out how CADENAS leveraged their ZStor-configured solution to maximize the power of NexentaStor.

(Data Protection, Hardware Agnostic, High Availability)

Value Prop: Lower TCO

Delano Regional Medical Center Case Study

Known throughout California and beyond, Delano Regional Medical Center (DRMC) is a full-service community and regional teaching hospital. DRMC serves 10 rural central California towns and is committed to providing an exceptional patient experience. With a total of 156 beds, DRMC is a privately owned, not-for-profit hospital with services including an Intensive Care Unit, a Sub-Acute Care Unit, a Medical Surgical Unit, a dedicated Surgical Pavilion, and an Obstetrics/Gynecology Unit.

(Disaster Recovery, High Availability, VDI, VMware for View)

Value Prop: 70% savings in storage costs

Ensequence Case Study

Ensequence, the interactive TV company, enables programmers, service providers, and advertisers to create and deploy a high volume of uniquely branded interactive television experiences across cable, satellite, telco, and connected devices. Using Ensequence’s technology, viewers can vote for reality show contestants, check real-time sports stats, or download recipes from cooking shows all from the convenience of a remote control.

(Backup, Disaster Recovery)

Value Prop: Cost Efficient, Maintained Budgetary Guidelines

Escape Case Study

With offices in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Vienna, escape GmbH offers design, development, and hosting services to customers in the online, telecom, and media industries. Customers include BMW, Nintendo, Vodafone, and Leica. Escape has one of Germany’s main mobile content providers among its customers and has an SQL database with more than one billion records. It was running approximately 100 virtual machines and 10 physical servers at its data centers. Other infrastructure included an SQL database, which currently manages more than one billion records for one of Germany’s main mobile content providers.

(Cloud Service Provider, Data Protection)

Value Prop: Savings in Maintenance costs during first year cover cost of entire system

Finance Case Study: NexentaStor Unified Storage at Top 10 Global Financial Firms

More so than many other industries, Financial organizations are dealing with the explosion of financial information, data centers, corporate mailboxes, and the ordinary day-today dealing of thousands of employees. The issue becomes how do you store this data, how do you make it secure and accessible, and how do you plan for both the short- and long-term needs of a company with exponential data growth.

(Backup, Cloud, Multi-User Access, Virtualization)

Value Prop: Company saved between 60-75% on storage costs while benefitting from NexentaStor’s superior storage functionality.

GridSouth Case Study

GridSouth Networks, LLC, a privately-owned Managed Service Provider, delivers high-capacity, high-performance grid networking, including 100 and 1000 Mbps Internet service, VMware vSphere Hosting, and managed Web hosting. GridSouth’s product and service offerings are designed and built around the philosophy of over-engineering, which leads to unsurpassed network reliability, resiliency, and, ultimately, extremely satisfied customers. Over-engineering includes fully redundant data centers, active standby equipment, and technical expertise to deliver cost-effective service plans with uncompromising results.

(Managed Service Provider, Replication, Unified Storage Solution)

Value Prop: Lowered overall cost of storage. No longer tied to expensive proprietary hardware.

Impulse Case Study

Impulse Advanced Communications is a service provider that designs voice and data networks that prepare companies for growth. For over 15 years Impulse has helped businesses gain a technological advantage by designing, implementing, and managing advanced communications networks that enable a geographically unbound workforce. Their services include FailSafe Internet Access, hosted VoIP, managed hosting, and network design.

(High Availability, Replication, Virtualization)

Value Prop: High performance, great features at an affordable cost.

iNet Case Study

Integral Networks (iNet) is an established provider of turn-key cloud-based technology solutions, managed services, infrastructure management, and value-added technical services to the channel and organizations of all sizes and from all market sectors.

(Backup, Cloud Service Provider, Disaster Recovery, Security)

Value Prop: Affordable scalability—$1500 per TB versus $10-$15K per TB for proprietary legacy storage solutions.

Intermountain Electronics Case Study

Intermountain Electronics, Inc.® is headquartered in Price, Utah and designs, engineers, manufactures, and services custom electrical distribution and control equipment for mining, power generation, refineries, utility providers, and all levels of government. Celebrating their 25th year of operation, Intermountain Electronics (IE) is one of the top 75 fastest growing companies in Utah and has won several awards including Best of State in their category in 2009 and 2010 as well as Utah’s 2009 Manufacturer of the Year award.

(Disaster Recovery, Low Carbon, Multi-user Access, Scalability)

Value Prop: Lower cost per TB of storage

KT Case Study

Established in 1981, and a privately owned company since 2002, KT (formerly Korea Telecom) is an integrated wired/wireless telecommunication service provider, with the largest portion of South Korea’s local telephone (95% of fixed line telephone subscribers) and high-speed Internet business. Its business includes more than five million IPTV household subscribers, a public cloud for 1.5 million private users, and nearly 1,800 enterprise subscribers, along with a new data center with Softbank employing 700 racks.

With the explosive expansion of data from smart phones, the Internet, and multimedia, KT wanted a storage solution for its public cloud services business that would support growth now and into the future. And, to compete against Amazon’s AWS, the solution needed to be low cost, flexible, and have the ability to scale as needed.

(Hardware Agnostic, High Availability, Scalability, Accelerated Deployment)

Value Prop: Storage cost savings of 60-70% over legacy solutions.

Mokko Case Study

Mokko Studio has been committed to the creation of compelling visual effects and animation for film, television, and commercials. With more than 70 experienced resident artists, the Montreal-based company provides cutting-edge video services, including multi-camera production and editing.

With an extremely high rate of daily data creation, along with high throughput requirements from network clients, Mokko was facing major data storage and retrieval issues. The company had to, on a weekly basis, groom large data sets so as to not run out of space. In addition, there was the added complexity of having to cater to all its in-house operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and OSX.

The entire system was far too slow and there was a growing need for a single file system in order to relieve management and access tasks. Mokko needed the solution to support the network load without any slowdowns, thereby keeping productivity high.

(System Performance; End-user Productivity; Operating Systems Integration; Scalability; Cost; Access / Retrieval)

Municipality of Rheden Case Study

The Municipality of Rheden's IT department is responsible for providing services for the people of Rheden and the application infrastructure for its employees. The infrastructure is heavily virtualised with as many as 90 virtualised servers using VMware ESXi. It runs a significant number of environments, including Zarafa Groupware, SAP / Netweaver, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, and many other Windows and Linux servers.

The Municipality’s HP EVA 4000 storage environment in its main office was suffering from performance and capacity problems. A decision was taken to replace the EVA environment and introduce a second storage infrastructure as a disaster recovery site to sync with the storage in the main office. The second site also would be used to provide a test environment and a copy of the production environment. The Municipality was under pressure to implement the new solution before any problems occurred on the old storage environment.

(Disaster Recovery, Performance, Cost Controls)

Value Prop: Interoperability and cost effectiveness

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School Case Study

The school recently was struck with the common issue of effectively storing increasingly growing amounts of data. The school’s aging Intel SAN storage solution was rapidly reaching capacity and, as a result, was slowing down and not providing the performance required.

Under pressure to make the most out of the school’s allocated IT budget, Mr. Munro enlisted the help of high performance computing specialists VA Technologies.

The aim was to find a flexible and reliable storage solution at a competitive price—one that would significantly upgrade the storage infrastructure, increase performance, and not overwhelm the IT staff with technical issues.

(Infrastructure upgrade, cost, performance, virtualization)

Value Prop: Storage costs cut in half

Scalepoint Case Study

Established in 2000, Scalepoint Technologies focuses on claims management services. The company’s intelligent claims management technology has handled more than one million claims through integrated turnkey systems. It has customers spread across seven countries and is continuing to expand as a multinational business.

The backbone of its business is the Intelligent Claims Management technology which, with more than 1 million claims executed, has proven its market leading construction with 75% of claims handled within the first call.

The company’s Dell EMC SAN was reaching the end of its life and was struggling to meet the required performance and capacity Scalepoint. needed. And the coming growth would only add to that predicament

(Performance, Infrastructure, Capacity/Scalability, VMware Compatible, Cost)

Simply Mail Solutions Case Study

With the daily increase in its customer base, and a significant influx in the level of email and Web traffic, SMS’ previous storage system was showing signs of strain. The cost of replacing or upgrading the system with the original supplier was prohibitive, so another solution was paramount to the company’s future growth and success.

SMS required a solution that was agile, reliable, and could handle the everincreasing IOPS requirements. The solution needed to be scalable, when needed, yet had to have some cost controls as expansion occurred.

(Service Provider, Performance, Cost, Scalability)

Value Prop: Slashed Storage Spend by Two-thirds

Space2U Case Study

Like many web-hosting providers, Space2U was faced with the increasing problem of growing volumes of data and finding a way to manage it effectively. The infrastructure consisted of numerous physical servers with direct attached storage units.

This decentralised solution provided a low utilisation ratio and hindered the company’s ability to expand and develop new offerings for its customers. In addition, Space2U also needed a simple way to pool storage so as to gain access wherever it was needed.

Immediate access to mission critical data is essential for most of the company’s customers, and Space2U needed to consistently and effectively provide large amounts of data at very high speeds.

(Hosting Provider, Cost Control, Performance, Scalability)

Value Prop: Lower cost compared to offerings from legacy vendors.

TerraTel Case Study

After moving to a VMware infrastructure, it became apparent that the company’s existing storage infrastructure, which included a number of different SAN solutions, was unable to cope. The company required a consolidated, reliable enterprise storage solution to underpin its virtual environment, but at the most competitive price.

Some of TerraTel’s reasoning for a major upgrade was that the company was spending about three times as much on storage as they had allocated. The need to control these costs moving forward was a critical company need.

In addition, performance metrics were suffering, productivity was down, and the company was concerned about meeting all service level agreements. TerrTel needed a new direction for its data storage requirements.

(Backup, Cost Control, Hosting, Performance)

Value Prop: Saved time and money, leading to more competitiveness.

Trinkwasserversorgung Magdeburg Case Study

Founded in 1994, regional water supplier Trinkwasserversorgung Magdeburg GmbH (TWM) is responsible for the purchase, production, processing, and transport of drinking water from deep aquifers to public utilities and associations, municipal utilities, and regional companies. TWM delivers water to six counties, serving more than 800,000 residents, including 338 towns and communities, businesses, and farms spread across 5,700 square kilometers. TWM ensures high availability and highly resilient water acquisition and delivery operations.

(Backup, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Replication)

Value prop: With Nexenta, spent less than one-third than with previous legacy solution.

TUHH Case Study

The Institute of Aircraft Cabin Systems at Hamburg University of Technology researches solutions that enable companies to overcome limits of existing technologies. Founded in 2008 and funded by Airbus Operations GmbH, the institute is in a growth phase and cooperates with the aircraft manufacturer and its suppliers in research and development. For education of next generation of engineers in aircraft industry the institute relies on professional and modern IT solutions.

The institute is an independent entity within Hamburg University of Technology. The building is located close to Airbus Operation in Hamburg-Finkenwerder and, thus, is remote to the university’s main campus in Hamburg-Harburg. When funded in 2008, the institute had the challenge to set up a new IT infrastructure at its site, meeting various demands of administrators and the growing numbers of research assistants, and students, as well as the nature of the research and education itself, which is heavily reliant on state-of-the-art computing services.

(Education, Scalability, Infrastructure, Cost, Performance, Flexibility)

Value Prop: 70% less cost than with legacy solutions.

University of Kiel Case Study

The Laboratory of Specialized Hematological Diagnostics (Hematology Laboratory) provides a wide range of diagnostic methods needed to provide vital information for treatment of hematological malignancies in today’s clinical protocols. Diagnostics include classical methods such as morphology, as well as advanced methods inmultiparameter flow cytometry and molecular genetic analyses.

The consolidation challenges faced by the Hematology Laboratory were numerous, and included utilization of a wide array of servers such as Linux, Windows NT, and Nexenta/OpenSolaris. The end solution needed to integrate into a Citrix Xen virtualization environment. It also had to enabe both block (iSCSI) and file access from a single storage array.

(Education, Infrastructure, Virtualization, Performance)

VESK Case Study

In 2009, after nine months of development, the founders of IT support specialist Appiam set up VESK, one of the fi rst companies to implement virtual desktops in the UK. Today, VESK is fully owned by Appiam Limited, a London-based IT support provider specialist renowned in the industry for excellent levels of IT and customer support. VESK now is the fastest growing supplier of virtual desktops to SMEs in the UK, with customer sectors ranging from local government with more than 500 users to small businesses, with as little as three end users.

(High Availability, VDI)

Value Prop: Avoided high costs of legacy storage solutions. Stayed within budget and still got all required features.

viaForensics Case Study

viaForensics® is an innovative digital forensics, security and e-discovery firm providing services to corporations, law firms and law enforcement/government agencies. Their areas of focus include computer and mobile forensics, threat and fraud protection, and forensics training. They are the leading experts on iPhone forensics and Android forensics and have developed a suite of unique services to serve the security and e-discovery needs of organizations.

(Backup, Data Retention, Disaster Recovery, Large File Size, Security)

Value Prop: High-level security, data retention, and recovery. Overall system costs dropped dramatically.

virtion GmbH Case Study

virtion GmbH’s mission is to provide small and medium sized companies managed hosting services covering infrastructure services, application management services, and support services, along with server virtualization, storage virtualization, and data backup / recovery to its customers.

The aim of this German hosting company is to give customers the choice of running business applications on their own infrastructure or as a managed cloud service in an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model. virtion also provides customers with the ability to outsource all of their internal and external services.

(Accelerated Deployment, Security, Service Provider, Data Protection, High Availability)

Value Prop: Saved about €70,00 per year in administrative costs.

Vigilant Case Study

For more than fifty years, Vigilant has been counseling employers in the Northwest and California. The staff of employment attorneys, along with safety, HR, and benefits professionals guide businesses from all sectors, large and small, through the maze of employment issues, from the everyday to the complex.

Vigilant is a company that uses technology to advance its business. Ironically, it was all that technology that was crimping the company’s ability to grow and serve its customers. Using SharePoint 1.0, deployed on a Windows 2000 server in 2005, and then using WSS 3.0 since 2009, Vigilant realized that it needed a migration path from its older servers that were using aging RAID arrays. A major problem existed in that when new services were added (Microsoft Dynamics CRM, WSS 3.0, Mitel PBX, and VoIP phones), the system would overheat, leading to potential appliance and staff downtime.

(Virtualization, Data Retention, Cost Controls)

Value Prop: Overall storage system costs dropped dramatically.

Zend Case Study

Zend PHP is the leading developer of PHP and provides support services to customers around the world. Its IT systems are used to develop and test PHP solutions. From pilot to production, Zend helps increase the maturity of the PHP application life cycle through a combination of popular open source projects, enterprise-grade products, and comprehensive service and support.

(Support Services Provider, Unified Storage Solution, VMware Lab Manager) 

Value Prop: Cost savings of 60% compared to other solutions.