Nexenta, the software-defined storage player, has partnered up with OpenStack company Mirantis, enabling customers to use the NexentaStor block and file storage solution with Mirantis OpenStack.
Mirantis CMO, Boris Renski, said: "Mirantis OpenStack gives developers and operators the reliability, choice and freedom they want for their private clouds. Working with Nexenta extends these values to their storage requirements."
Tarkan Maner, CEO of Nexenta, said: "We are delighted to extend the value of our customer’s investment in their Software-Defined data centers with our partnership with OpenStack leader, Mirantis.
"Nexenta’s unified Software-Defined Storage portfolio supporting file, block and object services is an enterprise-ready option for customers and partners deploying OpenStack."
Mirantis and Nexenta will extend their technical and commercial collaboration to other parts of their portfolio including Mirantis OpenStack’s on-demand, hosted option, OpenStack Express, and to NexentaEdge, Nexenta’s object storage platform.
Nexenta also announced that it will be joining forces with Solinea, a firm which specialises in cloud strategy and adoption services.
The move will help customers better integrate with Nexenta’s software-defined storage solutions.
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Maner said: "Solinea’s focus is to deliver agile cloud solutions to its enterprise customers that are dealing with an unprecedented explosion of data, caused by trends including social media, mobility, Big Data and the Internet of Things.
"Reliable, scale-able storage is a key component of any cloud deployment. Our fully featured Software-Defined Storage deployments deliver the flexibility, simplicity and reliability needed to future-proof cloud infrastructure now and into the future."
