SanDisk has announced an investment in software defined storage firm Nexenta Systems.
Nexenta's software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers storage solutions for both private and public cloud environments.
The company has over 5,000 customer deployments with more than 800 petabytes of storage under management. Nexenta partners with key technology vendors, including Dell, Cisco and others, to support cloud deployments built on CloudStack and OpenStack solutions.
"SDS and flash-based storage solutions are both complementary and disruptive technologies in the enterprise," said Sumit Sadana, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, SanDisk. "Together, these technologies offer the capability to deploy high-performance, scalable solutions with significantly improved total cost of ownership that customers are looking for. We are looking forward to collaborating with Nexenta to optimise SDS solutions for flash technology in enterprise applications."
