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September 15, 2009

Mezeo, Nexenta Team to Offer Service-Enabled Cloud Storage Solution



Cloud storage solutions provider Mezeo Software has reportedly partnered with Nexenta Systems to offer a complete, service-enabled cloud storage solution to their clients.


Service providers can now deliver their own branded cloud storage service using Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform along with NexentaStor from Nexenta Systems that provides a high performance and highly scalable storage infrastructure to support the Mezeo Platform.

In a release, the companies say their joint solution enables service providers to accelerate their time to market, offer advanced cloud storage services and offer a competitively priced, dependable and secure service to their customers.

According to Mezeo President and CEO Steve Lesem, NexentaStor software fits well with Mezeo solutions because NexentaStor delivers truly enterprise-class storage performance and data integrity as well as significant savings in a hardware independent, virtualization aware solution.

He added, "To compete in today's 'eat or be eaten' environment, service providers need the cloud-scale performance that our partnership with Nexenta provides."

In addition, the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform offers high security with SSL encryption of files in transfer and 256-bit AES encryption for data at rest. This enables users to have anytime/anywhere access to stored files via the web, smartphones and desktop, using the Mezeo Native client for Windows and WebDAV-based connectivity for Linux and Mac.

Evan Powell, chief executive officer of Nexenta Systems, said that they chose to partner with Mezeo because of the superior user experience of their solution, including its use of RESTful Web services APIs and WebDAV support.

He said they are impressed with Mezeo's understanding of the requirements of service providers and their focus on helping service providers quickly deploy a range of feature-rich storage services to their own customers.

Founded in 2005 and privately held, Nexenta Systems offers open storage enterprise class hardware independent storage solution and sponsors NexentaCore, an open source operating system that combines the high performance and reliability of OpenSolaris with the ease of use and breadth of applications of Linux.

Jyothi Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jyothi's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Patrick Barnard


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