In today’s data intensive environments, with their myriad business critical applications, it’s become all but a mandate for organizations to expand their virtualization capabilities in an effort to drive increased data center efficiencies. Handily, NexGen Storage offers shared storage solutions that will help propel these efficiencies.
The company, which just emerged from stealth last month, combines PCIe solid state with a variety of other technologies to deliver a storage system that...
Computer Technology Review -
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
InfoStor -
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The New Year is traditionally a time to make resolutions to lose weight, stop smoking or drink less. We asked several storage veterans what their top wishes were for the year.
1. Buzz-Kill
Greg Schulz, an analyst with StorageIO Group wants to see an end to the buzzword de jour. "Vendors, VARs and customers need to look beyond buzzword bingo, focusing on what can be applied to solve problems vs. solutions looking for problems in order to stretch budgets further," he...
InfoStor -
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
By Drew Robb. The New Year is traditionally a time to make resolutions to lose weight, stop smoking or drink less. We asked several storage veterans what their top wishes were for the year. 7. Quality of Service. The wish of John Spiers, CEO and founder of NexGen Storage, is for greater quality of service capabilities in shared storage. "Shared storage quality of service (QoS) will become a requirement for 'best practice' virtualization deployments," said Spiers. "CTOs are...
InfoStor -
Monday, December 19, 2011
The health of the storage sector can be seen in the number of interesting startups that have cropped up. A few years ago, venture capitalists were investing in almost nothing storage related. Times have changed. Here are a few companies to keep an eye on.
1. Cloudera
With cloud computing mania reaching fever pitch, it is understandable that the bulk of storage startups are found in this sector. Under that umbrella, however, they cover a wide range of differing...
SiliconANGLE -
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Apple is reportedly in talks to acquire Israeli flash solutions maker Anobit for a sum ranging between $400 and 500 million. Anobit offers a chip that boosts flash drive performance via signal processing.
Apple doesn’t usually acquire hardware companies, but buying Anobit is essential to further round out its ecosystem. Among Anobit’s clients is Hyni, the largest provider of flash memory for Apple, and Anobit’s chip can already be found in iPhones, iPads and other Apple devices. The...
StorageNewsletter.com -
Friday, December 9, 2011
For midrange SAN with SSD. NexGen Storage Inc. is teaming up with Fusion-io Inc. to deliver the industry's first Fusion-powered, midrange SAN designed for business critical virtualization.
With the integration of the Fusion ioDrive into the NexGen SAN, customers can extend low latency Fusion-io performance and implement virtual machine high availability for any application connected to the SAN. The NexGen n5 Storage System...
The 451 Group -
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Henry Baltazar Impact Report. NexGen's New Hybrid Architecture Accelerates Past Storage Rivals with Fusion-io Flash. Founded by the creators of iSCSI storage pioneer LeftHand Networks, NexGen Storage's management team is once again looking to disrupt...
Storage Switzerland, George Crump Blog -
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The NexGen storage system is designed from the ground up to take advantage of solid state storage and is the first system that we know of that integrates storage tiering from the first release. It is also the first storage system to use PCIe SSD for its solid state tier instead of using drive form-factor SSDs. This architecture provides the storage controller direct access to the high speed tier, removing the latency inherent in traditional SAS or SATA backplane networks.
The demand...
Enterprise Storage Forum -
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Last month, we looked at "8 Deduplication Products You Must Check Out," which highlighted deduplication products from Quantum, HP, EMC (Avamar and Data Domain), Asigra, Symantec, Atempo and Commvault. But that only scratched the surface on what is a thriving area of storage innovation.
Here are a few more: 1. NexGen Storage. NexGen recently came out of stealth mode with its Phased Data Reduction technology. The basic premise is that current dedupe tools...
Network Computing, David Hill Blog -
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Small vendors, especially startups, often tend to follow baseball great Willie Keeler's advice of, "Hit 'em where they ain't" by targeting a market niche which has potential, but where larger vendors either don't play or have a very small footprint. NexGen, with its NexGen n5 Storage System, does just that but with a more direct twist. And that makes it very interesting.
First, NexGen is attacking the midrange SAN market. Now, since this market is a pool that is filled with...
Boulder County Business Report -
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Two players in the area's revitalized data storage industry are teaming up to build solid-state storage devices and to collaborate on sales and marketing.
NexGen Storage Inc. announced Tuesday it will use the Fusion-io ioDrive in its NexGen n5 Storage System.
NexGen Storage is a Louisville-based company founded by the founders of LeftHand Networks Inc. Fusion-io Inc. (NYSE FIO) has a research and development center in Superior. Its corporate headquarters is in Salt Lake City,...
ChannelPro-SMB -
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
The Fusion-powered NexGen n5 Storage System is a mid-market solution that employs ioMemory’s performance while implementing virtual machine high availability with VMware HA, VMware FT, Microsoft Hyper-V Quick Migration, and Live Migration.
Shared storage provider NexGen Storage has teamed up with storage memory platform provider Fusion-io to provide what the companies are calling “the industry’s first Fusion-powered, midrange storage area network designed for business critical...
SiliconANGLE -
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
NexGen Storage has forged a partnership with flash-based hardware acceleration solutions maker Fusion-io to combine the latter’s technology with its own. The company said the ioMemory powered NexGen n5 Storage System, a hybrid mid-range SAN that’s designed to cut bottlenecks in virtualized environments, can cut overheads related to storage operating expenses by up to 90 percent. This is credited to its patent pending Phased Data Reduction technology. NexGen claims that the...
Network World -
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
A visual look at 5 up-and-coming storage companies' offerings. As the sheer amount of content on the Web has continued to increase exponentially, so too have the storage needs of large enterprises. We’ve reached the point where companies’ data storage needs can’t be solved solely via traditional physical storage servers and thus require solutions such as moving to the cloud or implementing large-scale caching operations on solid-state drives. The following companies’ products are among...
ITBusinessEdge, Arthur Cole blog -
Monday, November 21, 2011
Virtualization is not merely changing the way data environments operate and interact with each other. Increasingly, it is altering the physical landscape as well.
I'm not just talking about consolidation and resource utilization, but the way in which new generations of hardware are hitting the channel optimized for virtual environments — a development that will likely lead to dedicated, all-virtual infrastructure within the data center (dare we call them "silos"?) or fully virtualized...
Enterprise Strategy Group, Mark Peters' Blog -
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Following on from the Colorado-focused news I had in my last post, last week saw another local (at least to me!*) storage company emerge from stealth. NexGen Storage offers a hybrid PCIe solid state (which does all the heavy-lifting) and spinning disk platform. While that combination is no longer unique, the company’s advanced ability to set, control, and deliver performance levels by application (a proactive ‘performance QoS’ if you will) should garner it plenty of attention, especially in...
CNBC -
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
NexGen Storage, a leader in shared storage performance Quality of Service for business critical virtualization, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $10 million round of funding. New investor Next World Capital led the financing and joined existing investors, Grotech Ventures and Access Venture Partners. NexGen Storage emerged from stealth on November 8, 2011, and simultaneously announced the general availability of its flagship product, the NexGen n5 Storage System.
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The Denver Post -
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
NexGen Storage of Louisville says it has closed a $10 million round of funding. Next World Capital led the financing, which included existing investors Grotech Ventures and Access Venture Partners. Last week, NexGen unveiled its flagship product, the NexGen n5 Storage System.
The company says the n5 system has 76 times higher storage density than a typical disk-drive system, resulting in up to 90 percent storage operating expense savings.
NexGen Storage was founded by...
Dow Jones VentureWire -
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
On the heels of its first product release, NexGen Storage Inc. said it has closed a $10 million Series B round.
New investor Next World Capital led the round, which included participation from Access Venture Partners and Grotech Ventures, the two firms that provided the Louisville, Colo.-based company with a $2 million Series A round in February. The valuation wasn't disclosed.
"NexGen is a solution to a problem we had known existed and had been looking for a solution for a...
eChannelLine -
Sunday, November 13, 2011
NexGen has established their PAID (Profit, Advanctage, Insight and Deals) partner program, with an aggressive deal protection program which gives a significant gap between registered and non registered deals.
Louisville CO-based NexGen Storage has emerged from stealth and announced general availability of its first product, a solid state storage system with Quality of Service designed for business critical virtualization. The NexGen n5 Storage System seamlessly integrates an...
StorageNewsletter.com -
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Unveiling SSD SAN system with QoS for business critical virtualization. NexGen Storage, Inc. emerged from stealth with the availability of a solid state storage system with Quality of Service designed for business critical virtualization. The NexGen n5 Storage System integrates technologies, including PCIe solid state and patent-pending performance QoS, Dynamic Data Placement and Phased Data Reduction, to deliver new levels of shared storage control and efficiency.
Boulder County Business Report -
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
NexGen Storage Inc., a startup that develops data-storage technology, debuted its first retail offering Tuesday. The Louisville-based company has been working in stealth mode for two years and boasts many veterans of the area data-storage industry. Co-founder and chief executive John Spiers was a founder and chief technical officer of LeftHand Networks Inc., and co-founder and chief technology officer Kelly Long was a co-founder and chief software architect at LeftHand Networks. NexGen...
ITProPortal -
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
NexGen Storage introduced the n5 storage system, which is a hybrid mid-range storage area network (SAN). The special feature of this storage system is that it can be easily configured for performance as well as for capacity within certain virtualised environments.
Virtualised workloads have inherent input and output bottlenecks - the new hybrid system has...
Taneja Group -
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
In this Taneja Group Product Profile, we examine the challenges facing the data center architect when dealing with consolidating, ever-denser, next generation workloads. Clearly, the most difficult challenges show up in the storage layer. With this in mind, a new generation of storage array providers are coming to market, aiming to scale and provide more performance, in a denser footprint than ever before. But it takes more than just throwing IO at the problem, and NexGen has a unique...
Storage Switzerland -
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Storage virtualization abstracts the users from the management of individual disk drives. Instead, the administrator creates a volume and the storage system maps that volume to particular disk drives that it has installed. This technology saves the storage administrator the job of designing and provisioning a volume’s capacity and RAID layout. This efficiency in provisioning storage capacity is the value that most virtualized storage systems provide. However, when it comes to provisioning...
SearchVirtualStorage -
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
NexGen Storage came out of stealth mode today with a virtual machine storage system that uses solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard drives and applies granular quality of service (QoS) levels to “provision performance” across tiers.
RayOnStorage -
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
NexGen Storage a local storage company came out of stealth today and is also generally available. Their storage system has been in beta since April 2011 and is in use by a number of customers today. Their product uses DRAM caching, PCIe NAND flash, and nearline SAS drives to provide guaranteed QoS for LUN I/O. The system can provision IOP rate, bandwidth and (possibly) latency over a set of configured LUNs. Such provisioning can change using policy management on a time basis to support...
National Post -
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
NexGen Storage, a leader in shared storage performance Quality of Service for business critical virtualization, emerged from stealth with general availability of the industry's first solid state storage system with Quality of Service designed for business critical virtualization.
Virtualization Review -
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
NexGen Storage has come out of stealth mode with a mid-range SAN it built from the ground up to solve the shared storage mess and unleash the full power of virtualization. The NexGen n5 Storage System uses off-the-shelf hardware to achieve VM density...
InformationWeek -
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Storage veterans from LeftHand Networks offer n5 system with three tiers of storage that can tune performance based on IOPs, capacity, and priorities.
NexGen Storage emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday and introduced its n5 storage system, a hybrid mid-range storage area network (SAN) that can be easily configured for performance and capacity within virtualized environments.
The hybrid system is designed to manage the input-output...
Techrockies -
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Louisville, Colorado-based Nexgen Storage, the new storage firm co-founded by Kelly Long and John Spiers, said today that it has debuted its solid state storage systems. NexGen said that it is shipping a new, solid state storage system specifically aimed at providing quality-of-service capabilities for the virtualization market. NexGen Storage is backed by Access Ventures and Grotech Ventures; Spiers was previously founder of LeftHand Networks. Among features of NexGen's products are ability...
Denver Business Journal -
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
NexGen Storage Inc. unveiled its first data storage device Tuesday, putting a public face on a hardware startup that’s operated in stealth mode for two years. The Louisville-based company has high hopes for its n5 product — storage hardware for businesses data centers that combines solid-state and disc storage — because it aims to slash business’ cost of storing data from sophisticated software applications that companies need to perform well.