Press Release Archive

Consolidates VDI with Business-Critical Applications on a Single NexGen n5 SAN
Monday, November 12, 2012

LOUISVILLE, CO – Nov. 12, 2012 – NexGen Storage today announced its n5 Series storage system has been deployed by ROCORI School District for its district-wide virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). The school district consolidated its VDI storage and the data storage for all of its other applications and systems onto a single NexGen n5 Series storage system. Based on a hybrid solid-state architecture, the n5 Series...

Guarantees Storage Performance for Virtual Machines with Storage QoS for VMware Datastores
Thursday, November 8, 2012

LOUISVILLE, CO – Nov. 8, 2012 – NexGen Storage today announced new performance automation capabilities for Software-Defined Datacenters. NexGen’s ioControl 2.1 offers the industry-first ability to provision and guarantee VMware datastore storage performance. By offering embedded world-class performance intelligence along with the ability to provision and guarantee VMware datastore performance within vCenter, NexGen makes it easy and affordable for mid-sized enterprises to...

n5 Storage System Provides 5X More IOPS in 80 Percent Less Rack Space than Prior Solution for 600 Desktop Implementation
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

LOUISVILLE, CO – Sept. 18, 2012NexGen Storage today announced its n5 Series storage system has been implemented and validated by Colby-Sawyer College for its campus-wide virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). The NexGen n5 Series storage system is the industry’s first PCIe SSD storage system designed from the ground up to manage performance, just like capacity, using Storage QoS. With the NexGen n5 storage...

Bruce Helart, Former Executive Director for Seagate, to Lead Engineering and Operations; IT Industry Veteran, Larry Cormier, Joins Board of Directors
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

LOUISVILLE, CO – Sept. 11, 2012NexGen Storage today announced the expansion of its management team with the appointment of David Bangs as senior vice president of worldwide sales and Bruce Helart as vice president of engineering and operations. The company also named Larry Cormier to...

Ensures Customers Maximize Return on Solid-State Investment
Thursday, August 23, 2012

LOUISVILLE, CO – Aug. 23, 2012 – Reflecting unwavering confidence in its solid-state storage systems, NexGen Storage today unveiled its industry-first solid-state performance guarantee. Under the terms of its offer, NexGen guarantees that it will improve performance per rack unit or capacity density versus any other storage system by delivering:

• 10X more IOPS per rack unit versus conventional disk-based storage arrays(1,2)
• 3X more IOPS per rack unit versus...

Offering Includes Veeam Backup & Replication at No Additional Cost
Thursday, August 23, 2012

LOUISVILLE, CO – Aug. 23, 2012 – NexGen Storage today announced it has formed a technology alliance partnership with Veeam Software to deliver instant virtual machine (VM) restores, faster backups, and offsite replication capabilities for disaster recovery (DR).  The new offering, available to NexGen customers at no additional cost, allows customers to replicate data from a NexGen Storage system to any other storage system supported by Veeam Software and protects...

Campaign Designed to Help Customers Sort Through Solid-State Storage Options
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

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New Configurations Offer Solid-State Performance at 5 to 10 Times Lower $/GB than All-SSD Arrays
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

LOUISVILLE, CO – July 17, 2012 – NexGen Storage today announced the expansion of its n5 Series of storage systems with new PCIe solid-state offerings. The NexGen n5 Series offers several solid-state configurations that deliver a range of performance levels and price points, and each n5 system offers both 10GbE and 1GbE network options. With higher performance and capacity in a compact, 3U footprint, the...

Friday, May 11, 2012

LOUISVILLE, CO – May 11, 2012 – NexGen Storage announced today that Network Products Guide, the industry's leading technology research and advisory guide, has named NexGen’s n5 Storage System the winner of the 7th Annual 2012 Best Products Award in the storage solutions category.

“NexGen’s n5 system delivers storage QoS and allows users to provision performance across multiple workloads within a shared storage...

Streamlines Purchasing for Government Agencies and Offers Profitable Growth Opportunities for Resellers
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

LOUISVILLE, CO—April 24, 2012— NexGen Storage today announced that its products are now available through Promark Technology’s Government Service Administration (GSA) schedule. NexGen provides the only midrange shared storage solution that offers both Storage QoS for managing performance and Service Levels to guarantee performance for mission-critical...

NexGen Simplifies Storage QoS with ‘Cruise Control’ Performance Management Capabilities
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

LOUISVILLE, CO, NexGen Storage today announced the release of an Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Lab Validation Report on the NexGen n5 Storage System’s ioControl storage QoS (quality of service) capabilities. Typically available only with multi-million dollar systems, NexGen is the first storage vendor to deliver comprehensive storage QoS in a midrange SAN. The...

Annual Guide and 5-Star Designation Identifies the IT Channel’s Most Exceptional Vendor Partner Programs
Monday, March 26, 2012

LOUISVILLE, CO, March 26, 2012 – NexGen Storage today announced it has been named to CRN’s 2012 Partner Programs Guide, and was awarded a 5-Star Partner Rating.  NexGen's PAID Partner Program (Profit, Advantage, Insight and Deals) was also awarded a 5-Star Partner rating reflecting its ranking as one of the top channel partner programs among information technology (IT) vendors, and its...

NexGen’s n5 Storage System a Top Pick for the 2012 International Green IT Awards
Thursday, March 1, 2012

LOUISVILLE, CO—March 1, 2012— NexGen Storage today announced that its n5 Storage System is a finalist in the Virtualization Product of the Year category of the 2012 Green IT Awards. The Green IT Awards is an international competition that showcases technology companies that have made significant contributions to improving the IT industry’s environmental performance during the past year. The prestigious selection recognizes NexGen's...

Merlo Recognized for Launch and Growth of NexGen’s PAID Partner Channel Program
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

LOUISVILLE, CO—NexGen Storage today announced that Rick Merlo, NexGen’s vice president of sales, has been named one of CRN’s 2012 Channel Chiefs. This prestigious list of the most influential leaders in the...

Best-In-Class Margin Opportunities for Resellers with NexGen Storage PAID Partner Program.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

LOUISVILLE, CO and ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, MD—NexGen Storage and Promark Technology, a premier Value Added Distributor, today announced a new distribution relationship under which Promark Technology will distribute the world’s first midrange SAN powered by Fusion-io. Promark Technology is the inaugural distributor in NexGen’s...