PALO ALTO, California, June 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Accelerating global customer and community adoption

Nexenta Systems, Inc., developer of NexentaStor(TM), the leading Open
Storage management software that provides enterprise class NAS/SAN/iSCSI
capabilities for 80-90% savings versus legacy solutions, has achieved a
number of milestones since the launch of the NexentaStor Enterprise Edition
in late April of 2008:

--   A customer per day: Customer adoption has accelerated to over 1 a
         day.  Recent reference customer additions include St. Mary's
         University and the University of Delaware.
    --   International growth in users and customers: approximately 65% of
         the over 3,000 free, Developer Editions that have been downloaded
         were downloaded to non-US locations; a similar percentage of paying
         customers are based outside of the United States.
    --   Release of additional user administration and security capabilities:
         NexentaStor was recently upgraded to support additional user
         administration and security capabilities.  NexentaStor now supports
         native extended Access Control Lists that are CIFS and NFSv4
         compliant as well as natively supporting POSIX permissions and also
         supports LDAP and Active Directory integration.  What this means to
         end users is that NexentaStor integrates even better into enterprise
         environments and does so natively, improving ease of use and
         performance.
    --   Quality system integrator partnerships:  Partners like ClearManage
         in Singapore, Nekonet in Finland, and FMS Ltd., in Northern Ireland
         have demonstrated the global demand for NexentaStor, which offers
         enterprise level capabilities with breakthrough price / performance,
         often resulting in savings to end users of 80-90% vs. legacy
         solutions.



Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta Systems said, "We're clearly riding a swell
of Open Storage adoption; for example, just in the last week we have had
record turn out at a hack-a-thon organized by the open source project we
sponsor, NexentaCore. Also, our in-house development team continues to grow
and to hit their milestones while being extremely responsive to customers. We
have a leading consulting firm using us for the automation of VMware storage
who calls us their best vendor in large part because our international
engineering team listens and responds quickly to feedback and suggestions."

Since NexentaStor was first released as a freely available beta product
in November 2007 over 3,000 users have downloaded the storage management
software. NexentaStor is available in a free Developer Edition and in a fully
supported, commercial-grade Enterprise Edition.

About Nexenta Systems, Inc.

Founded in 2005 and privately held, Nexenta Systems, Inc., has developed
NexentaStor(TM), the leading open source enterprise class storage solution
and sponsors NexentaCore, an operating system that combines the high
performance and reliability of OpenSolaris with the ease of use and breadth
of applications of Linux. Both solutions leverage the revolutionary file
system ZFS. More information about Nexenta Systems, Inc., can be found at
http://www.nexenta.com

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Web site: http://www.nexenta.com