PALO ALTO, California, August 27 /PRNewswire/ --

- NexentaStor leverages ZFS to deliver breakthrough price / performance
and ease of use

Nexenta Systems, developer of NexentaStor(TM), the leading open storage
solution based upon the revolutionary file system ZFS, announced that Motek
Entertainment (http://www.motekentertainment.com), an Amsterdam-based
animation, motion capture and production studio, has selected the NexentaStor
open storage software appliance to allow multiple creative users to share and
view both uncompressed Standard Definition (SD) and uncompressed High
Definition (HD)video content over standard Gigabit Ethernet networking.

Motek Entertainment's deployment of NexentaStor supports HD and lower
resolution SD non-linear video applications, render farm file pools, and
global command and control applications. The system is platform and
application agnostic, supporting Windows and Mac via CIFS/SMB, AFP, NFS, FTP
and HTTP protocols. NexentaStor provides storage virtualization and NFS/CIFS
gateway functionality to iSCSI storage target systems.

A case study and reference architecture based on the experience of Motek
Entertainment and others is now available on the Nexenta website and through
Nexenta partners world-wide.

"At Motek Entertainment, we provide cutting edge production work for
features, commercials, television, video games, online and mobile media,"
said Nathan Ornick, Studio Manager, Motek Entertainment. "NexentaStor
delivers the ideal balance of performance, scalability, and cost-of-ownership
for digital media applications, and by switching to NexentaStor's unique
ZFS-based architecture, we've seen time savings for our storage
administration and, more importantly, limitless and instant backups for our
designs."

The storage virtualization architecture used by Motek is also being used
to support a range of performance-sensitive applications including graphics
research at Stanford University and others of the over 3300 NexentaStor
users. As discussed in the 'Motek, Nexenta, and NAS with iSCSI best
practices' case study available on the Nexenta site, Nexenta uses the ZFS
virtual block devices called ZVOLs to provide a level of abstraction on top
of the individual iSCSI servers. The use of ZVOLs allows NexentaStor to
deliver native thin provisioning, improved performance, and enterprise class
data integrity despite the use of inexpensive disks as storage. The ZVOLs are
then accessed as files by Autodesk and Adobe applications.

"We are very happy to highlight the positive experience of Motek
Entertainment in using NexentaStor in front of iSCSI for improved performance
and manageability," Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta said. "We're seeing more and
more users that like the cost savings of iSCSI but want the enhanced
performance and the advanced data integrity capabilities of NexentaStor. As
SATA disks can suffer from silent data corruption, the unique ability of
ZFS's end to end check-sums to catch this corruption is especially important
for firms like Motek who rely upon accurate data for their success."

Free trials of NexentaStor Enterprise Edition are available at
http://www.nexenta.com.

About Nexenta Systems, Inc.

Founded in 2005 and privately held, Nexenta Systems, Inc., has developed
NexentaStor(TM), the leading open storage enterprise class 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. Both solutions leverage the revolutionary
file system ZFS. More information about Nexenta Systems, Inc., can be found
at http://www.nexenta.com.

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