Nexenta Systems, the world’s leading provider of OpenStorage solutions, today announced a closer partnership with Supermicro, to offer value-added resellers worldwide an improved process to bring NexentaStor-powered devices to their customers. Additionally, the company launched Platinum Support which includes several levels of direct support required by the world’s most demanding storage users. With these strategic developments, value-added resellers will benefit from improved hardware that is more closely integrated with NexentaStor, as well as an additional tier of end user support services. With these improvements and existing channel momentum, Nexenta projects that NexentaStor-based sales by value-added resellers will increase from $70-$100 million in 2010, to approximately $350-$400 million in 2011.

Hardware Partnership with Top Tier Provider Supermicro

As a continuation of the companies’ growing partnership, Supermicro, the industry leader in server technology innovation and green computing, will carry the combination of Supermicro’s 3U Super Storage Bridge Bay (SBB) solution and NexentaStor as a SKU in their price list – streamlining the sales process for Nexenta Certified Resellers. Supermicro became a premier-level partner in Nexenta’s Technology Partner Program in August 2010.

“By adding the combination of Supermicro’s Super SBB and NexentaStor software into our catalog, we’re essentially removing any technical limitations for our resellers, so they can provide what their customers are demanding – performance and reliability at a reasonable price,” said Wally Liaw, Supermicro’s vice president of international sales.