NexentaStor 1.1 Released

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ — Nexenta Systems announced today
the release of NexentaStor 1.1. NexentaStor is the most broadly adopted
OpenStorage network attached storage and iSCSI solution and has been used by
over 4,800 companies world-wide to provide enterprise class storage via easy
to use, hardware independent, ZFS based software.

Customers include InfoUSA, the leading provider of business and consumer
information products, database marketing and processing services.

Jason Hagerty, System Architect at InfoUSA said: “We started using
NexentaStor to improve our replication and disaster recovery in the spring of
2008 and have grown into a large user of both the real time block and ZFS file
based snapshot capabilities. We’re extremely happy with our decision to
protect the data which forms the basis of our company with NexentaStor. We
expect to use NexentaStor 1.1 even more broadly in the future.”

    NexentaStor 1.1 includes the following improvements:

    -- Fault management for a broader selection of hardware platforms
    -- Active directory support that corrects many of the previous issues with
       OpenSolaris based Windows integration
    -- Easy to configure high availability
    -- An optional write once, read many (WORM) module which is useful for
       compliance
    -- An optional VMware storage management module
    -- Over 50 other enhancements and optimizations
    -- Turn-up and configuration services are also now available.

NexentaStor 1.1 is available for as little as $4,490 as a part of
integrated hardware / software solutions via partners such as PogoLinux in the
United States, Broadberry Data Systems in the United Kingdom, Inprove Systems
in the Netherlands, and TrustIT in Sweden. A complete listing of partners is
available on the Nexenta site at www.nexenta.com

“This release is our most significant since we launched NexentaStor in
April of 2008,” said Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta Systems. “With this release
we, and our partners, stake a claim to providing a leading primary tier
solution that also delivers amongst the best VMware storage management on the
market.”

For the remainder of 2008, the optional VMware and High Availability
modules are included at no cost with NexentaStor 1.1 licenses. Free trials,
best practices guides and community resources are also 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 or call: (877) 862-7770.

SOURCE Nexenta Systems, Inc.