{"id":6339,"date":"2018-04-05T23:15:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2018-04-05T09:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T23:31:46","slug":"nexenta-announces-nexentacloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/nexenta-announces-nexentacloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Nexenta Announces NexentaCloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Nexenta_logo_tag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6377 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Nexenta_logo_tag-300x62.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Nexenta_logo_tag-300x62.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Nexenta_logo_tag-768x158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Nexenta_logo_tag-1024x211.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t spoken to <a href=\"https:\/\/nexenta.com\">Nexenta<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/storage-field-day-6-day-2-nexenta\/\">some time<\/a>, but that doesn&#8217;t mean they haven&#8217;t been busy. They recently announced NexentaCloud in <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\">AWS<\/a>, and I had the opportunity to speak to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mletschin\/\">Michael Letschin<\/a>\u00a0about the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Is It?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In short, it&#8217;s a version of <a href=\"https:\/\/nexenta.com\/products\/nexentastor\">NexentaStor<\/a> that you can run in the cloud. It&#8217;s ostensibly an EC2 machine running in your virtual private cloud using EBS for storage on the backend. It&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/marketplace\/pp\/B07BJ327WK?qid=1521958321607&amp;sr=0-3&amp;ref_=srh_res_product_title\">Available<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/marketplace\">AWS Marketplace<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Is deployed on preconfigured Amazon Machine Images; and<\/li>\n<li>Delivers unified file and block services (NFS, SMB, iSCSI).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to Nexenta, the key benefits include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Access to a fully-featured file (NFS and SMB) and block (iSCSI) storage array;<\/li>\n<li>Improved cloud resource efficiency through\n<ul>\n<li>data reduction<\/li>\n<li>thin provisioning<\/li>\n<li>snapshots and clones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Seamless replication to\/from NexentaStor and NexentaCloud;<\/li>\n<li>Rapid deployment of NexentaCloud instances for test\/dev operations;<\/li>\n<li>Centralised management of NexentaStor and NexentaCloud;<\/li>\n<li>Advanced Analytics across your entire Nexenta storage environment; and<\/li>\n<li>Migrate legacy applications to the cloud without re-architecting your applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>There&#8217;s an hourly or annual subscription model, and I believe there&#8217;s also capacity-based licensing options available.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>But Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some of the young people reading this blog who wear jeans to work every day probably wonder why on earth you&#8217;d want to deploy a virtual storage array in your VPC in the first place. Why would your cloud-native applications care about iSCSI access? It&#8217;s very likely they don&#8217;t. But one of the key reasons why you might consider the NexentaCloud offering is because you&#8217;ve not got the time or resources to re-factor your applications and you&#8217;ve simply lifted and shifted a bunch of your enterprise applications into the cloud. These are likely applications that depend on infrastructure-level resiliency rather than delivering their own application-level resiliency. In this case, a product like NexentaCloud makes sense in that it provides some of the data services and resiliency that are otherwise lacking with those enterprise applications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m intrigued by the NexentaCloud offering (and by Nexenta the company, for that matter). They have a solid history of delivering interesting software-defined storage solutions at a reasonable cost and with decent scale. If you&#8217;ve had the chance to play with NexentaStor (or deployed it in production), you&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s a fairly solid offering with a lot of the features you&#8217;d look for in a traditional storage platform. I&#8217;m curious to see how many enterprises take advantage of the NexentaCloud product, although I know there are plenty of NexentaStor users out in the wild, and I have no doubt their CxOs are placing a great amount of pressure on them to don the cape and get &#8220;to the cloud&#8221; post haste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t spoken to Nexenta in some time, but that doesn&#8217;t mean they haven&#8217;t been busy. They recently announced NexentaCloud in AWS, and I had the opportunity to speak to Michael Letschin\u00a0about the announcement. &nbsp; What Is It? In short, it&#8217;s a version of NexentaStor that you can run in the cloud. 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