Web hosting company LeaseWeb recently adopted NexentaStor, the leading solution from software-defined storage company Nexenta systems. LeaseWeb offers a large variety of hosting services – including colocation and cloud. The company recently launched a new cloud offering backed by NexentaStor to continue its guarantee of 99.999 percent uptime and 2.5 terabytes/second capacity.
Making up the new cloud service are numerous storage-area networks that provide more than 450 TB of total capacity. LeaseWeb also benefits from enterprise-grade features such as silent data corruption detection. While performance guarantees are critical to enterprise cloud deployments, the market’s push for greater integration among service providers has made interoperability a high-value offering among cloud storage companies.
“We needed an enterprise feature-rich storage solution,” said Marek Lubinski, virtualization engineer at LeaseWeb. “Nexenta’s OpenStorage software provides advanced caching and, when coupled with SSDs, it offers the performance we needed. It also offers enterprise-class redundancy with replication capabilities, including unlimited incremental snapshots and cloning, meaning we can scale up and out without the worry of escalating costs.”
Nexenta is a Seagate Builder Alliance partner.
The advantage of shared storage
SAN solutions have become increasingly popular as more organizations implement virtualization into their IT environments. Although some businesses are cautious to adopt shared storage solutions, SAN and similar offerings can significantly increase efficiency, particularly in enterprise settings. According to InformationWeek columnist George Crump, local storage often results in wasted capacity that can’t be reallocated.
“Shared storage can carve up the allocation of flash solid state to the exact requirements of each connecting host, or it can use it as a global pool accelerating only the most active blocks of storage,” Crump wrote. “As a result, the total SSD investment may be less in shared storage than if storage is purchased on each individual server.”
