First Annual OpenStorage Summit announced by Nexenta Systems

A global leader in OpenStorage solutions, Nexenta Systems, made an announcement that about hosting the first annual OpenStorage summit from 26 to 27 October 2010. The summit is to be held at the Sheraton Hotel situated in Palo Alto, California. This event can definitely prove to be beneficial to architects, CIOs, IT systems administrators and CTOs who are searching for cost effective and performance oriented storage solutions for their companies and organizations. The event will be featuring who’s who in the OpenStorage industry with case studies and technical presentation by vendors for educating the attendants about how the enterprise storage market is being transformed by the OpenStorage offerings.

VP of product management at Nexenta Systems, Brad Stone, said that the company wanted a forum which can bring leaders in the industry and technology professionals together with a view to share their past experiences, best practices and vision for the deployment of OpenStorage software on standard hardware equipment. He also added that such an approach towards enterprise storage is rapidly bringing a transformation in the sector with system integrators, storage resellers and OEMs making their clients free from highly priced and lock-in technologies to cost effective and highly valued OpenStorage Solutions. The market will be educated further with the changes in the storage industry that are bound to take place

The speakers who will be featured at the summit are some of the best brains of the OpenStorage industry. The sessions conducted during the event will be focusing on latest technological developments in the storage space based on innovative ideas that are positioned to replace expensive storage solutions. The sessions will be including best practices and case studies in order to evaluate and deploy enterprise storage solutions. The topics of the session are targeted towards the definition and explanation of what exactly OpenStorage is along with the best practices and de-duplication experiences in OpenSolaris.