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Former CEO of Mirantis, a Leading Visionary and Operator in the Open Source and OpenStack Community Joins Nexenta Advisory Board
[February 17, 2016]

Former CEO of Mirantis, a Leading Visionary and Operator in the Open Source and OpenStack Community Joins Nexenta Advisory Board


Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source (News - Alert)-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that Adrian Ionel, Founder of Restack, and former CEO and co-founder at Mirantis, has joined the Nexenta Advisory Board.

In 2015 Forbes named Ionel and Mirantis one of the best cloud CEOs and companies to work for - #6 among the 50 leading cloud companies. With a strong track record at companies such as Mirantis, Qualys (News - Alert) and Siemens, he brings deep expertise and a passion to help build enduring businesses. As the latest expert to join the Nexenta Advisory Board, Ionel will share his knowledge and advise Nexenta as it continues to lead the OpenSDS market.

As Mirantis' CEO, Ionel helped transform the company from a small seed into a global open source leader. He was the driving force behind Mirantis' initial OpenStack investment in 2010 and, during his six year tenure, delivered five consecutive years of record results, attracting 200 enterprise customers and a quarter-billion dollars of investment. In October 2015, Ionel passed on the CEO role to one of his co-founders, to devote himself to Restack, his new company. He remains an active and engaged Mirantis Board Member.

"With its disruptive OpenSDS products, Nexenta adds tremendous value to its customers," said Ionel. "Providing the foundations for powerful, agile and scalable architectures, businesses across the globe are able to operate and maximize performance in the face of increasingly data heavy workloads. With the lowest TCO to boot, Nexenta is truly leading the way in discovering innovative ways to overcome IT challenges."

"We're very pleased to have someone of Adrian's caliber joining the Nexenta Advisory Board," said Tarka Maner, Chairman and CEO, at Nexenta. "His impressive work with Open Source technology means that he has immediately bought into our vision. Adrian and the rest of the Advisory Board will ensure that we keep pushing the boundaries of Open Source-driven Software-Defined technology, providing maximum value for our customers and partners."



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About Nexenta


Nexenta is the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) with 6,000+ customers, 400+ partners, 46,000+ community members, 40+ patents, and 1,400+ petabytes of storage capacity under management. Nexenta has redefined the storage industry via its unique dual leadership in Open Source community collaboration and Software-Defined Storage innovation. Nexenta OpenSDS solutions are "100% Software." Nexenta supports any app-, cloud-, protocol-, and hardware-platform; providing organizations with the "Total Freedom" to fight against predatory vendor lock-in. Nexenta provides organizations with the benefits of Software-Defined Everything-centric Cloud Computing - from data centers to end users; from the infrastructure to apps. Nexenta enables the widest variety of legacy, Windows, web, virtual, and cloud-native apps; supporting any rich media-driven Mobile and Social Living, Internet of Things, Big Data-driven Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) and/or Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Cloud deployment - from Private and Public to Hybrid Clouds. Founded around an "Open Source" platform and industry-disrupting vision, Nexenta delivers its award-winning "software-only unified storage management" solutions with 24x7 consulting, service, support, and a global partner network, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Docker, HP, Micron, Openstack, Quanta, SanDisk (News - Alert), Seagate, Supermicro, VMware, Western Digital, Wipro, and many others. Nexenta: 100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love.

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