Case Study: NetNordic avoids vendor lock-in and reduces costs with NexentaStor (Nexenta)

NetNordic Avoids Vendor Lock-In and Reduces Cost with Nexenta

NetNordic, a Stockholm-based systems integrator providing networking and cloud services across the Nordics, was facing rapid growth and a failing legacy storage system that caused high latency and occasional ESX freezes. As capacity approached limits, the in-house solution became costly and unreliable, prompting a search for a scalable, vendor-agnostic alternative.

NetNordic deployed NexentaStor as a software-defined storage solution on a Dell-based HA cluster, using features like ZFS compression, snapshots, ZeusRAM, ARC and L2ARC caching. The result was a 3 ms reduction in write latency, roughly 1 TB of space saved through compression, elimination of latency spikes that caused ESX to freeze, improved uptime and consistent performance, and lower overall costs with efficiency gains passed on to customers.

NetNordic

Sander Petersson

Operations Engineer