W. Curtis Preston interviews Evan Powell, CEO of Nexenta, at VMWorld 2012 in San Francisco. They talk about the importance of IOPS in virtualized environments and how Nexenta builds a system build around SSDs in order to meet the high IOPS demand. They discuss how two of Nexenta's partners present at VMWorld are demonstrating 1 million IOPS based on NexentStor. They also talk about how Nexenta is a unified storage solution doing not just block-based, but NFS and CIFS (SMB) as well.

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• W. Curtis Preston
• VMWorld 2012
• Nexenta
• Evan Powell