NexGen Storage

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NexGen Storage is an information technology company based in Louisville, Colorado. NexGen was founded in 2010 by John Spiers and Kelly Long, the original founders of LeftHand Networks, to address the storage industry gap around managing system performance using recent technology advancements in solid-state, PCIe, and x86 processing power. NexGen Storage is venture-backed, with investment from Next World Capital, Grotech Ventures, and Access Venture Partners.

Products

The NexGen n5 Storage System is targeted at midrange IT organizations, allowing them to control application storage performance for mixed workloads such as virtualized environments.

The NexGen n5 is a PCIe SSD storage system with Storage QoS. The n5 Series is designed to manage performance just like capacity and avoid solid-state performance bottlenecks. NexGen offers both Storage QoS for managing performance and Service Levels to ensure mission-critical application performance no matter what happens. The NexGen n5 is a balanced solution leveraging PCIe SSD for high IO performance and disk drives for high storage capacity.

Enterprise Strategy Group released the results of a lab review focused on NexGen Storage QoS. Test results showed that NexGen maintained storage performance for mission critical applications, even when overall system performance was compromised due to spikes in lower priority workloads, RAID rebuilds, or controller failures.

NexGen announced an expansion of the product line in July 2012 to give customers a choice between models starting at 16 TB, 32 TB or 48 TBs of raw capacity, each designed to hit an increasing performance target of up to 150,000 IOPS.