Nexenta by DDN
Alan Factor is a highly experienced engineering professional with a robust background in IT operations and software engineering, spanning over two decades. Currently serving as a Senior Staff Engineer at Nexenta by DDN since 2019, Alan previously held the position of Senior Staff Software Engineer at NEXENTA SYSTEMS LTD and has worked in various technical roles at companies such as liveBooks, PlanetOut, and StarMine. With a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics, an M.Ph. in Pharmacology, and a B.A. in Biological Sciences, Alan has significant expertise in network management, e-commerce infrastructure, and IT consultancy, contributing to the design and deployment of complex systems and enhancing operational efficiency across multiple organizations.
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Nexenta by DDN
Nexenta is the market creator and leader in Open Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) software solutions for Hybrid and Multi Cloud enterprise environments via Nexenta AnyCloud vision; with nearly 6,000 customers, 300 partners, 50 patents, and more than 2,000 petabytes of storage capacity under management; disrupting and democratizing one of the largest and most oligopolistic IT market segments nearing $100B in size by 2020. Nexenta uniquely integrates its hardware-agnostic software-only enterprise OpenSDS innovation with deep “open source” collaboration via some of the most active communities with 45,000+ members. Nexenta enables a wide variety of workloads from legacy enterprise to next-gen cloud-native apps, on any cloud platform, any protocol and any hardware infrastructure to power the largest and most cost/performant data centers globally. Nexenta OpenSDS solution portfolio is 100% software-based for both on and off premise settings. Nexenta provides organizations with Total Freedom protecting them against punitive legacy storage hardware vendor practices including, long term “vendor-lock-in”, “vendor-bait-n-switch”, and “vendor-rip-n-replace.” Beyond its industry-leading software innovation and multi-channel distribution, Nexenta also provides comprehensive enterprise-class support and services 24x7, globally. For more information visit nexenta.com.