Nexenta Systems

Tarkan Maner, Chairman, CEO

Headquarters: Santa Clara, Calif.

Nexenta, which develops open-source-driven software-defined storage software, partners with vendors such as Dell in virtualized storage environments. Its flagship NexentaStor provides unified block and object storage that scales to petabytes of data, while NexentaEdge provides petabyte-scale block and storage capabilities on OpenStack clouds.