NexGen Storage

NexGen was founded in 2010 by John Spiers and Kelly Long, the original founders of LeftHand Networks.[1][2] NexGen Storage had venture capital investment from Next World Capital, Grotech Ventures, and Access Venture Partners.

The NexGen n5 was a PCIe SSD storage system with storage QoS. NexGen offered both storage quality of service (QoS) for managing performance and service levels. In 2012, n5 test results showed that NexGen maintained storage performance, even when overall system performance was compromised due to spikes in lower priority workloads, or disk or controller failures.[3]

NexGen announced an expansion of the product line in July 2012 with models starting at 16 TB, 32 TB or 48 TBs of raw capacity, each designed for an increasing performance target.[4]

On April 25, 2013, at Storage Field Day 3, Fusion-io announced their acquisition of NexGen Storage.[5] On January 8, 2015, SanDisk, which had acquired Fusion-io, announced that NexGen Storage had been spun out to become an independent company once again.[6] In January 2016, Pivot3 (based in Austin, Texas) announced an agreement to acquire NexGen Storage.[7] Post merger Pivot3 initially sold the NexGen systems as a package with the existing Pivot3 hyper-converged systems. This bundled product was called vSTAC SLX and enabled QoS and PCIe functionality via the external NexGen device. Acuity, the latest generation of Pivot3 product brought the QoS and PCIe functionality natively inside the Pivot3 nodes themselves.[8]