Web Hosting News – MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Nexenta Systems, the leader in Open Storage solutions, today announced that Garrett D’Amore, a former Sun engineer and the leading contributor to the OpenSolaris operating system for the past five years, and Richard Elling, a notable ZFS expert, have joined Nexenta to help drive innovation and development of the NexentaStor software platform. NexentaStor is the leading hardware independent storage solution built on the breakthrough open source ZFS file system. D’Amore brings over 15 years of software engineering experience to Nexenta with a special focus on Solaris/OpenSolaris kernel and I/O subsystems.