2025 was a landmark year for Open‑E. Building on the momentum of 2024 while navigating a year marked by disruptive factors in the data storage market, we successfully launched a brand-new product: Open-E JovianVHR. We also introduced two comprehensive professional data storage services to meet our customers’ evolving needs. At the same time, we delivered two significant updates to our flagship product – Open‑E JovianDSS. Each is packed with enhancements in performance, management, and virtualization capabilities, ensuring our customers continue to benefit from industry-leading storage solutions. From prestigious awards and global events to innovative product releases and strategic integrations, Open‑E provided tangible value to customers across various industries. The year was defined by measurable improvements in security, efficiency, and operational control, reinforcing our commitment to solving the most pressing challenges in enterprise data storage.
So with no further ado, let’s see in more detail what Open-E achieved in 2025!
Industry Recognition – Celebrating Leadership and Innovation
Open‑E’s high-quality standards were once again recognized by top data storage analysts and award councils in 2025, reflecting the industry’s confidence in our technology and vision.
Being named to the CRN 2025 Storage 100 demonstrates Open‑E’s influence and leadership within the global storage ecosystem, while multiple wins at the Storage Awards 2025 highlight our ongoing commitment to innovation, performance, and customer satisfaction.
These achievements reinforce Open‑E’s reputation as a trusted technology partner for enterprises, MSPs, and system integrators seeking flexible, reliable, and secure storage solutions.
Product Innovation – Advancing What’s Possible
Open‑E JovianVHR – Redefining Backup Resilience
The introduction of Open‑E JovianVHR marked a milestone in backup security and ransomware protection. Designed as a ransomware-resilient, immutable backup storage solution, it combines enterprise-grade storage technologies with double-layer immutability to secure critical business data.
Built on ZFS and fully compatible with Hardened Repository feature for Veeam®, Open‑E JovianVHR ensures robust protection against ransomware and human error while delivering high performance for backup and restore operations. Its hardware-agnostic design allows deployment on existing infrastructure without costly hardware changes. Optimized performance with ZFS provides data protection features like caching, deduplication, and compression.
Open‑E JovianDSS Up31 & Up32 – Smarter, Stronger, More Capable
Open‑E delivered two significant updates to its flagship storage platform in 2025, further enhancing performance, management, and virtualization capabilities.
With Open‑E JovianDSS Up31, we focused on usability, operational efficiency, and virtualization workflows. Key improvements included stronger integration with Proxmox VE, enhanced hardware-level encryption support, and advanced iSCSI target management.
Open‑E JovianDSS Up32 is built on Up31’s foundation, providing refined storage control, optimized virtualization performance, and advanced enterprise features. These updates ensure Open‑E JovianDSS remains a reliable choice for both SAN and NAS deployments in demanding enterprise environments. Up32 introduces powerful new capabilities to help enterprises maximize efficiency, performance, and flexibility, including:
- Advanced iSCSI target management for greater control over network traffic and performance.
- Enhanced snapshot and replication capabilities, improving data protection and disaster recovery.
- Refined caching and deduplication options, boosting storage efficiency and reducing costs.
- Expanded Proxmox VE integration, enabling flexible, high-performance virtualized infrastructures.
- Improved monitoring and reporting tools, giving IT teams deeper insights into system health and performance.
- Optimized support for hybrid and all-flash environments, ensuring maximum throughput and reliability.
These enhancements make Open-E JovianDSS a versatile, future-ready solution for enterprises running complex and demanding workloads.
Proxmox VE Integration Flexibility Meets Efficiency
In 2025, Open‑E deepened its support for Proxmox VE, enabling customers to leverage an open-source hypervisor for highly flexible virtualized infrastructures.
The integration empowers organizations to avoid vendor lock-in while deploying enterprise-grade storage solutions with enhanced operational efficiency. By unifying storage and virtualization management, Open‑E JovianDSS with Proxmox VE supports hyperconverged architectures, simplified disaster recovery, and advanced backup strategies.
Open-E Professional Services – Maximizing Your Success
Open‑E expanded its Professional Services portfolio to ensure customers maximize the value of their storage investments.
Open-E CheckUp Service provides proactive health assessments that identify potential risks, performance bottlenecks, and configuration gaps, enabling organizations to optimize performance and reliability. Open-E Migration Service delivers expert-led guidance for seamless data migrations, minimizing downtime and ensuring smooth transitions to Open‑E solutions.
These services extend Open‑E’s value beyond software, giving IT teams confidence that their storage environments are healthy, secure, and future-ready.
Certified Servers – Supermicro in the Spotlight
Open-E’s certified hardware ecosystem grew significantly in 2025, providing customers with proven performance, reliability, and compatibility.
Most notably, the Senyum Supermicro all-NVMe high-availability cluster is now officially certified, delivering top-tier performance for intensive enterprise workloads. Additionally, our team certified the Polaris UZ36 (UZHS457R-S36N4) for Nemix Computer Spain, a high-performance, single-node storage system built for demanding business applications.
Other certified hardware additions included a wide range of products:
- Western Digital OpenFlex Data24 4200 NVMe-oF Platform,
- Toshiba MG11 24TB HDDs,
- ScaleFlux CSDU5SPC76,
- and Seagate Exos 30TB HDDs.
Certification ensures that every deployment benefits from fully tested and optimized hardware, giving customers confidence that their storage solutions will perform reliably at scale.
Global Events – Connecting, Sharing and Inspiring
Open‑E continued to strengthen its global presence by actively participating in key industry events, fostering connections with customers, partners, and technology leaders.
At CloudFest 2025, we showcased the latest Open‑E JovianDSS innovations and discussed strategies for building future-proof data storage infrastructures. Additionally, Open-E participated in the IBC Show 2025 in Amsterdam, collaborating with Toshiba once again. At Inter BEE 2025, Open‑E collaborated with Seagate and Visual Graphics Inc. to demonstrate scalable, high-performance storage solutions for the media and entertainment industries.
Furthermore, Open‑E executives participated in FMS – The Future of Memory & Storage 2025, sharing insights into virtualization, resilience, and secure data management with an international audience.
Knowledge, Learning & Community
Open‑E continued to empower customers through webinars, tutorials, and educational resources. Topics ranged from proactive storage health management and ransomware protection strategies to onboarding and optimizing Open‑E JovianVHR.
Additionally, our YouTube channel and Open-E Academy courses have provided step-by-step technical videos, downloadable guides, and industry insights, helping IT teams, system integrators, and service providers get the most out of Open‑E solutions.
These examples showcase how Open‑E’s solutions go beyond innovation to deliver tangible business value.
Looking Ahead
2025 was a year of growth, innovation, and real-world impact. With enhanced Open-E JovianDSS updates, reliable Proxmox VE integration, Open‑E JovianVHR system for ransomware resilience, expanded Professional Services, and a broader certified hardware ecosystem, Open‑E is well-positioned to continue transforming enterprise data storage in 2026 and beyond.
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