Mr. Watson Honored for a Decade of Innovations in Disk Storage Technology
Thousand Oaks, Calif., July 27, 2010 — Nexsan, a leading storage system provider, today announced that its Chief Technology Officer Gary Watson has been chosen as a “2010 Storage Superstar” by CRN Magazine. The CRN Storage Superstar awards recognize the achievements and contributions of visionaries and innovators in the data storage industry.
CRN recognized Mr. Watson for more than a decade of achievements and his consistent breakthroughs in disk-based storage technology. Mr. Watson co-founded Nexsan in 1999 and spearheaded the development of the industry's first enterprise-class ATA storage arrays. He was also responsible for the first ATA-based disk storage systems to rival tape ushering in affordable disk-to-disk backup. Mr. Watson is also credited with developing the first RAID system with an embedded web GUI for simple remote management.
Mr. Watson’s achievements include advanced power-managed storage with AutoMAID® (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) technology enabling energy-efficient disk storage for use in primary, backup and archive storage environments. Nexsan’s power-managed storage systems serve as the foundation for the company’s innovative storage applications like data deduplication. Leveraging AutoMAID, organizations reduce storage related energy costs as much as 60% while lowering data center cooling requirements for green IT efficiencies.
Mr. Watson has also delivered innovations to enhance the reliability of high density storage systems. Examples of these developments include rotational vibration dampening for enhanced disk drive longevity, the use of engineered materials to absorb vibration and reduce mechanical failures, and advanced cooling designs. As a result, customers benefit from reliable storage system performance that significantly lowers maintenance related downtime.
“Solution providers who design and deploy storage infrastructures deal with a technology where change is the only constant,” said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, Everything Channel. “Small businesses and enterprises alike need to safely store, back-up, recover and archive data and these Storage Superstars are many of the unsung heroes who have helped invent better ways of doing this. Yet many of these individuals seldom get the recognition they deserve. We congratulate all the ‘Storage Superstars,’ and are happy to provide an opportunity to shine the spotlight on them.”
“This is a wonderful honor from CRN and it validates Nexsan’s vision of leveraging reliable, highly efficient storage designs to deliver enterprise-class storage systems purpose built for the midmarket,” said Mr. Watson. “This innovative approach has established new standards in storage density, energy-efficiency and price/performance.”
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Resources
CRN Magazine 2010 Storage Superstars
2010 DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide
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About Nexsan
Nexsan Corporation is a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term storage systems. Nexsan delivers secure storage appliances and modular, capacity-optimized disk-storage systems for a broad range of applications including fixed content storage and archiving, email, medical imaging, compliance and litigation support, disk-based backup, digital video security, and rich media. Nexsan’s solutions are the choice of small and medium-sized companies as well as large global enterprises and major governmental agencies around the world that are seeking cost-correct, high-density storage solutions. Founded in 1999 and based in Thousand Oaks, California, Nexsan sells its products exclusively through a select global network of VARs, OEMs and system integrators. For more information, please see the company’s website at www.nexsan.com.
About Everything Channel
Everything Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, Everything Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. Everything Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about Everything Channel, visit us at http://www.everythingchannel.com.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Webinar: DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide
WEBINAR ALERT
Find out what the 2010 DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide says are the BEST data storage solutions. Over 70 solutions from over 20 providers were evaluated from a user’s perspective in the industry’s first comprehensive competitive analyses. Each was given a detailed feature-for-feature ranking and rating. In the end, Nexsan was found to have the most features and highest performance to meet the needs of even some of the largest enterprise customers, but without the high cost of other solutions.
Get a quick guide to how to use the DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide including what the levels and rating mean and what category storage solution might suit your needs.
An interview with special guest, DCIG President and Lead Analyst, Jerome M. Wendt reveals how he arrived at the conclusions of the report. He will answer questions about the process, methodology and importance of undertaking this type of study. Find out how Nexsan stacks up to the competition.
Learn about the cost and energy-saving features that weren’t included in the study and how you can benefit from high-performance Nexsan solutions which also offer the lowest total cost of ownership. All in this free one-hour interactive Webinar.
Register Now! Enter your information in the form on the right and you'll receive detailed information at the email address you provide. If you've registered for a previous event, simply enter your email address.
http://www.nexsan.com/DCIG_Webinar
Find out what the 2010 DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide says are the BEST data storage solutions. Over 70 solutions from over 20 providers were evaluated from a user’s perspective in the industry’s first comprehensive competitive analyses. Each was given a detailed feature-for-feature ranking and rating. In the end, Nexsan was found to have the most features and highest performance to meet the needs of even some of the largest enterprise customers, but without the high cost of other solutions.
Get a quick guide to how to use the DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide including what the levels and rating mean and what category storage solution might suit your needs.
An interview with special guest, DCIG President and Lead Analyst, Jerome M. Wendt reveals how he arrived at the conclusions of the report. He will answer questions about the process, methodology and importance of undertaking this type of study. Find out how Nexsan stacks up to the competition.
Learn about the cost and energy-saving features that weren’t included in the study and how you can benefit from high-performance Nexsan solutions which also offer the lowest total cost of ownership. All in this free one-hour interactive Webinar.
Register Now! Enter your information in the form on the right and you'll receive detailed information at the email address you provide. If you've registered for a previous event, simply enter your email address.
http://www.nexsan.com/DCIG_Webinar
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Free White Paper Download: Making Cents of Tape Versus Disk
The Complete Guide on What to Choose and Why
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the tape verses disk argument…is that there is still an argument. Most storage mediums transition from old to new without even so much as a fuss as the benefit of new media is clearly understood. However, it seems that tape verses disk continues to be the anomaly. Whereas, many IT professionals see a clear and distinct winner, others do not.
On one hand, there is the high speed, highly reliable, random access, online benefit of disk. On the other hand, there is the low speed, low reliability, linear access, offline nature of tape. One is new, fast and flashy. The other is old, slow and cumbersome. The winner is clear, right?
Although the choice may seem clear when looking at the benefit comparison, IT professionals who choose tape for their backup environment will end up citing a couple things like, “tape is still fast enough to meet their window,” or, “their organization can handle extended periods of downtime while waiting on a restore.” However, the most commonly used answer for a tape deployment over disk is that the sheer expense of tape is simply, “cheaper.” With the performance, management and reliability benefit clearly belonging to disk, the outstanding issue seems to be a “perceived” cost issue.
When making a direct cost comparison of media, it is true that the cost-per-byte is cheaper for tape than it is for disk. For some IT professionals, that’s where they draw the line and make a decision. For them, the cost of media is the race, and tape is the winner. The problem, however, has to do with the fact that the race really isn’t about the cost of media; it’s the associated cost of several other factors: downtime, reliability, management, availability, data growth and the cost of the backup system itself. In other words, it’s about the big picture.
It should be noted that some IT professionals have circumvented the whole tape vs. disk decision dilemma and have implemented tiered solutions that use both in concert, otherwise known as Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape (D2D2T). With this approach, IT professionals are writing directly to a disk array for their backup then passing it on to tape for deep archiving and off-site portability. With this approach, organizations are leveraging the many benefits of online disk storage while maintaining the portability and long term retention aspects they are used to receiving with tape.
Download this no-charge 10-minute white paper in its entirety at: http://www.nexsan.com/whitepapers/Nexsan_10min_WhitePaper_Tape_vs_Disk_GA020110-A.pdf
When making the moved toward disk over tape, the DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide provides the detailed independent analysis important for these decisions. Download the DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide at no charge and view the results of this comprehensive report at http://www.dciginc.com/2010/06/free-download-dcig-midrange-array-buyers-guide.html
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the tape verses disk argument…is that there is still an argument. Most storage mediums transition from old to new without even so much as a fuss as the benefit of new media is clearly understood. However, it seems that tape verses disk continues to be the anomaly. Whereas, many IT professionals see a clear and distinct winner, others do not.
On one hand, there is the high speed, highly reliable, random access, online benefit of disk. On the other hand, there is the low speed, low reliability, linear access, offline nature of tape. One is new, fast and flashy. The other is old, slow and cumbersome. The winner is clear, right?
Although the choice may seem clear when looking at the benefit comparison, IT professionals who choose tape for their backup environment will end up citing a couple things like, “tape is still fast enough to meet their window,” or, “their organization can handle extended periods of downtime while waiting on a restore.” However, the most commonly used answer for a tape deployment over disk is that the sheer expense of tape is simply, “cheaper.” With the performance, management and reliability benefit clearly belonging to disk, the outstanding issue seems to be a “perceived” cost issue.
When making a direct cost comparison of media, it is true that the cost-per-byte is cheaper for tape than it is for disk. For some IT professionals, that’s where they draw the line and make a decision. For them, the cost of media is the race, and tape is the winner. The problem, however, has to do with the fact that the race really isn’t about the cost of media; it’s the associated cost of several other factors: downtime, reliability, management, availability, data growth and the cost of the backup system itself. In other words, it’s about the big picture.
It should be noted that some IT professionals have circumvented the whole tape vs. disk decision dilemma and have implemented tiered solutions that use both in concert, otherwise known as Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape (D2D2T). With this approach, IT professionals are writing directly to a disk array for their backup then passing it on to tape for deep archiving and off-site portability. With this approach, organizations are leveraging the many benefits of online disk storage while maintaining the portability and long term retention aspects they are used to receiving with tape.
Download this no-charge 10-minute white paper in its entirety at: http://www.nexsan.com/whitepapers/Nexsan_10min_WhitePaper_Tape_vs_Disk_GA020110-A.pdf
When making the moved toward disk over tape, the DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide provides the detailed independent analysis important for these decisions. Download the DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide at no charge and view the results of this comprehensive report at http://www.dciginc.com/2010/06/free-download-dcig-midrange-array-buyers-guide.html
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