Nexsan’s Assureon online archive gives IPR the reliability and compliance-level privacy it needs to deliver high data availability to its customers while reducing overall costs by 40%
Leading disaster recovery and data protection service provider IPR International was facing growing operational and capital costs associated with its data archive infrastructure for customer emails and unstructured files. Needing to lower overall costs without risking the high service-level they guarantee their demanding customer base, IPR turned to Nexsan. Nexsan’s Assureon online archive has given IPR the reliability and compliance-level privacy it needed to deliver high data availability to its customers while reducing overall costs by 40%.
Headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and serving clients in 17 countries, IPR International was founded on a simple concept: that technology will change at such a rapid pace that most mid-size organizations will not be able to keep up with it. Thus, the company has dedicated itself to providing state-of-the-art data protection technologies, so clients can focus on their core business operations knowing their electronic data is safe and accessible at all times.
A recognized leader in managed data center and data protection services, IPR International offers a comprehensive suite of solutions to protect, preserve, secure and make available clients’ data at all times. By offering constantly improving and evolving services combined with a passion for security, integrity, availability and ingenuity, IPR helps its clients maintain their own business operations and supports them through any interruptions.
For IPR, the service levels offered to their customers are critical. While governments and corporations alike require that data be kept for extended periods of time, and in a retrievable form, inactive data can have a negative impact on the performance of the production environment. To help solve these challenges, IPR needed a robust archiving solution that would satisfy operational, performance and compliance requirements for its clients.
“Our customers need to reduce the capital and operational costs of managing and archiving data,” said Kevin Sullivan, head of services, development and marketing, IPR International. “Additionally, our customers need to improve their compliance posture by using a service where they can reallocate their IT resources for other, more strategically important objectives. We created our DataGuardian® service to meet these increasing customer demands.”
With customers ranging from mid-sized law firms and insurance companies to healthcare organizations, IPR takes its DataGuardian service levels very seriously. These types of organizations require constant access to their email and unstructured file data while being prepared to recover from any disaster, from simple server outages to extensive unexpected natural events. To meet backend storage needs, IPR was using a combination of NetApp and EMC SANs. However, the infrastructure was becoming increasingly costly and difficult to manage as the volume of customer data increased. To maintain very high service levels for their customers without incurring extensive costs, IPR needed to identify an alternative archiving solution upon which to base its DataGuardian service.
Solution: A Comprehensive Archiving and Failover Strategy Based on Nexsan’s Assureon and SATABeast Systems
After evaluating the high cost of expanding its existing infrastructure, IPR began to look for a highly reliable, lower cost alternative. During their search, IPR evaluated a number of solutions, including those from Nexsan and EMC. IPR selected Nexsan’s Assureon archiving platform over Centera because of the flexibility in configuring redundancy. With Centera, two copies are required at both the local and disaster recovery site in order to ensure redundancy.
Replicating to another Centera would mean having four copies of archived data (two at each site) instead of one per site. While Assureon can be configured similarly, it also allows administrators to configure the systems so that only a single copy is stored on each Assureon while ensuring the highest levels of data protection. IPR still maintains two copies of the data, but they are at two locations in order to provide DR protection. IPR deployed two Assureon appliances, each with two SATABeast systems, connected via 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel. Each Assureon / SATABeast combination is installed at separate IPR locations and set to failover to the other in case of any failure. With Assureon, IPR has doubled its usable capacity over Centera while spending less on purchase costs and operating expenses. Nexsan’s Assureon storage appliances provide IPR with a safe, cost-effective means to archive the growing volumes of customer email. The appliances keep email online and rapidly retrievable so that customers always have access to them. At the same time, the Assureon appliances dramatically reduce the time required to back-up current, active email by offloading archived email into a separate repository. “We were very impressed with the reliability and flexibility of the Nexsan solution,” said Sullivan. “Assureon is delivered as an appliance, with the storage, and Nexsan remotely connects, monitors and performs automatic updates on the systems without our staff involvement, which makes these systems exceptionally easy to administer.”
Results: High Performance and Reliability Means Strong Customer Satisfaction
The Nexsan Assureon solution has reduced IPR’s overall capital and operating expenses by 40% compared to expanding their previous solution. Cost savings have come from replacing NetApp Filers and EMC Celerra NAS systems (traditional iSCSI and CIFS storage) with the Assureon CAS storage archive. With Assureon, Nexsan has delivered the most efficient and scalable approach to storing unstructured data (email and documents).
In addition, the Nexsan-based storage infrastructure ensures that IPR can deliver high service-level guarantees to its customers while knowing that it has the scalability to easily grow its storage capacity to meet future customer needs. Benefits IPR has received from its Nexsan-based archiving infrastructure include:
• Compliance-level privacy – Assureon uses innovative security features to ensure data privacy. The software establishes an unalterable audit trail for the life of data in the archive; every time archive content is accessed, a record is kept of who accessed it and when.
• High-availability storage – Supporting the innovative Assureon appliance is Nexsan’s highly reliable SATABeast green storage, which provides redundant controllers, power supplies and fans along with support for RAID 6 to overcome double drive failures.
• Automated retention and deletion – Assureon offers automated integrity management and file immutability technology that protect against accidental or unauthorized file deletion. This ensures that files can be retained for regulation compliance or flexible time periods, and be deleted when their retention period is over.
• Self-auditing and self-healing – Assureon continually monitors files for fingerprint discrepancies, protecting them against tampering, viruses and corruption as well as accidental or deliberate deletion or theft. If discrepancies are discovered, Assureon notifies the system administrator and self-heals the file.
“Nexsan has greatly reduced the IT resources required to deliver recovery services thereby improving overall cost-efficiency for clients,” said Sullivan. “We are happy to have selected Assureon as our archiving platform and very content with what the solution has allowed us to do.”
About IPR
IPR was founded as one of the first Managed Electronic Data Protection Service Providers in the United States and is one of the very few companies to have developed and deployed a complete set of services to protect its clients’ data. Currently, IPR protects data for over 240 clients in 17 countries around the globe, providing protection for over 2.5 petabytes of data in our Data Centers. With the opening of the IPR Reading Business Continuity Center in 2008 and the Wilmington Data Center in 2010, IPR has expanded its Managed Data Center and Infrastructure Services to include production and dedicated recovery computing environments for our clients. IPR enjoys a 97% client retention rate, as well as 40% annual growth per year. IPR has been named one of “Fastest Growing Companies” in the Philadelphia Region (“Philadelphia 100”) in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009 and Inc. Magazine ranked IPR as number 593 on its first-ever“ Inc. 5000” list of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in 2007.
Read this case study in its entirety at http://www.nexsan.com/case_studies/Nexsan_CaseStudy_IPR_International.pdf
END
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Nexsan CTO Gary Watson Named 2010 Storage Superstar by CRN Magazine
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.”
Learn more about the entire Nexsan product line at www.nexsan.com/products.php.
Follow Nexsan Products and News on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/nexsan
Resources
CRN Magazine 2010 Storage Superstars
2010 DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide
Nexsan Products, Case Studies and White Papers
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.
# # #
Nexsan Technologies is a registered trademark and AutoMAID is a trademark of Nexsan.
All other product or company names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective owners.
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.”
Learn more about the entire Nexsan product line at www.nexsan.com/products.php.
Follow Nexsan Products and News on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/nexsan
Resources
CRN Magazine 2010 Storage Superstars
2010 DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide
Nexsan Products, Case Studies and White Papers
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.
# # #
Nexsan Technologies is a registered trademark and AutoMAID is a trademark of Nexsan.
All other product or company names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective owners.
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
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Nexsan SASBeast Named Disk-based Product of the Year
Company’s Storage Products Honored for Seventh Consecutive Year
Thousand Oaks, Calif., — Nexsan, a leading storage system provider, today announced that the company’s SASBeast® storage system has been named the Best Disk-Based Storage Product of the Year in the 2010 UK Storage Magazine Awards. This honor marks the seventh consecutive year that Nexsan has received an award nomination by this publication. The 2010 UK Storage Magazine Awards are focused on recognizing outstanding products and services in the storage industry that demonstrate clear business value and compelling advantages for end-user organizations.
Winners were determined via online voting from more than 6000 European storage industry professionals. In addition to this year’s award, Nexsan has been recognized in the past for the Best SAN Solution of the Year, Green Product of the Year, Storage Solution of the Year, and Compliance Product of the Year. 2010 Winners were named during a ceremony held at The Tower Guoman Hotel, London, on June 17th.
"The past seven years of success with the UK Storage Magazine Awards illustrates our focus on developing innovative and highly efficient storage solutions," said Michael McGuire, chief commercial officer for Nexsan. "Nexsan is especially honored by these awards because they are voted on by the IT managers and storage strategists who live with these products on a daily basis and trust their business to Nexsan.”
Nexsan SASBeast provides customers with an extremely flexible, high performance and affordable storage system. It features up to 42 disks in just 4U, with up to 25.2TB of SAS capacity. At the heart of SASBeast is the proven Nexsan architecture that is now used throughout the growing Nexsan product family and is deployed in more than 24,800 systems in over 60 countries around the world. SASBeast also accommodates SAS, SSD and SATA disks in a single chassis and provides simultaneous Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity and operating system independence.
Learn more about the entire Nexsan product line at www.nexsan.com/products.php.
Follow Nexsan on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/NexsanTech
Resources
2010 DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide
Nexsan SASBeast Data Sheet
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.
# # #
SASBeast is a trademark of Nexsan Corporation. All other product or company names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(925) 999-9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
Thousand Oaks, Calif., — Nexsan, a leading storage system provider, today announced that the company’s SASBeast® storage system has been named the Best Disk-Based Storage Product of the Year in the 2010 UK Storage Magazine Awards. This honor marks the seventh consecutive year that Nexsan has received an award nomination by this publication. The 2010 UK Storage Magazine Awards are focused on recognizing outstanding products and services in the storage industry that demonstrate clear business value and compelling advantages for end-user organizations.
Winners were determined via online voting from more than 6000 European storage industry professionals. In addition to this year’s award, Nexsan has been recognized in the past for the Best SAN Solution of the Year, Green Product of the Year, Storage Solution of the Year, and Compliance Product of the Year. 2010 Winners were named during a ceremony held at The Tower Guoman Hotel, London, on June 17th.
"The past seven years of success with the UK Storage Magazine Awards illustrates our focus on developing innovative and highly efficient storage solutions," said Michael McGuire, chief commercial officer for Nexsan. "Nexsan is especially honored by these awards because they are voted on by the IT managers and storage strategists who live with these products on a daily basis and trust their business to Nexsan.”
Nexsan SASBeast provides customers with an extremely flexible, high performance and affordable storage system. It features up to 42 disks in just 4U, with up to 25.2TB of SAS capacity. At the heart of SASBeast is the proven Nexsan architecture that is now used throughout the growing Nexsan product family and is deployed in more than 24,800 systems in over 60 countries around the world. SASBeast also accommodates SAS, SSD and SATA disks in a single chassis and provides simultaneous Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity and operating system independence.
Learn more about the entire Nexsan product line at www.nexsan.com/products.php.
Follow Nexsan on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/NexsanTech
Resources
2010 DCIG Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide
Nexsan SASBeast Data Sheet
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.
# # #
SASBeast is a trademark of Nexsan Corporation. All other product or company names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(925) 999-9985
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Free White Paper Download: No More Tiers – Assureon by Nexsan, Redefining what Archive Means
Nexsan’s Assureon Secure Disk Archive Delivers Uncompromised Value with Primary Storage Performance
Companies are faced with a wave of complexity in trying to make sense of tiered storage: complex storage infrastructures, storage management and regulatory compliance requirements. Imagine a single box solution that could consolidate storage tiers, guarantee data protection, simplify storage management and lower storage costs. There’s no need to imagine any more as Nexsan’s Assureon Secure Disk Archive delivers uncompromised value with primary storage performance and cost-efficient management of your most infrequently accessed files. Assureon redefines what archive means.
The complexities of the traditional storage infrastructure along with its management and cost combine to make an unforgiving challenge for IT. How chaotic can all of this complexity be? Administrators must be able to budget for massive storage capacity growth and plan for multiple layers of infrastructure overflowing with:
• disk arrays;
• backup servers;
• data deduplication appliances and other equipment;
• a variety of protocols and physical interfaces;
• hundreds of storage management applications, each with its own software interface, none operationally integrated with another;
• dozens of different vendors and pricing permutations
What if all this chaos of complexity could be replaced with a single, small solution that dramatically simplifies the infrastructure, automates management and improves data security while significantly driving down your storage costs?
Nexsan’s Assureon Secure Disk Archive redefines what archive means. With the most innovative thinking in an archive, Assureon leverages a new approach to storage consolidation and automated management that changes how an entire storage infrastructure can be deployed and managed. By combining speeds rivaling primary storage performance with the ability to manage infrequently accessed files on “deep sleep”, cost-efficient drives, Assureon is the picture of uncompromised value.
To view this white paper in its entirety at no charge, please select the following link: http://www.nexsan.com/whitepapers/No_More_Tiers_with_Assureon.pdf
Companies are faced with a wave of complexity in trying to make sense of tiered storage: complex storage infrastructures, storage management and regulatory compliance requirements. Imagine a single box solution that could consolidate storage tiers, guarantee data protection, simplify storage management and lower storage costs. There’s no need to imagine any more as Nexsan’s Assureon Secure Disk Archive delivers uncompromised value with primary storage performance and cost-efficient management of your most infrequently accessed files. Assureon redefines what archive means.
The complexities of the traditional storage infrastructure along with its management and cost combine to make an unforgiving challenge for IT. How chaotic can all of this complexity be? Administrators must be able to budget for massive storage capacity growth and plan for multiple layers of infrastructure overflowing with:
• disk arrays;
• backup servers;
• data deduplication appliances and other equipment;
• a variety of protocols and physical interfaces;
• hundreds of storage management applications, each with its own software interface, none operationally integrated with another;
• dozens of different vendors and pricing permutations
What if all this chaos of complexity could be replaced with a single, small solution that dramatically simplifies the infrastructure, automates management and improves data security while significantly driving down your storage costs?
Nexsan’s Assureon Secure Disk Archive redefines what archive means. With the most innovative thinking in an archive, Assureon leverages a new approach to storage consolidation and automated management that changes how an entire storage infrastructure can be deployed and managed. By combining speeds rivaling primary storage performance with the ability to manage infrequently accessed files on “deep sleep”, cost-efficient drives, Assureon is the picture of uncompromised value.
To view this white paper in its entirety at no charge, please select the following link: http://www.nexsan.com/whitepapers/No_More_Tiers_with_Assureon.pdf
Free White Paper Download: The Digital Age Trapped in an 8 Track World, Eliminate Tape with Assureon
The Assureon disk archive overcomes performance and data integrity issues related to tape archiving while greatly reducing cost and complexity with infrastructure consolidation and automated management.
Tape has been a standard data storage medium for more than 50 years, but that era is winding down. The capabilities of tape have been outpaced by mammoth increases in corporate data, the recovery and data integrity demands of regulatory compliance and the challenge of simplifying, automating and consolidating the data protection infrastructure in a restrictive IT budget environment.
The Assureon disk archive overcomes all the nagging performance and data integrity issues related to tape archiving while greatly reducing cost and complexity with infrastructure consolidation and automated management.
Magnetic tape as a data storage technology is approaching the end of its useful life. In the past, the limited volume of data made tape sensible, however, its functionality has been overrun by historic data growth and a new IT budget reality that is forcing storage administrators to adopt new solutions that lower the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for storage.
Tape simply cannot measure up to today’s standards for reliable, secure, simplified, cost-effective storage while meeting an organization’s performance requirements. Nexsan’s Assureon secure disk archive is a state-of-the art archival storage solution that innovates where tape stagnates for fast, reliable, secure storage. Going forward, tape may still exist to be tucked away inside a mountain, or for data portability, but even those days are limited.
Assureon brings a competitive edge for companies looking to get rid of the storage headaches that come with tape systems. Moreover, for any organization that has data that demands guarantees, no other storage solution will make you feel safer and more at ease about your protection architecture than Assureon. If data protection risks within your current storage infrastructure have ever kept you up at night, Assureon will ensure that you never worry about the risk of data loss again.
With Assureon, Nexsan has established a best practice model on how data archiving and protection should be deployed. Nexsan’s “simpler is better” concept improves the performance, security and reliability of archival storage with infrastructure consolidation and simplified storage management to create the type of storage cost reductions and efficiencies required of IT professionals.
To read the remainder of this story, please visit:
http://www.nexsan.com/whitepapers/eliminate_tape_with_Assureon.pdf
Tape has been a standard data storage medium for more than 50 years, but that era is winding down. The capabilities of tape have been outpaced by mammoth increases in corporate data, the recovery and data integrity demands of regulatory compliance and the challenge of simplifying, automating and consolidating the data protection infrastructure in a restrictive IT budget environment.
The Assureon disk archive overcomes all the nagging performance and data integrity issues related to tape archiving while greatly reducing cost and complexity with infrastructure consolidation and automated management.
Magnetic tape as a data storage technology is approaching the end of its useful life. In the past, the limited volume of data made tape sensible, however, its functionality has been overrun by historic data growth and a new IT budget reality that is forcing storage administrators to adopt new solutions that lower the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for storage.
Tape simply cannot measure up to today’s standards for reliable, secure, simplified, cost-effective storage while meeting an organization’s performance requirements. Nexsan’s Assureon secure disk archive is a state-of-the art archival storage solution that innovates where tape stagnates for fast, reliable, secure storage. Going forward, tape may still exist to be tucked away inside a mountain, or for data portability, but even those days are limited.
Assureon brings a competitive edge for companies looking to get rid of the storage headaches that come with tape systems. Moreover, for any organization that has data that demands guarantees, no other storage solution will make you feel safer and more at ease about your protection architecture than Assureon. If data protection risks within your current storage infrastructure have ever kept you up at night, Assureon will ensure that you never worry about the risk of data loss again.
With Assureon, Nexsan has established a best practice model on how data archiving and protection should be deployed. Nexsan’s “simpler is better” concept improves the performance, security and reliability of archival storage with infrastructure consolidation and simplified storage management to create the type of storage cost reductions and efficiencies required of IT professionals.
To read the remainder of this story, please visit:
http://www.nexsan.com/whitepapers/eliminate_tape_with_Assureon.pdf
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