Nexsan Introduces Easy Disk-Based Archiving For SMEs, Branch Offices, Departments
Assureon NX Archive Appliance Brings High-End CAS Functionality to Businesses of All Sizes
Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative and secure storage solutions, today announced its Assureon NX(tm) Easy Archive Appliance, an intelligent disk-based solution for the long-term storage of business-critical information for smaller enterprises, branch offices and departmental groups.
Assureon NX provides the benefits of Nexsan's industry-leading Assureon Intelligent Archive System in a compact and easy-to-implement rackable appliance that is priced to accommodate smaller organizations' more-limited storage budgets. The plug-and-play Assureon NX is a simple, secure, and self healing disk-based archiving appliance for storing fixed content information, ideal for interfacing with email archiving, medical imaging and records management, document management, e-discovery and other software applications.
According to Dianne McAdam, Director, Enterprise Information Assurance at Clipper Group, "Small enterprise, branch office and departmental users often have the same requirements for long-term storage as their enterprise counterparts. The Assureon NX is a powerful product that fits their storage needs, while providing ease of use as well as being an affordable and secure solution."
"With the Assureon NX Nexsan has responded to the needs of customers and reseller partners who want a secure, affordable disk-based archive platform to integrate with 3rd party applications such as email and other specialized archiving applications," said Philip Black, CEO of Nexsan. "By leveraging the power of the Assureon NX's CAS technology, companies of all sizes can now simplify and automate their archival processes including e-mail, electronic discovery, medical records and imaging, and streamlined backup and recovery."
Like its sister product, the Assureon SA Searchable Archive Appliance, Assureon NX relies on Content Addressable Storage (CAS) technology to protect data integrity and perform file-level de-duplication to reduce the costs of archiving business-critical information. While it does not include the content search functionality of the Assureon SA, the Assureon NX delivers higher usable storage capacity. Assureon NX's secure storage architecture ensures the long term integrity of all archived content through automated integrity checks with self healing functions. It includes other powerful features such as built-in Lifecycle Management functions, immutable file authentication and remote replication across the WAN for disaster recovery purposes. Data availability is assured with RAID 6 protection while WORM disk functionality prevents overwriting of archived files.
Assureon NX is available in standalone or replicated versions and offers a plug-and-play NAS-like interface supporting both CIFS and NFS for simple connectivity to any operating system. Assureon NX can be deployed as a secure, cost-effective alternative to tape and other offline media, or as fast, intelligent and affordable disk-based enhancement to offline archives.
The Assureon NX Archive Appliance is available through Nexsan's worldwide channel of resellers. Pricing starts at $53,000.
About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Technologies, headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif., has changed the way IT managers are storing and protecting corporate data. From the outset, Nexsan has moved to the forefront because it recognized the need for corporate managers to 'do more with less.' Nexsan was the first to deliver award-winning storage solutions that provide correct-cost pricing, without sacrificing features and performance - attributes that make good business sense for virtually every size company. Every Nexsan product is a total solution, with unprecedented ease of use, features, performance and reliability, all priced to fit the requirements of IT managers worldwide. For more information, please see the company's website at www.nexsan.com.
Source: Nexsan Technologies