Nexsan Extends Flexible Storage Platform with Launch of E-Series Storage Systems Purpose Built for the Mid-Market

E18 and E60 Storage Systems Offer Industry-Leading Storage Density, Power Efficiency, and Enterprise-Class Features

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., March 1, 2011 -- Nexsan®, a leading provider of storage systems for the mid-market, today announced the launch of the Nexsan E-Series storage systems, purpose built and priced for the mid-market. The new E-Series advances Nexsan’s Flexible Storage Platform by delivering a suite of storage systems with industry-leading storage density, power efficiency, and an enterprise-class feature set. The E18 utilizes SAS and/or SSD drives to deliver high performance storage to physical or virtual hosts via a Fibre Channel or iSCSI SAN. The E60 adds industry-leading storage density of 60 drives in 4U of rack space, with the ability to save up to 87% on power, making it perfect for backup to disk and archive applications.

“Many mid-market companies are seeing their data volumes double every two to three years,” said Mark Peters, senior analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group. “But IT groups are also typically resource constrained and struggle to provide storage solutions that are robust enough for their environments at a price that aligns with their business model; they need scalable, reliable solutions that can also provide high density, power-efficiency and a rich feature set, yet with simplicity of configuration and deployment. Nexsan’s Flexible Storage Platform is designed to meet all these needs and will no doubt enhance the company’s reputation for delivering enterprise-class solutions priced for the mid-market.”

Nexsan E-Series storage systems have been purpose-built for the mid-market to deliver easy, efficient, enterprise-class storage in a single integrated solution. They feature robust centralized storage management software for simplified deployment, management and support and offer a complete range of enterprise-class features including high density, high reliability, low power operation and small space consumption. The Nexsan E-Series delivers an easy and quick out of the box experience by integrating reliable Nexsan storage hardware and E-Series intelligence.  Product models include:

• E18 – The E18 offers 18 SAS drives in 2U, for up to 10.8 TB of capacity per chassis. The new product can also support mixed SAS/SSD drive types and includes Nexsan’s next-generation controller, two 8 Gb/s FC and two 1 Gb/s iSCSI ports per controller, and comes with up to two controllers per E18. It also features a dedicated Ethernet port for management and no single point of failure configurations.

• E60 – The E60 features 60 SATA/SAS drives in only 4U for up to 120 TB of capacity per chassis. Able to support any mix of drive types, the E60 includes Nexsan’s next-generation controller, two 8 Gb/s FC and two 1 Gb/s iSCSI ports per controller, and comes with up to two controllers per system.

• E60X – The E60 includes 60 SATA/SAS drives in only 4U for up to 120 TB of capacity per chassis. Also able to support any mix of drive types, the E60X offers two 4x SAS connectors and a dedicated Ethernet port for management.

Nexsan’s E-Series also features advanced technologies for energy efficiency and high density including:

• Active Drawer Technology™ – This revolutionary approach to extreme density simplifies the maintenance of a high density system by offering specially designed cables for continuous operation even when one of three self-contained drawers is momentarily opened so a single person can perform disk and fan service.

• AutoMAID® Technology – This technology delivers “Speed with Green” for up to 87% reduction in power consumption without performance compromise for popular applications such as backup to disk. With the E-Series AutoMAID is extended with Level 4 capabilities, to enable even more power savings.

Available with Nexsan’s E-Series is the company’s next-generation RAID controller delivering over twice the performance of the previous generation controller. The high-speed cache is mirrored to support dual active/active controller configurations, which offers increased performance and no single point of failure. The cache is backed by both battery and flash memory. The I/O expansion slot on the new controller will host a dual 10 GigE card for high performance iSCSI in Q2 of 2011.

“Our latest generation storage systems are a significant evolutionary step as we give mid-market customers a different kind of storage experience – one that delivers optimal ease, efficiency and enterprise-class features all in an integrated package priced for their business needs,” said Gary Watson, CTO, Nexsan. “With our new product suite comes a next-generation design purpose-built to meet uncompromised demands, enabling our customers to get more from their storage environment.”

"With initiatives to streamline operations and lower IT costs, it is imperative that the storage solutions we deploy align with these requirements,” said Craig Hill, executive director of IT, eNeighborhoods, Inc. “The impressive density, simplicity and power management features of Nexsan’s E-Series makes it exceptionally efficient and an easy choice for our business."

“Nexsan has raised the bar for storage targeted at the mid-market with the release of its E-Series,” said Steve Bishop, CTO, VeriStor. “These introductions are all about high reliability, efficiency and ease of use delivered in an innovative and high-performance system. This is another example of the Company’s long-term commitment to its channel and mid-market end-users.”

The Nexsan’s Flexible Storage Platform, including the E18, E60 and E60X are available immediately. Pricing for the E18 with SAS drives and a single controller starts at under $45K MSRP, and the E60 with SATA drives and a single controller starts at under $52K MSRP. For more information please visit: www.nexsan.com

About Nexsan 

Nexsan® is a leading independent provider of disk-based storage systems purpose-built and priced for the mid-market, offering industry-leading reliability, space and power efficiency. Nexsan storage systems provide scalability, integrity and security for growing volumes of unstructured data and are ideal for virtual storage, data protection, secure online archiving, bulk and cloud storage applications. Overcoming the challenges of traditional storage, Nexsan delivers a different kind of storage experience with easy-to-use, efficient and enterprise-class solutions that reduce the complexity and cost of storage. Nexsan delivers its storage systems through a select global partner ecosystem of solution providers, OEMs and system integrators. Nexsan is based in Thousand Oaks, Calif. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.nexsan.com.

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The Clark Enersen Partners Selects Nexsan for Expandable, Enterprise-Class Storage

Busy Architecture and Landscape Design Firm Achieves Greater Information Availability for its Growing Set of Virtualized Data

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., January 25, 2011 — Nexsan®, a leading disk-based storage system provider, today announced that The Clark Enersen Partners architecture, engineering, and landscape design firm has selected Nexsan systems for the scalable, centralized storage of its rapidly growing data maintained in a new VMware virtual server enterprise. After selecting a combined solution from Nexsan, composed of two SASBeast® storage systems and dual Nexsan iSeries® 200i SANs, The Clark Enersen Partners is now ready for continued growth while benefitting from enterprise-class features to optimize its new virtual infrastructure.

Founded in 1946, The Clark Enersen Partners is a design firm specializing in architecture, landscape design, engineering, and interiors. Through its design work, The Clark Enersen Partners has been a major influence in defining the character of the built and natural environment in its communities with work that is timeless and provides lasting value. Today, the company has offices in Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas.

As the firm continues to grow, it generates volumes of large image files for its design, engineering, and drafting projects. The resulting storage requirements, which today are more than 6.5TB, were being compounded as project sizes continued to exponentially increase. From email data to project-related information, the regional design firm needed to centralize its applications and storage to simplify management and minimize costs.

“Probably my biggest challenge as an IT manager is dealing with ever-growing file sizes that can drive up storage requirements significantly,” said Cory Pierce, IT manager, The Clark Enersen Partners. “But in addition to resolving scalability issues that arise from storage growth, I also needed to centralize all of our data and have offsite replication so that disaster recovery was assured by having a backup copy of the data in each of our offices. Our legacy storage vendors struggled with these challenges.”

To centralize its data, The Clark Enersen Partners implemented a VMware Virtual Server as a front end for end users to use devices. From there, the firm needed a flexible storage solution that would integrate easily into the virtualized environment and provide replication between sites. Based on selection criteria that included the ability to expand storage on an as-needed basis without prepopulating the systems beforehand as well as ease of management, reliability, and cost efficiency, The Clark Enersen Partners selected Nexsan for its solution. The Nexsan solution included a combination of two Nexsan SASBeast storage systems, each with 6TB of storage capacity, and dual Nexsan iSeries 200i SANs.

Once the Nexsan systems were up and running, the design firm was impressed by the high-value enterprise-class features it received, including:

• Low-cost scalability — The Clark Enersen Partners can scale capacity without having to purchase more SAN appliances.

• Enterprise performance — Now data and logs can be placed on separate physical RAID sets within the same system, optimizing database performance. SAN controllers are independent and active/active.

• Complete storage services — All storage services are embedded onto the Nexsan iSeries for simplified operation, including virtualization, snapshots, replication, mirroring, and data migration.

• Storage virtualization — The design firm can eliminate storage waste by creating thousands of custom volumes that precisely address the needs of individual applications.

“In the research I did, Nexsan met all of the criteria I set up,” said Pierce. “The systems even have some added features that other companies just didn’t have. Specifically, with Nexsan we are able to expand at a future date without buying another chassis to support longer term growth requirements. That functionality was the piece that really sold me. Nexsan met every expectation I had.”

The Clark Enersen Partners worked with IT reseller Condor Storage in the selection and deployment of Nexan’s storage systems. Jeanne Wilson, president and chief storage architect at Condor Storage, said, “Nexsan’s product portfolio powers solutions that allow us to serve clients like The Clark Enersen Partners that have differing requirements. In this case, Nexsan helped us deliver a hardware platform for both virtual storage and data protection that is a level above what is otherwise available.”

“With Nexsan, customers are able to get enterprise-class features at a cost they can afford,” said Victoria Grey, senior vice president of marketing, Nexsan. “From scalability and simplified management to reliability and performance, Nexsan works to deliver the high-value features that customers need without a large investment. We have extended these enterprise-class features to the specific requirements of virtualized infrastructures so that companies like The Clark Enersen Partners can quickly and easily realize the true potential of their virtual operating environments.”

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About Nexsan

Nexsan Corporation is a leading provider of disk-based storage systems purpose built for the mid-market. Nexsan delivers storage systems that are optimized for the efficient storage and protection of unstructured data for a broad range of applications, including digital records, email, medical images, and scientific data and video. Nexsan systems are specifically designed for the growing data storage needs of mid-sized organizations by providing a small footprint, low power use, scalability, ease of use, and cost effectiveness while delivering enterprise-class reliability, features and performance. Founded in 1999 and based in Thousand Oaks, CA, Nexsan sells its products exclusively though a select global network of VARs, OEMs, and system integrators. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.nexsan.com.

About The Clark Enersen Partners

For more information regarding The Clark Enersen Partners, visit www.clarkenersen.com and www.scienceandresearchdesign.com.

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