Thursday, February 16, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Nexsan Assureon Secure Online Archive Recognized as ?First Class Solution? for Compliant Long Term Data Archiving in Customer Survey
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., February 15, 2012 -- Nexsan®, a leading independent provider of disk-based data storage systems, today announced results from a TechValidate user survey which reveal a high product satisfaction rate for Nexsan Assureon in applications that require long term data archiving, storage optimization and secure, compliant storage. The product received a high overall satisfaction rate, underscoring the value of the online archiving solution, especially in applications that require high file integrity, automated replication and adherence to disposition and retention policies.
In addition to customer satisfaction, the TechValidate study assessed key responses on top product usage, typical data retention periods, important product features and archive growth rates. The following topline results were based on 196 customers surveyed:
· Customers cited overall satisfaction of the Assureon Secure Online Archive for compliant data retention and storage optimization (93%).
· Customers reported that the top uses of Nexsan Assureon were for long term archiving (75%), storage optimization (58%) and compliant storage for regulatory adherence (39%).
· Typical data retention periods reported by customers using Nexsan Assureon were five to ten years (48%) and greater than 10 years (29%). Under a quarter of customers typically retained data for between two and five years (23%).
· Customers also confirmed the rapid growth rates of their archives. Of those surveyed, the majority have archives that are growing between 20% and 30%, or more, annually (65%).
· The most important capabilities cited by customers were:
o File integrity (65%)
o Replication (59%)
o Disposition and retention policies (47%)
o Price (35%)
o Deduplication (32%)
o Performance compared to prior archiving solution (26%)
o Ingestion functionality (24%)
o WORM support (21%)
· Customers are also using Assureon to streamline backup operations and reduce costs by optimizing the storage environment (64%)
The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) selected the Assureon storage system to improve its object storage archive, assure regulatory compliance and seamlessly support its disaster recovery strategy. "I was impressed by Nexsan’s secure online archive," said John Jones, Desktop and Systems Supervisor for UTA. "We found significant value in the features and were even more surprised by the price. It was a fraction of that charged by other system vendors. With Assureon we reduced our backup window and significantly improved our overall storage efficiency. It has proven to be a very capable storage archive, both simple and reliable. You just set it and forget it."
Nexsan partners have also experienced superior reliability and performance with Nexsan. Another Assureon user, ATS Cloud, offers scalable EMR services that provide organizations of all sizes access to state-of-the-art technology. This allows their clients to enjoy Fortune 500-caliber IT functionality without the upfront infrastructure investment or internal staffing requirements. According to Randall Weyers, Cloud System Architect for ATS Cloud, “Assureon offers exceptional performance and scalability when used with our cloud-based EMR services. When we have a hospital that employs our solution for secure and compliant data storage, we are confident in the ability to deliver the service levels required without hesitation.”
Part of the Nexsan Flexible Storage Platform™ of products, Assureon is a secure online archive that is ideal for storage optimization, secure storage for regulatory and corporate compliance, and long-term data archiving. For storage optimization, Assureon offloads primary storage to free up space for active data and thereby reduces the size, time and costs of monthly full backups by completely eliminating the unstructured datasets from the backup stream. For regulatory and corporate compliance, Assureon complies with governmental regulatory requirements including HIPPA, SOX and SEC-17 and simplifies the enforcement of company data retention, privacy and protection policies.
“As a company dedicated to meeting the needs of its customers’ archiving requirements, we are honored to have achieved high customer satisfaction for our Assureon solution,” said Ed Apy, Vice President, Worldwide Assureon Sales, Nexsan. “To know that our products offer multiple value propositions to companies that have growing requirements, means that our focus on enterprise-class storage that is easy to use and efficient can have a direct impact on customer success.”
To view the TechValidate survey, visit http://www.techvalidate.com/portals/nexsan-assureon
About Nexsan
Nexsan® is a leading independent provider of disk-based data storage systems purpose-built and priced for the mid-market, offering industry-leading reliability, space and power efficiency. Nexsan SAN and NAS storage systems provide scalability, integrity and security for growing volumes of unstructured data and are ideal for virtual storage, disk-to-disk backup, 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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For more information about Nexsan’s products and solutions, visit www.nexsan.com
Nexsan is a registered trademark of Nexsan Corporation. All other product or company names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Media Contact:
Joe Austin
Ventana Public Relations
(818) 332-6166
joe.austin@ventanapr.com
In addition to customer satisfaction, the TechValidate study assessed key responses on top product usage, typical data retention periods, important product features and archive growth rates. The following topline results were based on 196 customers surveyed:
· Customers cited overall satisfaction of the Assureon Secure Online Archive for compliant data retention and storage optimization (93%).
· Customers reported that the top uses of Nexsan Assureon were for long term archiving (75%), storage optimization (58%) and compliant storage for regulatory adherence (39%).
· Typical data retention periods reported by customers using Nexsan Assureon were five to ten years (48%) and greater than 10 years (29%). Under a quarter of customers typically retained data for between two and five years (23%).
· Customers also confirmed the rapid growth rates of their archives. Of those surveyed, the majority have archives that are growing between 20% and 30%, or more, annually (65%).
· The most important capabilities cited by customers were:
o File integrity (65%)
o Replication (59%)
o Disposition and retention policies (47%)
o Price (35%)
o Deduplication (32%)
o Performance compared to prior archiving solution (26%)
o Ingestion functionality (24%)
o WORM support (21%)
· Customers are also using Assureon to streamline backup operations and reduce costs by optimizing the storage environment (64%)
The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) selected the Assureon storage system to improve its object storage archive, assure regulatory compliance and seamlessly support its disaster recovery strategy. "I was impressed by Nexsan’s secure online archive," said John Jones, Desktop and Systems Supervisor for UTA. "We found significant value in the features and were even more surprised by the price. It was a fraction of that charged by other system vendors. With Assureon we reduced our backup window and significantly improved our overall storage efficiency. It has proven to be a very capable storage archive, both simple and reliable. You just set it and forget it."
Nexsan partners have also experienced superior reliability and performance with Nexsan. Another Assureon user, ATS Cloud, offers scalable EMR services that provide organizations of all sizes access to state-of-the-art technology. This allows their clients to enjoy Fortune 500-caliber IT functionality without the upfront infrastructure investment or internal staffing requirements. According to Randall Weyers, Cloud System Architect for ATS Cloud, “Assureon offers exceptional performance and scalability when used with our cloud-based EMR services. When we have a hospital that employs our solution for secure and compliant data storage, we are confident in the ability to deliver the service levels required without hesitation.”
Part of the Nexsan Flexible Storage Platform™ of products, Assureon is a secure online archive that is ideal for storage optimization, secure storage for regulatory and corporate compliance, and long-term data archiving. For storage optimization, Assureon offloads primary storage to free up space for active data and thereby reduces the size, time and costs of monthly full backups by completely eliminating the unstructured datasets from the backup stream. For regulatory and corporate compliance, Assureon complies with governmental regulatory requirements including HIPPA, SOX and SEC-17 and simplifies the enforcement of company data retention, privacy and protection policies.
“As a company dedicated to meeting the needs of its customers’ archiving requirements, we are honored to have achieved high customer satisfaction for our Assureon solution,” said Ed Apy, Vice President, Worldwide Assureon Sales, Nexsan. “To know that our products offer multiple value propositions to companies that have growing requirements, means that our focus on enterprise-class storage that is easy to use and efficient can have a direct impact on customer success.”
To view the TechValidate survey, visit http://www.techvalidate.com/portals/nexsan-assureon
About Nexsan
Nexsan® is a leading independent provider of disk-based data storage systems purpose-built and priced for the mid-market, offering industry-leading reliability, space and power efficiency. Nexsan SAN and NAS storage systems provide scalability, integrity and security for growing volumes of unstructured data and are ideal for virtual storage, disk-to-disk backup, 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.
# # #
For more information about Nexsan’s products and solutions, visit www.nexsan.com
Nexsan is a registered trademark of Nexsan Corporation. All other product or company names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Media Contact:
Joe Austin
Ventana Public Relations
(818) 332-6166
joe.austin@ventanapr.com
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
@Gridstore wins bronze in storage systems for 2011 Products of the Year by @SearchStorageTT for Scale-out NAS http://bit.ly/y52vaH
Gridstore Wins Award in Storage Systems Category for 2011 Products of the Year by Storage Magazine
Mountain View, Calif. – February 14, 2012 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out storage solutions, today announced that the company has placed Bronze in the Storage Systems category for the 2011 Products of the Year presented by the editors of TechTarget’s Storage Media Group. This category covered FC, iSCSI, SAN, NAS, multiprotocol systems, DAS, hard disk drives, solid-state storage, disk controllers, caching appliances, storage virtualization appliances and cloud storage gateway appliances. The Storage Magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants chose the winning products for this year’s awards.
Winners were selected based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality, and value. Judges selected the 18 “Products of the Year” from among enterprise storage-related products introduced, upgraded, and shipped between November 1, 2010 and October 28, 2011. The top three winners were selected in six data storage categories: backup and disaster recovery software and services, backup hardware, networking equipment, storage management tools, storage systems, and storage system software.
Gridstore uses an advanced grid-processing platform to dramatically lower the cost of scale-out storage and make it simple for small-medium sized business to deploy. By leveraging distributed processing and parallel I/O, Gridstore offers increased scaling, performance and reliability over traditional storage solutions without adding complexity. Now small-medium sized businesses can enjoy the benefits of scale-out storage without having to hire a storage guru or have an enterprise budget.
“We are so excited to be recognized by Storage Magazine in such a highly competitive category like storage systems,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO Gridstore. “The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution is a disruptive product that delivers enterprise-class performance, reliability and scalability that is superior to first generation clustered scale-out storage – at unparalleled pricing for the mid-tier market.”
Tweet this: @Gridstore wins bronze in storage systems for 2011 Products of the Year by @SearchStorageTT for Scale-out NAS http://bit.ly/y52vaH
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/tFqQ0
About TechTarget’s Storage Media
TechTarget's SearchStorage.com is the number-one online destination for IT professionals charged with purchasing, implementing, and managing storage systems at the core of large- and medium-sized businesses. More than 600,000 storage-focused IT executives, managers, and staff rely on SearchStorage.com for the information they need to do their jobs. SearchStorage.com content includes original editorial features, news, expert storage advice, Webcasts, and white papers. TechTarget's Storage magazine is the only monthly resource that provides information technology (IT) executives, managers, and staff with in-depth analysis and forward-looking guidance on managing, storing, networking, and safeguarding the data at the core of large organizations. More information can be found at www.SearchStorage.com.
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid based, scale-out storage products. The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2009, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/WFELS
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
Winners were selected based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality, and value. Judges selected the 18 “Products of the Year” from among enterprise storage-related products introduced, upgraded, and shipped between November 1, 2010 and October 28, 2011. The top three winners were selected in six data storage categories: backup and disaster recovery software and services, backup hardware, networking equipment, storage management tools, storage systems, and storage system software.
Gridstore uses an advanced grid-processing platform to dramatically lower the cost of scale-out storage and make it simple for small-medium sized business to deploy. By leveraging distributed processing and parallel I/O, Gridstore offers increased scaling, performance and reliability over traditional storage solutions without adding complexity. Now small-medium sized businesses can enjoy the benefits of scale-out storage without having to hire a storage guru or have an enterprise budget.
“We are so excited to be recognized by Storage Magazine in such a highly competitive category like storage systems,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO Gridstore. “The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution is a disruptive product that delivers enterprise-class performance, reliability and scalability that is superior to first generation clustered scale-out storage – at unparalleled pricing for the mid-tier market.”
Tweet this: @Gridstore wins bronze in storage systems for 2011 Products of the Year by @SearchStorageTT for Scale-out NAS http://bit.ly/y52vaH
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/tFqQ0
About TechTarget’s Storage Media
TechTarget's SearchStorage.com is the number-one online destination for IT professionals charged with purchasing, implementing, and managing storage systems at the core of large- and medium-sized businesses. More than 600,000 storage-focused IT executives, managers, and staff rely on SearchStorage.com for the information they need to do their jobs. SearchStorage.com content includes original editorial features, news, expert storage advice, Webcasts, and white papers. TechTarget's Storage magazine is the only monthly resource that provides information technology (IT) executives, managers, and staff with in-depth analysis and forward-looking guidance on managing, storing, networking, and safeguarding the data at the core of large organizations. More information can be found at www.SearchStorage.com.
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid based, scale-out storage products. The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2009, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/WFELS
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
@Gridstore wins bronze in storage systems for 2011 Products of the Year by @SearchStorageTT for Scale-out NAS http://bit.ly/y52vaH
Gridstore Wins Award in Storage Systems Category for 2011 Products of the Year by Storage Magazine
Mountain View, Calif. – February 14, 2012 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out storage solutions, today announced that the company has placed Bronze in the Storage Systems category for the 2011 Products of the Year presented by the editors of TechTarget’s Storage Media Group. This category covered FC, iSCSI, SAN, NAS, multiprotocol systems, DAS, hard disk drives, solid-state storage, disk controllers, caching appliances, storage virtualization appliances and cloud storage gateway appliances. The Storage Magazine-SearchStorage.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants chose the winning products for this year’s awards.
Winners were selected based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality, and value. Judges selected the 18 “Products of the Year” from among enterprise storage-related products introduced, upgraded, and shipped between November 1, 2010 and October 28, 2011. The top three winners were selected in six data storage categories: backup and disaster recovery software and services, backup hardware, networking equipment, storage management tools, storage systems, and storage system software.
Gridstore uses an advanced grid-processing platform to dramatically lower the cost of scale-out storage and make it simple for small-medium sized business to deploy. By leveraging distributed processing and parallel I/O, Gridstore offers increased scaling, performance and reliability over traditional storage solutions without adding complexity. Now small-medium sized businesses can enjoy the benefits of scale-out storage without having to hire a storage guru or have an enterprise budget.
“We are so excited to be recognized by Storage Magazine in such a highly competitive category like storage systems,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO Gridstore. “The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution is a disruptive product that delivers enterprise-class performance, reliability and scalability that is superior to first generation clustered scale-out storage – at unparalleled pricing for the mid-tier market.”
Tweet this: @Gridstore wins bronze in storage systems for 2011 Products of the Year by @SearchStorageTT for Scale-out NAS http://bit.ly/y52vaH
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/r7acx
About TechTarget’s Storage Media
TechTarget's SearchStorage.com is the number-one online destination for IT professionals charged with purchasing, implementing, and managing storage systems at the core of large- and medium-sized businesses. More than 600,000 storage-focused IT executives, managers, and staff rely on SearchStorage.com for the information they need to do their jobs. SearchStorage.com content includes original editorial features, news, expert storage advice, Webcasts, and white papers. TechTarget's Storage magazine is the only monthly resource that provides information technology (IT) executives, managers, and staff with in-depth analysis and forward-looking guidance on managing, storing, networking, and safeguarding the data at the core of large organizations. More information can be found at www.SearchStorage.com.
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid based, scale-out storage products. The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2009, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/Zw42f
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
Winners were selected based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality, and value. Judges selected the 18 “Products of the Year” from among enterprise storage-related products introduced, upgraded, and shipped between November 1, 2010 and October 28, 2011. The top three winners were selected in six data storage categories: backup and disaster recovery software and services, backup hardware, networking equipment, storage management tools, storage systems, and storage system software.
Gridstore uses an advanced grid-processing platform to dramatically lower the cost of scale-out storage and make it simple for small-medium sized business to deploy. By leveraging distributed processing and parallel I/O, Gridstore offers increased scaling, performance and reliability over traditional storage solutions without adding complexity. Now small-medium sized businesses can enjoy the benefits of scale-out storage without having to hire a storage guru or have an enterprise budget.
“We are so excited to be recognized by Storage Magazine in such a highly competitive category like storage systems,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO Gridstore. “The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution is a disruptive product that delivers enterprise-class performance, reliability and scalability that is superior to first generation clustered scale-out storage – at unparalleled pricing for the mid-tier market.”
Tweet this: @Gridstore wins bronze in storage systems for 2011 Products of the Year by @SearchStorageTT for Scale-out NAS http://bit.ly/y52vaH
Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/r7acx
About TechTarget’s Storage Media
TechTarget's SearchStorage.com is the number-one online destination for IT professionals charged with purchasing, implementing, and managing storage systems at the core of large- and medium-sized businesses. More than 600,000 storage-focused IT executives, managers, and staff rely on SearchStorage.com for the information they need to do their jobs. SearchStorage.com content includes original editorial features, news, expert storage advice, Webcasts, and white papers. TechTarget's Storage magazine is the only monthly resource that provides information technology (IT) executives, managers, and staff with in-depth analysis and forward-looking guidance on managing, storing, networking, and safeguarding the data at the core of large organizations. More information can be found at www.SearchStorage.com.
About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in grid based, scale-out storage products. The Gridstore scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2009, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/Zw42f
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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
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