Nexsan's Assureon Storage Product

Nexsan is a company focused on data storage solutions since its inception in 1999. Since this inception, Nexsan has not been shy regarding its quest to become a technological leader in the data storage industry. Recently armed with the esteemed Editor's Choice Award awarded by Computer Technology Review for its Assureon storage product, Nexsan makes its stake as one of the premier data storage providers. This article will provide a brief overview regarding Nexsan's world class Assureon product as well as the product's relevance in today's businesses.

Nexsan's Assureon product is loaded with features for today's businesses. Assureon delivers:

• A secure disk storage appliance for long term retention and management of fixed content information
• Multiple layers of security and data protection by employing secure AES encryption, stringent accessibility and a high availability clustered hardware architecture
• A fully integrated and complete hardware/software solution
• Simplified compatibility - Assureon's powerful interface eliminates the need for complex APIs
• A highly scalable system - performance and capacity scale independently
• Compliance with the major regulations affecting records management, (SEC 17-4, HIPAA, CFR 21 part 11 FDA, Sarbanes-Oxley, PIPEDA of Canada, UK Data Protection Act and others)
• Fail-safe technology to maintain the authenticity and integrity of content while assuring no loss of data
• Reduced Storage Costs
• Enabling the implementation of Information Lifecycle Management Processes
• Self-Management and self configuration capabilities decrease the personnel requirements needed to manage large amounts of information
• Assureon's CAS technology eliminates multiple copies of the same file
• Self-diagnostic and self-healing capabilities assure the safety of the information; Assureon provides absolute redundancy with no single point of failure, ongoing data integrity checking, RAID 6 hardware protection and phone home capability

One key innovation with the Assureon is its Single-instance storage. This technology allows a single copy of a file to be stored regardless how many users write that file to storage. This increases efficiency by reducing clutter and increasing usable space on the device. The benefits to businesses through this technology are clear and attainable. Increased storage through reduced clutter will yield reduced overhead while increasing cash flow which can be allocated elsewhere. Single-instance storage combined with load balancing and independent scalability options allow the system to be tailored to your business as it continues to expand.

Load balancing enables a uniform distribution of "Nexsan's Assureon™ is the storage industry's most powerful and secure data management appliance."