Nexsan SATABeast and SATABoy Storage Solutions Now Available With iSCSI Connectivity

PRNewswire
June 22, 2006

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., -- Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative and secure storage solutions, today announced the availability of iSCSI versions of several members of its award-winning line of RAID storage products, including its SATABeast and SATABoy, enabling direct-disk connections over the network.

iSCSI is the method of inexpensively connecting servers directly to disk over IP networks without having to purchase Fibre Channel switches or host bus adapters. Easily integrated into existing Ethernet or Fibre Channel backup environments, Nexsan's iSCSI-enabled solutions once again combine ease of use, cost efficiency, flexibility and performance.

"The addition of iSCSI functionality in our product lineup was based on customers looking for a total storage solution that was less complex and less costly than assembling a comparable multi-vendor system," said Diamond Lauffin, senior executive vice president at Nexsan. "The enhanced functionality of Nexsan's new iSCSI-enabled solutions offers users for the first time the ability to implement advanced disk-based storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions."

The iSCSI functionality is now built into the company's SATABoy and SATABeast RAID-6 SATA-based products. Nexsan's implementation of RAID-6 has been optimized for SATA disk drives, providing protection against the failure of any two drives in a RAID set. Nexsan's RAID-6 enabled SATA storage solutions service a broad range of applications, including fixed content, reference data and disk-to-disk backup and replication for business continuity and disaster recovery.

SATABeast
SATABeast's innovative combination of technologies delivers unsurpassed performance, reliability and cost savings for primary and near-line storage, disk-to-disk backup, secondary storage and fixed content archive applications. An extreme density design -- 21 terabytes of storage capacity in just 4U of rack space -- provides a compact footprint and can scale to 210 cost-correct terabytes of capacity in a single rack. The SATABeast's unique design extends individual drive life and provides significant savings year over year, while its AutoMAID(TM) (Massive Array of Idle Disks) function allows SATABeast to place its disk drives into an idle state to conserve energy, yet provide near-instantaneous access to data.

SATABoy
Designed to meet the challenges of the most demanding computing environments, SATABoy delivers unparalleled availability and performance in a SATA RAID device and provides superior performance across all standard platforms and operating systems. Dual 2Gb Fibre Channel connectors on each controller enable easy and flexible implementation into a wide range of environments. SATABoy's unique combination of high performance and enormous capacity provides exceptional value that enhances all digital information storage applications, such as live on-line data, fixed content, tiered storage, broadcast/VOD and other business-critical applications.

About Nexsan
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 http://www.nexsan.com.

Nexsan, SATABoy and SATABeast are trademarks of Nexsan Technologies. All other brand and product names are, or may be trademarks of their respective owners.