Nexsan's Infinisan D2D Creates Industry Buzz

Reseller-friendly disk-to-disk technology praised by press and public

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., January 2, 2002 - "A superior product at an unbelievable price," CRN reviewer Todd M. Gardella said of Nexsan Technologies' InfiniSAN disk-to-disk (D2D) storage solution, marking the latest in the continuing praise for Nexsan's achievements in storage technology.

Since debuting late this past summer, Nexsan's disk-based storage systems have received acclaim from the press and the industry at large, particularly from reseller-oriented publications. The CRN review in the December 17, 2001 issue closely follows Nexsan earning the top "Resellers Choice" award from Computer Technology Review and top "Deploy" rating from InfoWorld in a November review. Nexsan's InfiniSAN D2D was also named "Best Enterprise Storage" at the annual Best of COMDEX Awards this November, while company executive vice president Diamond Lauffin 'wrestled' with industry heavyweights from IBM, EMC, Net Apps and Brocade at this year's COMDEX "Enterprise Storage Smackdown," co-hosted by John McArthur, group vice president of storage research at IDC, and Network World editor-in-chief John Dix.

"The attention from the industry is easily justified," said McArthur. "This technology is positioned to compete with traditional tape storage, and Nexsan has presented an attractively priced solution with features required in enterprise applications."

"If people wonder why we have been so successful in such a short time, they haven't been paying attention," said Nexsan's Lauffin. "Customers have a very real issue in their life - cost per megabyte. We have introduced products that finally allow customers to transition away from the high costs associated with tape, for primary backup as well as secondary, off-site storage, so it's no wonder the industry has taken notice." Lauffin himself has emerged as something of a pundit, having delivered several presentations at industry events such as COMDEX and the Fibre Channel Technologies Conference. His natural enthusiasm for storage technology and extensive expertise along with an engaging personality, have generated significant demand for his participation at industry events and in interviews.

Nexsan products have set new industry standards by providing a lower cost-per-megabyte alternative to tape for data backup. Nexsan is able to provide the complete D2D solution through the combination of correct-cost hard disk-based, high-availability RAID implemented hardware and a full-feature backup application.

InfiniSAN D2D backup systems scale from 160 GB to multi-petabytes for environments ranging from entry-level to the most demanding mid-range and enterprise-class applications. The Nexsan-designed GUI interface, NexScanT, provides the latest in web-based, centralized management and monitoring features. Tele-GuardT, Nexsan's phone home manager, configures operator-selectable parameters, enabling pre-emptive degradation monitoring for all system conditions. The full-featured D2D backup system provides high reliability and exceptional data availability for as low as 1.7 cents per megabyte. Nexsan eliminates the need to perform selective backup by providing faster backups and instant on-line data recovery.

About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Technologies is an engineering design and manufacturing technologies company based in Woodland Hills, California. The company creates and delivers storage-centric hardware and application-based solutions worldwide through one of the most diverse and established networks of professionals in the storage industry. Next generation Nexsan storage products are designed for corporate, graphics, medical imaging, animation and special effects, real time/event monitored/ online/off site storage, internet delivered content, financial on-line transaction data, music and voice, video security, digital film, and document imaging. For more information, please see the company's web site at http://www.nexsan.com

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