NEXSAN LAUNCHES SEARCHABLE ARCHIVE APPLIANCE FOR THE MID MARKET

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., February 26, 2007 – Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative and secure storage solutions, today announced its Assureon SA™ Searchable Archive Appliance, a complete disk-based archiving solution for smaller enterprises, branch offices and departmental groups that need simple and secure archiving capabilities for up to 20 million documents along with rapid file retrieval, based on searching document content or metadata for key words or phrases.

Assureon SA’s secure storage architecture ensures the long term integrity of all archival content through automated integrity checks and self healing functions. Utilizing Content Addressable Storage (CAS) technology to simplify management and reduce the cost of storing important digital assets, Assureon SA provides a cost-effective alternative to tape and delivers fast, intelligent and affordable online access to archival information – simplifying the retrieval of digital assets required for corporate governance, compliance requirements and electronic discovery.

Search capabilities of the Assureon SA’s CAS architecture deliver accurate results with de-duplicated results, contextual excerpts and summarization, and highlighted query terms. Users can search for documents by date; special fields such as title, location, size and author; and keywords and/or phrases. Document-level security ensures that users will not see documents in a result set that they do not have access permission.

“Digital archives are not only growing in capacity, but also in the number of individual objects (defined as files and associated metadata) that are being managed by IT. ESG's Digital Archiving report shows a 65% CAGR of all archived data between 2007 and 2010. By leveraging CAS technology to store files, images, recordings, email, and other fixed content as objects with a secure and unique universal identifier, small business users now have another option apart from traditional file system models,” said Mark Bowker, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “With the Assureon SA Archive Appliance, Nexsan has delivered a complete hardware/software solution that is easy enough to use for those organizations that may lack extensive IT resources and expertise yet provides powerful security and data protection that companies of all size require.”

“Nexsan’s Assureon SA Archive Appliance is a simple and highly effective way for SMEs and enterprise departments to protect, retain, search for and rapidly retrieve important digital assets,” said Brendan Kinkade, Vice President of Marketing at Nexsan. “The Assureon SA delivers everything that smaller organizations need in an archival solution – it’s a plug-and-play system that is easy to use, doesn’t require a lot of space, is highly reliable and provides enterprise-class security at a fraction of the cost of comparable legacy solutions.”

Assureon SA is a second-generation CAS appliance that allows simple integration for archiving, e-discovery, email and more. Its secure storage architecture delivers a comprehensive array of intelligent features including constant monitoring of file integrity, Lifecycle Management, file authentication, missing file alerts, and support for remote replication. Data integrity and security is assured with RAID 6 protection, which prevents the risk of data loss even if two drives fail, and WORM disk functionality that provides non-erasable, non-rewritable functionality.

The Assureon SA Archive Appliance is available now through Nexsan’s worldwide channel of resellers.

About Nexsan Technologies
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 www.nexsan.com.

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