Nexsan Introduces Industry’s First Green SAS Storage Solution with MAID 2.0

SASBoy Delivers High Performance and Energy Savings for Fixed Content

Thousand Oaks, Calif., June 2, 2008 – Nexsan, a leading provider of energy efficient, long-term disk storage, today announced the availability of SASBoy™, a high-density, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage solution. This is the only SAS storage solution on the market to provide MAID 2.0 functionality via Nexsan’s AutoMAID™ (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) technology, which reduces energy use without compromising application performance.

SASBoy uses high-performance RAID controllers and offers fast I/O response for searching and retrieving small fixed-content files. It is well suited for applications like web and Intranet fixed-content delivery, databases for storing and retrieving PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) content, document management, and business reports. SASBoy is completely OS-independent and provides both iSCSI and Fibre Channel connectivity. The new cost-effective solution houses fourteen 300GB SAS drives in 3U for 4.2 TB of storage.

Product Details

• Speeds: High-performance random access for fixed-content. Up to 50,000 random IOPS from cache;
• Green storage: Multiple levels of energy efficiency, user configurable to control energy use. No compromise on application performance. Comes standard with the SASBoy;
• Features both Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity to enable cost-effective, high performance access to large amounts of information;
• High availability architecture features full redundancy across all active components;
• Centralized management and monitoring platform that enables remote management and configuration of multiple arrays from a single GUI through NexScan™ software;
• Priced for the SME market (small to mid-size enterprises);
• Available immediately through Nexsan’s global VAR channel;
• Easily integrates with SATA products for tiered storage;
• Three-year warranty includes advance exchange, 24-7 technical support.

Quotes

"Whereas most SAS solutions support primary storage applications, the SASBoy is designed to enable high-performance fixed-content applications with energy efficiency,” said Bob Woolery, senior vice president of marketing, Nexsan. “From the perspective of the host O/S, the SASBoy array acts like any SAS RAID while opportunistically looking for ways to save power."

"Just because a business is categorized specifically as being in the SME space does not necessarily mean that it's IT challenges and needs are specific too - Nexsan has realized this and has put together an intriguing combination in its SASBoy product, said Mark Peters, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "Aimed predominantly to serve fixed-content, it combines what should be a good price/performance SAS package with Nexsan's multi-level, energy-saving technology; this latter aspect is crucial - after all, SME's have utility bills too, and the need to contain power-usage (whether motivated by environmental or economic concerns) is endemic and only going to grow"

Links

• SASBoy
• AutoMAID
• MAID 2.0 white paper

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About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Corporation is a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term storage systems. Nexsan delivers secure storage appliances and modular, capacity-optimized disk-storage systems for a broad range of applications including fixed content storage and archiving, email, medical imaging, compliance and litigation support, disk-based backup, digital video security, and rich media. Nexsan’s solutions are the choice of small and medium-sized companies as well as large global enterprises and major governmental agencies around the world who are seeking cost-correct, high density storage solutions. Founded in 1999 and based in Thousand, Oaks, Calif., Nexsan sells its products exclusively through a select global network of VARs, OEMs and system integrators. For more information about Nexsan’s products, please see the company's website at www.nexsan.com.