NEXSAN WINS THREE AT 2006 STORAGE INDUSTRY AWARDS Third year running that company has received top product award WOODLAND HILLS , Calif. , July 5, 2006 - For the third straight year, Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative and secure storage solutions, was awarded three top Storage Industry Awards for its powerful and cost-effective storage products, having taken the "Security Product of the Year" prize for its AssureonT Secure Data Management Appliance and "Disk Product of the Year" for its SATABeastT enterprise-class storage array announced June 29 th as part of the third-annual Storage Conference and Awards presented by Storage Magazine . Nexsan's SATABeast was also honored as "Storage Solution of the Year" for its part in an overall solution provided to Honda Racing F1 Team, in cooperation with NCE Computer Group and Datacore Software. The "Storries" awards are based on votes from readers of Storage Magazine . Nexsan was previously awarded "Storage Product of the Year" in 2005 for its SATABlade and "Best Product - Disk Technology" in 2004 for its ATABeast enterprise disk array. "All of us at Nexsan are beyond thrilled for the continued success of the company's products at the annual Storage Industry Awards," said Brendan Kinkade , Vice President of Mark eting at Nexsan. "We are even more pleased at the fact that these awards are voted on by real-world users who think enough about the storage solutions that we've provided them that they take time to ensure others are aware of them as well. My heartfelt appreciation to everyone who put in the hard work to make our products what they are. We have much to be proud of." Nexsan's Assureon is an industry first. Assureon is a plug-and-play appliance designed to secure long-term archiving of rich media content and reference data. Assureon delivers seamless support for tape and optical - never before achieved in a single, fully integrated networked storage system - and provides the utmost in data security through advanced encryption, authentication and data protection technologies, combined with fully featured lifecycle management, RAID hardware and content-addressed storage technology. 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 AutoMAIDT (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 Installed at the Operations Centre in Brackley , England , the Honda Racing F1 Team is using the SATABeast as the storage application for a number of data-intensive applications including CAD/CAM designs, telemetric information, wind tunnel analysis, racing simulations, environmental data management, image and video libraries, and office management applications such as Word, Excel and email. Each of the Honda Racing F1 Team's Windows Servers is allotted a provisioned portion of the total 2TB of storage, which enables the team to expand back-end storage on an ongoing basis without impacting users, applications or servers themselves. About Nexsan Technologies # # # |
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