Nexsan Introduces Enterprise-Class Disk-to-Disk Backup at an Affordable Price

Full-Featured, High-Speed Disk Drives Deliver Exceptional Price/Performance, Offer Attractive Alternative to Tape

August 28, 2001 -- Nexsan Technologies today introduced its InfiniSANT D2D disk-to-disk backup storage solutions, providing enterprise-class performance at a fraction of the cost of other high-powered disk and tape systems. InfiniSAN D2D provides, for the first time, 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.

"The introduction of our high-performance, affordable D2D backup solution allows IT managers a high-powered alternative to tape," says Diamond Lauffin, Nexsan's Senior Executive Vice President. "Through the use of advanced ATA hard disk drives, along with embedded Nexsan developed firmware and code, we are now able to provide a lower cost-per-megabyte disk-to-disk backup solution with true hot-swappability and the complete redundancy associated with disk-based products. We have incorporated these enterprise-class features with performance previously unavailable in this price range, making the InfiniSAN D2D solution an extremely attractive storage addition and the only sensible D2D backup solution on the market today."

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.

"We estimate that more than 70 percent of enterprise-class companies currently perform selective backup in order to compact the backup and recovery windows," says Nancy Marrone, Senior Analyst with The Enterprise Storage Group. "Disk-to-disk backup is a solution that addresses that issue, providing faster backups and instant on-line recovery. Nexsan's InfiniSAN D2D systems offer high-performance, flexible D2D backup solutions at an affordable price. These systems are an attractive alternative to any company interested in fast-backup and on-line data recovery."

Nexsan's D2D backup solutions protect data through event-based, 24x7, incremental real-time backup to either a local on-site, on-line primary and/or off-site secondary on-line disaster recovery system. This event-based model eliminates the problems associated with a backup window, and the danger of losing a full business day's data. The on-line, random access backup provides maximum availability, eliminating the immediate need for file or server restoration. Nexsan's D2D provides immediate on-line file access and/or allows data retrieval via a LAN, WAN, Fibre, copper or Internet connection. Designed for small to enterprise-class environments, the solutions are low profile, and available in rackmount, desktop or Infini-StackT stackable systems.

All of Nexsan's versatile InfiniSAN products are system-independent, supporting SAN, DAS or NAS configurations, and Full Fabric, Fibre, SCSI or ATA. They provide support for TCP/IP, Ethernet, Data and SCSI or IP, and for Serial, LAN, WAN or web connections. The systems are also designed to be completely host- and operating system-independent, providing that the host can support external SCSI or Fibre Channel disk drives. Nexsan products are ideal for most operating systems, including Windows NT/95/98/2000, Novell NetWare, SCO, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, AIX and Unix. They support clustering such as Microsoft's Windows 2000 Datacenter (Cluster) Server, and the NexScan Internet-enabled management processor is compatible with all major web browsers, including Netscape and Internet Explorer.

Founded in 1998, Nexsan Technologies is an OEM Manufacturer of high availability, mission-critical data storage solutions for the global marketplace. Nexsan products are available through a worldwide network of specialist storage VARs and select distributors.