Nexsan's Ataboy2 Aces InfoWorld Exam
Scores 'Excellent' With Highest Rating Among Products Tested
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., August 28, 2003 - Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative storage solutions, rated a 9.1, which is classified as "excellent," in a weighted review of its InfiniSANT ATAboy2T published in the Test Center section of InfoWorld's August 25 issue, easily besting the scores of four other products reviewed by the publication. Nexsan's total is also higher than any of the products listed in the issue's Test Center Leaderboard, featuring recent reviews of key products previously published by the magazine.
Other products reviewed in the issue included security and networking solutions, with the highest receiving a "very good" rating of 8.5 and the lowest a "good" score of 6.3. The highest-rated products on InfoWorld's Leaderboard top out at 8.9.
Entitled "Cheap Disks, Fast Connections; Nexsan's ATAboy2 squeezes high performance from low-priced ATA array," Nexsan earned a perfect 10 in the category of Value and 9s in the categories of Performance, Capacity, Management, Interoperability and Setup. Reviewer Logan G. Harbaugh's bottom line is "Nexsan's InfiniSAN ATAboy2 RAID array combines ATA disk drives with SCSI or Fibre Channel connections, providing high capacity, high performance and good redundancy at an outstanding price. This subsystem is a good fit for almost any storage application."
"It should come as no surprise to current Nexsan customers that our InfiniSAN ATAboy2 would rank such a high score from such a prestigious publication as InfoWorld," said Brendan Kinkade, Nexsan Vice President of Marketing. "We are very pleased to receive recognition from the magazine's Test Center and help in educating IT managers on the benefits of Nexsan's line of high-performance, correct-cost storage solutions."
With more than 200,000 readers, InfoWorld is a weekly publication dedicated to enterprise computing topics written for corporate executives and IS managers who are multiple-unit buyers of enterprise products and solutions. The publication includes important product news and trends in information systems and maintains one of the largest facilities for testing and comparing enterprise products and solutions in the industry. InfoWorld is available online at www.infoworld.com.
About InfiniSAN ATAboy2
The InfiniSAN ATAboy2 series provides enterprise-class features and functionality in an advanced ATA disk-based solution than can scale from a correct-cost, entry-level solution up to meet the demands of the most storage intensive mid-range and enterprise applications. Nexsan designed enterprise-class reliability into the ATAboy2, utilizing redundancy, advanced ATA disk drives and the latest in RAID technology. The Nexsan designed GUI interface, NexSCANT, provides the latest in centralized management and monitoring features for all Nexsan subsystems. Tele-GuardT, Nexsan's phone home manager, offers operator selectable parameters to monitor all system conditions. Tele-GuardT provides the vehicle to notify single or multiple system operators of not only component warnings, but also preemptive alerts. InfiniSAN ATAboy2 ATA disk-based systems provide the maximum uptime operation and data protected environment available today.
About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Technologies, headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif. is the leader in innovative and correct cost storage solutions. The company creates and delivers award-winning, 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, digital film and video, financial on-line transaction data, music and voice, video security, and document imaging. For more information, please see the company's website at http://www.nexsan.com. ### |