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NEXSAN PROVIDES STORAGE BACKBONE FOR EVS

Assureon enables data protection, management at digital vaulting company's offsite data centers

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., September 5, 2006 - Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative storage solutions, today announced that its AssureonT has been deployed by Electronic Vaulting Services (EVS) Corporation to provide cost-effective and secure data management and storage solutions for companies of all sizes that are seeking to protect critical data for business continuance and disaster recovery purposes.

Memphis , Tenn.-based EVS delivers custom storage configurations that continuously back up customer data and archive it in secure offsite data centers, making it immediately available for recovery 24 hours a day. EVS' offsite storage services help businesses meet the challenges of reducing capital expenditures and mitigating network risk at today's accelerated pace.

EVS selected Nexsan's Assureon secure storage appliance to address the requirements of business customers who are faced with issues concerning data privacy, compliance regulations and uninterrupted flow of information and to provide a robust, scalable and highly available storage platform. With a current capacity of 30TB of managed Assureon storage, EVS is utilizing the systems to provide advanced data management and protection options that have been - until now - too expensive.

"We specialize in providing business continuance and DR solutions to business customers of all types with particular expertise in the financial services and healthcare industries," said Gayle Rose, CEO of EVS. "The Assureon system's feature set is presented as an 'on-demand managed data services' model that offers a more comprehensive feature set and a level of granularity unmatched by any other storage system we evaluated."

"The Assureon offers companies of all sizes the ability to protect their mission-critical data through maximum levels of security while minimizing cost concerns," said Diamond, Lauffin, senior executive vice president at Nexsan. "By leveraging Assureon's built-in modular storage services into their SSP business model, EVS now delivers a superior range of critical service offerings to customers that allows the company to independently configure any or all service options to meet the specific requirements of each customer."

Key among the Assureon's advanced data storage and security features are:

  • Secure data privacy through 256-bit encryption
  • Data compression
  • True media cost management utilizing single instance store functionality and version management
  • Immutability of data
  • Real-time asynchronous data recovery
  • Regular data integrity audits
  • Data redundancy - all files stored in mirrored RAID 5 locally, can also be mirrored to remote location(s)
  • Open architecture approach to classification
  • Remote disposition
  • Ability to meet compliance requirements: SEC 4-17, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and more

An industry first, Assureon is a plug-and-play appliance that employs standard Nexsan SATA RAID arrays and is designed to secure, manage and store important content and reference data. Assureon 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, along with seamless support for tape and optical - never before achieved in a single, fully integrated networked storage system.

About EVS Corporation
EVS, located in Memphis , Tennessee , provides affordable managed data storage solutions for companies of all sizes that are seeking to protect their critical data for business continuance and disaster recovery purposes. EVS's offsite storage arrays can help any business to meet the challenges of reducing capital expenditures and mitigating network risk at today's accelerated pace. EVS provides turnkey, scalable storage solutions to meet any budget. EVS realizes that in today's competitive, 'always on' business environment, disaster recovery/business continuance planning is not an option, it is a requirement. EVS' innovative, secure and scalable solutions provide the business community an inexpensive and viable alternative to the traditional tape-backups. For more information, please visit our website at: http://www.evscorporation.com.

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 http://www.nexsan.com.

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For more information please contact:
Address: 21700 Oxnard Street, Suite 1850,
Woodland Hills, CA 91367 USA
Telephone: 866-4-NEXSAN
Telephone: 818-715-9111 Outside of USA
Fax: 818-715-9175
E-mail: sales@nexsan.com
© 2007 Nexsan Technologies, Inc.