Nexsan Wins ‘Storage Product of the Year’ at Prestigious DM Awards

High-density, energy efficient disk storage technology displayed at Storage Expo UK

Derby, UK---(Oct. 18, 2007) - Nexsan Technologies, leader in energy saving storage solutions, is proud to announce that its Assureon secure archive appliance has won “Storage Product of the Year” at this year's DM Awards. Nexsan's Assureon was also awarded runner-up in the "Compliance Product of the Year" category.

The DM Awards provide industry-wide recognition to individuals and organisations at the forefront of technology and innovation in the Document / Content Management industry. Winners are chosen by the readership of Document Manager Magazine.

AutoMAID™ is a next generation energy efficient storage solution architected from the ground up to provide superior storage performance and the industry’s highest energy efficiency. Nexsan solutions with AutoMAID™ technology allow the company’s extreme-density storage systems to power down disk drives to an idle state to conserve energy yet provide near-instantaneous access to data. Nexsan products with AutoMAID have built-in next generation energy efficient technology at no extra charge. For a petabyte of disk storage, Nexsan solutions can reduce energy requirements by 25X – 6KW versus 187KW. This power saving is achieved without sacrificing storage performance.

Assureon’s secure storage is based on a de-duplication (single-instance) content-addressed storage (CAS) model, ensuring that only a single copy of a data object is stored in the system dramatically reducing capacity demands, bandwidth requirements and substantially cutting customer costs. Compared to other CAS-based products that require backup or replicated data to be restored to a primary system, Assureon provides individual file or complete directory Point-in-Time rollbacks to deliver immediate real-time data reacquisition in full file format. This makes it ideal for disaster prevention, disk-to-disk backup and recovery, legislative compliance and long-term archiving applications. The system is architected to have no pre-determined limit to the theoretical capacity. Installations of many petabytes are possible with the standard architecture.

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About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Technologies is the worldwide leader in secure and energy-efficient storage solutions. Nexsan delivers secure storage appliances and modular, high capacity disk storage systems for a broad range of applications including fixed content storage and archiving, compliance and litigation support, primary storage, disk-based backup, digital video security, medical imaging, email and rich media. With a complete line of storage solutions that offer exceptional price/performance, Nexsan is the choice of Fortune Global 500 companies, major governmental agencies, and leading organizations worldwide. For more information, please see the company's website at www.nexsan.com.