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Nexsan Brings First High Density, Energy Efficient Storage to Apple Xserve Market

SATABeast Xi Delivers 42TB in Only 4U for Apple and Mixed OS Environments

Core News Facts:

SATABeast Xi is the first, high density, energy efficient storage solution built for the Xserve and Mac Pro markets.
It delivers the highest density storage solution available with 42TB of storage in only 4U of rack space.
Delivering the only dual function Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity with wire-speed performance, the SATABeast Xi is flexible, scalable and completely OS independent to easily support a broad range of storage and computing infrastructures. While it is optimized for the Apple Xserve and Mac Pro environments, it can be used as a storage solution in mixed environments with equal ease.
Based on the proven technology of Nexsan's award-winning SATABeast, the SATABeast Xi provides the market with a high density, plug and play solution that is complementary to Xserve's existing storage options.
SATABeast Xi is designed specifically for Xserve and Mac Pro, complementing those environments in both physical look and feel, and it's easy to use GUI will be familiar to Leopard users.
Optimized for the Xserve and Mac Pro markets, SATABeast Xi delivers high end performance at the same exceptional price point as Nexsan's current SATABeast solutions. Pricing starting at $1200/TB includes all the energy efficiency features and software licenses to allow SATABeast Xi to operate out of the box without expensive add-ons for a lower total cost of ownership than comparable solutions.
SATABeast Xi is designed for primary storage of large data set applications like uncompressed, real-time HDTV as well as multi-stream and analog TV signals and high quality video editing with no frame drops.
It also is ideal for addressing secondary storage applications and disk-to-disk backup in which online access to data delivers superior business continuity and data protection as well as instant access to large volumes of data.
AutoMAID™ (Massive Array of Idle Disks) allows SATABeast Xi to place its disk drives in an idle state to conserve energy yet provide near-instantaneous access to data. This breaks new ground in the Xserve market where no other energy efficient storage solution of this caliber exists.
SATABeast Xi provides VARs and system integrators, specifically those with a focus on multimedia and rich content, a high density, high performing storage solution that is optimized for both Xserve and multi-OS environments.

Product Details:

Delivers 4GB Fibre Channel connectivity and iSCSI for mixed environments
Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6,10, 30 and 50
Second generation SATA drives
Allows up to 42 1TB drives in 4U
Available March 2008 through Nexsan's robust VAR channel
Designed for primary and secondary storage as well as D2D backup in enterprise environments where reliability is an absolute
High availability architecture features full redundancy across all active components.
SATABeast Xi is available through Nexsan's network of value added resellers.
Pricing starts at $1,200/TB US depending on storage capacity and number and type of drives. This pricing is all-inclusive.

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"The SATABeast Xi is a natural evolution of our highly flexible, scalable SATABeast product," said Bob Woolery, senior vice president of marketing, Nexsan. "Xserve directly targets one of our sweet spots in the market - data intensive multimedia applications that require the highest reliability and instantaneous access.

"Our customers produce the highest-quality, rich media content including HD television programming and feature length movies, and have been challenging us to develop a rock-solid storage solution for Xserve and other environments. We've never had an available solution like SATABeast Xi that delivers high density storage and energy savings all in one package for both fibre channel and iSCSI," said Chris Donoyan, President and Founder of HomeRun Media, a leading systems integrator in the media and entertainment market located in Los Angeles . "When you put those features together with Nexsan's incredible price performance, this is has the potential to be a major force for rich media storage in the Xserve market and beyond."

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.

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Nexsan Introduces First High Density, Energy Efficient Storage For Apple Xserve Market

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