Nexsan

Nexsan, an Imation company, is a multinational corporation that sells hybrid data storage hardware and software. It is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California, with development and sales offices in San Diego; Montreal, Ontario; and Derby and Oxfordshire, England. Nexsan is a privately owned company, partially funded by venture capital firms VantagePoint Venture Partners, Reed Elsevier, and M R Investment Partners.

, the company had built a customer base of 11,000+ and deployed more than 33,000 systems worldwide. Nexsan has earned industry awards such as Storage Magazine's Best Storage Solution of the Year Award in 2011 and 2012 and Red Herring magazine's Top 100 Most Promising Privately Held North American Companies.

History

Nexsan was founded in Derby, England in 1999. In 2001, the company introduced its first product into the Disk-to-disk backup market, releasing the data storage industry's first ATA RAID controller that was developed and optimized specifically for ATA drives. Since 1999, the company has manufactured hardware storage systems ranging from SATA and SAS storage for NAS and SAN, and onward to Hybrid array storage systems, which leverage solid-state memory to increase random I/O performance for demanding databases and virtualized environments, as well as Long term, highly secure data archiving storage systems. The company has developed unique software components like their AutoMAID power management and FASTier solid-state caching as well as a multisite key management system.. Nexsan was purchased by Imation on December 31, 2012.

Products

The company manufacturers SAN, Hybrid Unified (CIFS/NFS/iSCSI), and data archiving storage systems.

Technology

E-Series Disk Arrays (E18, E48, E60)

• Simultaneous iSCSI and Fibre Channel through ACTIVE/active controllers in a fully fault-tolerant system
• Industry-leading storage density of up to 15 drives per U of rack space
• AutoMAID power management saves up to 87 percent on power and cooling for non-active disk sets
• Scales up to 180 4TB drives for a maximum capacity of 720TB

NST5000 Series Hybrid Storage Systems (NST5100, NST5300, NST5500)

• Unified, simultaneous access via CIFS/NFS/iSCSI
• FASTier uses DRAM/NVRAM/Flash to accelerate random I/O performance for reads and writes
• Up to 1260 4TB hybrid drives for a maximum capacity of 5040TB
• Can leverage E-Series to hold rotating media, with all management done from NST5000

Assureon Archive Storage System

• Offloads primary storage according to established policies freeing space and reducing the backup burden
• Highly secure to meet corporate compliance and government regulatory requirements (HIPAA, SOX, and SEC-17)
• Cloud-ready with support for AES data encryption, key management, and multi-tenancy
• Best for non-changing data such as pictures, video, business documents, or files over 90 days old

Honors and awards

• 2007: Network Computing – New Product of the Year, Assureon
• 2007: Storage magazine UK – Compliance Product of the Year, Assureon
• 2008: Storage magazine UK – Green Product of the Year, SATABeast with AutoMAID
• 2010: Storage magazine – Storage Awards: Best Disk Storage Product of the Year, SASBeast
• 2011: Storage Awards – Storage Solution of the Year
• 2011: Storage Awards – Disk-based Product of the Year, Nexsan E60
• 2011: Network World – NAS Storage: Product of the Week, Nexsan E5000
• 2011: Golden Bridge Business Awards – Green IT Innovation and Best New Storage Hardware, Nexsan E-Series
• 2011: Frost & Sullivan – Green Excellence in Product Innovation Award
• 2012: Red Herring magazine – Red Herring North American 100 Award
• 2012: Storage magazine – Best Storage Solution of the Year Award