A Different Kind of Storage Experience

Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California, Nexsan Corporation provides a comprehensive range of enterprise-class, easy-to-use and efficient system solutions that offer customers the ultimate value proposition when it comes to meeting their ever-evolving storage requirements. Their hardware and software products uniquely combine the benefits of cost-effective performance, power and space efficiency, density, ease of use, outstanding scalability and unmatched reliability to provide Highly Efficient Storage (HES) performance and functionality.

Nexsan storage solutions are ideal for a broad range of applications— including fixed content storage and archiving, email, medical imaging, compliance and litigation support, disk-based backup, digital video security and rich media, as well as tier-1 database applications. And while their RAID, ATA and SATA disk technologies can handle the storage needs of companies of all sizes, their products are particularly suited for medium-sized businesses and mid-tier deployments in large organizations. In addition, all Nexsan products use our "green" AutoMAID® energy-saving technology, making them the smart choice for low power consumption and space-constrained environments.

At Nexsan, they sell their products through a global network of VARs, OEMs and system integrators including Rakan Systems. They deployed more than 27,000 systems in more than 60 countries around the world—all provided to customers at a fraction of the cost exacted by other traditional disk-based storage solutions. And all guaranteed to deliver on the Nexsan promise: a different kind of storage experience.

Nexsan was the first to ship enterprise- class storage systems with 3TB SATA drives for 180TB in 4U.

The Nexsan Sweet Spot: Target Applications and Environments

Nexsan E-Series™ disk arrays are ideal for virtualized IT environments and general data storage because they offer a variety of interfaces including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and SAS as well as supporting mixed SATA/SAS/SSD to meet varying workloads. VMware, Exchange, and database applications can leverage 450 or 600 GB 15K SAS drives, while backup-to-disk, surveillance, or general data storage scenarios can leverage 1, 2, or 3TB SATA drives. AutoMAID® technology saves up to 85% on power and cooling when disks are not being used. Nexsan E-Series delivers unsurpassed reliability, storage density, and ease of use.

Nexsan NST5000™ storage systems are ideal for virtualized IT environments, which prefer to store VMware virtual machines on an NFS share. FASTier™ SSD cache accelerates random I/O performance of SATA drives by up to 3X, delivering a system that meets the most performance AND capacity requirements, flexibly and cost-effectively. With capacities that can be added on-the-fly with no downtime up to 1PB, the NST5000 series scales to meet the needs of large general data storage, surveillance, digital media, or backup-to-disk applications. Built-in, easy-to-deploy snapshots and replication are for ideal for protecting physical servers in the local or remote datacenter or cloud infrastructure.

The Nexsan Assureon® archive storage systems are ideal for storing data which will never change, such as x-rays, MRIs, business contracts, reference materials and photographs that need to be retained securely for decades and which need to be instantly available. As such, Assureon is commonly used to offload primary storage of non-changing data, thereby freeing it up and shrinking the backup burden. The multi-tenant architecture and ultimate AES-256 based security make the Assureon an ideal choice for private and public cloud-based archive projects worldwide. AutoMAID® power management can reduce power and cooling by up to 85% when disks are not being accessed.

Nexsan Products

Nexsan SATA/SASBoy – Nexsan’s ultra-reliable, dense, fixed capacity Fibre Channel / iSCSI RAID disk array provides up to 14 SATA/SAS/SSD drives in 3U of rack space. Enterprise-class features include no single-point-of-failure configurations with dual active/active controllers and single-pane-of-glass management. Mix SATA, SAS, and SSD drives.

Nexsan SATA/SASBeast – Nexsan’s ultra-reliable, high density, expandable Fibre Channel / iSCSI RAID disk array provides 42 to 102 SATA drives in 4U to 8U of rack space. Enterprise-class features include no single-point-of-failure configurations with dual active/active controllers and single-pane-of-glass management. Mix SATA, SAS and SSD drives.

Nexsan E18™ – Nexsan’s ultra-reliable, high density, expandable, high-performance Fibre Channel / iSCSI / SAS-connected RAID disk array provides up to 18 to 36 SATA/SAS/SSD drives in 2U to 4U of rack space. Enterprise-class features include no single-point-of-failure configurations with dual active/active controllers and single-pane-of-glass management. Mix SATA, SAS and SSD drives.

Nexsan E60™ – Nexsan’s ultra-reliable, ultimate density, expandable, high-performance Fibre Channel / iSCSI / SAS-connected RAID disk array provides up to 60 to 120 SATA/SAS/SSD drives in 4U to 8U of rack space. Enterprise-class features include no single-point-of-failure configurations with dual active/active controllers and single-pane-of-glass management. Mix SATA, SAS and SSD drives.

Nexsan E18X™ – Nexsan’s ultra-reliable, ultimate density expansion chassis for Nexsan disk arrays provides up to 18 mixed SATA/SAS/SSD drives in 2U of rack space. Enterprise-class features include no single-point-of-failure configurations with (4) 6Gb SASx4 connections to Nexsan E-Series disk arrays. Includes Anti-vibration Design and Cool Drive Technology™ to extend drive life.

Nexsan E60X™ – Nexsan’s ultra-reliable, ultimate density expansion chassis for Nexsan disk arrays provides up to 60 mixed SATA/SAS/SSD drives in 4U of rack space. Enterprise-class features include no single-point-of-failure configurations with (4) 6Gb SASx4 connections to Nexsan E-Series disk arrays. Includes Anti-vibration Design and Cool Drive Technology™ to extend drive life.

Nexsan NST5110™ - Nexsan’s entry-level NAS storage system provides revolutionary performance via FASTier™ SSD cache. Get the system up and running in less than 15 minutes and enjoy easy ongoing management. Features include CIFS/NFS, reservation-less snapshots, asynchronous and synchronous replication, online capacity expansion, and up to 31 NL-SAS/SAS drives in 3U to 6U of rack space.

Nexsan NST5310™ - Nexsan’s scalable unified storage system provides revolutionary performance via FASTier™ SSD cache. Get the system up and running in less than 15 minutes and enjoy easy ongoing management. Features include CIFS/NFS, reservation-less snapshots, asynchronous and synchronous replication, online capacity expansion, and up to 240 NL-SAS/SAS drives in 7U to 19U of rack space.

Nexsan NST5510™ - Nexsan’s scalable advanced unified storage system provides revolutionary performance via FASTier™ SSD cache. Get the system up and running in less than 15 minutes and enjoy easy ongoing management. Features include CIFS/NFS, reservation-less snapshots, asynchronous and synchronous replication, online capacity expansion, and up to 360 NL-SAS/SAS drives in 7U to 27U of rack space.

Nexsan NST5100X™ - Nexsan’s ultra-reliable, dense expansion chassis for the Nexsan NST5110™ storage systems provides up to 16 NL-SAS or SAS drives in 3U of rack space. Enterprise-class features include no single-point-of-failure configurations with 6Gb SASx4 connections to the Nexsan NST5110 storage system.

Nexsan iSeries™ – Nexsan’s high-performance iSCSI storage system provides storage-based asynchronous and synchronous replication, and snapshots. Enterprise-class features include no single-point-of-failure configurations with dual active/active controllers and single-pane-of-glass management. Mix SATA and SAS drives.

Nexsan Assureon® – Advanced archive system is ideal for freeing up primary storage, reducing the size and cost of backups, or complying with governmental regulatory requirements including HIPPA, SOX, and SEC-17. Enforce company data retention, privacy, and data protection policies. Archive data for days or decades in a system that is easy to manage and use.

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