The worldwide leader in innovative and secure storage solutions, Nexsan develops and markets 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, and rich media.

With a complete line of storage systems that offer the ultimate in price/performance, Nexsan is the choice of Fortune Global 500 companies, major governmental agencies, and leading universities worldwide.

More details about Nexsan's SATA based storage solutions, including DATABeast™, SATABeast™, SATABeast Xi™, SATABoy™, SASBeast™, SASBoy™ and iSeries™, can be found below.

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Full Service Storage for All Your Data

DATABeast combines full-service storage management, scalability and mission-critical availability at a price point targeted for enterprises of all sizes. DATABeast consolidates large amounts of storage into a single, high density, energy efficient, easy-to-manage solution that can be economically expanded.

The DATABeast's data protection services create an environment where data and sites are protected against loss because they are easy to restore and quick to recover. If need be, operations can be migrated to another location.

The DATABeast provides all necessary storage services, storage systems and infrastructure in a pre-assembled and pre-configured system with all redundant components installed and cabled. The DATABeast is designed to be rolled in, plugged in and set up rapidly. Simply attach it to your network and you are ready to configure your storage resources and deliver them to your applications.

• Consolidate multiple storage systems into centrally managed storage
• Simplify storage management with the latest tools including virtualization, thin provisioning and storage tiering without the need for special agents or capacity keys
• Protect data and sites with built-in mirroring, remote replication and snapshots
• Scale capacity to multiple petabytes or performance to 1000s of MBs without service disruption
• Support FC SAN and NAS with one central solution
• Increase energy efficiency with Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy-saving technology greatly reducing power and cooling costs

High Capacity Disk Storage Array with Revolutionary Power Saving Technology

Unleash the power of the SATABeast extreme density storage array from Nexsan Technologies. Designed from the ground up to set new standards for high-capacity storage systems, SATABeast delivers the industry's best performance and cost-effectiveness in a scalable disk solution. With unparalleled density, availability and energy efficiency, SATABeast maximizes the return on your storage hardware investment.

• Highest storage density in the industry - up to 42 TB in only 4U
• Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID energy saving technology greatly reduces power consumption and operating costs
• Full enterprise class performance and reliability
• Dual function Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity with wire-speed performance
• Flexible, scalable and completely OS independent; easily supports a broad range of storage infrastructures

Primary Storage
Designed for enterprise class environments where reliability is an absolute, SATABeast's high availability architecture features full redundancy across all active components. Blazing wire-speed read/write throughput and high IOPS performance make SATABeast the perfect choice for data-intensive applications.

Secondary Storage and Disk to Disk Backup
Online access to data means superior business continuity. The SATABeast provides the speed, fault tolerance and high availability to deliver superior data protection while its unmatched capacity easily handles enormous volumes of files. SATABeast enables unprecedented amounts of data to be cost-effectively stored and instantly accessed.

High Density Storage for Xserve and Mac Pro Systems

SATABeast Xi is the first high density, energy efficient storage solution built for the Xserve and Mac Pro markets, delivering 42 drives and dual RAID controllers in only 4U of rack space. SATABeast Xi complements Xserve and Mac Pro environments in physical look and feel including a GUI that is visually compatible with Leopard. While optimized for Apple environments, SATABeast Xi is flexible, scalable and completely OS independent to easily support a broad range of computing infrastructures.

Based on the proven technology of Nexsan's award-winning SATABeast, the SATABeast Xi provides the Apple market with a high density, plug and play solution that is complementary to Xserve's existing storage options. SATABeast Xi delivers high end performance at the same exceptional price point as current SATABeast solutions, including the energy efficiency features and software licenses to allow SATABeast Xi to operate out of the box without expensive add-ons.

With unparalleled density, availability and energy efficiency, SATABeast Xi is the perfect fit for Mac storage.

High Performance SATA Storage

SATABoy provides organizations with unparalleled storage flexibility to meet real world business objectives. The highly scalable SATABoy enables cost-effective storage of large amounts of information online, while its exceptional performance ensures faster response times for mission critical applications.

SATABoy is equally capable of delivering high IOPS for transactional applications and sustaining maximum MB/s throughput for high bandwidth applications such as streaming media. SATABoy also offers the energy saving benefits of Nexsan’s revolutionary AutoMAID technology. SATABoy’s unique combination of high performance with energy saving capabilities enables users to maximize the total return on their storage hardware investment.

• High capacity - up to 14 TB in only 3U
• Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID energy saving technology greatly reduces power consumption and operating costs
• Enterprise class performance and reliability
• Fibre Channel, SAS and iSCSI connectivity with wire-speed performance
• New added support for SSD drives

Enterprise Class SAS Storage for the Broadest Range of Requirements

Two big needs. One small solution. Conquer transaction performance and high capacity in the same storage system. Whether you need high performance (for Exchange) or high capacity (for disk to disk backup, file servers or storing large amounts of content), SASBeast provides the speed and capacity to meet the broadest range of storage requirements.

Nexsan's SASBeast delivers the industry’s best value by combining enterprise SAS and SSD performance with the density, reliability, affordability and energy efficiency Nexsan is known for throughout the world.

• High speed – blazing SAS and SSD IOPS and read/write throughput performance
• High density – 42 drive bays in only 4U providing up to 25.2TB of SAS capacity
• Flexible – combine SAS, SSD and SATA drives in the same chassis for separate storage tiers
• Reliable – enterprise-class quality with fully redundant components
• Energy Efficiency – Nexsan's AutoMAID ultra green technology delivering up to 60% in energy savings

High Performance SAS Storage

SASBoy provides organizations with exceptional performance and unparalleled energy savings in a compact package to meet real world business needs. The highly flexible SASBoy features FC, SAS and iSCSI connectivity to enable cost-effective high performance access to large amounts of information ensuring faster response times for business critical applications. SASBoy is equally capable of delivering high IOPS for transactional applications and sustaining maximum MB/s throughput for high bandwidth applications.

By reliably mixing SAS, SSD and SATA disks in the same SASBoy chassis, users can address both performance and capacity requirements in a single system+. Use the SAS and SSD storage tier for performance intensive applications and the SATA storage tier for capacity intensive applications. By doing so, Nexsan uniquely delivers the flexibility to meet the broadest range of storage requirements in a single chassis.

• High transaction performance
• Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID energy saving technology greatly reduces power consumption and operating costs
• High capacity – up to 8.4 TB in only 3U
• Fibre Channel, SAS and iSCSI connectivity with wire-speed performance

iSCSI SAN

Nexsan iSeries is the perfect solution for server virtualization, databases, file storage, data consolidation and multiple data storage requirements where performance and scalability are a must and simple IP deployment is desired.

All storage services are embedded onto the Nexsan iSeries including virtualization, snapshots, replication, mirroring, data migration and more. Users have the ability to create and control thousands of virtual volumes supporting multiple applications and storage pools simultaneously.

By reliably incorporating SAS and SATA in the same storage system, users no longer have to choose between a performance or capacity driven iSCSI SAN system. Separate storage pools can be created for the needs of different applications from databases to backup.

With an all-inclusive Tier 1 feature set combined with industry leading performance, reliability and energy efficiency, Nexsan iSeries is delivering the iSCSI SAN you need ... at a price to meet your budget.

AutoMAID Energy Saving Technology
Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy saving technology transparently places SATABeast, SATABoy and SATABlade disk drives into an idle state, vastly reducing power consumption and operational costs.

AutoMAID delivers these benefits without the limitations of slow access times and special host software. AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or RAID set and offers multiple levels of energy savings, enabling users to determine the right level of access speed and energy savings for their environment. AutoMAID is the first MAID architecture that supports VTL (Virtual Tape Libraries), full file format D2D and standard high performance RAID implementations.

By integrating Nexsan's AutoMAID technology into their high performance, multipurpose SATA storage arrays, users now have the flexibility to support multiple applications within the same storage subsystem. AutoMAID can be applied selectively by drive units and can be disabled for volumes requiring the very best response time.

Additional Information

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