Nexsan VeriStor Certified Vendor

The press release for Nexsan

Nexsan Corp. and VeriStor Systems, Inc. an enterprise data storage solution provider in the Southeastern U.S., announced that Nexsan’s family of next generation disk-based storage systems have been validated by VeriStor as ‘VeriStor Certified Products.’ Solutions validated by VeriStor demonstrate exceptional characteristics in terms of technology differentiation, company stability and customer support along with low acquisition and operating costs for a rapid return on investment.

“We are pleased to add Nexsan to our VeriStor Certified Technology Partner Program as a vendor with the solutions that have been optimized to meet our customers’ business requirements, not just their technology challenges,” said Ashby Lincoln, CEO, VeriStor. “Nexsan has developed a complete family of highly reliable, enterprise-class green storage solutions that met our stringent criteria for high performance, reliability and value and we are pleased to name them among our list of VeriStor Certified Products.”

Nexsan offers a complete line of storage and archiving solutions designed to deliver energy savings innovation that will greatly cut power and cooling costs without sacrificing performance. Nexsan disk-based storage systems use the evolutionary AutoMAID (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) energy saving technology to transparently place disk drives into an idle state, thus vastly reducing power and cooling costs. Featuring multiple levels of energy savings, AutoMAID is user selectable enabling users to determine the right level of response time performance to energy savings.

Nexsan storage systems and solutions
certified by VeriStor include:

• SATABeast: With up to 42TB in 4U and enterprise class performance, reliability and management, this system offers energy efficiency for secondary, online archive, and nearline storage applications;
• SASBeast: Delivers up to 18.9TB SAS storage capacity in only 4U with high-speed read/write performance;
• SATABeast Xi: Designed for the Xserve and Mac Pro systems, SATABeast Xi delivers the same power and cooling savings as SATABeast;
• SATABoy: The highly scalable SATABoy enables energy efficient storage of large amounts of information online;
• SASBoy: Built for high transaction performance, the SASBoy provides up to 4.2TB of capacity in only 3U of rack space, and
• Assureon: An intelligent and secure disk-based archive, Assureon offers storage for long term retention and management of fixed content information.

“We are pleased to have our solutions recognized as VeriStor Certified Products,” said Bob Woolery, senior vice president of marketing, Nexsan. “Being a validated member of the VeriStor Certified Technology Partner Program is a mark of excellence that represents superior performance and reliability in real-world customer implementations. VeriStor’s certification demonstrates that our family of storage solutions provides enterprise-class performance and features to meet evolving business requirements while providing exceptional value.”

The press release for 3PAR

3PAR and VeriStor Systems, the Southeast region’s enterprise data storage solution provider, announced that the 3PAR InServ T-Class Storage Server, the world’s most powerful virtualized storage array, has been validated by VeriStor and designated a VeriStor Certified Product. Storage platforms validated by VeriStor demonstrate exceptional characteristics in terms of technology differentiation, company stability, and customer support along with low acquisition and operating costs for a rapid return on investment.
 
“We are pleased to add 3PAR to our VeriStor Certified Technology Partner Program as a vendor of a storage platform that has been optimized to meet our customers’ business requirements, not just their technology challenges,” said Ashby Lincoln, CEO, VeriStor. “3PAR’s T-Class met our stringent criteria for high performance, reliability, and value in enterprise-class implementations and we are pleased to name it among our list of VeriStor Certified Products.”
 
The 3PAR InServ T400 and T800 Storage Servers are built on a third-generation 3PAR InSpire Architecture featuring the new, zero-detection capable, 3PAR Gen3 ASIC with Thin Built In. This architecture uniquely incorporates an efficient "fat-to-thin" volume conversion mechanism right into controller silicon to enable high rates of capacity utilization while maintaining high service levels.

World-class features include:

• First storage architecture with Thin Built In
• Fastest, most efficient single-system array on the planet
• Fat-to-thin 3PAR Gen3 ASIC for simple, on-the-fly storage optimization
• Ideal platform for cloud computing and delivering enterprise IT as a utility service

The T-Class takes the performance of 3PAR’s next-gen InServ platform to a new level with record-setting SPC-1 Benchmark results. According these results on file with the Storage Performance Council (SPC), the T800 is the fastest single-system Fibre Channel storage array on the market.
 
“The T-Class has been our most successful utility storage platform yet,” said Craig Nunes, Vice President of Marketing at 3PAR. “Given that VeriStor is highly regarded as a leader in the architecture and delivery of virtual infrastructure, it is particularly meaningful that the T-Class has been recognized by VeriStor as a powerful virtualized storage array for virtual datacenter deployments.”

About the VeriStor Certified Technology Partner Program

The VeriStor Certified Technology Partner Program is designed to validate solutions from multiple storage and virtualization hardware and software vendors for optimal use in an enterprise-class implementation. A VeriStor Certified Product demonstrates exceptional characteristics in terms of technology differentiation, company stability, and customer support. In specific, a VeriStor Certified Product exhibits strong scalability, performance, availability and ease of use, along with low acquisition and operating costs. As a result, customers can have confidence in VeriStor Certified Products because they measure up to VeriStor’s stringent criteria for true enterprise-class operation and exceptional value.