ESG Fell in Love With Nexsan

Nexsan Corporation announced a new brief by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) titled, Nexsan’s NAS Play.

The ESG  write-up by senior analyst, Terri McClure, details the recently introduced E-5000 NAS system, highlighting the system’s technology foundation, feature set and interface.

ESG Highlights of the E-5000 NAS System Include:

• Multi-level SSD cache architecture to meet the random hypervisor IO often found in virtual server environments while the primary system cache handles more sequential data traffic more common to file environments.
• Intuitive management interface that is both functional and easy to navigate.
• AutoMAID technology to spin down disks until the data they contain is needed, requiring only one-fifth of the power required for competitive products of equal capacity.
• Support for both CIFS and NFS protocols.
• Support for both 1GB and 10GB connections.
• Ability to scale to over 1PB.

According to the brief, "The Nexsan E-5000 NAS system has all the bells and whistles one would expect from a system that has been on the market for years – it is not your typical first generation system, supporting snap and clone as well as synchronous and asynchronous remote replication right out of the gate. That is because Nexsan has been able to leverage its years of storage technology experience and development and bring that to play in the new system."

The brief is complimentary of Nexsan’s new E-Centre web-based management interface, a easy-to-use GUI for sub-15 minute initial set-up time and simplified operation. With E-Centre, wizards guide the administrator through pool creation, management, snapshots, volume management, synchronous/asynchronous replication and clustering for high availability. Management is easy with a single, intuitive browser-based interface so that all local and remote E-5000 storage systems can be managed and monitored from a single pane-of-glass.

"As consumer-like technology makes its way into IT, generational change means users will be gravitating toward increasingly familiar types of interfaces," said Terri McClure, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "The E-5000’s intuitive management is both functional and easy to navigate and will do especially well with IT ‘generalists’ who don’t have time to go to storage school to figure out how to add capacity, create a snapshot, or add a new host into the mix. It reflects the continued push toward the ‘consumerization of IT’ with an interface that is just as easy to use."

"ESG’s insight mirrors the feedback we receive from customers who have deployed the E-5000 storage system," said Don Chouinard, Director, Product Marketing, Nexsan. "While delivering incredible performance, capacity and reliability suitable for the enterprise, this NAS system is built for the special challenges of the mid-market. With features that redefine simplicity and efficiency, the E-5000 allows users to focus on revenue-generating IT objectives rather than the mundane tasks of storage management."