Connectria Hosting Deploys Nexsan and CommVault

Nexsan Corporation announced that Connectria Hosting, a global managed
hosting company, has deployed the Nexsan Flexible Storage Platform in support
of the company’s cloud-based backup and recovery services for enterprise
clients.

In combination with CommVault Simpana data and information management
software, Nexsan’s storage systems have improved Connectria’s
backup and recovery efficiency when compared to the previously deployed
solution.

Connectria Hosting provides
managed services, cloud hosting, dedicated server hosting and custom hosting
services for enterprise customers. It offers cloud solutions
that include public, private, hybrid and cloud storage options. As a growing
managed hosting company, Connectria’s cloud hosting customers rely upon them to
deliver high availability guarantees. To achieve superior service levels in a
data center with more than 100TB in data protection storage alone, the managed
hosting company needed to improve its cloud backup and recovery infrastructure.

Connectria searched for a robust, enterprise-class solution to meet
its high standards for service. They found that many storage solution companies
were too unstable or uneconomical for an enterprise data center environment.
Every solution, that is, until Connectria found the Nexsan/CommVault
combination.

"We solicited feedback from industry colleagues and were
quickly pointed to Nexsan and CommVault," said Rusty Putzler, Vice
President of Engineering for Connectria. "Everyone who had used the
combination of technologies validated their reliability and performance. Once
we performed a trial we agreed. Nexsan and CommVault just work. Plus, they are
truly ‘off the chart’ in terms of operational efficiency and this translates
into reliable, high performance services for our enterprise customers."

With the help of their deployment partner, EAGLE Software,
Connectria has deployed multiple Nexsan SASBeast and Nexsan SATABeast storage
solutions based on the Nexsan Flexible Storage Platform. To support the backup
and recovery operations for the data housed on these systems, Connectria
selected CommVault Simpana data and information management software. Connectria
achieved significant efficiencies with the combined solution by reducing IT
resource requirements, simplifying management and lowering operational costs.
This was supplemented by enhanced reliability, technological innovations and
advanced power management, providing up to 60% energy savings compared to the
previous solution.

"For Connectria, achieving a high-efficiency data center design
was critical," said Dave Hiechel, President and CEO, EAGLE Software.
"The combination of Nexsan and CommVault technologies achieves this
efficiency and more. The powerful combination gives Connectria a distinct
advantage over its competition in terms of both performance and
reliability."

Key benefits Connectria receives
from Nexsan/CommVault
solution include:

• Performance
  RAID storage systems that are ideal for disk-to-disk backup and recovery
  operations, especially when leveraging FCl-based interfaces.
• Energy-efficient
  AutoMAID Level-3 technology which enables to spin-down the disk
  arrays when not in use, providing energy and cost savings.
• High density
  storage, enabling to conserve rack space in its fully
  populated data center
• CommVault Simpana
  software to provide a single unified data protection platform for a more
  modern, secure and efficient cloud-based approach to data recovery.

"Cloud-based managed hosting services are on the rise and
providers such as Connectria need enterprise-class, high-value solutions they
can rely on," said Victoria Grey, Senior Vice President, Marketing,
Nexsan. "Together, Nexsan and CommVault offer a distinct combination of
price, performance and reliability for operations in the cloud. It’s truly the
ultimate in efficiency with uncompromising performance."