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25th Anniversary for Nexsan

Delivering storage solutions for enterprises, but some facts missing

Nexsan, Inc. is celebrating 25 years of delivering storage solutions enterprises trust for their most critical data needs, backed by the innovation and reliability.

Logo Nexsan25 YearsFounded in 1999, Nexsan has consistently delivered scalable storage technologies tailored to meet global organizations’ complex and evolving needs. Its storage solutions are designed to support a multitude of applications from healthcare to digital surveillance, ensuring secure, efficient data management and recovery in various demanding environments. These solutions are then delivered to customers through a WW partner program comprised of solution providers, technology partners and OEMs, all working together to ensure business-critical data remains a protected and available resource.

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Firm’s systems meet the ongoing need to maintain large data stores in on-premises storage hardware – a need that persists despite the advent of cloud computing, and now grows more pressing as organizations face inflated cloud costs. Company’s channel partners excel at developing systems that address functions like data vaults, bulletproof backup and archive, cybersecurity and digital video.

Among the key milestones achieved in the past quarter century are:

  • Company founded in Derby, UK (1999)
  • Pioneers cost-efficient storage with the ATA RAID system (2001)
  • Delivers high-density storage with ATABeast (2004)
  • Launches SATABeast (2005)
  • Debuts Assureon (2006)
  • Advances green storage with AUTOMAID (2007)
  • Launches E-Series; industry’s most highly efficient storage, with active drawer technology (2010)
  • Reaches milestone of more than 33,000 systems installed (2012)
  • Doubles the performance of E-Series with introduction of E-Series P (2016)
  • Unifies hybrid storage with the launch of Unity (2016)
  • Develops Unity flash systems and Unity Active Archive (now Unbreakable Backup) (2017)
  • Launches BEAST ELITE (2020)
  • Creates Unity NV10000; NVMe all-flash platform (2022)
  • Serene Investment Management acquires Nexsan (2023)
  • More than 2,600 systems with over 624 PB actively deployed and under maintenance (2023)
  • Nexsan expands sales, marketing and engineering efforts to achieve growth in sales and profitability (2023)

For the past 25 years, Nexsan has remained steadfast in its commitment to providing ultra-reliable, extremely dense enterprise storage that delivers unparalleled energy efficiency and exceptional value,” said Andy Hill, EVP. “From our early years of becoming the de facto standard for tier-2 and -3 storage to our current position of having created a portfolio full of storage offerings that overcome even the strongest IT challenges, Nexsan has dedicated itself to providing reliable, secure and scalable on-premises solutions designed to meet evolving business and IT requirements. Rather than rest on our laurels of success during the past quarter century, we are celebrating the opportunity to achieve even more greatness in the next 25 years.

Comments

Nexsan, we should say the new Nexsan as the company had so many lives, published the above company milestones but we've been surprised that a few key elements are omitted in the long history timeline of the entity.

There is no mention of the founder, I think Gary Watson was the man who launched Nexsan in 1999 and he stayed a long time. Also Philip Black, CEO for many years, is not listed either. I remember Philip Black when Nexsan did a few "Forum Stockage" conferences in Paris around 2005. Geoff Barral also is not mentioned.

Mentioning Assureon, we would appreciate that the press release mentions where it came from. It arrived with the acquisition of AESign Evertrust in 2005 for $5 million. EverTrust was founded in 2000 and participated to the CAS (Content Addressable/Aware Storage) wave with EMC Centera (from Filepool), Archivas, Bycast and Permabit...

We also don't see any mentions of the few tentatives to do an IPO that finally never happened.

We don't see traces of the Imation acquisition in 2013 for $120 million or the one in by StorCentric in 2018 following and more globally of all the navigation of the legal entity among various owners.

The company was strong in SATA with the pretty famous SATAbeast in the SMB and SME market but didn't jump early in flash and even NVMe. Pure Storage for instance was founded in 2009 identifying the coming all flash tsunami...

But the name still is alive.

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