History 2005: Nexsan to Compete with EMC Centera

Nexsan Technologies, specialized in enterprise ATA/SATA disk arrays, just pulled off an intriguing acquisition, since it will allow the firm to drive its hardware with ILM software, and thus to compete with products such as EMC’s Centera with a more affordable offer.

All this with the acquisition, for an undisclosed amount, of AESign Evertrust, known as Evertrust, founded in 2000 by CEO Thomas Gosnell in Hudson, Quebec, Canada, a company that developed fixed content storage software based on digital timestamping and electronic signature technology.

Evertrust will be managed as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nexsan and will operate autonomously with its own R&D, sales staff and management team.

In an another announcement, Nexsan has partnered with Diligent Technologies, this time in order to offer a virtual tape library solution, similar to its deal concluded last June with Luminex Software to market a storage platform allowing mainframe computers to function as servers via an FC SAN.

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 208 on May 2005 from the former paper version of Computer Data  Storage Newsletter.