Nexsan Packs Archiving into an Appliance

There seems to be no stopping the appliance juggernaut. Outside of the storage world, appliances are finding an abundance of applications. They take care of encryption, anti-virus, anti-spyware, spam filtering, content filtering and a host of other functions.

Storage-specific appliances are also appearing on the market in record numbers. They, too, address a wide range of functions — backup, continuous data protection (CDP), NAS and disaster recovery (DR), to name a few.

"Appliances that integrate many functions are growing well, but many of the single-function appliance markets are smaller and therefore exhibit even faster growth rates," said Jeff Wilson, a network security analyst for Infonetics Research.

Assureon Appliance

One example is the Assureon NX Easy Archive Appliance by Nexsan Technologies. It provides content addressable storage (CAS) for small and mid-size businesses (SMB). CAS is of particular value for simplified management, protection and storage of a constantly growing amount of data.

This disk-based CAS appliance is designed for e-mail archiving, medical imaging and records management, document management and e-discovery. It helps IT to manage files throughout their lifecycle, and can be used to copy data across the WAN for disaster recovery purposes.

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Source: EnterpriseStorageForum
By: Drew Robb