Nexsan Receives Highest Rating Among Storage Products Tested by Infoworld in 2003
ATAboy2 Dominates 30 Reviews
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., January 13, 2004 - Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative storage solutions, led the storage category in InfoWorld's "Complete Guide to Hardware + Software" issue, featuring all 229 reviews published in the magazine's previous 12 months, with an "excellent" score of 9.1 out of 10 for its InfiniSANT ATAboy2. None of the other 29 storage products tested received marks in the 9 range.
The December 22, 2003 edition of the magazine collected reviews published in the previous year and compiled them in a single package called "The Year in Reviews." Each review includes a Bottom Line summary and score, as well as online pointers to the complete review.
Nexsan's Bottom Line reads, "Nexsan's InfiniSAN ATAboy2 RAID array combines ATA disk drives with SCSI or FC connections, providing high capacity, high performance, and good redundancy at an outstanding price. This subsystem is a good fit for almost any storage application."
"InfoWorld Test Center provides its readers with a very valuable resource with its in-depth product reviews," said Brendan Kinkade, Vice President of Marketing at Nexsan. "We are very pleased to know that those looking to these reviews for help in deciding on the best storage option for their organization will find Nexsan's ATAboy2 at the top of the list. We take great pride in knowing that we received the highest review score of the year in the storage category from this well-respected publication."
The InfiniSAN ATAboy2 series provides enterprise-class features and functionality in an advanced ATA disk-based solution than can scale from a correct-cost, entry-level solution up to meet the demands of the most storage intensive mid-range and enterprise applications. Nexsan designed enterprise-class reliability into the ATAboy2, utilizing redundancy, advanced ATA disk drives and the latest in RAID technology. The Nexsan designed GUI interface, NexSCANT, provides the latest in centralized management and monitoring features for all Nexsan subsystems. Tele-GuardT, Nexsan's phone home manager, offers operator selectable parameters to monitor all system conditions. Tele-GuardT provides the vehicle to notify single or multiple system operators of not only component warnings, but also preemptive alerts. InfiniSAN ATAboy2 ATA disk-based systems provide the maximum uptime operation and data protected environment available today.
With more than 200,000 readers, InfoWorld is a weekly publication dedicated to enterprise computing topics written for corporate executives and IS managers who are multiple-unit buyers of enterprise products and solutions. The publication includes important product news and trends in information systems and maintains one of the largest facilities for testing and comparing enterprise products and solutions in the industry. InfoWorld is available online at www.infoworld.com.
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