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SANRAD JOINS NEXSAN STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS PROGRAM

Nexsan Technologies and SANRAD Inc announced they will jointly market a complete, turnkey automated storage solution incorporating Nexsan's advanced disk-based storage systems and SANRAD's iSCSI V-Switch, which combines the functionality of a multi-protocol switch, storage virtualization engine, storage router and Fibre Channel gateway. With this agreement, SANRAD has become the newest member of Nexsan's Strategic Solutions (S2) Program.

The SANRAD/Nexsan partnership will result in a product ideal for resellers that deliver complete iSCSI data management solutions, and will carry a "Nexsan certified" designation as an indication of its quality when it joins Nexsan's award-winning family of products.

iSCSI advanced disk-based storage is rapidly becoming the top choice for a variety of industries and applications, such as universities and local government, as well as corporate customers looking to quickly, easily and affordably deploy IP SANs. Customers will benefit from the greatly reduced cost per managed terabyte of Nexsan's cost-correct storage systems and the iSCSI functionality of SANRAD's V-Switch.

With its intelligent storage routing and high availability, SANRAD's V-Switch allows users to build robust and high performance IP SANs that include security, multi-pathing and data replication, ensuring 24/7 access to storage and data resources at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions.

Nexsan's InfiniSAN line of disk-based storage is a perfect fit for SANRAD's V-Switch. The new ATAbaby Twins bundle combines technical innovation and correct-cost pricing to deliver a best-of-breed storage solution to SMB customers. With up to 2.4TB of storage in a mirrored RAID-5 configuration, the solution provides intelligent RAID protection in a compact package. ATABeast, an award-winning enterprise-class ATA RAID, is OS independent, needing no special software drivers or server-based management applications. Every component is redundant with individual components online hot-swappable. ATABeast provides the highest density per square inch -- 10.5 drives per U, 3.15TB per U (using 300GB drives). Nexsan's award-winning ATAboy2 ATA disk-based solution provides next generation performance, reliability and high data availability. Utilizing storage virtualization, the ATAboy2 systems scale from a correct-cost, entry-level solution while providing unchallenged expandability and superior fault tolerance supporting the storage industry's most demanding midrange to enterprise-class applications.