Features - Storage Innovations:

NEXSAN, LEGATO TO DELIVER JOINT DATA PROTECTION SOLUTIONS

Nexsan Technologies and LEGATO Software, a division of EMC, announced a joint world-class solution that provides data access, availability and protection to customers utilizing Nexsan's InfiniSAN line of disk-based storage solutions with LEGATO's information protection, intelligent data management, availability and email management solutions -- including NetWorker and its DiskBackup Option (DBO), DiskXtender, EmailXtender and RepliStor. With the announcement, LEGATO becomes the latest member of Nexsan's Strategic Solutions (S2) Program.

The combination of Nexsan's hardware and LEGATO's software allows customers of S2 partners and resellers to obtain complete data protection, availability and email management solutions. The combined solution provides next-generation backup and recovery performance, reliability and high data availability for the industry's most demanding storage and data delivery applications.

"We are pleased to be working with LEGATO as part of our S2 Program," said Brendan Kinkade, vice president of marketing at Nexsan. "It is important to us to partner our award-winning product line with other leading providers to create even more value for our customers, and having LEGATO's award-winning software products in the fold more than satisfies that need."

"As the leader in open software for Information Management, working with leading hardware vendors is critical to accommodating the diverse needs of our customers' storage environments," said Jocelyn Johnson, director of solutions marketing at LEGATO. "Joining Nexsan's S2 Program and providing our suite of data access, protection and availability software with Nexsan's disk-based storage helps us meet this need and further provide our customers with solutions that help them achieve their goals while lowering TCO."

For software and hardware manufacturers that complete the S2 process, benefits include special pricing on the Nexsan products to be integrated into their solution, referrals to channel partners, co-marketing opportunities, and cooperatively produced white papers and collaterals. Total solutions will carry a "Nexsan certified" designation and be included in the Nexsan's awardwinning family of products.