Nexsan Demonstrates Energy Efficient Storage Systems

Nexsan Demonstrates Energy Efficient Storage Systems to Power-Constrained Enterprises in Japan
Nexsan?, a leading independent provider of disk-based storage systems, today highlighted activities in Japan as part of its efforts to lower IT infrastructure energy consumption in light of recent power restrictions. Most recently, Nexsan exhibited the company's E-Series storage systems at the Data Storage Expo 2011, Japan's largest storage industry event, which took place recently at Tokyo Big Sight. At the expo, Nexsan showcased its latest generation storage systems where they received accolades for industry-leading energy efficiency.

Power shortages due to the Tohoku Earthquake on March 11, 2011 have resulted in demand for energy efficient solutions by organizations at every level, across private industry as well as government agencies. According to the Japanese business daily, Nikkei, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) had planned to require a 25% restriction in energy use by large corporate users and a 20% cut by smaller corporate users. But METI changed those plans because power output was boosted by measures such as installing more gas turbines. The restrictions now require a 15% reduction for large companies, which has put continued pressure on operationally intensive organizations.

As an initiative to make its energy efficient storage systems available to these operations, Nexsan has joined with reseller partners in Japan to support organizations in the region. With the ongoing need to conserve power, Nexsan recently demonstrated the new E18? and E60?, in addition to the company's popular iSeries? and SATABeast? storage systems at Japan's largest storage industry event -- Data Storage Expo 2011. The latest technologies from Nexsan include its line of power-managed storage systems featuring AutoMAID? (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks). This evolutionary energy saving technology transparently places disk drives into an idle state to vastly reduce power and cooling costs.

Nexsan has a reputation for providing high-density storage systems optimized for highly efficient data center environments. The company's storage systems maintain a small form factor, superior energy efficiency, enterprise-class performance, availability and reliability as proven in more than 25,000 deployments globally. The latest E-Series storage systems support any combination of 3.5-inch SAS, SATA and SSDs, including 3 TB SATA HDDs with enterprise specifications, providing significantly greater capacity and functionality than comparable systems in the same form factor. At the recent Storage Expo in Japan, all systems were highly rated by show attendees which included more than 120,000 IT and business professionals from across Japan.