Nexsan Assureon SA: Compliance And Security For The Rest Of Us By Mark Bowker, ESG

Digital archives are not only growing in capacity, but also in the number of individual objects (defined as files and associated metadata) that are being stored and managed by IT. The Assureon SA is a CAS storage appliance capable of protecting, retaining and searching up to 20 million documents that is designed to be a simple plug and play solution for small and medium businesses.

Small enterprise and mid-market data centers are challenged with the same massive unstructured data growth as enterprise class data centers and the same legal requirements, but they lack the resources and budget to proactively manage, protect and ensure data is stored on a suitable storage media. We are creating audio recording, video, music, blogs, Voice Mail, Wikis, IP Video, IM, Web Meetings – that are all exploding in volume growth. Organizations are storing infrequently accessed data and fixed content on costly primary storage and as a result application performance is impacted. High performance storage systems are also consumed with data that is rarely accessed and far more expensive, which is clearly wrong.