Nexsan Partners with Falconstor to Simplify Backup

According to Bob Woolery, senior vice president of marketing for Nexsan, the new appliance will allow customers to centralize their backup and recovery processes more easily by also adding support for 10GB Ethernet interfaces and the ability to support up to 150 remote sites.

In addition to relying on the FalconStor file management software, called File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) 2.0, to manage the Nexsan DeDupe SG 2.0 appliance, Nexsan is also adding support for Symantec’s OpenStorage (OST) high-speed backup protocol to give customers a high-availability solution that runs across a 10GB Ethernet.

Woolery says that Nexsan will also be touting the inherent Green IT capabilities of the Nexsan appliance because of an AutoMaid capability that leverage a policy engine to determine how much energy needs to allocated to any individual drive based on actual usage.

According to Woolery, Nexsan is trying to bring “glass house” capabilities to small-to-medium (SMB appliance form factors that are easy to deploy and manage.