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Scalable Secure Storage Appliance

Storage systems no longer have to be unintelligent repositories of unprotected data. In the wake of numerous security breaches where sensitive and confidential information has been compromised and the enforcement of multiple compliance regulations, businesses and organizations are demanding higher levels of intelligence and protection.

Nexsan's Assureon™ is the first secure storage appliance - a complete solution that combines advanced encryption with content addressed storage, ILM technology and other patent-pending security features into a single, fully integrated disk-based system.

Assureon™ is a solution for primary and critical concerns of today's businesses and organizations - the security, authenticity and accessibility of the information being stored and managed.

Technical Features:

• Single Instance Store: Assureon's CAS technology enables single instance store, whereby only one copy of a data object is kept. For example, if different individuals in multiple departments are all saving the same PowerPoint presentation, Assureon can identify that they are duplicates based on their CAS address, and only store one copy resulting in less storage needed, reduced network bandwidth and overall cost.
• Authentication and Integrity: Assureon technology verifies that all files and file metadata has not been tampered with or corrupted.
• Immutability: An object placed under Assureon management cannot be changed or erased until the end of its retention period.
• WORM functionality: the Assureon system provides Write Once, Read Many functionality
• Business Continuity Protection: Assureon supports remote replication of assets across the WAN and can be configured to keep duplicate files at a remote site.
• Fail-safe CAS Technology: Assureon utilizes a dual cryptographic process (hashing algorithm) to create its unique CAS address, which ensures the integrity of the file and no loss of information through potential data collisions.
• File Level Retention Enforcement: Assureon enforces retention polices at the object level allowing different retention periods to be placed on files based upon their importance to an organization.
• Assignment of Retention Periods: Assureon will assign a retention period based either upon a 3rd party application (ex. document management system or an email management package) or Assureon can place the appropriate retention policy based upon its own file watcher program.
• Access Speed: Assureon enables immediate online access to reference data as opposed to traditional offline storage.
• Enabling Information Lifecycle Management (ILM): ILM requires more than storage hardware and software to be successfully implemented. Assureon is a powerful tool that automates the operational steps (Classify, Place, Protect, Archive, Access, Expire) of the lifecycle process for reference data within an organization.
• Audit Trails for Compliance: Assureon meets many requirements of the numerous compliance laws and privacy regulations including:
  - Digital Time Stamped Records - a requirement of FDA regulations
  - Serialization - a requirement of SEC regulations.
  - User Access Trail - a requirement of HIPAA

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