Nexsan Technologies introduced today Assureon 4.0, a new version of the security appliance that the company began shipping last year.
Assureon are clustered appliances engineered for high availability, that deliver features such as single file encryption, access authentication and content addressable storage, Nexsan explains.
"Assureon is not a "copy-to device" - points out Diamond Lauffin, senior executive vice president for Nexsan. Lauffin then explains that all data transfers to the appliance are managed via customers' defined policies.
New features of the Assureon 4.0 include accelerated encryption via onboard ASICs and automatic point-to-point active redirect of file access to the Assureon appliance.
"When we move a file to the Assureon we leave a pointer in our agent" - explains Lauffin, - " if that primary device dies the application will see those pointers as the original files."
Assureon 4.0 adds also automated audit capabilities, including verifying the integrity of files and media and ensuring that the content of archival media is not altered over time.
Nexsan indicates a price around $4,500 per terabyte for Assureon 4.0 appliances.
Posted by Mario Apicella on May 9, 2006 06:00 AM
