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NEXSAN ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC PARTNER PROGRAM FOR TOTAL STORAGE

Nexsan Technologies, a leader in innovative storage solutions, has announced its Strategic Solutions (S2) Program that will provide sales and marketing benefits to strategic partners and result in further channel-friendly product development for Nexsan's network of solution providers.

For software and hardware manufacturers that complete the S2 process, benefits include special pricing on the Nexsan products to be integrated into their solution, referrals to channel partners, co-marketing opportunities, a product listing on the Nexsan web site, and cooperatively produced white papers and collaterals. Total solutions will carry a "Nexsan certified" designation and be included in the Nexsan's award-winning family of products.

"Many storage providers have watched Nexsan's success and growth, and have started to develop their own technologies to capitalize on the advantages of our affordable, reliable disk-based storage solutions," said Rik Mussman, Nexsan vice president of technical services, who oversees the S2 Program. "The number of OEMs that have approached us, and the broad range of data management applications that have been proposed, has compelled us to develop a formal system to evaluate what solutions have the most potential for our channel partners and their customers."

Advanced disk-based storage is rapidly becoming the top choice for a variety of industries and applications, including digital film/video/audio, imaging and analytics, and transaction-intensive financial environments. Nexsan's technology provides ideal opportunities for S2 partners and resellers to deliver complete data management solutions.

To qualify, companies must successfully demonstrate the joint solution, supply materials describing the technology benefits, and have six beta users to serve as industry references, as well as provide detailed information on product engineering, sales structure and company and financial background.

The first company to qualify and become a Nexsan Strategic Solutions (S2) Program Partner is Arkivio, a leader in data resource management solutions.

Nexsan's InfiniSAN line of disk-based storage solutions delivers the latest in form and function now. The ATAboy series provides enterprise-class features and functionality in a low profile, correct-cost expandable package. Unquestioned reliability results from utilizing redundancy and the latest advancements in RAID technology, while Nexsan's Extreme Intelligence Software, NexSCAN, provides sophisticated centralized management and monitoring of all Nexsan subsystems. Nexsan's ATAboy2 ATA disk-based technology provides "next generation" performance, reliability and high data availability for the industry's most demanding storage and data delivery applications. The InfiniSAN ATAboy2 ATA disk-based systems scale from a correct-cost, entry-level solution while providing unchallenged expandability and superior fault tolerance supporting the storage industry's most demanding midrange to enterprise-class applications.