Nexsan, a global leader in unified storage solutions and part
of the StorCentric family, today announced the newest release of its Nexsan
Assureon active data vault storage solution. Version 8.3 includes Private
Blockchain and end-to-end RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over Converged
Ethernet (RoCE). The latest version is also ideal for organizations that need
to implement regulatory and corporate compliance, the long-term archiving of
unstructured data, or storage optimization.
Assureon Private Blockchain enables
organizations to protect and secure digital assets by storing data in an
immutable data structure, utilizes cryptography to secure transactions and
relies on an automated integrity audit at the redundant sites to maintain data
integrity and transparency. Combined with Assureon's unique file fingerprinting
and asset serialization process, with metadata authentication and a robust
consensus algorithm, Assureon Private Blockchain allows secure archiving of
digital assets for long-term data protection, retention and compliance
adherence.
Nexsan has adopted the high performance and low latency RoCE
(RDMA over Converged Ethernet) to eliminate the performance-robbing layers of
the network stack. Together, Nexsan with RoCE ensures all customers have
ultra-low latency, are regulatory compliant and that the solution is ready for
the ever-increasing data demands.
"Nexsan has a strong track record of creating products and
services that capitalize on the advances in data archiving, security,
protection and retrieval," commented Surya Varanasi, CTO of StorCentric, Parent
Company of Nexsan. "With the release of Assureon 8.3, we have implemented RoCE
to provide over a 2x performance improvement and private blockchain technology
for a secure, immutable data structure. Users are now able to quickly and
efficiently retrieve data with a 40G RDMA Converged Ethernet connection between
the Assureon server and Assureon Edge servers, and thereby accelerate access to
archived data storage securely."
Assureon 8.3 offers a number of benefits to Nexsan customers,
including:
- Virtual shortcuts that require zero
disk space and reside purely in memory as reference points to physical
files in the Assureon archive.
- A 40Gb/s ethernet connection that
provides blazing fast data retrieval from the Assureon server.
- Data is
retrieved directly from user-space with minimal involvement of the
operating system and CPU.
- In addition,
zero-copy applications can retrieve data from the Assureon archive
without involving the network stack.
- Security, traceability, immutability,
and visibility of data with Assureon Private Blockchain technology.