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ASSUREON HARDWARE COMPONENTS

STORAGE SX SERVER (2.5 INCH CHASSIS)

CPU Dual 6-core CPU

SYSTEMS Management Port Dedicated ethernet management port

SPECIFICATION
Redundant Fans Yes

Redundant Power Supply Yes

SHEET
Battery Backed-Up RAID Yes

Available Drive Slots 16

Available PCI Slots 6

RAM 32 GB

NX/AX SERVER (3.5 INCH CHASSIS)

CPU Dual quad-core CPU

Drives 2 SAS, 10 SATA drives

RAM 16 GB

NX INTEGRATED EDGE AND ASSUREON

Assureon Client Software Installed Yes

Useable Archive Space 3 TB to 6 TB

Expandable with Similar Units Yes

External Storage No

AX ASSUREON APPLIANCE

Assureon Client Software Installed No

Useable Archive Space 4 TB to 8 TB

Expandable with Similar Systems Yes

External Storage No

LOW CAPACITY ASSUREON

Small SX/SXR 7 TB to 56 TB

Rackspace 4U

Processing Node Included Yes

Storage Node Included Yes

ENTERPRISE CAPACITY ASSUREON

Large SX/SXR 14 TB to 200 TB

Rackspace 6U

Ability to Add Additional Processing Nodes Yes

Ability to Add Additional Storage Nodes Yes

 FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY
ENVIRONMENT
Usage Environments
Supported Files / Capacity
Removable Media
Admin Interface
Remote Replication
Primary Ingestion Methods
Optional Ingestion Methods
Custom API
OPERATIONAL
Storage Technology Used
System Logging
System Automatic Reporting
System Self-Protecting
INTEGRITY
Unique Fingerprints
Serial Numbers
Secure Time Stamp
Two Copies of All Files
Data Verification
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COMPLIANCE FUNCTIONS
e-Discovery:
Windows, Unix/Linux, Apple MacOS Yes
Content Indexing, Search, Export
Yes - makes two copies on disk -
No architectural limit Automatic Copies
local or remote
No Unique Copy Serialization Yes
Multi-Tenancy -
WebGUI, role-based admin Yes
Isolation to Storage Devices
Yes - WAN-based Secure Delete Yes
Legal Hold on Files
Assureon client, Edge device Yes, Yes
and Multi-overlapping
Read-only lock, XML ingestion file WORM Yes
Not required but can use as Multi-Regulations Simultaneously Yes
alt method to set retention
Audit-Trail with Chain of Custody
Yes
for Data Accesses
Retention Controls -
Yes
Default Setting by Archive
RAID disk systems,
Retention Controls -
integrated disk, or cloud Yes
Application Controlled Setting
Yes
Yes
SCALABILITY AND HIGH AVAILABILITY
Two active Assureons can
Remote Replication
Yes continuously replicate each other
Native Active/Active replication
Failover/Failback with automatic read and manual
write failover
Scale capacity up to multiple
Capacity
petabytes
Generated using MD5 and SHA1 hash
Infiniband Optional
Each file assigned unique serial
number
Global, redundant, time source CLOUD READY
Enables service to offer
Each file and its fingerprints Multi-Tenancy
highly secure Archive-as-a-Service
stored twice
On-premise Asssureon can
Continuously verified via fingerprints Online Archive replicate to a cloud-based Assureon
powered archive service
 MANAGEMENT
Move files to Assureon, leave original file
Automatic Archive
in place or optionally leave shortcut
Edge device presents a CIFS/NFS NAS
NAS (NFS/CIFS)
interface to users and applications
Assureon client can be installed
Fast and Easy Deployment on Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012
with no reboot required
PRIVACY
Logical and physical separation plus separation
Separation of Data
via multiple AES-256 encryption keys
Encryption Files can be AES-256 encrypted
Authentication Active directory or digital certificates
Audit Trails Report on file access and denied access

Global Management Single pane-of-glass management

ASSUREON COMPONENT DESCRIPTIONS
Reports Reports keep track of storage usage

Self-managing Assureon issues alerts Single Site Assureon Assureon will maintain two copies
Lights-Out Management
when something needs attention (SX) of every file within local Assureon system

Assureon will maintain two copies

REGULATORY AND CORPORATE COMPLIANCE Replicated Assureon of every file or object.
(SXR) Replicated Assureons (SXR)
FRCP, SCX, SEC-17, GLBA, are typically geographically separated.
Government Regulations
and PCI-DSS
Create retention rules A local Assureon will maintain
Data Retention Policies
for directories and file types a single copy of the data while a
second copy of the data is replicated
Legal Hold Ability to place on any set of files Hosted Assureon
to a remote, multi-tenency Assureon.
(HXR)
Typically, the second Assureon resides
Retention Periods Fixed and flexible retention periods at an Assureon-as-a-service cloud
provider or in a corporate cloud.
Single-point deletion and
Data Deletion
optional data wipe of the drive
The Edge Server includes 8 GB RAM,
single quad-core CPU, and approximately
2.3 TB capacity for customer data.
Edge Server
ADVANCED FEATURES It supports four additional drives for
extra capacity and it also supports
Power - Auto Spin-Down Infiniband for high-speed Assureon.
Yes
of Disk Drives
The client software is an agent
Single instancing Yes
that runs on Windows systems;
Client Software it watches directories chosen by
Compression Yes the administrator and will send new
or changed files to the Assureon.
AES-256, FIPS 140-2,
Encryption
automatic key management Instead of creating shortcuts on disk,
the Assureon client has the ability to
Versioning Yes have the shortcuts reside purely in memory.
This facilitates extremely fast recovery time.
Virtual Shortcuts
Reporting Yes - extensive If the Assureon Client serger goes down,
you need only bring up another machine,
install the Assureon Client on it and
Ingestion Throttling Yes the files appear instantaneously.

ABOUT IMATION
Imation is a global data storage and information security company. Imation’s Nexsan portfolio features
solid-state optimized unified hybrid storage systems, secure automated archive solutions and high-density
enterprise storage arrays. Nexsan solutions deliver high performance for mission-critical IT applications such
SPECSHEET 3 as virtualization, cloud, databases, and collaboration; and energy efficient, high-density storage for backup and
archiving. For more information, visit www.imation.com/nexsan.

Imation Corp. 1 Imation Way, Oakdale, MN 55128-3414 | p. 651.704.4000 f. 651.537.4675 | www.imation.com/nexsan

© Imation Corp. Nexsan, the Nexsan logo, E-Series, FASTier, E-Centre and NestOS are trademarks of Imation Corp. All other trademarks are
property of their respective owners.
(Rev. 06/24/14)