Atempo, a provider of cross-platform data protection and archiving solutions, and Nexsan, a provider of energy-efficient, long-term disk storage, has announced a comprehensive backup-to-disk solution.

 

The new solution integrates Atempo Time Navigator software, a powerful storage management software with Nexsan SATABeast Xi hardware, Nexsan’s high density green storage system, giving reseller partners the opportunity to offer a high-performance and high-capacity backup and storage solution ready-made for data-intensive environments such as media and entertainment industries.

 

Atempo and Nexsan’s common support for Mac, Windows and UNIX, the new integrated solution is optimized for heterogeneous environments, especially organizations with a strong Apple (News - Alert) Mac presence.

With Atempo Time Navigator, medium to large-size organizations can easily manage data seamlessly throughout its lifecycle. The software’s powerful Time Navigation capability provides critical data protection, and allows users to restore files quickly and effortlessly from any point in time off any tier in a storage environment.

 

The SATABeast Xi gives enterprises reliable high-density storage up to 42 TB per system. The solution features Nexsan’s AutoMAID energy-saving technology that greatly reduces power consumption and cooling costs without sacrificing application performance.

 

Bob Woolery, senior vice president of marketing at Nexsan noted in a statement that most organizations utilize a heterogeneous mix of computing platforms each requiring data protection including Mac.

 

Woolery noted that in integrating Atempo software with Nexsan’s SATABeast Xi, they have created a powerful solution that resellers can use to address the challenges of storing cross-platform data under a common management system and structure. He said that the capabilities are especially critical for data-intensive industries, such as media and entertainment, where Atempo and Nexsan’s proven Mac support is further differentiated with high performance, high density and energy saving green storage.

 

According to Karim Toubba, vice president of marketing and product management at Atempo, this solution sees Atempo and Nexsan align their technologies to solve the challenges common to their customer bases, but it also exemplifies both companies’ commitment to strengthening the important relationships with their reseller partners.

 

Toubba added that Time Navigator and SATABeast Xi technology gives their resellers a seamless offering that bundles all components to deliver an end-to-end backup-to-disk solution.

 

The new integrated solution supports more number of applications and databases including specific applications for the media and entertainment industry such as media asset management applications. According to companies’ sources, the solution also features all components necessary to provide virtual tape library (VTL) functionality delivering increased backup performance, improved recovery performance and reduced media management issues.