Equipment Report

Nexsan Technologies, Woodland Hills, Calif., has introduced Assureon, a product it is calling "the first integrated secure storage appliance."

In a press release, the company says Assureon offers a total solution to markets concerned with data privacy, data theft and compliance (ILM), such as corporations with electronic documents, check and medical imaging, e-mail and all other forms of fixed content, including digital broadcast content and backup/archived critical data.

Assureon uses advanced encryption, authentication and data protection technologies, which it combines with life cycle management, RAID hardware and content addressed storage technology.

With Assureon, Nexsan says it has responded to end users’ demands for a single product that features encryption with content-addressed storage, ILM and patent-pending security features in a disk-based system designed to be a "hardened" archive. This scalable, plug-and-play solution incorporates Nexsan’s own high-density SATA RAID hardware combined with technology designed to store, manage, protect, dispose and provide fast, easy access to fixed content and reference data in a cost-effective manner.

According to Nexsan, Assureon offers significant savings to organizations through the automation of operational steps, self-management and self-healing capabilities. For instance, the company says its CAS single instance store technology identifies duplicate data files and stores only one version.

"When you consider standalone RAID storage costs nearly $3,000 per terabyte, it is a testament to Nexsan engineers and developers that we can offer a complete secure storage appliance with management, RAID storage, processing and networking that can be configured for as low as $4,500 per terabyte," Diamond Lauffin, executive vice president of Nexsan, says.

More information about Nexsan and Assureon storage application is available online at www.nexsan.com.

Ellis

Houston-based Accent Wire has recently appointed a national account manager and West Coast sales representative.

Weeks

As national account manager, Bill Ellis will be responsible for developing and managing relationships with Accent’s nationwide accounts.

He has more than 23 years of sales, service and management experience in the recycling industry. Prior to joining Accent, Ellis managed various recycling plants for Waste Management, spent two years with BFI as director of recycling operations and, most recently, was a national account manager with L&P Wiretie for eight years.

Gregg Weeks has been hired as West Coast sales representative. He will be responsible for selling to and servicing independent recyclers and national accounts and for training end users on the Accent 470 wire tier system.

Weeks has 17 years of sales, service and management experience in the recycling industry. Beginning in 1988, he joined U.S. Steel Supply as warehouse supervisor, moving to a position as technical representative selling wire and servicing wire tiers for end users and OEMs within a year. In 1997, Weeks became Western sales manager for L&P Wiretie, managing accounts, production operations and training on wire tier systems.

Accent Wire provides baling wire and wire tier solutions to the recycling industry, including all types of baling wire, the Accent 470 wire tier system and wire tier parts and service.

More information on Accent Wire is available at www.accentwire.com.

Aleratec Introduces Cross-Cut Media Shredder

Aleratec Technologies Inc., Chatsworth, Calif., has introduced its new DVD/CD Shredder Plus XC.

The device cross cuts DVDs, CDs and credit and ATM cards. It can also shred five folded sheets of paper at once and features auto start, auto stop and reverse operation. The DVD/CD Shredder Plus XC is equipped with a slide-out 3.5-liter basket with a transparent window and includes a brush to clean the shredder.

"Our new DVD/CD Shredder Plus SX is compact and rugged, with a powerful cross-cut media destruction mechanism that renders DVDs and CDs unreadable and useless," Perry Solomon, president and CEO of Alera Technologies, says.

Alera estimates the street price of the shredder at $119.99.

Additional information is available online at www.aleratec.com.