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The NST4000 delivers genuine, efficient hybrid storage with tremendous efficiency and processing power using the
latest high-performance technologies as well as the flexibility to meet the needs of organizations that continue to
rapidly add new applications to their environments. With an intelligent hybrid caching layer, the choice of Fibre
Channel or iSCSI connectivity and new levels of capacity and performance, NST4000 is especially well-suited for
mid-sized data centers, mixed application workloads, data protection strategies and media and entertainment
industry workflows.

Specifically, NST4000 offers significant new user benefits, including:

· Fibre Channel Support – NST4000 expands the Nexsan NST family’s unified block and file sharing
capabilities by adding Fibre Channel connectivity for those mid-range enterprises that prefer it for their
applications. This gives organizations the ability to take advantage of the benefits of NST’s hybrid storage
using a full range of unified storage protocols, including iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, FTP and now Fibre Channel.

· Higher Capacity Scalability – A single NST4000 array can non-disruptively scale to 2.1PB. This
represents 50 percent more storage capacity scale and 45 percent more FASTier™ cache scale than
preceding NST arrays could offer, delivering much more flexibility to IT administrators.

· Increased Performance – The NST4000 can deliver three times as many IOPs as preceding NST storage
solutions. This is accomplished by combining optimizations in NestOS 3.1 with Imation’s fault-tolerant
FASTier™ DRAM caching technology, solid-state disks (SSDs) and the latest processor technology.

· Enhanced Data Reduction – The NST4000 delivers faster and smarter inline compression. Compressible
data can be processed 50 percent faster than with preceding NST arrays, and intelligence removes the
penalty of trying to act upon noncompressible data.
Imation’s Nexsan NST™ is a set of flexible hybrid storage appliances that scale to meet mid-sized organization
application and storage needs with unified NAS and SAN access capabilities in a single solution. NST combines high
performance, high capacity and Imation’s innovative FASTier™ caching technology to provide scaling performance
for backup, virtualized environments and mixed application workloads. FASTier is NST’s hybrid caching layer that
combines intelligent algorithms with high-performance DRAM and SSD technologies to grow performance costeffectively
when it is required. NST enables businesses to right size their initial acquisition and increase performance
as their applications demand it. Also, NST’s data compression capabilities reduce storage system footprint in the
data center and improve write efficiencies and performance to SSDs and HDDs.

The NST family is just one part of Imation’s deep Nexsan portfolio of purpose-built storage solutions, enabling users
to deploy the right storage products for the right application. The other Nexsan product lines are:

· Imation’s Nexsan E-Series™ is a family of high-density, high-performance and highly reliable storage
solutions that can be directly attached or networked to workstations and servers.

· Imation’s Nexsan Assureon™ is a set of secure storage solutions that reduce storage cost by offloading and
deduplicating data from primary storage that is infrequently used or has aged by policy.