Storage: SMB

Winner: StorCentric Nexsan EZ-NAS

The Nexsan EZ-NAS network-attached storage system delivers Nexsan‘s enterprise storage technology in a form factor and at a price point for SMBs and large enterprise edge applications, targeting such use cases as edge repositories, digital video and media workflows, and video surveillance deployments. EZ-NAS features an easy-to-configure 1U form factor and four drives with up to 72 TB of raw capacity and 1.5 GBps of throughput. It delivers enterprise-class features such as in-line compression, Active Directory support and data-at-rest encryption and comes with the Retrospect software for optional add-on services including data backup, cloud connector and ransomware anomaly detection.

Finalist:

Dell PowerVault