VAN NUYS, Calif, March 23, 2016 - Sunstar, a leading Southern California-based storage, archive, backup and disaster recovery (DR) solution provider, today announced that it has been named a "Gold" member of the newly enhanced Nexsan Channel Partner Program. As a Gold Nexsan Partner, Sunstar will offer Nexsan's complete family of unified, high-density storage and secure archive systems, including the Nexsan Assureon archive storage system, which is ideal for organizations that need an optimized storage solution that meets regulatory and corporate compliance requirements for the long-term archiving of unstructured data.

"Sunstar takes an innovative approach to its storage and archive engagements, transforming business visions into measureable results," said Russ Johnson, Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), Nexsan. "Together we look to improve our mutual customers' business processes and operations while delivering the solutions that help them achieve top line growth and bottom line profit. We are very pleased to have Sunstar as a Gold member of our growing partner ecosystem."

"Nexsan is an innovator in storage optimization and efficiency. Their Assureon line of archive storage systems in particular take an uncompromised approach to the compliant data retention customers need for their fast-growing volumes of unstructured data," said Gavin Rosenberg, Marketing Director, Sunstar. "Whether customers need to store data for days or decades, Assureon provides unsurpassed data integrity and protection along with simple administration and unmatched reliability. We are pleased to be a Nexsan Gold Partner and look forward to our continued partnership and mutual success throughout 2016 and the years ahead."

The newly expanded Nexsan Channel Partner Program offers performance-based incentives based on three program tiers: Gold, Silver and Bronze. Each tier receives program benefits in alignment with their sales attainment goals including new support and services designed to share the cost of tactical program execution. New benefits for qualified partners include market development funds for shared marketing programs, LeadGuardTM opportunity registration for deal opportunity protection, and aggressive commercial models for demo equipment access for proof of concept demonstrations. Nexsan also provides extensive training and certification paths for partners that engage in exceptional professional service delivery, and partners have 24 x 7 access to the world-class Nexsan partner portal which offers a wealth of resources, marketing content, sales tools email campaigns, promotions and more.

Nexsan Partner Program members offer a complete line of NST unified hybrid storage systems which leverage SSD for high performance and can scale to 5 PBs; E-Series high-density storage systems for up to 360TBs in 4U of rack space; and Assureon secure archive storage systems which efficiently secure data for regulated applications. Nexsan has also recently added the Transporter private cloud storage appliance family to its partner program offerings, enabling existing partners to capitalize on the explosive file sync and share market with an innovative private cloud storage solution that delivers true collaboration flexibility while securely retaining shared content behind a company's firewall.

To learn more about Nexsan's award-winning unified storage solutions family, please visit: www.nexsan.com.

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About Sunstar
Sunstar Company, Inc. offers a wide range of storage solutions, SAN, NAS, Unified, Hybrid and Flash with simultaneous support of Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, SMB and FTP protocols within a single storage solution. The company's expertise in technology and consulting spans more than two decades and enables its clients to get better business results through process improvement, operational excellence and decision making engagements, both large and small. For more information visit: www.sunstarco.com.

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PR Contact:
Gavin Rosenberg
Marketing Director
Sunstar
Direct: (310) 330-2902
Mobile: (818) 635-6493
[email protected]

Press Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
The Ventana Group for Nexsan
Chantilly, VA
(925) 785-3014
[email protected]
http://www.theventanagroup.com/