Nexsan Delivers Nearly 3 Petabytes of All-Flash NVMe Storage in a 2U System with Latest Addition to UNITY NV-Series

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nexsan®, the pioneer of highly reliable, cost-effective enterprise-class storage solutions, today announced the Unity™ NV12000, a new high-density unified storage platform designed to meet the growing demands of artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), analytics and other data-intensive enterprise applications.

As organizations contend with rapidly expanding datasets, rising infrastructure costs and increasingly sophisticated ransomware threats, the Unity NV12000 combines high-capacity NVMe flash, enterprise-class data protection and unified block, file and object storage into a single platform. Its ultra-high-density architecture enables organizations to consolidate more data into less rack space while reducing the power, cooling, networking and service overhead associated with traditional storage deployments.

By maximizing capacity per drive, the NV12000™ reduces the number of drives and enclosures required to achieve petabyte-scale storage, helping organizations optimize data center space, energy consumption and operational overhead. Unity NV12000 supports high-capacity 122.88TB QLC NVMe SSDs, enabling nearly 3PB of raw flash capacity in a single 2U head unit. With the new U2F226 NVMe JBOF expansion enclosure, organizations can scale to approximately 15PB of raw all-flash capacity in just 10U of rack space.

The Unity NV12000 is designed to support a broad range of enterprise applications, including:

• AI, machine learning and HPC: High-capacity, high-bandwidth flash for training datasets, vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), inference data and GPU-intensive workloads.
• Data lakes and large-scale repositories: Consolidated storage for massive, read-intensive datasets accessible through block, file and S3-compatible object protocols.
• Analytics and data warehousing: Accelerated data ingestion, extract-load-transform (ELT) operations and real-time data processing.
• Media production and content streaming: High-throughput storage for ultra-high-resolution video, large media libraries and concurrent content delivery.
• Virtualization and multi-tenant environments: Dense storage for virtualized workloads, shared infrastructure and isolated object-storage environments, with support for VMware, Proxmox, Hyper-V, Xen and other enterprise platforms.

The Unity NV12000 supports block storage through iSCSI and Fibre Channel, file storage through NFS and SMB, and S3object storage through NexObject™. This unified architecture enables organizations to consolidate diverse workloads on one platform rather than managing separate storage infrastructures for different data types and applications.

Unity Immutable Snapshots protect recovery points by preventing retention settings from being changed after they are applied, helping prevent unauthorized modification or deletion of protected snapshots. Combined with NexObject S3 object locking, AES-256 encryption, Kerberos-secured NFS and optional Assureon® integration, these capabilities provide multiple layers of protection for sensitive enterprise data and compliance-driven retention.

“AI, analytics and modern enterprise applications are creating unprecedented demands on storage capacity, performance and data protection,” said Vincent Phillips, CEO of Nexsan. “The Unity NV12000 addresses these challenges by delivering petabyte-scale, all-flash capacity in an exceptionally compact footprint, alongside the unified data services and immutable protection organizations need to support critical workloads. Customers can scale their infrastructure while simplifying operations and maintaining greater control over storage costs.”

The Unity NV12000 runs Unity OS 7.4, now available across the full NV-Series family. It supports the complete NV-Series enterprise feature set plus new capabilities introduced in this release. Nexsan’s all-inclusive software licensing simplifies deployment and keeps costs predictable as organizations grow their storage environments.

UNITY NV12000 is available through Nexsan’s channel of industry-leading solution providers. To find out more about how the NV12000 can benefit their organizations, interested parties can consult a Nexsan specialist at https://www.nexsan.com/consult-an-expert/.

About Nexsan®

Nexsan® is a global leader in enabling customers to securely store, protect, and manage data. Established in 1999, Nexsan has earned a reputation for delivering the most highly reliable, secure, and cost-effective storage while always remaining agile to continuously deliver purpose-built storage and data management solutions that meet complex and ever-changing IT, business, and budgetary requirements. Nexsan’s patented technology is ideal for a variety of use cases including backup and recovery, content delivery and streaming, scientific lab data, virtualization, evidentiary data, digital video surveillance, regulatory compliance, and healthcare records. For further information, please visit www.nexsan.com.