Nexsan Technologies next week will unveil an appliance for smaller organizations and branch offices that lets them archive and retrieve as many as 20 million documents.

At the Health Information Management and Systems Society conference in New Orleans next week, Nexsan will roll out the Assureon SA, part of the Assureon family of appliances, which provided data encryption, remote data replication and information lifecycle management capabilities.

The Assureon SA is based on a single-instance content-addressed storage model, which ensures that only a single copy of a data object is stored in the system, thus reducing capacity demands and bandwidth requirements.

Assureon SA supports files from both the Unix/Linux Network File System and Microsoft’s Common Internet File System. Software shipping with the appliance allows users to search on content based on wildcard or Boolean searches and retrieve data based on searches. With the Assureon SA, files are deduplicated, resulting in only unique files being saved. The Assureon SA also has allows local or remote replication.

The Assureon SA starts at $65,000. A version of the Assureon appliance that supports replication – called SA+ -- starts at $99,000.