NetApps FAS2000 from NavigateStorage the experts in storage

NetApps FAS2000 from NavigateStorage the experts in storage: "FAS2000 Series

Key Points:

Gain enterprise-level reliability in a smaller and cost-effective package Integrate storage and processing into a single unit.
Cost-effective and reliable disaster recovery.
Manage and store applications and data using several standard protocols.
Slash your backup and restore times by half.
Simplify management through consolidation of virtualized server environments.
With our FAS2000 series you can manage your growing, complex data in dispersed departments or remote locations, add functionality with ease, and increase capacity by up to 104TB.
Manage your dispersed, expanding, and complex data requirements with the FAS2000 series. FAS2000 systems are ideal if you have dispersed departments or remote branch offices."

Give us a try. Jim Addlesberger 978-318-9000

NetApp 3200

"If you are looking to dramatically decrease your consumption of space, power, and cooling, then deploy your FAS3200 series system with our DS2246 disk shelf. This leading-edge disk shelf features the latest SAS technology using small-form-factor SAS 2.5” disk drives capable of doubling capacity per rack unit, conserving your valuable data center resources."

Come visit or website and call us at 978-318-9000

NavigateStorage, a US based reseller, recently added Fujistu to its broad array of Storage - SAN and NAS solutions that also includes data-deduplication and tape solutions.

Another example is the October 2010 expansion of the Fujitsu and NetApp relationship*, which began in 1998 and is now extended through 2013, in which Fujitsu (~2% of NetApp’s revenue) will resell NetApp’s FAS products in additional countries worldwide, starting in Germany

and rolling through the rest of the EMEA region within the next six

months. In return, NetApp, for the first time in its corporate history, will resell a third-party hardware solution, in this case Fujitsu’s ETERNUS CS800 S2 Data Protection Appliance, which utilizes Quantum’s dedupe technology (DXi). Thus, NetApp gains an appliance-based

dedupe offering that can be targeted at secondary/nearline storage

environments."

Contact Jim Addlesberger at NavigateStorage at 978-318-9000 or write us.

* Amit Daryanani, CFA Equity Research RBC Capital Markets (415) 633-8659

Scalar i500, i6000 and 10K Promotion: Buy Three LTO-5 Drives Get One Free and Free Scalar i6000 Library Upgrade

Introduction

For valid orders received by Quantum, we are offering a promotion on LTO-5 drives for Scalar i500, Scalar i6000 and Scalar 10K tape libraries. In addition, when upgrading a Scalar i2000 with LTO-5 drives, customers receive a free i2000 to i6000 library upgrade.

Key Messages

 LTO-5 capacity, performance and security features are ideally suited for archive and long-term data retention.

 LTO-5 leads the industry in cartridge capacity and throughput performance. The ability to store 3TB of data on a single cartridge is nearly 2X the capacity of LTO-4 and 4X that of LTO-3. This capacity increase allows customers to keep up with high data growth rates while maintaining the same library footprint.

 At 280MB/s throughput, LTO-5 completes jobs faster than any other tape format.

 Native encryption and WORM technologies offer customers the security features needed for compliance and privacy initiatives.

 LTO-5 can read/write to LTO-4 cartridges and read LTO-3 cartridges, protecting customer investment in prior LTO technologies. Continued investment in LTO-5 is also protected since LTO is, by far, the leading tape format in the industry.

 New Scalar i6000 offers Scalar i2000 customers more capacity, improved im-port/export capabilities, new reports, Media Data Integrity Analysis, Native Storage Networking, and access to LTO-5 tape drives.

Please contact NavigateStorage immediately at 978-318-9000 or send email.

Quantum Will Beat Quoted Prices for Data Domain Appliances by 20%!

This is a special promotion for any end-user prospect worldwide considering a Data Domain deduplication appliance. To underscore the DXi Series’ combination of superior performance and value, Quantum is making end users an offer to beat their Data Domain quotes by 20%. All customers need to do is share the quote and details with us—we will quote an equivalent DXi at 20% below the Data Domain quote—and we are also building in margin for our reseller partners to encourage them to work with us on this program. This promotion will apply to orders placed up to 31DEC10.

Key Messages

Promotion provides for a quote for a DXI appliance at a price 20% below an end user quote for an equivalent product from EMC for a Data Domain appliance.
§ Offer applies to any opportunity that has not been previously quoted by Quantum.
§ Offer applies to new DXi customers only—existing DXi customers are excluded.
§ Offer applies to the first quote only
§ For deals involving products with 35TB of usable capacity or higher or for bundled competitive offerings Quantum reserves the right to modify the discount terms.
§ Contact NavigateStorage 978-318-9000 to obtain a quote – reference this marketing announcement.
§ Deal desk will approve quote via special price request (SPR) or ask for more information if it does not meet the qualification requirements.
§ Offer is good for orders placed through 31DEC10.
§ Any other items on the sales order (service uplift, installation, etc) will be entered at standard pricing for the specific channel.
§ This promotion may not be combined with any other promotions or special pricing.

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§ Offer may not be combined with other promotions.
§ For deals involving products with 35 or more TB of usable capacity or bundled competitive offerings, Quantum reserves the right to modify discount terms.
§ Reseller must have approved OIP to participate in this program.
§ Special discounts are available on the listed eligible hardware only. Service and support will be priced based on standard pricing in effect.
§ Quantum reserves the right to modify or cancel this program at any time.

StoneFly OptiSAN for High Availability

NavigateStorages' StoneFly OptiSAN for High Availability: "StoneFly's OptiSAN Storage Concentrator Configurations have been designed to offer enhanced redundancy, availability and performance. Using high performance fibre channel and SAS interconnects, the redesigned OptiSAN product family is designed for enterprise environments looking for a versatile SAN for primary and secondary storage applications. With support for SAS, SATA, and TED drives for online transaction processing, database, email, disk based archives, disk to disk backup, virtual servers and other core applications. The cornerstone of the OptiSAN is the Storage Concentrator Storage Virtualization Engine, which offers dual core processing power, dedicated iSCSI Cache, and the award-winning StoneFusion IP SAN platform. Each high-performance storage subsystem offers redundant, active/active RAID controller functionality for enhanced performance and increased system bandwidth. Cost-effective expansion array to scale system capacity and disk spindles."

NavigateStorage started in 1999 and offers a wide variety of storage arrays with just the features and reliability your business requires.

Contact us a 978-318-9000 or drop us a line with your needs and price parameters.

Global Relay Hosted Email Full Compliance

NavigateStorages' Global Relay Hosted Email Full Compliance: "Global Relay's Message Archiver provides secure, off-site email archiving and long-term storage with online access. An authentic copy of all incoming, internal and outgoing hosted Exchange or in-house email & attachments, IM, Bloomberg, Reuters, BlackBerry, e-fax and any PST files and imported legacy email, is captured, replicated and unified in the Message Archiver for rapid web-based search, retrieval & monitoring. Fully and professionally managed, Global Relay's Message Archiver securely stores and organizes all messages in Global Relay's mirrored SAS 70 Certified Data Centers. The simple web-based search and retrieval process provides rapid access by all users to current and historical email records, even if the original has been deleted."

This hosted service is feature rich, dependable and well worth knowing more about. Contact Jim at 978-318-9000 or drop us a line.

Stonefly SCVM™ (Storage Concentrator Virtual Machine)

Money tight?  Let us show you how we can help.  Gain the benefits of an IP SAN without requiring a physical SAN infrastructure


The StoneFly SCVM Virtual IP SAN Software Appliance creates a virtual IPSAN using the existing resources of your virtual server. It is a Virtual IP SAN appliance Software for VMWare or Hyper-V environments. It provides an advanced, fully featured iSCSI SAN/Storage within a VMWare or Hyper-V Virtual Machine. You do not need another box for your storage. Create an iSCSI Virtual SAN Appliance along with your Server Virtual Machines within the same Hardware platform. Increase your productivity, simplify your management, and reduce your power and rack space by simply loading an SCVM in a Virtual Machine.

By creating a StoneFly iSCSI Target within a VMWare or Hyper-V Virtual Server, StoneFly customers may reallocate existing hardware resources to create business continuity and disaster recovery solution. Using StoneFly synchronous mirroring within the datacenter and distributed campus, or using asynchronous mirroring (replication) between remote facilities, enables StoneFly customers to have an instantaneous recovery, and eliminate loss of access to storage during disasters.


This tool enables our customers to lower operational datacenter costs plus provide a quick RTO (Return to Operation) in the event of a local site failure. In essence the SCVM™ is giving our customers the ability to create their own “DR Site in a box”.

If you are looking for all the functionality of an IPSAN, but lack of budget and space holding you off from buying an external SAN, StoneFly SCVM is the product you want.

These SCVMs can be clustered together to transform your existing server storage into a clustered storage system that is managed as a single SAN. This allows you to use all VMware ESX or Hyper-V advanced features that need shared storage. You can use SCVM to provide storage to multiple servers without disruption and you can also increase the storage as needed.

Installed easily on any VMware ESX or ESXi or Hyper-V server, the SCVM gives the consolidation of server and storage into one platform resulting in saving in space, power, cooling and overall management.

Give us a call 978-318-9000 or request more info.

iSCSI SAN best practices for small businesses

NavigateStorage has specialized in storage since 1999 when it began.

iSCSI storage area networks (SANs) are becoming increasingly popular in small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). According to Storage magazine's October 2010 Purchasing Intentions survey, 44% of survey respondents either deployed or plan to deploy an iSCSI system this year -- the highest number so far. Much of iSCSI's growth appears to be coming from medium-sized businesses; 52% of those surveyed are installing iSCSI this year, a six point jump from a year ago. But larger organizations are also increasingly opting for iSCSI; 39% have deployed iSCSI or plan to -- a four-point increase vs. last fall. While attracting larger businesses, iSCSI SAN storage has maintained its solid presence in small companies, with 42% taking the iSCSI route this year.

We have iSCI solutions of all sizes and price catagories from $8,000 to 100's of thousands.

Visit us at www.navigatestorage.com or call us at 978-318-1000

Next-Generation Email Archiving

Is your email protected?
The fast-growing volume of email presents major challenges for all organizations. According to Ferris Research, the average information worker sends over 600 emails in a given week. Many of these emails are either business records or contain valuable corporate knowledge and need to be retained accordingly. Keeping a large volume of email leads to higher storage costs and headaches for IT staff in the form of longer back-up windows. In fact, Osterman Research states, message stores have grown 30% from winter 2007 to winter 2008. As message stores grow, organizations face challenges with:

Managing Storage Costs – getting content off expensive production systems

Timely Recovery Times – reducing recovery point objectives and ever-expanding back-up windows

Ending Firefights – lowering cost of reactive collection and review

Mitigating Content-related Risks – ensuring proper usage of content within the organization

Interested in learning more?  Call Jim at 978-318-9000 or drop us an email

AMI - American MegaTrends from NavigateStorage

The StorTrends Product Family includes:

Software - User-friendly Continuous Data Protection Software for Windows® and Data Storage Software with IP-SAN and NAS support and "single pane of glass" interface.
SafeTrends™
StorTrends® iTX 2.7 Data Storage Software


IP-SAN Solutions
Dual Dialect capability means support for IP-SAN and NAS in a single appliance with low TCO.
StorTrends® 1300i IP-SAN
StorTrends® 2400i IP-SAN
StorTrends® 3200i IP-SAN


NAS Solutions
Space-saving, economical NAS solutions to support Windows®, Mac® and Linux clients.
StorTrends® 3200n NAS


JBOD Enclosures
Expands the capacity of IP-SAN and NAS appliances with up to 48 TB of additional storage space.
StorTrends® 3201j JBOD Storage System

Contact Us


To speak to a Sales Representative, please contact us at 1-978-318-9000 or drop us an Email  to consult about your specific data storage needs.

NetVault®: SmartDisk

Next Generation Disk-Based Data Protection


NetVault: SmartDisk takes disk-based backup and data deduplication to new levels of cost savings. Combining a state of the art capability to squeeze more data on disk and not requiring specific types of storage drives or appliances drives expenses down significantly. With NetVault: SmartDisk and its tight integration with NetVault: Backup, organizations of all sizes can perform deduplicated backups without requiring a high level of storage expertise or distracting administrators from strategic initiatives.

Learn more about this cost savings feature.  Email or call 978-318-9000

StoneFly, Inc. Combines Best-in-Class Performance with Superior Volume-Level Encryption in New IP SAN Upgrade

StoneFly, Inc. Combines Best-in-Class Performance with Superior Volume-Level NavigateStorage announces Encryption in New Stonefly IP SAN Upgrade


New StoneFusion Operating System Release Supports Fully-Encrypted Data Between Local and Remote IP SAN Appliances, Across LANs and WANs

Hayward, CA – February 18, 2010 – StoneFly™, Inc., a leading supplier of integrated IP storage area network (SAN) systems, today launched a new release of its StoneFusion™ operating system (OS), offering upgraded mirror encryption capabilities that reinforce the company's tradition of delivering the highest levels of data protection combined with best-in-class storage performance.

By sending encrypted data from the local IP SAN over the wide area network (WAN) during replication—and not encrypting it a second time as other systems do at the point when the data arrives at the remote SAN—StoneFusion ensures that data travels rapidly across the wire, remaining both fully protected and fully encrypted. This approach makes use of the advanced AES 256 encryption algorithm, a standard adopted by the U.S. government, and enables StoneFly to efficiently deliver both encrypted and non-encrypted volumes to the same remote SAN.

"With StoneFusion, StoneFly has continued to employ a performance-based approach to data protection since pioneering the IP SAN marketplace a decade ago," says Bahman Jalali, director of engineering and product management for StoneFly. "In fact, Stonefly's patented IP SAN architecture introduces no performance penalty when data is encrypted and written to disks. In taking this approach, we bring our customers the best of both worlds, delivering both superior security and market-leading performance, all in a simple-to-use IP SAN."

Ideal for applications in medical, finance and government, StoneFly IP SANs offer compliance with patient privacy and data control measures for HIPAA, JCAHO, Medicare and Medicaid, along with PCI and GLBA compliance for the financial industry. The upgraded StoneFusion release provides added value to data-intensive installations in these markets, where minimizing performance degradation during encryption is critical.

StoneFusion is a standard integrated component of all StoneFly IP SANs, and offers a complete portfolio of storage and data protection features including a patented storage virtualization engine. In addition, the StoneFusion OS v6.3.2 incorporates StoneFly Reflection™ for local and campus mirroring; StoneFly Snapshot™ for fast, efficient data recovery; and advanced features such as Quick Sync, for rapidly restoring mirrored iSCSI volumes in the event of a storage path or site failure.

Existing customers can contact NavigateStorage for information about upgrading to StoneFusion OS v6.3.2.

Removeable backup appliance

Designed strictly for the Enterprise. The Idealstor 8 Bay Backup Appliance, from NavigateStorage, is a 4U rackmount backup device running Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 on Dual Intel Xeon Dual Core processors with hyper threading and 2GB of error correcting code memory.  It also comes smaller.

The 8 Bay is designed to be the fastest and most scalable product in the Idealstor line of backup appliances. This product offers the flexibility of archiving data onto all 8 disks or can be set up in a configuration where 4 drives are taken off site and 4 remain in the unit for data cycling. This unit is designed to backup 16TB of removable disk capacity.

Check out are offerings and call 978-318-9000 or write

NavigateStorage announces Clustered IPSan

StoneFly, Inc., a leading supplier of integrated IP storage area network (SAN) systems and NavigateStorage a premier partner, has released the newest member to the Stonefly StoneFlex product family, the StoneFlex Quad Unified Storage & Server (QUSS™). Uniting Clustered Storage and Servers into one hardware appliance, the QUSS™ is ideal for enterprising organizations that are in need to consolidate their datacenter into a Fault Tolerant Appliance.

Through the StoneFlex QUSS™ consumers can ensure total hardware utilization while reducing power/cooling cost as well as allocating resources to more demanding applications all without the additional cost of obtaining other hardware devices.
The StoneFlex QUSS™ Standard Unit comes with a Clustered IPSAN. In addition, what make the QUSS™ unique are its 2 Flex Modules that customers can pick and choose to build their environment. Some of server modules that are available for QUSS™ include an additional IP SAN Cluster Controller for more storage power, VMWare Fault Tolerant Cluster to ensure storage and server consolidation, Microsoft Cluster, Windows Server, Windows Storage Server (WSS), Linux Servers as well as Custom Built Servers. This ensures that the customer’s Server Virtualization and storage needs are met all in one hardware appliance. QUSS™ Hardware is packed with latest and greatest technologies to provide the best possible performance in a most cost effective package. Technologies such as multi 10Gb Interface, Full fault tolerance, Quad XEON processors and up to 384GB memory per module are some of them.

“iSCSI pioneer is expanding its vision by providing a single fault tolerant appliance to house a complete datacenter and provide a solid platform for a Cloud Computing environment,” says Bahman Jalali (B.J.), Director of Product Management at Stonefly, “This single appliance offers simplified management, and ease of mind by providing redundant components in all levels.”

For more details about the StoneFlex QUSS™ or any of the Stonefly product line, please call 978-318-9000 or Email.

Email Archiving Mimosa NearPoint

Email Archiving Solution

Enterprises and organizations of all sizes are considering content archival systems for eDiscovery litigation support and storage optimization, as well as for meeting regulatory requirements for industries such as financial services, healthcare, government, and others.

Mimosa NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server is an email archiving solution that delivers archiving, eDiscovery, recovery, disaster recovery, and storage management in a single integrated solution.

Mimosa offers the Self-Service Access™ feature, which gives users and auditors access to email that has been protected, archived, and extended via Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Web Access. The system quickly and easily performs complex search and discovery of who, what, when, and where in every mailbox, including senders and recipients.

NavigateStorage, an 11 year-old company provides the right type of storage and Email archiving to meet your needs. Drop us a line and then lets discuss your requirements.

SAS 70

What is it?

"Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 70, Service Organizations, is a widely recognized auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). A service auditor's examination performed in accordance with SAS No. 70 (also commonly referred to as a 'SAS 70 Audit') is widely recognized, because it represents that a service organization has been through an in-depth audit of their control objectives and control activities, which often include controls over information technology and related processes. In today's global economy, service organizations or service providers must demonstrate that they have adequate controls and safeguards when they host or process data belonging to their customers. In addition, the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 make SAS 70 audit reports even more important to the process of reporting on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting."

Many of our vendors are SAS 70 Compliant. Call NavigateStorage to know more.

Message Archiver Benefits & Features

Email Management & Storage Optimization

SAS 70 Certified mirrored Data Centers secure, centralized, off-site storage eliminates mailbox size limitations online access to current & historical email and instant messages rapid search & retrieval via full text indexing searches on email, headers & attachments email is serialized, time-date stamped can import legacy email and PST files to unified archive dministrator-controlled access rights multi-lingual interface (Eng., Fr., Sp., Ger., Port., Jp., Chin.) unicode for search and display in all languages.

NavigateStorage with 11 years experience in high tech and 10 in E-mail Archiving. Let's discuss your needs.

Intelligent IP SANs Made Simple with StoneFusion

The award-winning Stone Fusion Intelligent Network Storage Platform (NSP), StoneFly's patent-pending baseline storage networking architecture, reduces the total cost of ownership by lowering management costs and increasing storage utilization. By adding block level storage intelligence to the IP networking core, StoneFusion powered Storage Concentrators deliver all the benefits of managed SANs, including increased storage utilization through resource consolidation, storage provisioning, access control, volume management, and feature-rich managed storage supporting advanced storage services including clustering, mirroring, and snapshotting, says Jim Addlesberger President of NavigateStorage. At the core of StoneFusion is a robust storage virtualization engine that enables provisioning of physical storage resources in to virtual storage volumes. These logical volumes are presented to the host as normal SCSI disks, using industry standard hardware and software iSCSI initiators. With StoneFusion the power of IP SAN centralization is at your fingertips.

Contact us so we can discuss your specific needs.  Or call at 978-318-9000

Global Relay hosted Email Archiving

Global Relay's Hosted Email Archiving & Messaging Services provide businesses with easy-to-use professionally-managed, email archiving, email continuity and email security solutions. NavigateStorage has been specializing in Email Archiving since 2001. First with Educomm (later to become ZANTAZ) and then to a leader in the hosted Email arena Global Relay.

The Message Archiver, Global Relay's core email archiving technology, seamlessly integrates with all email and instant messaging systems to deliver the fastest online search, retrieval and monitoring capabilities on the market today. Its enterprise-class, web-based email archiving tools address the demands of regulatory compliance, audit and eDiscovery, while alleviating the burden of data management, email archiving, storage, security and business continuity, including migration of historical data.

Built on a reputation of customer service, technical expertise and compliance excellence, Global Relay has delivered Hosted Email Archiving & Messaging Services for over ten years and has never lost a message, nor had a security breach. We help our customers stay organized, competitive, compliant and in control.

Drop us a email or call and let's discuss your goals. 978-318-9000

What are the differences between file-level vs. block-level deduplication?

What are the differences between file-level vs. block-level deduplication?: **

"Many different data backup vendors provide data deduplication services, so expect to find subtle differences in how both file-level deduplication and block-level deduplication are implemented. In general, file-level deduplication watches for multiple copies of the same file, stores the first copy, and then just links the other references to the first file. Only one copy gets stored on the disk/tape archive. Ultimately, the space you save on disk relates to how many copies of the file there were in the file system."

Block-level, sometimes called variable block-level deduplication, looks at the data block itself to see if another copy of this block already exists. If so, the second (and subsequent) copies are not stored on the disk/tape, but a link/pointer is created to point to the original copy. For example, John's copy of a file may in fact just be a pointer to Mary's file -- if Mary's file was the first to be archived.

There are pros and cons associated with both file-level and block-level deduplication. For instance, if 1,000 identical attachments are sent out by a benefits coordinator, file-level dedupe will find those 1,000 attachments that are exactly the same, but it won't find the exact duplicate copies you saved (i.e., Benefits_file.Aug, Benefits_file.Sep, Benefits_file.Oct, etc.). Block-level dedupe will find all of the duplicates, even if named differently, and will store the name variations with pointers to the original blocks. Variable block-level will also account for misaligned data sets on disk and would also detect the duplicate files and exact copies with different names.
File-level deduplication will save a relatively small amount of space on your disk/tape archive. Block-level deduplication will save more space on your disk/tape archive, and variable block-level deduplication will save even more space on your disk/tape archive. However, as with any other data storage technology or technique, be advised that your mileage will vary depending on the amount of replicated data you have in your file systems.

File-level deduplication will save a relatively small amount of space on your disk/tape archive. Block-level deduplication will save more space on your disk/tape archive, and variable block-level deduplication will save even more space on your disk/tape archive. However, as with any other data storage technology or technique, be advised that your mileage will vary depending on the amount of replicated data you have in your file systems.

NavigateStorage is in its 11th year specializing in Storage of all types.

**Written by, Dave Ellis, Principal Technologist, Instrumental Inc.Dave Ellis is the Principal Technologist at Instrumental Inc. Dave has over 32 years of high tech experience. As a member of Instrumental Inc.'s CTO staff, Dave tracks, evaluates and implements high performance computing solutions that anticipate and meet changing customer requirements. Previously, Dave was the Director of HPC Architecture for the Engenio Storage Group of LSI Logic, and has held Senior Systems Engineering positions at Applied Information Sciences, Computer Sciences Corp., Data General, Dynamac Corp., Intransa Inc., Silicon Graphics, Sperry and Xyratex. Dave also served as an Aircraft Loadmaster in the U.S. Air Force, was a Master Instructor in both the USAF Aircraft Loadmaster and Computer Programming schools, and is a disabled Vietnam Veteran. His Air Force training also led to degrees in Management from Vernon College in Texas, and in Traffic and Transportation Management from the Community College of the Air Force.

iSCI Storage high quality at a resonable price

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Eleven years ago, NavigateStorage opened its doors as a Value Added Reseller.  Our goal was to be in a position to offer the best solution for the customer, independent of the vendor.  Oh yes, the vendor needed to be trustworthy and of expected quality. 

The goal must have been a good one, because today we are still going strong after 11 years.

Come visit use for storage, backup, Email archiving and Kaspersky Anti-Viurus (Eugene Kaspersky in picture.)

Thank you for your help. 

Kaspersky Security

What is Kaspersky Security for Mail Servers?

Kaspersky Security for Mail Server is a solution that protects mail servers and groupware servers from malicious programs and spam. The product includes applications that protect all popular mail servers, including Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes/Domino, Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix and Exim. The solution can also be used to set up a dedicated mail gateway.

NavigateStorage is a premier partner of Kaspersky. Contact us for the right solution for you.

NavigateStorage's StoneFly new Voyager IP SANs

StoneFly's new Voyager IP SANs were designed to offer active/active controllers, improved redundancy, high-availability and fast performance - at a lower price point.

Using high-performance storage interconnects, the Voyager product family is designed for enterprise environments looking for a versatile SAN for primary and secondary storage applications. The Voyager supports up to 256 SAS, SATA, and SSD drives for online transaction processing, database, email, disk based archives, disk to disk backup, virtual servers and other core applications.

The cornerstone of the Voyager is our storage virtualization engine, which offers quad-core processing power, dedicated iSCSI Cache, and our StoneFusion® storage management operating system.

NavigateStorage has specialized in storage for over 10 years. Let us show you the right storage to suit you current and future needs. Call us at 978-318-9000 or drop us an Email.

StoneFly's new Voyager IP SANs were designed to offer active/active controllers, improved redundancy, high-availability and fast performance - at a lower price point. Using high-performance storage interconnects, the Voyager product family is designed for enterprise environments looking for a versatile SAN for primary and secondary storage applications.

With support for SAS, SATA, and SSD drives for online transaction processing, database, email, disk based archives, disk to disk backup, virtual servers and other core applications. The cornerstone of the Voyager is our storage virtualization engine, which offers quad-core processing power, dedicated iSCSI Cache, and our StoneFusion storage management operating system.

Let's talk about your storage requirements. Stonefly's Voyager and OptiSan are just two examples of NavigateStorage's innovative solutions. You are also welcome to write or call at 978-318-9000

iSCSI Storage you can afford

Our Virtual Storage technology from NavigateStorage makes the full power of IP SANs available to the SMB market.

The virtual pool of storage frees the storage user from the complexities of traditional RAID configuration, eases management and increases the efficiency of disk utilization; all while optimizing the performance of all applications.

Powerful enough to satisfy high bandwidth applications, as well as transaction-intensive applications, the array features either four or eight 1GbE host data ports, providing the industry’s highest throughput for a single controller, and supports over 80,000 IOPS.

Configurations are available for up to 25 TB utilizing high-performance SAS drives and up to 84 TB with high-capacity SAS drives. Support for SSD Storage for high performance applications.

Virtual Storage technology, coupled with an intuitive GUI make management a breeze; additionally, all of your integraStor systems can be managed from a single utility. Advanced users can take advantage of a comprehensive CLI and applications requiring integration with the array management frameworks can interface to our array's API.

Whatever you requirements are NavigateStorage, in our 11th year, has a solution for you. Contact us at 978-318-9000 or drop us a line.

Is it time for EMail Archiving? NavigateStorage offers solutions for both Hosted (Cloud) and On-Site. One such solution is Iron Moutains Near Point (recently purchased by Iron Mountain).

Here's a snippet about NearPoint.

Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange has incorporated an innovative data capture approach called Continuous Application Shadowing™ where Exchange log files are captured the instant they are committed to disk and stores them “off-host” on NearPoint. Continuous Application Shadowing is an application-intelligent process that blocks corruption from the backup copy. All email content extracted from the log files is indexed and stored with single-instance storage. Continuous Application Shadowing also captures the complete Exchange mailbox information, including contacts, calendars, personal folders, as well as email stored offline in PST files and all email content found in public folders — a major advantage for eDiscovery and Exchange recovery.

Contact us and we can discuss your specific needs

Windows Management Software

AutoVirt is a software platform for Windows that provides storage management control from a web-based console. Use AutoVirt to automate and expedite:

Data Measurement
Copying
Migration
Replication
Archiving AutoVirt provides:

A solution for managing unstructured Windows file data

A way to extend the native functionality of inexpensive, commodity Windows hardware

Integration with mainframe NAS devices, including NetApp and EMC Celerra

Out-of-band runtime operations, with no client agents

An intelligent client referral service with perpetual support for client UNC names and embedded links.

For more information click here.

Unified Storage

NavigateStorage defines Unified storage as:

A single, integrated storage infrastructure that functions as unification engines to simultaneously support Fibre Channel, IP Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) data formats. Also called network unified storage (NUS).

We represent two offering. One from Reldata and a second from iceWEB.

Give us a call 978-318-9000 or "request more info" from our web pages. Let's discuss you requirements and find the best solution for you.

VIRTUAL ENVIROMENTS with iceWEB

NavigateStorage now offers iceWEB, a virtualized server infrastructure, with a wide range of flexibility and reliability advantages to environments of all sizes, but in order to make the most of the virtual infrastructure, you need shared storage. Features such as live migration of virtual machines require a shared storage pool, but the advantages of using shared storage in a virtual environment run much deeper.

Supporting a virtual server environment with shared storage:
* Simplifies management of the environment
* Provides the data availability required for a virtualized environment
* Enables efficient backup

Centralize storage and VM management tasks ARE EASY with the IceWEB Storage System 5000. The all-inclusive storage management feature set combined with IceWEB's VM Manager -- a unified management console for controlling all storage-related aspects of a virtualized infrastructure for VMware ESX, Citrix Xen, and Microsoft Hyper-V environments – is a perfect complement to your virtual server environment.

Learn more, contact NavigateStorage or call 978-318-9000

IceWEB 5000 HR (Highly Redundant) to Begin Shipping Immediately

NavigateStorage, a 10 year reseller of storage and Ice WEB a provider of Unified Data Storage and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced the newest member of the IceWEB Simply Advanced Family of Storage

Systems: The 5000 HR (Highly Redundant) Storage System.

The IceWEB 5000-HR adds new features and capabilities to the extensive list already provided by the high-performance 5000-HC and 5000-HP systems, including:
• High redundancy provided by clustered controllers and redundant, hot-swap components
• Scalability to 448 Terabytes (TB)
• Support for SATA, SAS and SSD drives
• Unified storage, managing both block and file data in one system
• Plug and Play for fast setup together with an intuitive interface that makes it simple to manage
your storage
• Complete data protection capabilities
• Ability to manage third-party storage from other vendors
• Storage services such as deduplication and WORM
• VMware ready

Jim Addlesberger, President and CEO of NavigateStorage says the HR is a great addition to the existing arrays of HC - High Capacity (SATA) and HP - High Performance (SAS, SSD). Its ability to provide both block and file can mean a real savings to users.

NavigateStorage suggests iStor

We operate today in an extremely data-intensive environment and storage with needed features and VMware certified all at and economical price can be hard to find.

NavigateStorage has just the answer. This solid array can be configured to take advantage of 4 or 8 ports of GbE or the single port of 10GbE host interfaces. Although iS316 targets iSCSI SAN storage environments up to 16TB, customers can deploy multiple boxes per installation. The iS316 provides robust enterprise-level features & unique high-performance at an affordable price. iS316 is the entry level of the integraStor family based on solid, reputable, proven technology for an effective shared storage model. By utilizing Serial ATA disks, the iS316 enables compelling block-based network storage solutions such as primary storage, near line storage, disk-to-disk backup, and DAS replacement, along with high-capacity providing compelling total cost of ownership. Triple-redundant power supplies & fans for a highly reliable storage appliance.

Storage is our speciality. Call us at 978-318-9000, visit us or write us.

NavigateStorage Presents Stonefly's 10Gb IP SAN Storage Solutions

Visit our 10GB information page. Click Here

Or call Jim at NavigateStorage 978-318-9000

iQ-Renegade Multi-Protocol System

NavigateStorage announces a Simple, Intuitive and Affordable iSCSI / NAS Storage.

Contact us at 978-318-9000 or email us.

Affordable and easy to use, the iQ-Renegade is a unified data storage system.
Supporting iSCSI and NAS protocols, the iQ-Renegade provides up to 32TB of
storage capacity in a 3U 16-bay form factor. It's the ideal system for backup,
archive and digital security applications.

Simplifying IT Administration with Multi-Protocol StorageThe iQ-Renegade is a network-based storage system designed to provideheterogeneous access to iSCSI, CIFS, or NFS data sources. This multi-protocolflexibility enables the system to support a broad range of business applications.With the iQ-Renegade, businesses are able to easily support and combine iSCSIand NAS storage requirements into a single physical system.Protecting Business Data with Remote Backup

The iQ-Renegade provides iSCSI local mirror and volume copy features out of thebox. Built-in NAS remote backup is part of the standard offering and allows datafiles to be automatically backed up to another iQ-Renegade system across anydistance thus minimizing disruptions or downtime for critical business operations.Port Bonding and Multi-Path I/O for Flexibility and Reliability

The iQ-Renegade addresses high bandwidth requirement by bonding multipleGigabit Ethernet ports into a single pipe. Multi-path support enhancesperformance and reliability through load balancing, active-passive operation andbest path selection. The multi-path software and redundant physical pathconnections to hosts provide reliability by ensuring applications access to data inthe event of path failure between host server and iQ-Renegade.High Performance RAID for Productivity

The iQ-Renegade uses high performance CPUs for both the iSCSI/NAS engineand for hardware RAID acceleration. The system supports online RAID levelmodification and background drive initialization. Powerful CPUs enable multipletasks to be performed at the same time, greatly reducing system administrationtime and enhancing productivity.

EMail Archiving - Global Relay - New Features

Announcing New Features Message Archiver 6.1

Global Relay, and NavigateStorage are pleased to announce the upcoming March 11, 2010 release of Global Relay Message Archiver & Compliance Reviewer 6.1. This release provides all users with the ability to define large and complex searches faster and with greater accuracy than ever before.New in Version 6.1The Global Relay Message Archiver & Compliance Reviewer 6.1 release tightly integrates user details with the search interface to provide the following new capabilities:•Unified Search on Primary and Alias Addresses: A single search on an individual’s primary or single alias address returns search results for all addresses associated with the individual.

•Address Validation: When entering addresses in a search field, the service is configured to provide users with validated addresses that match the information they have entered. Users can auto-complete their address by selecting one of the primary or alias address options presented.

•AND/OR Address Search: Search relationships between individuals in the FROM and TO/CC/BCC fields may now be defined with an AND or OR relationship. This option enables a single OR search to find all messages belonging to an individual.

•New PST Export Options: PST Export has been expanded to allow Super Reviewers and System Administrators to exclude certain flag states in the PST File Export Service and facilitate the selection of delivery options.


NavigateStorage has specialized in Archiving (Email, Sharepoint, and File) since 2002. Give us a call and let us discuss with you, your needs and our solutions. Call 978-318-9000 or drop us an Email.

Red Condor a closer look at Hosted

Insecure Magazine Issue 23, November 2009

Over the years, email filters became a crucial factor in allowing us to open our in-boxes without cringing. It doesn't matter how careful you are about giving out your email address, it will eventually find itself on spam lists and you'll be subjected to the barrage of worthless and malicious emails that you would rather do without.

Owners of private e-mail addresses hosted on web-based email services usually don't even have to think about filtering - the service probably thought of that. If you work at a big company that has its own IT department, you won't have to think about filtering, but if you own a small business or have a small IT budget and team, you might consider a Software-as-a-Service solution.Red Condor's Hosted Service is a good choice.

It's actually very simple to set up and extremely effective, and will prevent you becoming a target of spam, viruses, phishing schemes, offensive content, and other threats.

It works like this: you redirect your MX records to Red Condor's servers. There the emails are filtered and only the legitimate ones are passed on to your mail server. Real-time knowledge gathered from a worldwide sensor network is used to create heavy-duty filter rules.The filters analyze emails by content, keywords and behavior to separate the wheat from the chaff - so to speak.You don't have to think about software or hardware installation, or even about filter tuning- and in case one of your email servers goes down, Red Condor stores your email for up to 96 hours until your server is brought back online.

Another great feature is outbound mail filtering,so if a PC in your network gets infected and turns into a "zombie", it will prevent the spam-sending activity and notify the administrator immediately.After registering and logging in, you access your account through a simple and very user-friendly web interface/portal.The first step is adding an account. You will be asked to input account information - name and address. Primary contact information is also required, but technical, admin and billing contact information is optional. The person that opens the account is automatically assigned administrator privileges.

NavigateStorage offers Email Archiving and Spam Filtering from Red Condor and others. Contact us at 978-318-9000 or email

StoneFly Storaage

Webinar Overview:

Join us on Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 at 10am PST to learn all about how to save by going "green" when virtualizing servers and storage. We will present an overview of practical measures and planning, so that you can save for today's virtual environments.

During the webinar, you'll learn:
* True green savings that achieved through best practices when virtualizing servers and storage.
* Practical measures and planning to enhance green savings for today's virtual environments.
* Where and why maximum energy savings are obtained in a virtual server environment
* How new virtual storage enhances "green" savings.

Just drop us a note and we will tell you how to join

NavigateStorage 978-3128-9000

What is Kaspersky Business Space Security?

Let NavigateStorage brag about this great product

Provides high-quality protection for corporate information assets from all types of contemporary Internet threats. Kaspersky Business Space Security offers an umbrella of protection to workstations, smartphones, and file servers from all types of computer threats, prevents epidemics of malicious programs, and keeps information secure and fully accessible to users of network resources. The product was expressly designed to meet the increasing demands of servers operating under heavy loads.

We also have Enterprise Space and Total Space which covers everything. We have represented Kaspersky for over 5 years and as a premier partner we can provide all you need at a competitive price. Check us out

Hosted Email and Compliant Archiving

Earlier this week I was contacted by a New York firm that needed Email hosting (POP Account) and SEC Compliant Archiving. I contacted a vendor I sell for and secured 10 user mailboxes and Archive plus Spam Filtering for about $768 a Year!

Let us help you save money and improve operations. Contact us at 978-318-9000 or visit our website and see all that we do. Jim

Windows Management Sooftware

Management software for Windows storage

AutoVirt is a software platform for Windows that provides storage management control from a web-based console. Use AutoVirt to automate and expedite:

Data Measurement
Copying
Migration
Replication
Archiving

AutoVirt provides:

A solution for managing unstructured Windows file data

A way to extend the native functionality of inexpensive, commodity Windows hardware

Integration with mainframe NAS devices, including NetApp and EMC Celerra

Out-of-band runtime operations, with no client agents

An intelligent client referral service with perpetual support for client UNC names and embedded links
Using AutoVirtBy ensuring that users have a consistent point of access to their data, AutoVirt allows IT administrators to automate the movement of data within their Windows storage environments. As administrators move data to where they need it to be – business-critical data to a new device, a replica to a secondary location, last year’s share to Tier 2 storage – clients are automatically redirected to the new location of their data. By eliminating impact on end-users, AutoVirt removes a number of logistical barriers to project execution and frees IT to approach storage management more dynamically. With AutoVirt, IT administrators can design policies to automate data measurement, copying, migration, replication, and archiving. A policy is a series of logical and validation commands defined using a GUI-based wizard. Policies are schedulable and include configurable e-mail alerts and exception handling. How it worksAutoVirt inserts a global namespace to organize networked shares and shield end-users from the back-end logistics of storage management. The namespace eliminates the manual work involved in maintaining client access to networked data: it is the single authority on networked files, and automatically resolves client shortcuts to the new location. With AutoVirt’s global namespace registering all changes to data location, it is possible to automate many storage management tasks – including those that affect data location. The AutoVirt policy engine is responsible for automating data measurement, copying, migration, replication, and archiving.AutoVirt’s namespace and policy engine interact with both clients and networked file servers using the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol.

Visit Autovirt - click here to sign up for a demo.

"The high level of malware detection by Kaspersky Lab products is attained by a combination of signature technology and proactive detection. To ensure that the signature method is effective, an antivirus solution developer has to respond extremely quickly to the outbreak of new malicious code.

Kaspersky Lab’s rapid response times to new threats was confirmed during testing by the AV-Test.org research group for PC World magazine. The test showed that Kaspersky Lab’s response time to the outbreak of new malicious programs was less than two hours, while the nearest competitor reacted to new threats in 2-4 hours.

Average response time to new threats (hours)"The high level of malware detection by Kaspersky Lab products is attained by a combination of signature technology and proactive detection. To ensure that the signature method is effective, an antivirus solution developer has to respond extremely quickly to the outbreak of new malicious code.
Kaspersky Lab’s rapid response times to new threats was confirmed during testing by the AV-Test.org research group for PC World magazine. The test showed that Kaspersky Lab’s response time to the outbreak of new malicious programs was less than two hours, while the nearest competitor reacted to new threats in 2-4 hours.

NavigateStorage is a premier partner. Let us tell you more. Trials and quotes, just call 978-318-9000

Email Archiving Service

Red Condor Archive provides an affordable, ($40/user/year) reliable and secure hosted Email Archiving Service to customers of all sizes to help you meet your compliance, litigation support, storage management or best practice requirements. Red Condor Archive leverages a global cloud computer and storage infrastructure to provide your organization with an extremely scalable, 100% software-free service, at a cost effective price. Red Condor Archive’s data collection technology supports all messaging systems (Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Zimbra, Scalix, IMail Server, Mailtrust, Keiro and many more) making the solution truly future-proof.

Satisfy E-Discovery and Compliance ChallengesRed Condor Archive helps your organization be compliant with archiving regulations for SEC, FINRA, NASD, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and more. With secure capturing and full text indexing of all emails and attachments, compliance requests can be fulfilled quickly and easily. Securely capture, index and store multiple copies of auditable email for easy retrieval through our easy-to-use search and discovery interface. For more on compliance and E-Discovery give us a call. Or visit our website

Offload Message Storage from Mail Server. Tired of an endlessly growing storage problem with your email as your organization grows and time passes? Red Condor Archive can help. Reduce the amount of email on your servers and declutter inboxes with total peace of mind. With Red Condor Archive, you get unlimited storage at no additional cost.

NavigateStorage specializes in Compliant Email, File and SharePoint Archiving. Call us today. 978-318-9000

Expandable storage array SATA, SAS, SSD

StoneFly's OptiSAN Storage Concentrator Configurations have been designed to offer enhanced redundancy, availability and performance. Using high performance fibre channel and SAS interconnects, the redesigned OptiSAN product family is designed for enterprise environments looking for a versatile SAN for primary and secondary storage applications.

With support for SAS, SATA, and TED drives for online transaction processing, database, email, disk based archives, disk to disk backup, virtual servers and other core applications. The cornerstone of the OptiSAN is the Storage Concentrator Storage Virtualization Engine, which offers dual core processing power, dedicated iSCSI Cache, and the award-winning StoneFusion IP SAN platform. Each high-performance storage subsystem offers redundant, active/active RAID controller functionality for enhanced performance and increased system bandwidth. Cost-effective expansion array to scale system capacity and disk spindles.

Contact NavigateStorage 978-318-9000

Hosted email Archiving - Compliant

Global Relay is a leading provider of Hosted Email Archiving, IM Archiving and Business Continuity Services, delivering affordable managed enterprise-class email & IM archiving and monitoring services to over 2,500 customers worldwide. With secure end-to-end encryption, email and IM is securely archived and monitored for regulatory compliance, audits and legal eDiscovery.

As the developer and operator of its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology, Global Relay has provided hosted email archiving solutions since 1999 without a single incident of data loss. Global Relay specializes in messaging compliance solutions for public companies, financial and healthcare industries.

Contact NavigateStorage and read more. Then give us a call 978-318-9000 or write

Email Archiving Compliant

NavigateStorage for customers seeking a robust archiver they should look at our Red Condor offering.

Red Condor Archive provides an affordable, ($40/user/year) reliable and secure hosted Email Archiving Service to customers of all sizes to help you meet your compliance, litigation support, storage management or best practice requirements. Red Condor Archive leverages a global cloud computer and storage infrastructure to provide your organization with an extremely scalable, 100% software-free service, at a cost effective price. Red Condor Archive’s data collection technology supports all messaging systems (Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Zimbra, Scalix, IMail Server, Mailtrust, Keiro and many more) making the solution truly future-proof.


Satisfy E-Discovery and Compliance Challenges. Red Condor Archive helps your organization be compliant with archiving regulations for SEC, FINRA, NASD, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and more. With secure capturing and full text indexing of all emails and attachments, compliance requests can be fulfilled quickly and easily. Securely capture, index and store multiple copies of auditable email for easy retrieval through our easy-to-use search and discovery interface. For more on compliance and E-Discovery give us a call at 978-318-9000 or contact using our website Request Info.

EMAIL Archiving

NavigateStorage has been in the Archiving industry since its inception since 2000. Lately we have added Red Condor to its archiving tool bag and we highly recommend you let us show you why.

Red Condor Archive provides an aff ordable, reliable and secure hosted Email Archiving Service to customers of all sizes to help you meet your compliance, litigation support, storage management or best practice requirements. Red Condor Archive leverages a global cloud computer and storage infrastructure to provide your organization with an extremely scalable, 100% software-free service, at an industry low price point.

Red Condor Archive’s data collection technology supports all messaging systems (Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Zimbra, Scalix, IMail Server, Mailtrust, Keiro and many more)making the solution truly future-proof."

SMB Storage Virtualization

More small and midsize companies are expected to venture into x86 server virtualization this year, and for good business reasons.

They’ve seen how virtualization has helped enterprise companies reduce IT capital and data center energy costs, bring more dynamism to their IT environments and more efficiently meet business needs so that new initiatives get under way more quickly. Tech industry watchers say small and midsize companies may have an even greater opportunity than large enterprises to fully exploit the technology across their infrastructures.

If you are looking for a great storage array to get started inexpensively then come to NavigateStorage. We specialize in storage from the iStor 16TB for under $10,000 to the sky is the limit.

iStor 316 newly announced

Storage

"Why iSTOR Storage?"

We operate today in an extremely data-intensive environment.

The iSTOR iS316 supports up to 16 high performance, high capacity SATA drives and can be configured to take advantage of 4 or 8 ports of GbE or the single port of 10GbE host interfaces. Although iS316 targets iSCSI SAN storage environments up to 16TB, customers can deploy multiple boxes per installation. The iS316 provides robust enterprise-level features & unique high-performance at an affordable price. iS316 is the entry level of the integraStor family based on solid, reputable, proven technology for an effective shared storage model. By utilizing Serial ATA disks, the iS316 enables compelling block-based network storage solutions such as primary storage, near line storage, disk-to-disk backup, and DAS replacement, along with high-capacity providing compelling total cost of ownership. Triple-redundant power supplies & fans for a highly reliable storage appliance.

Email Archive Migration

Email Archive Migration

The decision to move to a new e-mail or archiving service should not be constrained by the risk of losing data. Similarly the need to move users between different locations or archive products (e.g. as a result of a re-location or merger) should not threaten the accessibility or manageability of your corporate data.TransVault™ is a high-performance software application that securely migrates and consolidates e-mail and other related records from one environment to another, ensuring future accessibility - regardless of the chosen archive, messaging platform or storage medium.

Migration is fast and entirely transparent to users, eliminating the risk of downtime and significantly reducing the costs and IT overheads normally associated with moving large amounts of data.TransVault also avoids the costs and inconvenience of maintaining ‘islands of data’, allowing the lifecycle of information to be centrally managed and any e-discovery requests to be conducted against a single data repository.TransVault is the key to ensuring 100% data availability with 100% user transparency, whilst minimizing risks and costs to your business.

A Next-Generation Approach to Email Archiving

NavigateStorage, specializing in Email Aechiving presents:

A Next-Generation Approach to Email Archiving

Existing archiving solutions place heavy burdens on Exchange servers, relying on data capture methods like MAPI crawls and journaling – both of which can increase input/output per second (IOPS) on the Exchange server by up to 50%. Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange incorporates an innovative data capture method called Continuous Application Shadowing™.

Continuous Application Shadowing instantly captures Exchange log files once they are committed to disk and stores them “off-host” on NearPoint. It is an application-intelligent process, which also blocks corruption from the back-up copy. All email content extracted from the log files is indexed and stored with single-instance storage. Furthermore, Continuous Application Shadowing captures complete mailbox information including calendar items, tasks, contacts, and item histories."

AutoVirt

Management software for Windows storage

AutoVirt is a software platform for Windows that provides storage management control from a web-based console. Use AutoVirt to automate and expedite:

Data Measurement
Copying
Migration
Replication
Archiving

Call for trial information and more.

Marathon High Availabilty

What's New in the everRun 5.1.1 Release

The latest release of everRun 5.1.1 now supports virtual machines running the following operating systems: Windows® Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise (32 and 64-bit, SP2); Windows Server 2003 Standard and Enterprise (32-bit and 64-bit); and Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 and 2008. Please note that support for Windows Server 2008 R2 is not included in this release.

In addition, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) system alerts are available as an add-on kit that is compatible with the everRun 5.1.1 release. This kit is available in the Tools and Utilities area of the release at the Marathon customer download site. The SNMP toolkit for everRun VM and 2G provides an alerting mechanism to capture and deliver everRun events to an external monitoring system. It provides notification of device and system failures, state changes, host failovers, etc. The toolkit uses Windows SNMP to capture and transmit system alerts and status.

Contact NavigateStorage for more information.

Data Migration made easy - windows management

Complete your project faster, with minimal downtime

Support pre-migration UNC names in shortcuts and embedded links

AutoVirt facilitates share-by-share migration, which means that there is no need to take an entire device offline during migration. AutoVirt breaks each migration job into share-sized increments. To preserve data integrity, files are held read-only while their parent shares are being migrated. As soon as a share is migrated, full read/write access is restored. The AutoVirt global namespace is updated with the new share location, and clients are automatically redirected to their share. Share-by-share migration drastically reduces downtime, and automatic client referrals eliminate post-project shortcut remapping.

To limit the time that large shares are held read-only, AutoVirt offers a pre-migration synchronization period. The sync period can be scheduled to recur as many times as you like. During the first sync period, AutoVirt copies all un-open files it finds, skipping the rest. Each recurring sync will copy any new files it finds un-open, and will synchronize changes at the source with files that have already been copied to the destination. The synchronization period will be reduced over time, until AutoVirt is syncing only a small number of changes between source and destination.

When you schedule the final migration, the share will be held read-only as final changes are synced from source to destination. When the sync is complete, clients are automatically redirected to the new share location read/write access is restored.

Contact us and let's talk. 978-318-9000

IP SAN from iQstor and NavigateStorage

NavigateStorage specializes in high quality storage and a price performer that will please your boss too!

iQstor’s iQ2850 is a scalable and feature-rich storage system tailored to fit performance and reliability required by today’s demanding applications. iQstor’s iQ2850 IP SAN delivers all the benefits of SANs, including increased storage utilization through storage consolidation, feature-rich managed data protection services and automated provisioning of new storage. iQstor’s iQ2850 is an all-in-one, intelligent, yet cost-effective storage system that enables IT administrators to quickly and cost-effectively optimize storage solutions for changing application and network environments.

iSCSI is Simple and Low CostiSCSI SANs offer a lower cost alternative for organizations that want to consolidate multiple servers to achieve better storage utilization. iSCSI is also inherently less complicated since it does not require specialized host adapters, switches and cables. Business can now use their existing Ethernet infrastructure to implement an IP SAN. With iQ2850, users can transport block data over TCP/IP to and from servers that are dispersed throughout the network and located at a long distance from the storage system.iQ2850 successfully combines the benefits of Ethernet networks with those of networked storage. With the iQ2850, companies can realize all the benefits of a SAN at an affordable price, together with integrated data protection features such as volume manager-based storage virtualization, snapshot, mirroring, remote replication, policy based storage provisioning, capacity expansion, SAN management and remote support.

A Next-Generation Approach to Email Archiving

NavigateStorage has provided Email archiving since 2001 and added Mimosa since 2008. It has been found to be very flexible in meeting the varied needs of our customer.

Existing archiving solutions place heavy burdens on Exchange servers, relying on data capture methods like MAPI crawls and journaling – both of which can increase input/output per second (IOPS) on the Exchange server by up to 50%.

Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange incorporates an innovative data capture method called Continuous Application Shadowing™. Continuous Application Shadowing instantly captures Exchange log files once they are committed to disk and stores them “off-host” on NearPoint. It is an application-intelligent process, which also blocks corruption from the back-up copy. All email content extracted from the log files is indexed and stored with single-instance storage. Furthermore, Continuous Application Shadowing captures complete mailbox information including calendar items, tasks, contacts, and item histories.

NavigateStorage was founded in 1999 specializing in Storage, Backup/Replication for Disaster Recovery and Anti-Virus. Contact us from "more info" button on every webpage or call 978-318-9000 or drop us a line.

Mimosa NearPoint™ Tiered Storage Application:

NavigateSorage recommends Mimosa for on-site archiving

Mimosa NearPoint Tiered Storage provides corporations with the ability to provision storage devices with different costs, response times, throughput, and availability. This application further augments Mimosa’s next-generation archiving platform to give customers even more granular control over IT costs and archive performance. The solution supports retention and on-demand access to large volumes of information with unmatched performance and radically lowers costs. Customers enjoy savings across hardware, software, and IT operations

SharePoint Archiving

NavigateStorage, with 10 years experience, recommends you consider Mimosa NearPoint™ for SharePoint Archiving

Mimosa NearPoint™ provides a holistic solution to managing SharePoint 2007 and 2010 data with integrated archiving, recovery, and eDiscovery. NearPoint is the only SharePoint management product to combine both archiving and recovery while maintaining easy end-user access to information. In addition, Mimosa NearPoint offers the most comprehensive SharePoint data capture available.

* Capture all content types and associated metadata and attachments
* Perform continuous capture via Change Notification, and preserve the relationships between sites and content
* Execute full-text indexing and global, single-instancing on all archived content
* Achieve storage cost savings, as content can then be offloaded from SharePoint while maintaining seamless end-user access via stubbing
* Manage retention and disposition (disposal) of SharePoint content across the archive in accordance to your policies
With comprehensive capture and archiving capabilities also comes the ability to provide robust SharePoint recovery functionality. Mimosa NearPoint allows both fine-grained and coarse-grained recovery.

Lets talk about your requirements and select the best solution for you. NavigateStorage, 978-318-9000

Global Name Spaces

Many organizations have hesitated to insert a global namespace because the conversion is often a laborious, manual process. Most global namespaces, including Microsoft DFS, require UNC names to be changed upon implementation, one at a time.

The AutoVirt global namespace model is different. AutoVirt provides automated namespace creation and support of pre-existing UNC names. During installation, AutoVirt automatically inventories the file server environment to create a complete map. Administrators use this map to designate which file servers will receive client referrals through the global namespace. When a file server is selected for AutoVirt management, the map of its contents – from root to leaf-level folders – is automatically stored in the namespace.

The automated file server inventory makes it possible for AutoVirt to support indefinitely the pre-existing UNC names – even after the file servers they once referenced have crumbled to dust. Contact NavigateStorage to learn more about this great solution.

Migrate Your Windows Data With AutoMove

Migrate Your Windows Data With AutoMove:

Complete your project faster, with minimal downtime

Support pre-migration UNC names in shortcuts and embedded links

If you are planning a migration, instead of dedicating a weekend or impacting think about Autovirt. AutoVirt facilitates share-by-share migration, which means that there is no need to take an entire device offline during migration. AutoVirt breaks each migration job into share-sized increments. To preserve data integrity, files are held read-only while their parent shares are being migrated. As soon as a share is migrated, full read/write access is restored. The AutoVirt global namespace is updated with the new share location, and clients are automatically redirected to their share. Share-by-share migration drastically reduces downtime, and automatic client referrals eliminate post-project shortcut remapping."

To limit the time that large shares are held read-only, AutoVirt offers a pre-migration synchronization period. The sync period can be scheduled to recur as many times as you like. During the first sync period, AutoVirt copies all un-open files it finds, skipping the rest. Each recurring sync will copy any new files it finds un-open, and will synchronize changes at the source with files that have already been copied to the destination. The synchronization period will be reduced over time, until AutoVirt is syncing only a small number of changes between source and destination.

When you schedule the final migration, the share will be held read-only as final changes are synced from source to destination. When the sync is complete, clients are automatically redirected to the new share location read/write access is restored.

Why not learn more? Call NavigateStorage at 1-978-318-9000 or "request more info" on any of our pages in our website or send us an Email. Let's talk benefits of AutoVirt

NavigateStorage since 1999 has focused on Data Protection for you our customers. With our initial beginnings in the Storage Area Network marketplace featuring storage consolidation and heterogeneous front end support we have grown to provide a full range of storage, backup, disaster recovery, archiving and security solutions from our partner vendors. Today our solutions include:

* Storage - High performance primary and cost effective secondary arrays - iSCSI, SATA, Fibre Channel all vendors
* Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs), Tape libraries and best tape media prices in town for new direct from manufacturers
*Email, IM, File and SharePoint Archiving and Retrieval including Legal/Human Resources Discovery
* Security - anti-virus, anti-spam, data leakage solutions
* Network products from Qlogic and Brocade
* High availability, clustering server solutions

By first fully understanding the needs and goals of our customers and then through creative design, our hardware and software solutions deliver high quality, reliable and efficient solutions.NavigateStorage's solutions can help both medium and large enterprise businesses meet their challenges by providing an innovative solution.

Contact us at 978-318-9000 or send us an Email.

Next-Generation Email Archiving

NavigateStorage has specialized in Email Archiving since 2001. In 2008, NavigateStorage added Mimosa Systems to it's solution excellence offerings.

The fast-growing volume of email presents major challenges for all organizations. According to Ferris Research, the average information worker sends over 600 emails in a given week. Many of these emails are either business records or contain valuable corporate knowledge and need to be retained accordingly. Keeping a large volume of email leads to higher storage costs and headaches for IT staff in the form of longer back-up windows. In fact, Osterman Research states, message stores have grown 30% from winter 2007 to winter 2008.

As message stores grow, organizations face challenges with:
* Managing Storage Costs – getting content off expensive production systems
* Timely Recovery Times – reducing recovery point objectives and ever-expanding back-up windows
* Ending Firefights – lowering cost of reactive collection and review
* Mitigating Content-related Risks – ensuring proper usage of content within the organization

If you are considering Email, File or SharePoint archiving. Then contact NavigateStorage from our website, or call 1-978-318-9000 or write.

Mimosa Systems from NavigateStorage

Mimosa Systems NavigateStorage: "Next-Generation Approach to Email Archiving

Existing archiving solutions place heavy burdens on Exchange servers, relying on data capture methods like MAPI crawls and journaling – both of which can increase input/output per second (IOPS) on the Exchange server by up to 50%.

Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange incorporates an innovative data capture method called Continuous Application Shadowing™. Continuous Application Shadowing instantly captures Exchange log files once they are committed to disk and stores them “off-host” on NearPoint. It is an application-intelligent process, which also blocks corruption from the back-up copy. All email content extracted from the log files is indexed and stored with single-instance storage. Furthermore, Continuous Application Shadowing captures complete mailbox information including calendar items, tasks, contacts, and item histories.

Email has proven to be a company's vital asset. If not to be legally required (compliant) then for sure a good company practice.

NavigateStorage has specialised in Email, file and Sharepoint archiving since 2001 with Educom (now Zantaz) and since then Mimosa, Red Condor and Global Relay. Let's discuss your interests i.e. On-Site or Hosted and find the write fit to meet your needs. Request "more info" on or website or write or call 1-978-318-9000.

NavigateStorage's Enterprise Solution for the SMB

The SMB and SME market is insufficiently addressed by existing storage solutions. Enterprise-level systems offer more capability than is necessary and have high initial acquisition costs. iQstor storage solutions are ideal for Storage Administrators at small and mid-sized businesses looking for storage solutions that offer:

* Enterprise class high availability features with no single point of failure
* SAN ready connectivity using Fibre Channel or iSCSI interface
* Server independent SRM software, including storage virtualization, snapshot, copy, capacity management, storage provisioning and remote replication
* Storage capacity from 2TB to over 240TB

iQstor storage solutions consist of hardware building blocks together with software management tools. These building blocks are tightly integrated to provide plug and play functionality as well as management and diagnostic feature sets offering storage administrators and IT managers:
* Storage consolidation through storage virtualization
* Business continuity through remote replication
* Disaster recovery through instantaneous "point-in-time" snapshots

Reduced total cost of Ownership (TCO) through capacity management and automated storage provisioning.

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Nexsan storage from NavigateStorage

NavigateStorage has specialized in Storage since 1999 and Archiving since 2001. If your data is critical, such as Email for compliance then you should know about Assureon from Nexsan.

Assureon from Nexsan gives organizations the ability to keep only one copy of each file stored, regardless of how many users write that file to storage.

Assureon uses single instance store technology, a function of Content Addressed Storage, to identify duplicate files and store only a single copy of a file. This deduplication process is performed automatically with Assureon and is transparent to the user.

By intelligently transferring and storing a single instance of any archived file, Assureon dramatically reduces storage consumption, network bandwidth and overall cost.

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Accelerate NAS environments with Tiered Appliance

FXT Series hardware platforms provide the high-performance storage media that enables Avere tiered NAS appliances to accelerate the performance and reduce the cost of NAS environments. FXT Series hardware platforms are highly reliable and offered in multiple configuration options.

Executive Summary

The storage industry is at an inflection point. High-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) are threatening the dominance of hard disk drives (HDDs), particularly expensive 15k-RPM Fibre Channel (FC) drives, in storage systems. High-capacity, inexpensive serial ATA (SATA) drives have replaced tape as the archive medium of choice. Incumbent storage vendors are struggling to include new storage media in their products, but each candidate replacement medium has particular strengths and weaknesses that existing storage operating systems do not accommodate.

Storage vendors have focused on capacity over performance even as application servers and clients require greater and greater throughput. To keep pace with the demands of your computing infrastructure, you must constantly upgrade to the latest, most expensive generation of NAS servers.

The Avere Systems FXT Series enables you to accelerate the performance of your current NAS infrastructure and lower the costs of NAS acquisition, operation, and expansion. The Avere solution also allows you to use less expensive, lower-performance NAS servers and lower-cost, high-density media such as SATA HDDs to expand your NAS infrastructure, increasing performance and extending the useful lifespan of legacy NAS systems, all while consuming less power, cooling, and rack space than traditional NAS solutions.

Read more at NavigateStorage then let us know you want to know more. Contact us or phone 1-978-318-9000

AutoVirt File Virtualization

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File virtualization software lets you move files across servers without changing or disrupting users. Execute “no-impact” data migration projects, consolidate data to tiered storage, and separate file access from file management.

Use AutoVirt when you are:

* Consolidating file servers
* Implementing new file servers or NAS devices
* Changing storage vendors
* Centralizing data for backup or disaster recovery
* Managing file data across remote offices
* Archiving data no longer in use to lower-tier storage

For all you Storage and Backup/Replication needs, contact NavigateStorage .

iBac 5.0, now offers support for Microsoft Exchange 2010

Idealstor announces that data protection software, iBac 5.0, now offers support for Microsoft Exchange 2010.

We are very excited about this announcement as Exchange 2010 has an option called Recovery Database (RDB) that allows you to recover individual mailboxes or emails without having to do a brick level backup. This means that you can now use our OVS module to backup a live Exchange server and simply backup the information store for a fast and easy to run backup. When that job is done you can then use the RDB to recover mailboxes or emails. This is much faster than traditional Brick Level backup options on the market that require you to go within the information store to backup mailboxes/emails.

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Management Software for Windows

NavigateStorage represents AutoVirt

By ensuring that users have a consistent point of access to their data, AutoVirt allows IT administrators to automate the movement of data within their Windows storage environments.

As administrators move data to where they need it to be – business-critical data to a new device, a replica to a secondary location, last year’s share to Tier 2 storage – clients are automatically redirected to the new location of their data. By eliminating impact on end-users, AutoVirt removes a number of logistical barriers to project execution and frees IT to approach storage management more dynamically. With AutoVirt, IT administrators can design policies to automate data measurement, copying, migration, replication, and archiving. A policy is a series of logical and validation commands defined using a GUI-based wizard. Policies are schedulable and include configurable e-mail alerts and exception handling.

We recommend that you attend a 30 minute demo so you can evaluate all this products capability.

Join us for Live Virtual Product Demo weekly, register by clicking the link
http://web.autovirt.com/demo.html and pick your date.

Data Protection - "Email Archiving Plus "

Red Condor Archive provides an affordable, ($40/user/year) reliable and secure hosted Email Archiving Service to customers of all sizes to help you meet your compliance, litigation support, storage management or best practice requirements. Red Condor Archive leverages a global cloud computer and storage infrastructure to provide your organization with an extremely scalable, 100% software-free service, at a cost effective price. Red Condor Archive’s data collection technology supports all messaging systems (Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Zimbra, Scalix, IMail Server, Mailtrust, Keiro and many more) making the solution truly future-proof.

NavigateStorage with 10 years of experience in Email, File and SharePoint Archiving.