Sunday, December 25, 2011

Cyhbernetics Backup Technical Papers

Backup Technical Papers:
Benefits of Backup Consolidation
Data Deduplication
Data Encryption
The Case of Disk vs. Tape
Media Migration
Tape Virtualization
Using New Technology to Develop Better Practices
3TB Disk Based Virtual Tape Library Backup


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Cybernetics Storage

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Powerful SAN Storage Solutions


Every Cybernetics iSCSI SAN storage solutions, from the entry-level miSAN® D Series SAN storage to the top-of-the-line iSAN® D Series SAN storage, offers exceptional performance and functionality. The popular miSAN® iSCSI SAN storage can store up to 72 TB per module and delivers transfer rates of 500 MB/s and 150,000 IOPS, while iSAN iSCSI SAN storage, also storing up to 32 TB, delivers an impressive 1.2 GB/s throughput – and 400,000 IOPS. Both units can support eight expansion modules for SAN storage capacity of up to 256 TB and both models have the horsepower to handle the most demanding applications.

NavigateStorage has been delivering quality storage since 1999.  We spceialize in all types Sans Unified, CICS/NFS and more. Compare Dell and HP.  Then come to us and save money and win.

Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Yorktown, Virginia, Cybernetics is a privately held corporation specializing in the design and manufacture of high performance disk, tape, and virtual tape storage solutions. Our product line features cutting edge technologies which have been rigorously tested to deliver seamless compatibility and solid reliability, along with innovative – and exclusive – features that provide greater functionality, data accessibility, and return on investment than any other storage solutions provider can match. Our support is second to none with top-notch technical sales and engineering staff members, who are firmly committed to our customers' satisfaction. Our dedication to high quality products, backed by the best in support in the industry, has made Cybernetics the widely recognized leader in the data storage industry.


Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Amplidata BitSpread still allow to reduce the storage TCO drastically

Hello!

We are getting close to the end of this year's fall, so we thought this would be a good time to summarize our most important news.
High disk prices = lower disk TCO 

Industry watchers expect disk prices to be kept artificially high through 2012. With this action, disk manufacturers want to make up for the losses they have suffered from the recent flood in Thailand, which destroyed much of the manufacturing plants.

For Amplidata this situation perfectly illustrates the need to optimize big data storage infrastructures: typical cloud storage systems that store 3 copies of data to ensure data availability are in normal times far too expensive in terms of raw capacity that is required. These systems typically need 300% of raw disk storage capacity compared to the actual volume data that needs to be stored. As Amplidata does not copy data – but uses very smart erasure coding technology – it only requires about 60% overhead to provider even higher availability.

For Amplidata’s CEO Wim De Wispelaere, companies should not see this event as a problem for their storage budget as  newer technologies such as Amplidata BitSpread still allow to reduce the storage TCO drastically. “Even if disk prices are 80% more expensive now, we can still reduce your 2012 overall storage TCO compared to the 2011 numbers.”

Contact us at NavigateStorage for this new product or call at 978-318-9000

Thursday, December 8, 2011

IceWEB 6500 High-Availability Cluster Storage Platform - Unified

IceWEB 6500 High-Availability Cluster Storage Platformage Platform.


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With dual, multiprocessor controllers, redundant nodes,
shared storage and no single-point of failure,
the Model 6500 Cluster:

  • Protects against hardware and network failures; eliminates unplanned downtime for storage hardware and software upgrades; and minimizes change management time by automatically mirroring configuration changes. Data accuracy is ensured through checksum technology, RAID and replication policies.
  • Delivers performance: as each of its four, multi-core 2.93 Gigahertz processors has 12MB of cache and 96GB of memory expandable to 192GB. The Model 6500 Cluster also comes with four 200GB SSDs and its L2ARC and ZIL hybrid array technologies accelerate IOPS.
The Model 6500 Cluster utilizes storage volume sharing and its dual, multiprocessor storage controllers monitor each other for failures-with heartbeats, network monitoring and fencing. Neither controller is specifically designated to be the primary or secondary controller. Both can be actively managing shared storage, although any given volume is owned by one controller at any time.

The combination of dual multiprocessor controllers, clustering, CRC and the use of hybrid-storage pool SSD caching makes the Model 6500 Cluster for performance, I/O intensive applications and for high-availability mission-critical applications.
"We're seeing an exploding market for faster, larger, fail-safe unified storage platforms from customers with critical business data and challenging workloads," said Tim McNamee , IceWEB VP of Sales. "The Model 6500 Cluster is designed to handle these demanding workloads, with zero unplanned downtime and nearly unlimited scalability."

With prices starting at under $45,000, the Model 6500 is available.

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

IceWEB Unified Solutions

iceWeb 3000, 5000 and 6000


High capacity unified storage for your data center or remote site.


Simplify the management of your environment with an all-inclusive storage system that lets you store both block and file data on one enterprise-class platform. The IceWEB Storage System 5000-HC supports multiple inter-connects and SATA drives, with the features and price point that make it a perfect fit for both data center and disaster recovery sites.

It’s Simple.


Setup wizards allow you to provision storage in as little as 15 minutes, and the intuitive interface simplifies the use of the sophisticated storage management capabilities.

The IceWEB Storage System 5000 stores all your data:

  • Microsoft Exchange
  • SQL Server and Oracle databases
  • Virtualized environments
  • Scanned images
  • Files
  • Video
  • Pictures
  • Graphics
  • Voice

IceWEB is the simply advanced storage system providing high-performance, scalable, unified storage with all-inclusive management features such as volume provisioning, snapshots, de-duplication, data replication, and VMware integration. In other words, it solves your problems.

It’s Simple.


  • No need to choose between SAN or NAS – customers can have their cake and eat it too, at an affordable price point
  • Installs in minutes
  • Everything’s included – simple to sell, configure and quote

It’s Affordable.

  • Priced for the economic climate of today

iceWEB Now comes in six models.


The 5000-HC (High Capacity) scales from 8TB to 48TB using SATA/SAS drives. The 5000-HP (High performance) scales from 4.8TB to 19.2TB using SAS/SSD drives. And the 5000-HR (Highly Redundant) scales up tp 14 shelves of SSD/SAS/SATA. And the 3000-HC, 3000-HP and the 6000-HR.

Learn more about the IceWEB Storage System:


More about IceWEB efficiences


It’s Advanced.


You get complete data protection capabilities:

  • Hot-pluggable drives and power supplies
  • Built-in support for RAID-Z (RAID-5), RAID-Z2 (RAID-6), and RAID-Z3 (triple parity)
  • Complete 128-bit file system for NFS and CIFS
  • Automatic error correction to ensure data integrity
  • Integrated block-level data de-duplication
  • Unlimited snapshots simplifies development and optimizes backup
  • Thin provisioning optimizes utilization
  • Local or remote, real-time or scheduled replication
  • Capacity and utilization reporting

You also get heterogeneous storage pooling, allowing you to manage third-party storage from other vendors. Reclaim stranded storage by moving older or less functional disk underneath IceWEB to unify management. Plus, the IceWEB Storage System 5000-HC is VMware Ready, letting you centralize storage and VM management tasks.

It’s Affordable.

Now take a peek at all we have.  Unified plus...NavigateStorage or call 978-318-9000




Saturday, December 3, 2011

Virtual Tape Library Disk Based Network Backup and Disaster Recovery

miSAN® V Series and iSAN® V Series
High Performance Disk Based Virtual Tape Library Solutions for Backup and Disaster Recovery


A Cybernetics Virtual Tape Library disk based network backup solution is ideal for IT professionals confronted with the task of implementing and managing centralized, shared backup and archival capabilities.

Through the use of onboard Ethernet connections and the iSCSI protocol, it is now possible to install a virtual tape library disk based backup device at one location to serve as the backup target for multiple heterogeneous hosts spread across a building or at multiple sites. 

Independent Cybernetics virtual tape library disk based network backup solutions installed at remote locations can even serve as off-site backup for each other. Cybernetics virtual tape library network backup solutions offer the flexibility to define multiple virtual tape backup drives and libraries within one central backup solution, making them visible to hosts across the network for direct access to dedicated, independent virtual tape library backup systems. For example, it is possible to define multiple virtual tape library solutions, each with its’ own virtual tape drive, and simultaneously backup to these virtual devices from multiple independent hosts.

With the capability of Cybernetics' iClient to make practically any host iSCSI compliant, it is possible to share the virtual library disk based backup among many heterogeneous hosts. The need to maintain multiple physical tape backup drives of varying formats is completely eradicate.

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Compression Module to Address the Explosive Growth Demands of Unstructured Data


Compression Module to Address the Explosive Growth Demands of Unstructured Data for

Cloud Computing, Social Media and Mobile Apps
IceWEB, Inc.™ (OTCBB: IWEB), a leading provider of Unified Data Storage and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today that all IceWEB Storage platforms now include IceWEB Level 10 (L10) compression for enterprise data. IceWEB customers can now choose between 10 levels of compression based on performance and capacity needs. This feature coupled with our De-duplication, thin provisioning and linked clone technology makes IceWEB a leader in storage efficiency technology.


More than 15 petabytes of new data is being created every day (Computerworld, 1/29/2011) and most of this new data is not the structured database records of yesteryear. Instead it’s unstructured web pages, digitized images, graphics, maps, CAD, and multi-media voice and video. In fact, IDC reports that 80 percent of new enterprise data today is unstructured. “With the explosive growth of computer storage being experienced by most companies, IT organizations are looking for ways to provide the storage capacity their applications need without having to endlessly purchase more and more hardware,” said John R. Signorello, IceWEB CEO. “The IceWEB Storage System offers an innovative collection of ‘storage efficiency’  technologies that together dramatically reduce your physical storage requirements while still giving your servers, applications and users the capacity and performance they need. Our customers asked us to compress unstructured data. L10 meets those demands.”

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Virtual Environments


A virtualized server infrastructure offers 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 with the IceWEB Storage System. 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. VM Manager simplifies day-to-day operations by centralizing all the following storage functions:

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Virtual Machine templating
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Virtual storage relocation (migration)
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Database Storage - Unified

Databases are at the core of many of the services that run a business, from online transaction systems to back-end inventory. The storage behind the database is critical to ensuring good performance and data availability.

The IceWEB Storage System offers a number of features that make it ideal to support your block data:
  • Drive Flexibility: Choose from SAS or SSD drives, depending on your performance requirements.
  • Inter-connect Flexibility: Choose iSCSI or Fibre Channel, whichever fits in your environment.
  • Centralized Management: Centralize the management of all your block data, as well as your file data, to avoid the complexities of managing storage directly attached to your servers.
  • Scalability: Reduce the amount of downtime required to add disk, plus gain the ability to scale up to 480 TBs using affordable disk enclosures.
  • Efficient Backup: Move to a centralized, unified storage solution such as the IceWEB Storage System to take advantage of unlimited snapshots and cloning, which can then be backed up without impacting the database servers.
  • Disaster Recovery: Take advantage of local or remote, real-time or scheduled replication to simplify the process of moving your data to another facility for safekeeping.
  • Complete Data Protection: Rest easy with hot-pluggable drives and power supplies, built-in support for RAID-Z (RAID-5), RAID-Z2 (RAID-6), & RAID-Z3 (triple parity), automatic error correction to ensure data integrity, and integrated block-level data de-duplication to optimize your storage utilization.
NavigateStorage  -  unified storage, give us a call at 978-318-9000

Microsoft Exchange Storage

It’s well documented that the amount of storage required for email continues to skyrocket, and the business critical nature of email only continues to increase. In addition, many industries have stringent requirements around email retention.

The IceWEB Storage System offers a number of features that make it ideal for the specific requirements of Microsoft Exchange Server environments:

  • Centralized Management: Centralize your storage in a shared pool to avoid the complexities of managing storage directly attached to your servers.
  • Scalability: Reduce the amount of downtime required to add capacity, plus gain the ability to scale up to 480 TBs using affordable disk enclosures.
  • Efficient Backup: Move to a centralized, unified storage solution such as the IceWEB Storage System to take advantage of unlimited snapshots and cloning, which can then be backed up without impacting the Exchange servers.
  • Disaster Recovery: Take advantage of local or remote, real-time or scheduled replication to simplify the process of moving your data to another facility for safekeeping.
  • Complete Data Protection: Rest easy with hot-pluggable drives and power supplies, built-in support for RAID-Z (RAID-5), RAID-Z2 (RAID-6), & RAID-Z3 (triple parity), automatic error correction to ensure data integrity, and integrated block-level data de-duplication to optimize your storage utilization.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011

IceWEB Storage System

This high-performance unified storage system offers one platform for file and block data of all kinds, is easy to install, and provides built-in, all-inclusive storage management features.
All IceWEB Storage System configurations offer in-line data de-duplication, compression and thin provisioning for unparalleled storage efficiency rates. In addition, the IceWEB systems include unlimited snapshots, clones, asynchronous and synchronous replication, a built-in integrated management module for VMware, and a host of other features, all included for no extra charge in the base product.
Read more about iceWEB and then let us answer all your questions.  NavigateStorage tells yor more about 11 year old company.  Why not give us a call 978-318-9000

Friday, November 18, 2011

Mimosa E-Mail Archiver and Autonomy and EOL

Mimosa NearPoint Customers

With its recent acquisition by Hewlett Packard, the Mimosa NearPoint solution is now on its third parent company in the past 2 years. Since 2010, via a number of acquisitions, Mimosa Systems has been owned by Iron Mountain, Autonomy, and most recently HP- a company with an existing archiving solution. As a result, NearPoint customers have raised questions about whether their ongoing needs can still be met, and if there are viable alternative archiving solutions.
 
We invite NearPoint customers to consider alternatives. Today we joined an E-Mail Archiving webcast from HP/Mimosa (now to be renamed ACA by HP) and Mimosa will be EOLed (End of Life) in about 1 year.

We strongly urge you to call NavigateStorage an ex-Educomm, ex-Zantaze partner, ex-Mimosa partner.  Over the last 9 years we have partnered with all of them successfully but ACA from HP/Autonomy is a whole new ball of wax.

NavigateStorage at 978-318-9000 and talk to us.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Flooding in Thailand Impact on Disk Drives

Due to flooding in Thailand, predicts IDC
Widespread flooding is bringing unprecedented devastation to the people and economy of Thailand. With operations disrupted at more than a dozen HDD factories, damage to the HDD industry is significant.

And this will have a direct impact on worldwide PC shipments through the first half of 2012, according to a new International Data Corporation report.

In the first half of 2011, Thailand accounted for 40-45% of worldwide HDD production. As of early November, nearly half of this capacity was directly impacted by the flooding. In addition to assembly and component facilities being inundated with water, the industry faces work stoppages due to poor access and power outages. The full extent of the damage to HDD industry factories will not be known until the floodwaters recede, although it's already clear that there will be HDD supply shortages into the first quarter of 2012.

The severity of HDD shortages in the coming months largely depends on the industry's ability to recover lost production capacity in Thailand. While IDC believes HDD industry participants will recover and restore HDD production capacity relatively quickly, HDD supply will remain constrained for an extended period of time.

As a result, PC vendors should plan
for and expect the following:
  • Significant HDD shortages by mid-November 2011 that will continue into 1Q 2012.
  • A large part of PC production for Q4 2011 shipment has already taken place or can be completed with existing HDD inventories, limiting the impact on Q4 PC shipments to less than 10%. But in a worst-case scenario, total PC shipments could be depressed by more than 20% in Q1 2012 vs. previous forecasts as a result of the HDD shortage.
  • Higher HDD prices as demand exceeds supply and manufacturers face increased costs for components, expedited shipments, and shifting of production to new locations.
  • The HDD industry begins to recover in 1Q 2012, and HDD pricing stabilizes by June, with the industry running close to normal in the second half of 2012.
  • Opportunities for larger PC vendors to capture enterprise accounts from smaller competitors and accelerate industry consolidation, particularly in faster growth markets.
NavigateStorage specializes in storage and HDD.  Think about your needs and let's talk.  Call 978-318-9000

Friday, November 11, 2011

DATA Backup - up to 40TB - Easy to use

SIRIS has five major new features that allow it to stand apart from the competition:
Instant Off-Site Virtualization - An Industry First Feature!
Screenshot Verification of Backups - An Industry First Feature!
Instant Local Virtualization
Fully Managed Through One Simple Web Interface
Ideal Sandbox Environment for Testing

Additional Features
Up to 40TB on- and off-site backup
Five minute setup
Certificate-based authentication
Powerful scheduling
Enhanced security
Detailed reporting
Improved data deduplication
Multiple domain support
Automatic retry/repair of failed backups
Lower CPU overhead
Disk I/O scheduling
3-year hardware warranty

Read more, watch a recorded demo then visit NavigateStorage and request pricing.  Or call 978-318-9000

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

NEC's SAN Storage arrays



NEC's SAN Storage arrays provide highly available and easily scalable storage for your SAN without sacrificing performance and flexibility. They include high-end features you won't find on other mid-range arrays, but at a lower cost than other systems. NEC also has a complete array of management suites for businesses of all sizes that includes snapshots, replication, performance management, multipathing, failover, compliance, energy conservation, and more.


NEC - M100 Disk Array


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Features and Benefits
  • Support for 2.5" and 3.5" drives
  • 3 to 96 mounted drives
  • 10k, 15k, and 7200 RPM SAS drives available
  • SSD/SAS/NLSAS 96HDD
  • 8Gb on board Cache capacity
  • 4 or 8 ports 8Gbps Fibre Channel connectivity
  • 4 ports 10Gbps iSCSI connectivity
  • 8 ports 6Gbps SAS connectivity
  • Windows, Linux, Wmware support
  • Intel-based architecture
  • Energy savings benefits (MAID)
  • Thin provisioning, replication, snapshots, performance suite
M100 SAN Storage Array

NEC's M-Series Storage Disk Arrays for SAN and NAS applications is the perfect balance of performance, affordability and functionality. Setup can be accomplished in 15 minutes or less. User-friendly GUI makes storage management and data handling easy. An advanced power-saving design slashes power consumption. Thin provisioning enables ideal capacity distribution in a virtual environment. Plus the M-Series delivers so much more…

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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Quantum Introduces Cost-Effective, Complete Deduplication Solutions for Small Business Data Protection

Quantum Introduces Cost-Effective, Complete Deduplication Solutions for Small Business Data Protection
$5,000 NAS Appliance and RDX Removable Disk Library Reduce Data Storage by up to 90% and Provide Remote Replication and Multi-Disaster Recovery Options

SAN JOSE, CA, Oct 24, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM), a proven global expert in data protection and big data management, today announced two new solutions that bring data deduplication and disaster recovery solutions to small businesses at an affordable price. The Quantum NDX-8 NAS appliance delivers 8 TB of NAS storage with built-in backup software and deduplication technology, enabling businesses to reduce storage requirements by up to 90 percent and significantly reduce network traffic. Quantum also announced the RDX 8000 removable disk library with 8 TB of capacity. For offsite disaster recovery protection, the NDX can replicate data to a second NDX appliance or move data offsite with the RDX 8000. Both products are also forward compatible with future cloud backup services. Customers benefit by having a single vendor in Quantum that provides all hardware, software and support for the entire backup and disaster recovery solution set.

"Customers tell us that data protection for small businesses and workgroups is overly complex," said Rob Clark, senior vice president, Disk and Tape Data Protection Group, Quantum. "Quantum's new NDX appliances and RDX libraries provide a total data protection solution that is affordable to implement and simple to use. Along with our DXi deduplication systems, this expansion of our portfolio enables us to offer best-in-class disk-based technology solutions that address an even broader range of customer data protection needs."

NavigateStorage offers well priced backup with array with 8TB of disk.  Deduplication enables 90% offers up to 50TB-60TB of backup and maybe more.

Friday, November 4, 2011

StoneFly With Tarmin - delivers USS Archiver Appliance

StoneFly With Tarmin

For Archiver appliance

StoneFly, Inc., supplier of integrated IP SAN systems has joined with storage innovator, Tarmin, Inc. to deliver the StoneFly USS Archiver Appliance.

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A solution for the long-term management of unstructured data, the Archiver lowers data storage costs while addressing key data management considerations, including, accessibility, security and compliance.

Featuring an object-based storage framework with rich Metadata management, policy-driven automation and native support for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint, the Archiver is a solution to a number of requirements.

"Delivering quality turnkey storage solutions is the core of StoneFly," says StoneFly President and CEO, Mo Tahmasebi. "By creating this innovative solution with Tarmin, we are able to offer our market with a sophisticated yet easily manageable enterprise class archiving solution."

"We have built our solution to directly address key challenges and business requirements surrounding the long term management and preservation of significant volumes of unstructured information," said Shahbaz Ali, CEO of Tarmin, Inc. "The Archiver delivers new levels of control and value via our next generation cloud ready architecture. We are pleased to be working with StoneFly and look forward to delivering sustaining value to our channel partners and end-users worldwide."
 
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Thursday, November 3, 2011

ExaGrid De-Dupe Disk Backup Supporting Tivoli Storage Manager


To reduce dependence on tape
ExaGrid Systems, Inc. announced support for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).

The combination of ExaGrid's disk-based backup with deduplication appliance with TSM enables customers to eliminate the overhead of tape management in TSM environments as well as shrink their backup windows, improve recovery times, and cost effectively protect more data on secure, reliable disk.

Using ExaGrid, TSM customers are now able to deploy an ExaGrid disk-based appliance in a TSM backup environment, reducing their dependence on tape and also freeing up expensive disk previously used for backup that can be used for primary storage. TSM customers will also benefit from ExaGrid's GRID scalability to maintain backup performance as data grows over time.
 
NavigateStorage offers Exagrid at great prices.
 

IceWEB Storage Platforms Now Include Compression

IceWEB Storage Platforms Now Include Compression

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

SnapServer DX2 is a high performance, scalable NAS server

The SnapServer DX2 is a high performance, scalable NAS server; and the first storage system in its space that you do not have to provision. With DynamicRAID, hard drives can be added or replaced at any time to grow existing storage pools. Volumes grow automatically as drives are added, simplifying the management and reducing the time required to adapt to changing storage requirements.

Ideal for storing both block and file data. This 2U 12-bay SnapServer DX2 storage array supports up to 12 SATA or SAS hard drives and integrates out of the box with Windows, Linux, UNIX and Macintosh environments. Consolidate multiple servers into the SnapServer using the data import tool, or host virtual servers and database applications utilizing the iSCSI SAN feature. The DX2 supports Microsoft VSS/VDS integration to simplify management and ensure application consistent snapshots. For data protection, the DX2 has the ability to replicate to one or multiple SnapServers, take snapshots for point-in-time recovery, and perform backups to disk, VTL, or tape.
With the ability to scale up to 288TB with seven SnapExpansion chassis, the SnapServer DX2 enables you to create a customized storage server with simple management and advanced features for any business environment.

Note:  There is also a DX1....

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

CyberDisk from NavigateStorage

Building a powerful, easily adaptable, storage data center just got affordable.
Finally, a reliable, affordable and modular network storage solution that connects to any Ethernet network and provides consolidated network storage resources for modern operating systems and applications. Designed to deliver the iSCSI storage revolution to small businesses and home offices for a price starting at less than $3,500.

Adding Network Disk Storage Has Never Been This Easy.

Quickly connect CyberDisk™ to your existing ethernet network and create Virtual Disk Storage for any computer on the network. CyberDisk™ makes computer hard drive upgrades a thing of the past. No more moving data from an old hard drive to a new one, CyberDisk™ appears as a local hard drive to workspaces.


Powerful features maximize performance and consolidate storage resources.

CyberDisk™ delivers instantaneous and automatic data protection and is packed with powerful features that maximize utilization through storage resource consolidation. Your data is safe and accessible, with layers of protection against all types of threats to data, including snapshot backup, LUN cloning to portable disk backup, IP Constraints, and more, all through an intuitive iSCSI SAN Management Interface.

Engineered For Growth

No matter what your future storage needs will be, CyberDisk™ is the affordable storage solution that can grow with you. When you begin to reach the solutions capacity, simply add an expansion. Each Base Module can accommodate up to two  two expansion modules. Start with as little as 5 TB and expand up to 45 TB of virtual shared storage as needed.
 
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IceWEB 3000-HC provides high-density commercial storage for business

The IceWEB 3000-HC provides high-density commercial storage for business applications. The 3000-HC is designed to deliver the most capacity per dollar of any contemporary storage array. Using the latest 1 and 2 TB enterprise SATA disk drives, the 3000-HC delivers up to 12TB within a single 2u appliance, and with disk shelves can scale to over 480TB.

The IceWEB Storage System 3000-HC system includes all the storage management features required for today’s virtualized application infrastructure, without all the complexity and cost. All configurations offer a powerful combination of in-line data de-duplication, compression and thin provisioning for unparalleled storage efficiency rates. In addition, the IceWEB systems include unlimited snapshots, clones, asynchronous and synchronous replication, and a host of other features, all included for no extra charge in the base product.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

High-performance unified storage system from IceWEB offers one platform for file and block data of all kinds

This high-performance unified storage system offers one platform for file and block data of all kinds, is easy to install, and provides built-in, all-inclusive storage management features.

All IceWEB Storage System configurations offer in-line data de-duplication, compression and thin provisioning for unparalleled storage efficiency rates. In addition, the IceWEB systems include unlimited snapshots, clones, asynchronous and synchronous replication, a built-in integrated management module for VMware, and a host of other features, all included for no extra charge in the base product.
The IceWEB Storage System offers end-to-end data integrity, along with multiple inter-connects and drive types, letting you choose the performance and reliability that’s right for your environment. Scale the storage system up to 480 TBs with excellent performance and availability.

You get all this functionality at an affordable price, and storage capacity that scales with disk shelves rather than expensive controllers. Plus, the IceWEB Storage System is backed by a customer-focused company that’s nimble and ready to make your installation a success.

Simple. Advanced. Affordable. Learn more about the IceWEB Storage System:
3000-HC - High capacity unified storage for your data center and remote site
3000-HP - High performance unified storage for your data center
5000-HC - High capacity fibre channel and 10GbE unified storage
5000-HP - High performance fibre channel and 10GbE unified storage
5000-HR - Highly redundant unified storage for your data center or remote site
6000-HR - Highly Redundant for your Mission Critical Data
IceWEB Storage System

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The IceWEB Storage System is a feature-rich storage solution

The IceWEB Storage System is a feature-rich storage solution that will simplify the management of your storage environment. Read on to see what we mean.

It’s Simple.

The IceWEB Storage System is an all-inclusive storage system that lets you store both block and file data, simplifying your environment by consolidating management onto one platform. It’s also highly automated. Setup wizards allow you to provision storage in as little as 15 minutes and the intuitive interface simplifies the use of its sophisticated storage management capabilities.

It's Safe.

All IceWEB Storage System configurations offer a complete set of availability and reliability features:
  • Hot-pluggable drives and power supplies
  • Built-in support for RAID-Z (RAID-5), RAID-Z2 (RAID-6), and RAID-Z3 (triple parity)
  • Volume replication, automatic error correction and background data scrubbing to ensure data integrity
  • Optional clustered controller units ensure no single point of failure within the storage subsystem

It's Advanced.

All IceWEB Storage System configurations offer a complete set of storage management features including in-line de-duplication, compression and thin provisioning for unparalleled storage efficiency rates. This combination of technologies dramatically reduces your physical storage requirements compared to other systems. In some cases, efficiency rates can approach 90 percent. With the purchase of only 10TBs of storage, you have access to 100TBs of capacity. That’s outstanding value in terms of dollar per usable terabyte, and a dramatic reduction in power consumption and footprint for your storage environment.
In addition, the IceWEB systems include unlimited snapshots, clones, asynchronous and synchronous replication, and a host of other features, all included for no extra charge in the standard product.

It's Powerful.

The IceWEB Storage System features a 128-bit file system, meaning there are no hard-coded limits on the number of objects you can scale to (such as LUNs, volumes, files, or disk drives), limitations that you typically find in more traditional arrays using 64-bit systems.

It's Affordable.

We challenge you to find a more capable platform for the price. The IceWEB Storage System combines the right mix of functionality with the service and support you get from a nimble, customer-oriented company.

It's Hypervisor Ready.

To make the most of your virtual server environment, create storage pools with the IceWEB Storage System. You can manage a storage pool against a set of virtual machines, easily managing both iSCSI volume and file shares used by virtual servers. IceWEB supports VMware, Citrix and Microsoft Hyper-V, and is compatible with VMware SRM and Citrix StorageLink for use with disaster recovery (DR) environments.

For more informatiom go to NavigateStorage or call 978-318-9000

Customers Experiencing up to an 80X Performance Increase with SSD


ICEWEB MODEL 6000 UNIFIED STORAGE SYSTEMS NOW INCLUDE SOLID

STATE DRIVES (SSD) AT NO EXTRA CHARGE

Customers Experiencing up to an 80X Performance Increase with SSD

STERLING, Va. – (PR NEWSWIRE) – September 14, 2011

– IceWEB, Inc.™ (OTCBB: IWEB), www.IceWEB.com, a leading provider of Unified Data Storage and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today it is adding, at no extra charge, two 100GB Solid State Drives to all IceWEB Model 6000 Storage Systems purchased between now and October 31, 2011.


The SSD can be combined with any other drive types (SAS or SATA) within the array. IceWEB’s Unified Storage systems are able to fully exploit SSD using two major implementation methodologies:

1.  Using the SSD drive to create a large read/write cache in a Hybrid storage pool model.
2.  Creating dedicated SSD data volumes.


“An IceWEB Model 6000 with SSD is ideal for I/O intensive applications,” said Ed Kraus, IceWEB VP of Operations. “With the ability to mix and match drives, an IceWEB 6000 with SSD can accommodate any performance need in today’s virtualized environments. In addition, 10Gb Ethernet and 8Gb Fibre Channel can be added to any of our IceWEB Unified Storage Systems for even greater performance optimization.”

The IceWEB Model 6000 with two free SSD drives is immediately available through For more information, please visit http://www.navigatestorage.com/iceweb.html. Or call 978-318-9000.

Compression Module to Address the Explosive Growth Demands of Unstructured Data


Compression Module to Address the Explosive Growth Demands of Unstructured Data for

Cloud Computing, Social Media and Mobile Apps

STERLING, Va. – (MARKET WIRE) – October 20, 2011

– IceWEB, Inc.™ (OTCBB: IWEB), www.IceWEB.com, a leading


provider of Unified Data Storage and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today that all IceWEB Storage platforms now include IceWEB Level 10 (L10) compression for enterprise data. IceWEB customers can now choose between 10
levels of compression based on performance and capacity needs.

This feature coupled with our De-duplication, thin provisioning and linked clone technology makes IceWEB a leader in storage efficiency technology. More than 15 petabytes of new data is being created every day (Computerworld, 1/29/2011) and most of this new data is not the structured database records of yesteryear. Instead it’s unstructured web pages, digitized images, graphics, maps, CAD, and multi-media voice and video.

In fact, IDC reports that 80 percent of new enterprise data today is unstructured. “With the explosive growth of computer storage being experienced by most companies, IT organizations are looking for ways to provide the storage capacity their applications need without having to endlessly purchase more and more hardware,” said John R. Signorello, IceWEB CEO. “The IceWEB Storage System offers an innovative collection of ‘storage efficiency’ technologies that together dramatically reduce your physical storage requirements while still giving your servers, applications and users the capacity and performance they need. Our customers asked us to compress unstructured data. L10 meets those demands.”

Please visit NavigateStorage or call 978-318-9000 for more inforation.
http://www.navigatestorage.com/iceweb.html
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Saturday, October 22, 2011

SIRIS provides true business continuity, eliminating downtime.

SIRIS provides true business continuity, eliminating downtime.

When your servers go down, SIRIS can have you up and running in seconds with Instant Virtualization. This product was specifically engineered to save MSPs and VARs valuable time and money. SIRIS was designed with ease of use in mind (it can be setup and backing up machines in under 5 minutes) and is competitively priced.

In addition to instant on-site virtualization, SIRIS also offers instant off-site virtualization in Datto's Secure Cloud. Even if your on-site SIRIS Hardware gets washed away, SIRIS can provide instant VMs from the cloud ensuring that your business never misses a beat. You never have to worry about Security with Datto because all data is encrypted and sent to two bicoastal SAS70 Type II certified Data Centers with biometric authentication.

SIRIS has five major new features that allow it to stand apart from the competition:

  1. Instant Off-Site Virtualization - An Industry First Feature!
  2. Screenshot Verification of Backups - An Industry First Feature!
  3. Instant Local Virtualization
  4. Fully Managed Through One Simple Web Interface
  5. Ideal Sandbox Environment for Testing
Drop us an E-Mail or call 978-318-9000.  NavigateStorage

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

All IceWEB storage systems include -

All IceWEB Storage System configurations offer a complete set of availability and reliability features:
  • Hot-pluggable drives and power supplies
  • Built-in support for RAID-Z (RAID-5), RAID-Z2 (RAID-6), and RAID-Z3 (triple parity)
  • Volume replication, automatic error correction and background data scrubbing to ensure data integrity
  • Optional clustered controller units ensure no single point of failure within the storage subsystem

It's Advanced.

All IceWEB Storage System configurations offer a complete set of storage management features including in-line de-duplication, compression and thin provisioning for unparalleled storage efficiency rates. This combination of technologies dramatically reduces your physical storage requirements compared to other systems. In some cases, efficiency rates can approach 90 percent. With the purchase of only 10TBs of storage, you have access to 100TBs of capacity. That’s outstanding value in terms of dollar per usable terabyte, and a dramatic reduction in power consumption and footprint for your storage environment.

In addition, the IceWEB systems include unlimited snapshots, clones, asynchronous and synchronous replication, and a host of other features, all included for no extra charge in the standard product.

It's Powerful.

The IceWEB Storage System features a 128-bit file system, meaning there are no hard-coded limits on the number of objects you can scale to (such as LUNs, volumes, files, or disk drives), limitations that you typically find in more traditional arrays using 64-bit systems.

It's Affordable.

We challenge you to find a more capable platform for the price. The IceWEB Storage System combines the right mix of functionality with the service and support you get from a nimble, customer-oriented company.

It's Hypervisor Ready.

To make the most of your virtual server environment, create storage pools with the IceWEB Storage System. You can manage a storage pool against a set of virtual machines, easily managing both iSCSI volume and file shares used by virtual servers. IceWEB supports VMware, Citrix and Microsoft Hyper-V, and is compatible with VMware SRM and Citrix StorageLink for use with disaster recovery (DR)
environments.

NavigateStorage offers IceWEB Storage Systems

Monday, October 17, 2011

IceWEB unified Storage you can afford




The IceWEB Storage System removes the complexity for your customers, and therefore for you, while providing advanced features at an affordable price point.
• It’s one platform for file and block data of all kinds. Your customers don’t have to agonize over whether SAN or NAS is the right platform for them. The best part? It’s affordable.
• It’s easy to set up and manage. Easy to use wizards and LUN provisioning in four clicks removes customer confusion and allows you to focus on value-added services.
• It plugs and plays into any environment
• It solves primary storage and disaster recovery needs in one solution.

• It offers sophisticated storage management and data protection capabilities, so your customers don’t have to compromise on functionality.

Contact NavigateStorage 9788-318-9000

High capacity unified storage

iceWeb 5000

High capacity unified storage for your data center or remote site.

Simplify the management of your environment with an all-inclusive storage system that lets you store both block and file data on one enterprise-class platform. The IceWEB Storage System 5000-HC supports multiple inter-connects and SATA drives, with the features and price point that make it a perfect fit for both data center and disaster recovery sites.

We feature IceWEB now in addition to the original three models 

The 5000-HC (High Capacity) scales from 8TB to 48TB using SATA/SAS drives. The 5000-HP (High performance) scales from 4.8TB to 19.2TB using SAS/SSD drives. And the 5000-HR (Highly Redundant) scales up tp 14 shelves of SSD/SAS/SATA.

We now have three more -

3000HC, 3000HP and the 6000-HR

Why not give us a call so we can setup an on-line demo and then tell you more.

NavigateStorage is an authorized reseller.   Call us or e-mail 978-318-9000
     



Saturday, October 15, 2011

Nexsan: Showing Off Its First NAS Storage Systems


Nexsan is showing its new Nexsan E5000 Family of NAS storage systems featuring its FASTier cache, which utilizes multiple SSD technologies that work transparently to boost performance for random I/O workloads including applications running on top of virtualized environments such as VMware, Xen, and Hyper-V. The new family includes the E5110, a highly available NAS system with 8TB to 62TB of capacity in 3U to 6U of rack space, and the E5310, a 3U high availability NAS head leveraging the Nexsan E-Series block storage systems to provide up 720 TBs of storage in 19U of rack space.

Contact NavigateStorage at 978-318-9000 or write.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Why you should rethink SAS over SATA


SAS drives are dual ported, which means that they can be controlled by 2 controlers at the same time, and there are 2 paths to the data. And not only are there 2 paths but you can send and receive data at the same time on both paths, this is called called Full Duplex. 

SATA drives are single ported and can only be controlled by 1 controller.To have 2 data paths to the SATA drive you need a Mux board or port multiplier. Even then the data can only be sent in one direction at a time, and only 1 of the 2 ports can be used at any given time, and then the data can only flow in one directionat a time. 

SAS uses Tagged Command Queuing(TCQ) is a technology that allows sending multiple read and write requests to a hard drive simultaneously.  

SATA uses Native Command Queuing, (NCQ) is a technology designed to increase performance of SATA hard disks. It can do this under certain situations by allowing the individual hard disk to internally optimize the order in which it executes the read and write requests it recieved. However the current (as of 2004) technology actually slows down hard drive access in certain applications, like game and sequential read and writes, because of the added latency induced by NCQ logic.  

SAS drives have the intelligence to manage their own media and remap bad blocks on the fly. SATA drives only know there is a error if data is written or try to read from an affected area of the disk. 

SAS error recovery and reporting utilize SCSI commands which have more functionality the the ATA SMART commands used by SATA drives. 

SAS drives also handle rotational vibration better than SATA drives. SATA drives need to recalibrate to stay on track, and that decreases performance.  

SAS drives are now more competitively priced. They are typically less expensive once Mux Boards are added to SATA drives,


SAS Functionalty and Features

  • Variable Sector Size
  • Multiple Host Support
  • Full SCSI Comannd Set
  • Independent Port Clocking
  • Multi Host Command Queuing
  • Mode Pages


SAS drives out perfom SATA Nearline Drives

  • 25% improvement in sequential reads
  • 140% improvement in sequential writes
  • 15% improvemnet in random reads
  • 20% improvement in random writes
Contact NavigateStorage or call 978-318-9000

Thursday, October 13, 2011

NavigateStorage and Nexsan

Nexsan Corporation is a leading provider of next generation energy efficient disk-based storage systems designed for the long-term storage of digital information.

Our hardware and software systems are ideal for storing and archiving information commonly referred to as "fixed content", since it typically changes little over time. This includes medical images, email, business documents, video images, research data, and digital media of all types. Our solutions enable organizations to store and access growing amounts of fixed content over longer periods of time, while meeting evolving business and compliance requirements in a "green" environment.

Visit us at NavigateStorage, learn more and get the lowest price available.

Backup makes sense

One would be hard pressed these days to find an IT executive who believes his or her backup process is healthy. In fact, most would probably say the opposite: that their backup processes are broken. Organizations know this and yet they feel unable to respond since budget freezes, staff reductions and new internal and external requirements make fixing the problem seem impossible. This perception, however, is false. IT can heal backup under current circumstances.

Five considerations for better backup

Fixing backup is not a simple matter, nor should it be presented as such. However, there are five considerations we can examine when discussing the opportunity to improve the backup situation plaguing data centers.

1. Determine the biggest pain points you need to solve.

Most IT organizations need some immediate relief from current backup pain, including day-to-day tactical problems such as failed backups and recoveries. They also need to meet heightened recovery expectations with fewer resources; that is, recover data when and where needed to meet demanding service level agreements (SLAs). Additional goals will likely include gaining adaptability, flexibility and scalability, as well as the ability to respond to constantly changing demands without disruptive changes to the backup infrastructure. This might also be an opportune moment to make sure whatever changes you make will support the test and development environments that require multiple copies of production data. With shrinking application development windows, access to near-real time copies of production data for testing is important.

2. Move backup to disk.

 Backup to tape for disaster recovery (DR) purposes is costly, time consuming and ineffective when time-to-recovery is the primary measure of effectiveness. The trap that organizations must be careful not to fall into is assuming that they can solve such a problem using outdated tape methodologies. Backup and recovery may be the immediate pain points that companies seek to address, but backup and recovery problems reflect the new challenges that organizations face when optimizing existing backup infrastructures for DR.

Disk is the lynchpin to redesigning a corporation’s backup infrastructure. It solves existing backup and recovery problems while giving organizations new ways to use the backup data that were not available when data was stored to tape. First, companies must look to implement a disk-based storage system as a backup target. This includes disk targets such as networked attached storage (NAS) or virtual tape libraries (VTLs), as well as other advanced forms of disk-based data protection such deduplication, WAN optimized replication and continuous data protection (CDP) using advanced snapshot technology.

Disk consistently increases backup and recovery success rates to 99 percent or more while reducing the time associated with managing the process, improving performance and reliability over tape. Technological introductions like deduplication, high capacity, low-cost SATA drives and WAN optimized replication further add to disk’s appeal by making it as affordable and as functional as tape.

3. Evaluate what VTLs can offer your backup redesign strategy.

Enterprise companies have a multitude of options available to them when it comes to redesigning their backup infrastructures. Choosing a disk-based storage system is the first step in the backup redesign, providing faster and more reliable backup and recovery than tape. However, expanding beyond the basic functionality of backup and recovery to receive the advanced data protection benefits of deduplication, optimized replication or continuous data protection brings with it a wide range of options. The difficulty arises in knowing which disk-based option is the best starting point for an organization.
Prioritizing VTL with deduplication over other disk-based deduplication approaches makes the most sense for organizations that possess high performance SAN-attached applications that use tape as their primary backup targets.

There are numerous advantages that a VTL yields in these situations. For example, only a VTL can emulate physical tape libraries and tape drives that the backup software and existing backup processes are already accustomed to seeing, whereas a NAS solution can only present a file share to the backup software. Since a VTL can emulate any number of tape and tape drives, a VTL interface can be presented and discovered by the backup software with minimal setup or changes to the existing backup software or backup process and without the need to purchase additional software licenses. For organizations with multiple SAN-based backup servers and many jobs, a VTL can offer a non-disruptive solution, significantly improving backup and recovery performance while minimizing IT investments and time-changing backup processes.

The backup software will still recognize the VTL as a physical tape drive, so if the backup software is doing backup multiplexing, it will continue to work. With a VTL, organizations can continue to leave their currently scheduled backup jobs with multiplexing in place once the VTL replaces the physical tape library. Those with FC SANs can also take advantage of an advanced backup software feature known as the “shared storage option.” Available from many enterprise backup software solutions, this option provides backup clients direct access to a tape drive. Using this feature, a backup client can send data directly to the backup target as opposed to the backup first sending the data to a media server. This option is only available with VTLs, not NAS.
VTLs can also provide direct copy to tape and tape management functionality, eliminating disruption of the backup production environment or network for creating physical tape. This is a particularly important feature if an organization wants to create physical tape simultaneous to writing capacity optimized (deduplicated) data to disk. This is also important for organizations that want to write to physical tape at their DR sites without having to install and license additional copies of each backup application at the DR location.

4. Work with the budget you have. IT budgets are for the most part staying flat or even declining. Meanwhile, data growth continues, so backup loads are only increasing. Individual business units want more data protection choices, not fewer. And IT is asked to do ever more, but without introducing new risks to the organization. Optimizing disk-based backup with data deduplication is the answer to many of these data protection problems because it increases backup speeds and success rates while keeping backup data stores under control.

5. Consider the realities of the landscape, and act. Year-over-year storage growth continues unabated. By the end of this decade, according to IDC, our digital universe will be 44 times larger than it is now, with approximately 35 zettabytes of virtual data needing management by 2020. With that expanded data store comes an increased need for reliable business continuity and DR. These are now requirements, not luxuries. Additionally, server virtualization is changing the landscape of corporate data centers and the needs for change to backup and recovery methodologies. Finally, pressures from regulatory corridors are forcing IT and legal to work together more closely to coordinate electronic discovery and more stringent service level agreements (SLAs).
Within the next couple of years, more than 30 percent of organizations will have replaced existing backup methodologies, according to recent research surveys. The companies undertaking those initiatives face the same set of circumstances as the rest of the market. They are just as affected by the persistent tough economic climate in which budget freezes and IT staffing cutbacks are now part of the corporate landscape. Nevertheless, these conditions are actually hastening – not slowing – the desire of companies to redesign their backup infrastructures. They recognize they can realize substantial returns on investment using new backup infrastructures through more efficient hardware, power savings and staff utilization. And when they take into account the core considerations regarding better backup, they find that fixing their processes is both necessary and possible.

A paper from FalconStor.  Ideas for now.  NavigateStorage has solutions.  REO 4600 for disk backup economically.  And Quantum for your comparison.

Then let's talk 978-318-9000.  Jim Addlesberger - President