Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Storage Switzerland Fan of IceWEB

Storage Switzerland Fan of IceWEB

"Surprisingly ready to compete with major name brand providers of unified storage"
IceWEB, Inc. has received further validation of its value among mid-enterprise organizations with an independent storage expert analyst report released by Storage Switzerland, LLC.

Written by storage veteran George Crump, the report recapped IceWEB's current momentum in building and delivering unified data storage systems with enterprise features, performance and scalability that are affordable.

Key points of the report are as follows
"What impressed us most about the universal unified storage solutions from IceWEB was the extensive feature set, especially given their extremely competitive prices (IceWEB claims to be 30% lower than the street price of their name brand competitors). With the release of IceSTORM, the company is proving it's its products are more than just me too storage systems and is certainly worthy of consideration for any sized data center looking to reduce its storage management burden."

"The problem is that the cost of feature-rich unified storage from traditional enterprise storage has been outside the realm of typical SME budgets. As a result most of these IT managers end up either making their needs fit the limitations of a single service solution (SAN only / NAS only) or they buy both a SAN and a NAS, which adds complexity and cost. IceWEB is positioning their Unified Storage solutions to deliver a feature-rich storage system at price points the SME can afford."

"From a data services perspective the IceSTORM is surprisingly ready to compete with the major name brand providers of unified storage. It has the ability to pool and tier storage based on drive type; for example, logs can be placed on SSD, databases on high performance SAS and file shares on SATA. The SSD tier can also be used as a cache, so that active data will automatically be served from solid state. And, the system provides extensive data protection capabilities including eight types of RAID, data replication, data integrity checking and snapshots."

IceWEB's CMO Steven Toole commented on the report: "Storage Switzerland is a long-trusted, unbiased authority in data storage technologies. They're very smart people so it comes as no surprise to me that they see the value IceWEB brings to mid-enterprise organizations looking to simplify their cloud and virtual environments, increase the efficiency of their storage resources across multiple protocols, and obtain enterprise capabilities and performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage vendors. As more analysts become aware of IceWEB, we're certain that additional positive reports will follow."
 
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

IceWEB 2000 20 Terabyte SAS 6G SAN and NAS Unified Data Storage Appliance with IceSTORM™ Operating System -- ideal for Small to Medium Businesses  Specs



"Simplify - Standardize - Optimize The IceWEB's 2000 20 TB 6G SAS unified storage appliance provides a single platform for all your storage needs -- SAN, NAS or DAS. Simplify your data center environment, cloud and virtualization deployments by optimizing your storage resources through a single pane of glass that sets up in 5 minutes or less, guaranteed. The IceWEB 2000 supports file System Protocols including NFSv2, NFSv3, NFSv4, CIFS, FTP, HTTP, WebDAV, rsync, NDMP; in addition to iSCSI and FCOE block protocol  

Complete Protection and Reliability Rest assured that your mission critical data is safe with all of the data protection and reliability features you'd expect in an enterprise class appliance --
• Hot swappable hard drives with preemptive drive failure notification• Built-in support for single parity, double parity, and triple parity RAID protection
• Automatic error correction
• Zero-impact, zero reservation snapshots reduce RPO and RTO for near-zero recovery time and data loss• Flexible replication services (local or remote, bi-directional, real-time or scheduled)• Mirror HA

Powerful Storage Management Capabilities Driving the IceWEB 2000's powerful features is IceWEB's proprietary IceSTORM™ operating system, providing all of the management and application software capabilities needed to support today's cloud and virtual computing environments:
• Thin Provisioning: Efficient allocation of dynamic disk with option to provision iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, or FC to a new environment
• Storage Pooling: Shared pool supporting multiple tiers of storage
• Active Directory & LDAP Authentication
• Clones: Deliver capacity savings of up to 90% with no performance impact, for testing and development
• In Line Data Compression: Ranges from 1.2 to 3.8x compression; skips dense blocks to minimize IO load
• Volume Level Inline Deduplication: Aggressive checksum/hash algorithm to obtain up to 90% deduplication levels (memory upgrade required)
• Snapshots: Instantaneous, zero impact, zero capacity allocation
• Snapshot Rollback: Instantaneous
• Replication: Asynchronous, Synchronous and Encrypted
• VM Integration: VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer "

2000 scales to 60TB.  Purchase on-line.  Call Navigatestorage for demo at 978-318-9000

IceWEB's unified storage appliances provide a single platform for all your storage needs

Simplify - Standardize - Optimize


IceWEB's unified storage appliances provide a single platform for all your storage needs. Simplify your backup and disaster recovery target storage environment or high density video storage and optimize your storage resources through a single pane of glass.


Easy to Use

The IceWEB 3000 unified storage appliance provides organizations of all sizes with an automated, application-ready storage platform that is easy to acquire and manage; and is certain to set up in 5 minutes or less with our IceTIME™ Guarantee*.




Lightning Fast


When upgraded to include IceWEB's Solid State Kit, IceWEB's Cache Acceleration Protocol (IceCAP™) dramatically increases read/write IO performance of recently accessed data stored in the cache.

In addition, the IceWEB 3000 features accelerated write cache that uses Solid State Technology to log calls for data to be written to the hard disks. Our intellectual property enables small and large blocks to be cached and accessed at a substantially faster rate than competing technologies.



Complete Protection and Reliability


Rest assured that your mission critical data is safe with all of the data protection and reliability features you'd expect in an enterprise class appliance -

  • Ensure high levels of data integrity and protection at all times with IceWEB unified storage appliances
  • Hot swappable hard drives with preemptive drive failure notification
  • Built-in support for single parity, double parity, and triple parity RAID protection
  • Automatic error correction ensures data integrity
  • Zero-impact, zero reservation snapshots reduce RPO and RTO for near-zero recovery time and data loss
  • Thin provisioning greatly increases utilization
  • Flexible replication services (local or remote, bi-directional, real-time or scheduled)
  • Mirror HA



Powerful Storage Management Capabilities


Driving the IceWEB 3000's powerful features is IceWEB's proprietary IceSTORM™ operating system, providing all of the management and application software capabilities needed to support today's backup and disaster recovery as well as high density video storage environments. The intuitive IceSTORM interface simplifies the use of its sophisticated storage management capabilities, and includes a full complement of enterprise level storage optimization features at a price that's affordable for any IT budget:

  • Thin Provisioning: Efficient allocation of dynamic disk with option to provision iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, or FC to a new environment
  • Storage Pooling: Shared pool supporting multiple tiers of storage
  • Active Directory & LDAP Authentication
  • Clones: Deliver capacity savings of up to 90% with no performance impact, for testing and development
  • In Line Data Compression: Ranges from 1.2 to 3.8x compression; skips dense video blocks to minimize IO load
  • Volume Level Inline Deduplication: Aggressive checksum/hash algorithm to obtain up to 90% deduplication levels for backups
  • Snapshots: Instantaneous, zero impact, zero capacity allocation
  • Snapshot Rollback: Instantaneous
  • Replication: Asynchronous and Encrypted
  • VM Integration: VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer
Contact NavigateStorage and see how economical iceWEB can be.  NavigateStorage prices are economical.  You can also call 978-318-9000 and save.  Four models available.