NavigateStorage's StoneFly new Voyager IP SANs

We asked what you needed to help run your business, we listened carefully and that gave birth to the Voyager fron StoneFly.

The Voyager was 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.

NavigateStorage is real proud of this outstanding offering. And all at a really competitive price. Let us tell you more, mail us or call 978-318-9000

Kaspersky Internet Security 2010

Neil Rubenking of PC Magazine has also provided a review of Kaspersky Internet Security 2010.

This review is more in depth and takes us through each feature of the product. Overall, the review is positive. Rubenking said, ""I very much like the way Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 intelligently handles Application Control without hassling the user. The new "Safe Run" sandbox is another unusual and advanced feature. In my real-world anti-malware testing, the suite came out okay but not great, and it did have a measurable effect on system performance. All in all, however, this feature-packed suite is a good choice."

NavigateStorage offers Kaspersky Internet Security at its online website with a 10% discount.

Facts about Our Secure Hosted Email Archiving from Global Relay

With the escalating volumes of email, the Hosted Email Archiving and Compliance solution of NavigateStorage, in partnership with Global Relay, provides organizations with a comprehensive email compliance solution for addressing business demands in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, including:

* Mail Management and long-term storage of email communications with online search and retrieval.
* Regulatory Compliance such as SEC, FINRA, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, privacy.
* Litigation eDiscovery and audit requests.
* Security and protection of mission-critical business information.
* Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning.
* Migration and consolidation of PST files, backup tapes and historical data, in a central online repository, together with email, BlackBerry, Bloomberg, Reuters, instant messaging and e-fax.

Hosted archiving saves money. Let's discuss call Jim 978-318-9000 or email

NavigateStorage offers iQstor

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.
iQ2850

Offers:
* A familiar network technology that reduces training, management andoperations cost
* Proven Ethernet transport infrastructure which increases reliability
* Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by bringing Ethernet economics to storage
* Modular Configurations

iQstor’s iQ2850 supports up to fifteen disk drives and scales to 15TB with 1TB SATA drives or 6.75TB with 450GB FC4 drives per chassis, allowing the creation of very large tiered-storage IP SAN systems of up to 240TB by attaching optional J2880 disk enclosures. With fully redundant and hot swappable components such as RAID controllers, power supplies, cooling modules and disk drives the iQ2850 ensures reliability and high availability.

NavigateStorage is a premier parnter and offers iQStor, iStor, Stonefly and much more to meet your storage needs, backup, email arching and Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Email or call 978-318-9000

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 3-User

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 3-User

Kaspersky® Internet Security from NavigateStorage – Complete Internet security protection with anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-phishing, anti-spam and anti-hacker technologies. The same advanced protection Kaspersky Anti-Virus offers plus parental and privacy controls, a built-in personal firewall and a virtual keyboard keep your online personal data safe.

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Many other great offerings for your IT needs at NavigateStorage.

StoneFly's new Voyager IP SANs

StoneFly's new Voyager IP SANs from NavigateStorage 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. from NavigateStorage 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.

Visit us at NavigateStorage storage options or give us a call, 978-318-9000

Looking for true HA storage without the price

Today's solutions for high availability used to mean big bucks.

NavigateStorage found that LeftHand Networks and Equallogic were the best in town. That was until NavigateStorage found Stonefly's OptiSan and Voyager. Since then NavigateStorage understands how economical and powerful StoneFly can be and now looks there first whenever we hear HA in an IPSan, that's scaleable, has remote DR and great performance.

So before you waste money contact us by email or call 978-318-9000.

NavigateStorage's Stonefly creates Virtual IP San

Stonefly's Storage Concentrator Virtual Machine (SCVM™) gives NavigateStorage's customers the ability to create a Virtual IP SAN appliance on an existing VMWare server platform.

By creating a StoneFly iSCSI Target within a VMWare 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".

Let NavigateStorage tell you more. Contact us at 978-318-9000 or email.

NavigateStorage a premier partner of DNF/Stonefly

NavigateStorage specializes in StoneFly high quality, economical storage arrays. The company is headquartered in San Diego and was founded in April 2000 to deliver upon the vision of simple and affordable storage optimization and disaster recovery protection through IP storage area network (IP SAN) solutions. Today hundreds of companies depend on Stonefly to save and protect their data.

StoneFly, Inc. is a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, Inc. (DNF), a leading maker of high-performance network attached storage (NAS), storage area networks (SAN), RAID and iSCSI systems and has offices in Northern and Southern California.

StoneFly™ is the innovator of powerful, cost-effective data protection and management for departments, workgroups and mid-tier organizations via the StoneFly Business Advantage™ solutions suite. StoneFly Replicator™ provides advanced disaster recovery with remote asynchronous mirroring. StoneFly Archive Advantage™ provides compliance with an advanced email archiving solution.

The heart of StoneFly Business Advantage is an IP SAN powered by the StoneFusion™ Intelligent Network Platform. This platform includes advanced Storage Network Management, storage provisioning, centralized volume management, data migration and storage consolidation. StoneFly is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the founding member of the IP Storage Institute (IPSI).

To learn more or get a quote call Jim at 978-318-9000 or drop us a note. Visit our website.

NavigateStorage premier partner of Kaspersky

Kaspersky's Open Space - Workspace Security, Business Space Security, Enterprise Space and Total Space.



What is Kaspersky Business Space Security?


Kaspersky Business Space Security offers an umbrella of protection over Linux and Windows workstations and file servers from all types of viruses, Trojans and worms, preventing epidemics, keeping 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.



NavigateStorage offers you to give us a try. Let us tell you more about this fine total protection Kaspersky Open Space Solution.

NavigateStorage offers a cost effective solution to Zantaz

Global Relay's Hosted Email Archiving & Messaging Services provide businesses with easy-to-use professionally-managed, email archiving, email continuity and email security solutions.

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.

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.

Why not contact Jim at NavigateStorage and discuss the alternatives - hosted versus in house. Call us at 978-318-9000 or drop us an email and we will call you.

StoneFly Integrated Storage Concentrator from NavigateStorage

In addition to StoneFly's HA OptiSAN and Voyager, their Integrated Storage Concentrator (ISC) product line offers a simple, rapid to deploy IP SAN in a box designed for virtual server storage, file server storage, disaster recovery, storage consolidation and disk to disk archiving.



Jim Addlesberger, President of NavigateStorage says StoneFly's real secret to their sucess is their people. They can always be counted on. Their entry-level ISC, ISC-401 supports 4 SATA drives, for storage capacities up to 4TB in a single system, a great solution for SMBs or SOHO. The ISC S-Class systems support SAS (including 450GB disks), SATA and SSD in configurations ranging from 4-48 drives. ISC S-Class 1602S, 2402S, and 4802S systems also support external expansion for up to a total of 120 drives, via ISC E-Class Expansion Systems available in 16 or 24 drive versions.



Within a single chassis, all IP SAN functions are consolidated for virtualization, management and storage. Based on the extensible StoneFusion® OS, ISCs deliver best in class flexibility and performance to deliver a cutting edge IP SAN solution. With 2 to 120TB in a single system, the ISC product line offers a simple IP SAN-in-a-Box solution to support your growing storage needs.

StoneFly a economical way for High Availability and Performance

Back in March 2009, StoneFly introduced Voyager a new line of virtualized IP SANappliances designed to deliver exceptional performance at an economical price point. With entry-level pricing starting at US$25,000 MSRP.

Jim Addlesberger, President of NavigateStorage says "Voyager is ideal for enterprise customers in need of a robust SAN offering both high availability and versatility for primary and secondary storage applications."

Yesterday in our blog we said that Voyager comes standard with six or 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) iSCSI connections, but is offered with optional quad 10Gb Ethernet connectionsto achieve performance of up to 950MB/s. That's all true. But today NavigateStorage learned that technically the voyager would achive well over 1600MB/second with 32SAS but our performance tests with 16 SAS drives gives us 980MB/sec – we have another 110 drives to scale performance. That's screaming!

Voyager supports a wide range of virtual server environments includingVMware, Citrix XenServer, Virtual Iron and Microsoft.

At the cornerstone of the Voyager design is StoneFly's patented storage virtualization engine, which delivers quad-core processing power, dedicated iSCSI cache, and the StoneFly StoneFusion(TM) storage management operating system. StoneFusion provides block-level provisioning as well as centralized storage management and advanced storage features including replication, mirroring and snapshotting.

NavigateStorage is a premier partner. Give us a call 978-318-9000 or drop us a line to learn more.

StoneFly beats out EqualLogic and Lefthand Networks

Are you considering EqualLogic from Dell or Lefthand Networks from HP? NavigateStorage has sold them all and recommends that you take a close look at StoneFly's Voyager Storage Array. Hands down Stonefly beats them all for price/performance.

The Voyager even supports Solid State Disk and up to 4 - 10GB ports (it comes standard with four GbE ports. It supports SAS and SATA drives with up to 16 drives in base and scales up to 128 drives in total. It includes active/active storage concentrators and active/active storage controllers with NO SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE. Of course hot-swapple components for power supplies, cooling fans, drives and controllers eliminate downtime.

Performace is blazing fast. It tops out at 950MB/s over 10GbE and we have data to prove it.

In addition to a great GUI, StoneFly IP SANs are already VMware Ready(TM) Certified, meaning they have completed the VMware Hardware Certification Program's iSCSI storage array testing criteria for use with VMware vSphere and ESX Server 4, and are now listed in the VMware Hardware Compatibility Guide.

NavigateStorage is a premier partner with DNF/Stonefly. Let us tell you more contact us. Or better yet call us at 978-318-9000

iStor readying an Solid State offering

Solid state storage prices are starting to fall. The challenge for storage vendors is "will our controller be fast enough to handle this new technolgy?"

The answer for iStor is yes. Both the 325 (10 drive bays - 8 one gigabyte or 1 10GB ports and their scalable 512 are ready for the hgher speeds usibg their 10GB ports.

Jim Addlesberger at NavigateStorage

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.

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.

NavigateStorage experts in email archiving selected Global Relay, along with Gartner, for best in class. Webex's, demos, quotes and free trials are available to our clients.

Storage Prices

In today's environment many vendors are lowering prices to maintain demand for their products. It is a great time to project your needs and shop for the technology and price that will meet your budget.

For VMWare oriented customers StoneFlys Voyager IP SAN StoneFly's is just such an offering. The 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.

NavigateStorage represents several high quality vendors all aimed at providing you the best for your IT dollar.

Storwize will optimize NAS CIFS/NFS

NavigateStorage partners with Storwize to optimize CIFS/NFS NAS storage space and gain significantly more space at a real savings without sacrificing performance.


Storwize is the capacity optimization company for primary storage.The Storwize family of online data reduction solutions eliminates businesses reliance on storage and infrastructure sprawl by increasing storage capacity and efficiency - all without buying more storage. Leading companies worldwide use Storwize to enhance productivity and reduce cost by making better use of their existing storage infrastructure.


"Storwize real-time compression solutions give you up to 10-times more capacity from storage you already own so more primary, secondary, and backup data can be stored, accessed, and protected without increasing foot print, power, or cooling requirements.


We give you the products, tools, and services to optimize your storage infrastructure throughout the entire data lifecycle." And Storewiz is tested and certified by EMC, NetApp and more.


Technology Overview


Unlike deduplication, which cannot meet the random-access, transaction, and throughput needs of actively utilized primary storage, Storwize real-time compression is purpose-built for primary storage data reduction. Based upon a powerful multi-core hardware platform, Storwize appliances are deployed in-line between your network switch and storage providing average data reduction rates of > 65% without compromising application performance, enabling it to be deployed in even the most data intensive enterprise environments.


Storwize Real-Time Compression


The appliance does not require workflow changes, software agents or server drivers and can be deployed seamlessly without any configuration changes to existing environmentsWith over 35 patents, our solutions are based upon several key technology pillars


Real-Time Operation - only Storwize supports the performance, throughput, and accessibility requirements of business critical primary storage applications including VMWare and Oracle.


Complete Transparency - Storwize works with any vendor's NAS arrays and supports both UNIX (NFS) and Windows (CIFS) protocols. The solution requires no software drivers or server, application, or storage configuration changes.


Data Integrity - our Data Integrity Assurance architecture provides end-to-end verification throughout the data path, fault detection, correction, and verification.
High Availability - Storwize appliances include fully redundant components and deploy seamlessly into high-availability environments.


Check this out by calling us at 978-318-9000 or drop us a line Check out our other great solutions at NavigateStorage

Who wants unified storage and what is it?

Who wants unified storage and what is it?

In you want to serve iSCSI and NAS (CIFS/NFS) from the same array, then your should look at unified storage. Or if you have a NAS box and a iSCSI box and want to consolidate many disperate arrays and manage from a single pane of glass or want to replicate portions or all for disaster protection using one box, then you should consider our unified storage.

RELDATA’s 9240i delivers integrated storage services from a single virtualized platform that delivers best-in-class performance. There are no capacity licenses; choose the service that best meets your environment.iSCSI SAN and WAN Replication plus Snapshots. Turn on optional non-disruptive data migration, integrated NAS, and more, when you need it. NAS and WAN Replication plus Snapshots. Turn on optional file data migration, iSCSI SAN and more, when you need it.Unified Storage. Choose the licensed functionality you need today; turn on optional licensed functionality when you need it later. Each 9240i includes up to 12 TB SAS Storage in the same 2U chassis for reduced rack space and power consumption.There is no vendor lock-in for storage arrays; Scale your system to meet increasing business requirements. Expand Storage by adding Reldata Expansion Shelf JBOD storage. Incorporate legacy disk arrays with Heterogeneous Virtualization for maximum ROI. Cluster 9240i for high availability and performance Mix 1GbE and 10GbE network connectivity. The solutions are easy to implement, operate and manage, yet deliver enterprise-class performance and functionality.Customers can independently scale disk storage capacity, SAN/NAS/WAN replication storage services, and network performance without application disruption.Customers can further leverage VMware® and Citrix® server consolidation, independently scale storage capacity and performance to meet their specific needs, and migrate data without application disruption.

RELDATA products, from NavigateStorage are designed to seamlessly integrate into the customer’s existing storage infrastructure, virtualize and manage legacy third-party storage systems, and co-exist with more expensive storage solutions from vendors such as Network Appliance® and EMC®.Let us tell you more, setup a demo or provide you with a quote. Call 978-318-9000.

NavigateStorage's StoneFly Integrated Storage Concentrator

NavigateStorage's StoneFly Integrated Storage Concentrator(ISC) product line offers a simple, rapid to deploy IP SAN in a box designed for virtual server storage, file server storage, disaster recovery, storage consolidation and disk to disk archiving.

The entry-level ISC, ISC-401 supports 4 SATA drives, for storage capacities up to 4TB in a single system. The ISC S-Class systems support SAS (including 450GB disks), SATA and SSD in configurations ranging from 4-48 drives. ISC S-Class 1602S, 2402S, and 4802S systems also support external expansion for up to a total of 120 drives, via ISC E-Class Expansion Systems available in 16 or 24 drive versions.

Within a single chassis, all IP SAN functions are consolidated for virtualization, management and storage.Based on the extensible StoneFusion® OS, ISCs deliver best in class flexibility and performance to deliver a cutting edge IP SAN solution. With 2 to 120TB in a single system, the ISC product line offers a simple IP SAN-in-a-Box solution to support your growing storage needs.

Contact Jim Addlesberger at 978-318-9000 for more details, demo or quotes. You will be glad you did. NavigateStorage

Unified Storage

RELDATA’s 9240i delivers integrated storage services from a single virtualized platform that delivers best-in-class performance. There are no capacity licenses; choose the service that best meets your environment.

iSCSI SAN and WAN Replication plus Snapshots. Turn on optional non-disruptive data migration, integrated NAS, and more, when you need it. NAS and WAN Replication plus Snapshots. Turn on optional file data migration, iSCSI SAN and more, when you need it.

Unified Storage. Choose the licensed functionality you need today; turn on optional licensed functionality when you need it later. Each 9240i includes up to 12 TB SAS Storage in the same 2U chassis for reduced rack space and power consumption.

There is no vendor lock-in for storage arrays; Scale your system to meet increasing business requirements. Expand Storage by adding Reldata Expansion Shelf JBOD storage. Incorporate legacy disk arrays with Heterogeneous Virtualization for maximum ROI. Cluster 9240i for high availability and performance Mix 1GbE and 10GbE network connectivity

The solutions are easy to implement, operate and manage, yet deliver enterprise-class performance and functionality.
Customers can independently scale disk storage capacity, SAN/NAS/WAN replication storage services, and network performance without application disruption.
Customers can further leverage VMware® and Citrix® server consolidation, independently scale storage capacity and performance to meet their specific needs, and migrate data without application disruption.

RELDATA products, from NavigateStorage are designed to seamlessly integrate into the customer’s existing storage infrastructure, virtualize and manage legacy third-party storage systems, and co-exist with more expensive storage solutions from vendors such as Network Appliance® and EMC®.

Let us tell you more, setup a demo or provide you with a quote. Call 978-318-9000.

NavigateStorage's StoneFly Integrated Storage Concentrator

NavigateStorage's StoneFly Integrated Storage Concentrator(ISC) product line offers a simple, rapid to deploy IP SAN in a box designed for virtual server storage, file server storage, disaster recovery, storage consolidation and disk to disk archiving.

The entry-level ISC, ISC-401 supports 4 SATA drives, for storage capacities up to 4TB in a single system. The ISC S-Class systems support SAS (including 450GB disks), SATA and SSD in configurations ranging from 4-48 drives. ISC S-Class 1602S, 2402S, and 4802S systems also support external expansion for up to a total of 120 drives, via ISC E-Class Expansion Systems available in 16 or 24 drive versions. Within a single chassis, all IP SAN functions are consolidated for virtualization, management and storage.

Based on the extensible StoneFusion® OS, ISCs deliver best in class flexibility and performance to deliver a cutting edge IP SAN solution. With 2 to 120TB in a single system, the ISC product line offers a simple IP SAN-in-a-Box solution to support your growing storage needs.

Contact Jim Addlesberger at 978-318-9000 for more details, demo or quotes. You will be glad you did. NavigateStorage

"Voyager IP SAN : Reduced pricepoint to meet these economic times !

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, says Jim Addlesberger - CEO of NavigateStorage is their storage virtualization engine, which offers quad-core processing power, dedicated iSCSI Cache, and our StoneFusion storage management operating system."

NavigateStorage established in 1999 specializes in storage - iSCSI, SAN, NAS and Unified (block and file) from a wide variety of vendors. Features such as Replication, ILM, Data-Deduplication, Compression and Encryption are readily available. We represent market leading Tape Libraries, Virtual Tape Libraries, backup and replication software and new, name brand media at great prices.

Software solutions include Email/IM archiving for compliance or just good governance, VMware, Virtual Iron, and security solutions for Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam (both as a service and appliance) and data leakage solutions. And a full line of Xerox Printers and Copiers with the new solid ink and Page Pack all in one program.

Network products include QLogic and Brocade switches. NavigateStorage can be reached at 978-318-9000

What is Kaspersky Total Space Security?

Kaspersky Total Space Security provides integrated protection for corporate networks of any size or level of complexity from all types of contemporary Internet threats.

Kaspersky Total Space Security exercises control over all incoming and outgoing data including email, web traffic and all network interactions. The product comprises components for the protection of workstations and mobile devices, ensuring users secure and fast access to company information, resources and the Internet, as well as secure communications via email.

Kaspersky Total Space security allows you to protect against all types of internet threats using any of our security software products.

NavigateStorage our premeir nation-wide partner is ready to provide you with more detail including free trials or Kaspersky pricing configured to benefit you. Call them at 978-318-9000 and ask for Jim. Home users can buy with a 10% discoiunt at NavigateStorage E Store