Friday, September 4, 2009

IP SANs support SSD

Sep. 2, 2009 – StoneFly, Inc., a leading supplier of integrated IP storage area network (SAN) systems, today announced support for Intel® X25E-Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives (SSD) across its virtualized IP SAN product lines to enable customers to improve performance, capacity and lower energy consumption.

Based on StoneFly testing with 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE), Intel SSD shattered previous 15,000RPM Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) performance results. The new offerings, based on the Intel X25-E SSD, improve SAN input/output (IO) by 400 percent, while lowering energy consumption and cooling requirements by 80 percent. With no spinning disks, solid-state drives are able to read/write data faster, and consume less energy than SAS and SATA drives.

"With the ability to mix SSD and HDD in a single chassis, organizations can manage and utilize their storage more effectively by appropriating specific applications with the appropriate storage tier," said Bahman Jalali, director of product management for StoneFly. "With this hybrid approach, StoneFly IP SANs enable system administrators to achieve ultra-fast performance by utilizing energy-saving solid state drives for data intensive applications, while moving non-mission critical data to SATA or SAS drives."

"With the trends toward virtualization and 10 gigabit and IP SAN adoption, SSD will undeniably contribute to a paradigm shift in enterprise storage," said Kyle Fukuda, enterprise product line manager, Intel NAND Solutions Group. "A storage model which includes SSD can increase performance and reduces energy costs for lower overall total cost of ownership."

Support for Intel SSD is available for StoneFly’s Voyager, OptiSAN, and ISC S-Class product lines, with the highest performing StoneFly IP SAN appliance supporting up to 8TB of SSD storage capacity. The Voyager supports up to four bonded 10GbE StoneFly Satisfies Need for Speed with SSD ports, for an aggregated bandwidth of 40Gb, allowing organizations to sustain high-speed performance and SAN IO throughput.

All Stonefly products are available through NavigateStorage. Each authorized MVP channel partner offers SAN configuration services, engineering support and post-sales implementation resources for all datacenter environments.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Kaspersky Lab Americas’ President Steve Orenberg Receives Prestigious “All-Star” Recognition from Mass High Tech

WOBURN, MA — August 26, 2009 — Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of Internet threat management solutions that protect against all forms of malware, including viruses, spyware, hackers and spam, today announced that Steve Orenberg, President of Kaspersky Lab Americas, has been named a Mass High Tech All-Star for 2009 and the top honoree for the Security sector.

As President of Kaspersky Lab Americas, Steve Orenberg manages the Company’s strategic operations in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. For the past 15 years, Steve has specialized in helping international security companies establish a presence in the U.S. market. Kaspersky Lab is the third anti-malware company that has thrived under Steve’s watch, earning him a reputation for a ‘Midas Touch’ in the security space.

Under Steve’s leadership, Kaspersky Lab has become the fastest-growing Internet security software in America.* According to NPD data, Kaspersky Lab’s products were the #1 selling security titles at electronics retail stores during the month of July 2009,** and for a week in that month, the company’s antivirus software sold the most units across all retail software categories, beating popular video game and office software titles.*** After just four-and-a-half short years in the U.S. market, the Company is recognized as a top technology brand, and continues to win industry awards and accolades at a torrid pace. Kaspersky Lab was most recently named, for the second year in a row, as the Client Security Software Company of the Year by Everything Channel as part of its Annual Report Card Award, recognizing Kaspersky Lab’s dedication to working with the value-added reseller channel. In retail, Kaspersky Lab was honored with the coveted 2009 Best Buy Bravo! Award for Innovation in Leadership after just 18 months within the Best Buy chain of retail stores.

In addition to leading Kaspersky Lab’s sales successes, Steve guided his Company to creating Threatpost, the Kaspersky Lab Security News Service. Threatpost is a one-stop news outlet for the most important security news – including both original reporting and aggregation of articles from across the Internet. Steve also values his local community and is helping to make sure children in New England receive access to computers while in school, helping to further their education. In its third year of sponsoring, Touchdowns for Technology, Kaspersky Lab pledges to donate one computer to a deserving school in New England for every touchdown the Patriots score.

Let NavigateStorage, a premeir partner of Kaspersky tell you more and provide a "free" trial and quote to provide total protection to your company. Email or call Jim at 978-318-9000

Why NavigateStorage

Why NavigateStorage:

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

Today our solutions include:

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

Comtact us today to discuss 0ur solutions. Call 978-318-9000

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Free Virus Scan - Kaspersky Lab courtesy of NavigateStorage

Free Virus Scan - Kaspersky Lab: "Free Virus Scan"

Take the Kaspersky Challenge: See what your current antivirus is missing.

Our free online virus scanner is a great way to find out if you have any viruses or spyware on your machine without having to uninstall your current antivirus software or install a new one. Most importantly, you can see what viruses your current antivirus software let slip through!

Then contact NavigateStorage, a premier partner, to get the best data protection. Home users please check out are prices here. Corporate customers should contact us by email or call 978-318-9000. Trials are free, let us know.

StoneFly’s IP SAN supports VMware vSphere

StoneFly’s IP SAN now supports VMware vSphere: NavigateStorage states that "By supporting VMware vSphere, StoneFly can further extend the value of its IP SANs into customers’ next-generation datacenters and help enable customers to manage large collections of infrastructure -- including CPUs, storage and networking -- as a seamless, flexible and dynamic cloud environment.

StoneFly IP SANs are already VMware Ready 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.

The VMware Hardware Certification Program enables VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program members to provide mutual customers with jointly supported hardware solutions. Passing the extensive certification testing helps ensure that StoneFly IP SANs are compatible with VMware technology and ready for deployment in customer environments."

Contact NavigateStorage celebrating its 10th year in business specializes in Storage, Backup,
Email, and Anti-Viruse/Malware Protection.

Monday, August 31, 2009

Colossal capacity and 7200 RPM performance for desktop and enterprise storage systems

Deskstar™ 7K2000
The new, colossal, 2TB Deskstar 7K2000 blends high performance and high capacity with low power and other eco-friendly features designed to enable ENERGY STAR® rated computers and other high performance desktop systems.


160GB - 2TB capacity with 7200 RPM performance
Up to 10% idle power savings over previous generation product
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Best choice for consumer/commercial computers, external storage, PC gaming and video editing arrays


Ultrastar™ A7K2000
The new Ultrastar A7K2000 delivers massive capacity, reliability, 7200 RPM performance, and power efficiency that data centers require to satisfy growing storage needs.
Up to 2TB capacity (2TB, 1TB, and 500GB) available with a bulk data encryption (BDE) option
Enhanced Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) for robust performance in multi-drive environments
3Gb/s SATA for configuration flexibility
24x7 enterprise-class duty cycle and targeted 1.2 million hours MTBF with 5-year warranty
Best choice for data warehousing & mining, disk-to-disk backup & archiving, rack mounted RAID arrays, NAS environments

NavigateStorage celebrating 10 years in Storage, backup, Email Archiving and Data Protection.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

NavigateStorage reviews Message Solutions

MessageSolution Enterprise Email Archive Named Top Exchange Archiving Solution by Leading Exchange Site MSExchange.org

August 27, 2009 -- MessageSolution, Inc., the global technology leader in email, file system, and SharePoint archiving solutions for electronic discovery, litigation support, compliance, and storage management, today announces that MessageSolution Enterprise Email Archive has been named the first runner up in the Reader's Choice Award for Microsoft Exchange Server archiving solutions by leading Exchange resource site MSExchange.org.

NavigateStorage, a premier EMail Archiving provider of ZANTAZ and Global Relay is exploring MessageSolutions and their award winning software.

MessageSolution's recently added tier one clients include a division of AT&T in the U.S., one of the largest banks in Africa, Zenith Bank, and Mitsubishi Elevator Company. MessageSolution's global user base ranges from 50 user firms to deployments with more than 15,000 active users archived on one site.

"MessageSolution supports on-site and SaaS hosted archiving from Microsoft Exchange, IBM Notes Domino, and Novell GroupWise server, along with all major Linux/UNIX-based email servers," Liang continued. "MessageSolution's support for all major enterprise email server platforms, along with our expansive portfolio of archiving solutions like Enterprise File Archive and Enterprise SharePoint Archive, provides MessageSolution and our partners with multiple revenue sources."

Contact Jim Addlesberger of NavigateStorage at 978-318-9000 or by email. Your comments, reviews and suggestions are welcomed.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Nexsan DeDupe SG™ Overview

First generation deduplication systems focused on saving storage. Nexsan and FalconStor are redefining what you expect from a deduplication solution by delivering an ultra-efficient system that saves more than just capacity.

DeDupe SG is faster to save time on backup and restore, greener to save energy between backups, simpler to save management resources and more dense to save space. Introducing DeDupe SG, the only highly efficient deduplication solution. By uniquely delivering "SG" - Speed with Green - DeDupe SG edges out the competition in performance while offering significant energy savings during idle times.

DeDupe SG™ is a complete, turn-key solution with all the necessary software and hardware leveraging Nexsan’s highly efficient storage combined with FalconStor’s high performance deduplication software engine (File-interface Deduplication System - FDS). DeDupe SG represents the next generation in data deduplication by reducing capacity costs while greatly improving operational efficiency.

DeDupe SG delivers performance that is 20% to 100% faster than competitive vendors by combining the latest high speed CPU processing technology with Nexsan’s high speed RAID subsystem. Not only is it faster, DeDupe SG is smarter by first writing and storing backups on its high speed disk cache (deduping at a later time or concurrently) so that backup tasks are completed in a fraction of the time.

DeDupe SG flexes its strength as the only highly efficient deduplication storage system. DeDupe SG doesn't just deliver speed, it delivers green. The typical backup window is 2-8 hours a day, yet all other dedupe solutions spin disks at full speed for the remaining 16-22 hours. By leveraging the green efficiencies inherent to Nexsan storage components and energy saving AutoMAID™ technology, DeDupe SG users not only get better performance during their backups, they save energy and reduce costs every hour the system is not in use - 65% savings when compared to other dedupe solutions and 95% when compared to normal disk storage.
There is a lot more hiding under the hood of DeDupe SG.

For a comprehensive view DeDupe SG™ Overview contact Jim by email or call 978-318-9000.

Contact NavigateStorage today and let us get you going. NavigateStorage is a nationwide reseller of multi-vendor storage, backup, email archiving and anti-virus\malware solutions.

Email Archiving - "Full Compliance"

Since 1999, NavigateStorage and Global Relay has provided enterprise message archiving and monitoring services to customers worldwide via the Internet. Global Relay specializes in Enterprise and Compliance email & instant messaging (IM) compliance solutions and has a significant compliance customer base and reseller network throughout the US. Global Relay is able to provide your company with an affordable, complete, high quality solutions to achieve compliance, as well as to ensure that your email and instant messages are properly preserved, managed and protected on a daily basis and in the event of a disaster.


Contact NavigateStorage today and let us get you going. NavigateStorage is a nationwide reseller of multi-vendor storage, backup, email archiving and anti-virus\malware solutions. You can reach us by 978-318-9000 or email.

NavigateStorage - Chose the best storage for you

NavigateStorage offers cutting edge storage solutions from DNF and its subsidiary StoneFly for organizations ranging from SMB, government, education, and enterprise organizations with options ranging from RAID, direct attached storage, network attached storage, iSCSI, SANs and virtual tape libraries (VTL) solutions.

Contact NavigateStorage today and let us get you going. NavigateStorage is a nationwide reseller of multi-vendor storage, backup, email archiving and anti-virus\malware solutions. You can reach us by 978-318-9000 or email.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Stonefly Storage + Server Virtualization from NavigateStorage

NavigateStorage has specialized in consolidating hardware resources into virtual storage, servers, operating systems, applications or networks allows any organizations to improve efficiency and simplify the management of its datacenter or IT infrastructure.

Since its founding in 2000, NavigateStorage's vendor partner, StoneFly has been applying the principles of virtualization in the development of easy-to-use, redundant, high-performance iSCSI and IP SAN technology. By centralizing storage into an intelligent storage area network with advanced storage services increases storage utilization and removes islands of underutilized disk resources, making your storage fit your environment today and tomorrow.

Contact NavigateStorage today and let us get you going. NavigateStorage is a nationwide reseller of multi-vendor storage, backup, email archiving and anti-virus\malware solutions. You can reach us by 978-318-9000 or email.

Free Controller for New Nexsan SATABeast and SASBeast Customers

To help stimulate Nexsan and NavigateStorage business with new accounts, Nexsan is offering a free controller for new customers on SATABeast and SASBeast. New customers who purchase at least one row of SATA/SAS drives (14) can get a second controller for free.

SATABeast and SASBeast orders must be received by September 16 to be shipped by September 30th. For full terms and conditions, see the Value Advantage Page.

Time is short so give us a call today at NavigateStorage or call Jim at 978-318-9000

Thursday, August 20, 2009

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.

Monday, August 17, 2009

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.

Shop at our webstore - free trials and 10% discount if you buy from our website
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Many other great offerings for your IT needs at NavigateStorage.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

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.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

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.

Friday, August 14, 2009

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.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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.