Global Relay Hosted Email Full Compliance:
"Global Relay's Message Archiver provides secure, off-site email archiving and long-term storage with online access. An authentic copy of all incoming, internal and outgoing hosted Exchange or in-house email & attachments, IM, Bloomberg, Reuters, BlackBerry, e-fax and any PST files and imported legacy email, is captured, replicated and unified in the Message Archiver for rapid web-based search, retrieval & monitoring. Fully and professionally managed, Global Relay's Message Archiver securely stores and organizes all messages in Global Relay's mirrored SAS 70 Certified Data Centers. The simple web-based search and retrieval process provides rapid access by all users to current and historical email records, even if the original has been deleted."
Be assured that your data is secure and protected. Contact NavigateStorage to learn more then let us demonstrate it for you, provide a great price and if you like set up a 30 day non-intrusive live trial. NavigateStorage email or call - 978-318-9000
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
High performance IP SAN storage appliance with unmatched ease of use
iStor’s Virtual Storage technology from NavigateStorage makes the full power of IP SANs available to the SMB market. The virtual pool of storage frees the storage user from the complexities of traditional RAID configuration, eases management and increases the efficiency of disk utilization; all while optimizing the performance of all applications.
Powerful enough to satisfy high bandwidth applications, as well as transaction-intensive applications, the iS325 features 8x1GbE host ports, providing the industry’s highest throughput for a single controller, and supports over 80,000 IOPS.
Configurations are available from 2.5TB up to 15TB TB utilizing cost-effective SATA drives
Virtual Storage technology, coupled with an intuitive GUI make management a breeze; additionally, all of your integraStor systems can be managed from a single utility. Advanced users can take advantage of a comprehensive CLI and applications requiring integration with iStor’s management frameworks can interface to iStor’s API.
· 3U, 15 SATA drives
· 8 1GbE host ports
· Cost effective storage
· Single controller
· 10G architecture driven by iStor’s purpose-built iSCSI RAID Chip
· Virtual Storage technologyVirtual pool of storage eliminates RAID groups, Application aware volume creation, Self optimizing cache, Online RAID level migration, Online volume expansion, Online capacity expansion of entire pool
· Fast rebuildsOnly disk space utilized by active volumes needs to be rebuilt – not entire drive
The istor comes in a 325 and 512 model. NavigateStorage specializes in a wide variety of arrays, backup, email archiving and data protection (av and data leakage solution.
Powerful enough to satisfy high bandwidth applications, as well as transaction-intensive applications, the iS325 features 8x1GbE host ports, providing the industry’s highest throughput for a single controller, and supports over 80,000 IOPS.
Configurations are available from 2.5TB up to 15TB TB utilizing cost-effective SATA drives
Virtual Storage technology, coupled with an intuitive GUI make management a breeze; additionally, all of your integraStor systems can be managed from a single utility. Advanced users can take advantage of a comprehensive CLI and applications requiring integration with iStor’s management frameworks can interface to iStor’s API.
· 3U, 15 SATA drives
· 8 1GbE host ports
· Cost effective storage
· Single controller
· 10G architecture driven by iStor’s purpose-built iSCSI RAID Chip
· Virtual Storage technologyVirtual pool of storage eliminates RAID groups, Application aware volume creation, Self optimizing cache, Online RAID level migration, Online volume expansion, Online capacity expansion of entire pool
· Fast rebuildsOnly disk space utilized by active volumes needs to be rebuilt – not entire drive
The istor comes in a 325 and 512 model. NavigateStorage specializes in a wide variety of arrays, backup, email archiving and data protection (av and data leakage solution.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
NavigateStorage celbrates 10 years
NavigateStorage celebrates its 10th year in business. As you may know we had our beginning in 1999 focusing on Storage and Backup. We represent several vendors for Storage (SATA, SAS, IP SANs, and Fibre Channel) regular and High Availability of all sizes, features and prices. Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL) is also available along with backup software to match.
In addition to our Storage, Backup and Remote Replication, we specialize in Email Archiving that is compliant and includes e-Discovery. Our Red Condor product sells for $40/year/user solutions for Windows based applications
Storage
For NAS users including NetApp and EMC users the ability to double the available usable space on your NAS array without impacting performance with a product from Storewiz
The exciting new FC Storage Family from iQStor It scales from small to giant with no forklift along the way and can have FC or SATA II drives behind
Scalable storage, SAS or SAT or even SSD (solid state). VMware certified, HA and more. Here’s an example StoneFly.
Security
An outstanding anti-virus/spyware solution from Kaspersky (free trials)
Web filtering Websense (stop employees from shopping on your time)
This is just the beginning of the great solutions we have available for you. We are experts in our niche and welcome you to tell us about your current or planned projects and see what we can bring to the table.
In addition to our Storage, Backup and Remote Replication, we specialize in Email Archiving that is compliant and includes e-Discovery. Our Red Condor product sells for $40/year/user solutions for Windows based applications
Storage
For NAS users including NetApp and EMC users the ability to double the available usable space on your NAS array without impacting performance with a product from Storewiz
The exciting new FC Storage Family from iQStor It scales from small to giant with no forklift along the way and can have FC or SATA II drives behind
Scalable storage, SAS or SAT or even SSD (solid state). VMware certified, HA and more. Here’s an example StoneFly.
Security
An outstanding anti-virus/spyware solution from Kaspersky (free trials)
Web filtering Websense (stop employees from shopping on your time)
This is just the beginning of the great solutions we have available for you. We are experts in our niche and welcome you to tell us about your current or planned projects and see what we can bring to the table.
NavigateStorage recommends Stonefly storage
"The award-winning Stone Fusion Intelligent Network Storage Platform (NSP), StoneFly's patent-pending baseline storage networking architecture, reduces the total cost of ownership by lowering management costs and increasing storage utilization" Says Jim Addlesberger, President of NavigateStorage.
By adding block level storage intelligence to the IP networking core, StoneFusion powered Storage Concentrators deliver all the benefits of managed SANs, including increased storage utilization through resource consolidation, storage provisioning, access control, volume management, and feature-rich managed storage supporting advanced storage services including clustering, mirroring, and snapshotting. At the core of StoneFusion is a robust storage virtualization engine that enables provisioning of physical storage resources in to virtual storage volumes. These logical volumes are presented to the host as normal SCSI disks, using industry standard hardware and software iSCSI initiators. With StoneFusion the power of IP SAN centralization is at your fingertips.
Read more about StoneFusion at NavigateStorage
By adding block level storage intelligence to the IP networking core, StoneFusion powered Storage Concentrators deliver all the benefits of managed SANs, including increased storage utilization through resource consolidation, storage provisioning, access control, volume management, and feature-rich managed storage supporting advanced storage services including clustering, mirroring, and snapshotting. At the core of StoneFusion is a robust storage virtualization engine that enables provisioning of physical storage resources in to virtual storage volumes. These logical volumes are presented to the host as normal SCSI disks, using industry standard hardware and software iSCSI initiators. With StoneFusion the power of IP SAN centralization is at your fingertips.
Read more about StoneFusion at NavigateStorage
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Email Archiving
NavigateStorage introduces Email Archiving, with full-Compliance and e-discovery for less than $35/mailbox/year with unlimited storage for early subscribers.
Contact NavigateStorage Archiving solutions or call 978-318-9000
Contact NavigateStorage Archiving solutions or call 978-318-9000
iStor i325 on sale
The iSTOR iS325 supports up to 15 high performance, high capacity SATA drives and can be configured to take advantage of 4 or 8 ports of GbE or the single port of 10GbE host interfaces. Although iS325 targets iSCSI SAN storage environments up to 15TB, customers can deploy multiple boxes per installation. The iS325 provides robust enterprise-level features & unique high-performance at an affordable price. iS325 is the entry level of the integraStor family based on solid, reputable, proven technology for an effective shared storage model. By utilizing Serial ATA disks, the iS325 enables compelling block-based network storage solutions such as primary storage, near line storage, disk-to-disk backup, and DAS replacement, along with high-capacity providing compelling total cost of ownership. Triple-redundant power supplies & fans for a highly reliable storage appliance.
NavigateStorage specializes in storage of all types. iStor arrays support VmWare 4.0. We also have the iStor 512 (scroll down) which is scaleable. Contact Jim at 978-318-9000 or write
NavigateStorage specializes in storage of all types. iStor arrays support VmWare 4.0. We also have the iStor 512 (scroll down) which is scaleable. Contact Jim at 978-318-9000 or write
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Email Archiving
NavigateStorage and Red Condor Archive provides an affordable, reliable and secure hosted Email Archiving Service to customers of all sizes to help meet compliance, litigation support, storage management or best practice requirements.
Red Condor Archive leverages a global cloud computer and storage infrastructure to provide organizations with an extremely scalable, 100% software-free service. Red Condor Archive’s data collection technology supports all messaging systems (Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Zimbra, Scalix, IMail Server, Mailtrust, Keiro and many more) making the solution truly future-proof.
Call Jim at 978-318-9000 or write for your quote. Special available for 4th quarter.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Protecting your data
Here is yet another example of what can happen if you neglect to backup your data. For all you T-Mobile users out there, you probably know that the Sidekick stores all of your critical data in a network datastore and not within the physical device. If something were to happen to any of those servers holding your data, you would lose your data. Scary thought, huh? Well, that is exactly what happened.
Michael Sheehan believes that during hardware upgrades, there was a failure that occurred. Since the upgrade of the SAN proceeded without data backup the result was thousands of Sidekick users stuck without their data. Here are five tips he presents in his blog post, that are critical for any IT department to remember:
Backups – Back up often. Set up automatic as well as manual backup procedures. Store your data locally AND somewhere completely geographically distinct from your infrastructure. *Check out the SAN backup features on the StoneFusion OS.
Redundancy – Physical servers AND virtualized servers do encounter issues. You would never put all of your eggs in one basket so why do it with your infrastructure! You should ensure that you set up a “high availability” (HA) infrastructure where you have 2 (or more) of everything, whether they be all active or as hot or warm standbys. *Check out the fully redundant, HA Voyager IP SAN.
Failovers – Most people, unless they are hugely successful, decide to put off setting up a Disaster Recovery (DR) environment due to costs and the time it takes to do so. That is, until their primary site goes down for hours or days, then DR suddenly moves to the top of the list. *Learn about StoneFly’s Data Continuity.
NavigateStorage is a premier partner. Call us at 978-318-9000 or write.
Michael Sheehan believes that during hardware upgrades, there was a failure that occurred. Since the upgrade of the SAN proceeded without data backup the result was thousands of Sidekick users stuck without their data. Here are five tips he presents in his blog post, that are critical for any IT department to remember:
Backups – Back up often. Set up automatic as well as manual backup procedures. Store your data locally AND somewhere completely geographically distinct from your infrastructure. *Check out the SAN backup features on the StoneFusion OS.
Redundancy – Physical servers AND virtualized servers do encounter issues. You would never put all of your eggs in one basket so why do it with your infrastructure! You should ensure that you set up a “high availability” (HA) infrastructure where you have 2 (or more) of everything, whether they be all active or as hot or warm standbys. *Check out the fully redundant, HA Voyager IP SAN.
Failovers – Most people, unless they are hugely successful, decide to put off setting up a Disaster Recovery (DR) environment due to costs and the time it takes to do so. That is, until their primary site goes down for hours or days, then DR suddenly moves to the top of the list. *Learn about StoneFly’s Data Continuity.
NavigateStorage is a premier partner. Call us at 978-318-9000 or write.
No Single Point Of Failure Protection Without Complete Duplication Of Storage Resources
Today’s crop of storage devices have gone a long way to protect data by using different RAID levels. To date, all No Single Point Of Failure (NSPOF) configurations require 100% duplication of actual disk storage. RAID10, and RAID51 or RAID61 require doubling the number of drives to achieve NSPOF, and most manufacturers don’t support RAID51 or RAID61.
Problem – if other applications do not require the same level of protection, the only option is to buy more storage and protect it. Some vendors do not even offer this as an option. NavigateStorage and Stonefly bring you a soluition. This brief will review standard NSPOF options vs. StoneFly’s RAIDML, which offers the ability to create NSPOF volumes and purely RAID5 or 6 protected volumes, in a single storage unit or across multiple storage units.
NavigateStorage is pleased to bring you a solution with our Stonefly products. Let us tell you more. Call 1-978-318-9000 or write.
Problem – if other applications do not require the same level of protection, the only option is to buy more storage and protect it. Some vendors do not even offer this as an option. NavigateStorage and Stonefly bring you a soluition. This brief will review standard NSPOF options vs. StoneFly’s RAIDML, which offers the ability to create NSPOF volumes and purely RAID5 or 6 protected volumes, in a single storage unit or across multiple storage units.
NavigateStorage is pleased to bring you a solution with our Stonefly products. Let us tell you more. Call 1-978-318-9000 or write.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
RELDATA --- NAS and iSCSI storage systems.
NavigateStorage, a 10 year old storage speciality company, highlights RELDATA a unified storage system. RELDATA develops feature-rich, software-centric unified storage systems that cost-effectively simplify management and improve utilization of storage infrastructures in virtualized, private-cloud computing environments. Value-based advanced features of RELDATA unified storage solutions include:
* Virtualize SAN (iSCSI, FC) block-level and NAS (both NFS and CIFS) file-level data with management from a single pane of glass
* Use of iSCSI for synchronous mirroring and incremental replication, which offers greater flexibility and lower cost than legacy fibre channel.
* Virtualization of third-party storage into a single pool managed via a single interface.
* File data can be replicated using traditional block-level methods.
* Snapshot roll-back flexibility saves time by allowing IT staff to roll back volumes to an arbitrary snapshot on a block-level.
For more infomation contact Jim at NavigateStorage or call 978-318-9000 or write.
* Virtualize SAN (iSCSI, FC) block-level and NAS (both NFS and CIFS) file-level data with management from a single pane of glass
* Use of iSCSI for synchronous mirroring and incremental replication, which offers greater flexibility and lower cost than legacy fibre channel.
* Virtualization of third-party storage into a single pool managed via a single interface.
* File data can be replicated using traditional block-level methods.
* Snapshot roll-back flexibility saves time by allowing IT staff to roll back volumes to an arbitrary snapshot on a block-level.
For more infomation contact Jim at NavigateStorage or call 978-318-9000 or write.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Red Condor Launches Cloud-Based Message Archiving Solution
October 21, 2009
NavigateStorage a Red Condor business partner and long term Email Archiving expert joins Red Condor in leveraging its global cloud computer and storage infrastructure, email security services provider is launching Red Condor Archive, a secure message archiving service, which helps organizations meet compliance regulations, e-discovery support requirements, and data storage and management best practices.
According to its Thursday announcement, Red Condor Archive delivers a scalable, software-free service that provides automatic back-up of all inbound and outbound messages for all messaging systems with lifetime retention and unlimited storage. It is managed through a web-based interface, and is available on a subscription basis.
Like its hosted spam-fighting service, Red Condor Archive does not require any additional hardware or software, or ongoing maintenance. All access to archived data is protected by SSL encryption and adherence to the US government's Advanced Encryption Standard ensures that data is not accessible in clear text.
"While our award-winning spam-fighting technology continues to protect email servers and networks from email threats, these same infrastructures are facing a growing storage problem that is straining expensive hardware and adding significant administrative costs," Red Condor chief executive officer Thomas Steding said in a statement. "In addition to these storage challenges, companies are also being hit with compliance requirements from the SEC, NASD, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other industry groups, as well as the need to protect themselves in the event of legal discovery requests."
Data is stored online and immediately accessible for comprehensive searches through secure administrator and end-user dashboards. Archive users will be able to search, retrieve and export messages by keyword, sender, recipient, data range and other criteria, as well as add comments, tag keywords and flag for review. With Red Condor Archive, companies can enforce corporate policy while protecting themselves and their employees by auditing employee email for harassment, improper disclosure, confidentiality leaks and other risks.
"Message archiving is no longer something nice to have, it is now business critical," Steding continued. "With Red Condor Archive, we are bringing to message archiving the same dedication that helped make our email filtering so effective and successful. Red Condor provides an affordable solution that protects and archives business communications, allowing organizations and their IT staffs to remain focused on their core operations."
Jim Addlesberger, President of NavigateStorage, said that Red Condor is taking all the work and costs out of protecting email and of being compliant. Jim said "a user can start out with as few as five mail boxes and grow up to 5,000 mail boxes. Costs he said for 100 mail boxes is $4000 a year. No software or hardware is required."
Our webpage for this great offering is under development so email or call 978-318-9000 for brochure pdf's or more info, or both.
NavigateStorage a Red Condor business partner and long term Email Archiving expert joins Red Condor in leveraging its global cloud computer and storage infrastructure, email security services provider is launching Red Condor Archive, a secure message archiving service, which helps organizations meet compliance regulations, e-discovery support requirements, and data storage and management best practices.
According to its Thursday announcement, Red Condor Archive delivers a scalable, software-free service that provides automatic back-up of all inbound and outbound messages for all messaging systems with lifetime retention and unlimited storage. It is managed through a web-based interface, and is available on a subscription basis.
Like its hosted spam-fighting service, Red Condor Archive does not require any additional hardware or software, or ongoing maintenance. All access to archived data is protected by SSL encryption and adherence to the US government's Advanced Encryption Standard ensures that data is not accessible in clear text.
"While our award-winning spam-fighting technology continues to protect email servers and networks from email threats, these same infrastructures are facing a growing storage problem that is straining expensive hardware and adding significant administrative costs," Red Condor chief executive officer Thomas Steding said in a statement. "In addition to these storage challenges, companies are also being hit with compliance requirements from the SEC, NASD, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other industry groups, as well as the need to protect themselves in the event of legal discovery requests."
Data is stored online and immediately accessible for comprehensive searches through secure administrator and end-user dashboards. Archive users will be able to search, retrieve and export messages by keyword, sender, recipient, data range and other criteria, as well as add comments, tag keywords and flag for review. With Red Condor Archive, companies can enforce corporate policy while protecting themselves and their employees by auditing employee email for harassment, improper disclosure, confidentiality leaks and other risks.
"Message archiving is no longer something nice to have, it is now business critical," Steding continued. "With Red Condor Archive, we are bringing to message archiving the same dedication that helped make our email filtering so effective and successful. Red Condor provides an affordable solution that protects and archives business communications, allowing organizations and their IT staffs to remain focused on their core operations."
Jim Addlesberger, President of NavigateStorage, said that Red Condor is taking all the work and costs out of protecting email and of being compliant. Jim said "a user can start out with as few as five mail boxes and grow up to 5,000 mail boxes. Costs he said for 100 mail boxes is $4000 a year. No software or hardware is required."
Our webpage for this great offering is under development so email or call 978-318-9000 for brochure pdf's or more info, or both.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Thin provisioning brings utilization and capacity benefits to data storage, but with a caveat
NavigateStorage specializes in storage and has since 1999. We found this article of interest and wanted to share it with you from Search Storage October, 2009.
Introducing thin provisioning technology into existing and new enterprise data storage environments can bring dramatic storage recovery rates and bottom-line savings. The technology works in disparate environments with a wide range of capacity and application needs, and can help many administrators solve the ongoing dilemma of provisioning enough storage to each application so it can run smoothly while still retaining enough storage to introduce new applications and deal with unexpected growth. Major vendors have been slow to offer thin provisioning technology, however, perhaps because they were reluctant to reduce the amount of capacity (and products) their customers must buy.
Read more
NavigateStorage offers most all brands and types of storage. Check us out and then call Jim at 978-318-9000
Introducing thin provisioning technology into existing and new enterprise data storage environments can bring dramatic storage recovery rates and bottom-line savings. The technology works in disparate environments with a wide range of capacity and application needs, and can help many administrators solve the ongoing dilemma of provisioning enough storage to each application so it can run smoothly while still retaining enough storage to introduce new applications and deal with unexpected growth. Major vendors have been slow to offer thin provisioning technology, however, perhaps because they were reluctant to reduce the amount of capacity (and products) their customers must buy.
Read more
NavigateStorage offers most all brands and types of storage. Check us out and then call Jim at 978-318-9000
Friday, October 16, 2009
Reldata 9240i Unified Storage
NavigateStorage and RELDATA deliver a new breed of virtual enterprise-wide data storage and replication infrastructure based on a single pool of shared storage. RELDATA data storage and replication solutions are simplifying unstructured data management in distributed IT infrastructures and dramatically reduce total cost of ownership.
RELDATA Unified Storage Systems.
RELDATA’s 9240i Unified Storage System delivers integrated iSCSI SAN, NAS and WAN replication functions on a single virtualized platform that delivers best-in-class performance. The system is easy to implement, operate, and manage, yet delivers enterprise-class functionality. Customers can independently scale disk storage capacity, SAN/NAS/WAN replication storage services, and network performance without application disruption. This "pay-as-you-grow" design eliminates the need for forklift box upgrades — and the downtime it causes — and liberates customers from vendor lock-in and the associated predatory pricing for additional disk capacity.
Let us tell you more, answer your questions and offer you a quote. Call 978-318-9000 or write.
We have been in business for 10 years and represent a wide variety of storage and vendors.
RELDATA Unified Storage Systems.
RELDATA’s 9240i Unified Storage System delivers integrated iSCSI SAN, NAS and WAN replication functions on a single virtualized platform that delivers best-in-class performance. The system is easy to implement, operate, and manage, yet delivers enterprise-class functionality. Customers can independently scale disk storage capacity, SAN/NAS/WAN replication storage services, and network performance without application disruption. This "pay-as-you-grow" design eliminates the need for forklift box upgrades — and the downtime it causes — and liberates customers from vendor lock-in and the associated predatory pricing for additional disk capacity.
Let us tell you more, answer your questions and offer you a quote. Call 978-318-9000 or write.
We have been in business for 10 years and represent a wide variety of storage and vendors.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Kaspersky for business 6.0 with new Admin kit Rel 2.0 is released
NavigateStorage, your Premier partner for Kaspersky, is ready to provide all the great news, pricing and free trials.
Call us 978-318-9000 or write Jim
Xyratex manufactured OEM Storage Special Sale
NavigateStorage sells storage arrays from many vendors. Often some of our distributors or Vendors will order arrays to be built in the hope of selling them using their power of volume and hence lower prices.
I received a phone call promoting just such arrays. Great deals on private labelled storage arrays built by Xyratex, warranted for three years RTF, single controllers, with 12 - One TB SATA drives (12TB raw) and 6 - One TB SATA (6 TB raw) configurations.
We have detailed spec sheets for interested parties.
Write or call Jim at NavigateStorage 978-318-9000
I received a phone call promoting just such arrays. Great deals on private labelled storage arrays built by Xyratex, warranted for three years RTF, single controllers, with 12 - One TB SATA drives (12TB raw) and 6 - One TB SATA (6 TB raw) configurations.
We have detailed spec sheets for interested parties.
Write or call Jim at NavigateStorage 978-318-9000
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
NavigateStorage announces price reductions for iStor Storage
NavigateStorage announces price reductions for iStor Storage. Effective October 12, 2009 the iStor 512 price has been reduced
iStor’s Virtual Storage technology makes the full power of IP SANs available to the SMB market. The virtual pool of storage frees the storage user from the complexities of traditional RAID configuration, eases management and increases the efficiency of disk utilization; all while optimizing the performance of all applications.
Powerful enough to satisfy high bandwidth applications, as well as transaction-intensive applications, the iS512 features 8x1GbE host ports, providing the industry’s highest throughput for a single controller, and supports over 80,000 IOPS.Configurations are available for up to 25 TB utilizing high-performance SAS drives and up to 84 TB with high-capacity SAS drives.Virtual Storage technology, coupled with an intuitive GUI make management a breeze; additionally, all of your integraStor systems can be managed from a single utility.
Advanced users can take advantage of a comprehensive CLI and applications requiring integration with iStor’s management frameworks can interface to iStor’s API.
2U, 12 drives
8 1GbE host ports
Cost effective expansion arrays for up to 84 drives
Redundant controllers for high availability
10G architecture driven by iStor’s purpose-built iSCSI RAID Chip
Virtual Storage technologyVirtual pool of storage eliminates RAID groups, Application aware volume creation, Self optimizing cache, Online RAID level migration, Online volume expansion,
Online capacity expansion of entire pool
Fast rebuildsOnly disk space utilized by active volumes needs to be rebuilt – not entire drive
This is a great device. Perfect for VMWare users too, fully certified. Visit our website to see a smaller array along side the iS512. Write us or call 978-318-9000
iStor’s Virtual Storage technology makes the full power of IP SANs available to the SMB market. The virtual pool of storage frees the storage user from the complexities of traditional RAID configuration, eases management and increases the efficiency of disk utilization; all while optimizing the performance of all applications.
Powerful enough to satisfy high bandwidth applications, as well as transaction-intensive applications, the iS512 features 8x1GbE host ports, providing the industry’s highest throughput for a single controller, and supports over 80,000 IOPS.Configurations are available for up to 25 TB utilizing high-performance SAS drives and up to 84 TB with high-capacity SAS drives.Virtual Storage technology, coupled with an intuitive GUI make management a breeze; additionally, all of your integraStor systems can be managed from a single utility.
Advanced users can take advantage of a comprehensive CLI and applications requiring integration with iStor’s management frameworks can interface to iStor’s API.
2U, 12 drives
8 1GbE host ports
Cost effective expansion arrays for up to 84 drives
Redundant controllers for high availability
10G architecture driven by iStor’s purpose-built iSCSI RAID Chip
Virtual Storage technologyVirtual pool of storage eliminates RAID groups, Application aware volume creation, Self optimizing cache, Online RAID level migration, Online volume expansion,
Online capacity expansion of entire pool
Fast rebuildsOnly disk space utilized by active volumes needs to be rebuilt – not entire drive
This is a great device. Perfect for VMWare users too, fully certified. Visit our website to see a smaller array along side the iS512. Write us or call 978-318-9000
Saturday, October 10, 2009
StoneFly Voyager for High Availability
StoneFly Voyager for High Availability:
Jim Addlesberger commented that "StoneFly's new Voyager IP SANs were designed to offer active/active controllers, improved redundancy, high-availability and fast performance - at a lower price point. Using high-performance storage interconnects, the Voyager product family is designed for enterprise environments looking for a versatile SAN for primary and secondary storage applications. With support for SAS, SATA, and SSD drives for online transaction processing, database, email, disk based archives, disk to disk backup, virtual servers and other core applications. The cornerstone of the Voyager is our storage virtualization engine, which offers quad-core processing power, dedicated iSCSI Cache, and our StoneFusion storage management operating system."
That's quite a mouthful so we challenged him to put his money where his mouth is. So here is what he said, "How about all this for $32,790 before discount?"
5U Voyager IP SAN Appliance Consists of Two Clustered i5517 Storage Concentrator Virtualization Engines and 16 drives (Base Appliance)
o StoneFusion 6.1 Operating System
§ StoneFly iSCSI Management
· Logical Volume Creation
· Storage Virtualization Services
· 200 Host Connections Supported
· 256 Concurrent Sessions
· Volume Level Access Control and Dynamic Volume Management
· Support for SNMP Traps
· System-Wide Performance and Utilization Reporting
§ StoneFly HA Clustering Services
· Active/Active Clustering
· Host and IP SAN Load Balancing
· Seamless Failover and Failback Operations
§ StoneFly Snapshot Services
· Delta-based Snapshots
· Mountable Read-Write Snapshot Volumes
· Command Line Interface Utility
· Granular Snapshot Schedule Utility
· Optional VSS Support
§ StoneFly Reflection Services
· Real-time Synchronous Mirroring of iSCSI Volumes
· Multi-site Replication
· Optional Asynchronous Replication Services
· Bidirectional synchronous campus mirroring
· Volume Based Encryption Services (Optional)
o StoneFly Concentrator Cluster Node (2)
· Multi-Core Storage Virtualization Engines
· 2GB DATA Packet and Command Queuing Cache for SSPP®
· Three Bonded Gigabit iSCSI Connections (Dual 10Gb available)
· One Gigabit port per cluster node for management
· Redundant Load Balanced Hot Swap Power Supplies
· Hot Swap Cluster Node
o StoneFly High-Availability Storage Subsystem
· Two Dual (4) Active-Active RAID Controllers with Transparent Failover and Failback Operation
· Includes Sixteen Hot-Swappable 1000GB SATA Disk Drives
· Plug and Play Storage Expansion supporting 128 SAS/SATA/SSD drive configurations
· ECC-Protected RAID Cache with Battery-Backup on Each RAID Controller
· Out-of-Band Ethernet Interface for Remote Status Monitoring & Configuration
· Dual Load-Sharing 530 Watt Hot-Swappable Redundant 1+1 Power Supply Modules with PFC
· Capable of RAID Levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, and 60
· Global Hot Spares Supported
· Preemptive Drive Failure Notification
o StoneFly Manufacturers Warranty
· 1 Year of Advanced Parts Replacement Warranty and 24x7 Technical Support
· Optional StoneFly Installation and Integration Services Available
Jim Addlesberger commented that "StoneFly's new Voyager IP SANs were designed to offer active/active controllers, improved redundancy, high-availability and fast performance - at a lower price point. Using high-performance storage interconnects, the Voyager product family is designed for enterprise environments looking for a versatile SAN for primary and secondary storage applications. With support for SAS, SATA, and SSD drives for online transaction processing, database, email, disk based archives, disk to disk backup, virtual servers and other core applications. The cornerstone of the Voyager is our storage virtualization engine, which offers quad-core processing power, dedicated iSCSI Cache, and our StoneFusion storage management operating system."
That's quite a mouthful so we challenged him to put his money where his mouth is. So here is what he said, "How about all this for $32,790 before discount?"
5U Voyager IP SAN Appliance Consists of Two Clustered i5517 Storage Concentrator Virtualization Engines and 16 drives (Base Appliance)
o StoneFusion 6.1 Operating System
§ StoneFly iSCSI Management
· Logical Volume Creation
· Storage Virtualization Services
· 200 Host Connections Supported
· 256 Concurrent Sessions
· Volume Level Access Control and Dynamic Volume Management
· Support for SNMP Traps
· System-Wide Performance and Utilization Reporting
§ StoneFly HA Clustering Services
· Active/Active Clustering
· Host and IP SAN Load Balancing
· Seamless Failover and Failback Operations
§ StoneFly Snapshot Services
· Delta-based Snapshots
· Mountable Read-Write Snapshot Volumes
· Command Line Interface Utility
· Granular Snapshot Schedule Utility
· Optional VSS Support
§ StoneFly Reflection Services
· Real-time Synchronous Mirroring of iSCSI Volumes
· Multi-site Replication
· Optional Asynchronous Replication Services
· Bidirectional synchronous campus mirroring
· Volume Based Encryption Services (Optional)
o StoneFly Concentrator Cluster Node (2)
· Multi-Core Storage Virtualization Engines
· 2GB DATA Packet and Command Queuing Cache for SSPP®
· Three Bonded Gigabit iSCSI Connections (Dual 10Gb available)
· One Gigabit port per cluster node for management
· Redundant Load Balanced Hot Swap Power Supplies
· Hot Swap Cluster Node
o StoneFly High-Availability Storage Subsystem
· Two Dual (4) Active-Active RAID Controllers with Transparent Failover and Failback Operation
· Includes Sixteen Hot-Swappable 1000GB SATA Disk Drives
· Plug and Play Storage Expansion supporting 128 SAS/SATA/SSD drive configurations
· ECC-Protected RAID Cache with Battery-Backup on Each RAID Controller
· Out-of-Band Ethernet Interface for Remote Status Monitoring & Configuration
· Dual Load-Sharing 530 Watt Hot-Swappable Redundant 1+1 Power Supply Modules with PFC
· Capable of RAID Levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, and 60
· Global Hot Spares Supported
· Preemptive Drive Failure Notification
o StoneFly Manufacturers Warranty
· 1 Year of Advanced Parts Replacement Warranty and 24x7 Technical Support
· Optional StoneFly Installation and Integration Services Available
Don't wait, contact us today and price out your configuration email Jim or call 978-318-9000 at NavigateStorage
NavigateStorage offers NEC D3i
The D3i array has many built-in features and supports NEC's enterprise-class storage software. A single D3 array can scale from just 219 GB to 144 TB capacity by adding up to eleven 2U 12-drive expansion enclosures.
Aggregate throughput of over 400 MB/s to hosts is provided through up to four 1 Gbps iSCSI Ethernet ports. These can be connected into a network or direct-connected as a simple and low-cost DAS configuration. (A Fibre Channel model is also available.)
The disk enclosures are connected to the controllers via SAS wide-link connection for 24 Gbps bandwidth to each disk enclosure.
The system is fully redundant to protect against single-point-of-failure, with a battery backup unit for protecting the cache. Failed components are reported via alerts by either email or SNMP traps and in the management software.
Let NavigateStorage tell you more about their Storage Arrays. Call Jim at 978-318-9000 or write and we will call you.
Aggregate throughput of over 400 MB/s to hosts is provided through up to four 1 Gbps iSCSI Ethernet ports. These can be connected into a network or direct-connected as a simple and low-cost DAS configuration. (A Fibre Channel model is also available.)
The disk enclosures are connected to the controllers via SAS wide-link connection for 24 Gbps bandwidth to each disk enclosure.
The system is fully redundant to protect against single-point-of-failure, with a battery backup unit for protecting the cache. Failed components are reported via alerts by either email or SNMP traps and in the management software.
Let NavigateStorage tell you more about their Storage Arrays. Call Jim at 978-318-9000 or write and we will call you.
Friday, October 9, 2009
NEC Storage - a real sleeper
Jim Addlesberger of NavigateStorage says, "the D1 includes all of the exclusive features of the NEC D-Series Enterprise Modular Storage arrays and supports many enterprise-class software capabilities."
A single D1 array can scale from 219 GB to 72 TB capacity by adding up to five 2U 12-drive expansion enclosures. The disk array base unit, with the first 12 drives, comes standard with dual controllers, but is available in a single controller format for those preferring minimum cost over redundancy.
Aggregate throughput over 1,100 MB/sec to hosts is provided through up to four 4Gbps Fibre Channel ports. These can be connected into a switched fabric SAN or direct-connected as a simple and low-cost DAS configuration. The disk enclosures are connected to the controller via SAS wide-link connection for 12 Gbps bandwidth to each disk drive.
The system is fully redundant to protect against single-point-of-failure, with a battery backup unit for protecting the cache. Failed components are reported via alerts by either email or SNMP traps and in the management software.
This is a terrific system whose price includes 3 year NBD On-Site at no extra charge. NavigateStorage can provide this FC or IPSAN for you today at a very competitive price.
Write or call 978-318-9000 PS.If it's an IPSAN you want check out this terrfic system too. NEC D3i
A single D1 array can scale from 219 GB to 72 TB capacity by adding up to five 2U 12-drive expansion enclosures. The disk array base unit, with the first 12 drives, comes standard with dual controllers, but is available in a single controller format for those preferring minimum cost over redundancy.
Aggregate throughput over 1,100 MB/sec to hosts is provided through up to four 4Gbps Fibre Channel ports. These can be connected into a switched fabric SAN or direct-connected as a simple and low-cost DAS configuration. The disk enclosures are connected to the controller via SAS wide-link connection for 12 Gbps bandwidth to each disk drive.
The system is fully redundant to protect against single-point-of-failure, with a battery backup unit for protecting the cache. Failed components are reported via alerts by either email or SNMP traps and in the management software.
This is a terrific system whose price includes 3 year NBD On-Site at no extra charge. NavigateStorage can provide this FC or IPSAN for you today at a very competitive price.
Write or call 978-318-9000 PS.If it's an IPSAN you want check out this terrfic system too. NEC D3i
Thursday, October 8, 2009
NavigateStorage promotes iStor325 and 512
iStor Virtual Storage technology from NavigateStorage makes the full power of IP SANs available to the SMB market. The virtual pool of storage frees the storage user from the complexities of traditional RAID configuration, eases management and increases the efficiency of disk utilization; all while optimizing the performance of all applications.
Powerful enough to satisfy high bandwidth applications, as well as transaction-intensive applications, the iS325 features 8x1GbE host ports, providing the industry’s highest throughput for a single controller, and supports over 80,000 IOPS.
Virtual Storage technology, coupled with an intuitive GUI make management a breeze; additionally, all of your integraStor systems can be managed from a single utility. Advanced users can take advantage of a comprehensive CLI and applications requiring integration with iStor’s management frameworks can interface to iStor’s API.
Contact NavigateStorage today for a low cost quote (but high on functionality) at 978-318-9000 or drop us an email
Powerful enough to satisfy high bandwidth applications, as well as transaction-intensive applications, the iS325 features 8x1GbE host ports, providing the industry’s highest throughput for a single controller, and supports over 80,000 IOPS.
Virtual Storage technology, coupled with an intuitive GUI make management a breeze; additionally, all of your integraStor systems can be managed from a single utility. Advanced users can take advantage of a comprehensive CLI and applications requiring integration with iStor’s management frameworks can interface to iStor’s API.
Contact NavigateStorage today for a low cost quote (but high on functionality) at 978-318-9000 or drop us an email
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
StoneFly Satisfies Need for Speed with Support for Solid-State Drives
HAYWARD, Calif. – 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.
Jim Addlesberger of NavigateStorage says, "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 ports, for an aggregated bandwidth of 40Gb, allowing organizations to sustain high-speed performance and SAN IO throughput. All Stonefly products are available through StoneFly's worldwide MVP reseller network. Each authorized MVP channel partner offers SAN configuration services, engineering support and post-sales implementation resources for all datacenter environments.
To learn more contact Jim Addlesberger at NavigateStorage or call (978-318-9000) or write
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.
Jim Addlesberger of NavigateStorage says, "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 ports, for an aggregated bandwidth of 40Gb, allowing organizations to sustain high-speed performance and SAN IO throughput. All Stonefly products are available through StoneFly's worldwide MVP reseller network. Each authorized MVP channel partner offers SAN configuration services, engineering support and post-sales implementation resources for all datacenter environments.
To learn more contact Jim Addlesberger at NavigateStorage or call (978-318-9000) or write
NavigateStorage and Kaspersky Announce Rel. 2 of Open Space
I just wanted you to know that today Kaspersky has announced the release 2 of Open Space Security which is a free upgrade for all my valid Kaspersky license holders
Kaspersky Open Space Security Release 2 has made its official debut as it was announced today. KOSS Release 2 presents significant enhancements to deliver superior protection for Windows Workstations and File Server Endpoints. KOSS Release 2 is comprised of Kaspersky Administration Kit 8.0, Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Workstations 6.0 Release 2 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Fileservers 6.0 Release 2. The new release provides great opportunities for existing clients as well as new customers with better protection, performance, manageability and deployment. Rob Lipshutz of Cascadia Labs said, ""Kaspersky's full suite of protection capabilities offers businesses much more than just anti-virus; and it works efficiently so desktop and laptop users get protection without pain. Kaspersky simplifies deployment for both small and large companies by minimizing the number of steps from start to finish. That saves time and money. Plus, the Kaspersky Administration Kit offers a useful dashboard and a decidedly task-oriented approach - useful for administrators that need to see status at a glance and get things done."
Learn more at http://usa.kaspersky.com/
Call me at 978-318-9000 or write for renewals or additional licenses of this great product.
Jim Addlesberger
NavigateStorage
Kaspersky Open Space Security Release 2 has made its official debut as it was announced today. KOSS Release 2 presents significant enhancements to deliver superior protection for Windows Workstations and File Server Endpoints. KOSS Release 2 is comprised of Kaspersky Administration Kit 8.0, Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Workstations 6.0 Release 2 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Fileservers 6.0 Release 2. The new release provides great opportunities for existing clients as well as new customers with better protection, performance, manageability and deployment. Rob Lipshutz of Cascadia Labs said, ""Kaspersky's full suite of protection capabilities offers businesses much more than just anti-virus; and it works efficiently so desktop and laptop users get protection without pain. Kaspersky simplifies deployment for both small and large companies by minimizing the number of steps from start to finish. That saves time and money. Plus, the Kaspersky Administration Kit offers a useful dashboard and a decidedly task-oriented approach - useful for administrators that need to see status at a glance and get things done."
Learn more at http://usa.kaspersky.com/
Call me at 978-318-9000 or write for renewals or additional licenses of this great product.
Jim Addlesberger
NavigateStorage
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Kaspersky Home users
10% discount for home users from NavigateStorage Kaspersky website. Call 978-318-9000 for more or visit our website.
Kaspersky Business Space
Kaspersky Business Space Security offers an umbrella of protection to workstations, smartphones, and file servers from all types of computer threats, prevents epidemics of malicious programs, and keeps information secure and fully accessible to users of network resources. The product was expressly designed to meet the increasing demands of servers operating under heavy loads.
NavigateStorage is a premier partner. Call us 978-318-9000 or write for the best AV software on the market.
NavigateStorage is a premier partner. Call us 978-318-9000 or write for the best AV software on the market.
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