IQStor Storage from NavigateStorage

IQStor Storage from NavigateStorage: "Storage Systems for SMB and SME"

The SMB and SME market is insufficiently addressed by existing storage solutions. Enterprise-level systems offer more capability than is necessary and have high initial acquisition costs. iQstor storage solutions are ideal for Storage Administrators at small and mid-sized businesses looking for storage solutions that offer:

* Enterprise class high availability features with no single point of failure
* SAN ready connectivity using Fibre Channel or iSCSI interface
* Server independent SRM software, including storage virtualization, snapshot, volume copy, capacity management, storage provisioning and remote replication
* Storage capacity from 2TB to over 240TB

NavigateStorage has specialized storage for over 10 years and offers a wide variety of storage in features and price ranges. You can depend on us for quality and functionality.

Call the best at 978-318-9000.

Global Relay Hosted Email Full Compliance

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."

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NavigateStorage sells Global Relay

NavigateStorage founded in 1999 has specialized in Email Arching since 2001. Over the years Email archiving has matured to include compliance, e-discovery and now archiving via the cloud also called hosted.

Hosted services provides many advantages. With a hosted solution the vendor provides all equipment such as servers including a remote disaster recovery site, all software including the maintenance of the software and the personnel to insure high quality performance and security. this saves money and enables your personnel to focus on you core business. A recent prospect said "in my search for a solution I have found that hosted solutions provide many more features than the traditional in-house solutions."

We specialize in Global Relay a note worthy solution highly rated by Gartner Group and a new comer from Red Condor also know for their Anti-Spam solution.

For in house solutions we also provide Mimosa and ZANTAZ.

Let us help you in you search. Call NavigateStorage at 978-318-9000 or email us.

StoneFly's iSCSI.com : Solutions : Virtualization : Supported Platforms

StoneFly's iSCSI.com : Solutions : Virtualization : Supported Platforms:

"StoneFly offers VMware certified IP SANs. StoneFly SANS are currently certified for use with VMware's built-in software iSCSI initiator for ESX Server and the vSphere platform.

For more information on certified options from StoneFly, visit VMware's hardware certification list. To learn more about using your StoneFly IP SAN with virtual servers, please contact NavigateStorage then review our technical brief on virtual servers, watch the following video, or review our related information section on the right. Registered StoneFly customers also have access to our users guide for virtual server environments in our knowledgebase and support portal."

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NavigateStorage Data Protection for the Enterprise: 2009-09-13

NavigateStorage Data Protection for the Enterprise: 2009-09-13: "AutoMAID™ Energy Saving Technology
Nexsan's evolutionary AutoMAID (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) energy saving technology transparently places disk drives into an idle state to vastly reduce power and cooling costs. AutoMAID delivers the cost-effecdtive benefits of MAID 2.0 without the limitations of slow access times and special host software.

AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or RAID set and offers multiple levels of energy savings. AutoMAID is user selectable enabling users to determine the right level of response time performance to energy savings. AutoMAID is the first MAID 2.0 architecture that supports VTL, full file format D2D and standard high performance RAID implementations.

Key Points
AutoMAID reduces power and cooling costs
Nexsan’s AutoMAID delivers the benefits of MAID without the limitations
Available on Nexsan Assureon, SATABoy, SATABeast, and SATABeast

All this is available from NavigateStorage. Call NavigateStorage today and see what they can tailor for you."

NavigateStorage Data Protection for the Enterprise: 2009-09-20

NavigateStorage Data Protection for the Enterprise: 2009-09-20: "Stonefly Storage
StoneFly Storage Arrays from NavigateStorage, a nation-wide premier partner, offers a full line of high quality high-availabilty storage arrays of all type.

Contact NavigateStorage by 'requesting more info' on our website or call us at 978-310-9000."

NavigateStorage Data Protection for the Enterprise: NavigateStorage offers NEC D3i

NavigateStorage Data Protection for the Enterprise: 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."

Hosted Email archiving, compliance and e-discovery

Looking for a high quality email archiving solution but don't want to hire staff, buy equipment or deal with the hassel of getting started?

Our suite of solutions includes ZANTAZ, Global Relay and Red Condor.

NavigateStorage has ten years experience with archiving. Gloabal Relay is rated high by Gartner Group and we would like to tell you more about Global Relay.

We also represent a recently announced product from Red Condor we have worked with them for their Spam solution and can vouch for their capabilities. Being new they are offering Free Storage for life for new customers.

We can also offer you a free trial, a demo and pricing. Its a great product.

Call us at 978-318-9000 or drop us an email.

Red Condor Email Archiving, Compliance, e-Discovery

NavigateStorage specializes in full function archiving from Global Relay, Red Condor and Zantaz.

Contact us and lets review your specific needs. Call us at 978-318-9000 or write.

High availability storage at NavigateStorage

NavigateStorage is celebrating its 10th year specializing in storage of all types and sizes such as SANs - FC, SATA, SAS with or without High Availability to fit all needs and budgets. VMWare compatibility and Remote Backup too.

We also have backup solutions, email archiving and Anti-Virus/Malware protection software.

Contact us at email or phone 978-318-9000.

Global Relay Hosted Email Full Compliance

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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