Wednesday, February 24, 2010

RELDATA 9240i Unified Storage System

RELDATA’s 9240i is a feature-rich, software-centric unified storage system for virtualized cloud computing environments in mid-market organizations. The 9240i is powered by the RELvos 2.4 virtualization software, consolidates SAN and NAS on a single, easy-to-use x86-based platform.

The RELDATA 9240i/RELvos unified storage solution delivers integrated iSCSI SAN, NAS and WAN replication functions on a single virtualized platform for best-in-class performance. The system delivers enterprise-class functionality, yet is easy to implement, operate and manage. 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 upgrades — and the downtime they cause — and liberates customers from vendor lock-in and the associated predatory pricing for additional disk capacity.

The 9240i includes an industry standard high performance storage controller, RELvos virtualization operating system and integrated Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk storage. Capacity can be expanded by adding RELDATA disk arrays or pooling existing resources. The 9240i is available for 1 GbE and/or 10 GbE infrastructures. With the 9240i, IT managers are able to set up iSCSI SANs that can scale to multiple petabytes of capacity and support hundreds of servers with performance rivaling FC SANs, giving them plenty of headroom for future storage growth.

NavigateStorage is ready to tell you more. In addition demonstrations and quotes are readily available. Please write or call 978-318-9000

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

RELDATA - Unified storage solutions that deliver iSCSI SAN, NAS and WAN replication

RELDATA - Unified storage solutions that deliver iSCSI SAN, NAS and WAN replication: "Storage

'Why RELDATA Storage?'

We operate today in an extremely data-intensive environment.

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.

Give us a shout @978-318-9000 or write us an email

Global Relay Communications | Highlights | Why Global Relay?

Global Relay Communications Highlights Why Global Relay?:

High Performance Systems

The technology that powers the email & IM archive and the monitoring systems exemplifies our greatest strength. Where most archiving and monitoring systems are based solely on database technology, Global Relay's system infrastructure is based on a hybrid database/search engine core (similar to Google), which enables it to achieve unsurpassed search, retrieval and monitoring speed capabilities. A typical online search is less than three seconds. This translates into unsurpassed productivity while conducting search, retrieval and monitoring activities.

Global Relay is a recommended Gartner hosted solution when viewing there magic quadrant.

Contact NavigateStorage and learn more or give it a non-envasive spin.

Monday, February 22, 2010

NEC Storage D8-20 : SAN | NEC: Products | NEC

NEC Storage D8-20 : SAN NEC: Products NEC:

Building block architecture is adopted for the first time in the industry.

The D8 Series can be upgraded like accumulating blocks by adopting building block architecture. Host ports, cache memory and disk capacity can be increased in accordance with the increase of the task. The resources within the storage can be virtualized and distributed dynamically to the tasks. Starting with the minimum cost, expandable to midrange or even high-end class, the D8 can maintain the best size for the company's requirement.

Let NavigateStorage show you more.

NEC Storage D8-20 : SAN | NEC: Products | NEC

NEC Storage D8-20 : SAN NEC: Products NEC:

Building block architecture is adopted for the first time in the industry.

The D8 Series can be upgraded like accumulating blocks by adopting building block architecture. Host ports, cache memory and disk capacity can be increased in accordance with the increase of the task. The resources within the storage can be virtualized and distributed dynamically to the tasks. Starting with the minimum cost, expandable to midrange or even high-end class, the D8 can maintain the best size for the company's requirement.

Let NavigateStorage show you more.

Kaspersky "the best"

Kaspersky anti-virus protects you from the Phishing and Malware sites that you wouldn't otherwise know were attempting to steal from you.

At the same time, the Kaspersky Security Network allows your computer to report when it discovers a threat that hasn't been seen before. All 250 million Kaspersky users benefit from our combined knowledge!
Kaspersky features include:
Protects from viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware, adware
Scans files, email, and internet traffic
Protects Instant Messengers
Protects From Unknown Threats
Analyzes and closes Internet Explorer vulnerabilities
Disables links to malware sites / phishing sites
Global Threat Monitoring (Kaspersky Security Network)
Blocks all types of keyloggers
Automatic Database Updates
Free Technical Support

Contact NavigateStorage for more info

Nexsan

"Nexsan iSeries™ Overview

Nexsan iSeries™ is the perfect solution for server virtualization, databases, file storage, data consolidation and multiple data storage requirements where performance and scalability are a must and simple IP deployment is desired.
All storage services are embedded onto the Nexsan iSeries including virtualization, snapshots, replication, mirroring, data migration and more. Users have the ability to create and control 1000s of virtual volumes supporting multiple applications and storage pools simultaneously.

By reliably incorporating SAS and SATA in the same storage system, users no longer have to choose between a performance or capacity driven iSCSI SAN system. Separate storage pools can be created for the needs of different applications from databases to backup.

With an all-inclusive Tier 1 feature set combined with industry leading performance, reliability and energy efficiency, Nexsan iSeries is delivering the iSCSI SAN you need...at a price to meet your budget.

Visit NavigateStorage and request info, configurations, price or just advice.

Call Jim at 978-318-9000 or email.

Best Anti-Virus Software Internet Security - Kaspersky Lab

Best Anti-Virus Software Internet Security - Kaspersky Lab:

What is Kaspersky Open Space Security?

NavigateStorage a premier partner since 2007

Kaspersky Open Space Security is a suite of products that offers security coverage for all types of network endpoints, from mobile devices to servers. Incoming and outgoing data traffic - including email, web traffic and network interactions - is scanned for malicious content and administration is simplified by using a set of powerful administration tools."

StoneFly OptiSAN for High Availability

StoneFly OptiSAN for High Availability:

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.

For Disaster Recovery and more ask for more INFO at http://www.navigatestorage.com/stonefly.html

Jim @ 978-318-9000

Red Condor Archive – Affordable, Reliable and Secure Hosted Email Archiving Service

Red Condor Archive – Affordable, Reliable and Secure Hosted Email Archiving Service:

Satisfy E-Discovery and Compliance Challenges

Red Condor Archive helps your organization be compliant with archiving regulations for SEC, FINRA, NASD, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and more. With secure capturing and full text indexing of all emails and attachments, compliance requests can be fulfilled quickly and easily. Securely capture, index and store multiple copies of auditable email for easy retrieval through our easy-to-use search and discovery interface. For more on compliance and E-Discovery, click here.

NavigateStorage a trusted partner since 1999

Thursday, February 18, 2010

NEC SAN Storage special prices

NEC’s D-Series Enterprise Modular Storage arrays provide highly resilient and easily scalable storage for your SAN without sacrificing performance and flexibility. With high-end features you won’t find on other mid-range arrays with lower overall cost than enterprise systems, there are three models - D1, D3i, D3FC and D8 - with Pay-as-You-Grow scaling from 1:7000 scalability. D-Series storage includes a complete management suite including snapshots, replication, performance management, multipathing, failover, compliance, energy conservation, and more.

NEC’s Dynamic Pooling and Virtual Storage Partitioning allow you to flex your storage. Dynamic Pooling enables you to add disk drives one by one and dynamically grow LUN pools for true online scalability, while Virtual Storage Partitioning lets you add or remove storage and cache dynamically between virtual or physical servers, dramatically improving storage utilization.
The D-Series is resilient, self healing storage with complete redundancy. Unique, patented Phoenix® technology reduces RAID rebuilds by 30 to 50% and detects correctable disk drive failures. Extended data integrity technology extends FC/SAS data integrity for SATA drives to catch “silent data corruption,” resulting in fewer application errors.

If you need to Virtualize, Consolidate or just grow your storage capacity, NEC Modular Storage is well-suited for your IT Initiatives. Contact NavigateStorage, call 978-318-9000 or write Jim

Tech Refresh: Automated tiered storage - Storage Channel Pipeline

Tech Refresh: Automated tiered storage - Storage Channel Pipeline:

Eric Slack on his Feb. 17th blog wrote this.

Automated tiered storage isn’t a new concept — it’s been in archiving systems (HSM) as well as various iterations of information (or data) lifecycle management for years. It refers to the process of moving data between different classes, or tiers, of storage without human intervention. Storage tiering has been a cost saving strategy, mostly, and has typically been implemented with Fibre Channel or SAS drives on one tier, SATA drives on a second tier, and tape (if present) on a third tier. Archive systems moved data off high-speed disk to slow disk or tape when it became inactive and brought it back when it was needed.

Recently, solid-state disk (SSD) created another storage tier and brought a new application to automated tiered storage. Instead of moving less active data to slower, cheaper storage, systems now move more active data to faster, more expensive storage. This new wrinkle kind of ups the ante for storage tiering as a technology. If you only half-filled the SATA drives in your archive tier, the result would be insignificant compared with the cost of leaving an SSD tier half-full. Since the activity profile for a given data set changes, it would need to be dynamically (and automatically) moved into and out of an SSD tier in order to utilize it — and this requires automated tiered storage.

Given the cost pressures on IT and the increasing interest in solid-state storage, storage tiering will probably find its way into more and more disk deals for VARs. And, automated tiered storage is a technology that will be included in many of these projects. There are several ways to implement an automated tiered storage system and companies offer products for each.


Tiering by mixing and matching applications with performance requirements via tiering makes sense and save money. Contact NavigateStorage to discuss our options and ideas for your operation. Write or call 978-318-9000

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

StoneFly Storage and VM

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 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.

Then contact NavigateStorage for a low cost quote and a configuration to meet your current and future needs.

Red Condor Archive – Affordable, Reliable and Secure Hosted Email Archiving Service

Red Condor Archive – Affordable, Reliable and Secure Hosted Email Archiving Service:

Satisfy E-Discovery and Compliance Challenges

Red Condor Archive helps your organization be compliant with archiving regulations for SEC, FINRA, NASD, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and more. With secure capturing and full text indexing of all emails and attachments, compliance requests can be fulfilled quickly and easily. Securely capture, index and store multiple copies of auditable email for easy retrieval through our easy-to-use search and discovery interface.

For more on compliance and E-Discovery and more contact contact Jim Addlesberger at NavigateStorage or call 978-318-9000

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Storage from NavigateStorage

NavigateStorage was founded in 1999. We specialize in storage from most all vendors.

Check us out or call 978-318-9000. Nation-wide.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 - TopTenREVIEWS

Visit NavigateStorage's Kaspersky website for a 10% discount for home users.

Kaspersky Labs has established quite the name in security software, and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 continues to verify their reputation. The antivirus software solution is certainly one of the best available.

Like so many of the other antivirus packages including BitDefender, Kaspersky Anti-Virus is a complete antivirus solution with real-time protection from a number of threats, including viruses, Trojans, bots, worms, and even spyware. The software is more than equipped for comprehensive security, and has some nice new features this year to help combat new threats.

Kaspersky also offers a 3-user license option (for 1 year), so it’s actually a very cost-effective way to protect all of your home computers.

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

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

Network products include QLogic and Brocade switches.

Global Relay, Email Archiving and NavigateStorage

NavigateStorage has been selling Email archiving since 2001 with Educom since then purchased by ZANTAZ them by Autonomy. Since then we elected to use Mimosa for in-house and Global Relay for hosted (or cloud). Another partner of ours for Spam - Red Condor announced their hosted service. All provide compliance and eDiscovery.

For more information, quotes etc. just let us knmow. Ask for more inf on any of our web pages or drop me a line jima@navigatestorage.com. Call at 9798-318-9000

Stonefly Storage from NavigateStorage

NavigateStorage recommends that you consider Stonefly for your next storage acquisition. 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. These products scale and save money versus the bigger named brands.

The cornerstone of the Voyager is their storage virtualization engine, which offers quad-core processing power, dedicated iSCSI Cache, and StoneFusion storage management operating system. Disaster Recovery is their too and its economical.

NavigateStorage specializes in storage. Visit us.

Friday, February 12, 2010

3PAR Inc. InServ F400 Storage Server

3PAR Inc. InServ F400 Storage Server:

Disks and disk subsystems GOLD AWARD:

SearchStorage.com 2009 "Disk and Storage" gold award goes to 3PAR Inc. InServ F400 Storage Server

3PAR's InServ enterprise data storage systems have always won high marks for their thin provisioning and management features, but the vendor's midrange offerings never gained much respect until the F-Class came out last April. The InServ F-Class Storage Servers have the same architecture and ASIC as the InServ T-Class enterprise system that launched in late 2008. That includes mesh-active quad-controller technology, thin provisioning ASIC and management software. The only difference is that the F-Class doesn't scale as high.

Contact NavigateStorage for more information or call 978-318-9000

High Availability Software

High Availability Software:

Eliminate the Hidden Costs of Traditional High Availability Software with everRun 2G

everRun® 2G is Marathon’s next-generation automated high availability software. everRun 2G eliminates the complexities and hidden costs of traditional high availability and data protection products to give you more reliable, affordable application protection. Delivered in software, everRun 2G makes high availability practical for a wide range of applications.

everRun 2G is built on patented technologies proven in the most demanding availability environments such as stock exchanges, television networks, and pharmaceutical manufacturing plants. With high availability software from Marathon, you can run business critical applications such as Microsoft Dynamics, SQL Server, Exchange Server or SharePoint Server or mission critical specialized applications without worries of outages or data loss."

Here is a Podcast for your listening review. Present by NavigateStorage or just call us at 978-318-9000 or drop us an email.

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

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

Network products include QLogic and Brocade switches.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

NEC: D3i SAN Storage Array

NEC: D3i SAN Storage Array:

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.

Operating Systems are Windows Server® 2003 (x86, x64), Windows Server 2008 (x86, x64), Red Hat® Enterprise Linux and VMware.

This is a really solid solution with competitve pricing from NavigateStorage. Check it out then call Jim at 978-318-9000 or Email us.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

StoneFly's iSCSI.com : Solutions : Comprehensive Data Continuity

StoneFly's iSCSI.com : Solutions : Comprehensive Data Continuity:

All your company's data is inside. Year-end financials are due out next week !

If you had StoneFly Comprehensive Data Continuity (CDC), you wouldn’t be spending the next 5 days (and nights) getting tapes shipped from Denver, replacing the burned tape drive and backup server, and managing the restore process, tape after tape. And what if you got rid of your tape archive last year, in favor of local disk backup - of which only a pile of melted plastic and metal remains? Well, if you had replaced it with StoneFly CDC, your company wouldn’t be facing a 93% chance of bankruptcy by year's end.

StoneFly CDC comprises a versatile set of data replication, remote access, and recovery options for your StoneFly SAN and can be tailored to the specific needs of each customer. Contact us at 1-800-STONEFLY for more information, and a detailed analysis of your business risks. Our experienced storage engineers are ready to assist in formulating a comprehensive data continuity plan, to ensure that when your storage systems don't survive a disaster, your company does.

By integrating with the built-in replication and snapshot capabilities of the StoneFusion OS, the CDC service can be used for any volume managed by the StoneFly Concentrator. Databases and open documents are replicated seamlessly to the remote location.

For large data sets or low-bandwidth network links, the initial dataset can be mirrored to an on-site feeder appliance, which is then integrated into the remote environment. Further data changes are replicated seamlessly over the network. In fact, even the largest files can be protected thanks to the block-level delta change technology in the StoneFusion OS. Only changed blocks need to be replicated to maintain full synchronization between local and remote sites.

Why not give NavigateStorage a call at 978-318-9000 or drop is an Email?

StoneFly's iSCSI.com : Solutions : Comprehensive Data Continuity

StoneFly's iSCSI.com : Solutions : Comprehensive Data Continuity:

All your company's data is inside. Year-end financials are due out next week !

If you had StoneFly Comprehensive Data Continuity (CDC), you wouldn’t be spending the next 5 days (and nights) getting tapes shipped from Denver, replacing the burned tape drive and backup server, and managing the restore process, tape after tape. And what if you got rid of your tape archive last year, in favor of local disk backup - of which only a pile of melted plastic and metal remains? Well, if you had replaced it with StoneFly CDC, your company wouldn’t be facing a 93% chance of bankruptcy by year's end.

StoneFly CDC comprises a versatile set of data replication, remote access, and recovery options for your StoneFly SAN and can be tailored to the specific needs of each customer. Contact us at 1-800-STONEFLY for more information, and a detailed analysis of your business risks. Our experienced storage engineers are ready to assist in formulating a comprehensive data continuity plan, to ensure that when your storage systems don't survive a disaster, your company does.

By integrating with the built-in replication and snapshot capabilities of the StoneFusion OS, the CDC service can be used for any volume managed by the StoneFly Concentrator. Databases and open documents are replicated seamlessly to the remote location.

For large data sets or low-bandwidth network links, the initial dataset can be mirrored to an on-site feeder appliance, which is then integrated into the remote environment. Further data changes are replicated seamlessly over the network. In fact, even the largest files can be protected thanks to the block-level delta change technology in the StoneFusion OS. Only changed blocks need to be replicated to maintain full synchronization between local and remote sites.

Why not give NavigateStorage a call at 978-318-9000 or drop is an Email?

NEC: Storage

NEC: Storage:

Today's enterprises, large and small, are creating and using more information than ever before. The sheer volume of information increases the complexity for storing, protecting, and managing information. This complexity is a result of storage heterogeneity with disparate tools to manage each environment, as well as an accelerating rate of change in the IT infrastructure. Data centers are increasingly dynamic where servers and storage must be configured, provisioned or upgraded.

To make the matter worse, technology refreshes every three to five years requiring time intensive and disruptive migrations, which cannot be tolerated by business. As a result, storage professionals today spend the majority of their time managing infrastructure, rather than information."

Designed to address these issues, NEC has been demonstrating its Storage Excellence for almost 50 years. NEC offers a wide range of storage solutions — from the latest enterprise SAN D-Series,to data center-class enterprise systems and the next-generation grid storage system — all designed to respond to the storage challenges business faces today.

Built on NEC's proven technologies, our storage products enable business to manage data more effectively. Whether it is the latest SAN or the revolutionary grid storage system, our storage solution delivers higher data resiliency, superior scalability, simplified operations, and a lower TCO through NEC's innovative technologies.

NavigateStorage, a storage centric reseller, has identified NEC Storage as a full function, scalable quality product that deserves consideration when planning a companies infra-structure.

Why not give us a call at 978-318-9000 or drop us an email and we will give you a call to discuss you requirements. We represent several vendors in this space.