Iceweb Unified Solutions

With the explosive growth of computer storage being experienced by most companies, IT organizations are looking for ways to provide the storage capacity their applications need without having to endlessly purchase more and more hardware. Especially with the escalating expenses associated with rack space, power, cooling and management, keeping a reign on your storage is critical to managing costs. However, you also don’t want to throttle your business by denying applications or users the space that they need.

The IceWEB Storage System offers an innovative collection of “storage efficiency” technologies that together dramatically reduce your physical storage requirements while still giving your servers, applications and users the capacity they need. This paper looks at each of these technologies in turn, and then we’ll show you how effective these can be when used together to reduce your overall storage requirements.

Take a look at IceWeb on our website and don't miss the Efficiences at the botom of the page.

NavigateStorage offers 2 Unified Storage Arrays

Unified Storage is a single, integrated storage infrastructure that functions as unification engines to simultaneously support Fibre Channel, IP Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) data formats.

A unified storage system simultaneously enables storage of file data and handles the block-based I/O (input/output) of enterprise applications. In actual practice, unified storage is often implemented in a NAS platform that is modified to add block-mode support.

One advantage of unified storage is reduced hardware requirements. Instead of separate storage platforms, like NAS for file-based storage and a RAID disk array for block-based storage, unified storage combines both modes in a single device. Alternatively, a single device could be deployed for either file or block storage as required.

NavigateStorage offers Reldata and IceWeb Each offers different solutions, both of which delivers value.  Call 978-318-9000 or write or visit NavigateStorage

StoneFly, Inc. is Honored as Everything Channel's CRN Virtualization 100 List

Published: 05/23/11 12:07 PM EDT

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StoneFly, Inc., a leading manufacturer of integrated IP Storage Area Network (SAN) systems and a NavigateStorage long time partner, announces that it is being recognized by Everything Channel's CRN Virtualization 100 list. Featuring the top 100 vendors in the virtualization space as identified by the CRN editorial staff, the list serves as the de facto resource by which VARs can begin to evaluate the best virtualization products for their business. StoneFly was named the top Virtualization 100 for its engineering excellence in virtualization technology.

According to the CRN Fast Growth Study, virtualization is the number one technology that VARs are investing in over the next year. The CRN Virtualization 100 list highlights the most compelling virtualization vendors and solutions to best meet the growing needs of the channel. These featured vendors were selected based on their ability to help VARsvirtualization has to offer.

NavigateStorage specializes in Storage, Backup, E-Mail Archiving and Compliance and Anti-Virus and Malware.  Call 978-318-9000 or write.

NavigateStorage has Unified Storage

Unified Storage is a single, integrated storage infrastructure that functions as unification engines to simultaneously support Fibre Channel, IP Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) data formats.

A unified storage system simultaneously enables storage of file data and handles the block-based I/O (input/output) of enterprise applications. In actual practice, unified storage is often implemented in a NAS platform that is modified to add block-mode support.

One advantage of unified storage is reduced hardware requirements. Instead of separate storage platforms, like NAS for file-based storage and a RAID disk array for block-based storage, unified storage combines both modes in a single device. Alternatively, a single device could be deployed for either file or block storage as required.

NavigateStorage specializes in all types of storage.  Check us out.

NavigateStorage offers a clutered file system

Melio FS is a clustered file system designed specifically for SAN storage environments. It provides shared access to data on a SAN from multiple servers, enabling high availability, horizontal scaling of applications, and greatly simplified storage provisioning and management for virtual server environments. Users gain extensive new capability to utilize industry standard shared storage hardware, yet it is very simple to use. Let NavigateStorage tell you more.

NavigateStorage beats Equallogic and Lefthand

Compare EqualLogic and Lefthand Networks with Stonefly!

Then let NavigateStorage provide you with a StoneFly quote that will knock your socks off.

Are you considering EqualLogic from Dell or Lefthand Networks from HP?

Are you considering EqualLogic from Dell or Lefthand Networks from HP?

NavigateStorage has sold them all and recommends that you take a close look at StoneFly's Voyager Storage Array. Hands down Stonefly beats them all for price/performance.

RelData - Unified Storage from NavigateStorage

Best-in-Class Mirroring & Replication

The 9240i delivers high speed, non-disruptive, local and remote data mirroring and incremental replication services that significantly improve the data availability and recovery time ratios for mid-tier storage environments. RELvos’ 64-bit OS performance and throughput rivals that of more expensive Fibre Channel SANs at a lower total cost of ownership.

Integrated SAS Storage & 10GbE Networking

The 9240i includes an industry standard high performance storage controller, RELvos virtualization operating system and integrated Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk storage. Capacity or pooling existing storage resourcesxisting storage resources. The 9240i is available for 10GbE and/or 1GbE infrastructures. With the 9240i, IT managers are able to set up iSCSI SANs and NAS 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.

Reseller NavigateStorage will tell you more.  978-318-9000

RelData- 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.

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Unified Storage System

The RELDATA 9240i, powered by the RELDATA virtualization operating system (RELvos™), is a highly integrated solution that allows for the rapid deployment of IT systems based on networked storage architecture. The 9240i can provision block and file storage through a single automated management interface. In less than an hour, organizations can architect multiple, scalable shared storage pools for on-demand IP SAN and NAS.

The 9240i Unified Storage System enables mid-size and distributed enterprises to cost-effectively consolidate and protect business data in a virtualized server environment. The 9240i’s high performance and rich feature set allows you to meet your organization’s needs for storage capacity growth, provide high availability across multiple sites and facilitate regulatory data retention compliance.

The solution enables you to store and replicate critical data sets, while assuring your data remains easy to access and manage. Plus, the 9240i provides an affordable way to overcome the complexity of managing storage systems from multiple vendors, improve storage utilization and address data protection requirements at remote and branch offices.

Learn more contact NavigateStorage.

Storage Solutions

Huawei Symantec Oceanspace S2600 is a storage product for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Based on a creative architecture design, the S2600 offers a complete storage solution with the five E-features – Evolutionary, Easy, Enhanced, Energy-saving, and Economical.

The combo interface supports both FC and iSCSI connectivity.The highly cost-effective features include remote replication (HyperMirror), power failure protection, and disk pre-copy. The S2600 supports background initialization of RAID and online expansion for up to 96 hard disks and 256 hosts to satisfy rapid capacity growth requirement.
Now if you intereste usce N8000 series is a unified storage platform (NAS, FC SAN, and IP SAN) designed for mid-range and high-end storage applications.

The N8000 features advanced architecture, robust reliability, superb scalability, high performance, and easy management. The N8000 meets the requirements of high-performance computing, databases, websites, file services, streaming media, video surveillance, and file backup. As an industry-leading clustered NAS storage system, the N8000 is widely deployed in fields such as manufacturing, government, enterprise, education, telecom, broadcast & television, and Internet.


There is lots more from this vendor. Call us at 978_318_9000 and learn more about Huawei Symantec.  NavigateStorage

Storage Virtualization Engine

StoneFly's revamped OptiSAN Storage Concentrator Configurations have been redesigned to offer enhanced redundancy, availability and performance. Using high performance fibre channel and SAS interconnects, the redesigned OptiSAN 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. Scalable up to 448 drives, including multiple levels of tiered storage in the same chassis, the OptiSAN offers the storage you need today and tomorrow.

The cornerstone of the OptiSAN is the Storage Concentrator Storage Virtualization Engine, which offers quad-core processing power, dedicated iSCSI Cache, and the award-winning StoneFusion® IP SAN platform. Each high-performance storage subsystem offers redundant, active/active RAID controller functionality for enhanced performance and increased system bandwidth. Cost-effective expansion array to scale system capacity and disk spindles.

NavigateStorage has all types of arrays.  Contact us.

Virtualized IP SAN

StoneFly's Voyager-6GS Series of Virtualized IP SAN Appliances builds upon solid foundation of Voyager series, but with the latest 6Gb drive support. It offers enhanced performance, redundancy, scalability, and availability.

Voyager's Scalable architecture brings the flexibility to start small, and scale up to 100s of TeraBytes of Tiered (SATA, SAS, and SSD) storage. The cornerstone of the Voyager is the award winning StoneFusion® IP SAN operating system. The Voyager's high-performance storage subsystem offers redundant, active/active connectivity for appliance redundancy and increased system performance. Additionally the Voyager offers cost-effective expansion via optional Expansion Unit.

Let us really tell you more.  It is solid and economical.  Call 978-318-9000 or visit NavigateStorage.

Disk DeDuplication from NavigateStorage on the DXi4500

The DXi4500 disk deduplication backup appliance makes it easy and affordable to increase backup and restore performance and reduce data protection costs.

Quantum’s deduplication technology provides disk performance for backups, while it reduces typical capacity needs by 90% or more.

Backups can be economically retained on disk for instant restores, simplified management, and reduced use of removable media. DXi4500 units are designed for rapid, seamless integration and maximum client performance without changes to existing backup architectures or potentially disruptive media server upgrades—unlike software-based deduplication. Support for remote replication, Symantec OpenStorage (OST) interface, and virtual environments are standard features.

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E-Mail Archiving, Compliant, Affordable and Secure

"Email Data Compliance was a natural extension for EdgeWave's Email Security solutions," said Tim McAllister, Product Manager, Messaging Security at EdgeWave. "Our development goals were simple; leverage our existing reputation and award-winning technology, and create a solution that was easy to use and administrate. We recognize that our customers are constantly faced with new and emerging email challenges. With EdgeWave's suite of messaging and data protection solutions, we offer businesses uncomplicated, efficient and reliable means to seamlessly address these mission-critical priorities."

EdgeWave currently provides hosted email archiving that support an organization's e-discovery, long-term retention and full-text search for employee generated content. This service is used for both information compliance with a variety of industry and government regulations such as FRCP, SOX, FINRA, HIPPA and GLBA, as well as to improve storages efficiency and associated costs. The solution can be configured in a matter of hours and provides infinite storage for unlimited retention duration.

NavigateStorage is a authorized partner

Nexsan E60 for VMware

Below is our first case study on the Nexsan E60, and we couldn’t have asked for a better one! With an enrollment of over 53,000 students, Corona-Norco Unified deployed a Nexsan E60 in their VMware environment with 40 SAS drives for primary and an additional 20 SATA drives for backup. They needed a more cost effective solution to provide virtual storage that could also save rack space and power while delivering enterprise-class reliability and performance.

Anyone of your customers deploying VMware has to see this.

“The Nexsan E60 is a powerful system that is ideal for our multi-purpose storage environment. We have always been impressed by their price, ease of use and power savings capabilities.”  Call Navigatestorage for all the details 978-318-9000
http://www.nexsan.com/library/casestudies/Nexsan_CaseStudy_Corona-Norco.pdf

NavigateStorage for Security

Panda Security has various product lines, for companies and home users: security software, security appliances and managed security services. All of our solutions are backed by tech support, made up of an expert team of professionals available at all times. Recent milestones in technology and innovation: Our corporate slogan, One step ahead, sums up the competitive advantage that has characterized our company from the start: our commitment to continuous innovation and change, our capacity to keep one step ahead in the fight against computer threat.

Come to NavigateStorage for Anti-Virus from Panda or Kaspersky

Store, protect, and preserve your data

Every day, you create and manage the world’s most important data: your own. That’s why it’s important to work with the leader in backup, recovery, and archive. We collaborate with our customers in a variety of industries and offer a range of flexible, scalable, and cost-effective products to meet specific needs. From the proven technologies used in our tape libraries to the latest advancements in data deduplication, our products are designed to help you preserve what matters most.

Contact NavigateStorage for all your tape and disk storage needs

NavigateStorage offers E-Mail Archiving and Security

First-generation archiving solutions place heavy burdens on Exchange servers, relying on data capture methods like MAPI crawls and journaling – both of which can increase input/output per second (IOPS) on the Exchange server by up to 50 percent to archive the complete data store.

Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange has incorporated an innovative data capture approach called Continuous Application Shadowing™ where Exchange log files are captured the instant they are committed to disk and stores them “off-host” on NearPoint. Continuous Application Shadowing is an application-intelligent process that blocks corruption from the backup copy. All email content extracted from the log files is indexed and stored with single-instance storage. Continuous Application Shadowing also captures the complete Exchange mailbox information, including contacts, calendars, personal folders, as well as email stored offline in PST files and all email content found in public folders — a major advantage for eDiscovery and Exchange recovery.

NavigateStorage specializes in E-Mail Archiving and Security

Global Relay's Message Archiver

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.

NavigateStorage's solution from Global Relay is first class.

Legal Liability

With a clear and concise Acceptable Use Policy, your organization establishes rules on how resources such as the Internet and email are to be used. As Internet and email-borne threats have grown over the years, so has the risk of legal liability. It's no longer a game of controlling only one kind of communication (HTTP traffic), because now there are more ways to connect your employees with the world outside your network. This has given rise to growing legal concerns - enough to warrant state and federal legislation requiring compliance. You could be contending with both internal and external forces in trying to manage your employees' Internet and email habits. External forces use blended threats to try and lure users to inappropriate Web surfing or emailing, while a lack of internal vigilance leads to abuses inside your organization. Your risk of liability has consequences extending from the financial losses of legal fees and fines to the sting of negative publicity and/or scandal. The resulting damage can last indefinitely. That's why the best way to protect yourself is with a comprehensive acceptable use policy (AUP). NavigateStorage with it's Prisim Security and Email Security are powerful solutions that allow you to protect your organization from both internal and external risks of liability associated with Internet and email traffic. They are tools that can help you enforce your acceptable use policy (AUP). Call us at 978-318-9000

NavigateStorage LLC

NavigateStorage has access to the following solutions.  Give us a try or call 1-978-318-9000.

Custom-Configured Raids to your specifications, featuring Infortrend, NEC, Promise, Dot Hill, Enhance-Tech, Huawei-Symantec, Arena-Maxtronic & SGI RAID products.

1)      www.Infortrend.com

2)      www.Promise.com

3)      www.DotHill.com

4)      www.Necam.com

5)      www.huaweisymantec.com

6)      www.Enhance-tech.com

7)      www.Maxtronic.com

8)      www.SGI.com

Custom-Built Servers from NEC, Supermicro, Intel & SGI.

1)      www.necam.com

2)      www.supermicro.com

3)      www.Intel.com

4)      www.SGI.com

NAS & iSCSI storage appliances from iSTOR, AMI, QNAP , Huawei Symantec, Open-E & CTERA.

1)      www.Infortrend.com

2)      www.ami.com

3)      www.qnap.com

4)      www.huaweisymantec.com

5)      www.open-e.com

6)      www.ctera.com

Disk Drives  (Fiber/SCSI/SATA/SAS/SSD)  from Seagate, Hitachi, WD & Pliant.

1)      www.seagate.com

2)      www.hitachigst.com

3)      www.wd.com

4)      www.pliant.com

Fiber switches from Qlogic.

1)      www.qlogic.com

FIBER/SAS/SCSI  Host Bus Adapters from Qlogic, LSI Logic, and ATTO.

1)      www.qlogic.com

2)      www.lsilogic.com

3)      www.atto.com

Removable Disk Storage from IdealSTOR.

1)      www.idealstor.com

Fiber Optical Connectors (4gb & 8gb SFP’s) from PicoLite, Finisar and Avago.

1)      www.picolite.com

2)      www.finisar.com

3)      www.avago.com

SAS-Expander solutions from Condre.

1)      www.condrestorage.com

LTO Tape libraries from Quantum.  

1)      www.quantum.com

LTO Tape drives from Quantum.

1)      www.quantum.com

DLT and LTO Tape Media from Fuji, Quantum, Maxell, HP and Sony.

1)      www.fuji.com

2)      www.quantum.com

3)      www.maxell.com

4)      www.hp.com

5)      www.sony.com

Power Solutions from Eaton and GE.

1)      www.Eaton.com

2)      www.GE.com

Racks from Tripp-Lite.

1)      www.tripp-lite.com

Rackmount & Tabletop Enclosures from PDE.

1)      www.pdetechnology.com

Unified Storage - NavigateStorage/RelData

SolutionsUnified Storage

RELDATA 9240i can be deployed as a flexible and affordable unified storage solution supporting both file (NAS) and block (SAN) application requirements. Unlike proprietary hardware-based, traditional siloed block or file-based products, the flexibility of the 9240i Unified Storage System enables businesses to support a broader range of applications enhancing their competitive position and driving profitability.

The Best Unified Data Storage Solution

Provisioning SAN block volumes and NAS file shares for every physical system and virtual machine on your network is just the beginning - RELDATA delivers on the promise of unified storage by doing that, and so much more. As shown in the diagram below, RELDATA seamlessly meets all of these needs with one platform.

First, command and control for all SAN and NAS storage assets is through a single unified interface to save time and reduce complexity. As important, you enjoy peace of mind and can plan better because the performance metrics for all of your volumes are consolidated.

Next, RELDATA’s virtualized logical volumes - both block and file - use the shortest possible I/O path for lightning fast response. In addition to speed, this makes it easy to allocate graded storage assets without the “churning” found on competing products.
Moreover, all RELDATA volumes are dynamically extensible on the fly, with the results immediately visible for every resource. And with our “Save as you Grow” hardware expansion model, you can precisely match your expenditures to your needs.
RELDATA also delivers the industry’s richest snapshot model with no pre-allocation, unlimited snaps, writeable snaps, and a sophisticated rollback function. The RELDATA snapshot methodology was designed to fill in the missing pieces from the major hypervisor platforms and is perfect for standing up virtual machines.

Taken together, these architectural advances and management tools are the foundation of another important capability - integrated replication. Specifically, RELDATA is the only Tier 1 storage provider that can replicate volumes at the block level and/or the file level depending on the requirement.

Again, virtualized servers benefit from this unique RELDATA capability because hypervisors run applications that typically need LUNs with fast block storage to store the operating system and databases, and unstructured file shares/mounts for a broad varierty of uses such as backup and image staging.

Learn more about RELDATA storage solutions:

• Unified Storage
• VMware
• XenServer
• Disaster Recovery
• HA Storage for Campus
• Storage Consolidation

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Promise Technology at a real price

ENTRY-LEVEL TO MIDRANGE
VessRAID and VessJBOD Subsystems

• 8Gb FC + 1Gb iSCSI + NAS or 1Gb iSCSI + NAS or 3Gb SAS Host Connectivity
• Scale up to 112-bays via VessJBOD expansion subsystems

ENTERPRISE-CLASS SOLUTIONS S3000 SAN Appliance

Extensive management tools for virtualized storage deployments

8Gb Fibre Channel + iGb iSCSI, 10Gb iSCSI, 1Gb iSCSI host connectivity

Contact NavigateStorage at 978-318-9000 for all your storage needs.