Sunday, June 19, 2011

De-Dup question

A recent Blog reader asked< re "data duplication"

Are they suitable for small retail businesses as well? Your blog is great by the way, you seem to really have a passion for this area! Thank you!

Hate to say it this ways, but it depends.  They fit in business where a de-dup storage device can afford $25,000 and up.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Quantum beats Data Domain

We are so confident you’ll be blown away by the
industry-leading performance and value of Quantum’s
DXi-Series deduplication appliances, we will beat your
Data Domain quote by 20%*!

Whether you are a small business or a large enteprise, we can
show you how to reduce your backup disk requirements by 90%
or more with our full line of NAS and VTL data deduplication products

• The DXi6000 Series offers industry-leading value by providing higher
performance backup and restores at up to 45% lower cost than the
leading competitor
• Our patented deduplication technology provides typical disk savings of
over 90% while saving you media costs
• Quantum’s deduplication appliance won deduplication “Product of the
Year for 2010”

To take the challenge, Contact NavigateStorage - just drop us a line and we will do the rest. On the web www.navigatestorage.com
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Integrated SAS Storage and 10GbE Networking

NavigateStorage is an authorized reseller and offers you a demo, conversation with RelData and even on-site trial if that makes sense.
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 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.

NavigateStorage has Unified Storage

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.

Let NavigateStorage show you more.  How about a demo. 

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

NavigateStorage's partner announces Scale-out Clustering

StoneFly Inc. introduces Scale-Out Clustering to its Award-Winning IPSAN Virtual Software Appliance (SCVM™)

The Stonefly's Scale-Out Clustered SCVM™ (Storage Concentrator Virtual Machine) revolutionizes the industry by creating a Highly-Available Virtual Software IP SAN.

Hayward, Calif. – May 9, 2011 — StoneFly, Inc., the leading supplier and innovator of advanced IP Storage Area Network (SAN) systems, has unveiled the Clustered SCVM™, a powerful virtual IP SAN software appliance. Designed for VMware environments, the Clustered SCVM™ is a complete virtual storage solution and virtual machine that is fully integrated with the hypervisor. This provides a fully redundant, fault tolerant, flexible, scalable, highly available and manageable iSCSI block mode storage. The SCVM™ can be provisioned to local virtual machines and guest operating systems on the network (via the LAN or WAN).

The scale-out Clustered SCVM™ can be created from two existing virtual servers (active-active nodes). Ideal for your virtualized and cloud environments, users can create a virtual IP SAN along with your server virtual machines (VMs) on the same hardware platform. Increase your productivity, simplify your management, and reduce your power and rack space by simply loading Clustered SCVM™ as virtual machine in a active-active storage configuration.

Implementing Clustered SCVM™ within a virtual environment enables users to reallocate existing hardware resources for a powerful business continuity and disaster recovery solution. By using StoneFly's campus synchronous mirroring or asynchronous mirroring (replication) between remote facilities, Cluster SCVM™ is able to provide instantaneous recovery and eliminate storage access loss. For further data protection, the new clustering feature eliminates the risk of hardware failover by recognizing failures within a virtual storage server and instantaneously switching its resources to the other virtual active storage node.

"The IT infrastructure is drastically changing with the popularity of virtualization and cloud environments. Since releasing SCVM™, we have been working tirelessly to enhance our virtual IP SANs," says Mo Tahmasebi, CEO of StoneFly, "Scaled-out virtual storage clustering is new paradigm for enterprise environments that are looking to drastically bring down their CapEx and OpEx."


Contact NavigateStorage for more information

NavigateStorage touts RelData's Unified Storage

RELDATA solutions are based on the RELDATA Unified Storage Engine (USE) platform. This open, software-centric architecture delivers superior performance for consolidation of storage within complex multi-vendor and virtualized server environments.

RELDATA USE leverages the iSCSI fabric to manage block and file environments more cost-effectively than with Fibre Channel alternatives, and delivers high availability solutions that improve disaster recovery and data accessibility for mid-size and distributed enterprises.

Consolidate

RELDATA USE allows you to remove the functional boundaries of siloed information to nondisruptively consolidate and simplify storage management across multi-vendor platforms – all through a single unified console. Consolidating both block and file storage environments – leveraging iSCSI – optimizes IT resources, improves data mobility and sharing of data between resources and users, while reducing management costs.

Virtualize

RELDATA USE delivers high-performance, virtualized storage with storage automation. By deploying RELDATA in a virtual environment such as VMware ESX or Citrix XenServer, you can achieve a powerful but flexible infrastructure that easily adapts and grows to meet your changing business needs. The resulting virtual environment provides improved storage and server utilization, reduced administrative overhead, fast backup and recovery, failover and continuous operation in the case of a disaster, and rapid recovery in the case of application failure.

Protect

RELDATA USE is a future-proofed storage system that assures long-term data protection, regardless of the technology advancements of tomorrow. The unique combination of RELDATA USE architecture and its replication services licensing model allows companies to scale block, file, legacy and future storage capacity while providing local and remote disaster recovery solutions, without incurring traditional licensing fees, as with alternative solutions.

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NEW INDUSTRY RESEARCH CONFIRMS RELDATA IS POSITIONED TO CONTINUE SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN CLOUD STORAGE

Key Findings from Storage Strategies NOW Point to Increased Adoption and Deployment of Cloud Storage Services

STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD, SANTA CLARA, CA – April 5, 2011 – RELDATA Inc. (www.RELDATA.com), the innovation leader in unified block and file storage solutions over iSCSI, announced today that new research from Storage Strategies NOW (SSG-NOW) confirms RELDATA is well positioned to continue its technology leadership and market growth in cloud storage. Storage Strategies NOW, a specialist storage analysis and research organization, recently released “Cloud Storage: Adoption, Practice and Deployment,” a report co-sponsored by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).

The report defines cloud storage, outlines the explosive growth in cloud storage and details how small and enterprise-size businesses are adopting and deploying cloud storage services for backup, archive, email and bulk storage data. Also included in the report are the results of an IT Professionals Cloud Adoption Survey, co-sponsored by the Storage Networking Industry Association.

Key findings of the report and survey include:
  • More than 57 percent of respondents expect to adopt cloud storage;
  • They will store e-mail, front office application data and backup data in the cloud, in that order; and,
  • Standards are viewed as more important for public cloud implementations than private clouds.
“The report’s key findings coincide with our experience of the market and customers’ cloud needs over the past year,” said Victor Walker, CEO, RELDATA. “We’ve seen very healthy sales growth of our Unified Storage Solutions, which enable IT organizations to control their storage resources by improving performance and reducing costs.”

The report wrote that RELDATA’s “9400 Series delivers the high performance and throughput required for hypervisor and cloud computing environments, all while maintaining a low total cost of ownership.”  NavigateStorage, a RelData partner reports.

"RELDATA’s Unified Storage Systems enable private, hybrid and business application cloud service providers, hosting eDiscovery or other similar applications, to deliver on their customers’ expectations of affordable, flexible, and reliable on-demand storage," said Walker. "We applaud SNIA’s CDMI (API) standards initiative. It is a solid step towards simplification, rapid application integration and delivery of our advanced storage features to cloud service providers who are dealing with and managing virtualized environments and multi-vender storage infrastructures.”

Unified Storage - NavigateStorage - IceWeb

In a 2009 report, ESG says of unified storage, “It is interesting to stop and ponder how we ever created a world without it.” Buying, maintaining, and managing separate storage systems for file and block data results in obvious inefficiencies. A unified storage system – a single system supporting both data types – reduces complexity and cost, a winning combination.

The IceWEB Storage System is a high-performance, unified storage system that offers one platform for file and block data of all kinds. Whether it's Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server or Oracle databases, virtualized environments, scanned images, files, video, pictures, graphics, or voice data, IceWEB can help you maximize the efficiency of your storage by centralizing all your data on one platform secured with strong data protection capabilities.

The IceWEB Storage System is easy to install and provides built-in, all-inclusive storage management features including de-duplication; unlimited snapshots; thin provisioning; local or remote, real-time or scheduled replication; capacity and utilization reporting, and integration with virtual server environments.

You get all this functionality at an affordable price, and storage capacity that scales with disk shelves rather than expensive controllers. Plus, the IceWEB Storage System is backed by a customer-focused company that's nimble and ready to make your installation a success.

Visit NavigateStorage and learn more.  Or Call Jim at 978-318-9000

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

Saturday, June 11, 2011

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

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

Friday, June 10, 2011

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.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

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.

Visit NavigateStorage and learn more.

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.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

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.

Friday, June 3, 2011

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.

NavigateStorage at 978-318-9000

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

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