NavigateStorage offers DATTO backup

Datto Inc. is an award-winning provider of hardware-based on and off-site backup and disaster recovery solutions. Over the past year, Datto has grown nearly 400%, moved into a larger office space, released a revolutionary new BDR solution and has upgraded all existing products with easy to use features and management tools. Datto decided to completely revamp the website to make it easier for current and potential partners to understand how Datto is changing the way the channel delivers backup and complete business continuity.

A channel-only company, Datto's backup and disaster recovery solutions are available exclusively through Datto Resale Partners – over 2,000 IT Service Providers across North America and Europe. Datto solutions can be found in verticals such as: healthcare, education, municipalities, retail, law, manufacturing, small business, finance, insurance and many more.

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Continuum has entered into a strategic agreement with Datto Inc.

Continuum has entered into a strategic agreement with Datto to provide MSPs with a single, integrated platform that offers complete end-to-end business continuity by delivering both RMM and BDR functionality from one vendor.

Continuum will leverage Datto’s cloud infrastructure and industry-leading instant virtualization technology on their BDR appliance to ensure the protection and recovery of critical business data for small- and medium size businesses. The Continuum Vault BDR appliance can ship either directly from Datto, from Tech Data, or can be downloaded if the MSP secures an appliance from another source.

“Datto is very excited to be a core technology provider for the Continuum Vault offering. This partnership demonstrates Datto’s technological leadership in the BDR market and is a resounding win for the company,” said Austin McChord, CEO of Datto.

“Continuum Vault is a direct result of hundreds conversations with our partners that have been waiting for a well-executed solution that delivers RMM and BDR functionality as a single, unified platform, said Steve Ricketts, VP of Marketing for Continuum. “After a very diligent research effort we selected Datto because they set the standard for backup virtualization and cloud infrastructure, and they have a great utility for quickly transferring Zenith Infotech Cloud data into the Continuum Cloud environment. We are excited about working closely with Datto to redefine the business continuity marketplace.”

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DATTO Backup and Continuum questions and answers

The Continuum-Datto BDR Partnership: Questions Answered

Posted December 13th, 2011 by Joe Panettieri

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When Continuum (formerly Zenith RMM) yesterday announced a BDR (backup and disaster recovery) storage partnership with Datto, nearly 1,000 managed services providers (MSPs) and VARs signed up to gain early access to the platform, according to Continuum CEO Michael George. Still, MSPmentor raised five questions about the Continuum-Datto relationship and its potential implications for MSPs. George and his management team late last night spoke with MSPmentor and offered deeper insights. Here’s the update. Among the key takeaways: Continuum isn’t just getting into the BDR market, the company “wants to dominate it,” said George.

First, a little background: Summit Partners acquired Zenith RMM (now Continuum) in September 2011 from Zenith Infotech. The new Continuum Vault solution, launching in partnership with Datto, essentially positions Continuum to compete against Zenith Infotech in the BDR storage market. Among the topics MSPmentor discussed with Continuum and George…

MSPmentor’s Question: Can Continuum truly compete against its former owner, Zenith Infotech, especially when Zenith Infotech owns a minority stake in Continuum and Zenith Infotech CEO Akash Saraf sits on Continuum’s board?

Continuum’s Perspective: George said there’s nothing stopping Continuum from competing against Zenith Infotech because “we were the buyer and they were the seller. It would be pretty unique for a buyer to be restricted from doing new things [i.e., entering new markets." When companies are purchased and sold, he added, "the seller is usually very restricted but the buyer is usually rarely restricted."

MSPmentor's Question: Will Saraf remain on Continuum's board now that Continuum Vault essentially competes with Saraf's primary company, Zenith Infotech?

Continuum's Perspective: George said Saraf remains on Continuum's board and that his presence doesn't impact Continuum's business. "It is not a situation in any way impares or impedes our ability to do business and make decisions," said George. "Our significant owner is Summit Partners. We [Summit and the Continuum insiders] as a management team own more than 85 percent of the business. The fact that he’s on the board the board is a non-factor. We don’t lose sleep about it.” If in the future Saraf’s presence does become an issue, Continuum will explore the situation at that time, he said.

MSPmentor’s Question: Will Zenith Infotech maintain its minority stake in Continuum now that Continuum Vault essentially competes with Zenith Infotech?

Continuum’s Perspective: “It’s a fair question to ask,” said George. “But we’ve had no issues related to that.” George reiterated the fact that Zenith Infotech has only a small stake in Continuum. Also of note: Zenith Infotech may not be able to sell its stake in Continuum in order to adhere to an alleged court ruling in India, where Zenith Infotech is currently locked in a dispute with bondholders over a debt payment default. “Having Zenith Infotech sell their remaining stake on Continuum might require [Zenith Infotech] plaintiff approval. That’s an area at the moment we don’t care about; we only care about building our business and serving our partners.”

Note: MSPmentor does not know if Zenith Infotech would consider selling its minority stake in Continuum. I’ve reach out to Zenith Infotech for comment.

MSPmentor’s Question: Is the Continuum-Datto relationship exclusive or will Continuum work with additional BDR companies and storage companies?

Continuum’s Perspective: George confirmed that “there are some exclusive components” to the Continuum-Datto relationship. To summarize his thoughts, it’s safe to say the Continuum Vault solution involves and exclusive partnership between Continuum and Datto. Also, Datto has agreed to put a Continuum RMM (remote monitoring and management) agent on every device they ship. (MSPs can manually switch the Datto devices to alternative RMM agents if they so choose.)

“We’re a strong believer in business relationships that have real commitments to one another. We look for unique advantages from any strategic partnership and we want to offer a great strategic advantage to our partners who are willing to make big commitments to us.”

Still, George added, Continuum’s RMM platform will remain open to integrate with additional third-party BDR solutions; the Continuum Vault solution is where the Continuum-Datto exclusive deal essentially emerges.

MSPmentor: Why is Continuum getting into the BDR market?

Continuum’s perspective: “Candidly, we thought we would draft off of Zenith Infotech’s success in the BDR space,” said George. “Right up until the news about their [bond] default, Zenith Infotech was growing successfully so it was a natural place for us to feel comfortable drafting behind. But their news [the bond default] from a market perspective changed everything.”

George sees the BDR market as a “sharp edge of the sword” that allows MSPs to slice their way into the managed services market and stir even more demand for remote monitoring and management. “Once we decided we needed to address the shart edge of the sword we knew we would want to get into the market and not just be in it. We wanted to win and dominate it.” Hence, the Datto relationship and launch of Continuum Vault, George said.

Next Moves

George and the Continuum management team are expected to be in Chicago today, meeting with roughly a dozen MSPs “to listen, rather than talk,” he said.

During our conversation last night, it became clear that Continuum is running a marathon at a sprinter’s pace. Think of it this way: Summit Partners acquired Zenith RMM (now Continuum) in September. Since that time, George and his management team have completely rebranded the company, held dozens of MSP-centric meetings across the country, and met with most of the major BDR, RMM and PSA software providers.

Some skeptics wonder if Continuum can maintain this rapid pace — pushing into new markets even as Continuum strives to strengthen its core RMM and NOC (network operations center) services. We’ll be watching.

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• Managed Services Software Company Funding: Who’s Next?
• Intronis Cloud Backup Services Will Grow 50+ Percent in 2011

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DATTO Backup

Straight to VMDK: Inverse Chain Technology
SIRIS simplifies and streamlines the backup process through inverse chain technology, which always keeps the newest full backup at the front of the incremental chain. This technology takes data directly from the server and creates virtual machines (VMs) every time a backup occurs and then stores the data in that state on the local device. Watch a SIRIS Technical Demo now or Request a Live Demo.
Straight to VMDK files means there's no risk of file damage because the base image is always the newest. Since each backup is a VM, there is no need for a conversion process to occur before performing a restore, no need to worry about an incremental being damaged and no complicated roll-up process.

True Business Continuity

SIRIS provides true business continuity, eliminating downtime. When your servers go down, SIRIS can have you up and running in seconds with Instant Virtualization. This product was specifically engineered to save MSPs and VARs valuable time and money. SIRIS was designed with ease of use in mind (it can be setup and backing up machines in under 5 minutes) and is competitively priced.
In addition to instant on-site virtualization, SIRIS also offers instant off-site virtualization in Datto's Secure Cloud. Even if your on-site SIRIS Hardware gets washed away, SIRIS can provide instant VMs from the cloud ensuring that your business never misses a beat. You never have to worry about Security with Datto because all data is encrypted and sent to two bicoastal SAS70 Type II certified Data Centers with biometric authentication.

SIRIS has five major new features that allow it to stand apart from the competition:

1. Instant Off-Site Virtualization - An Industry First Feature!
2. Screenshot Verification of Backups - An Industry First Feature!
3. Instant Local Virtualization
4. Fully Managed Through One Simple Web Interface
5. Ideal Sandbox Environment for Testing

  Additional Features

• Up to 40TB on- and off-site backup
• Five minute setup
• Certificate-based authentication
• Powerful scheduling
• Enhanced security
• Detailed reporting
• Improved data deduplication
• Multiple domain support
• Automatic retry/repair of failed backups
• Lower CPU overhead
• Disk I/O scheduling
• 3-year hardware warranty

NavigateStorage is an authorized partner and DATTO Backup is a channel only solution.  Let us show you a VM and bare-metal restore capable.  Let us show you how and give it a try.

Cyhbernetics Backup Technical Papers

Backup Technical Papers: Benefits of Backup Consolidation Data Deduplication Data Encryption The Case of Disk vs. Tape Media Migration Tape Virtualization Using New Technology to Develop Better Practices 3TB Disk Based Virtual Tape Library Backup Contact NavigateStprage by sending a e-mail or give us a call at 978-318-9000

Cybernetics Storage

Powerful SAN Storage Solutions

Every Cybernetics iSCSI SAN storage solutions, from the entry-level miSAN® D Series SAN storage to the top-of-the-line iSAN® D Series SAN storage, offers exceptional performance and functionality. The popular miSAN® iSCSI SAN storage can store up to 72 TB per module and delivers transfer rates of 500 MB/s and 150,000 IOPS, while iSAN iSCSI SAN storage, also storing up to 32 TB, delivers an impressive 1.2 GB/s throughput – and 400,000 IOPS. Both units can support eight expansion modules for SAN storage capacity of up to 256 TB and both models have the horsepower to handle the most demanding applications.

NavigateStorage has been delivering quality storage since 1999.  We spceialize in all types Sans Unified, CICS/NFS and more. Compare Dell and HP.  Then come to us and save money and win.

Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Yorktown, Virginia, Cybernetics is a privately held corporation specializing in the design and manufacture of high performance disk, tape, and virtual tape storage solutions. Our product line features cutting edge technologies which have been rigorously tested to deliver seamless compatibility and solid reliability, along with innovative – and exclusive – features that provide greater functionality, data accessibility, and return on investment than any other storage solutions provider can match. Our support is second to none with top-notch technical sales and engineering staff members, who are firmly committed to our customers' satisfaction. Our dedication to high quality products, backed by the best in support in the industry, has made Cybernetics the widely recognized leader in the data storage industry.

Amplidata BitSpread still allow to reduce the storage TCO drastically

Hello!

We are getting close to the end of this year's fall, so we thought this would be a good time to summarize our most important news.

High disk prices = lower disk TCO 

Industry watchers expect disk prices to be kept artificially high through 2012. With this action, disk manufacturers want to make up for the losses they have suffered from the recent flood in Thailand, which destroyed much of the manufacturing plants.

For Amplidata this situation perfectly illustrates the need to optimize big data storage infrastructures: typical cloud storage systems that store 3 copies of data to ensure data availability are in normal times far too expensive in terms of raw capacity that is required. These systems typically need 300% of raw disk storage capacity compared to the actual volume data that needs to be stored. As Amplidata does not copy data – but uses very smart erasure coding technology – it only requires about 60% overhead to provider even higher availability.

For Amplidata’s CEO Wim De Wispelaere, companies should not see this event as a problem for their storage budget as  newer technologies such as Amplidata BitSpread still allow to reduce the storage TCO drastically. “Even if disk prices are 80% more expensive now, we can still reduce your 2012 overall storage TCO compared to the 2011 numbers.”

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IceWEB 6500 High-Availability Cluster Storage Platform - Unified

IceWEB 6500 High-Availability Cluster Storage Platformage Platform.

With dual, multiprocessor controllers, redundant nodes,
shared storage and no single-point of failure,
the Model 6500 Cluster:

• Protects against hardware and network failures; eliminates unplanned downtime for storage hardware and software upgrades; and minimizes change management time by automatically mirroring configuration changes. Data accuracy is ensured through checksum technology, RAID and replication policies.
• Delivers performance: as each of its four, multi-core 2.93 Gigahertz processors has 12MB of cache and 96GB of memory expandable to 192GB. The Model 6500 Cluster also comes with four 200GB SSDs and its L2ARC and ZIL hybrid array technologies accelerate IOPS.

The Model 6500 Cluster utilizes storage volume sharing and its dual, multiprocessor storage controllers monitor each other for failures-with heartbeats, network monitoring and fencing. Neither controller is specifically designated to be the primary or secondary controller. Both can be actively managing shared storage, although any given volume is owned by one controller at any time.

The combination of dual multiprocessor controllers, clustering, CRC and the use of hybrid-storage pool SSD caching makes the Model 6500 Cluster for performance, I/O intensive applications and for high-availability mission-critical applications.
"We're seeing an exploding market for faster, larger, fail-safe unified storage platforms from customers with critical business data and challenging workloads," said Tim McNamee , IceWEB VP of Sales. "The Model 6500 Cluster is designed to handle these demanding workloads, with zero unplanned downtime and nearly unlimited scalability."

With prices starting at under $45,000, the Model 6500 is available.

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IceWEB Unified Solutions

iceWeb 3000, 5000 and 6000

High capacity unified storage for your data center or remote site.

Simplify the management of your environment with an all-inclusive storage system that lets you store both block and file data on one enterprise-class platform. The IceWEB Storage System 5000-HC supports multiple inter-connects and SATA drives, with the features and price point that make it a perfect fit for both data center and disaster recovery sites.

It’s Simple.

Setup wizards allow you to provision storage in as little as 15 minutes, and the intuitive interface simplifies the use of the sophisticated storage management capabilities.

The IceWEB Storage System 5000 stores all your data:

• Microsoft Exchange
• SQL Server and Oracle databases
• Virtualized environments
• Scanned images
• Files
• Video
• Pictures
• Graphics
• Voice

IceWEB is the simply advanced storage system providing high-performance, scalable, unified storage with all-inclusive management features such as volume provisioning, snapshots, de-duplication, data replication, and VMware integration. In other words, it solves your problems.

It’s Simple.

• No need to choose between SAN or NAS – customers can have their cake and eat it too, at an affordable price point
• Installs in minutes
• Everything’s included – simple to sell, configure and quote

It’s Affordable.

• Priced for the economic climate of today

iceWEB Now comes in six models.

The 5000-HC (High Capacity) scales from 8TB to 48TB using SATA/SAS drives. The 5000-HP (High performance) scales from 4.8TB to 19.2TB using SAS/SSD drives. And the 5000-HR (Highly Redundant) scales up tp 14 shelves of SSD/SAS/SATA. And the 3000-HC, 3000-HP and the 6000-HR.

Learn more about the IceWEB Storage System:

More about IceWEB efficiences

3000-HC - High capacity unified storage for your data center and remote site
3000-HP - High performance unified storage for your data center
5000-HC - High capacity fibre channel and 10GbE unified storage
5000-HP - High performance fibre channel and 10GbE unified storage
5000-HR - Highly redundant unified storage for your data center or remote site
6000-HR - Highly Redundant for your Mission Critical Data

It’s Advanced.

You get complete data protection capabilities:

• Hot-pluggable drives and power supplies
• Built-in support for RAID-Z (RAID-5), RAID-Z2 (RAID-6), and RAID-Z3 (triple parity)
  
• Complete 128-bit file system for NFS and CIFS
• Automatic error correction to ensure data integrity
• Integrated block-level data de-duplication
• Unlimited snapshots simplifies development and optimizes backup
• Thin provisioning optimizes utilization
• Local or remote, real-time or scheduled replication
• Capacity and utilization reporting

You also get heterogeneous storage pooling, allowing you to manage third-party storage from other vendors. Reclaim stranded storage by moving older or less functional disk underneath IceWEB to unify management. Plus, the IceWEB Storage System 5000-HC is VMware Ready, letting you centralize storage and VM management tasks.

It’s Affordable.

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Virtual Tape Library Disk Based Network Backup and Disaster Recovery

miSAN^® V Series and iSAN^® V Series
High Performance Disk Based Virtual Tape Library Solutions for Backup and Disaster Recovery

A Cybernetics Virtual Tape Library disk based network backup solution is ideal for IT professionals confronted with the task of implementing and managing centralized, shared backup and archival capabilities.

Through the use of onboard Ethernet connections and the iSCSI protocol, it is now possible to install a virtual tape library disk based backup device at one location to serve as the backup target for multiple heterogeneous hosts spread across a building or at multiple sites. 

Independent Cybernetics virtual tape library disk based network backup solutions installed at remote locations can even serve as off-site backup for each other. Cybernetics virtual tape library network backup solutions offer the flexibility to define multiple virtual tape backup drives and libraries within one central backup solution, making them visible to hosts across the network for direct access to dedicated, independent virtual tape library backup systems. For example, it is possible to define multiple virtual tape library solutions, each with its’ own virtual tape drive, and simultaneously backup to these virtual devices from multiple independent hosts.

With the capability of Cybernetics' iClient to make practically any host iSCSI compliant, it is possible to share the virtual library disk based backup among many heterogeneous hosts. The need to maintain multiple physical tape backup drives of varying formats is completely eradicate.

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Compression Module to Address the Explosive Growth Demands of Unstructured Data

Compression Module to Address the Explosive Growth Demands of Unstructured Data for

Cloud Computing, Social Media and Mobile Apps

IceWEB, Inc.™ (OTCBB: IWEB), a leading provider of Unified Data Storage and building blocks for cloud storage networks, announced today that all IceWEB Storage platforms now include IceWEB Level 10 (L10) compression for enterprise data. IceWEB customers can now choose between 10 levels of compression based on performance and capacity needs. This feature coupled with our De-duplication, thin provisioning and linked clone technology makes IceWEB a leader in storage efficiency technology.

More than 15 petabytes of new data is being created every day (Computerworld, 1/29/2011) and most of this new data is not the structured database records of yesteryear. Instead it’s unstructured web pages, digitized images, graphics, maps, CAD, and multi-media voice and video. In fact, IDC reports that 80 percent of new enterprise data today is unstructured. “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,” said John R. Signorello, IceWEB CEO. “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 and performance they need. Our customers asked us to compress unstructured data. L10 meets those demands.”

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http://www.navigatestorage.com/iceweb.html

Virtual Environments

A virtualized server infrastructure offers a wide range of flexibility and reliability advantages to environments of all sizes, but in order to make the most of the virtual infrastructure, you need shared storage. Features such as live migration of virtual machines require a shared storage pool, but the advantages of using shared storage in a virtual environment run much deeper.

Supporting a virtual server environment with shared storage:

• Simplifies management of the environment
• Provides the data availability required for a virtualized environment
• Enables efficient backup

Centralize storage and VM management tasks with the IceWEB Storage System. The all-inclusive storage management feature set combined with IceWEB's VM Manager -- a unified management console for controlling all storage-related aspects of a virtualized infrastructure for VMware ESX, Citrix Xen, and Microsoft Hyper-V environments – is a perfect complement to your virtual server environment. VM Manager simplifies day-to-day operations by centralizing all the following storage functions:

Feature	VMWare ESX	Citrix XEN	MS Hyper-V
Virtual Machine cloning	X	X	X
Virtual Machine templating	X	-	-
VMotion support	X	-	-
Creation of a new VM from scratch	X	X	-
NFS virtual data storage support	X	X	-
iSCSI virtual data storage support	X	X	X
Virtual storage relocation (migration)	X	-	-
Support for automated replication services NavigateStorage - learn more	X	X	X

Database Storage - Unified

Databases are at the core of many of the services that run a business, from online transaction systems to back-end inventory. The storage behind the database is critical to ensuring good performance and data availability.

The IceWEB Storage System offers a number of features that make it ideal to support your block data:

• Drive Flexibility: Choose from SAS or SSD drives, depending on your performance requirements.
• Inter-connect Flexibility: Choose iSCSI or Fibre Channel, whichever fits in your environment.
• Centralized Management: Centralize the management of all your block data, as well as your file data, to avoid the complexities of managing storage directly attached to your servers.
• Scalability: Reduce the amount of downtime required to add disk, plus gain the ability to scale up to 480 TBs using affordable disk enclosures.
• Efficient Backup: Move to a centralized, unified storage solution such as the IceWEB Storage System to take advantage of unlimited snapshots and cloning, which can then be backed up without impacting the database servers.
• Disaster Recovery: Take advantage of local or remote, real-time or scheduled replication to simplify the process of moving your data to another facility for safekeeping.
• Complete Data Protection: Rest easy with hot-pluggable drives and power supplies, built-in support for RAID-Z (RAID-5), RAID-Z2 (RAID-6), & RAID-Z3 (triple parity), automatic error correction to ensure data integrity, and integrated block-level data de-duplication to optimize your storage utilization.

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Microsoft Exchange Storage

It’s well documented that the amount of storage required for email continues to skyrocket, and the business critical nature of email only continues to increase. In addition, many industries have stringent requirements around email retention.

The IceWEB Storage System offers a number of features that make it ideal for the specific requirements of Microsoft Exchange Server environments:

• Centralized Management: Centralize your storage in a shared pool to avoid the complexities of managing storage directly attached to your servers.
• Scalability: Reduce the amount of downtime required to add capacity, plus gain the ability to scale up to 480 TBs using affordable disk enclosures.
• Efficient Backup: Move to a centralized, unified storage solution such as the IceWEB Storage System to take advantage of unlimited snapshots and cloning, which can then be backed up without impacting the Exchange servers.
• Disaster Recovery: Take advantage of local or remote, real-time or scheduled replication to simplify the process of moving your data to another facility for safekeeping.
• Complete Data Protection: Rest easy with hot-pluggable drives and power supplies, built-in support for RAID-Z (RAID-5), RAID-Z2 (RAID-6), & RAID-Z3 (triple parity), automatic error correction to ensure data integrity, and integrated block-level data de-duplication to optimize your storage utilization.

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IceWEB Storage System

This high-performance unified storage system offers one platform for file and block data of all kinds, is easy to install, and provides built-in, all-inclusive storage management features.
All IceWEB Storage System configurations offer in-line data de-duplication, compression and thin provisioning for unparalleled storage efficiency rates. In addition, the IceWEB systems include unlimited snapshots, clones, asynchronous and synchronous replication, a built-in integrated management module for VMware, and a host of other features, all included for no extra charge in the base product.
Read more about iceWEB and then let us answer all your questions.  NavigateStorage tells yor more about 11 year old company.  Why not give us a call 978-318-9000

Mimosa E-Mail Archiver and Autonomy and EOL

Mimosa NearPoint Customers

With its recent acquisition by Hewlett Packard, the Mimosa NearPoint solution is now on its third parent company in the past 2 years. Since 2010, via a number of acquisitions, Mimosa Systems has been owned by Iron Mountain, Autonomy, and most recently HP- a company with an existing archiving solution. As a result, NearPoint customers have raised questions about whether their ongoing needs can still be met, and if there are viable alternative archiving solutions.
 

We invite NearPoint customers to consider alternatives. Today we joined an E-Mail Archiving webcast from HP/Mimosa (now to be renamed ACA by HP) and Mimosa will be EOLed (End of Life) in about 1 year.

We strongly urge you to call NavigateStorage an ex-Educomm, ex-Zantaze partner, ex-Mimosa partner.  Over the last 9 years we have partnered with all of them successfully but ACA from HP/Autonomy is a whole new ball of wax.

NavigateStorage at 978-318-9000 and talk to us.

Flooding in Thailand Impact on Disk Drives

Due to flooding in Thailand, predicts IDC

Widespread flooding is bringing unprecedented devastation to the people and economy of Thailand. With operations disrupted at more than a dozen HDD factories, damage to the HDD industry is significant.

And this will have a direct impact on worldwide PC shipments through the first half of 2012, according to a new International Data Corporation report.

In the first half of 2011, Thailand accounted for 40-45% of worldwide HDD production. As of early November, nearly half of this capacity was directly impacted by the flooding. In addition to assembly and component facilities being inundated with water, the industry faces work stoppages due to poor access and power outages. The full extent of the damage to HDD industry factories will not be known until the floodwaters recede, although it's already clear that there will be HDD supply shortages into the first quarter of 2012.

The severity of HDD shortages in the coming months largely depends on the industry's ability to recover lost production capacity in Thailand. While IDC believes HDD industry participants will recover and restore HDD production capacity relatively quickly, HDD supply will remain constrained for an extended period of time.

As a result, PC vendors should plan
for and expect the following:

• Significant HDD shortages by mid-November 2011 that will continue into 1Q 2012.
• A large part of PC production for Q4 2011 shipment has already taken place or can be completed with existing HDD inventories, limiting the impact on Q4 PC shipments to less than 10%. But in a worst-case scenario, total PC shipments could be depressed by more than 20% in Q1 2012 vs. previous forecasts as a result of the HDD shortage.
• Higher HDD prices as demand exceeds supply and manufacturers face increased costs for components, expedited shipments, and shifting of production to new locations.
• The HDD industry begins to recover in 1Q 2012, and HDD pricing stabilizes by June, with the industry running close to normal in the second half of 2012.
• Opportunities for larger PC vendors to capture enterprise accounts from smaller competitors and accelerate industry consolidation, particularly in faster growth markets.

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DATA Backup - up to 40TB - Easy to use

SIRIS has five major new features that allow it to stand apart from the competition:
Instant Off-Site Virtualization - An Industry First Feature!
Screenshot Verification of Backups - An Industry First Feature!
Instant Local Virtualization
Fully Managed Through One Simple Web Interface
Ideal Sandbox Environment for Testing

Additional Features
Up to 40TB on- and off-site backup
Five minute setup
Certificate-based authentication
Powerful scheduling
Enhanced security
Detailed reporting
Improved data deduplication
Multiple domain support
Automatic retry/repair of failed backups
Lower CPU overhead
Disk I/O scheduling
3-year hardware warranty

Read more, watch a recorded demo then visit NavigateStorage and request pricing.  Or call 978-318-9000

NEC's SAN Storage arrays

NEC's SAN Storage arrays provide highly available and easily scalable storage for your SAN without sacrificing performance and flexibility. They include high-end features you won't find on other mid-range arrays, but at a lower cost than other systems. NEC also has a complete array of management suites for businesses of all sizes that includes snapshots, replication, performance management, multipathing, failover, compliance, energy conservation, and more.

NEC - M100 Disk Array View Larger Features and Benefits Support for 2.5" and 3.5" drives 3 to 96 mounted drives 10k, 15k, and 7200 RPM SAS drives available SSD/SAS/NLSAS 96HDD 8Gb on board Cache capacity 4 or 8 ports 8Gbps Fibre Channel connectivity 4 ports 10Gbps iSCSI connectivity 8 ports 6Gbps SAS connectivity Windows, Linux, Wmware support Intel-based architecture Energy savings benefits (MAID) Thin provisioning, replication, snapshots, performance suite M100 SAN Storage Array NEC's M-Series Storage Disk Arrays for SAN and NAS applications is the perfect balance of performance, affordability and functionality. Setup can be accomplished in 15 minutes or less. User-friendly GUI makes storage management and data handling easy. An advanced power-saving design slashes power consumption. Thin provisioning enables ideal capacity distribution in a virtual environment. Plus the M-Series delivers so much more… Contact NavigateStorage (not on website), e-mail us or call (978-318-9000))  and learn more.

Quantum Introduces Cost-Effective, Complete Deduplication Solutions for Small Business Data Protection

Quantum Introduces Cost-Effective, Complete Deduplication Solutions for Small Business Data Protection

$5,000 NAS Appliance and RDX Removable Disk Library Reduce Data Storage by up to 90% and Provide Remote Replication and Multi-Disaster Recovery Options SAN JOSE, CA, Oct 24, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM), a proven global expert in data protection and big data management, today announced two new solutions that bring data deduplication and disaster recovery solutions to small businesses at an affordable price. The Quantum NDX-8 NAS appliance delivers 8 TB of NAS storage with built-in backup software and deduplication technology, enabling businesses to reduce storage requirements by up to 90 percent and significantly reduce network traffic. Quantum also announced the RDX 8000 removable disk library with 8 TB of capacity. For offsite disaster recovery protection, the NDX can replicate data to a second NDX appliance or move data offsite with the RDX 8000. Both products are also forward compatible with future cloud backup services. Customers benefit by having a single vendor in Quantum that provides all hardware, software and support for the entire backup and disaster recovery solution set. "Customers tell us that data protection for small businesses and workgroups is overly complex," said Rob Clark, senior vice president, Disk and Tape Data Protection Group, Quantum. "Quantum's new NDX appliances and RDX libraries provide a total data protection solution that is affordable to implement and simple to use. Along with our DXi deduplication systems, this expansion of our portfolio enables us to offer best-in-class disk-based technology solutions that address an even broader range of customer data protection needs." NavigateStorage offers well priced backup with array with 8TB of disk.  Deduplication enables 90% offers up to 50TB-60TB of backup and maybe more.

StoneFly With Tarmin - delivers USS Archiver Appliance

StoneFly With Tarmin

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Fri, November 4th, 2011

For Archiver appliance

StoneFly, Inc., supplier of integrated IP SAN systems has joined with storage innovator, Tarmin, Inc. to deliver the StoneFly USS Archiver Appliance.



A solution for the long-term management of unstructured data, the Archiver lowers data storage costs while addressing key data management considerations, including, accessibility, security and compliance.

Featuring an object-based storage framework with rich Metadata management, policy-driven automation and native support for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint, the Archiver is a solution to a number of requirements.

"Delivering quality turnkey storage solutions is the core of StoneFly," says StoneFly President and CEO, Mo Tahmasebi. "By creating this innovative solution with Tarmin, we are able to offer our market with a sophisticated yet easily manageable enterprise class archiving solution."

"We have built our solution to directly address key challenges and business requirements surrounding the long term management and preservation of significant volumes of unstructured information," said Shahbaz Ali, CEO of Tarmin, Inc. "The Archiver delivers new levels of control and value via our next generation cloud ready architecture. We are pleased to be working with StoneFly and look forward to delivering sustaining value to our channel partners and end-users worldwide."

 

Contact NavigateStorage to learn more call 978-318-9000

ExaGrid De-Dupe Disk Backup Supporting Tivoli Storage Manager

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Wed, November 2nd, 2011

To reduce dependence on tape

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. announced support for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).

The combination of ExaGrid's disk-based backup with deduplication appliance with TSM enables customers to eliminate the overhead of tape management in TSM environments as well as shrink their backup windows, improve recovery times, and cost effectively protect more data on secure, reliable disk.

Using ExaGrid, TSM customers are now able to deploy an ExaGrid disk-based appliance in a TSM backup environment, reducing their dependence on tape and also freeing up expensive disk previously used for backup that can be used for primary storage. TSM customers will also benefit from ExaGrid's GRID scalability to maintain backup performance as data grows over time.

 

NavigateStorage offers Exagrid at great prices.
 

IceWEB Storage Platforms Now Include Compression

IceWEB, Inc. announced that all its storage platforms now include Level 10 (L10) compression for enterprise data.

IceWEB customers can now choose between 10 levels of compression based on performance and capacity needs.

This feature is coupled with de-duplication, thin provisioning and linked clone technology.

More than 15 petabytes of new data is being created every day. It's unstructured web pages, digitized images, graphics, maps, CAD, and multi-media voice and video. In fact, IDC reports that 80 percent of new enterprise data today is unstructured.

"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," said John R. Signorello, IceWEB CEO. "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 and performance they need. Our customers asked us to compress unstructured data. L10 meets those demands."

NavigateStorage offers IceWEB storage with compression and unified (NAS and SAN)

SnapServer DX2 is a high performance, scalable NAS server

The SnapServer DX2 is a high performance, scalable NAS server; and the first storage system in its space that you do not have to provision. With DynamicRAID, hard drives can be added or replaced at any time to grow existing storage pools. Volumes grow automatically as drives are added, simplifying the management and reducing the time required to adapt to changing storage requirements. Ideal for storing both block and file data. This 2U 12-bay SnapServer DX2 storage array supports up to 12 SATA or SAS hard drives and integrates out of the box with Windows, Linux, UNIX and Macintosh environments. Consolidate multiple servers into the SnapServer using the data import tool, or host virtual servers and database applications utilizing the iSCSI SAN feature. The DX2 supports Microsoft VSS/VDS integration to simplify management and ensure application consistent snapshots. For data protection, the DX2 has the ability to replicate to one or multiple SnapServers, take snapshots for point-in-time recovery, and perform backups to disk, VTL, or tape. With the ability to scale up to 288TB with seven SnapExpansion chassis, the SnapServer DX2 enables you to create a customized storage server with simple management and advanced features for any business environment. Note:  There is also a DX1.... Call NavigateStorage at 978-318-9000 for more information.