Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The SnapSAN S3000 modular storage array is an ideal platform for providing non-stop storage services for even the most demanding applications. Designed for high availability and performance, the SnapSAN S3000 combines advanced data protection features and proven reliability with flexible connectivity to ensure that it will integrate into any storage environment. Primed for the next generation of SAN challenges, it is able to tackle virtualization and I/O intensive applications data center needs, and beyond. With the new SnapSAN S3000 solution, Overland Storage puts the ease, efficiency and affordability back into your networked storage.

With This Product You Can...

  • Deploy a modular storage solution with iSCSI, FC or SAS host connections
  • Provision cost effective SAN storage for Windows, VMware, Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X
  • Provides fully redundant 99.999% high availability with hot-swappable components
  • Scale to 288TB with the addition of the SnapSAN Expansions

Features

Dual Controllers

With the option to integrate dual Active-Active controllers with automatic failover, administrators can rest assured that their valuable data assets are always available with dual controllers.
Highlights
  • Active-Active architecture for maximized performance
  • Failover support for 99.999% uptime
  • Fully redundant components with no single point of failure
Why You Need It...
  • Dual Controllers with Active-Active Failover

Flexible Connectivity

With support for a variety of connectivity options, SnapSAN products are ideal for organizations who desire the ability to leverage their existing infrastructure. Choose the best connectivity for your environment with single or dual controller options supporting 1GbE or 10GbE iSCSI, 8Gb Fibre Channel, or 6Gb/sec SAS interfaces.
Highlights
  • Support for 2 Active-Active controllers per system
  • 2 x 1GbE iSCSI ports per controller
  • 2 x 10GbE iSCSI ports per controller
  • 2 x 8Gb FC ports per controller
  • 4 x 6Gb ports per controller

Thin Provisioning

Lower capital and operating expenses with thin provisioning providing a high utilization, eliminating the need for dedicate physical capacity. Levering thin provisioning allows you to pay-as-you-grow and optimize overall disk utilization.
Highlights
  • Uninterrupted capacity expansion
  • Reduced acquisition costs
  • Reduced power consumption
Why You Need It...
  • Over provisioning allowing pay-as-you-grow

Volume Cloning

Lower capital and operating expenses with thin provisioning providing a high utilization, eliminating the need for dedicate physical capacity. Levering thin provisioning allows you to pay-as-you-grow and optimize overall disk utilization.
Highlights
  • Maximize application uptime
  • Leverage for backup staging
  • Create a test environment
Why You Need It...
  • For added protection or application testing

Replication

Affordably implement offsite real time remote replication and protect valuable business access to achieve disaster recovery objectives.
Highlights
  • Eliminate system downtime
  • Utilize for offsite disaster recovery
  • Create a test environment
Why You Need It...
  • Replicate data across multiple business locations

SnapShots

Snapshots are a great way to accelerate backups, reduce the physical capacity consumed to protect data and increase backup efficiencies. More importantly, Snapshots provide the fastest and most granular way to recover data.
Highlights
  • Reduce the time and space required for your backups
  • Maintain application consistency with Windows VSS integration
  • Roll back to a previous point in time for instant full data recovery
Why You Need It...
  • Create instant, point-in-time images of volumes

Drive-spin Down

Equipped with a variety of “Green” features and advanced cooling mechanisms which maximize energy efficiency and power savings, the auto disk spin-down feature ensures that the system is consuming only the amount of power required to serve data.
Highlights
  • Auto spin-down feature
  • Temperatures monitored and fan speed automatically adjusted
  • Power supplies optimized for energy efficiency
Why You Need It...
  • Reduces power and extends hard
    disk life

Contact jima@navigatestorage.com and let us tell you more about Overland Storage or call 978-318-9000

 





Buy This Product If...
You require a highly available storage solution that includes all the performance and features you need.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Starboard Storage AC Series™ is hybrid storage designed to provide solid state performance for active data, while keeping data at rest stored on cost-effective hard disks.

CRN’s Emerging Vendors know the value of good channel partnerships. Starboard Storage is 100% committed to the channel and has built a network of high impact, Value Added Resellers (VARs) that share the goal of bringing hybrid storage solutions to market and to Small and Medium Enterprises. VARs can leverage the Starboard Champion Partner Program’s resources and best practices to quickly bring the price/performance benefits of hybrid storage to their customers.

“We are committed to bringing our customers best-of-breed storage solutions for high performance enterprise solutions,” said Kush Hathi, chief executive officer of SoftNet Solutions. “Starboard Storage’s innovative AC Series exceeds our customers’ price/performance requirements and Starboard makes getting the product to market easy with their Champions Partner Program. The program provides exemplary marketing, sales and customer service resources and support.”

Final selection to the Emerging Technology Vendor list was made by the CRN editorial team after a review of submitted information. To view the list and editorial comments visit http://www.CRN.com.

The Starboard Storage AC Series™ is hybrid storage designed to provide solid state performance for active data, while keeping data at rest stored on cost-effective hard disks. The AC Series dramatically simplifies managing modern application workload environments which include unstructured, virtualized and structured data. Starboard eliminates SME customer pain points with its Mixed Application Storage Tiering (MAST™) architecture. The MAST architecture is built from the ground up and features SSD acceleration tiering and dynamic storage pooling with simplified provisioning and management through Starboard Storage Apps™.

The Starboard Storage AC Series is ideal for storage consolidation supporting multiple protocols, including NFS, CIFS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel, and enabling ease of management for mixed workload environments. The AC Series’ capacity can be expanded on-the-fly up to 576TBs with automatic load balancing across new drives as they are added. Drive speeds and capacities can be mixed and matched within Starboard Storage AC Series.

For more information please visit NavigateStorage  or drop us an email.  978-318-9000

Kaspersky or Panda Anti-Virus Quote

NavigateStorage experts in Kaspersky Corporate Protection - AV/Spyware/Spam/Mail/PDA/Smartphone

Business Space

  • Centralized installation management and updates
  • Support for network access control technology (Cisco NAC and Microsoft NAP)
  • Anti-virus protection for key network nodes; workstations, laptops, file servers and smartphones
  • Enhanced proactive protection for workstations and file servers against new malicious programs
  • Load balancing of server processes
  • Quarantine of infected workstations
  • Roll back for malicious changes made to the system
  • Scalability
Let us give you a quote for any Kaspersky or Panda Anti-virus.  Send your requirements license quantity, type of protection and number of years 1, 2, and 3 years and will send you a quote.  NavigateStorage.



Stonefly Reveals Tuso Unified Appliance

StoneFly Reveals Tuso Unified Scale-Out Storage Appliance



IP SAN+NAS from 8TB to 320TB per node

StoneFly Inc. introduces TUSO Unified Scale-Out Storage Appliance, the modular versatile solution for HA network storage.

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Designed with virtualized environments in mind TUSO provides HA shared file and block storage. Redundancy features include dual active/active hot-swappable storage controllers with full hardware RAID, snapshots, mirroring, replication and more.

It is easy to deploy and simple to manage making it a turnkey storage solution for organizations of all sizes. TUSO delivers on the StoneFly promise of intelligent IP Storage solutions.

Key Features Include:
  • No Metadata Scale-Out NAS
  • iSCSI SAN Cluster with Redundant Cluster Nodes
  • Hot-Swappable Drives, Power Supplies and Cooling Modules
  • Thin Provisioning with Space Reclamation
  • Synchronous Mirroring and Asynchronous replication (CDP)
  • Advanced Copy-on-Write Delta-Based Snapshot Technology
  • Volume based encryption (AES256)
  • Centralized Web-Based Management Portal
Capacities start at 8TB and scale to 320TB per node.
 
Contact NavigateStorage or call us at 978-318-9000

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Starboard Hybrid Storage with SSD

Starboard AC Series Storage System - SSD Hybrid Storage

We want to introduce you to Starboard Storage an real winner.  It is a Hybrid and has SSD to insure performance to boot.  We are holding webexs with Starboard to further tell you more.  Tell us you availabilty and we will make it happen.  Drop us a note with your availabilty jima@navigatestorage.com  or call 978-318-9000 we are in Massachusetts. 

With the Starboard Storage AC Series you have the ability to tackle one of the most difficult problems facing mid-tier IT departments today – managing modern application workloads. Your unstructured, virtualized and structured data all have different requirements, and your file and virtualized data are growing relentlessly, making the challenges worse every day. You need a better way to manage your data. Starboard SSD Hybrid Storage systems bring you the performance of solid state with the capacity of affordable HDD.

What is SSD Hybrid Storage?

The Starboard Storage AC Series are SSD hybrid storage systems bringing expert storage capabilities to IT professionals with industry leading performance for less. Starboard Storage's SSD hybrid storage systems provide performance as a utility and capacity on-demand to dramatically simplify managing modern application workload environments. The Starboard Storage AC series provides simple, efficient application consolidation onto a single scalable storage system, optimizing the configuration for each application. Experience the simplicity and power of the AC Series, the Starboard Storage hybrid storage solution includes:
  • SSD and HDD technology designed to deliver great $/GB and $/IOP
  • SSD and HDD resources virtualized providing performance as a utility to applications
  • A Dynamic Storage Pool™ virtualizing all HDD resources to provide capacity on demand
  • Multi-protocol support for iSCSI and Fibre Channel coupled with merging NAS and SAN storage into a single platform enabling efficient storage consolidation
  • Application-Crafted™ optimization of volumes across multiple storage protocols including CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel
That is what SSD hybrid storage is!
To learn more about the Starboard Storage AC72 and the Starboard Storage AC45 view the AC45 Technical Specification, AC72 Technical Specification and the Starboard Storage Brochure.

The Starboard Storage AC Series was specially designed to manage modern application workloads so IT administrators can dramatically reduce the time and cost of managing structured, virtualized and unstructured data storage. Dynamic storage pooling and SSD Accelerator Tier™ make this happen.

Save Costs and Consolidate Mixed Workloads with Dynamic Storage Pooling

Starboard’s next-generation Mixed Application Storage Tiering (MAST™) architecture introduces the Starboard Dynamic Storage Pool, cutting administrative complexity by eliminating the concept of RAID groups and delivering capacity on demand for your applications. There’s no more complex RAID group setup or management, no meta-LUNs, no protocol layering, and no lengthy re-builds or re-striping. You benefit from simple and cost-effective scalability with the ability to mix and match drive speeds and capacities; adding drives results in an immediate boost in capacity and performance. The storage pool is thin provisioned for utilization efficiency, and dynamic storage pooling increases reliability. Unified storage systems are often legacy systems with converged NAS and SAN storage with a combination of SSD and HDD bound by a unifying GUI. SSD Hybrid storage systems are built from the ground up. The bottom line is a radically improved management scenario for administrators juggling application workloads.

Learn more about the Starboard Dynamic Storage Pool. Industry leading performance for less with the SSD Accelerator TierThe Starboard Storage AC series allows users to share information quickly and reliably by combining the virtually instantaneous access of solid state technology with the state-of-the-art performance optimization features of the SSD Accelerator Tier. These virtualized SSD resources deliver performance as a utility for all of your applications lowering operational overhead, and delivering tuned storage that maintains consistently high application performance. SSD resources are allocated to applications when they need them and returned to the pool to accelerate other applications when no longer required. Starboard’s dynamic storage pooling and SSD Accelerator Tier deliver industry leading performance for less.

Learn more about the Starboard SSD Accelerator Tier.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Anti-virus protection for key network nodes: workstations, laptops, file servers and smartphones

Kaspersky Anti-Virus plus lots more

  • Anti-virus protection for key network nodes: workstations, laptops, file servers and smartphones.
  • A new anti-virus engine ensures optimal use of resources.
  • Enhanced proactive protection for workstations and file servers against new malicious programs.
  • Application startup control and Application Privilege Control for Windows-based implementations.
  • Device Control, customizable to the device ID level for Windows-based implementations.
  • Hardware and Software inventory reports with vulnerability flagging.
  • On-the-fly scanning of email and Internet traffic.
  • Cloud-Assisted protection via integration with the Kaspersky Security Network.
  • Personal firewall for protection on any type of network.
  • Local protection from unsolicited emails and phishing.
  • Prevents data leaks from lost smartphones.
  • Protection for file servers running Windows, Linux and Novell NetWare.
  • Comprehensive protection for terminal servers and cluster servers.
  • Load balancing of server processes.
  • Full support for 64-bit systems.

  • NavigateStorage is a certified solution provider.  Let us tell you more and provide a quote and a free trial.  Call us 978-318-9000   Send us a note

    Nimble Storage solutions integrate the exceptional performance

    Product and Technology

    Nimble Storage has created the industry's first flash-optimized storage engineered from the ground up for maximum efficiency. Nimble Storage solutions integrate the exceptional performance of flash with the favorable economics of high-capacity hard disk drives—making it ideal for storing and protecting data for all of your critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, server virtualization, and VDI.
     
    Nimble Storage is built on the patented Cache Accelerated Sequential
    Layout (CASL™) architecture
    and delivers:
    • Accelerated performance for higher throughput/IOPS and sub-millisecond latencies
    • Higher storage efficiency—reducing the storage footprint needed by 30 to 75 percent
    • Non-disruptive scaling-to-fit changing application needs through increased performance, or capacity, or both
    • Maximized data and storage availability with integrated data protection and disaster recovery
    • Simplified storage management and reduced day-to-day operational overhead

    Come visit NavigateStorage for more information about Nimble then let us know you are interested and we will set up a webcast with Nimble, tell you more about it, then provide you with a money savings quote,  978-318-9000

    Saturday, October 20, 2012

    Cost effective MPStor


    Make MPSTOR's Stackware the "tool" in your toolkit.

    Extremely cost-effective, full-featured storage software using off-the-shelf hardware will add dollars to your bottom line over most, if not all, of your existing product lines.

     

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    Key Features:
     
    • Dual Ethernet ports (iSCSI, CIFS & NFS)
    • Tiered Storage support (SSD/SAS/SATA)
    • 6Gb SAS
    • Thin Provisioning/Snapshot
    • Runs on mostx86
    • 12 drives supported for this offer
    • RAID Levels 0,1,5,6
    • IP-SAN/NAS supported in both 1Gb and 10Gb
    server
    Licensing:
     
    Licensing upgrades available for:
     
    • Dual controller option
     
     
    • FC/SAS/Infiniband target modes
     
     
    • Management for up to 256 drives
     
     
     
     
     
    Cost per license-$349
     
     
    Stepping Stone to Cloud Infrastructure (Infrastructure as a Service-IaaS), also available from MPSTOR
     
    Contact NavigateStorage at 978-318-9000 or e-mail jima@navigatestoragec.om
     
     

    Sunday, October 14, 2012

    Document Management Software for Business


    Archive Studio™, an all inclusive suite, offers a full range of scalable products, servicing everything from basic content management needs to enterprise-wide document management, business process workflow, records management, email archiving and distributed or centralized image capture. Archive Studio’s WebSearch document management module provides 100% browser based capabilities from a single server installation, and is also available in the Cloud/Software as a Service. Archive Studio is easily customizable and fully compatible with Active Directory, plus the developer – API – provides full integration capabilities with other line-of-business applications.
    With DocuLex’s experience in the document and content management industry, we have created a full line of software solutions within the Archive Studio Software Suite to fulfill the needs of any organization. To find out more about specific industries in which DocuLex can provide solutions, visit our Applications for Industry pages.
    To find out more about Archive Studio’s specific process applications, please see the various component descriptions below, with links to pages that expand upon the capabilities of each component or contact us to request more information.

    Archive Studio Content Management Software Suite Components

    WebSearchDOCUMENT MANAGEMENT, WORKFLOW, EMAIL ARCHIVING, RAPID RETRIEVAL and RECORDS RETENTION.WebSearch manages document security, process workflow, retrieval, collaboration and policy based retention of indexed and stored electronic files housed locally on a network, in the cloud or remote file server with secure access to the internet. Common files include scanned documents, email, word processing documents, spreadsheets, large format drawings and more. The electronic files may be easily located by searching document-specific descriptions or a combination of full text key words contained in the document. Proximity searching is also available using visual file cabinet and folder structure methods. WebSearch is the electronic content management component accompanying the document imaging and content indexing programs, Goby Capture, WebSearch Capture and Professional Capture. Get more information about WebSearch

    WebSearch, plus your choice of one or more of the following Paper and Electronic file Capture and Document Indexing software packages.

    Goby CaptureDISTRIBUTED and ELECTRONIC FILES
    Designed to utilize with digital copiers, network scanners and Microsoft Office. Goby provides walk-up convenience for scanning, indexing, archiving and sharing valuable documents in WebSearch document management software. In addition, Goby offers the integrated capture and indexing capability for MS-Office files such as MS-Word, Excel and Outlook.
    Get more information about Goby Capture
    WebSearch Browser Based CaptureON DEMAND
    WebSearch Capture is available for users that desire a simple solution to quickly scan and index documents, making them archived in WebSearch and available on your network or in the Cloud for document management storage and retrieval. WebSearch Capture is on-demand scanning when needed and requires no desktop installation, only a browser. WebSearch Capture integrates electronic capture of paper files, plus content indexing, which produces searchable electronic files.
    Get more information about WebSearch Browser Based Capture
    Professional CaptureHIGH DEMAND
    Designed for use with dedicated scanners or digital copiers, Professional Capture solves the desire to convert large volumes of paper to searchable electronic files. It is a productive software product that fulfills the demands of multiple, complex, imaging projects. Professional offers a wide variety of image processing and indexing capabilities which will streamline and reduce the cost of your conversion projects. DocuLex maximizes technology in order to minimize the labor component associated with document imaging, indexing and printing.

    Visit us and learn more  Call us at 978-318-9000 or website

    Tuesday, October 9, 2012

    Trade-in & save up to 25% on a new Dot Hill Storage Array


    Trade-in & save up to 25% on a new Dot Hill Storage Array


    • Proven 99.999% Reliability
    • Blazing 5200 Mbs read 3000Mbs write performance
    • Real-time Auto-tiering for dynamic workloads
    • Thin provisioning and automatic storage pooling
    • Advanced data management includes Snapshot & Replication
    • Simple web based, wizard driven installation
    • Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and Veeam certified
    • Support for VAAI & SRM
    Contact Navigatestorage at 978-318-9000 or Jim

    Monday, October 1, 2012

    Storage for small and branch offices from ICE Web


    Simplify, Standardize, Optimize

    IceWEB’s unified storage appliances provide a single platform for all your storage needs. Simplify your data center environment, cloud and virtualization deployments by optimizing your storage resources through a single pane of glass.

    Easy to use

    The IceWEB 1000 unified storage appliance provides organizations of all sizes with an automated, application-ready storage platform that is easy to acquire and manage; and sets up in 5 minutes or less.

    Single pane of glass

    Whether using a standalone storage appliance or managing an entire infrastructure of storage devices, IceSTORM OS allows you to manage and control all of your storage devices from a single management interface. With IceSTORM OS, you can start with a single device and gradually expand to multiple onsite and offsite storage devices while maintaining the same management environment – Complete Investment Protections.

    Contact NavigateStorage or call Jim at 978-318-9000   jima@navigatestorage.com Read more then call us  http://www.iceweb.com/product_pdf/IceWEB-1000-Unified-Strorage-System.pdf

    Friday, July 20, 2012

    I'm pleased to announce updated pricing.

    I'm pleased to announce updated pricing.  Effective immediately for new orders.  Taking advantage of lower costs for disk drives and other savings, we're offering better values than ever. Depending on the model and capacity, many price changes are quite dramatically lower.  And we've certified the 4TB drives and added those to our lineup so we have a wider range of configuration choices. 

    In addition, we have increased the power and performance of our top VTL model, the iSAN-V, especially when performing deduplication after backup. This model features a substantial increase to the the memory (cache).  For customers with larger data sets, we have added an option to provide an even more powerful deduplication engine.  With these changes, We offer a highly-competitive backup system, with exceptional  performance and a very strong offering price.


    Contact Jim at 978-318-9000 at NavigateStorage for more information and a quote.  Or drop us a line at jima@navigatestorage.com

    Wednesday, June 6, 2012

    HYBRID STORAGE TRY BEFORE YOU BUY!


    HYBRID STORAGE TRY BEFORE YOU BUY!


    OFFER CUSTOMERS AN NST5000 30-DAY EVALUATION


    In our biggest NST5000 campaign to date, invite your customers to evaluate the breakthrough performance of Nexsan’s Hybrid Storage with Try Before You Buy! Performance this fast with a cost-per-I/O this low must be experienced to be believed – the speed of solid-state at the price of spinning disk.

    With up to 10X performance boost with FASTier acceleration technology, you will discover never-before-seen boosts in their applications that have been underserved by traditional storage. Send this offer directly to your customers using the Custom Campaign Creator.

    This is a no-risk evaluation.  Contact jima@navigatestorage and ask.....

    Friday, June 1, 2012

    Unitrends Lures Buyers With 40% Discount


    Those switching from Symantec Backup Exec
    Unitrends, Inc. announced a promotion offering up to a 40% discount to organizations switching from Symantec Backup Exec.

    The offer stems from the poor customer response to the release of Backup Exec 2012, which dropped support for IBM pSeries/AIX, Solaris, and Novell Netware systems.

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    The offer ends June 30, 2012.

    "Customers are focused on ensuring their data is safe and backed up, regardless of their platform of choice. By continuing to support these systems, Unitrends is reiterating its long-term customer commitment," said Mike Coney, Unitrends president and CEO. "This promotion enables existing and new Backup Exec customers to affordably switch to the industry-leading all-in-one backup appliance. Our innovations, such as our industry-only unified instant recovery that enables VMware and Windows failover virtualization with the same solution, allow customers to protect their data today and far into the future."

    For users of IBM pSeries/AIX, Solaris and Novell Netware, Unitrends offers continued support for both legacy and latest releases, as well as key enhancements:

    IBM pSeries/AIX
    • Backup and recovery of IBM pSeries/AIX Release 4, 5, and 6.1
    • Hot bare metal recovery for IBM pSeries/AIX Release 5 and 6.1
    Solaris
    • Backup and recovery of Solaris Release 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, and 10
    • Hot and cold bare metal recovery for Solaris Release 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, and 10
    Novell Netware
    • Backup and recovery of Novell Netware Release 5, 6, and OES, Linux/SUSE OES1, Linux/SUSE OES2
    • Cold bare metal recovery for Novel Netware Release 5.x, 6.x, OES, Linux/SUSE OES1, Linux/SUSE OES2
    With 130 employees nationwide, Unitrends has the resources to assist companies with their backup and DR needs. U.S.-based support team holds a 99% customer satisfaction rating.

    Along with AIX, Solaris and Netware support,
    the Unitrends all-in-one solution also offers:

    • All-in-one backup of 100+ versions of hypervisors, OSs, computers, storage platforms and applications.
    • Support for both physical and virtual servers.
    • Instant recovery of Windows and VMware with Failover Virtualization.
    • Adaptive Deduplication.
    • CDP with Incremental Forever.
    • D2D2x: Archiving to SAN, NAS, Cloud, Disk or Tape.
    • Single pane of glass web 2.0 user interface.
    • Dissimilar bare metal and P2V, V2P, P2P.
    • Spiceworks integration.
    • US-based customer support.
    In contrast to competitors, Unitrends also uses a 'No Limits' licensing policy.

    This means:
    • No per client agent fees.
    • No per operating system fees.
    • No per application fees.
    • No new release fees.

    Contact Jim at jima@navigatestorage.com or call 978-318-9000