Industry’s first 3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) expander

NavigateStorage is pleased to offer the SASX12A. It is fully compliant with the ANSI Serial Attached SCSI specification, with benefits including improved performance, simplified cabling, smaller connectors, a lower pin count, and lower power requirements. The SASX12A expander supports the Serial Attached SCSI Protocol (SSP), the Serial ATA Tunneling Protocol (STP), and the SAS Management Protocol (SMP) as defined in the SAS specification as well as the Serial ATA (SATA) protocol as defined in the Serial ATA standard. The SASX12A expander supports 1.5 and 3Gb/s data transfer rates per port. The SASX12A 12-port expander provides storage environments with the functionality of connecting multiple targets and initiators through a switched device.

This is ideal for today’s data centers and storage subsystems, leveraging existing SCSI infrastructure for investment protection and ease of migration and implementation.

The expanders comply with the SAS standard which includes the proven SCSI command set, while allowing for point-to-point connection, increased device bandwidth, higher availability with dual-ported drives, and enhanced reliability when compared to parallel SCSI. In addition, SAS leverages an electrical and physical connection interface that is compatible with SATA technology. This interface compatibility allows for greater customer choice in drive connection, including the 2.5" hard disk drive small form factor.

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StoneFly's IP SAN Tests Show That BLADE's RackSwitch Provides Fastest 10 Gigabit Ethernet Performance

StoneFly's IP SAN Tests Show That BLADE's RackSwitch Provides Fastest 10 Gigabit Ethernet Performance

StoneFly's new Voyager iSCSI SAN appliance delivers up to 950 megabytes/sec using BLADE's Cloud Ready RackSwitch G8124 10G Ethernet switch.

BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. (BLADE), the trusted leader in data center networking, and StoneFly, Inc., a leading supplier of integrated IP storage area network (SAN) systems and a wholly owned subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, Inc. (DNF), announced today that StoneFly has selected BLADE's RackSwitch as the fastest 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch for deployment with its new Voyager virtualized IP SAN solution. BLADE's RackSwitch is part of BLADE's Cloud Ready Network Architecture for the high bandwidth and low latency required in cloud computing and IP SAN environments.

StoneFly recently concluded an in-house test of its new Voyager IP SAN appliance using BLADE's RackSwitch G8124 and alternative 10Gb Ethernet switches, which confirmed that the BLADE switch delivers the fastest iSCSI SAN performance of up to 950 megabytes per second. As the newest member of the StoneFly Storage Concentrator™ family of IP SANs, Voyager comes standard with Gigabit Ethernet connections, and is offered with optional quad 10GbE connections.

The Voyager-RackSwitch solution will be shown for the first time at BLADE's booth 1175 at Interop, May 18-21, 2009, in Las Vegas."Our new Voyager appliance is our fastest SAN yet," said Bahman Jalali, Director of Product Management for StoneFly. With BLADE's RackSwitch, it supports over 950 megabytes per second delivering by far the best performance of any 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch that we tested. "With more than 75 percent of our customers either considering or currently using server virtualization, the Voyager solution works flawlessly with BLADE's RackSwitch to give them the speed and performance they require, plus high availability to ensure support of the most demanding applications and IT environments."StoneFly's Voyager with BLADE's RackSwitch supports VMware vSphere to enable customers to harness the benefits of a scalable IP SAN in highly virtualized and cloud computing environments. RackSwitch and Voyager both support a wide range of virtual server environments including VMware, Citrix XenServer, Virtual Iron and Microsoft.

StoneFly, a premier partner of NavigateStorage, is offered Nationwide. Contact us today. Call; 978-318-9000 or email

NavigateStorage and Reldata

RELDATA’s 9240i Unified Storage System delivers integrated iSCSI SAN, NAS and WAN replication functions on a single virtualized platform that delivers best-in-class performance.

NavigateStorage a storage specialist company, in its tenth year, says that the system is easy to implement, operate, and manage, yet delivers enterprise-class functionality and is willing to prove it. Customers can independently scale disk storage capacity, SAN/NAS/WAN replication storage services, and network performance without application disruption.

This "pay-as-you-grow" design eliminates the need for forklift box upgrades – and the downtime it causes – and liberates customers from vendor lock-in and the associated predatory pricing for additional disk capacity.


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Nexsan Promotion

Nexsan has rolled out a brand new promotion called 'Get Your Green On'. Commemorating Earth Day,

Purchase a Nexsan Beast or Nexsan Boy from NavigateStorage then turn on AutoMAID for 30 days, send us your system logs and get a complimentary spare drive(s) for FREE. Offer valid on new system purchases only related to SATABeast, SATABoy, SASBeast and SASBoy. Contact us at 978-318-9000 or write email.

Terms and Conditions:
Receive 2 complimentary drives on any Nexsan Beast product with a minimum of 14 drives. Receive 1 complimentary drive on any Nexsan Boy product with a minimum of 8 drives. Offer valid on new system purchases only. Purchase orders must be received from your authorized Nexsan reseller by June 15th, 2009 and product must ship by June 30th, 2009. Complimentary drives will be the same capacity as the drives in the existing system.

Must receive AutoMAID logs by Sept 30th 2009 verifying that AutoMAID was turned on for a minimum of 30 consecutive days. Once AutoMAID logs have been received and verified, complimentary drive(s) will be shipped.

Nexsan Technologies reserves the right to modify amounts, to add additional offers, cancel or modify this program, and other Nexsan promotional programs, at their discretion. Nexsan withholds the right to disqualify any claimant for any reason at any time. Nexsan is not obligated to provide advanced notification of cancellation or modification of any program to resellers or end users/customers. Nexsan disclaims any responsibility or liability for lost sales or profits resulting from the cancellation or modification of this program, or Nexsan's failure to provide advance notice of cancellation or modification.

Kaspersky Open Space Security

NavigateStorage a premier Kaspersky Partner since 2006

What is Kaspersky Open Space Security?
Kaspersky Open Space Security is our approach to trans-perimeter network and endpoint security where protection extends beyond the workplace to reach remote users and an increasingly mobile workforce. At Kaspersky Lab we believe that freedom and flexibility in corporate communications is fully compatible with airtight protection from contemporary security threats, such as viruses and other malicious programs, hacker attacks, spyware and spam.

Kaspersky Work Space Security provides centralized protection for workstations, both desktops and laptops in the office and on the road from all types of contemporary Internet threats, including viruses, spyware, hacker attacks and spam.

Kaspersky Business Space Security provides protection for workstations and file servers from all types of contemporary Internet threats, preventing epidemics and keeping business data secure and accessible.

Kaspersky Enterprise Space Security protects all endpoints including workstations, file servers and mail servers from today's Internet threats, including viruses, worms, spyware and phishing, ensuring a free flow of information within the company and secure communication with the outside world.

Kaspersky Total Space Security provides integrated protection for all nodes in corporate networks of any size or level of complexity from all types of contemporary Internet threats, users secure and fast access to company information, resources and the Internet, as well as secure communications via email.

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Why Kaspersky Open Space Security?
Kaspersky Open Space Security meets and exceeds core requirements for comprehensive endpoint protection of corporate networks:
A solution for all network nodes and platforms
Protection against all types of Internet threats
Rapid response
Proactive technologies backed by traditional signature-based protection
Kaspersky Open Space Security provides security on the move:
Protection for laptops everywhere – in the office, at home and on the move.
Protection for returning and/or guest computers
Kaspersky Open Space Security successfully counters new attempts by cyber criminals to attack networks and block protection:
Anti-rootkit technology
Protection from identity theft
Rollback of changes made by malicious software
Self-defense against attacks by malware
Kaspersky Open Space Security diminishes total cost of ownership by providing simple, transparent administration and efficient performance:
Centralized administration
Compatibility with third party solutions
Efficient use of network resources
Network and Endpoint Security

Kaspersky Open Space Security products are flexible suites designed to make purchasing network protection simple. For example, take a network that has a large number of Windows workstations, a couple Linux workstations, and a couple file servers. It isn't necessary to buy separate security applications to protect the different nodes of the network, even if running on different platforms. Instead, just find the product that includes the necessary network nodes (in this case, Kaspersky Business Security), add up the licenses that you need, and make just a single purchase. It's that simple!

Unified iSCSI storage solutions that deliver iSCSI SAN, NAS and WAN replication functions from a single virtualized storage platform

NavigateStorage delivers Unified iSCSI storage solutions that deliver iSCSI SAN, NAS and WAN replication functions from a single virtualized storage platform by RELDATA.

The solutions are easy to implement, operate and manage, yet deliver enterprise-class performance and functionality. Customers can further leverage VMware® and Citrix® server consolidation, independently scale storage capacity and performance to meet their specific needs, and migrate data without application disruption. RELDATA products are designed to seamlessly integrate into the customer's existing storage infrastructure, virtualize and manage legacy third-party storage, and co-exist with more expensive storage solutions from vendors such as Network Appliance® and EMC®. RELDATA is headquartered in New Jersey. RELDATA products are available through NavigateStorage an authorized value-added reseller. Email or call 978-318-9000

Hosted email archiving and compliance

NavigateStorage and Global Relay's Hosted Email Archiving & Messaging Services provide businesses with economical, easy-to-use professionally-managed, email archiving, email continuity and email security solutions. The Message Archiver, Global Relay's core email archiving technology, seamlessly integrates with all email and instant messaging systems to deliver the fastest online search, retrieval and monitoring capabilities on the market today. Its enterprise-class, web-based email archiving tools address the demands of regulatory compliance, audit and eDiscovery, while alleviating the burden of data management, email archiving, storage, security and business continuity, including migration of historical data.

Built on a reputation of customer service, technical expertise and compliance excellence, Global Relay has delivered Hosted Email Archiving & Messaging Services for over ten years and has never lost a message, nor had a security breach. We help our customers stay organized, competitive, compliant and in control. Why not contact us today. 978-318-9000 or email

VMware Backup – iBac Virtual Infrastructure Proxy

iBac Virtual Infrastructure Proxy (iBac VIP) from NavigateStorage is an enterprise backup solution for VMware virtual servers that eliminates the need for scripting, server downtime or having to install expensive and resource consuming backup agents on each virtual server. iBac VIP was designed to simplify VMware backup and makes it far easier to backup and recover data in a VMware virtual server environment.

iBac VIP is licensed per ESX server or per VMware Virtual Center regardless of the number of processors on the ESX servers or VM’s that need to be backed up. VIP can be used with any VCB Proxy Server, Windows 2003 Backup Server or Idealstor Backup Appliance allowing backup jobs to be sent straight to disk or removable disk media for offsite storage.

How Does VIP Work?
iBac VIP uses the VCB framework to provide a centralized infrastructure for effectively backing up VMware virtual machines on a live VMware ESX server. Unlike other backup solutions on the market, iBac VIP does not require you to purchase expensive backup agents per each virtual machine or have to pay for the number of processors running on each ESX server. Server backups are initiated and maintained from a centralized management console that provides advanced logging, scheduling and email reporting. This enables backup administrators to quickly and efficiently backup every Virtual machine on their network via a Fibre Channel or iSCSI SAN or LAN.

iBac VIP is a complete backup and restore solution for VMware server environments. Contact us today email or call 978-318-9000.

NavigateStorage Announces Enterprise EMail Professional

NavigateStorage and MessageSolution, Inc., the technology leaders in email and file archiving solutions for electronic discovery, litigation support, compliance, and storage management, today announces the release of the latest incarnation of the award-winning Enterprise Email Archive product line: Enterprise Email Archive Professional Edition.

MessageSolution Enterprise Email Archive Professional Edition is a feature-rich on-site email archiving solution for Microsoft Exchange Server and IBM Lotus Notes Domino Server designed to help organizations beat the economic downturn by keeping implementation timelines short and deployment costs low.

MessageSolution Enterprise Email Archive Professional Edition provides a more expedient, cost-effective option for organizations that have more Outlook or Lotus Notes users than Outlook Web Access (OWA) or Domino Web Access users.

"Organizations can speed up the archive deployment process by placing a majority of users on MessageSolution Professional Edition and giving heavy Outlook Web Access or Domino Web Access users the Enterprise Suite edition," said MessageSolution Senior Strategic Product Manager Raymond Lee.

Enterprise Email Archive Professional Edition is a streamlined version of MessageSolution Email Archive Enterprise Suite edition, which leads the archiving industry in enterprise-level archive scalability with an implementation of more than 10,000 users on a single archiving server. MessageSolution Enterprise Suite edition provides a web-based search and administration interface, email client integration, Outlook Web Access or Domino Web Access integration, mobile archive access for traveling users and Blackberry users, and an optional unified file archiving solution.

The Professional Edition gives users transparent Outlook and Lotus Notes client integration, along with convenient offline and Blackberry archive access and MessageSolution‟s user-friendly web-based interface.

The Professional Edition also provides policy-based archiving, archiving of encrypted emails, web-based search, in-process de duplication/single instancing, and high-volume compression, along with advanced audit and litigation support functionality.

MessageSolution announced the release of another archiving edition in January, MessageSolution Enterprise Email Archive Compliance Express edition for GroupWise, Exchange, Domino and all major Linux-based email servers. The addition of MessageSolution Professional Edition further expands MessageSolution‟s ability to customize the level of support and functionality required by specific groups of users in an organization.

A strong portfolio of multiple archive editions allows MessageSolution to take an approach to solution definition that is unique in the archiving industry, giving organizations the freedom to „mix and match‟ between MessageSolution archive editions to achieve optimal functionality and support at minimal cost.

"This approach to solution definition is also the most cost-effective," Lee explained. "By letting organizations provide different users with the unique feature sets they need, MessageSolution customers have seen their archiving costs lowered significantly."

MessageSolution's products free IT administrators from daily maintenance and increase overall employee productivity. For more information, call 978-318-9000 or write to Jim

Managing IP Addresses with Free Tools

NavigateStorage Tip of the Day.

Few people would argue the importance of IP addresses to network operations, but many don't make managing them a priority in their environment, especially in tough economic times.
Recent research from BT showed that more network managers are moving away from spreadsheets and investing in automation and other tools to manage IP addresses. Still many couldn't get an IP address management (IPAM) project pushed through the budget process for various reasons. Some reasons pointed to other projects taking a higher priority and others simply thought their network was too small to justify the investment.

But many working in network operations today believe managing IP addresses is too critical a project to fall victim to budget crunches.

"Many IT folks and shops don’t get that proper IP address management is more than just housekeeping. Although more appropriately thought of as IP address design, how you determine to lay out your address space becomes a major factor in being able to grow and adapt your organization to the changing needs of IT," says Chad Buzzard, director of network operations at Lending Tree in Charlotte, N.C.

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Buzzard experienced a similar situation last year, with no budget to upgrade his IPAM practices he found another option.

"As the person directly responsible for the IP address allocation within our enterprise I can understand the priority conflict in moving to an automated solution, but the cost of a product should not be a factor for anyone if they take their time to look at the options out there," says Chad Buzzard, director of network operations at Lending Tree in Charlotte, N.C. "Last year we moved from spreadsheets to the open source tool called IPplan."

According to sourceforge.net, IPplan is free, Web-based IPAM software that can help simplify the administration of network IP address space. Available under the GNU General Public License, IPplan includes DNS administration, configuration file management, customizable circuit management and hardware information storage. The application is said to be able to handle a single network or multiple networks and overlapping address space.

For Buzzard, the open source application enables him to make IPAM a priority without paying for it. Using in-house labor and free tools helps keep the IP address space managed according to best practices, which he says will ultimately pay off for his organization.

"We have every IP address in our network integrated into this tool and we perform weekly network scans to find rogue IP addresses that were not documented, as well as to find addresses no longer in use to keep everything up to date," he says. "There was a fair amount of manpower time in that project, but a lot of that comes from our desire to audit every IP address instead of just mapping the spreadsheet in and calling it good."

Idealstor removeable disk backup appliance

NavigateStorage offers Idealstor a leading developer of removable disk to disk backup solutions. Their systems combine the best of disk and tape by using SATA disks as portable backup media. Rather than sending the data from disk to tape, Idealstor lets you write to the disks like tape for a tape free backup solution.

Idealstor offers the most flexible backup solutions on the market by developing hardware and software that can be used together as a single solution, or that can be used with any third party backup solutions that can backup to disk. All Idealstor systems use disk like tape, not only as a target for backups, but as physically portable and offsite media. Idealstor products offer you………

a) ejectable Disk to Disk Backup ,
b) removable Hard Disk media for archiving data , and
c) the speed of disk with the portability of tape .


Here is just one of the many great Idealstor products ---- The Idealstor 4 Bay Backup Appliance!

The Idealstor 4 Bay backup appliance is a removable disk appliance, and was designed for the medium to large sized business that is looking to backup and restore more data faster. The backup capacity of the 4 bay can be scaled up to 8TB of removable disk capacity. This product comes standard with 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports providing the flexibility that is needed as storage requirements and speeds increase.

The Idealstor Backup Appliance is a complete disk to disk backup solution that becomes the host for your backup software and the target for backup data. Idealstor provides the speed and reliability of disk coupled with the portability of tape. Idealstor uses any capaci-ty Serial ATA or IDE disk as backup media that can be physically removed and taken offsite for backup and offsite storage. Units range in capacity from 80-2000GB using the 1 Bay, up to 16TB using our 8 Bay Backup Appliance. All units come installed with the Windows operating system and function as the media server and target for backup data. Connected to the network via GB Ethernet, our backup systems achieve average speeds of up to 2GB/minute and can perform multiple simultaneous backups. Because these systems run Windows, they can also become the target for replication and server failover in the event of disaster.

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NavigateStorage a Premier Nexsan Partner

Nexsan, a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term disk storage, today continued to deliver enterprise functionality at value prices with the introduction of the Nexsan iSeries™, the company's first iSCSI SAN, which provides customers with more flexibility, scalability and value than any other product in its class.

To learn more and get a competitive quote contact Jim Addlesberger at 978-318-9000.


Designed and priced specifically to give small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) a new value-alternative in implementing an iSCSI SAN, the Nexsan iSeries is a complete, easy-to-implement, enterprise-class SAN that is ideal for use in standalone or fully virtualized IT environments.


The Nexsan iSeries delivers advanced storage functionality and independent scaling of performance and capacity. It offers iSCSI, Fibre Channel and NAS configurations from the same system and provides twice the capacity of similar solutions, up to 1PB of storage, at a fraction of the cost of competitive products. It also includes a complete suite of easy-to-use enterprise storage services, including virtualization, for a single up-front price to affordably accommodate a company's increasing storage needs. This holistic approach simplifies pricing, removes hidden costs and licensing fees associated with competitive products and smoothly accommodates an organization's IT requirements as they change.


The Nexsan iSeries offers customers:
*Virtualized storage for flexibility and intelligent automation of routine tasks
*High performance for running multiple demanding applications from a single high-density system
*Simultaneous use of SAS and/or SATA disk drives in the same storage chassis for application flexibility and low-cost scalability


With the iSeries, Nexsan is again delivering Tier 1 enterprise-class features and performance at Tier 2 prices with storage solutions ideal for SMBs and SMEs. The Nexsan iSeries is available in two configurations which include additional storage expansion to meet the needs of customers whose data storage requirements are steadily growing.

Storage and SDD's for max performance

It turns out Dell/EqualLogic isn’t the only vendor with an all-iSCSI SAN system that supports solid state drives (SSDs).

NavigateStorage's StoneyFly actually beat Dell to its official announcement of the PS6000 today with its rollout of the Voyager, an active-active midrange IP SAN. Voyager is available with Intel X-25E SSDs, or SAS or SATA drives. It also includes a 10-Gigabit Ethernet option – something that is apparently still on the drawing board at Dell.

It seems like just yesterday – or maybe this morning – that SSDs were considered something for super high performance tier 0 applications. Is anybody using iSCSI for that?
StoneFly product manager Jame Ervin says demand is high for SSD as well as 10-GigE.
“We have customers ready to go with SSD the minute it’s available,” she said. “They’re looking for any performance benefit they can get.”

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As for 10-gigE, Ervin says it has the greatest appeal among service providers. “Those type of customers seem to have the most interest so far. They seem to be ahead of the game adopting new technologies,” she said.
IDC research analyst Liz Conner doesn’t expect SSD to be a large selling point for iSCSI before 2010, but with iSCSI use growing and budgets shrinking it’s worth taking a look at now.

“I see it popping up more for Fibre Channel SANs, but it will happen with iSCSI,” Conner said. “Most people will go with Fibre Channel for high performance, but with iSCSI offering more high-end features and the way the economy is now, it’s more of an option.”
Conner says 10-gigE is inevitable for iSCSI. “They can say, ‘we’ve got it now, you won’t have to upgrade later,’” she said of StoneFly’s strategy.Trackback URL

Data Robotics introduces DroboPro, a storage array for SMBs

Data Robotics has expanded the market they cover by introducing a new storage appliance, dubbed DroboPro.


Calling on its experience from the Drobo appliance, of which it has shipped 60,000 units, DroboPro is a storage array for SMBs. DroboPro builds on a virtualized storage platform and includes protection against multiple drive failures. In addition capacity of volumes can be expanded or reduced with thin provisioning.


Like Drobo, DroboPro has a series of lights on the front panel that indicated drive failures and capacity. DroboPro connects to the network with iSCSI and supports as many as eight Serial ATA disks for expansion to 16TB. Drives of different capacities and speeds can be mixed with each other in the DroboPro.


DroboPro also has FireWire 800 connections for Macintosh connectivity and USB connectors. It is available either in a rack-mount configuration or desktop model.
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DroboPro is available starting at $1,299 MSRP, with multiple configurations to $3,999 for a 16TB rack-mountable solution. NavigateStorage

Why Kaspersky Open Space Security?

Kaspersky Open Space Security meets and exceeds core requirements for comprehensive endpoint protection of corporate networks:
* A solution for all network nodes and platforms
* Protection against all types of Internet threats
* Rapid response
*Proactive technologies backed by traditional signature-based protection
Kaspersky Open Space Security provides security on the move:
* Protection for laptops everywhere – in the office, at home and on the move.
* Protection for returning and/or guest computers
Kaspersky Open Space Security successfully counters new attempts by cyber criminals to attack networks and block protection:
* Anti-rootkit technology
* Protection from identity theft
* Rollback of changes made by malicious software
* Self-defense against attacks by malware
Kaspersky Open Space Security diminishes total cost of ownership by providing simple, transparent administration and efficient performance:
* Centralized administration
* Compatibility with third party solutions
* Efficient use of network resources

Let us show you how to save money and be more secure.

Fault Tolerant Maratholn Technologies

Microsoft, Marathon Bring Fault Tolerant Technology to Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V
Microsoft and Marathon Technologies last week unveiled a partnership and a joint development agreement to bring fault tolerant options to companies running Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V.

By John Fontana
Mon, January 12, 2009 — Network World — Microsoft and Marathon Technologies last week unveiled a partnership and a joint development agreement to bring fault tolerant options to companies running Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V.

Microsoft is moving to create a more highly available Windows environment by offering a selection of options to protect business-critical applications. Marathon offers a fault tolerant platform that supports Windows called everRun. The vendor will offer support for Windows Server 2008 before the end of June and for a version of Hyper-V that will ship in a future edition of Windows Server. Microsoft officials would not confirm if it would be the next version after the Windows Server 2008 R2 version, which went into beta last week. Marathon and Microsoft officials said integration with System Center management tools also are in development.

Marathon's everRun has its own management component. Windows Server 2008 includes failover clustering, but Marathon adds a level of fault tolerance that includes options for minimal downtime or none at all. The two companies plan to combine development efforts in building a platform so fault tolerance and high availability can be built on Hyper-V. "That provides the platform element that other partners could [build on]," says Mike Schutz, director of product management for the Windows server division at Microsoft.arathon supports Citrix Xen Hypervisor and the company said once the Hyper-V support ships, everRun will work across both platforms to create a single fault-tolerant environment.

The fault tolerance will come in three levels: the failover clustering shipping in Windows Server 2008; a component level fault tolerance via everRun that protects storage and system components with little or no down time; and an everRun system level setting that ensures availability including memory for applications that require zero downtime.

NavigateStorage, a long term partner can be contacted at 978-318-9000 for information and competitive pricing.

New Voyager IP SAN SAS, SATA and Solid State

NavigateStorage, a StoneFly partner, announces a 40GB Virtualized IP San with with any combination of SAS, SATA, and Solid State Drives. For only an initial price of $25,000. Expansion arrays begin at $11,000. Let us give you a 20 minute telephone briefing with all the details. Call Jim at 978-318-9000 or drop a line to jima@navigatestorage.com

Mar 17, 2009 08:30 ET

StoneFly, Inc.'s New Voyager IP SANs Deliver Exceptional Enterprise-Class Performance at an Economical Price PointDelivering Performance of More Than 900 MBps Over 10Gb Ethernet, Voyager Represents StoneFly's Fastest Virtualized IP SAN Appliance

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HAYWARD, CA--(Marketwire - March 17, 2009) - StoneFly, Inc., a leading supplier of integrated IP storage area network (SAN) systems and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, Inc. (DNF), today introduced Voyager, a new line of virtualized IP SAN appliances designed to deliver exceptional performance at an economical price point. With entry-level pricing starting at US$25,000 MSRP, Voyager is ideal for enterprise customers in need of a robust SAN offering both high availability and versatility for primary and secondary storage applications.

As the newest member of the StoneFly Storage Concentrator™ family of IP SANs, Voyager comes standard with six or 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) iSCSI connections, but is offered with optional quad 10Gb Ethernet connections to achieve performance of up to 950MB/s. This performance makes Voyager ideal for critical applications involving online transaction processing, databases, email, disk-based archives, disk-to-disk backup, virtual servers and other core business uses.

Voyager supports a wide range of virtual server environments including VMware, Citrix XenServer, Virtual Iron and Microsoft. "With more than 75 percent of our customers either considering or currently using server virtualization, Voyager gives them all the speed and performance they require, plus high availability to ensure support of the most demanding applications and IT environments," said Bahman Jalali, director of product management for StoneFly.

Featuring active-active components for business continuity, Voyager offers full RAID protection and requires no down time for storage expansion. Although less scalable than other StoneFly IP SANs such as the OptiSAN™, Voyager's architecture enables customers to start smaller and then expand to up to 128 drives via expansion arrays. For added flexibility, configurations can be mixed and matched according to customer need with any combinations of SAS, SATA, and SSD drives.

At the cornerstone of the Voyager design is StoneFly's patented storage virtualization engine, which delivers quad-core processing power, dedicated iSCSI cache, and the StoneFly StoneFusion™ storage management operating system. StoneFusion provides block-level provisioning as well as centralized storage management and advanced storage features including replication, mirroring and snapshotting.

Voyager is now available, with prices starting at US$25,000 MSRP for a standard 5U rackmount configuration. Expansion arrays in 3U rackmount form factors start at US$11,000.

TAPE MEDIA BONANZA....PRICE REDUCTIONS

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FAS2000 Series from NavigateStorage

Key Points:
Gain enterprise-level reliability in a smaller and cost-effective package Integrate storage and processing into a single unit.
Cost-effective and reliable disaster recovery.
Manage and store applications and data using several standard protocols.
Slash your backup and restore times by half.
Simplify management through consolidation of virtualized server environments.

With our FAS2000 series you can manage your growing, complex data in dispersed departments or remote locations, add functionality with ease, and increase capacity by up to 104TB.

Manage your dispersed, expanding, and complex data requirements with the FAS2000 series. FAS2000 systems are ideal if you have dispersed departments or remote branch offices.
Leverage our common operating system, management tools, backup and restore functions, and disaster recovery solutions to support your special business needs:
Bolster your storage efficiency through higher utilization and our thin-provisioning technology
Expand capacity and functionality easily using a uniform architecture
Reduce your system costs with the FAS2000 high data availability and downtime costs, which are half those of other systems

Learn more about how you can use the FAS2000 series for your dispersed or growing storage needs: FAS2000 from NavigateStorage

Norman Virus Control: The Anti-Symantec Approach

Hear what a user wrote:

Norman Virus Control is simply an anti-virus program that goes back to the basics with solid virus protection without all the added bloatware that most modern antivirus programs are prone to bring with them. It uses a simple interface that is both easy to use and intuitive for people who appreciate less complicated software. The software is compatible with Windows XP and Vista as well as the 64-bit version of both operating systems.

Currently I am running it side by side with Avast antivirus and both run perfectly with each other without conflict. Norman also has a full security suite but I can't use it because I am running a 64-bit operating system. The antivirus, however, runs on any Windows XP or Vista system 64 or 32 bit.Installation and updatesInstallation is a breeze. You can install from the CD or download the program from the companie's web site.

You install the program by launching setup.exe or just insert the CD. During the installation you have the option of installing the program where you like but it is probably best to install it to the default location. After the installation is finished you will want to update the program to get the latest protection from the newest viruses out there. You'll notice a new icon in the program tray at the bottom right of the screen. It is a little blue square with a white "N" in it. Right click and choose "Internet Update" and the program will download and update the latest protection. One thing that I really like about this program is that it doesn't nag you every day to download updates or announce with an annoyingly friendly voice that "You're antivirus program has just been updated" like others do. The program quietly does what it is supposed to do and that is to protect my computer from viruses. SchedulingYou can set the program to update at any time you set over the internet.

If you use dial-up access you can have the program automatically dial-up and hang up when it is done. You can schedule the program to run at any time as well. The Norman Antivirus interface is very easy to familiarize yourself with quickly and changing settings takes seconds. The program can be set to run hidden until a virus is found of cleaning fails to keep it out of your way. The software is very non-intrusive. It's nice to have an antivirus program that doesn't draw attention to itself unless there is a reason for it.

Luckily, I have not had any virus attacks since I installed it but I have the program running hidden so I wouldn't know unless it couldn't clean them anyway.The program also installs a "scan for virus" option to your drop down menus. You can right click on a file and choose "scan for virus" to launch the virus scanner. The program works pretty much the same way as other antivirus programs where you can choose which drive to scan or just scan a folder or file if you like.ConclusionNorman Antivirus is a good solid antivirus program that does it job and does it quietly. It is really nice to have an antivirus that doesn't announce everything it does; I mean I have it running in the background for a reason. If you need a good antivirus and are tired of the big bad yellow box, try this one.

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NetApp and NavigateStorage announces the 50% Virtualization Guarantee Program

Today, NavigateStorage and NetApp announced the 50% Virtualization Guarantee Program* for all your NavigateStorage customers! This unprecedented program guarantees* that your customers will use 50% less storage with NetApp in their VMware Virtual Environment compared to a traditional storage baseline - or NetApp will provide the additional capacity at no additional charge!

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

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

Network products include QLogic and Brocade switches.

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IP SAN solutions from NavigateStorage are the right choice

Ease the storage management and economic burden of data storage by implementing an IP SAN from NavigateStorage. We are experts in the field with over eight years of SAN experience.

Whether you're currently managing multiple direct-attached storage devices or you're looking for enterprise-class features in an IP SAN, we will meet your requirements for simplicity, performance and functionality. Our IPSAN arrays come from vendors from A -Z but only from vendors with the reputation for quality, performance and value.

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PandaLabs detects a malicious program used to create fake YouTube pages for infecting users

PandaLabs, Panda Security’s laboratory for detecting and analyzing malware, has detected YTFakeCreator, a program used by cyber-crooks to create fake YouTube pages to infect users with malware.

The infection method is as follows: cyber-crooks send an email containing a video with supposedly sensational content (erotic images, death of a celebrity, etc.) and encourage users to click a link to watch the video. This is known as social engineering.

Once they reach the fake page, which is very similar to the actual YouTube site (see image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/panda_security/2840011688/), the user will see an error message informing that they can’t watch the video as a certain component is missing (a codec, an Adobe Flash update, etc.) and prompting them to download it. However, on doing it, they will actually be allowing malware onto their computers.

YTFakeCreator lets cyber-criminals create these fake YouTube pages very easily. They can enter the text for the error message displayed by the web page; define how long it takes the message to appear; enter the link to the infected file downloaded onto the victim’s computer; and create a false profile similar to those in YouTube to pretend the video has been uploaded by a real user. All this with just a single program (image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/panda_security/2839993538/).

The criminal can choose the type of malicious code to be distributed from these fake pages: viruses, worms, adware, Trojans, etc. “This type of program has led to the increased use of this technique to infect users. The tools made available to cyber-criminals nowadays force users to take every precaution to avoid falling victim to these attacks”, explains Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs. “Also, the fact that the pages used by criminals are very difficult to distinguish from the legitimate pages helps ensure that a growing number of users are infected”.

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FalconStor VTL really got it right

The FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL) is as good as a VTL Library can get. And you don't have to believe NavigateStorage, a leading provider of Storage, Backup/Data Protection, Email archiving and Security solutions, has to say. Read it yourself. Read what Forrester Research a world leading research company had to say earlier this year.

FalconStor VTL Enterprise Edition (they have great solutions for SMB and Virtual environments too) provides large organizations with high-performance enterprise-level disk-based data protection to meet backup demands, simplify tape management, and enhance tape security. It is integrated with FalconStor Single Instance Repository (SIR) to deliver post-process global deduplication without impacting the backup window. With SIR, only unique data blocks are replicated to the remote site, slashing network traffic over 95%. Offering multi-node scalability, FalconStor VTL emulates vast arrays of tape libraries, drives, and cartridges, ensuring complete backup transparency. By enabling companies to keep backup data on disk, FalconStor VTL significantly improves the speed and dependability of recovery.

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