Monday, May 31, 2010

iQ-Renegade Multi-Protocol System

NavigateStorage announces a Simple, Intuitive and Affordable iSCSI / NAS Storage.

Contact us at 978-318-9000 or email us.

Affordable and easy to use, the iQ-Renegade is a unified data storage system.
Supporting iSCSI and NAS protocols, the iQ-Renegade provides up to 32TB of
storage capacity in a 3U 16-bay form factor. It's the ideal system for backup,
archive and digital security applications.

Simplifying IT Administration with Multi-Protocol StorageThe iQ-Renegade is a network-based storage system designed to provideheterogeneous access to iSCSI, CIFS, or NFS data sources. This multi-protocolflexibility enables the system to support a broad range of business applications.With the iQ-Renegade, businesses are able to easily support and combine iSCSIand NAS storage requirements into a single physical system.Protecting Business Data with Remote Backup

The iQ-Renegade provides iSCSI local mirror and volume copy features out of thebox. Built-in NAS remote backup is part of the standard offering and allows datafiles to be automatically backed up to another iQ-Renegade system across anydistance thus minimizing disruptions or downtime for critical business operations.Port Bonding and Multi-Path I/O for Flexibility and Reliability

The iQ-Renegade addresses high bandwidth requirement by bonding multipleGigabit Ethernet ports into a single pipe. Multi-path support enhancesperformance and reliability through load balancing, active-passive operation andbest path selection. The multi-path software and redundant physical pathconnections to hosts provide reliability by ensuring applications access to data inthe event of path failure between host server and iQ-Renegade.High Performance RAID for Productivity

The iQ-Renegade uses high performance CPUs for both the iSCSI/NAS engineand for hardware RAID acceleration. The system supports online RAID levelmodification and background drive initialization. Powerful CPUs enable multipletasks to be performed at the same time, greatly reducing system administrationtime and enhancing productivity.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

EMail Archiving - Global Relay - New Features

Announcing New Features Message Archiver 6.1

Global Relay, and NavigateStorage are pleased to announce the upcoming March 11, 2010 release of Global Relay Message Archiver & Compliance Reviewer 6.1. This release provides all users with the ability to define large and complex searches faster and with greater accuracy than ever before.New in Version 6.1The Global Relay Message Archiver & Compliance Reviewer 6.1 release tightly integrates user details with the search interface to provide the following new capabilities:•Unified Search on Primary and Alias Addresses: A single search on an individual’s primary or single alias address returns search results for all addresses associated with the individual.

•Address Validation: When entering addresses in a search field, the service is configured to provide users with validated addresses that match the information they have entered. Users can auto-complete their address by selecting one of the primary or alias address options presented.

•AND/OR Address Search: Search relationships between individuals in the FROM and TO/CC/BCC fields may now be defined with an AND or OR relationship. This option enables a single OR search to find all messages belonging to an individual.

•New PST Export Options: PST Export has been expanded to allow Super Reviewers and System Administrators to exclude certain flag states in the PST File Export Service and facilitate the selection of delivery options.


NavigateStorage has specialized in Archiving (Email, Sharepoint, and File) since 2002. Give us a call and let us discuss with you, your needs and our solutions. Call 978-318-9000 or drop us an Email.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Red Condor a closer look at Hosted

Insecure Magazine Issue 23, November 2009

Over the years, email filters became a crucial factor in allowing us to open our in-boxes without cringing. It doesn't matter how careful you are about giving out your email address, it will eventually find itself on spam lists and you'll be subjected to the barrage of worthless and malicious emails that you would rather do without.

Owners of private e-mail addresses hosted on web-based email services usually don't even have to think about filtering - the service probably thought of that. If you work at a big company that has its own IT department, you won't have to think about filtering, but if you own a small business or have a small IT budget and team, you might consider a Software-as-a-Service solution.Red Condor's Hosted Service is a good choice.

It's actually very simple to set up and extremely effective, and will prevent you becoming a target of spam, viruses, phishing schemes, offensive content, and other threats.

It works like this: you redirect your MX records to Red Condor's servers. There the emails are filtered and only the legitimate ones are passed on to your mail server. Real-time knowledge gathered from a worldwide sensor network is used to create heavy-duty filter rules.The filters analyze emails by content, keywords and behavior to separate the wheat from the chaff - so to speak.You don't have to think about software or hardware installation, or even about filter tuning- and in case one of your email servers goes down, Red Condor stores your email for up to 96 hours until your server is brought back online.

Another great feature is outbound mail filtering,so if a PC in your network gets infected and turns into a "zombie", it will prevent the spam-sending activity and notify the administrator immediately.After registering and logging in, you access your account through a simple and very user-friendly web interface/portal.The first step is adding an account. You will be asked to input account information - name and address. Primary contact information is also required, but technical, admin and billing contact information is optional. The person that opens the account is automatically assigned administrator privileges.

NavigateStorage offers Email Archiving and Spam Filtering from Red Condor and others. Contact us at 978-318-9000 or email

Friday, May 7, 2010

StoneFly Storaage

Webinar Overview:

Join us on Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 at 10am PST to learn all about how to save by going "green" when virtualizing servers and storage. We will present an overview of practical measures and planning, so that you can save for today's virtual environments.

During the webinar, you'll learn:
* True green savings that achieved through best practices when virtualizing servers and storage.
* Practical measures and planning to enhance green savings for today's virtual environments.
* Where and why maximum energy savings are obtained in a virtual server environment
* How new virtual storage enhances "green" savings.

Just drop us a note and we will tell you how to join

NavigateStorage 978-3128-9000

What is Kaspersky Business Space Security?

Let NavigateStorage brag about this great product

Provides high-quality protection for corporate information assets from all types of contemporary Internet threats. Kaspersky Business Space Security offers an umbrella of protection to workstations, smartphones, and file servers from all types of computer threats, prevents epidemics of malicious programs, and keeps information secure and fully accessible to users of network resources. The product was expressly designed to meet the increasing demands of servers operating under heavy loads.

We also have Enterprise Space and Total Space which covers everything. We have represented Kaspersky for over 5 years and as a premier partner we can provide all you need at a competitive price. Check us out

Hosted Email and Compliant Archiving

Earlier this week I was contacted by a New York firm that needed Email hosting (POP Account) and SEC Compliant Archiving. I contacted a vendor I sell for and secured 10 user mailboxes and Archive plus Spam Filtering for about $768 a Year!

Let us help you save money and improve operations. Contact us at 978-318-9000 or visit our website and see all that we do. Jim

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Windows Management Sooftware

Management software for Windows storage

AutoVirt is a software platform for Windows that provides storage management control from a web-based console. Use AutoVirt to automate and expedite:

Data Measurement
Copying
Migration
Replication
Archiving

AutoVirt provides:

A solution for managing unstructured Windows file data

A way to extend the native functionality of inexpensive, commodity Windows hardware

Integration with mainframe NAS devices, including NetApp and EMC Celerra

Out-of-band runtime operations, with no client agents

An intelligent client referral service with perpetual support for client UNC names and embedded links
Using AutoVirtBy ensuring that users have a consistent point of access to their data, AutoVirt allows IT administrators to automate the movement of data within their Windows storage environments. As administrators move data to where they need it to be – business-critical data to a new device, a replica to a secondary location, last year’s share to Tier 2 storage – clients are automatically redirected to the new location of their data. By eliminating impact on end-users, AutoVirt removes a number of logistical barriers to project execution and frees IT to approach storage management more dynamically. With AutoVirt, IT administrators can design policies to automate data measurement, copying, migration, replication, and archiving. A policy is a series of logical and validation commands defined using a GUI-based wizard. Policies are schedulable and include configurable e-mail alerts and exception handling. How it worksAutoVirt inserts a global namespace to organize networked shares and shield end-users from the back-end logistics of storage management. The namespace eliminates the manual work involved in maintaining client access to networked data: it is the single authority on networked files, and automatically resolves client shortcuts to the new location. With AutoVirt’s global namespace registering all changes to data location, it is possible to automate many storage management tasks – including those that affect data location. The AutoVirt policy engine is responsible for automating data measurement, copying, migration, replication, and archiving.AutoVirt’s namespace and policy engine interact with both clients and networked file servers using the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol.

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

"The high level of malware detection by Kaspersky Lab products is attained by a combination of signature technology and proactive detection. To ensure that the signature method is effective, an antivirus solution developer has to respond extremely quickly to the outbreak of new malicious code.

Kaspersky Lab’s rapid response times to new threats was confirmed during testing by the AV-Test.org research group for PC World magazine. The test showed that Kaspersky Lab’s response time to the outbreak of new malicious programs was less than two hours, while the nearest competitor reacted to new threats in 2-4 hours.

Average response time to new threats (hours)"The high level of malware detection by Kaspersky Lab products is attained by a combination of signature technology and proactive detection. To ensure that the signature method is effective, an antivirus solution developer has to respond extremely quickly to the outbreak of new malicious code.
Kaspersky Lab’s rapid response times to new threats was confirmed during testing by the AV-Test.org research group for PC World magazine. The test showed that Kaspersky Lab’s response time to the outbreak of new malicious programs was less than two hours, while the nearest competitor reacted to new threats in 2-4 hours.

NavigateStorage is a premier partner. Let us tell you more. Trials and quotes, just call 978-318-9000

Monday, May 3, 2010

Email Archiving Service

Red Condor Archive provides an affordable, ($40/user/year) reliable and secure hosted Email Archiving Service to customers of all sizes to help you meet your compliance, litigation support, storage management or best practice requirements. Red Condor Archive leverages a global cloud computer and storage infrastructure to provide your organization with an extremely scalable, 100% software-free service, at a cost effective price. Red Condor Archive’s data collection technology supports all messaging systems (Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Zimbra, Scalix, IMail Server, Mailtrust, Keiro and many more) making the solution truly future-proof.

Satisfy E-Discovery and Compliance ChallengesRed Condor Archive helps your organization be compliant with archiving regulations for SEC, FINRA, NASD, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and more. With secure capturing and full text indexing of all emails and attachments, compliance requests can be fulfilled quickly and easily. Securely capture, index and store multiple copies of auditable email for easy retrieval through our easy-to-use search and discovery interface. For more on compliance and E-Discovery give us a call. Or visit our website

Offload Message Storage from Mail Server. Tired of an endlessly growing storage problem with your email as your organization grows and time passes? Red Condor Archive can help. Reduce the amount of email on your servers and declutter inboxes with total peace of mind. With Red Condor Archive, you get unlimited storage at no additional cost.

NavigateStorage specializes in Compliant Email, File and SharePoint Archiving. Call us today. 978-318-9000

Friday, April 30, 2010

Expandable storage array SATA, SAS, SSD

StoneFly's OptiSAN Storage Concentrator Configurations have been designed to offer enhanced redundancy, availability and performance. Using high performance fibre channel and SAS interconnects, the redesigned OptiSAN product family is designed for enterprise environments looking for a versatile SAN for primary and secondary storage applications.

With support for SAS, SATA, and TED drives for online transaction processing, database, email, disk based archives, disk to disk backup, virtual servers and other core applications. The cornerstone of the OptiSAN is the Storage Concentrator Storage Virtualization Engine, which offers dual core processing power, dedicated iSCSI Cache, and the award-winning StoneFusion IP SAN platform. Each high-performance storage subsystem offers redundant, active/active RAID controller functionality for enhanced performance and increased system bandwidth. Cost-effective expansion array to scale system capacity and disk spindles.

Contact NavigateStorage 978-318-9000

Hosted email Archiving - Compliant

Global Relay is a leading provider of Hosted Email Archiving, IM Archiving and Business Continuity Services, delivering affordable managed enterprise-class email & IM archiving and monitoring services to over 2,500 customers worldwide. With secure end-to-end encryption, email and IM is securely archived and monitored for regulatory compliance, audits and legal eDiscovery.

As the developer and operator of its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology, Global Relay has provided hosted email archiving solutions since 1999 without a single incident of data loss. Global Relay specializes in messaging compliance solutions for public companies, financial and healthcare industries.

Contact NavigateStorage and read more. Then give us a call 978-318-9000 or write

Email Archiving Compliant

NavigateStorage for customers seeking a robust archiver they should look at our Red Condor offering.

Red Condor Archive provides an affordable, ($40/user/year) reliable and secure hosted Email Archiving Service to customers of all sizes to help you meet your compliance, litigation support, storage management or best practice requirements. Red Condor Archive leverages a global cloud computer and storage infrastructure to provide your organization with an extremely scalable, 100% software-free service, at a cost effective price. Red Condor Archive’s data collection technology supports all messaging systems (Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Zimbra, Scalix, IMail Server, Mailtrust, Keiro and many more) making the solution truly future-proof.


Satisfy E-Discovery and Compliance Challenges. Red Condor Archive helps your organization be compliant with archiving regulations for SEC, FINRA, NASD, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and more. With secure capturing and full text indexing of all emails and attachments, compliance requests can be fulfilled quickly and easily. Securely capture, index and store multiple copies of auditable email for easy retrieval through our easy-to-use search and discovery interface. For more on compliance and E-Discovery give us a call at 978-318-9000 or contact using our website Request Info.

Friday, April 23, 2010

EMAIL Archiving

NavigateStorage has been in the Archiving industry since its inception since 2000. Lately we have added Red Condor to its archiving tool bag and we highly recommend you let us show you why.

Red Condor Archive provides an aff ordable, reliable and secure hosted Email Archiving Service to customers of all sizes to help you meet your compliance, litigation support, storage management or best practice requirements. Red Condor Archive leverages a global cloud computer and storage infrastructure to provide your organization with an extremely scalable, 100% software-free service, at an industry low price point.

Red Condor Archive’s data collection technology supports all messaging systems (Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Zimbra, Scalix, IMail Server, Mailtrust, Keiro and many more)making the solution truly future-proof."

SMB Storage Virtualization

More small and midsize companies are expected to venture into x86 server virtualization this year, and for good business reasons.

They’ve seen how virtualization has helped enterprise companies reduce IT capital and data center energy costs, bring more dynamism to their IT environments and more efficiently meet business needs so that new initiatives get under way more quickly. Tech industry watchers say small and midsize companies may have an even greater opportunity than large enterprises to fully exploit the technology across their infrastructures.

If you are looking for a great storage array to get started inexpensively then come to NavigateStorage. We specialize in storage from the iStor 16TB for under $10,000 to the sky is the limit.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

iStor 316 newly announced

Storage

"Why iSTOR Storage?"

We operate today in an extremely data-intensive environment.

The iSTOR iS316 supports up to 16 high performance, high capacity SATA drives and can be configured to take advantage of 4 or 8 ports of GbE or the single port of 10GbE host interfaces. Although iS316 targets iSCSI SAN storage environments up to 16TB, customers can deploy multiple boxes per installation. The iS316 provides robust enterprise-level features & unique high-performance at an affordable price. iS316 is the entry level of the integraStor family based on solid, reputable, proven technology for an effective shared storage model. By utilizing Serial ATA disks, the iS316 enables compelling block-based network storage solutions such as primary storage, near line storage, disk-to-disk backup, and DAS replacement, along with high-capacity providing compelling total cost of ownership. Triple-redundant power supplies & fans for a highly reliable storage appliance.

Email Archive Migration

Email Archive Migration

The decision to move to a new e-mail or archiving service should not be constrained by the risk of losing data. Similarly the need to move users between different locations or archive products (e.g. as a result of a re-location or merger) should not threaten the accessibility or manageability of your corporate data.TransVault™ is a high-performance software application that securely migrates and consolidates e-mail and other related records from one environment to another, ensuring future accessibility - regardless of the chosen archive, messaging platform or storage medium.

Migration is fast and entirely transparent to users, eliminating the risk of downtime and significantly reducing the costs and IT overheads normally associated with moving large amounts of data.TransVault also avoids the costs and inconvenience of maintaining ‘islands of data’, allowing the lifecycle of information to be centrally managed and any e-discovery requests to be conducted against a single data repository.TransVault is the key to ensuring 100% data availability with 100% user transparency, whilst minimizing risks and costs to your business.

A Next-Generation Approach to Email Archiving

NavigateStorage, specializing in Email Aechiving presents:

A Next-Generation Approach to Email Archiving

Existing archiving solutions place heavy burdens on Exchange servers, relying on data capture methods like MAPI crawls and journaling – both of which can increase input/output per second (IOPS) on the Exchange server by up to 50%. Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange incorporates an innovative data capture method called Continuous Application Shadowing™.

Continuous Application Shadowing instantly captures Exchange log files once they are committed to disk and stores them “off-host” on NearPoint. It is an application-intelligent process, which also blocks corruption from the back-up copy. All email content extracted from the log files is indexed and stored with single-instance storage. Furthermore, Continuous Application Shadowing captures complete mailbox information including calendar items, tasks, contacts, and item histories."

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

AutoVirt

Management software for Windows storage

AutoVirt is a software platform for Windows that provides storage management control from a web-based console. Use AutoVirt to automate and expedite:

Data Measurement
Copying
Migration
Replication
Archiving

Call for trial information and more.

Marathon High Availabilty

What's New in the everRun 5.1.1 Release

The latest release of everRun 5.1.1 now supports virtual machines running the following operating systems: Windows® Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise (32 and 64-bit, SP2); Windows Server 2003 Standard and Enterprise (32-bit and 64-bit); and Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 and 2008. Please note that support for Windows Server 2008 R2 is not included in this release.

In addition, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) system alerts are available as an add-on kit that is compatible with the everRun 5.1.1 release. This kit is available in the Tools and Utilities area of the release at the Marathon customer download site. The SNMP toolkit for everRun VM and 2G provides an alerting mechanism to capture and deliver everRun events to an external monitoring system. It provides notification of device and system failures, state changes, host failovers, etc. The toolkit uses Windows SNMP to capture and transmit system alerts and status.

Contact NavigateStorage for more information.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Data Migration made easy - windows management

Complete your project faster, with minimal downtime

Support pre-migration UNC names in shortcuts and embedded links

AutoVirt facilitates share-by-share migration, which means that there is no need to take an entire device offline during migration. AutoVirt breaks each migration job into share-sized increments. To preserve data integrity, files are held read-only while their parent shares are being migrated. As soon as a share is migrated, full read/write access is restored. The AutoVirt global namespace is updated with the new share location, and clients are automatically redirected to their share. Share-by-share migration drastically reduces downtime, and automatic client referrals eliminate post-project shortcut remapping.

To limit the time that large shares are held read-only, AutoVirt offers a pre-migration synchronization period. The sync period can be scheduled to recur as many times as you like. During the first sync period, AutoVirt copies all un-open files it finds, skipping the rest. Each recurring sync will copy any new files it finds un-open, and will synchronize changes at the source with files that have already been copied to the destination. The synchronization period will be reduced over time, until AutoVirt is syncing only a small number of changes between source and destination.

When you schedule the final migration, the share will be held read-only as final changes are synced from source to destination. When the sync is complete, clients are automatically redirected to the new share location read/write access is restored.

Contact us and let's talk. 978-318-9000

IP SAN from iQstor and NavigateStorage

NavigateStorage specializes in high quality storage and a price performer that will please your boss too!

iQstor’s iQ2850 is a scalable and feature-rich storage system tailored to fit performance and reliability required by today’s demanding applications. iQstor’s iQ2850 IP SAN delivers all the benefits of SANs, including increased storage utilization through storage consolidation, feature-rich managed data protection services and automated provisioning of new storage. iQstor’s iQ2850 is an all-in-one, intelligent, yet cost-effective storage system that enables IT administrators to quickly and cost-effectively optimize storage solutions for changing application and network environments.

iSCSI is Simple and Low CostiSCSI SANs offer a lower cost alternative for organizations that want to consolidate multiple servers to achieve better storage utilization. iSCSI is also inherently less complicated since it does not require specialized host adapters, switches and cables. Business can now use their existing Ethernet infrastructure to implement an IP SAN. With iQ2850, users can transport block data over TCP/IP to and from servers that are dispersed throughout the network and located at a long distance from the storage system.iQ2850 successfully combines the benefits of Ethernet networks with those of networked storage. With the iQ2850, companies can realize all the benefits of a SAN at an affordable price, together with integrated data protection features such as volume manager-based storage virtualization, snapshot, mirroring, remote replication, policy based storage provisioning, capacity expansion, SAN management and remote support.

A Next-Generation Approach to Email Archiving

NavigateStorage has provided Email archiving since 2001 and added Mimosa since 2008. It has been found to be very flexible in meeting the varied needs of our customer.

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

Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange incorporates an innovative data capture method called Continuous Application Shadowing™. Continuous Application Shadowing instantly captures Exchange log files once they are committed to disk and stores them “off-host” on NearPoint. It is an application-intelligent process, which also blocks corruption from the back-up copy. All email content extracted from the log files is indexed and stored with single-instance storage. Furthermore, Continuous Application Shadowing captures complete mailbox information including calendar items, tasks, contacts, and item histories.

NavigateStorage was founded in 1999 specializing in Storage, Backup/Replication for Disaster Recovery and Anti-Virus. Contact us from "more info" button on every webpage or call 978-318-9000 or drop us a line.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Mimosa NearPoint™ Tiered Storage Application:

NavigateSorage recommends Mimosa for on-site archiving

Mimosa NearPoint Tiered Storage provides corporations with the ability to provision storage devices with different costs, response times, throughput, and availability. This application further augments Mimosa’s next-generation archiving platform to give customers even more granular control over IT costs and archive performance. The solution supports retention and on-demand access to large volumes of information with unmatched performance and radically lowers costs. Customers enjoy savings across hardware, software, and IT operations