NAS Filers - Network Attached Storage

Network attached storage filers (NAS) products provide a wide-range of network attachment capabilities to a broad ranges of host and client systems.

Network Attached Storage Our DNF NAS products offer a variety of hard drive interface choices including SATA, SCSI, SAS and Solid State Disks.

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IntegratedThese FlexStor-NAS Appliances are a complete and robust solution all in a single integrated NAS storage appliance. Featuring storage solutions in 1U to 8U form factors, the FlexStor-NAS features network-attached storage capacities of up to 16TB in a 3U form factor, or 40TB in 8U. Integrated products are exceptionally easy to install and configure. The storage, RAID controller, and NAS intelligence are all built into a single unit—no external wiring required.

ModularThe modular line of NAS servers is ideal for high-availability, expandable configurations, or where ultimate performance is required. Based on M1, M2, or M4 NAS appliance heads, they can be matched with storage subsystems using SCSI or Fibre Channel connectivity. Typical capacities exceed 100TB in standard configurations, or more if customized.
NavigateStorage can provide you network attached storage supporting NFS and CIFS simultaneously and various drive types in all price ranges, performance, scalability and levels of availability.


Also if you already have NAS filers and are looking to increase their efficiencies then check out our Storwize solution.


Storwize STN-6000™can increase storage capacity by up to 80 percent, stretching storage dollars or allowing postponement of the purchase of additional storage. This storage compression appliance requires no workflow changes, no software agents, no drivers and no configuration changes. Totally lossless, Storwize data compression and decompression occur at speeds that make them transparent to users. The Storwize STN-6000™ appliance can provide organizations significant additional storage capacity and associated savings in capital, operational, maintenance and management resources.


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Unified Storage - What is it?

Unified Storage is a single, integrated storage infrastructure that functions as unification engines to simultaneously support Fibre Channel, IP Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) data formats.

A unified storage system simultaneously enables storage of file data and handles the block-based I/O (input/output) of enterprise applications. In actual practice, unified storage is often implemented in a NAS platform that is modified to add block-mode support.

One advantage of unified storage is reduced hardware requirements. Instead of separate storage platforms, like NAS for file-based storage and a RAID disk array for block-based storage, unified storage combines both modes in a single device. Alternatively, a single device could be deployed for either file or block storage as required. To learn more and to request us to contact you.

IP SAN solutions from NavigateStorage's vendors are the right choice.

Ease the storage management and economic burden of data storage by implementing an IP SAN from NavigateStorage. 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. For example:

Entry level 11+TB IP SAN under $16,000 supports up to 15 high performance, high capacity SATA drives and can be configured to take advantage of the 4 or 8 port GbE or 1 port of 10GbE. High throughput design.

High capacity low cost up to 42TB of SATA 2 storage with 2 iscsi ports and 2 fibre channel ports, single and dual controllers, green power storage management.

Highest Availability in and IPSAN this solution 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. It surpasses the Dell Equalogic in both price and functionality. A real winner.

Scalable, high availability, SATA SAS IP SAN storage solutions with dual active/active controllers, fail over, scalable to multiple terabytes, replication, data de-duplication, encryption, ILM

Let us understand your requirements both current and future and find the right match for you.

Expand NetApps capacity and save money

A new approach to data compression
Compression is as old as personal computing, but it is used today mainly for backup and second tier storage. Many attempts to address the challenges of primary storage compression have failed because of degraded performance and lack of transparency.

Compression - the Storwize Way
Because compression of primary storage data has been difficult to address, most efforts in recent years have been directed at compression during remote transport. This type of compression saves bandwidth but does nothing to reduce stored data volumes. Attempts to compress primary storage data interfered with user workflow and required running software on both storage and end-user devices. These solutions were based on cumbersome sequential access (decompress, update, recompress), work at file-level granularity, or both. They also wasted client resources and introduced unacceptable latencies. Storwize technology processes in real-time only the data required for a particular user or application, and fully supports every type of file access. The Storwize method offloads and centralizes compression in a powerful, dedicated appliance, eliminating performance degradation and in most cases actually improving it.

The bottom-line
If your NetApp (or comparable) is running out of storage capacity with Storewize you can increase its capacity by up to 50% for a fraction of the cost that it would take to buy more NetApp (or anyones) filer. Let us put our money where our mouth is and offer you a trial. Contact us today.

Malware Detection service with no installation

Here is a really good way to audit your systems.

Panda Malware Radar - Automated malware audit

This product can identify and clean even the malware that goes undetected by your current security solution. With this you can know exactly what malware your have, how many and where. Keep one step ahead of new security threats. Save time and effort on controlling the threats in your network.

Panda Malware Radar is an online and automated audit service that scans your network searching for malware that slips past the installed protections. What's more, it checks the state of the protections and the existence of vulnerabilities, delivering detailed reports of the detections as a result. Additionally, it can automatically clean all malware found.

More information and a free trial just ask us.

Full Feature Storage Arrays "all included"

Here is a sleeper in the world of quality storage. Well worth a good look according to the storage experts at NavigateStorage

American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) creates and manufactures key hardware and software solutions for the global computer marketplace, providing the highest quality and compatibility necessary to build today’s advanced computing systems. Established by S. Shankar in 1985, AMI’s mission is to design state-of-the-art computer solutions and develop advanced technology for the best computing solutions in the world. Today, AMI is the world’s largest BIOS firmware vendor, with AMIBIOS® deployed in more than 65% of all computers worldwide.

Today, AMI's extensive product line includes StorTrends® IP Storage Area Network (IP-SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions, Aptio™ and AMIBIOS® system software and firmware, MegaRAC® remote management software and PCI/OPMA hardware, motherboards, backplanes, diagnostic utilities, and engineering services. With these product groups, AMI is uniquely positioned to provide all of the fundamental components necessary to offer complete system performance, manageability, and availability for today's enterprise computing requirements.

AMI is the only company in the industry today offering all of these core technologies. Ind addition has a full feature set of arrays for both IPSANs and NAS.

American Megatrends Inc. (AMI)StorTrends 3200i (with StorTrends iTX 2.7 software) Intended for SMBs, this all-in-one appliance can provide block storage (iSCSI) and file storage (NAS). A rich feature set includes snapshots, synchronous and asynchronous replication, continuous data protection (CDP), Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Wide Area Data Services (WADS) with WAN optimization. SATA and SAS drives are supported with capacities to 112 TB.

Take a peek and then let us know what you think by leaving a comment. And if you would like to arrange for a demo or a trial or have a custom quote, let us know.

Storage and the Economy - help has arrived

It is no secret that storage continues to expand in leaps and bounds and even in this "so called" economic downturn storage continues to flourish. It is no surprise that iSCSI storage is amongst the top sellers now that it has been proven over and over that the performance and reliability are outstanding. This continued expansion of storage bodes well for our business being a storage provider that provides solutions from a wide variety of vendors.

What has been surprising however is how many customers - both large and small - have opted to add the new and upcoming storage vendors rather than building out their existing big name arrays. The market has discovered that when measuring price/performance the value is not necessarily in the big names. In fact, we would go even further to say that working with midsize companies with a good product is easier particularly when it comes to service and support. The big guys have little to prove while the rising stars go out of their way to provide high quality support and do it in a prompt fashion.

IP SANs don't have to be expensive either. Our experience is that even High Availability configurations with no singe point of failure such as StoneFly solutions are a perfect example.

Another real sleeper is StoreWize This solution can increase storage capacity by up to 80 percent, stretching storage dollars or allowing postponement of the purchase of additional storage. The storage compression appliance requires no workflow changes, no software agents, no drivers and no configuration changes. Totally lossless, Storwize data compression and decompression occur at speeds that make them transparent to users.

So, whether your seeking Fibre Channel SAN, IP SAN, or NAS we are ready to help you.

Virus Scanning without impacting exchange

Today on a FalconStor webex on their NSS product (Network Storage Server) the presenter relayed an idea to us that was passed along to him by a FalconStor customer at a recent tradeshow.

The customer said that he uses a snap shot instance to run his AV scan against thereby not impacting the Exchange Server. If the scan shows a problem in a particular mailbox then they go into the production exchange and direct the AV scan to that specific mailbox.

By the way, we specialize in AV solutions from Panda Security and Kaspersky. If we can help or you might like to discuss the pro's and con's let us know.

iSCSI Storage

iSCSI Storage or IP SANs come in a wide variety of flavors and prices. Time has shown that name on the label and the quality/performance/features of the array do not always go hand in hand. Some vendors charge for each feature while others bundle them making it less expensive for the customer to acquire and less expensive for the vendor to maintain and update.

One thing for sure is that time and experience have proven that the performance and durability (mean time between failures) is a whole lot better than originally thought. Or at least versus the negative rumors by the FC crowd. Their FUD made IP SANs growth slower but in the end the market learned not to believe everything they hear.

Your experiences would be greatly appreciated, so if you have the time, tell us about them.

Enterprise Archiving - Email, IM, Files and SharePoint

Archiving today comes in all sizes and shapes to meet the needs of almost every business.

For top of the line archiving NavigateStorage offers ZANTAZ. We have been a partner with them since 2001 and installed some of the very early systems when it was still under the banner of Educomm. Today, ZANTAZ supports MS Exchange, Lotus Notes, MAC Entourage, SharePoint, NTFS File Systems, Instant Message, Discovery and Full Compliance Supervision. In addition to archiving the contents of the files and messages, Email Archiving Solution captures, indexes and archives all compliance-related metadata for rapid in house search and discovery - SEC, NASD, HIPPA supports WORM compliant hardware .

Other solutions are available from hosted offerings to small appliances which not only archives email but will also track websites visited, IMs and more.

If you are looking for a full range of offerings NavigateStorage is the place to shop.

Welcome

Welcome to the NavigateStorage Data Protection Blog.

We welcome your questions and comments. Our answers will be gathered from our own experiences, as well as, the experiences of our vendor partners.

We hope that you will share your experiences as well so we can all benefit from each other.

Jim Addlesberger