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.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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
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.
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.
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
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
SharePoint Archiving
NavigateStorage, with 10 years experience, recommends you consider Mimosa NearPoint™ for SharePoint Archiving
Mimosa NearPoint™ provides a holistic solution to managing SharePoint 2007 and 2010 data with integrated archiving, recovery, and eDiscovery. NearPoint is the only SharePoint management product to combine both archiving and recovery while maintaining easy end-user access to information. In addition, Mimosa NearPoint offers the most comprehensive SharePoint data capture available.
* Capture all content types and associated metadata and attachments
* Perform continuous capture via Change Notification, and preserve the relationships between sites and content
* Execute full-text indexing and global, single-instancing on all archived content
* Achieve storage cost savings, as content can then be offloaded from SharePoint while maintaining seamless end-user access via stubbing
* Manage retention and disposition (disposal) of SharePoint content across the archive in accordance to your policies
With comprehensive capture and archiving capabilities also comes the ability to provide robust SharePoint recovery functionality. Mimosa NearPoint allows both fine-grained and coarse-grained recovery.
Lets talk about your requirements and select the best solution for you. NavigateStorage, 978-318-9000
Mimosa NearPoint™ provides a holistic solution to managing SharePoint 2007 and 2010 data with integrated archiving, recovery, and eDiscovery. NearPoint is the only SharePoint management product to combine both archiving and recovery while maintaining easy end-user access to information. In addition, Mimosa NearPoint offers the most comprehensive SharePoint data capture available.
* Capture all content types and associated metadata and attachments
* Perform continuous capture via Change Notification, and preserve the relationships between sites and content
* Execute full-text indexing and global, single-instancing on all archived content
* Achieve storage cost savings, as content can then be offloaded from SharePoint while maintaining seamless end-user access via stubbing
* Manage retention and disposition (disposal) of SharePoint content across the archive in accordance to your policies
With comprehensive capture and archiving capabilities also comes the ability to provide robust SharePoint recovery functionality. Mimosa NearPoint allows both fine-grained and coarse-grained recovery.
Lets talk about your requirements and select the best solution for you. NavigateStorage, 978-318-9000
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Global Name Spaces
Many organizations have hesitated to insert a global namespace because the conversion is often a laborious, manual process. Most global namespaces, including Microsoft DFS, require UNC names to be changed upon implementation, one at a time.
The AutoVirt global namespace model is different. AutoVirt provides automated namespace creation and support of pre-existing UNC names. During installation, AutoVirt automatically inventories the file server environment to create a complete map. Administrators use this map to designate which file servers will receive client referrals through the global namespace. When a file server is selected for AutoVirt management, the map of its contents – from root to leaf-level folders – is automatically stored in the namespace.
The automated file server inventory makes it possible for AutoVirt to support indefinitely the pre-existing UNC names – even after the file servers they once referenced have crumbled to dust. Contact NavigateStorage to learn more about this great solution.
The AutoVirt global namespace model is different. AutoVirt provides automated namespace creation and support of pre-existing UNC names. During installation, AutoVirt automatically inventories the file server environment to create a complete map. Administrators use this map to designate which file servers will receive client referrals through the global namespace. When a file server is selected for AutoVirt management, the map of its contents – from root to leaf-level folders – is automatically stored in the namespace.
The automated file server inventory makes it possible for AutoVirt to support indefinitely the pre-existing UNC names – even after the file servers they once referenced have crumbled to dust. Contact NavigateStorage to learn more about this great solution.
Migrate Your Windows Data With AutoMove
Migrate Your Windows Data With AutoMove:
Complete your project faster, with minimal downtime
Support pre-migration UNC names in shortcuts and embedded links
If you are planning a migration, instead of dedicating a weekend or impacting think about Autovirt. 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.
Why not learn more? Call NavigateStorage at 1-978-318-9000 or "request more info" on any of our pages in our website or send us an Email. Let's talk benefits of AutoVirt
Complete your project faster, with minimal downtime
Support pre-migration UNC names in shortcuts and embedded links
If you are planning a migration, instead of dedicating a weekend or impacting think about Autovirt. 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.
Why not learn more? Call NavigateStorage at 1-978-318-9000 or "request more info" on any of our pages in our website or send us an Email. Let's talk benefits of AutoVirt
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
NavigateStorage since 1999 has focused on Data Protection for you our customers. With our initial beginnings in the Storage Area Network marketplace featuring storage consolidation and heterogeneous front end support we have grown to provide a full range of storage, backup, disaster recovery, archiving and security solutions from our partner vendors. Today our solutions include:
* Storage - High performance primary and cost effective secondary arrays - iSCSI, SATA, Fibre Channel all vendors
* Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs), Tape libraries and best tape media prices in town for new direct from manufacturers
*Email, IM, File and SharePoint Archiving and Retrieval including Legal/Human Resources Discovery
* Security - anti-virus, anti-spam, data leakage solutions
* Network products from Qlogic and Brocade
* High availability, clustering server solutions
By first fully understanding the needs and goals of our customers and then through creative design, our hardware and software solutions deliver high quality, reliable and efficient solutions.NavigateStorage's solutions can help both medium and large enterprise businesses meet their challenges by providing an innovative solution.
Contact us at 978-318-9000 or send us an Email.
* Storage - High performance primary and cost effective secondary arrays - iSCSI, SATA, Fibre Channel all vendors
* Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs), Tape libraries and best tape media prices in town for new direct from manufacturers
*Email, IM, File and SharePoint Archiving and Retrieval including Legal/Human Resources Discovery
* Security - anti-virus, anti-spam, data leakage solutions
* Network products from Qlogic and Brocade
* High availability, clustering server solutions
By first fully understanding the needs and goals of our customers and then through creative design, our hardware and software solutions deliver high quality, reliable and efficient solutions.NavigateStorage's solutions can help both medium and large enterprise businesses meet their challenges by providing an innovative solution.
Contact us at 978-318-9000 or send us an Email.
Next-Generation Email Archiving
NavigateStorage has specialized in Email Archiving since 2001. In 2008, NavigateStorage added Mimosa Systems to it's solution excellence offerings.
The fast-growing volume of email presents major challenges for all organizations. According to Ferris Research, the average information worker sends over 600 emails in a given week. Many of these emails are either business records or contain valuable corporate knowledge and need to be retained accordingly. Keeping a large volume of email leads to higher storage costs and headaches for IT staff in the form of longer back-up windows. In fact, Osterman Research states, message stores have grown 30% from winter 2007 to winter 2008.
As message stores grow, organizations face challenges with:
* Managing Storage Costs – getting content off expensive production systems
* Timely Recovery Times – reducing recovery point objectives and ever-expanding back-up windows
* Ending Firefights – lowering cost of reactive collection and review
* Mitigating Content-related Risks – ensuring proper usage of content within the organization
If you are considering Email, File or SharePoint archiving. Then contact NavigateStorage from our website, or call 1-978-318-9000 or write.
The fast-growing volume of email presents major challenges for all organizations. According to Ferris Research, the average information worker sends over 600 emails in a given week. Many of these emails are either business records or contain valuable corporate knowledge and need to be retained accordingly. Keeping a large volume of email leads to higher storage costs and headaches for IT staff in the form of longer back-up windows. In fact, Osterman Research states, message stores have grown 30% from winter 2007 to winter 2008.
As message stores grow, organizations face challenges with:
* Managing Storage Costs – getting content off expensive production systems
* Timely Recovery Times – reducing recovery point objectives and ever-expanding back-up windows
* Ending Firefights – lowering cost of reactive collection and review
* Mitigating Content-related Risks – ensuring proper usage of content within the organization
If you are considering Email, File or SharePoint archiving. Then contact NavigateStorage from our website, or call 1-978-318-9000 or write.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Mimosa Systems from NavigateStorage
Mimosa Systems NavigateStorage: "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.
Email has proven to be a company's vital asset. If not to be legally required (compliant) then for sure a good company practice.
NavigateStorage has specialised in Email, file and Sharepoint archiving since 2001 with Educom (now Zantaz) and since then Mimosa, Red Condor and Global Relay. Let's discuss your interests i.e. On-Site or Hosted and find the write fit to meet your needs. Request "more info" on or website or write or call 1-978-318-9000.
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.
Email has proven to be a company's vital asset. If not to be legally required (compliant) then for sure a good company practice.
NavigateStorage has specialised in Email, file and Sharepoint archiving since 2001 with Educom (now Zantaz) and since then Mimosa, Red Condor and Global Relay. Let's discuss your interests i.e. On-Site or Hosted and find the write fit to meet your needs. Request "more info" on or website or write or call 1-978-318-9000.
Monday, April 12, 2010
NavigateStorage's Enterprise Solution for the SMB
The SMB and SME market is insufficiently addressed by existing storage solutions. Enterprise-level systems offer more capability than is necessary and have high initial acquisition costs. iQstor storage solutions are ideal for Storage Administrators at small and mid-sized businesses looking for storage solutions that offer:
* Enterprise class high availability features with no single point of failure
* SAN ready connectivity using Fibre Channel or iSCSI interface
* Server independent SRM software, including storage virtualization, snapshot, copy, capacity management, storage provisioning and remote replication
* Storage capacity from 2TB to over 240TB
iQstor storage solutions consist of hardware building blocks together with software management tools. These building blocks are tightly integrated to provide plug and play functionality as well as management and diagnostic feature sets offering storage administrators and IT managers:
* Storage consolidation through storage virtualization
* Business continuity through remote replication
* Disaster recovery through instantaneous "point-in-time" snapshots
Reduced total cost of Ownership (TCO) through capacity management and automated storage provisioning.
Contact NavigateStorage or call 978-318-9000 or write us.
* Enterprise class high availability features with no single point of failure
* SAN ready connectivity using Fibre Channel or iSCSI interface
* Server independent SRM software, including storage virtualization, snapshot, copy, capacity management, storage provisioning and remote replication
* Storage capacity from 2TB to over 240TB
iQstor storage solutions consist of hardware building blocks together with software management tools. These building blocks are tightly integrated to provide plug and play functionality as well as management and diagnostic feature sets offering storage administrators and IT managers:
* Storage consolidation through storage virtualization
* Business continuity through remote replication
* Disaster recovery through instantaneous "point-in-time" snapshots
Reduced total cost of Ownership (TCO) through capacity management and automated storage provisioning.
Contact NavigateStorage or call 978-318-9000 or write us.
Nexsan storage from NavigateStorage
NavigateStorage has specialized in Storage since 1999 and Archiving since 2001. If your data is critical, such as Email for compliance then you should know about Assureon from Nexsan.
Assureon from Nexsan gives organizations the ability to keep only one copy of each file stored, regardless of how many users write that file to storage.
Assureon uses single instance store technology, a function of Content Addressed Storage, to identify duplicate files and store only a single copy of a file. This deduplication process is performed automatically with Assureon and is transparent to the user.
By intelligently transferring and storing a single instance of any archived file, Assureon dramatically reduces storage consumption, network bandwidth and overall cost.
Contact us or call 1-978 318-9000 and ask for Jim
Assureon from Nexsan gives organizations the ability to keep only one copy of each file stored, regardless of how many users write that file to storage.
Assureon uses single instance store technology, a function of Content Addressed Storage, to identify duplicate files and store only a single copy of a file. This deduplication process is performed automatically with Assureon and is transparent to the user.
By intelligently transferring and storing a single instance of any archived file, Assureon dramatically reduces storage consumption, network bandwidth and overall cost.
Contact us or call 1-978 318-9000 and ask for Jim
Accelerate NAS environments with Tiered Appliance
FXT Series hardware platforms provide the high-performance storage media that enables Avere tiered NAS appliances to accelerate the performance and reduce the cost of NAS environments. FXT Series hardware platforms are highly reliable and offered in multiple configuration options.
Executive Summary
The storage industry is at an inflection point. High-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) are threatening the dominance of hard disk drives (HDDs), particularly expensive 15k-RPM Fibre Channel (FC) drives, in storage systems. High-capacity, inexpensive serial ATA (SATA) drives have replaced tape as the archive medium of choice. Incumbent storage vendors are struggling to include new storage media in their products, but each candidate replacement medium has particular strengths and weaknesses that existing storage operating systems do not accommodate.
Storage vendors have focused on capacity over performance even as application servers and clients require greater and greater throughput. To keep pace with the demands of your computing infrastructure, you must constantly upgrade to the latest, most expensive generation of NAS servers.
The Avere Systems FXT Series enables you to accelerate the performance of your current NAS infrastructure and lower the costs of NAS acquisition, operation, and expansion. The Avere solution also allows you to use less expensive, lower-performance NAS servers and lower-cost, high-density media such as SATA HDDs to expand your NAS infrastructure, increasing performance and extending the useful lifespan of legacy NAS systems, all while consuming less power, cooling, and rack space than traditional NAS solutions.
Read more at NavigateStorage then let us know you want to know more. Contact us or phone 1-978-318-9000
Executive Summary
The storage industry is at an inflection point. High-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) are threatening the dominance of hard disk drives (HDDs), particularly expensive 15k-RPM Fibre Channel (FC) drives, in storage systems. High-capacity, inexpensive serial ATA (SATA) drives have replaced tape as the archive medium of choice. Incumbent storage vendors are struggling to include new storage media in their products, but each candidate replacement medium has particular strengths and weaknesses that existing storage operating systems do not accommodate.
Storage vendors have focused on capacity over performance even as application servers and clients require greater and greater throughput. To keep pace with the demands of your computing infrastructure, you must constantly upgrade to the latest, most expensive generation of NAS servers.
The Avere Systems FXT Series enables you to accelerate the performance of your current NAS infrastructure and lower the costs of NAS acquisition, operation, and expansion. The Avere solution also allows you to use less expensive, lower-performance NAS servers and lower-cost, high-density media such as SATA HDDs to expand your NAS infrastructure, increasing performance and extending the useful lifespan of legacy NAS systems, all while consuming less power, cooling, and rack space than traditional NAS solutions.
Read more at NavigateStorage then let us know you want to know more. Contact us or phone 1-978-318-9000
AutoVirt File Virtualization
NavigateStorage
File virtualization software lets you move files across servers without changing or disrupting users. Execute “no-impact” data migration projects, consolidate data to tiered storage, and separate file access from file management.
Use AutoVirt when you are:
* Consolidating file servers
* Implementing new file servers or NAS devices
* Changing storage vendors
* Centralizing data for backup or disaster recovery
* Managing file data across remote offices
* Archiving data no longer in use to lower-tier storage
For all you Storage and Backup/Replication needs, contact NavigateStorage .
File virtualization software lets you move files across servers without changing or disrupting users. Execute “no-impact” data migration projects, consolidate data to tiered storage, and separate file access from file management.
Use AutoVirt when you are:
* Consolidating file servers
* Implementing new file servers or NAS devices
* Changing storage vendors
* Centralizing data for backup or disaster recovery
* Managing file data across remote offices
* Archiving data no longer in use to lower-tier storage
For all you Storage and Backup/Replication needs, contact NavigateStorage .
Thursday, April 8, 2010
iBac 5.0, now offers support for Microsoft Exchange 2010
Idealstor announces that data protection software, iBac 5.0, now offers support for Microsoft Exchange 2010.
We are very excited about this announcement as Exchange 2010 has an option called Recovery Database (RDB) that allows you to recover individual mailboxes or emails without having to do a brick level backup. This means that you can now use our OVS module to backup a live Exchange server and simply backup the information store for a fast and easy to run backup. When that job is done you can then use the RDB to recover mailboxes or emails. This is much faster than traditional Brick Level backup options on the market that require you to go within the information store to backup mailboxes/emails.
Contact us
We are very excited about this announcement as Exchange 2010 has an option called Recovery Database (RDB) that allows you to recover individual mailboxes or emails without having to do a brick level backup. This means that you can now use our OVS module to backup a live Exchange server and simply backup the information store for a fast and easy to run backup. When that job is done you can then use the RDB to recover mailboxes or emails. This is much faster than traditional Brick Level backup options on the market that require you to go within the information store to backup mailboxes/emails.
Contact us
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Management Software for Windows
NavigateStorage represents AutoVirt
By 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.
We recommend that you attend a 30 minute demo so you can evaluate all this products capability.
Join us for Live Virtual Product Demo weekly, register by clicking the link
http://web.autovirt.com/demo.html and pick your date.
By 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.
We recommend that you attend a 30 minute demo so you can evaluate all this products capability.
Join us for Live Virtual Product Demo weekly, register by clicking the link
http://web.autovirt.com/demo.html and pick your date.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Data Protection - "Email Archiving Plus "
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.
NavigateStorage with 10 years of experience in Email, File and SharePoint Archiving.
NavigateStorage with 10 years of experience in Email, File and SharePoint Archiving.
RELDATA - Unified storage solutions that deliver iSCSI SAN, NAS and WAN replication
RELDATA - Unified storage solutions that deliver iSCSI SAN, NAS and WAN replication: "NavigateStorage and RELDATA deliver a new breed of virtual enterprise-wide data storage and replication infrastructure based on a single pool of shared storage. RELDATA data storage and replication solutions are simplifying unstructured data management in distributed IT infrastructures and dramatically reduce total cost of ownership."
RELDATA Unified Storage Systems
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. The system is easy to implement, operate, and manage, yet delivers enterprise-class functionality. 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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RELDATA Unified Storage Systems
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. The system is easy to implement, operate, and manage, yet delivers enterprise-class functionality. 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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Why Storage from NavigateStorage
Why Storage from NavigateStorage: "iStor’s Virtual Storage technology makes the full power of IP SANs available to the SMB market. The virtual pool of storage frees the storage user from the complexities of traditional RAID configuration, eases management and increases the efficiency of disk utilization; all while optimizing the performance of all applications.
Powerful enough to satisfy high bandwidth applications, as well as transaction-intensive applications, the iS512 features 8x1GbE host ports, providing the industry’s highest throughput for a single controller, and supports over 80,000 IOPS."
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Powerful enough to satisfy high bandwidth applications, as well as transaction-intensive applications, the iS512 features 8x1GbE host ports, providing the industry’s highest throughput for a single controller, and supports over 80,000 IOPS."
Let us tell you more. Call 978-318-9000. Visit us at www.navigatestorage.com
Marathon High Availability
Marathon High Availability: "Data Protection
'Why Data Protection?'
'Because bad things happen to good people.... and... users don't want to hear excuses'
Marathon everRun High Availability delivers extremely high levels of application availability, protecting your applications, data, networks and operating systems from faults, failures, and dropped network connections. Running on standard Windows servers, everRun HA provides a significantly greater level of protection than clusters and rudimentary failover solutions, but at a lower cost and with far greater simplicity.
everRun HA software synchronizes two standard Windows servers to create a virtual application environment that is inherently protected from downtime due to faults and failures. Data integrity is guaranteed by keeping an exact copy on the the secondary server to ensure zero data loss in the event of a failure."
NavigateStorage is a ten year old company specializing in Storage, Disaster Prevention, Archiving and Anti-Virus. Call 978-318-9000
'Why Data Protection?'
'Because bad things happen to good people.... and... users don't want to hear excuses'
Marathon everRun High Availability delivers extremely high levels of application availability, protecting your applications, data, networks and operating systems from faults, failures, and dropped network connections. Running on standard Windows servers, everRun HA provides a significantly greater level of protection than clusters and rudimentary failover solutions, but at a lower cost and with far greater simplicity.
everRun HA software synchronizes two standard Windows servers to create a virtual application environment that is inherently protected from downtime due to faults and failures. Data integrity is guaranteed by keeping an exact copy on the the secondary server to ensure zero data loss in the event of a failure."
NavigateStorage is a ten year old company specializing in Storage, Disaster Prevention, Archiving and Anti-Virus. Call 978-318-9000
Tiering is Dead, Long Live Tiering « Demand-Driven Storage Blog
Tiering is Dead, Long Live Tiering « Demand-Driven Storage Blog: "Tiering is Dead, Long Live Tiering"
NavigateStorage, a ten year old company specializing in Storage, Backup, Data Replication and Malware. We pass this article on as a precursor to talk nor about Avere Systems. We think this company has great promise, having decoded "Dynamic Tiering" and is worth a close look. Why not stay up to date and let us set up a webex and answer you questions.
The term Dynamic Tiering has really been abused in the network storage industry lately. Everyone talks about tiering in one form or another. Vendors that do not have currently shipping products talk about futures and those vendors that have shipping products do not actually disclose how their tiering works, which applications benefit, nor by how much. Unfortunately, one of the giants in the industry has even further muddied the waters. According to a TechTarget article last week regarding NetApp’s earnings call, NetApp’s CEO said that “the whole concept of tiered storage is going to go away.” Presumably, this refers to EMC’s Fast technology, since one industry Goliath always needs to beat up on another Goliath. The unfortunate thing for NetApp, is that on the same call, they completely reversed their position on tiering when they touted the success of their form of tiering, which includes their SSD-based performance accelerator. Tiering is dead, long live tiering!
The simple truth is that no single technology has ever proven to be the panacea of data storage. SATA drives have the lowest cost per bit and are great for archival storage. FC or SAS drives offer a compromise of performance and capacity, excelling at large block accesses like those found in large sequentially read files. Solid State Devices, based on Flash, offer unsurpassed performance for random reads and small block sizes.
More importantly, the differences from one technology to another are measured by orders of magnitude, not by mere percentage improvements. Because of this, a solution that can leverage the strengths of all the technologies is guaranteed to out-perform and cost less than a solution that only uses one or two.
Rather than predicting which storage tiers will win and the capacity of those tiers in a solution, the important information needed to judge a tiering solution is how the tiers are used. Most vendors are completely silent on this. Here are three examples of the more egregious mis-steps in dynamic tiering.
The first mis-step is tiering at too large a level of granularity. Consider a solution that tiers at the volume level. If a few files in a volume become active, the entire volume will need to be promoted to a more expensive tier to get the performance needed for the few files. This results in cost inefficiency as extra data is promoted to the expensive storage and performance inefficiency as the entire volume consumes read/write bandwidth of both tiers that are involved in the promotion of the volume.
The second mis-step is not tiering frequently enough. Several vendors have proposed tiering schedules that are measured in terms of days. This is crazy. Consider the file that I am editing for this blog. I might work on this file for a few days and then rarely, if ever, look at the source file again once the blog is posted. If activity is measure across days, by the time this source file is promoted, it should be archived.
The third mis-step is not using the correct media. Most vendors actually completely avoid this question and require the administrator to set policies. In those instances where the vendor does decide, frequently wrong media is chosen.
An example of this third mis-step is to examine the two stage architecture promoted on NTAP’s earnings call – SSD & SATA. In their architecture the SSD-based performance accelerator is apparently only used for read data. All write data is sent to SATA storage. This is terribly inefficient and is even proven in their SPECsfs®08 posting. To achieve the same performance in a NTAP 3160 with the accelerator module, they required almost twice the number of SATA disks than when they run the same benchmark using FC disks (96 SATA disks versus 56 FC disks). Since the SATA disks have over 3x the capacity of the FC disks, they deployed over 6x as much capacity to store the same amount of data. This over-provisioning is a result of not tiering the media properly and is extremely inefficient in terms of space, power and equipment costs.
What is clear from all of the press on “Dynamic Tiering”, is that the term is both extremely overused and misunderstood. Because of the orders of magnitude differences in storage media costs and performance, data storage solutions can clearly benefit from tiering if executed properly.
This entry was written by Ron Bianchini, posted on February 22, 2010 at 11:08 am, filed under Tiered NAS and tagged dynamic tiering, Flash, NetApp, SSD. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
NavigateStorage, a ten year old company specializing in Storage, Backup, Data Replication and Malware. We pass this article on as a precursor to talk nor about Avere Systems. We think this company has great promise, having decoded "Dynamic Tiering" and is worth a close look. Why not stay up to date and let us set up a webex and answer you questions.
The term Dynamic Tiering has really been abused in the network storage industry lately. Everyone talks about tiering in one form or another. Vendors that do not have currently shipping products talk about futures and those vendors that have shipping products do not actually disclose how their tiering works, which applications benefit, nor by how much. Unfortunately, one of the giants in the industry has even further muddied the waters. According to a TechTarget article last week regarding NetApp’s earnings call, NetApp’s CEO said that “the whole concept of tiered storage is going to go away.” Presumably, this refers to EMC’s Fast technology, since one industry Goliath always needs to beat up on another Goliath. The unfortunate thing for NetApp, is that on the same call, they completely reversed their position on tiering when they touted the success of their form of tiering, which includes their SSD-based performance accelerator. Tiering is dead, long live tiering!
The simple truth is that no single technology has ever proven to be the panacea of data storage. SATA drives have the lowest cost per bit and are great for archival storage. FC or SAS drives offer a compromise of performance and capacity, excelling at large block accesses like those found in large sequentially read files. Solid State Devices, based on Flash, offer unsurpassed performance for random reads and small block sizes.
More importantly, the differences from one technology to another are measured by orders of magnitude, not by mere percentage improvements. Because of this, a solution that can leverage the strengths of all the technologies is guaranteed to out-perform and cost less than a solution that only uses one or two.
Rather than predicting which storage tiers will win and the capacity of those tiers in a solution, the important information needed to judge a tiering solution is how the tiers are used. Most vendors are completely silent on this. Here are three examples of the more egregious mis-steps in dynamic tiering.
The first mis-step is tiering at too large a level of granularity. Consider a solution that tiers at the volume level. If a few files in a volume become active, the entire volume will need to be promoted to a more expensive tier to get the performance needed for the few files. This results in cost inefficiency as extra data is promoted to the expensive storage and performance inefficiency as the entire volume consumes read/write bandwidth of both tiers that are involved in the promotion of the volume.
The second mis-step is not tiering frequently enough. Several vendors have proposed tiering schedules that are measured in terms of days. This is crazy. Consider the file that I am editing for this blog. I might work on this file for a few days and then rarely, if ever, look at the source file again once the blog is posted. If activity is measure across days, by the time this source file is promoted, it should be archived.
The third mis-step is not using the correct media. Most vendors actually completely avoid this question and require the administrator to set policies. In those instances where the vendor does decide, frequently wrong media is chosen.
An example of this third mis-step is to examine the two stage architecture promoted on NTAP’s earnings call – SSD & SATA. In their architecture the SSD-based performance accelerator is apparently only used for read data. All write data is sent to SATA storage. This is terribly inefficient and is even proven in their SPECsfs®08 posting. To achieve the same performance in a NTAP 3160 with the accelerator module, they required almost twice the number of SATA disks than when they run the same benchmark using FC disks (96 SATA disks versus 56 FC disks). Since the SATA disks have over 3x the capacity of the FC disks, they deployed over 6x as much capacity to store the same amount of data. This over-provisioning is a result of not tiering the media properly and is extremely inefficient in terms of space, power and equipment costs.
What is clear from all of the press on “Dynamic Tiering”, is that the term is both extremely overused and misunderstood. Because of the orders of magnitude differences in storage media costs and performance, data storage solutions can clearly benefit from tiering if executed properly.
This entry was written by Ron Bianchini, posted on February 22, 2010 at 11:08 am, filed under Tiered NAS and tagged dynamic tiering, Flash, NetApp, SSD. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
Monday, March 29, 2010
iQstor Networks
iQstor Networks, Inc. , a leading developer of intelligent and integrated Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, announced today that it has qualified the Hitachi Ultrastar 15K147 series of 4GFC disk drives for use with its iQ2880 4GFC to FC Storage Platform and J2880 4GFC Switched JBOD (SBOD) disk expansion enclosure.
"We're pleased to qualify Hitachi's line of 36GB, 73GB and 147GB 4GFC disk drives for use with our new iQ2880 and J2880 for the enterprise data center and high performance video applications," said Jason Lo, president and CEO of iQstor Networks. "Hitachi's high-performing Ultrastar drive technology is the perfect complement for our iQ2880 and J2880 for mission-critical enterprise computing environments like online transaction processing and data analysis, while addressing the evolving high resolution content creation and post production workflows requiring storage systems that can sustain throughputs for real-time HD network collaboration and 2K digital intermediate applications.
Contact NavigateStorage for more info
"We're pleased to qualify Hitachi's line of 36GB, 73GB and 147GB 4GFC disk drives for use with our new iQ2880 and J2880 for the enterprise data center and high performance video applications," said Jason Lo, president and CEO of iQstor Networks. "Hitachi's high-performing Ultrastar drive technology is the perfect complement for our iQ2880 and J2880 for mission-critical enterprise computing environments like online transaction processing and data analysis, while addressing the evolving high resolution content creation and post production workflows requiring storage systems that can sustain throughputs for real-time HD network collaboration and 2K digital intermediate applications.
Contact NavigateStorage for more info
Red Condor Archive – Affordable, Reliable and Secure Hosted Email Archiving Service
NavigateStorage offers an Affordable, Reliable and Secure Hosted Email Archiving Service
Red Condor Archive provides an affordable, 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.
Automatic Back-Up of Messages & Attachments: With Red Condor Archive, you’ll capture all inbound and outbound messages and maintain a secure and tamper-proof copy of all business correspondence. Plus, you can completely set-up and configure your archive in just minutes with a few simple clicks.
Lifetime Retention with Unlimited Storage: With Red Condor Archive, there are never any hidden fees and all our subscription plans include unlimited storage.
Remove the strain on your email servers without expensive hardware. Allow users to delete email with the knowledge that any items can be retrieved from the archive if needed later.
Powerful Search & Retrieval At All Times: Red Condor Archive keeps all data online and immediately accessible for searches. Other hosted archive vendors migrate your older data to offline or near-line storage systems, dramatically increasing the amount of time required to search. You’ll be able to search, retrieve and export messages.
These are just a few of the features. Write or call 1-978-318-9000 or visit our website and request "More Info"
Red Condor Archive provides an affordable, 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.
Automatic Back-Up of Messages & Attachments: With Red Condor Archive, you’ll capture all inbound and outbound messages and maintain a secure and tamper-proof copy of all business correspondence. Plus, you can completely set-up and configure your archive in just minutes with a few simple clicks.
Lifetime Retention with Unlimited Storage: With Red Condor Archive, there are never any hidden fees and all our subscription plans include unlimited storage.
Remove the strain on your email servers without expensive hardware. Allow users to delete email with the knowledge that any items can be retrieved from the archive if needed later.
Powerful Search & Retrieval At All Times: Red Condor Archive keeps all data online and immediately accessible for searches. Other hosted archive vendors migrate your older data to offline or near-line storage systems, dramatically increasing the amount of time required to search. You’ll be able to search, retrieve and export messages.
These are just a few of the features. Write or call 1-978-318-9000 or visit our website and request "More Info"
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