NavigateStorage offers 2 Unified Storage Arrays

A virtualized server infrastructure offers a wide range of flexibility and reliability advantages to environments of all sizes, but in order to make the most of the virtual infrastructure, you need shared storage. Features such as live migration of virtual machines require a shared storage pool, but the advantages of using shared storage in a virtual environment run much deeper.
Supporting a virtual server environment with shared storage:

• Simplifies management of the environment
• Provides the data availability required for a virtualized environment
• Enables efficient backup

Centralize storage and VM management tasks with the IceWEB Storage System. The all-inclusive storage management feature set combined with IceWEB's VM Manager -- a unified management console for controlling all storage-related aspects of a virtualized infrastructure for VMware ESX, Citrix Xen, and Microsoft Hyper-V environments – is a perfect complement to your virtual server environment. VM Manager simplifies day-to-day operations by centralizing all the following storage functions:

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NavigateStorage partners with Stonefly

StoneFly Inc. headquartered in San Diego, was founded in April 2000 to deliver upon the vision of simple and affordable storage optimization and disaster recovery protection through IP storage area network (IP SAN) solutions. StoneFly, Inc. is a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, Inc. (DNF), a leading maker of high-performance network attached storage (NAS), storage area networks (SAN), RAID and iSCSI systems and has offices in Northern and Southern California.

 

StoneFly™ is the innovator of powerful, cost-effective IP Storage products for departments, mid-tier workgroups, and enterprise organizations. Stonefly IP SAN among other features, includes features such as Snapshot, Mirroring, Encryption, and asynchronous mirroring that provides advanced disaster recovery. The heart of StoneFly IP SAN products is an award winning software called StoneFusion™ Intelligent Network Platform. This platform includes advanced Storage Network Management, storage provisioning, centralized volume management, data migration and storage consolidation. All of StoneFly's range of physical and virtual IP SAN appliances is protected by StoneFly's Storage Virtualization Patents as certified by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Patent #: 7302500, 7555586, 7558885)

In addition to IP Storage Solutions, StoneFly has created a series of Unified Storage and Server USS™ and Cloud USS™ products that they all include StoneFly's IPSAN and provide a one stop solution to consolidate their whole data center into one appliance. StoneFly is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the founding member of the IP Storage Institute (IPSI).

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One Application, Many Solutions from NavigateStorage

AIMstor requires only a few short minutes to install and setup. Once you create a policy and data flow, you are ready to go. Combining Live Backup and File Version Archive, Continuous Data Protection, Deduplication, and Forensic Monitoring - would be a nightmare with any set of point products. But with AIMstor installed, you can do it in seconds.

The fundamental way of operating AIMstor is to simply drag and drop "operations" such as Backup or Replication, into a Policy screen. Then add your Data Classification, fine tune your selections, such as Retention, Recovery Point Objectives, Triggers and other options, and save.

Policies are real time sensitive, and can be triggered by someone changing a file, creating a file, accessing a file share, or via a schedule. Data Classifications are assigned to files the moment they are created. In this way, AIMstor guides and manages your data through any business process that different departments may impose upon it. Perhaps several departments have different policies for the same set of data, or the same file. AIMstor can help.

AIMstor can accommodate an unlimited number of policy parameters, and then distribute them in real time. AIMstor Nodes can use new policies the moment they are distributed. The result is protection, governance and compliance of data on an entirely different level.

NavigateStorage sells Cofio because it does what it says!  Let us give you a demo.

New Technology Creates 1 Minute RPO's with Full Consistency 7/24

COFIO DELIVERS SQL PROTECTION WITH LIVE CONSISTENCY SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 21, 2011—Cofio Software Inc., a world-class provider of unified backup and data protection software, today announced it has delivered the first Microsoft SQL Server protection solution with continuous consistency for maximizing SQL performance and uptime, and most granular Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), with zero-window backup and deduplication. Cofio's flagship product, AIMstor 2.4, now provides automatic identification of SQL data on a single machine, or in a network of MS SQL servers, syncs them to the AIMstor repository and uses its continuous source side deduplication technology to transfer data in real-time blocks for the most granular and fully consistent MS SQL Server RPO's available today, with unified replication for real-time server failover as an option. AIMstor is the first and only solution to fully unify all the key data protection technologies into a single application. In a single policy AIMstor is able to provide: -Real-Time backups that are synchronized with the applications ensuring full application consistency. Granular recovery points of up to an hour with retention spanning years. -CDP backups with an "up-to-the-second" image, allowing flexible retention spanning days. -Real time replication providing immediate secondary image suitable for application failover. -Touch-once technology enabling Real time backup, CDP and Replication to be used together without any additional CPU or network overhead on the source system. -Backup and CDP to a common repository provides in-line "common block single instancing", enabling dual technologies to be used without doubling storage. -Real time capability total removes the backup window. -Full restore from any incrementals, removing the need for full backups. -Suitable for low bandwidth environments after initial synchronization AIMstor can be installed and setup without ANY application downtime. Even the initial backup can be performed on a live and active system. AIMstor's latest technological breakthrough includes bandwidth performance enhancements that can accelerate backups 10X to 20X over legacy backup products, a 95% reduction in storage capacity, and simplicity for exponential increases in IT management efficiencies. AIMstor can also restore SQL databases at the disk write and read speeds available, network bandwidth permitting. "We see lots of customers with SQL backup problems," noted Mike Kornblum of MPAK Technology, a storage solution provider based in California. "With AIMstor, they get zero window backup, with recovery points down to one second ago, or one month ago, and recovery speed is amazing. More importantly, backups are done in real-time, and deduplication is done at source, so the SQL servers or the network never suffer performance degradation." About Cofio Software, Inc. Cofio is the creator of AIMstor software, which unifies Data Protection, Archive and Disaster Recovery. As a next generation application, AIMstor is highly efficient as a replacement alternative to legacy backup and recovery infrastructures, offering superior cost savings and new improvements in data Workflow and Compliance. AIMstor has patents pending with the USPTO. Cofio is a global supplier of storage software with offices in the US, Asia and Europe. For more information please visit:   NavigateStorage or call 978-318-9000 and ask for Jim

Cofio Software Inc., unified backup and data protection software

Cofio Software Inc., a world-class provider of unified backup and data protection software, today announced it has delivered the first Microsoft SQL Server protection solution with continuous consistency for maximizing SQL performance and uptime, and most granular Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), with zero-window backup and deduplication.

Cofio's flagship product, AIMstor 2.4, now provides automatic identification of SQL data on a single machine, or in a network of MS SQL servers, syncs them to the AIMstor repository and uses its continuous source side deduplication technology to transfer data in real-time blocks for the most granular and fully consistent MS SQL Server RPO's available today, with unified replication for real-time server failover as an option.

AIMstor is the first and only solution to fully unify all the key data protection technologies into a single application. 

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NavigateStorage and Virtualized Storage from Reldata

When I first met Reldata it was about 3 years ago.  They were early in the Unified game.  Yes the had iSCSI and NAS (cifs and nfs) in the same box but the user interface was clumsly/  Well today they have an outstanding "Virtualized Unfied Storage Array" and NavigateStorage is proud to represent them.

It scales seamlessly with no down time.  The RELDATA 9240i, powered by the RELDATA virtualization operating system (RELvos™), is a highly integrated solution that allows for the rapid deployment of IT systems based on networked storage architecture. The 9240i can provision block and file storage through a single automated management interface. In less than an hour, organizations can architect multiple, scalable shared storage pools for on-demand IP SAN and NAS.

So for an example - suppose you have a virtualized server diced up to 6 VM server, some Windows etc.  Reldata's array can offer up storage for whatever VM supports i.e. block for one, NAS for one etc.  It is realy smooth.  Let us set a demo just for you.  I will blow your socks off and the price is right. 

Go to our RelData link here and then let us schedule a time convient to you.  If you sign up for a demo on our site, tell 'em we sent you, please.

RelData - Unified Storage from NavigateStorage

The RELDATA 9240i, powered by the RELDATA virtualization operating system (RELvos™), is a highly integrated solution that allows for the rapid deployment of IT systems based on networked storage architecture. The 9240i can provision block and file storage through a single automated management interface. In less than an hour, organizations can architect multiple, scalable shared storage pools for on-demand IP SAN and NAS.

Let NavigateStorage tell you more and configure a economical array to meet your needs.

IceWEB Unified Solutions

The IceWEB 3000-HC provides high-density commercial storage for business applications. The 3000-HC is designed to deliver the most capacity per dollar of any contemporary storage array. Using the latest 1 and 2 TB enterprise SATA disk drives, the 3000-HC delivers up to 12TB within a single 2u appliance, and with disk shelves can scale to over 480TB.

The IceWEB Storage System 3000-HC system includes all the storage management features required for today’s virtualized application infrastructure, without all the complexity and cost. All configurations offer a powerful combination of in-line data de-duplication, compression and thin provisioning for unparalleled storage efficiency rates. In addition, the IceWEB systems include unlimited snapshots, clones, asynchronous and synchronous replication, and a host of other features, all included for no extra charge in the base product.

NavigateStorage is an authorized partner of IceWEB a unifed storage vendor. Learn more and get an economical quote.

De-Dup question

A recent Blog reader asked< re "data duplication"

Are they suitable for small retail businesses as well? Your blog is great by the way, you seem to really have a passion for this area! Thank you!

Hate to say it this ways, but it depends.  They fit in business where a de-dup storage device can afford $25,000 and up.

Quantum beats Data Domain

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To take the challenge, Contact NavigateStorage - just drop us a line and we will do the rest. On the web www.navigatestorage.com

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Integrated SAS Storage and 10GbE Networking

NavigateStorage is an authorized reseller and offers you a demo, conversation with RelData and even on-site trial if that makes sense.
The 9240i includes an industry standard high performance storage controller, RELvos virtualization operating system and integrated Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk storage. Capacity or pooling existing storage resources. The 9240i is available for 10GbE and/or 1GbE infrastructures. With the 9240i, IT managers are able to set up iSCSI SANs and NAS that can scale to multiple petabytes of capacity and support hundreds of servers with performance rivaling FC SANs, giving them plenty of headroom for future storage growth.

NavigateStorage has Unified Storage

The 9240i delivers high speed, non-disruptive, local and remote data mirroring and incremental replication services that significantly improve the data availability and recovery time ratios for mid-tier storage environments. RELvos’ 64-bit OS performance and throughput rivals that of more expensive Fibre Channel SANs at a lower total cost of ownership.

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NavigateStorage's partner announces Scale-out Clustering

StoneFly Inc. introduces Scale-Out Clustering to its Award-Winning IPSAN Virtual Software Appliance (SCVM™)

The Stonefly's Scale-Out Clustered SCVM™ (Storage Concentrator Virtual Machine) revolutionizes the industry by creating a Highly-Available Virtual Software IP SAN.

Hayward, Calif. – May 9, 2011 — StoneFly, Inc., the leading supplier and innovator of advanced IP Storage Area Network (SAN) systems, has unveiled the Clustered SCVM™, a powerful virtual IP SAN software appliance. Designed for VMware environments, the Clustered SCVM™ is a complete virtual storage solution and virtual machine that is fully integrated with the hypervisor. This provides a fully redundant, fault tolerant, flexible, scalable, highly available and manageable iSCSI block mode storage. The SCVM™ can be provisioned to local virtual machines and guest operating systems on the network (via the LAN or WAN).

The scale-out Clustered SCVM™ can be created from two existing virtual servers (active-active nodes). Ideal for your virtualized and cloud environments, users can create a virtual IP SAN along with your server virtual machines (VMs) on the same hardware platform. Increase your productivity, simplify your management, and reduce your power and rack space by simply loading Clustered SCVM™ as virtual machine in a active-active storage configuration.

Implementing Clustered SCVM™ within a virtual environment enables users to reallocate existing hardware resources for a powerful business continuity and disaster recovery solution. By using StoneFly's campus synchronous mirroring or asynchronous mirroring (replication) between remote facilities, Cluster SCVM™ is able to provide instantaneous recovery and eliminate storage access loss. For further data protection, the new clustering feature eliminates the risk of hardware failover by recognizing failures within a virtual storage server and instantaneously switching its resources to the other virtual active storage node.

"The IT infrastructure is drastically changing with the popularity of virtualization and cloud environments. Since releasing SCVM™, we have been working tirelessly to enhance our virtual IP SANs," says Mo Tahmasebi, CEO of StoneFly, "Scaled-out virtual storage clustering is new paradigm for enterprise environments that are looking to drastically bring down their CapEx and OpEx."

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NavigateStorage touts RelData's Unified Storage

RELDATA solutions are based on the RELDATA Unified Storage Engine (USE) platform. This open, software-centric architecture delivers superior performance for consolidation of storage within complex multi-vendor and virtualized server environments.

RELDATA USE leverages the iSCSI fabric to manage block and file environments more cost-effectively than with Fibre Channel alternatives, and delivers high availability solutions that improve disaster recovery and data accessibility for mid-size and distributed enterprises.

Consolidate

RELDATA USE allows you to remove the functional boundaries of siloed information to nondisruptively consolidate and simplify storage management across multi-vendor platforms – all through a single unified console. Consolidating both block and file storage environments – leveraging iSCSI – optimizes IT resources, improves data mobility and sharing of data between resources and users, while reducing management costs.

Virtualize

RELDATA USE delivers high-performance, virtualized storage with storage automation. By deploying RELDATA in a virtual environment such as VMware ESX or Citrix XenServer, you can achieve a powerful but flexible infrastructure that easily adapts and grows to meet your changing business needs. The resulting virtual environment provides improved storage and server utilization, reduced administrative overhead, fast backup and recovery, failover and continuous operation in the case of a disaster, and rapid recovery in the case of application failure.

Protect

RELDATA USE is a future-proofed storage system that assures long-term data protection, regardless of the technology advancements of tomorrow. The unique combination of RELDATA USE architecture and its replication services licensing model allows companies to scale block, file, legacy and future storage capacity while providing local and remote disaster recovery solutions, without incurring traditional licensing fees, as with alternative solutions.

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NEW INDUSTRY RESEARCH CONFIRMS RELDATA IS POSITIONED TO CONTINUE SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN CLOUD STORAGE

Key Findings from Storage Strategies NOW Point to Increased Adoption and Deployment of Cloud Storage Services

STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD, SANTA CLARA, CA – April 5, 2011 – RELDATA Inc. (www.RELDATA.com), the innovation leader in unified block and file storage solutions over iSCSI, announced today that new research from Storage Strategies NOW (SSG-NOW) confirms RELDATA is well positioned to continue its technology leadership and market growth in cloud storage. Storage Strategies NOW, a specialist storage analysis and research organization, recently released “Cloud Storage: Adoption, Practice and Deployment,” a report co-sponsored by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).

The report defines cloud storage, outlines the explosive growth in cloud storage and details how small and enterprise-size businesses are adopting and deploying cloud storage services for backup, archive, email and bulk storage data. Also included in the report are the results of an IT Professionals Cloud Adoption Survey, co-sponsored by the Storage Networking Industry Association.

Key findings of the report and survey include:

• More than 57 percent of respondents expect to adopt cloud storage;
• They will store e-mail, front office application data and backup data in the cloud, in that order; and,
• Standards are viewed as more important for public cloud implementations than private clouds.

“The report’s key findings coincide with our experience of the market and customers’ cloud needs over the past year,” said Victor Walker, CEO, RELDATA. “We’ve seen very healthy sales growth of our Unified Storage Solutions, which enable IT organizations to control their storage resources by improving performance and reducing costs.”

The report wrote that RELDATA’s “9400 Series delivers the high performance and throughput required for hypervisor and cloud computing environments, all while maintaining a low total cost of ownership.”  NavigateStorage, a RelData partner reports.

"RELDATA’s Unified Storage Systems enable private, hybrid and business application cloud service providers, hosting eDiscovery or other similar applications, to deliver on their customers’ expectations of affordable, flexible, and reliable on-demand storage," said Walker. "We applaud SNIA’s CDMI (API) standards initiative. It is a solid step towards simplification, rapid application integration and delivery of our advanced storage features to cloud service providers who are dealing with and managing virtualized environments and multi-vender storage infrastructures.”

Unified Storage - NavigateStorage - IceWeb

In a 2009 report, ESG says of unified storage, “It is interesting to stop and ponder how we ever created a world without it.” Buying, maintaining, and managing separate storage systems for file and block data results in obvious inefficiencies. A unified storage system – a single system supporting both data types – reduces complexity and cost, a winning combination.

The IceWEB Storage System is a high-performance, unified storage system that offers one platform for file and block data of all kinds. Whether it's Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server or Oracle databases, virtualized environments, scanned images, files, video, pictures, graphics, or voice data, IceWEB can help you maximize the efficiency of your storage by centralizing all your data on one platform secured with strong data protection capabilities.

The IceWEB Storage System is easy to install and provides built-in, all-inclusive storage management features including de-duplication; unlimited snapshots; thin provisioning; local or remote, real-time or scheduled replication; capacity and utilization reporting, and integration with virtual server environments.

You get all this functionality at an affordable price, and storage capacity that scales with disk shelves rather than expensive controllers. Plus, the IceWEB Storage System is backed by a customer-focused company that's nimble and ready to make your installation a success.

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Iceweb Unified Solutions

With the explosive growth of computer storage being experienced by most companies, IT organizations are looking for ways to provide the storage capacity their applications need without having to endlessly purchase more and more hardware. Especially with the escalating expenses associated with rack space, power, cooling and management, keeping a reign on your storage is critical to managing costs. However, you also don’t want to throttle your business by denying applications or users the space that they need.

The IceWEB Storage System offers an innovative collection of “storage efficiency” technologies that together dramatically reduce your physical storage requirements while still giving your servers, applications and users the capacity they need. This paper looks at each of these technologies in turn, and then we’ll show you how effective these can be when used together to reduce your overall storage requirements.

Take a look at IceWeb on our website and don't miss the Efficiences at the botom of the page.

NavigateStorage offers 2 Unified Storage Arrays

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.

NavigateStorage offers Reldata and IceWeb Each offers different solutions, both of which delivers value.  Call 978-318-9000 or write or visit NavigateStorage

StoneFly, Inc. is Honored as Everything Channel's CRN Virtualization 100 List

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StoneFly, Inc., a leading manufacturer of integrated IP Storage Area Network (SAN) systems and a NavigateStorage long time partner, announces that it is being recognized by Everything Channel's CRN Virtualization 100 list. Featuring the top 100 vendors in the virtualization space as identified by the CRN editorial staff, the list serves as the de facto resource by which VARs can begin to evaluate the best virtualization products for their business. StoneFly was named the top Virtualization 100 for its engineering excellence in virtualization technology.

According to the CRN Fast Growth Study, virtualization is the number one technology that VARs are investing in over the next year. The CRN Virtualization 100 list highlights the most compelling virtualization vendors and solutions to best meet the growing needs of the channel. These featured vendors were selected based on their ability to help VARsvirtualization has to offer.

NavigateStorage specializes in Storage, Backup, E-Mail Archiving and Compliance and Anti-Virus and Malware.  Call 978-318-9000 or write.

NavigateStorage has Unified Storage

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.

NavigateStorage specializes in all types of storage.  Check us out.

NavigateStorage offers a clutered file system

Melio FS is a clustered file system designed specifically for SAN storage environments. It provides shared access to data on a SAN from multiple servers, enabling high availability, horizontal scaling of applications, and greatly simplified storage provisioning and management for virtual server environments. Users gain extensive new capability to utilize industry standard shared storage hardware, yet it is very simple to use. Let NavigateStorage tell you more.

NavigateStorage beats Equallogic and Lefthand

Compare EqualLogic and Lefthand Networks with Stonefly!

Then let NavigateStorage provide you with a StoneFly quote that will knock your socks off.

Are you considering EqualLogic from Dell or Lefthand Networks from HP?

Are you considering EqualLogic from Dell or Lefthand Networks from HP?

NavigateStorage has sold them all and recommends that you take a close look at StoneFly's Voyager Storage Array. Hands down Stonefly beats them all for price/performance.

RelData - Unified Storage from NavigateStorage

Best-in-Class Mirroring & Replication

The 9240i delivers high speed, non-disruptive, local and remote data mirroring and incremental replication services that significantly improve the data availability and recovery time ratios for mid-tier storage environments. RELvos’ 64-bit OS performance and throughput rivals that of more expensive Fibre Channel SANs at a lower total cost of ownership.

Integrated SAS Storage & 10GbE Networking

The 9240i includes an industry standard high performance storage controller, RELvos virtualization operating system and integrated Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk storage. Capacity or pooling existing storage resourcesxisting storage resources. The 9240i is available for 10GbE and/or 1GbE infrastructures. With the 9240i, IT managers are able to set up iSCSI SANs and NAS that can scale to multiple petabytes of capacity and support hundreds of servers with performance rivaling FC SANs, giving them plenty of headroom for future storage growth.

Reseller NavigateStorage will tell you more.  978-318-9000