Archive for the ‘Disaster Recovery’ Category

Video: Dell-EqualLogic AutoSnapshot Manager for Exchange

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Dell’s EqualLogic line of virtualized line of iSCSI arrays are the industry leader for a number of reasons.  Their overall value, performance,  ease of use and breadth of deep features are some of the top reasons they beat the competition on a daily basis.

In fact, the line offers so many features that many times folks simply don’t put all of them to best use.  Case in Point: their AutoSnapshot Manager series of host-side apps.  These no-extra-cost apps sit on the host machines and tie them directly into the SAN’s snapshot engine, allowing application managers the ability to manage how their environments are backed up.  They come in flavors for MS SQL, Exchange and VMware.

Click the below graphic to see a video going over the MS Exchange version…pretty slick stuff.  And a feature a lot of EqualLogic customers don’t use.

Let us know if you;d like to discuss this or any other Dell-EqualLogic feature in further detail or if you go over hoe this product might fit your organization.

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More info here.

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Dell-EqualLogic announce 10GbE iSCSI…wave bye bye to Fibre Channel

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Dell-EqualLogic have announced 10Gigabit variants of their entire 6000 and 6500 Series of PeerStorage arrays.  Dubbed the 6010 (16-bay) and 6510 (48-bay) they feature 2 x 10GbE ports per controller and support multipath for load balancing and failover.

This essentially removes what fibre channel vendors have been pitching forever as their trump card: bandwidth.  If you’ve put up with FC’s compatibility issues, high price and learning curve simply to get more lanes of traffic, your time to switch has come.

…and because its an EqualLogic, you can rest assured these new arrays are 100% compatible with every other array they’ve ever made.

Give us a shout if you’d like any info or pricing (pricing of the 6510 won’t be available until January)

Dell-EqualLogic Releases Firmware v4.2

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Dell-EqualLogic have recently released firmware v4.2 for their PS Series of virtualized iSCSI SAN arrays. As always, it is compatible w/ every array ever made and includes some cool improvements.

The big one: support for 16-member groups.  This means you can have any mix of 16 arrays in a single SAN all sharing their disks, cache, processing power and thruput.  Using the big-boy PS-6500E’s, that gives you a max capacity of 768TB. Who else does this?  Oh yeah, no one…

They’ve also improved upon some things like RAID reconstruction performance and Solid State Drive support as well as added SNMP v3.

If you’d like to discuss if this new rev is right for your environment or are considering EqualLogic for a current/future project, please give us a shout.

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Nexsan Announces DeDupe SG Appliance

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Talk about good timing:  Hot off the heels of EMC and NetApp’s battle-royal for Data Domain, Nexsan, in partnership with Falconstor has just announced a dedupe solution of their own: DeDupe SG (Speed and Green).

DeDupe SG takes the best of both companies and welds them  into one very nice package

  • Dense – Up to 52TB usable in ony 10U of rackspace
  • Green – Nexsan’s AutoMAID energy-saving feature
  • Fast – FalconStor’s dedupe technology with brawny hardware behind it

Add to this mix remote replication with global dedupe, NAS interface and the ability to handle multiple streams from multiple applications and it appears there is a new player that is sure to be on folks’ short list for dedupe projects.

More info here

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Nexsan’s Assureon: Scalable, Secure, Auditable Storage

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

If you are looking for a data storage”safe deposit box” that is secure, auditable, and protected against disaster, then we’d like to introduce you to Nexsan’s Assureon secure online disk archive.

Assureon at a glance:

  • Compliant-level privacy, integrity and longevity
  • Self-Auditing, Self-Healing File Management
  • Enterprise-Class Manageability and Scalability
  • Affordable

Assureon Key Features:

  • Automated Retention and Deletion
  • Physical Separation of Data
  • Data De-Duplication
  • AES 256-Bit Encryption
  • File Fingerprinting
  • Remote Replication
  • WORM Capability

Markets for Assureon:

  • Medical Records
  • Legal Documents
  • Federal Government
  • Sensitive Documents
  • E-Mail Archiving

Contact us today for more info.

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Compellent Remote Replication – Light-Years Ahead

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

As corporate data explodes and the virtualization wave continues to roll across the planet, protecting those environments from disaster is no longer a “nice-to-have” feature..it is a “must-have”.  Traditional data backup only gets you so far and the once expensive and confusing task of remotely replication your data to another site has finally reached the masses.

And if your project hinges on the remote replication piece being bullet-proof, then the list of candidates is short and Compellent should at the top of that list.

Most midrange SAN vendors offer remote replication but their implementations vary greatly, from the simple to the “why is this so confusing?”.  Compellent is the former but their simplicity  masks the powerful features that lie underneath:

  • Setup in 6 clicks
  • Bandwidth shaping and simulation
  • Realtime replication validation/testing
  • Replication templates
  • Synchonrous and Asynchronous options
  • Thin Replication feature consumes less space and bandwidth

Add to this the rest of their award-winning feature set and you have a virtualized storage platform with performance, is simple to admin and will keep your data protected from disaster.

For more info or if you’d like to discuss how Compellent’s DR features might benefit your organization, please contact us.

Our Compellent Mini-Site

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Dell-EqualLogic’s SAN Headquarters

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Dell-EqualLogic’s newly-released SAN Headquarters (SAN HQ) is a fantastic app.   With thousands of customers and implementations in pretty much every country on the planet, SAN Headquarters couldn’t have come at a better time….and like all new features for Dell-EqualLogic customers, its a free download.

So what is it?  Its a management app that presents a single-pane-of-glass for all of your EqualLogic Groups wherever they may be.

In the past if you had multiple EqualLogic Groups, whether they be in the same building or a different country, you had to log into them each seperately to admin and monitor them.  SAN HQ brings them all under one roof and adds some really nice I/O, Capacity and Network Performance tools.

SAN HQ is compatible with all generations of EqualLogic product including the new Ps 6000 and 4000 Series.

Contact us today if you like more info on SAN HQ or any of Dell-EqualLoigic’s award-winning line of products.

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Zetta: Cloud Storage for Primary Storage

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Cloud Storage is one of the big buzz’s lately and for some very good reasons.  Most though, have not seriously considered it a viable option for storing their primary data…for some very good reasons: lack of good file system support, latency, lack of features etc…

Zetta, recently out of stealth mode, looks to change that in a big way.  With a suite of enterprise-class features (snapshots, replication etc), industry-standard interfaces (CIFS, NFS etc..)  and guranteed data security, privacy and performance guarantees, their offering is going where none have gone before.  They leverage that on top of the already-known advantages of cloud storage:

  • No hardware/software to purchase and manage
  • True “Pay-As-You-Grow” Model
  • Unlimited, On-Demand Scalability

Made up of industry veterans and well-funded, Zetta is poised to become a household name in this rapidly growing market segment.

Contact us for more info.

Our Zetta Mini-Site

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