July 2008 Entries
Primary Storage Data Compression is now a Reality - July 26, 2008
Orlando Florida -- Storewiz, Inc. is the only provider of online data compression solutions that dramatically boost storage space on network storage environments. Storewiz appliances are installed between the organization’s storage arrays and their network. Designed to work with any storage array it is connected to, the Storewiz appliance typically provides organizations with 2-5X additional capacity with associated savings in capital, operational, maintenance and management resources. Storewiz solutions have been successfully tested for interoperability with leading storage vendors such as EMC and NetApp.
Storewiz Inc., the only provider of innovative online storage compression solutions, introduces its STN-6000™ product line – a set of third-generation data compression appliances built around a new multi-core compression architecture that features state-of-the-art processors, more efficient algorithms, an improved compression ratio, a robust architecture for all future developments and other enhancements that enable the most data-intensive enterprises to maximize their growing network infrastructure at a fraction of their current cost. Designed for enterprise implementations, the new appliances are designed to provide impressive compression rates without affecting the performance of applications connected to the network.
The STN-6000 line is launching with two products targeted at companies with a wide range of applications: • STN-6300 is ideally suited for departmental/remote office, distributed applications and archival/ compliance. The STN-6300 delivers the availability, reliability and efficiency organizations require while reducing the time and equipment costs typically associated with data management. • STN-6500 is ideally suited to handle the demanding performance and scalability requirements of enterprise business and technical applications. By eliminating the need for network reconfiguration, the STN-6500 provides superior flexibility to quickly respond to evolving business needs.
“Without question, Storewiz is leading the way for this critical new market of primary storage capacity optimization,” said Brad O'Neill, Senior Analyst with Taneja Group. “Storewiz is demonstrating to enterprise IT that optimizing application data in real-time with advanced compression software is a very high-value function. Not only can it reduce primary storage costs and improve storage utilization, it also plays a key role in improving storage performance as well. Akin to how de-duplication approaches have optimized backup and archiving in the enterprise, primary storage optimization software will also soon become a defacto fixture in enterprise data centers. I believe Storewiz is in an excellent position to drive this new category's growth.”
Storewiz continues its lead in data compression technology by developing a new, patent-pending engine that leverages a powerful multi-core hardware platform that results in wire speed compression. This technology enables existing infrastructures to store on average three times more data than is available today with no performance degradation. Built upon the success of the company’s STN-5000™, the STN-6000 is a plug-and-play solution that easily adds on to storage systems while remaining completely transparent to users, applications, databases, storage and network environments.
According to Brian McCarthy, President of Sencilo solutions, “Our customers know about data growth firsthand, since they are challenged with the on-going expenses involved in adding primary storage systems and the related man hours in its management. It’s not difficult for them to quickly realize the benefits of a data compression appliance, and the ease in which it is installed and managed.”
STN-6000 features include: • An improved data compression ratio of on average 10 percent greater than previously offered with the STN-5000
• A robust architecture designed to support future storage-related developments and applications
• Management enhancements built into the system’s high-availability design that ensure continued access to data and help eliminate costly downtime
• An enhanced read cache algorithm that improves system response times by reducing the number of physical I/O requests that are read from storage
• Improved maintainability in order to allow monitoring and ease of maintenance
“No other vendor has even approached the sophisticated abilities of our first generation of data compression appliances and yet here we are launching our third,” said Gal Naor, Storewiz CEO. “Our unique approach to real-time compression through the offloading and centralization of data in a powerful and dedicated appliance such as our STN-6000, provides users with an unbeatable business solution that enables them to maximize current and future storage investments while safeguarding their business-critical information with no performance degradation.”
The Storewiz STN-6000 requires no workflow changes, no software agents, no drivers and no configuration changes. It supports both file- and block-level data compression for all tiers of storage and applications, including OLTP databases. By compressing data at rest, Storewiz lets organizations retain fast access to files and databases while saving capital, operation and maintenance costs – without altering vendor storage functionality. And with no resident file system, Storewiz appliances are interchangeable with no loss of data.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/data-compression.php
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Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, Data Domain, EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, HDS, IBM, Commvault, Xiotech and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, storage virtualization installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral Green Simpana Offerings Projects: BC DR planning Replication De-Dup De-Dupe iSCSI SAN NAS VMware Security EMC NetApp HP IBM Quantum Compliance VTL Data Domain vs Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Backup Exc Pure Disk NetBackup Networker TSM Commvault BakBone D2D D2D2T compare cloud data deduplication thin provisioning DXi Global Compression DDX virtual tape library Data Reduction SEPATON FALCON compare Celerra CLARiiON Equallogic Dell NS20 NS40 CX4 CX3-20 CX3-40 CX3-80 FAS2050 FAS3050 Xiotech Nexsan Avamar DLD3 1500 D3 Storwiz storage compression data Ocarina Networks A-SIS compare Sepaton infopro BlueArc OnStor Microsoft Unified Storage data protection StorageX Brocade FAQ SSD Solid state disk SANmelody FalconStor tier zero Xiotech ISE nx4 ax4 greenBytes ZFS Sun Top 10 ROBOBak managed services hosting cloud grid Datacore Compellent compellant equallogic lefthand networks don't buy storage stop buying storage itguardian cherub networks Arkeia Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts
Magic Quadrant Leader -- Quantum DXi 7500 Now Shipping - July 21, 2008
Orlando Florida -- Quantum Corp. is rolling out it's third generation DXi7500 data deduplication system to give it a smaller entry point and to make it easier to manage in the wake of increased competition in the data deduplication market.
The DXi7500 is the flagship of Quantum's data deduplication family, and it finally hit the market in June – 11 months after Quantum announced it. Quantum today rolled out a management application called Quantum Vision and a DXi7500 configuration that starts at 9 TB of usable data. The DXi7500 previously started at 18 TB. The high-end remainsat 180 usable TB data (240 TB raw data).
The major feature of the DXi7500 enterprise disk backup platform is it gives customers a choice to dedupe data inline (while writing to disk) or post process (after writing to disk). Quantum refers to the methods as adaptive (inline) and deferred (post process). Its smaller data deduplication appliances, the DXi3500 and DXi5500, only perform post-process deduplication and competing deduplication products support one or the other deduplication method. "No other vendor offers this technology and was the key reason we stopped marketing the Data Domain DDX series, along with their low performance and lack of expandation," says Brian McCarthy President of Sencilo Solutions. Up until late last year Sencilo was one of Data Domain's largest resellers, says McCarthy.
Quantum recommends adaptive deduplication to back up small offices, virtual servers and mailboxes, and deferred deduplication to back up applications with large amounts of new data or large OLAP databases.
Today's upgrades come as Quantum tries to carve a place for itself in a crowded data deduplication market. When Quantum rolled out the DXi3500 and DXi5500 in early 2007, Data Domain was the only major dedupe target competition. Now, EMC, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, FalconStor, Sun, Hitachi Data Systems, Sepaton, Copan, Exagrid, Overland and NEC all have data deduplication backup products through their own IP or partnerships. NetApp offers dedupe as part of its operating system for primary data, and industry sources say it is close to bringing out deduplication for its virtual tape library (VTL) products.
Quantum even competes with its own data dedupe code because EMC licenses it to run on EMC disk libraries.
"There's more competition and the stakes are higher now," said analyst Brian Garrett, Enterprise Strategy Group. "Quantum's been at it for a while, and they've learned a lot of lessons."
Quantum hasn't had much success with its data deduplication products yet, and the management interface received complaints from customers. But the Vision console includes GUIs showing performance and capacity trends, historic and current dedupe ratios, replication status, and monitoring and usage reports for arrays and tape libraries, network switches and backup applications. Along with the DXi devices, Vision shows information on Quantum's tape and nondedupe disk systems on the same console.
"We haven't had a single tool that lets you see multiple systems," said Steven Whitner, Quantum's product marketing manager for disk systems.
Vision is the more interesting of today's releases, Garrett said. "Their trending stuff is really rich. Just showing dedupe rates over time is a key value. That's conspicuously absent from dedupe products," he said. "They do a good job of reporting on how it's going right now, but what about last week at this time? How much am I saving over time?"
As for the smaller DXi7500, Whitner pointed out the DXi5500 maxes out at 11 TB of usable data and there was a gap between that and the previous smallest DXi7500. "This is a way of keeping the whole product line smoothly scalable," he said.
Pricing for the 9 TB DXi7500 begins at $95,000 for NAS and data deduplication licenses, and Quantum Vision starts at $7,500 for a two-system license. This is half the price of a similiar Data Domain DD595/
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/storage-data-deduplication.php
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Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, Data Domain, EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, HDS, IBM, Commvault, Xiotech and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, storage virtualization installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral Green Simpana Offerings Projects: BC DR planning Replication De-Dup De-Dupe iSCSI SAN NAS VMware Security EMC NetApp HP IBM Quantum Compliance VTL Data Domain vs Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Backup Exc Pure Disk NetBackup Networker TSM Commvault BakBone D2D D2D2T compare cloud data deduplication thin provisioning DXi Global Compression DDX virtual tape library Data Reduction SEPATON FALCON compare Celerra CLARiiON Equallogic Dell NS20 NS40 CX4 CX3-20 CX3-40 CX3-80 FAS2050 FAS3050 Xiotech Nexsan Avamar DLD3 1500 D3 Storwiz storage compression data Ocarina Networks A-SIS compare Sepaton infopro BlueArc OnStor Microsoft Unified Storage data protection StorageX Brocade FAQ SSD Solid state disk SANmelody FalconStor tier zero Xiotech ISE nx4 ax4 greenBytes ZFS Sun Top 10 ROBOBak managed services hosting cloud grid Datacore Compellent compellant equallogic lefthand networks don't buy storage stop buying storage itguardian cherub networks Arkeia Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts
Cost Cutting Tips and Tricks for DR Plans - July 18, 2008
Orlando Florida -- In these days of extremely tight budgets and ever-increasing energy and transportation costs, who would waste money? You have to look at your spending from various angles to see where you may have wasted dollars. For example, refusing to spend money on technologies that can reduce your disaster recovery (DR) deployment and testing costs actually wastes money. This is the first of the top DR budget wasters discussed in this tip.
Not virtualizing your data center: Virtualization can save you money in DR maintenance and testing. "I have talked to many customers who have leveraged virtualization to build DR solutions, even with applications that are not readily consolidated. In other words, they have implemented a 1:1 consolidation ratio just to gain the benefits of virtualization's mobility to simplify DR," says Brian McCarthy President and Enterprise class VMware Consultant in Lake Mary Florida.
Consolidated virtual infrastructures can save even more money. Let's look at a real life example from a CIO of a medium sized business I spoke with. Like many companies diving into virtualization, they had virtualized the bulk of their applications and services in order to gain the benefits of consolidation. The CIO had not thought that he would see any additional savings and was very pleasantly surprised to see a dramatic reduction in DR testing time and personnel.
Before they virtualized, their DR tests (performed twice a year) would take three to five days to complete with seven to 10 IT staff involved. After virtualizing, the testing time dropped to one to two days and used only two IT staff. How much money does this save? Assume that a fully burdened IT engineer costs $175,000 per year and works 260 days per year. Best case savings for this company (10 staff for five days twice a year down to two staff for one day twice a year) is $64,616 per year and that does not include opportunity costs -- the work that was not being done by the extra IT staff that was busy performing the DR testing tasks. To be fair, let's look at the worst case savings (seven staff for three days twice a year down to two staff for two days twice a year) that would still be a savings of $22,884 per year. Bottom line: Leverage virtualization to avoid wasting money on DR testing.
Not maintaining your DR plan: You have spent considerable time and money on your business continuity plan. You have the plan implemented, or so you think. You have performed an initial test or two. But business needs and tightening budgets drive you down the path of justifying putting off the next DR test until the current critical project is completed. By the time that project is mostly completed, the next critical project is looming over your head. Again, you delay your DR testing to focus on meeting the demands of the business. This vicious cycle continues and continues. Does this sound familiar?
I've seen this too many times, even in large mature IT organizations. Putting off your plan maintenance and testing means that you spent your initial DR investment in vain. You wasted all that money -- thousands to millions of dollars. Without ongoing testing and maintenance, history has proven time and time again that recovery is bound to fail, or at least take longer than expected as the staff wades through hundreds of small issues that would have been resolved through regular plan testing and maintenance. Bottom line: Maintaining and testing your plan is a critical project; without maintenance, any money spent on DR previously is mostly wasted.
Lack of CEO oversight and board involvement: I've heard too many stories where business continuity and DR is driven from the CIO and not the CEO. All of the companies that have experienced a disaster where the DR plan was driven by the CIO have had one thing in common: The IT department is up and running, but the rest of the business is broken and in a disaster state.
DR and business continuity are the safety nets for the health of the whole company, not just the IT department. DR planning, testing, and maintenance should be driven by the CEO and board of directors as a top priority. It represents protecting all corporate assets. When DR is not being driven by the CEO, all the money and time spent on DR by the CIO is in vain. It is wasted as the overall corporation remains in a non-functional state in the event of a disaster.
On the bright side, I talked to a CIO who had a CEO that drove DR across their company (a large distributor with five warehouses and a central data center). This CIO wasn't that excited about DR personally, but kept the plan going as a result of the CEO's continued vigilance. When Internet communications were cut to the central data center by an impatient back-hoe operator, the plan operated within parameters so that orders did get out by their deadlines. Some minor issues with the plan were discovered and repaired, and in the post mortem, it was determined that the plan worked. It had included the whole company, and it was the business units and employees that kept the business running while the data center was off-line. Bottom line: DR and business continuity are only effective if driven by the CEO and board of directors across the whole company. "Any money spent on DR for IT alone without DR for the rest of the company is wasted, says McCarthy.
Over protecting your environment: I have not seen this sin committed as often as the preceding mistakes, but I have seen it nonetheless. Executives tend to believe every service and component is critical and needs protecting at top levels -- especially at companies new to building business continuity plans. Handing them the bill for what they are asking usually brings a level of sanity back to the business unit head.
I have seen companies implement a recovery data center with site-to-site replication and hot, ready-to-go servers. They place all their services and applications into the hot site system regardless of system criticality. As a result, they protect systems at high costs that require much less aggressive protection at much lower costs (e.g., simple weekly tape backup stored off-site).
A detailed business analysis of each system can avoid such mistakes. Let's look at a slightly different example that can illustrate this point. I talked to the CIO of a large enterprise and he shared an interesting story. The sales division came to him asking for a customer account licensing tracking system for a very special class of customer. The company offered various levels of product licensing with the bulk of their millions of customers buying their standard product. The standard product license was already automated in an account tracking database system. This special class of customer license had some specific needs that could not be met by the general system.
The CIO put out RFPs and received proposals to retro-fit or add a completely new system with redundancy and protection for $2 to $3 million dollars. Then he asked the sales division how many customers are in this special case, and learned that it was currently about 400 customers. He then asked how fast that special licensing customer group was growing and what they expected it would be in three years. The answer, maybe ten percent in three years.
Armed with that business information, the CIO proceeded to purchase two locking steel file cabinets and hire two administrative assistants to manually track these customers. He arranged with the corporate records office to have copies of each customer record securely shipped to the corporate off-site archives for data protection and business continuity. The savings were between $1.5 and $2.5 million dollars. Bottom line: Look at the business aspects of what you are doing. Spending money on aggressive DR for all business processes may be wasting money.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/continuity-disaster.php
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Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage and security solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, Juniper Networks, Hitachi, Symantec, Barracuda Networks, and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral
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What Cisco isn't telling us about VoIP and data leakage - July 17, 2008
Orlando Florida -- Large software and infrastructure vendors have been pushing companies toward unified communications (UC), but many firms are viewing UC as another avenue for data leakage, according to a recent survey conducted by Black Diamond, Wash.-based Osterman Research Inc.
"Some firms are shopping for data leakage prevention tools as part of their unified communications projects. Many fear that sensitive company data could be difficult to control when email, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and instant messages meld with collaboration systems, multimedia services and transactional systems", says Brian McCarthy President and well-known Security Consultant for Sencilo solutions Lake Mary Florida.
Nearly 50% of respondents are concerned about information leak prevention in their current or planned unified communications implementations, and 23% of those view leak prevention as a top priority, according to an online survey of 109 mid-to-large IT organizations in North America, conducted last month by Osterman Research.
"The major vendors are really pushing that UC message, and I think companies are starting to respond and understand that UC is a good thing, but it creates even more opportunities for data leaks," said Michael Osterman, president and principal analyst at Osterman Research.
The survey was commissioned by Belmont, Calif.-based messaging security vendor FaceTime Communications Inc.
IT pros fear a number of threats posed by melding communications onto one common data network. An attacker can intercept VoIP, instant messaging (IM) and other traffic, or worse, they can conduct a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by using a VoIP protocol to flood systems with session requests. Others fear an increase in vishing, the VoIP-enabled form of phishing.
But the risk of those forms of attack is minimal, Osterman said. Insider threats from unintentional or accidental leaks pose a greater threat, he said, and the survey suggests that IT organizations are heeding that message. Forty-eight percent of respondents view unintentional or accidental leaks of information by employees as a serious concern, as compared with 31% who named data loss due to malicious software as a serious concern.
Osterman said he's still seeing companies willing to accept the risks involved with UC rather than being proactive by implementing technologies or sound security policies. For example, a consultant couldn't convince a company to implement an email archiving system. The firm decided to pay fines instead.
Companies need to begin with the basics and develop a multi-layer defense strategy, Osterman said. Companies can implement portions of a data leakage prevention system by focusing on the data governing rules outlined by their industry. For example, a merchant can implement a system that monitors all outbound email and IM for 16-digit character strings.
"We're starting to find organizations that are at least thinking about the issues, but there are a lot of companies that don't realize the negative ramifications of what they're doing," he said.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/security-compliance-management.php
Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in network storage and information security solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, RSA, Juniper Networks, Hitachi, Symantec, Barracuda Networks, and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland, Cape Canaveral, Lake Mary
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Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 has it all - July 9, 2008
Lake Mary, Florida -- Symantec Corp. has announced Symantec Backup Exec 12 for Windows Servers, delivering disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and fast, efficient recovery.
Backup Exec 12 introduces certified and optimized support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008, granular recovery of critical application data and extended platform protection. Backup Exec 12 now integrates with other Symantec solutions including the ThreatCon global security alerting system, Enterprise Vault to protect email archives and the new Symantec Protection Network for accessing offsite storage.
The software is logo-certified for Windows Server 2008.
Backup Exec 12 also introduces faster backup and restore of Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, Active Directory, and SharePoint environments as well as support for non-Microsoft environments.
“With each new Microsoft release, Symantec’s Backup Exec has helped us keep the critical flight information on our Microsoft servers and applications protected to ensure we can maintain a high level of service to our travelers,” said Barbara Hutchinson, executive director, Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport Authority. “Backup Exec 12 provides unmatched data protection and will enable us to recover important data from any system quickly and painlessly, reducing the time and resources spent managing backup and recovery jobs. Ensuring we have the latest version of Backup Exec is critical to helping us maximize the efficiency of our very small staff.”
With this software organizations are able to restore data to a point in time to help meet strict recovery point objectives. Backup Exec 12 rapidly restores data from a single pass backup with Granular Recovery Technology, which obviates the need to run mailbox backups to recover individual Exchange emails, and makes it easy to restore SharePoint, SharePoint Services, and Active Directory data — from documents to user attributes and properties.
Integration with Symantec Enterprise Vault provides backup and recovery for critical archives, while integration with Symantec Endpoint Protection delivers proactive backup in the event of an elevated Internet ThreatCon level.
Integration with Online Storage for Backup Exec, a Symantec Protection Network software as a service offering, provides secure web-based access to offsite storage maintained in Symantec data centers while Symantec’s complementary Backup Exec System Recovery solution offers complete Windows system recovery and advanced disaster recovery protection for Windows Server 2008 and other systems.
In addition, Backup Exec 12 extends protection to Macintosh systems as well as Lotus Domino servers and adds support for IBM N series devices and LTO-4 tape drives.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/data-compression.php
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Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, Data Domain, EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, HDS, IBM, Commvault, Xiotech and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, storage virtualization installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral Green Simpana Offerings Projects: BC DR planning Replication De-Dup De-Dupe iSCSI SAN NAS VMware Security EMC NetApp HP IBM Quantum Compliance VTL Data Domain vs Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Backup Exc Pure Disk NetBackup Networker TSM Commvault BakBone D2D D2D2T compare cloud data deduplication thin provisioning DXi Global Compression DDX virtual tape library Data Reduction SEPATON FALCON compare Celerra CLARiiON Equallogic Dell NS20 NS40 CX4 CX3-20 CX3-40 CX3-80 FAS2050 FAS3050 Xiotech Nexsan Avamar DLD3 1500 D3 Storwiz storage compression data Ocarina Networks A-SIS compare Sepaton infopro BlueArc OnStor Microsoft Unified Storage data protection StorageX Brocade FAQ SSD Solid state disk SANmelody FalconStor tier zero Xiotech ISE nx4 ax4 greenBytes ZFS Sun Top 10 ROBOBak managed services hosting cloud grid Datacore Compellent compellant equallogic lefthand networks don't buy storage stop buying storage itguardian cherub networks Arkeia Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts
Best Practices for Backing up Virtual Machines with De-dupe - July 9, 2008
Orlando Florida -- EMC Corporation , the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, announced new data de-duplication capabilities that reduce the time it takes to backup virtual machines by up to 90%. Helping to advance its next- generation backup and recovery product portfolio, EMC(R) Avamar(R) software version 3.7 now supports VMware(R) Consolidated Backup (VCB) for the protection and reduction of backup times within and across virtual machines. Additionally, EMC Avamar has expanded its support to include EMC NS Celerra(R) network attached storage (NAS) systems. These Avamar software enhancements coupled with EMC's other new backup and recovery capabilities announcements help form the foundation of a next-generation backup infrastructure.
EMC Avamar backup and recovery software transforms the entire data-protection process using unique global data de-duplication technology that eliminates the unnecessary transmission of redundant backup data that is sent over the network and saved to secondary storage. "This helps customers manage the enormous amount of data growth both in core data centers and at remote offices", says Brian McCarthy President and Storage Veteran of Sencilo Solutions a pioneer in backup using de-dupe technologies. By de-duplicating at the source and across sites and servers, customers can dramatically shrink the amount of time required for backups, network utilization, and the growth of secondary storage, says McCarthy.
VMware Consolidated Backup, a component of VMware Infrastructure 3, the third generation of the industry-leading infrastructure virtualization software suite, simplifies data protection by offloading backup to a centralized server. Offloading backup allows VMware ESX Server, which is also part of VMware Infrastructure 3, to run more virtual machines by reducing its load, and it eliminates hardware dependencies and enables backup to occur safely even during production hours.
With Avamar's new support of VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware customers have a simplified way of de-duplicating backup data stored in virtual machines, greatly reducing the amount of data backed up and minimizing the impact on host servers. In many cases, customers can significantly reduce the size of backup data for virtual machines, resulting in reduced backup times and storage. Legacy solutions have challenges keeping pace with VMware software, creating problems for daily and weekly data protection. By eliminating redundant, unnecessary workload and data, customers leveraging Avamar can keep pace with virtualization, both for VMware Consolidated Backup and guest-level backups. Todate Sencilo Solutions has deployed some two peta-bytes of de-dupe technology.
Brian Byun, Vice President of Global Partners and Solutions at VMware, said, "VMware delivers a new model for today's data center, and we're excited to have EMC's Avamar software integrated with VMware Consolidated Backup. Organizations continue to look at ways they can improve the efficiency of their backup environments - from the reduction of data moved, backup times and overhead on shared resources. As more customers deploy virtual machines using VMware products, Avamar's de-duplication capabilities enable customers to save time and money while helping their data to be protected."
Brad O'Neill, Analyst with the Taneja Group, said, "As VMware continues to permeate through organizations of all sizes, it creates a greater need for enhanced protection of data residing in virtual servers. EMC Avamar's new support for VMware Consolidated Backup puts EMC in a unique position that allows customers to drastically reduce the amount of data backed up in VMware environments. With this new support, customers can optimally drive their VMware deployments while taking their data protection environments to the next level."
Increased Support for EMC Hardware and Software, Operating Systems and Applications
Avamar also now provides backup support for EMC Celerra NAS systems. File system environments, by their nature, typically have multiple copies of identical files. As a result, this increasing amount of duplicate data places pressure on backup windows. Customers can now use Avamar de-duplication capabilities with Celerra systems, via NDMP backups, to address this challenge and accelerate the full backup of their file systems. In addition, EMC Backup Advisor software has added Avamar as a supported backup application providing advanced monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting capabilities for Avamar environments. These new capabilities provide visibility to Avamar backup job completion, as well as diagnostics to provide better analysis of failed backup jobs. Finally, Avamar has added new operating system and application support for HP-UX and Mac OS platforms as well as Oracle and IBM DB2 databases.
Mark Sorenson, EMC's Senior Vice President of Information Management Software, said, "Reducing the amount of backup data transferred and stored on secondary media helps alter the fundamental economics of disk versus tape as backup media, allowing companies to cost-effectively utilize disk at a cost that is equal to, or less than, tape. Our next generation backup solutions - like EMC Avamar solutions - are enabling customers to take advantage of that paradigm shift and enable disk to become the de facto medium for backup and recovery. With new game-changing technologies like de-duplicated backups for virtualized environments, EMC continues to raise the bar, helping customers store, protect, optimize and leverage their information infrastructure."
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Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage and security solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, Juniper Networks, Hitachi, Symantec, Barracuda Networks, and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral
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