May 2008 Entries
What Symantec's Enterprise Vault Division does NOT want you to know! - May 6, 2008
Lake Mary, Florida -- Barracuda Networks Inc., the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances, today launched the Barracuda Message Archiver 850 and 950 models for enterprises and large organizations searching for an affordable solution to preserve and index all emails. The Barracuda Message Archiver 850 and 950 models also help organizations to efficiently store and manage emails while satisfying regulatory compliance criteria for saving email.“One of the biggest challenges facing larger organizations today is the need to balance making sure that their email server continues to operate efficiently while also future proofing their network for compliance,” said Stephen Pao, vice president of product management for Barracuda Networks. “The Barracuda Message Archiver 850 and 950 enable enterprise customers to achieve legal and regulatory compliance needs while making more efficient use of storage technology by providing increased performance, reliability and scalability inside the IT organization.”
The Barracuda Message Archiver 850 can archive and index email for up to 4,000 users and the Barracuda Message Archiver 950 has enough processing power to handle 6,000 users. Both models include dual-redundant power supplies and hot-swappable RAID arrays. In addition to offering the full set of storage capabilities – including single instance storage and built-in storage and redundancy through internal or external mirroring – offered with all Barracuda Message Archiver models, the Barracuda Message Archiver 850 and 950 models also include a hardware-based iSCSI host based adapter for high-performance interaction with Storage Area Networks.
Reliable Search and Storage for Public Records Requests
As the second largest school district in Washington with more than 29,000 students spread across 54 schools, the Spokane Public School District in Spokane needed to ensure that it was equipped to quickly respond to email discovery requests. In Washington, all public organizations, including school districts, are subject to public records requests and various entities can request specific information, such as emails, related to district operations. Spokane Public Schools selected the Barracuda Message Archiver 850 to help manage and store the email of its more than 4,500 email users to fulfill these public records requests.
“Prior to installing the Barracuda Message Archiver 850 there was no centralized way to fulfill this type of request,” said Brown. “All employees would be asked to go through their own email inboxes and forward any emails related to the specific request to the IT staff for inclusion in a response to the requesting entity. This was a slow, time-consuming and ineffective process.”
As with the full Barracuda Message Archiver product line, the Barracuda Message Archiver 850 and 950 offer a complete set of message archiving features designed with both compliance and storage efficiency in mind. The Barracuda Message Archiver stores and indexes all email for easy search and retrieval by both regular users and third-party auditors and offers greater ease of use and administration, enabling deployment in less than 60 minutes.
“We were pleased that the Barracuda Message Archiver 850 not only was able to archive on a going forward basis but it also allowed us to automatically import in all messages already in our email system giving us access to information that had been up to that point difficult to retrieve,” said Brown. “In addition it is easy to maintain and we appreciate that updates and enhancements are made in a timely fashion.”
Pricing and Availability
The Barracuda Message Archiver 850 and 950 are currently available in the U.S. and priced at $29,999 and $44,999 respectively with no per user licensing fees. International pricing and availability varies by region.
About the Barracuda Message Archiver
The Barracuda Message Archiver is a complete and affordable email archiving solution, designed to effectively index and preserve all emails, achieve legal and regulatory compliance needs, and make more efficient use of storage technology inside the IT organization. Leveraging standard policies and seamless access to messages, email content is fully indexed and backed up to enable administrators, auditors and end users quick retrieval of any email message stored in an organization’s email archive. Delivered by Barracuda Central, Energize Updates provide automatic updates to its extensive library of virus and policy definitions for enhanced monitoring of compliance and corporate guidelines, document file format updates needed to decode content within email attachments and security updates for the underlying platform to remain free of potential security vulnerabilities.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/storage-protection.php
About Us
Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage, security and networking solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, NetApp, 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, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahassee, Cape Coral, and Pembroke Pines.
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De-Dup now with GRID Storage - May 6, 2008
ExaGrid Systems, Inc., the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with byte-level data de-duplication, recently announced the industry's first 30TB disk-based backup system with data de-duplication and a scalable GRID architecture. This product enhancement allows customers to store a 30TB full backup, plus weeks or months of retention, in a single GRID system. The expanded 30TB capacity will be available for both ExaGrid's EX series servers with internal storage, as well as the ExaGrid iSCSI Gateway for Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays.
In addition to expanded backup capacity, ExaGrid provides best-in-class backup performance by writing to disk at full disk speed (post-processing) and by adding complete servers in a GRID for system expansion, instead of just more disk capacity. This scalable GRID-based approach maintains fast backup performance even as data grows. ExaGrid is also uniquely fast for restore performance as it stores the most recent backup in its complete, non-de-duplicated form ready for rapid restoration or tape copies.
The latest version of the ExaGrid Disk-based Backup system includes the following important enhancements and customer benefits:
Scalable Virtualized GRID Architecture:
- Store a 30TB full backup, plus retention of backup history, in a single GRID system (up to six 5TB ExaGrid servers in a virtualized GRID system).
- Plug-and-play growth—new systems virtualize together automatically. No splitting data or losing de-duplication efficiency across separate systems.
- Fully configured ExaGrid installations are managed via a single Web UI, accessed with one login, unlike other solutions that require logging into and managing multiple separate devices.
- Performance scales with data growth since processing power and memory are added along with storage capacity.
- Automatic load balancing across all servers in the GRID.
- Multiple 30TB GRID systems can be installed for increased capacity.
Highest Performance for Shortest Backup Window and Fastest Data Restoration:
- Fastest backup performance due to post-process de-duplication. Write directly to disk without any processing on the fly to slow down backups. (Backup throughput: up to 4TB/hour).
- Fastest restore and tape copy performance with byte-level data de-duplication which keeps the most recent backup in its whole form, unlike other solutions which require re-assembly from small blocks and large hash tables. (Restore throughput: up to 2.6TB/hour).
Most Cost-Effective and Flexible Solution:
- Granular sizing options "right size" to specific customer backup data requirements, today and in the future.
- Five EX Series server configurations with internal storage hold full backups of 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB or 5TB, plus retention. Servers can be combined, with up to six servers in a single GRID (5TB EX Series servers x 6 = 30TB ExaGrid GRID system).
- No need to over buy storage capacity upfront. Systems can be easily combined in a virtualized GRID for larger capacities as needed.
Support for Leading Backup Applications
- CA ARCserve
- CommVault Galaxy
- Symantec Backup Exec
- Symantec NetBackup
- EMC Networker
- Microsoft SQL Dump
- VMware Backup (VMDK)
Energy and Rack Space Efficient Operation
- Customers can store many times more backup data in the same space for substantial savings in power, cooling and space requirements versus standard disk.
"We hear over and over again that completing ever larger backups in a short backup window is a primary customer concern," said Bill Andrews, president and CEO, ExaGrid Systems, Inc. "This latest product enhancement allows customers to achieve the shortest backup window possible with our post-processing data de-duplication, but also to maintain that short backup window as their data grows by leveraging our scalable GRID architecture. This approach also allows customers the flexibility to buy only what they need, when they need it, as additional servers can be added into the GRID at any time. The strength of our scalable GRID architecture is that you can grow the system as your data grows and performance does not degrade. Each server brings additional memory, processor and bandwidth resources, along with storage capacity."
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/storage-data-deduplication.php
About Us
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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RSA, the Security Division of EMC, Delivers Standards-Based Approach to Help Simplify Compliance - May 6, 2008
Orlando Florida -- RSA, The Security Division of EMC , today announced the findings of a new research paper that details the benefits organizations may gain -- including reduced costs and improved security -- by implementing a standards-based framework of security controls. The paper also details the ability of comprehensive security frameworks to help companies more easily comply with a variety of security requirements handed down by regulatory bodies, industry groups, partners, customers and internal policies.In addition, RSA announced new reports within the RSA enVision(R) security information and event management solution that are designed to enable organizations to more easily report on key aspects of the ISO 27002 standard -- a global code of practice for information security management which is useful in defining an effective set of best practice security controls as part of a compliance framework.
In March 2008, RSA commissioned Michael Rasmussen, industry analyst and President of Corporate Integrity, to undertake a research paper based on what it means to develop a "sustainable and cost-effective IT compliance program." The key findings of this project are that the typical approach to compliance -- responding on a regulation-by-regulation basis without an integrated IT compliance management program -- escalates costs, reduces visibility of the control environment overall, wastes resources, and leads to unnecessary complexity, inflexibility, vulnerability and exposure.
"A proactive approach to IT compliance allows organizations to look confidently to the future while also mitigating risk in the course of business," said Mr. Rasmussen. "An effective IT compliance program should be centered on a comprehensive framework, based on industry-wide standards -- such as ISO 27002."
Security Frameworks-Based Programs to Simplify IT Compliance
As organizations worldwide struggle to both comply with a plethora of compliance requirements and improve enterprise-wide security, a framework-based approach founded upon best practices and controls helps customers to build a proactive security program that may effectively break down the walls that often isolate organizational compliance silos. By driving compliance holistically, rather than on a requirement-by-requirement basis, companies may reduce costs by both avoiding redundant technology controls and easing the process of managing compliance. In addition, leveraging international standards such ISO 27002 as the foundation of an IT security and compliance program helps organizations align efforts to comply with key portions of many global regulations, including: the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley, the European Union's Data Protection requirements and regional data privacy laws.
"Our forward-thinking customers are using framework-based security and compliance programs to cost-effectively satisfy multiple requirements and manage information risk," said Steven Preston, Senior Director, Solutions Marketing at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. "This goal can be achieved through the application of a consistent, holistic set of repeatable, scalable, enterprise-wide controls, which are centered upon recognized IT security best practices."
RSA Solutions to Establish Security Frameworks for Simplified Compliance
RSA's portfolio of technology solutions offers key security controls that help organizations establish frameworks based upon global best practices and standards. Key controls delivered by RSA's solutions include:
New Reporting Capabilities Within the RSA enVision Platform for ISO 27002-based Security and Compliance Programs
The RSA enVision platform is designed to offer a comprehensive suite of out-of-the box reports, which help enable organizations to effectively monitor their ISO 27002-based security and compliance program. These reports are prepared to align directly with the ISO 27002 standard, and help enable organizations to effectively demonstrate compliance with critical areas of the specification. Reports within RSA enVision platform related to ISO 27002 focus on areas such as computer account logon activity, computer account status, control of collected evidence, control of human resources data, malicious software activity, password changes and expirations and source code access.
Information Security Services to support Framework-based Compliance Initiatives
In addition to delivering a broad range of security controls, various EMC information-centric security consulting services -- leveraging solutions from RSA -- help enable organizations to effectively enact framework-based compliance programs.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/security-web-application-controllers.php
About Us
Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage, security and networking solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, NetApp, 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, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahassee, Cape Coral, and Pembroke Pines.
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Nexsan going Public? Not a chance - May 6, 2008
Storage hardware and software vendor Nexsan Corp. is trying to raise $80.5 million in an initial public offering (IPO) after suffering through a decade of unprofitability.
"We have not been profitable in any fiscal period since we were formed," Nexsan stated in papers filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Nexsan was founded in 1999 and has recorded $21.9 million in net losses since July 2004.
Nexsan's decision to go public is surprising because the current market climate is "inhospitable," The 451 Group analysts Henry Baltazar and Brenon Daly wrote in a report issued May 1, a week after the IPO filing. Nexsan, a specialist in storage and digital archiving, is billing itself as a "green" storage vendor with systems offering high density and energy efficiency. (Compare storage products.)
Nexsan cautioned investors in its SEC filing that it faces stiff competition from Dell, EMC, IBM, Sun and several other big storage vendors.
"We have a history of losses, and we may not achieve profitability in the future," Nexsan wrote in the SEC filing. "We face intense competition from a number of established companies and expect competition to increase in the future, which could prevent us from increasing our revenue and end user base." Say one VAR from recent Storage Conference "only Stevie Wonder would buy their stock, besides the product is marginal at best."
Nexsan's product releases over the past year or so include an appliance for smaller organizations and branch offices that lets them archive and retrieve as many as 20 million documents and a joint venture with Reldata Inc. that combined their network-attached storage, iSCSI and Fibre Channel technologies.
Customers use Nexsan hardware and software to store and preserve e-mail, office documents, medical images, and digital video and audio files, The 451 Group noted. Long-term storage of fixed content is a big priority for Nexsan these days.
"[Nexsan] was a pioneer in the disk-to-disk backup space and helped lead the push toward the development of inexpensive storage systems leveraging high-capacity, low-cost disk drives," The 451 Group said. "More recently, Nexsan has moved deeper into digital archiving for unstructured data. Interestingly, it describes itself ... as a 'fixed content' specialist. Although this product line contributes less than 10% of revenue, the company is staking its future on the opportunity in this market."
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/storage-data-deduplication.php
About Us
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
Offerings Projects: 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
EMC has it's head in the Clouds - Cloud Storage that is! - May 6, 2008
Mozy, Inc., part of the Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division of EMC (NYSE:EMC), today announced the release of MozyHome for Mac, the industry's first unlimited online backup service for the Mac. Mac users in the home can now safely and cost-effectively back up all of their digital information over the Internet. With more than 700,000 total users worldwide and 6.2 billion files backed up, Mozy is the leading online backup service of choice for consumers and small businesses.
"Mozy is honoring its roots by augmenting its service to consumers and small businesses," said Vance Checketts, chief operating officer for Mozy. "We've had more than 43,000 individuals participate in our public beta and have devoted thousands of hours of development to this new MozyHome for Mac release."
Designed as a consumer service, MozyHome for Mac offers 2 gigabytes of online backup absolutely free with no expiration date, or $4.95 a month for unlimited online backup capacity. Mozy automatically protects all computer files including photos, music, videos and financial documents from data loss in the event of hard drive crash, accidental deletion, natural disaster or theft. All files are encrypted with 448-bit Blowfish encryption and the encrypted files are transferred via a 128-bit SSL connection the same encryption used for online banking during the backup process for extra security. After the initial backup, Mozy only backs up incremental changes to files and folders, meaning subsequent backups run extremely fast. In addition to the most recent backup, Mozy keeps 30 days worth of file versions as well. In the event of data loss, files may be recovered via the Mozy client software, downloaded from the Mozy website, or by ordering the files on a set of DVDs from Mozy.
"I had just completed my transition from Tiger to Leopard when my hard drive crashed," said Donald Malm, who participated in the MozyHome for Mac beta. "The restore of all my data from Mozy was completed without a single error. My Quicken data was exactly where I had left off the day before the crash. Never have I made a better purchasing decision since I started in the insurance and financial system design industry 52 years ago."
Later this summer, Mozy will release a business version of its Mac service to enhance its MozyPro and MozyEnterprise offerings. More than 20,000 business customers already trust Mozy to back up their data, and Mozy is currently backing up more than 7.5 petabytes, the equivalent to 7.8 million gigabytes, across multiple data centers. Businesses interested in an online backup service for the Mac can sign up to be notified at www.mozy.com/mac/probeta.
With the addition of the MozyHome for Mac service, EMC offers Mac users the industry's most robust backup and recovery options. Other data protection offerings for Mac users include EMC Retrospect for Macintosh and EMC LifeLine software.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/storage-protection.php
About Us
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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A study found that 64 percent of respondents said Access Controls is the top security concern - May 6, 2008
Despite increased awareness of access control issues, healthcare providers continue to struggle with security and compliance related to user access, according to the results of a survey conducted at the Health Information Management and Systems Society 2008 conference in February.
The survey, conducted by enterprise provisioning and access control software vendor Courion at the show Feb. 24-28, revealed that 64 percent of respondents cited controlling user access to clinical systems as their top IT security concern.
The survey, which was conducted among 136 pre-screened HIMSS attendee respondents, found that 60 percent reported issues with users sharing passwords, 52 percent found that orphaned user accounts were not properly disabled after employment was terminated and 38 percent of respondents said there had been instances of inappropriate access.
Todd Chambers, chief marketing officer at Courion, said that while many hospitals are taking a more strategic view of security and privacy issues related to access, these issues were complicated by the fact that many organizations were relying on remote work forces, as well as mobile and wireless technology, which made it difficult to secure a hospital's IT environment.
Chambers said outside contractors, nurses or physicians who weren't part of the permanent staff, as well as third-party vendors, all needed access to systems and information to do their jobs, but that access could create vulnerabilities if they affected a caregiver's ability to deliver patient care.
"These guys are worried about getting their job done and caring for patients," Chambers said. "A security or compliance requirement is going to be ignored in favor of getting that job done—especially if those requirements stand in the way—if it's easy for [caregivers] to bypass and if they're not enforced by hospitals.”
Access issues are a major concern not only because they can leave hospital systems vulnerable to viruses and hackers, but because of the need to meet HIPAA audit requirements that require knowledge of who is accessing specific systems at what time and whether that access is authorized.
Chambers said one surprising statistic showed that the threat of a HIPAA compliance audit was the strongest incentive for increasing security initiatives, with 60 percent of survey respondents saying that was a major driver of security and compliance decisions, and 75 percent of respondents reporting they were concerned or very concerned about facing a HIPAA audit. Chambers said that while HIPAA audits were performed in the past, they have become more frequent recently.
"Until recently, the idea of a HIPAA audit was not that threatening. But now more HIPAA audits are taking place in hospitals that may not have even had any violations, and as the government enforces HIPAA, they are being more punitive," said Brian Mccarthy Security Expect and Co-founder of Sencilo Solutions in Lake Mary, Florida.
Typically, hospitals perform internal audits to test for security and compliance, but these usually are time-consuming and often don't prevent a breach from happening, since they can only report what has already happened.
The survey included a cross-section of healthcare providers ranging from community hospitals to multi-hospital systems, and was developed to augment a focus group Courion conducts that gathers insight into security and compliance in the healthcare industry.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/security-web-application-controllers.php
About Us
Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage, security and networking solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, NetApp, 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, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahassee, Cape Coral, and Pembroke Pines.
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Data Storage profits are up? - May 6, 2008
Compellent joined other storage companies including EMC and Commvault in reporting a strong first quarter despite a down economy. The company’s revenues more than doubled year over year to $18.3 million, growth of 107% over the first quarter of 2007 and 9% over the previous quarter.
The company also is still a ways from profitability, and lost $1.2 million last quarter despite the increased revenue. CEO Phil Soran said on the company’s earnings call that this is because Compellent is growing and is adding operating expenditures such as salaries for new employees. Soran said he expects Compellent to be profitable by the second half of this year.
With the rest of the country in financial turmoil, how are storage companies staying strong? “Storage is the last thing that gets cut from the IT budget,” was Soran’s answer. I would also imagine it’s because storage has always been a conservative market–it doesn’t have as far to fall as some other markets.
Another thing benefitting Compellent, according to Soran, is the acquisition of midrange disk array competitor EqualLogic by Dell. It’s been well-publicized that EqualLogic channel partners have been wary of the deal, if not downright alienated by it, because of Dell’s poor reputation in the channel. Soran declined to give any specific numbers around how many channel partners have defected or how much new business it accounts for, but volunteered anecdotally that Compellent is seeing more large EqualLogic channel partners looking its way as a result of the Dell deal.
Still, Soran says the company has a ways to go when it comes to gaining that mind share. Echoing some of NetApp’s statements when it rebranded itself earlier this year, Soran said Compellent does well when companies look at its products but often doesn’t get brought to the table.
I also asked him whether or not Compellent is seeing significant business as a tier-2 disk array in large shops. He said yes, but also declined to break out any numbers.
Soran attributed Compellent’s growth to the attractiveness of its consolidation and thin provisioning features in a down economy, similar to the power and capacity savings that have reportedly kept money flowing in to Data Domain’s coffers. But Soran said Compellent’s chief competitor remains EMC, which doesn’t yet offer many of the features he was referring to–and EMC also reported a stronger-than-expected first quarter.
“They have a good brand,” Soran said.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/storage-protection.php
About Us
Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage, security and networking solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, NetApp, 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, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahassee, Cape Coral, and Pembroke Pines.
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Is Symantec up for sale? - May 6, 2008
John Thompson must have known the question was coming. The Symantec CEO certainly heard the rumors. So when he was asked Wednesday night during his company’s earnings conference call about selling off parts of his company, Thompson couldn’t have been clearer.
“Contrary to popular rumor, we have no plans to divest of anything,” he said. “None.”
The rumors mainly involved the storage products that Symantec acquired from Veritas three years ago. And they were widely circulated. According to an Associated Press earnings preview story that ran this week:
Analysts are particularly interested in the possible sales of backup and recovery software product NetBackup and the company’s non-Windows Data Center Foundation, which comprises of storage and server management products.
Several technology bellwethers, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard and EMC have been named as potential buyers for Symantec’s storage products, including NetBackup. One executive from HP who did not wish to be known is quoted as saying "he has meet with John (Thompson) and it's all but signed."
AP could have added two other bellwethers who have been mentioned as suitors of all or some of the Symantec storage products - Oracle and Microsoft.
From the tone of Thompson’s voice when he answered the question, he’s not happy with the rumors. Yet Symantec is at least partially to blame. There have been frequent reorganizations since it bought Veritas, usually accompanied by layoffs. Symantec admitted a large layoff in April but would not give details. This left the door open for scared Symantec employees, disgruntled former employees and opportunistic competitors to attempt to fill in the details. And Symantec execs have talked about getting rid of poor performing units on previous earnings calls.
But Wednesday’s call was upbeat. Symantec reported outstanding results all around, and storage was front and center. Email archiving, backup, and storage management were among the product segments that posted double-digit year over year growth. Thompson and COO Enrique Salem talked of a bright future for Net Backup 6.5, Backup Exec 12, and Storage Foundation. They emphasized Symantec’s encryption and virtualization capabilities and gushed about three hot storage areas where Symantec has hardly been a pioneer: data deduplication, continuous data protection and software as a service (SaaS).
Symantec’s earnings were impressive in current economic conditions, although with 53 percent of its revenue from international sales, it took advantage of favorable foreign exchange rates against the dollar. Symantec gained share from its major rival EMC on the backup front, with 11 percent year-over-year growth compared to EMC’s 8 percent growth.
The question now is whether the strong storage performance will prompt Symante execs to forget about spinning off any pieces, or will it only add to the value of a possible sale? Thompson’s take is nothing is for sale. Despite what you might have heard.
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It's not will Sun get out of the Storage Market, but when? - May 6, 2008
When Sun revealed its open source storage push this week, some in the industry wondered about its business model. In other words, how can Sun make money on open source storage products?
Then Sun reported its earnings Thursday night, and it became clear that its storage business isn’t exactly rolling in dough these days anyway.
Sun’s storage products generated $530 million in revenue last quarter, down 5.4 percent from a year ago and $100 million short of its target. Big-ticket items such as tape libraries and high-end disk systems were down in a quarter in which EMC and IBM reported increases. Server revenue also fell short by $100 million, making it a disastrous period for the new combined servers and storage unit.
Overall, Sun lost $34 million in the quarter compared to a profit of $67 million the year before. On the earnings call, Sun execs said they would be restructuring to the tune of 1,500 to 2,500 layoffs.
Can open source save this sinking ship? Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz seems to think so, and he certainly hopes so. Open source was a common theme of his earnings call, with open storage getting its share of attention with statements such as: “We have a great variety of new Open Storage innovations [entering] the market within the next few quarters.”
Schwartz didn’t talk too much about how Sun will make money on open storage, except to emphasize how it would save money on R&D by having a common open platform for all of its servers and storage systems. Layoffs are expected to save Sun between $100 million and $150 million a year, although it’s not clear how much of the reduction will be in storage. Sun continues to the the butt for most jokes remarked a Sun reseller at SNW.
It remains to be seen what the quality of open storage products will be, but Sun has little to lose. It’s tried a lot of things over the years to jumpstart storage sales, including paying $4.1billion for tape library market leader StorageTek. Nothing has worked. Sun OEMs systems from Hitachi Data System, LSI and Dot Hill and usually has less success than other vendors who sell the same systems. For a while Sun planned its storage future around the 6920 midrange system, which it billed as a virtualization product and an EMC Clariion killer. Customers yawned, and Sun sold the technology to HDS last year.
Now its storage plans revolve around a large DAS system called Thumper and open source software. Considering its track record, things can’t really get much worse, can they?
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Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage, security and networking solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, NetApp, Juniper Networks, Hitachi, Symantec, Barracuda Networks, and HP. It's 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, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahassee, Cape Coral, and Pembroke Pines.
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Security for Exchange: Best Practices - May 6, 2008
Email is essential for business communication, but it wasn't designed with security or regulatory compliance in mind. As spammers and hackers continue to attack the world's email infrastructure, organizations face a daunting security challenge - trying to protect their email systems from a relentless barrage of spam, denial-of-service and other inbound attacks, losing sensitive data through accidental leakage, and maintaining regulatory compliance.
Tumbleweed MailGate provides a suite of comprehensive, high-performance email security solutions that simply and effectively protect you from the full spectrum of email security threats and risks. Through MailGate you can:
Implement effective email security.
MailGate secures inbound and outbound email traffic, and stops virus outbreaks, spam, botnet attacks, image-spam, worms, directory harvest, and denial-of-service attacks. MailGate ensures that email traffic and message contents flow reliably and securely.
Accidental data leak prevention.
With the most comprehensive suite of email security, content filtering that prevents accidental data leakage, and intelligent routing capabilities, MailGate simplifies compliance with industry and government regulations such as HIPAA, GLBA, Sarbanes-Oxley, CA-1386, as well as with your organization’s internal security and privacy policies.
Protect private information.
MailGate’s industry-leading email encryption technology not only blocks malicious traffic, but provides secure communication as well. MailGate delivers automatic gateway-to-gateway strong encryption for any remote domain through policy-basedTLS encryption. Also, with Secure Messenger, messages can be routed based on message content or the identity of senders and receivers through many encryption options, including remote certificate error checking and validation, S/MIME and PGP protocols, and patented secure Web-based delivery.
Reduce infrastructure and management costs. MailGate eliminates costly threats, such as spam, directory harvest and denial-of-service attacks, which all too often force organizations to buy too much infrastructure for the very traffic they don’t want. MailGate can reduce your raw email load by more than 80 percent, dramatically cut infrastructure overhead and administrative costs, and improve network throughput.
Centralized control for inbound and outbound email security
Inbound and outbound email security are interrelated and require common management, threat protection, content protection, and reporting. Unlike other products that rely on third-party solutions for encryption and antispam technology, Tumbleweed delivers best-of-breed, integrated email security solutions that are powerful, comprehensive, and easy to manage.
MailGate: Comprehensive email security built on a high-performance, highly secure Linux platform that installs in minutes and can process close to two million messages an hour. Flexible and easy to manage, MailGate provides intelligent network-edge defenses, antispam, antivirus, zero-hour virus outbreak protection, accidental data leakage protection through content filtering, policy management, gateway-to-gateway encryption, automated reporting, and a state-of-the-art, centralized management console.
Secure Messenger: A policy-based, secure message delivery product that dynamically applies user-defined email encryption and routing policies. Includes the industry's widest range of email encryption options including TLS, S-MIME, PGP, and patented Web-based message delivery.
Desktop Messenger: A secure, practical, and easy-to-use solution for sending encrypted email from the desktop to any recipient. Unlike other products that are difficult to manage, or require pre-installation for recipients, Desktop Messenger eliminates the hassle of PKI, and allows delivery to any new or external recipient via Secure Messenger.
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Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage, security and networking solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, NetApp, 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, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahassee, Cape Coral, and Pembroke Pines.
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