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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
About Us
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
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
About Us
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."
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/data-compression.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
FAQs on Data De-dupe Technologies - June 29, 2008
Orlando Florida -- In the storage business, data deduplication is all the rage. Our customers are clamoring to cash in on the savings, but most don't yet understand how to properly apply the technology to their environment. Sencilo Solutions can help customers sort through the three basic approaches and extract real value from data deduplication quickly will earn the trust of clients and gain lasting business.
As you know, deduplication offers a number of improvements over traditional storage for backups. But with those benefits comes a confusing set of questions from customers, the key question being: How do we choose the best dedupe technology? In answering that question, it's important not to jump ahead to focus on specific products -- by first choosing product type, whether it be host-based, VTL-based or NAS-based, Sencilo Solutions can simplify the decision process our customers. Here's how they break down.
Host-based data deduplication
Host-based deduplication requires the backup client to do a lot of the dedupe work. In many cases, that's not a problem, especially when the client is not CPU-bound. Host-based dedupe really helps when backup bandwidth is constrained by small wide area network (WAN) pipes or consolidated virtual servers.
Host-based data deduplication solutions usually require us to replace traditional backup software with the dedupe backup software, so before we recommend such a change, make sure that the benefits are significant enough.
Brian McCarthy President of Sencilo Solutions of Lake Mary Florida a reseller that specializes in Backup and Archive products and services. "Remote office backups to the corporate site will benefit from Avamar's host-based deduplication because it eliminates most or all of the backup hardware located at the remote site and optimizes the network bandwidth required to centralize backups to corporate data centers", says McCarthy. VMware backups benefit from host-based deduplication by limiting the network bandwidth required to back up multiple guest machines concurrently.
Some of the examples of host-based data deduplication technology include EMC Avamar and Symantec NetBackup PureDisk. See - http://www.sencilo.com/storage-data-deduplication.php
Virtual tape library (VTL) data deduplication
Deduped virtual tape libraries (VTLs) work well when the backups are localized to the data center and/or bandwidth between the client and backup storage is not an issue. Naturally, many customers will want to take advantage of deduplication in their existing or planned virtual tape infrastructure. VTLs are already very common in midsized and large enterprises and consume a significant part of many companies' overall storage budget. Deduping at the VTL should be simple for customers because almost all backup software platforms support VTLs. In addition, deduped VTLs are a good fit for disaster recovery replication and when the customer wants to replace tape for primary backups. Given the increased efficiency and deduped VTL-to-VTL replication, there may finally be an opportunity to show real ROI for backup to disk instead of tape.
Examples of VTL dedupe technology include EMC DL3D, Sepaton S2100 and Quantum DXi Series.
Primary network-attached storage (NAS) data deduplication
VTLs introduce a lot of the same challenges that physical tape presents, such as tape contention, poor cartridge utilization and intolerance to high storage area network (SAN) latencies. In some cases, customers want the benefits of target hardware-based deduplication without the complexity and limitations of tape. In these cases, deduped NAS file systems may be the perfect remedy. Deduped NAS storage has some impressive cost advantages because it doesn't require SAN connections or VTL licensing in the backup software. In some cases, the deduped NAS storage can be used for more than just backups, such as highly duplicate archive data where throughput is less important than space savings.
Examples of NAS data deduplication technology include NetApp NearStore with Advanced Single Instance Store (ASIS), Data Domain's DD Series, EMC's DL1500 and Quantum DXi-series appliances.
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 CLARiiON CX now shipping with Solid-State Drives (SSD) - June 20, 2008
Orlando Florida -- EMC Corp. will add a new Clariion midrange storage array with solid-state drives (SSD) over the next few months, SearchStorage.com has learned. EMC began offering SSD in its enterprise Symmetrix systems earlier this year, and industry sources say that EMC will extend its support of SSD technology with the Clariion CX4-80, which is expected to be generally available in August. Brian McCarthy President and EMC Partner stated "tier 0 is long over do, and welcomes moving his client based to this new technology".
One source familiar with the SSD-supported Clariion arrays said the latest versions of Symmetrix and Clariion arrays share hardware components, including disk trays and outer skins. This makes it relatively simple for EMC to slot SSDs into the Clariion now that it's been done for Symmetrix.
EMC would neither confirm nor deny the rumors about the Clariion CX4-80, issuing a statement saying, "At EMC World, we spoke about the many benefits of flash technology, EMC's investment in testing and qualification, and that we would incorporate it into our product portfolio where it made the most sense. Beyond that, we are not going to be able to provide any specifics as to announcements, products or time frames."
Since EMC pledged in January to support SSDs in Symmetrix, other vendors, including Xiotech, FalconStor, Nimbus Data Systems, Hitachi Data Systems, NetApp and Sun, have also said they would support SSDs in enterprise storage arrays. That leaves Hewlett-Packard and IBM as the two major players who have yet to divulge their plans regarding SSDs in enterprise storage arrays. HP and IBM are still playing catch up on so many fronts, done look for SSD any time soon, stated McCarthy.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/
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
The Next Generation of Backup will include incremental backups and CDP for VMware - June 13, 2008
Orlando Florida -- Symantec Corp. boosted its support for VMware's products in two new incremental releases for NetBackup at Symantec Vision.
The updates to NetBackup come as part of two new "double-dot" releases, NetBackup 6.5.2, which is available immediately and NetBackup 6.5.3, which is expected later this summer. "We have a new release model for NetBackup," said Matt Kixmoeller, vice president of product management for Symantec. "We're looking to get innovations to market faster, rather than just having an enormous big-bang release every few years."
Support for incremental and parallel snapshots of VMware hosts through NetBackup's VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) integration are the main new features of the NetBackup 6.5.2 release, which also includes CDP and complete integration with PureDisk's data deduplication.
"On the large scale, the XenServer platform has some fundamental advantages," said Rob Soderberry, senior vice president for Symantec's storage and availability management group. "Our strategy is to create the best possible exploitation of the XenServer and VMware stack, and let customers and clients decide what they want to pursue."
Symantec is adding granular recovery technology into NetBackup. The feature was first incorporated into its product line with Backup Exec 11d, which allows unique object recovery from a single backup instead of through a secondary redundant backup that forced customers to use twice the space and time for backups if they wanted granular restores. Version 6.5.2 will make the feature available for Windows hosts, VMware hosts, and SharePoint Portal. Exchange integration will follow in NetBackup 6.5.3.
"Most snapshots, including Microsoft's VSS, don't allow you to get a file directly out without restoring the full snapshot," said analyst Lauren Whitehouse, Enterprise Strategy Group. "That feature puts Symantec a step above even Microsoft and other VCB integrations at this point."
NetBackup customer Eddy Navarro, a storage computer systems manager for J. Craig Venter Institute, said he's been waiting for the ability to schedule multiple concurrent snapshots of VMware hosts. "[In previous versions], NetBackup purposely set a cap on concurrent snapshots, meaning you could only schedule one at a time," Navarro said. This was done to avoid overwhelming environments that couldn't handle the load of parallel snapshots. "But, we have the infrastructure that can handle it," Navarro added.
Navarro said he's also looking forward to support for NDMP backups to disk in the new version. He wants that for his NetApp filers. While there might be ways to make the NAS backup standard dump directly to disk, Navarro wasn't familiar with them and wants all backups done through one portal. "I don't want to have to go back when I want to do a restore and say, now which way did I back this up?" he said.
New CDP, data deduplication integration
NetBackup 6.5.2 will also include the first integration with Symantec's CDP software acquired from Revivio in late 2006 and renamed RealTime 6.5.
NetBackup will be able to request snapshots from RealTime, but it will otherwise use a separate repository and interface until NetBackup 7.0 is released next year. While a new "NetBackup-like" interface on RealTime lays the groundwork for an integrated GUI, the repository will probably remain separate because Symantec expects users to deploy the "copy every write" software sparingly, according to Kixmoeller.
"The first generation of CDP struggled because there wasn't enough deep integration with applications," he said. With this re-release of Revivio's IP, NetBackup agents running on application servers will create pointers to quiesced snapshot copies in the CDP stream. The catalog of files and recovery screens will also be done in NetBackup.
Symantec has yet to integrate CDP with replication, another item on its roadmap since last year. "Symantec supports several replication products," said senior analyst Eric Burgener, Taneja Group. "Depending on how replication is linked into the CDP process, it can make it difficult to unlink it and use it with something else."
NetBackup 6.5.2 also completes an integration process between NetBackup and Symantec's PureDisk data deduplication software that has been ongoing since NetBackup 6.1. PureDisk agents can now perform data deduplication at the client, backup media server or target. Symantec is also supporting a stack of PureDisk, Veritas Cluster Server and Storage Foundation to create a grid architecture for post-process data deduplication on the target side.
While this stack of licenses could get confusing, the number of options Symantec is offering is more important, Whitehouse said. "It allows you to coordinate your backup strategy to your workload." "And, setting up various agents is a process you only do once."
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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.
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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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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
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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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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
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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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