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New Secure Access Appliances Offer Best-In-Class Performance, Scalability and Redundancy; Enabling High-Performance Businesses to Maximize Remote Access - April 12, 2008
Fort Lauderdale Florida -- Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced the next generation of its industry leading Secure Access (SA) SSL VPN platforms–the SA 2500, 4500 and 6500 appliances. The new Secure Access appliances provide enterprises and service providers with best-in-class performance, scalability and redundancy to ensure fast, reliable and secure remote access to applications and services for even the most complex and demanding secure environments.
Today's high-performance businesses are required to provide anytime, anywhere access to mission-critical applications in order to maintain business productivity and ensure operational continuity. IT organizations are under continuous pressure to provision uninterrupted instant access across an increasingly distributed environment securely and cost-effectively. Juniper's next generation of Secure Access SSL VPN appliances enable high-performance businesses to deliver anytime, anywhere access of corporate resources and applications to their remote and mobile employees, customers, and partners. They offer investment protection by providing a single platform to handle remote access to web applications, terminal services, client/server applications, and for the rising use of mobile devices. They also dynamically grant access to various types of traffic depending on each user's role and as a result, deliver tremendous flexibility and granularity.
"Providing reliable anytime, anywhere secure access to our remote users is critical to our success," said Mark Starry, manager of IT infrastructure and security at Concord Hospital. "Juniper's feature-rich, scalable Secure Access SSL VPN appliances will enable us to address our remote access needs with confidence as our business evolves and grows. We consider Juniper Networks to be a strategic vendor to meet our business goals."
Greater Real-World Performance and Ease of Ordering Experience
Unlike other vendors, Juniper has a proven track record in delivering the most innovative and extensive feature set on its SSL VPN platforms, as measured by real-world performance testing. The SA 6500 features one of the industry's most advanced high availability and flexibility options for the most complex and demanding secure enterprise and service provider environments. Based on real-world testing, the SA 6500 delivers double the capacity of the previous Secure Access generation with support for up to 30,000 concurrent users on a single four-unit cluster. The Secure Access platforms also support a wide array of mobile devices and cross-platform support, including devices running Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS and Linux.
Juniper has also taken steps to ease the ordering experience for customers and partners. Juniper is reducing the number of licensing SKUs associated with these new models to simplify ordering and configuring Secure Access appliances. Juniper has achieved this by integrating certain licenses that previously were optional into the baseline license. With this more efficient licensing scheme, a customer or partner will need to order less SKUs to configure a Secure Access appliance and as a result, spend less time during the ordering phase.
The scalable security platforms use SSL, the universal security protocol found in all standard Web browsers. SSL effectively eliminated the historic requirement for client-software deployments, doing away with changes to internal servers and costly ongoing client maintenance and desktop support. The SA 2500, 4500 and 6500 provide extensive end-to-end layered security and include endpoint client, device, data and server layered security controls. These advanced features provide interoperability with diverse endpoint security solutions from third-party vendors that conform to the Trusted Network Connect (TNC) standard.
"Juniper remains the industry's preferred choice for secure remote access in high-performance networks because we continue to deliver new advances in enterprise-wide access control that align with the evolving requirements of our enterprises and service provider customers," said Sanjay Beri, vice president, Access Solutions, Juniper Networks. "Our next generation of Secure Access SSL VPN appliances offers unmatched levels of flexibility and scalability that enable organizations to lower costs and maximize business productivity and continuity."
The Juniper Networks Secure Access appliances, which have earned numerous industry accolades in the SSL VPN market since its first products shipped in 2001, represent the market's leading SSL VPN product line. Enterprises and service providers worldwide have selected the Juniper Networks SSL VPN to help them increase efficiency and productivity. Juniper Networks also continues to be the only SSL VPN provider to have completed the most, independent security audits–supporting its goal to deliver secure networking solutions. The SSL VPN appliances have passed rigorous security audits by Information Security Partners, LLC (iSEC Partners) and Cybertrust®, Inc.
Pricing and Availability
The Juniper Networks SA 2500, 4500 and 6500 appliances are available today through Juniper Networks and its global network of reseller partners. The list price for the new appliances start at US $4,995 with 10 concurrent users for the SA 2500, US $16,895 with 50 concurrent users for the SA 4500, and US $43,995 with 100 concurrent users for the SA 6500.
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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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Network Firewall Award Goes to Juniper - April 6, 2008
St. Petersburg Florida -- In-depth, high-performing network security products remain crucial to combat the ever-evolving threats to information technology coming in from branch offices and VPNs alike. Firewalls are a definite part of this defense and are often the heart of an overall secure enterprise network. vs. Secure Computing, Cisco, Barracuda
On top of protecting against denial of service (DoS) attacks, viruses, worms and Trojans (and combinations thereof), a good firewall cannot compromise the network's functions. Even a very powerful firewall will do little if network latency becomes unbearable or slows down business processes. Gartner Magic Quadrant winner
In today's network security landscape, network management, high bandwidth, and advanced applications (such as unified communications) all factor into the security product decision-making process. Modern networks need security products with ease of management and flexible controls on top of superior intrusion prevention and unified threat management (UTM) capabilities.
One product that fulfills these requirements is the Integrated Security Gateways (ISG) series from Juniper Networks. For the second year in a row, the ISG series has earned a gold medal in SearchNetworking.com's Product Leadership Awards.
Juniper has successfully created an all-in-one multi-gigabit firewall, VPN, and intrusion detection/prevention system that network administrators can manage easily. The fourth-generation, ASIC-based firewall uses GigaScreen3 to map programmable, high-speed microprocessors that support new protocols through software updates. According to Juniper, "No other security solution has the ability to accelerate security processing through software updates."
Product Leadership survey results found that more than 97% of respondents rated the series' ability to block intrusions, attacks and unauthorized network traffic good or excellent. No user said that the firewall protection was less than fair. The application-layer, protocol and HTTP controls received a combined good and excellent rating of 93%, while its ease of management and maintenance was rated good or excellent by 84% of respondents.
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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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The Best Web Application Accelerator unit is the Juniper Networks DX - April 6, 2008
Transparent acceleration, protection, and encryption make this pricey load balancer worth the money
Jacksonville Florida -- The days of the proprietary client are waning fast, as more and more enterprise applications become Web-enabled or entirely Web-based. Critical applications from e-mail to CRM to custom internal apps are all running on either internal or external Web sites, and they need both quick response times and fault tolerance. vs. Cisco. That's where load balancers come in. Adding redundancy and scalability to Web applications, load balancers create a cluster of Web servers, over which they distribute incoming requests, sending new requests to the server with the least load at any given moment. If a Web server goes offline, the other servers in the cluster take up the slack. Geographic load balancers create clusters at different physical locations so that applications will still be available even if an entire datacenter loses connectivity. vs Barracuda or Websense Citrix
The Juniper DX3680 goes well beyond the relatively simple task of creating clusters of Web servers – it can accelerate Web applications with several methods, including by compressing the HTTP sent between the Web server and the client, caching static parts of the Web page, and offloading SSL processing from the Web server. It will also optimize the network traffic so that the viewing of a Web page, which might normally take 100 back-and-forth messages between the Web server and client, can be accomplished with only a few messages.
In addition, the DX3680 shields applications running on Web servers from Internet-based attacks, preventing hackers from issuing unauthorized commands or taking advantage of known bugs in the Web server software, and it can handle user authentication via RADIUS or LDAP. Look for us in the Gartner Magic Quadrant
Cluster call
Juniper Bucking the trend of cramming load balancers with switches and as many as 20 Ethernet ports, Juniper decks out the DX3680 with a total of 4 ports, which should be enough in most cases – one in and one out is all a load balancer really needs. Initial setup of the system is straightforward, via serial terminal, though it’d be nice to see a default IP address allowing for initial configuration via browser.
Once the basic networking information is set, you can begin creating virtual clusters, as well as rules for how each cluster will be used. There are three types of clusters: a basic cluster, a forwarder, or a redirector.
A basic cluster defaults to high security and allows only basic HTTP functions – anything more has to be explicitly allowed through a rule. The DX3680 has predefined rules for a number of standard Web applications, including Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) and SharePoint, PeopleSoft, and IBM/Lotus Domino. Most of the rules have to be applied at the command line rather than through the Web GUI. If you want to create your own rules, there are examples to work with, but it's not a simple process – be prepared to test and debug your new rules. This is equally true with similar load balancer products, such as F5’s application rules.
For non-HTTP traffic, a forwarder simply passes all traffic to the server cluster without processing it or accelerating the outgoing traffic. A redirector takes traffic addressed to a given address and sends it to a different one, without processing it at all.
A basic load balancing cluster can be set up quickly and easily. Adding functions such as encryption, server application protection, "sticky" sessions for e-commerce or other stateful transactions, and acceleration of Web traffic will make the cluster as complex as you like.
Balancing acts
To test this system, I set up a standard Web site and simulated lots of clients accessing the site. The DX3680 should be able to handle large amounts of traffic without problems; in my testing, I had to use artificially small requests to generate any load on the system, but with normal requests, the system can handle more users than the network connection will support. (As for the DX3680's basic stats, it handles up to 256 HTTP proxy clusters; 1,024 server load balancing clusters; 64 servers per application cluster; 7,300 SSL transactions per second; 80,000 concurrent SSL connections; and 1.1 million concurrent SLB connections.)
Characterizing acceleration is more difficult – the amount of noticeable acceleration a user sees will vary greatly, depending on the type of application, how many users are on the system, which browser the user has, and many other factors. I tested response times for several types of Web transactions, including OWA, the serving of static pages, and a basic Java application, and found that applications were 30 to 400 percent faster than without the load balancer in place. One process that is simplified is converting a Web site from HTTP to HTTPS. Instead of rewriting all of the code on the site, the DX3680 handles the conversion automatically, and it takes care of the SSL processing, too.
The standard ruleset available when the DX3680 box is initially configured is called the Nitro.apprule. This set of rules protects against common attacks, causes clients to cache images, enables active acceleration of Web pages, and more. It's a simple starting point for getting acceleration working without having to do any programming.
The DX3680 can offload quite a bit of processing to reduce the load on the Web servers. In addition to SSL processing, it will cache images and other static content – even JavaScript so that requests from browsers are served by the DX3680 rather than by the Web servers in the cluster. This is intended to reduce loads on the servers, but it may increase performance for end-users as well.
Logging and reporting functionality is broad and deep, covering all aspects of cluster operations, and offers up as much detail as you want. The system provides detailed logs for all the clusters it serves (it pushes them to a central log server), including real-time performance logging for every user connection, if desired. The reporting tools provide a wealth of information, and I found them well organized and easy to follow.
Additional features include quality of service, which can be specified separately for each cluster, and ActiveN clustering that makes adding more DX systems a simple process. vs Radware
Pricey, but worth it
The Juniper DX3680 is not a system that someone would buy for simple load balancing. With a price as tested of $70,485 and a base price of $49,995, there are many less expensive load balancers out there that will create clusters of Web servers.
However, the system's sophisticated rules engine and acceleration features, as well as its ability to provide authentication, to protect Web servers and application servers, and to transparently add SSL encryption to a Web site without redoing code, will not be found on inexpensive load balancers. The DX3680 should allow even a small company to provide enterprise-class Web applications without a big investment in recoding.
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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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Is Quantum blasting pass Data Domain in Data De-dup Market? - April 4, 2008
De-duplication eliminate redundant data to improve space and power efficiencies for really green storage
Miami Florida NetApp Inc. on Tuesday announced that the de-dupe adoption rate among its customers has tripled since November 2007, reaching more than 3,500 systems and 100 petabytes (PB) of raw storage capacity.
The storage vendor claimed that more than 1,000 customers have deployed de-dup across all tiers of data, including primary, backup and archival data. Companies like Data Domain Quantum Sepaton vs Falcon Stor Exagrid are not growing close to this.
De-duplication technology, which plays an important role in virtualized environments, is quickly gaining traction among customers who are struggling with data proliferation. Look for EMC Diligent and IBM to join in.
Now customers can eliminate redundant data quickly to improve space and power efficiencies, as well as to reduce the amount of raw storage required. Unlike other Disk to disk or D2D technologies.
NetApp claimed that it is the only major storage and data management vendor to embed de-duplication technology across its entire line of storage systems and to provide an end-to-end solution. Magic Quadrant by Gartner and Awarding winning no doubt. So why LTO-4 tape?
Brian McCarthy President of Sencilo Solutions and Storage Veteran of 25 years said there is a definite trend in the market today toward virtualizing storage environments.
"De-duplication is just one example. Organizations are embracing de-duplication because of the efficiencies it provides their organizations [and] significantly reducing the amount of physical capacity that must be purchased and managed," she said.
Dexma Inc., a company that creates and hosts mortgage-lending software for financial institutions, has used de-duplication to expand its data storage management capabilities.
By combining NetApp and VMware Inc. offerings, the company has created a virtual environment that enhances storage provisioning and increases its ability to more easily scale its storage system to meet its data management needs.
Since the installation of NetApp deduplication in September 2007, Dexma has recovered much of its previously utilized disk space.
This has freed up crucial disk space to be used by other applications, according to the David Waterhouse, the company's senior systems administrator.
"We were able to decrease our storage requirements for our customer file retention by 35%," Waterhouse said. "This has had a direct effect on our bottom line."
De-duplication, which is free of charge to customers as an inherent feature in all NetApp storage systems, will also be free when it is extended to NetApp's virtual tape library (VTL) offering later this year.
The de-duplication option for NearStore VTL will dramatically reduce the cost of storing backups on disk by providing effective storage capacities that are greater than today's systems, according to the vendor.
Patrick Rogers, NetApp vice president of solutions marketing, said de-duplication has become a core element of his company's storage offerings as more customers grapple with growing amounts of data.
While the technology helps customers control growth, Rogers said it's apparent that customers are rethinking their traditional data-backup approaches as VTL becomes more prevalent.
He said recent hardware and software updates introduced in March have more than doubled the maximum usable storage capacity of NearStore VTL and increased write-compressed performance by up to 20%, enabling enterprise customers to protect more data in less time.
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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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Quantum Wins Another Major Account vs. Data Domain in the De-Dupe Race - April 2, 2008
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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.
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Juniper Networks launches Next Generation High-Performance Ethernet Switches - April 2, 2008
Orlando Florida March 31, 2008 -- Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced the immediate availability of the EX-series Ethernet switches. Launched recently at the company's Global Enterprise Event in New York City, Juniper's EX 3200 and EX 4200 switches are available today, and the EX 8200 series remains on schedule for availability in the second half of 2008. vs MARS
"Juniper is now shipping the first members of a new family of high-performance Ethernet switches running on JUNOS software, our customer-proven single-source network operating system," said Hitesh Sheth, executive vice president and general manager of the Ethernet Platforms Business Group at Juniper Networks. "The EX 3200 and 4200 switches deliver operational simplicity and reliability to accelerate the deployment of applications and services across the extended enterprise to advance the economics of networking." vs HP Procurve
"Juniper has proven to be a strategic partner that is more interested in solving our problems and creating a solution than simply selling us a box," said Frank Ziegler, vice president of communications at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. "The Juniper Networks EX-series is the fastest switch we've ever tested in our lab, and the solution gives us the opportunity to deliver consistency throughout our infrastructure, from the access layer, through the data center and out to the enterprise edge. Juniper's EX-series switches will also enable us to deliver an extensive layer of access control to perform defense-in-depth." This will no doublt be awarding winning and in the Magic Quadrant for switches
Juniper's EX 3200 series: Fixed-Configuration Platforms
The EX 3200 series switches are fixed-configuration Ethernet platforms offering a simple, cost-effective, standalone solution for low-density regional and corporate office deployments. Installed in wiring closets to provide network access, the 24- and 48-port EX 3200 switches offer simple plug-and-play 10/100/1000BASE-T connectivity to meet today's converged network requirements. Full and partial Power over Ethernet (PoE) options are available for supporting IP-enabled devices such as telephones, security cameras and wireless LAN (WLAN) access points in converged network environments. Optional four-port GbE and two-port 10GbE uplink modules with pluggable optics are also available for supporting high-speed connections to other switches or upstream devices such as routers. A field-replaceable power supply and fan tray lowers mean time to repair. Brocade or SMC and F5
Juniper's EX 4200 series: Virtual ChassisTM Technology
The EX 4200 series Ethernet switches with Virtual Chassis technology combine the reliability, scalability, and ease of management of modular systems with the economics and flexibility of stackable platforms, delivering a high-performance, scalable solution for data center, corporate and regional office environments. Like the EX 3200 switches, EX 4200 series switches offer 24- and 48-port 10/100/1000BASE-T configurations with full and partial PoE and optional GbE and 10GbE uplink modules, plus a 24-port fiber switch offering 100/1000BASE-X support. Using Virtual Chassis technology, up to 10 EX 4200 series switches can be interconnected over a 128 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) backplane, creating a single virtual switch supporting up to 480 10/100/1000BASE-T ports and up to 40 GbE or 20 10GbE uplink ports. All EX 4200 series switches include HA features such as redundant, hot-swappable internal power supplies and field-replaceable, multi-blower fan trays to help deliver maximum uptime.
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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, 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.
FUJIFILM Launches World's First Datatape Tracker with SC-Integrity's LoJack InTransit(TM) Monitoring Network - March 28, 2008
Orlando Florida (BUSINESS WIRE)--FUJIFILM Recording Media today announced the immediate availability of the Fujifilm Tape Tracker™, a first-of-its-kind wireless tool to help data managers increase security of data by tracking in real-time the location and status of sensitive removable media cartridges while in transit.
Fujifilm is partnering with SC-Integrity (SCI), the world's most comprehensive covert cargo monitoring, recovery and loss prevention service to provide real-time monitoring and notification for the Tape Tracker using the Fujifind™ interactive web application. Based in Bothell, Wash., SCI entered into an agreement in 2006 with the LoJack Corporation to add the power of the LoJack® brand to SCI’s well-known theft prevention, investigation, tracking and recovery solution for the global cargo security market. Fujifind is based on SCI’s powerful LoJack InTransit™ software platform and provides simple management of multiple Tape Trackers.
“The tremendous feedback we received from customers when we introduced this concept last year made clear – there is a significant desire to maintain visibility and control over removable media during shipment from one location to another,” said Daniel Greenberg, New Product Manager, Marketing, Fujifilm Recording Media. “The ability of tape to store large quantities of data in a cost effective, energy efficient, removable format make it a preferred medium to backup and archive critical business data. The Tape Tracker gives power back to the data managers to maintain a chain of custody for these assets as they move between data center backup, vault or disaster recovery destinations.”
This is no doubt a service required with what appears to be daily lost tapes reported in the media, usually starting off with "Iron Mountain again lost a batch of tapes off a truck today".
Unique Product, Established Network
The Fujifilm Tape Tracker (patents pending) is designed within a half-inch tape cartridge format, enabling it to fit snugly and discreetly inside nearly any tape media case. The Fujifind application uses the information, tracking, geo-fencing and notification capability of the LoJack InTransit monitoring solution that currently provide corporations and government the ability to track and monitor high value cargo, audit driver activities, and conduct surveillance operations to ensure that their valuable assets are protected, worldwide.
LoJack InTransit uses the largest Law Enforcement Protocol and Dispatch Network in the cargo security business and the SCI Communications Command Center can dispatch appropriate authorities direct to the data tape location to ensure recovery, facilitate resolutions and prevent future losses.
“Data assets are well-protected in the data center and within a vault or duplicate operations center – but there has been no way to maintain continual chain of custody in real time. Now, with Tape Tracker combined with the LoJack InTransit, there is an effective solution,” said Robert Furtado, CEO, SC-Integrity. “If left unmonitored, back up, disaster recovery and archive data assets can become the Achilles heel to any business or an industry – particularly if the data is sensitive.”
Key features of the Fujifilm Tape Tracker system include:
- Discreet tracking cartridges that resemble other tape media in transit
- Fujifind web application for geo-mapping location with satellite imagery and online mapping created and supported directly by SCI
- Geo fencing capability, perimeter entry/exit notifications, in transit route discrepancy alerts
- Evidentiary reporting for continuous incident resolution and security protocol improvements
- User-defined activity and chain of custody history reports
- 24/7 expert staffed monitoring center, service and support
The Fujifilm Tape Tracker will be available through Fujifilm resellers in the United States at an MSRP of $150 per month.
About FUJIFILM
FUJIFILM Recording Media is the US-based manufacturing, marketing and sales operations of professional broadcast video and data tape recording media for FUJIFILM Corporation. Based on a history of thin-film engineering and magnetic particle science such as Fujifilm NANOCUBIC technology, Fujifilm creates breakthrough products for partners and end users.
Fujifilm is a leader in supplying the IT industry with advanced storage media including LTO Ultrium and enterprise-class data tape featuring the lowest cost per GB for mass storage applications while requiring very low power. Fujifilm provides broadcast and data center customers and industry partners with a wide range of unique data center accessories, value-added services and programs.
About Supply Chain Integrity (SCI)
Based near Seattle, Washington, SCI is committed to providing its community of members with the industry’s most comprehensive covert cargo theft detection, recovery, loss prevention and shared intelligence analysis service. At the core of SCI’s services is the federally-sanctioned Supply Chain Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC), a secure and trusted information-sharing community for members to share incident information and actionable intelligence needed to protect the supply chain infrastructure. SCI services also include LoJack InTransit™, the world’s most comprehensive covert cargo monitoring, recovery and loss prevention service, and SC Investigate™, a powerful investigative sharing and management system with global intelligence-sharing capability.
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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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Juniper unveils Security Threat Response Manager (STRM) solution - March 27, 2008
Miami Florida - Juniper Networks Inc., a provider of networking solutions, announced Monday the availability of the Juniper Networks Security Threat Response Manager (STRM) solution. The comprehensive STRM solution provides IT administrators with a centralized, scalable and effective way to efficiently and effectively log and manage the evolving threat landscape and adhere to compliance mandates.
With the continuous pressure to increase network visibility, respond to threats and measure effectiveness and security posture in their network, businesses need a cost effective, comprehensive solution to manage the evolving threat landscape and help sustain regulatory compliance. The Juniper Networks STRM solution advances the fundamentals and economics of networking by simplifying security operations, monitoring and securing enterprise networks from external and internal threats.
Juniper offers network infrastructure that creates an environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network, which helps to fuel high-performance businesses vs Cisco MARS.
"In today's market there are too many segmented network and security management products that don't enable businesses to extract all of the value from their current infrastructure," said Andrew Mapp, CTO and noted Security Expert at Sencilo Solutions, a Juniper Networks J-Partner. "Juniper's STRM provides enhanced network security efficiency through the delivery of a single network security management solution that enables customers to maximize the efficiency of their network and better secure their business-critical assets." Look for this product to be part of Gartner's Magic Quadrent in the security space.
"High-performance businesses require an easy-to-deploy and easy-to-manage solution that converges security and network operations to deliver real-time surveillance and detection of today's more complex IT-based threats," said Oliver Tavakoli, vice president of Network Management, Juniper Networks. "Juniper's STRM solution intelligently monitors and secures multi-vendor networks by providing a comprehensive security and compliance "safety net" from external and internal threats."
The Juniper Networks STRM solution offers customers compliance management, log management and threat management to monitor and secure their network. The STRM solution delivers embedded intelligence to detect complex insider abuse and external threats with integrated behavior analysis. With unparalleled real-time surveillance, IT administrators have the advanced visibility to easily and quickly detect existing and emerging threats and pinpoint application policy violations.
The STRM solution helps prevent network and security event overload by collecting, archiving and searching events and logs from networked devices to provide integrated management of network and application flow data. The STRM solution also delivers the accountability, transparency and measurability that are critical to the success of any IT security program tasked with meeting regulatory mandates.
The Juniper Networks STRM500 and the STRM2500 are currently available. The Juniper Networks STRM5000 is scheduled to be available in the second half of this year. The list price for the STRM500 starts at US $15,000 and the list price for the STRM2500 starts at US $37,000.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/security-threat-management.php
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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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Symantec NetBackup Updates v6.5 and adds VMware Support - March 23, 2008
Orlando Florida - NetBackup 6.5 incorporates native disk-based backup, data dedupe features, as well as heterogeneous snapshot and continuous data protection (CDP) functionality. The latter feature enables the software to provide centralized management of consolidated snapshots taken from storage arrays of vendors including EMC Corp., IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co., NetApp and Hitachi Data Systems, a subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., according to officials of Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec.
Later this year, the product will add block-level CDP capability offering point-in-time snapshots that can be journaled and replayed to NetBackup to speed up data backup operations, officials said. A NetBackup client on the primary storage array will replicate to the CDP server hosting and managing snapshots to enable data to be kept on cheaper storage.
NetBackup 6.5 is equipped with a new storage area network (SAN) client that lets storage administrators perform SAN backup to a disk pool. Further, the upgraded backup tool can be married to Symantec's PureDisk de-duplication technology to minimize unnecessary file duplication and wasted storage space, Symantec officials noted.
Symantec is providing NetBackup with four new enterprise disk options to augment how the company's flagship product manages storage disks, the company said. The Virtual Tape and OpenStorage Disk Options focus on intelligent backup appliances, while the Flexible Disk and PureDisk Storage Options focus on commodity storage disk pools.
By building deeper NetBackup integration with third-party backup appliances, end-users can augment existing virtual tape library deployments by managing third-party devices as disks. A new API has also been added to NetBackup for simplified plug-in, vs. Commvault or EMC Legato Networker.
Kevin Donnellan, assistant CIO for Screen Actors Guild - Producers Pension & Health Plan in Burbank, Calif., said he is looking forward to implementing the upgraded version of the tool to help corral nightly 3TB to 5TB storage backups and 10TB to 12TB backed up on weekends.
In just four years, the company's storage has grown from 1TB to 30TB on two SANs, he noted.
Donnellan said his current configuration of dual backups - one in-house and another at an off-site storage company - could use some more firepower in the form of disk-to-disk capabilities, which he expects to receive from NetBackup v.6.5.
"As many organizations do, we have a finite backup window every night, and even on weekends," he said. "We're looking at disk-to-disk to offload processing quickly onto another set of storage, so if we do run into production window with our backups we don't run into [hampered] response times with our users." Donnellan said the testing of the new NetBackup software registered 10x to 15x performance improvements via disk-to-disk backups over SAN.
"In 6.0," he added, "we have only one backup policy we can put together at one time so all our servers have to live under the same policy. [NetBackup] 6.5 allows multiple backup policies so you can rank the importance of your backups as opposed to a timestamp which is very good for us."
Donnellan's organization serves as the pension and health insurance arm for motion picture television and commercial actors, providing medical benefits, vision, and pension benefits for SAG members who meet the retirement criteria. The insurer runs HP9000 servers running Microsoft Windows 2003, Red Hat Linux and HP-UX. The company uses Symantec tools for managed security services and NetBackup to back up core application data.
NetBackup 6.5 also includes links to EMC Corp.'s VMware Consolidated Backup to offload backups from the primary VMware server onto a secondary backup server. The upgraded product enables single-image level backups to provide either full-image or granular file-level recovery, said Symantec officials. However, for smaller VMware environments, end-users must use Symantec's PureDisk offering in a virtual machine and replace the NetBackup client.
The entire NetBackup platform features capacity-based and per-TB pricing options.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/storage-software.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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Why is Data Domain losing marketshare to EMC, Quantum and Exagrid at a alarming rate? - March 23, 2008
Miami Florida - The number one primary storage company EMC Corp. and the number one LTO DLT manufacture Quantum Corp. are ganging up on start-up Data Domain Inc. with an OEM deal for EMC to sell Quantum's deduplication software on its virtual tape libraries (VTL).
Quantum disclosed in a January Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that it signed a deal with a major OEM to license its data deduplication and replication software. The industry buzz said EMC was the partner, although EMC already uses FalconStor software for its EMC Disk Library VTL and acquired data deduplication software startup Avamar Technologies in 2006. Now sources confirm the partnership to SearchStorage.com and expect EMC to soon make public that it has licensed Quantum's dedupication technology for its Disk Library product. EMC looked at purchasing Data Domain back in 2006 and passed on both technology and company as a whole, says Brian McCarthy President and former reseller of Data Domain. With Data Domain's now dated technology, Sencilo is now promoting higher performance VLTs like Exagrid, Diligent, EMC and Quantum.
Financial analyst Tom Curlin of RBC Capital Markets wrote in a note to clients that EMC is already selling the deduplication product and will officially launch it soon. "We suspect this is a move by EMC to compete more effectively versus vs. Data Domain," Curlin wrote. "And while contacts believe they have chosen a technically inferior solution, we suspect EMC sales and marketing muscle will at least be able to disrupt some of Data Domain's muscle. Notably absent from EMC's deduplication plans is the FalconStor offering, despite EMC already having a relationship with them for their virtual tape offering." Another source familiar with the deal, who did not want to speak for attribution, said EMC will continue to use FalconStor software on its VTLs, but it decided not to use FalconStor for deduplication because FalconStor refused to offer EMC the product exclusively. EMC did not want to sell the same deduplication as FalconStor's other partners, which include EMC rivals IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc., the Orlando Florida source said. He added that EMC did not use the Avamar technology for its VTL because it did not scale effectively enough to be cost-effective. EMC sells Avamar deduplication in a separate backup appliance and as part of its NetWorker data protection application. When asked about the Quantum deal, an EMC spokesman said, "We don't comment on any speculation," but added, "Let's just say our relationship with FalconStor is still strong." Mike Sparks, Quantum's product manager for enterprise disk systems, said he couldn't comment on who the partner is or when the product would be released. "That partner has its own strategies and products to work out, and it wouldn't be proper to comment," he said. The EMC-Quantum deal will put the most pressure on Data Domain, which has built its backup product around deduplication from the start and is considered the market leader, but quickly losing market share. Data Domain reported a 151% year-over-year increase in its revenues last quarter, hitting $44.9 million last quarter following an IPO earlier in the year. Data Domain executives said their company competes successfully against VTLs from EMC and Quantum. Sencilo's President Brian McCarthy says, "it's easy to increase sales when there is limited competitors, now that they have competition my guess is slower growth, lead by deep discounting. McCarthy goes on to say, "Data Domain has been going direct and cheating the channel, this will turn on them".Data Domain CEO Frank Slootman today predicted his company would be able to hold off the EMC-Quantum pairing because its products were designed specifically to perform deduplication. "The big difference is, we built this thing from the ground up to do what it does," he said. "Everybody else is coming from different legacy technologies and bolting on a dedupe feature. EMC usually tries to compete against us with Avamar or its disk library. If you look at our growth, they haven't been able to lay a finger on us." McCarthy when asked stated "CEO's like Mr. Shootman don’t see the writing on the wall, until it’s too late."Quantum began selling deduplication appliances in late 2006 with technology originally developed by Rocksoft. Quantum acquired the technology when it bought its tape vendor rival Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC) in 2006, just weeks after ADIC acquired Rocksoft. For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/storage-area-network.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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