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Secure data destruction for old backup tapes, disks, CD / DVDs and floppies - September 8, 2009
Orlando Florida -- Much of the emphasis in the data backup world revolves around recovering data, but what about data you want to destroy rather than recover? You don't want to just dump tape cartridges or disk in the trash. That's not green, and it may cause legal problems if the media contains personal information such as social security numbers. But there are environmentally friendly options for destroying backup media, whether it's tape or disk. There are also software programs that will overwrite data, and there is degaussing, which exposes the media to a powerful magnetic field and wipes out all of the data. Another option is to send your tapes to a company that offers tape destruction services.
According to a June 2009 research report by the Enterprise Strategy Group called "Protecting Confidential Data Revisited," 53% of large enterprises surveyed used "brute-force" methods, such as physically destroying their disk drives and tapes. Other enterprises used data destruction software (35%) and homegrown tools and processes (25%). But whatever method they chose, 82% of respondents said they have formal policies and procedures in place for data destruction of storage media.
Green data destruction
Russ Fellows, senior analyst with the Evaluator Group, considers destroying data with a degausser the greenest method for data destruction.
"However, multiple passes may be required in order to completely erase data," Fellows wrote in an email to SearchDataBackup. "The least efficient, but most secure way is to write random data over the tapes with multiple passes [similar to disk erasure], then degauss the tapes, followed by shredding or burning. Thus, the tradeoff is between efficiency and security."
But, he added, "For most companies, degaussing followed by shredding is secure and fairly efficient."
Kevin Beaver, founder and principal information security consultant of Principle Logic LLC, advises, "Outside of physical destruction, degaussing is a very reliable means for erasing backup tapes. The problem with basic degaussing is that there's not a 'yes' or 'no' confirmation that the destruction has indeed taken place. So, ideally, both degaussing combined with physical destruction would be best to ensure nothing's going to be recovered."
Outsourcing data destruction
Companies including Cintas Document Management, Iron Mountain Inc., Kroll Ontrack, and Sun Microsystems offer tape destruction services.
"Service costs vary widely, but typically involve billing for time, on-site visit, media handling, etc.," Fellows said. "Costs also vary depending upon the level of destruction. Services can include data overwrite to DOD standards, bulk data erasure with a degausser and may optionally include physical destruction of media via shredding."
But is outsourcing data destruction really secure?
"It's as safe and as reliable as the humans and technologies involved in the process," Beaver said. "So, there's no way to know for sure. That said, by and large, outsourcing data destruction to reputable companies is safe. If anything, you've transferred the risk to a third party -- at least to an extent -- something management and legal counsel like to do."
However, he added, "If something still goes awry [a lost tape, failed destruction and subsequent recovery, etc., the odds are good that you're still going to be on the hook and receiving end of a compliance penalty or lawsuit."
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Top reasons not to buy storage - archive, de-dupe, primary storage compression, thin provisioning and more - June 8, 2009
Orlando Florida -- Revenue from sales of storage systems is plummeting thanks to the economic downturn, even as the total amount of storage capacity sold continues to boom.
That's the key message from analyst firm IDC, which Friday released its Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker report for the first quarter of 2009.
Disk storage systems revenue totaled $5.6 billion in the first quarter of 2009, down 18.2 percent compared to the same quarter of 2008, according to IDC.
This drop happened despite an increase in the amount of storage capacity sold during the quarter of 14.8 percent over last year to reach 2,146 petabytes, IDC said.
The huge drop in revenue despite the fast rise in total capacity sold comes as a result of a lot of discounting going on in the storage market, said Elizabeth Conner, research analyst at IDC.
"The economy is not good," Conner said. "But people still need storage. So instead of midrange storage products, customers are stepping down to smaller, entry-level products. Or instead of data center-class storage, customers are stepping down to the midrange."
Vendors are also cutting prices, probably more aggressively than in the past, Conner said.
IDC tracks storage sales according to price bands based on the average configuration, and is seeing a lot of business move from the $500,000-plus price band into the $300,000 to $500,000 range.
"We saw growth in the $300,000 to $500,000 band which we didn't expect," she said. "Vendors are still selling those higher-end systems, but taking a big price cut to get them sold."
Conner also said that vendors are setting themselves up for trouble later if they try to raise prices as the economy recovers.
"I definitely feel vendors will see some resistance if they try to go back later and sell the storage at $500,000 instead of $300,000 without major improvements in the technology," she said. Storage veteran Brian McCarthy CEO of Sencilo solutions in Lake Mary Florida has been saying for over a year, "stop buying storage". There is so much new technology that compresses primary storage up to 10:1, that you could put off new purchases for the next decade.
The fastest-growing part of the storage business is the under-$50,000 range, Conner said. Sales of that type of storage, typically seen in small offices, home businesses and remote offices, is growing not only because those types of customers are seeing growth, but because midrange and enterprise customers are also buying it. "The features are more and more the same as higher-priced storage," she said.
As a result, large tier-one storage vendors are seeing more of their sales move away from their higher-priced products and towards their lesser-priced product lines, Conner said. And smaller vendors are also seeing a good uptick in sales.
"Some of the smaller companies are focusing more on such features as iSCSI or energy efficiency, which means customers might be better able to get exactly the storage they need at a lower cost from such vendors," she said. Big companies are using more iSCSI then ever before. Sencilo solutions was one of the first to introduce Microsoft's UDDS 2003 based on iSCSI and has sold some two peta-bytes over the past five years.
IDC breaks storage revenue into two broad classes. The first is total disk storage systems revenue, which encompasses all storage sold including storage internal to servers. The second is total external disk storage systems revenue, which includes storage arrays and other appliances.
Both classes only count the factory revenue, but not an OEM's sales of other vendors' products. For instance, a Dell (NSDQ:Dell) Clariion manufactured by EMC (NYSE:EMC) but sold by Dell would be counted in EMC's total.
HP (NYSE:HPQ) was the leading vendor, with storage revenue of $975 million, down 25.8 percent compared to last year.
It was followed by EMC at No. 2 with revenue of $871 million, down 16.0 percent for the quarter; IBM at $811 million, down 21.7 percent; Dell at $660 million, down 17.2 percent; Hitachi at $410 million, down 8.5 percent; and NetApp at $373 million, down 13.5 percent.
Total worldwide external disk storage systems revenue was $4.2 billion during the first quarter of 2009, down 13.6 percent compared to the same period of 2008.
EMC retained its traditional lead with revenue of $871 million for the first quarter of 2009, down 16.0 percent compared to the same quarter of 2008.
It was followed by HP at No. 2 with storage revenue of $482 million, down 19.6 percent; IBM at $476 million, down 15.0 percent; Dell at $410 million, down 8.8 percent; Hitachi at $394 million, down 9.1 percent; and NetApp at $373 million, down 13.5 percent.
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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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Top 10 Reasons to Archive Your Data - May 9, 2009
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1. Electronic Discovery.
Recent changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure made it clear that any information stored in a visual format can be called upon in court, including emails, attachments, and calendar files. Archiving captures file and message content, attachment information, and all metadata for faster, more accurate search results. Many archiving products leverage advanced e-discovery features, such as searching by full text key word and key phrase, word proximity, file size, format, data, sender, recipients, and more.
2. Compliance.
Industry as well as federal regulations, like Sarbanes-Oxley, require companies to preserve electronic business records in a secure but easily accessible manner. Real-time, or journal, archiving ensures that companies capture every piece of information before employees can delete it. Archived information is secure behind corporate firewalls from outside parties, while intensive access control features restrict employees’ ability to access and manipulate archived data. Retrieving data from an archive is a matter of defining search terms and hitting the ‘search’ button, then waiting a few seconds.
3. Reducing storage.
While the cost of storing data is decreasing, the price of managing data is growing, causing many organizations to reconsider their current storage methods. The first step toward better storage management that archiving provides is a centralized repository. An archive with in-process compression and de-duplication reduces storage volumes, while automated policy application significantly reduces time spent managing storage.
4. Getting back hours of productivity from employees.
Employees generally spend more than an hour every week managing their inbox and historical files. Automated archiving gives employees back time that they can spend on current projects, instead of worrying about retaining old records. IT administrators will quickly get used to having an extra few hours a week to spend on other projects.
5. Streamlining records management.
When employees create local archive files and take business records home on Flash drives, it’s hard to determine where your company’s critical business records are and what information is available. Import your PSTs into a centralized archive and automatically capture (and sometimes restrict) emails and historical files from employees for comprehensive, convenient top-down records management.
6. Reducing the risk of human error.
CIO.com recently reported that the bulk of corporate security threats originate with employee behavior. Improper electronic records management ranges from deleting vital intelligence or incriminating emails to saving records that should not be retained. This is not to say that all users intend to misuse their email, but many tend to forget that improper retention places the company at risk. Many even consider themselves doing the company a favor when they create local archive files or save data on private disks, forgetting that this de-centralizes data and makes it more easily available to those who might misuse it. Automating email and records management takes the responsibility of managing inboxes and historical files off of employees.
7. Securing critical intelligence.
A continuation of number six, improper records management can result in valuable information becoming easily available to hackers or laptop thieves. Aside from external threats, organizations must consider the threat of malicious or ignorant employees. Without regulating information access, business-critical intelligence can be manipulated, erased, exposed or otherwise misused by an employee or outside party. Archiving software can be installed behind your corporate firewall, with role-based, password-protected archive access, encrypted archive storage, and ‘restricted’ zones.
8. Preparing for disaster.
Should your primary database or server go down, anything not saved after your most recent backup will be lost. Using real-time, or journal, archiving, you can capture every piece of information that goes through your email server, while consistent file archiving sessions minimize data loss. Run consistent backups of your email archive to ensure all your emails and files are available for retrieval in emergencies. The centralized archive also streamlines and speeds up the disaster recovery process.
9. Encouraging accountability.
Creating and implementing policies for managing email and other business records promotes transparency of operations. Archiving policies can be applied universally or customized for specific employees. Employees often improve their email and file use behavior when they realize that every email they send can be easily reviewed by their superior.
10. Locating problematic behavior.
Employees who consistently attempt to abuse email and records management policies are a threat to the entire company. Locate problematic behaviors and address them before things get out of hand with archive user access reports, which alert the administrator when an employee attempts to perform a restricted action in the archive.
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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
Don't Buy Storage - let us show you why - April 13, 2009
Orlando Florida -- Explosive data growth, combined with the proliferation of disparate storage management tools and technologies, has created a significant challenge for IT managers tasked with provisioning and maintaining multi-vendor storage environments. As the market leader in storage management, Symantec can help your organization take control of storage growth. Our advanced solutions provide end-to-end visibility, reporting, and manageability of storage environments, enabling the reclamation of unused or wasted storage space to defer costly storage hardware purchases and reduce administration costs. In addition, you can expect improved data access via availability, performance, and security enhancements.
Challenges
IT managers today must master a difficult balancing act: manage fast-growing data storage, achieve user and application performance level needs, and stay within budget. And, yet, while rapid data growth is increasing storage expenditures, the average data center utilizes only 62 percent of its available storage. The lack of visibility and manageability is preventing enterprises from fully exploiting their assets. By reclaiming unused capacity, vast amounts of expensive, high-performance storage capacity can be made available for reuse, deferring the need to purchase additional high-end devices.
Solutions
Sencilo Solution consultants can implement solutions that optimize storage resources to suit your environment, regardless of storage topology, operating environment, or storage hardware. Our phased approach to storage optimization includes: discovery/visualization, storage reporting, storage reclamation, data classification, and policy/process automation. Sencilo’s industry-standard technologies such as storage virtualization, RAID, and others can be configured to maximize disk utilization and accommodate specific environments such as databases or clustered file systems. In addition, our consultants can tune and optimize I/O performance and also determine where database performance hotspots exist by mapping database objects through to the backend storage devices. They can also configure volume or file system level snapshots for database cloning, fast recovery, or off-host processing.
Why Sencilo Solutions?
Teaming with Sencilo consultants, your IT staff can master the difficult balance of meeting your requirements for storage, user and application performance, and budget constraints. By optimizing storage utilization, you can defer expensive storage purchases and significantly reduce your IT asset costs.
Guaranteed
If our recommandations and services do not reclaim over 50% of your primary storage, you do not pay a dime. That is our promise to you! With hundreds of satified clients, Sencilo is so confident in our solutions we will stand behind this claim, 100%.
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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
Data Dedupe Market - 2009 will be the year of the shake out - April 3, 2009
Miami Florida -- The wider U.S. economy remains in the dumps, but the companies beating Wall Street estimates or reporting record sales this week have one thing in common: They offer data deduplication for small and medium-sized customers. We see three player either closing it's door or being sold for pennies on the dollar. Last year we saw Data Domain losing market share, some 60% worth to EMC, NetApp, Quantum, HP and other larger firms. We saw Falconstor lose OEM relationships including EMC, IBM and Dell. Exagrid was positioning it's self with Dell only to lose out to Quantum. Yes this is the year of the shake out.
While the hype about data deduplication has been going on for more than a year, it was only last quarter that a real explosion in this market occurred, according to Brian McCarthy CEO and 30 year Storage veteran for Sencilo Solutions. "This market is really just beginning," he said. Users not only needed to see the technology proven in the field, but in many cases also had to wait until older equipment was ready to be replaced. "But it's happening every day, right now."
Earlier in the week, EMC Corp. said that its Avamar data deduplication software and appliance for remote offices led its products in sales growth for the quarter, with adoption up "triple digits" and the appliance's inventory sold out before the quarter's end, far out pacing new customers vs. Data Domain and Exagrid.
Some analysts also credit the entry of vendors like IBM, HP and EMC with driving the data deduplicaton market's growth. "Now that most of the majors have it on their price lists, it's a validated technology, and one I think will go into mainstream use in the next 12 months," said Taneja Group analyst Eric Burgener.
Although not publicly traded, ExaGrid Systems Inc. volunteered this week that its second quarter sales were up 11% compared to the previous quarter and up 4% versus the same quarter last year. Over the past 5 years Exagrid has shipped 190 units, or about what Netapp ships on any given week. We are not seeing Exagrid around this time next year.
Data Domain did not see changes to sales demand this quarter and is not making any adjustments to its forecasts for the next quarter or the full year, Slootman said. But the fact that Data Domain has lost ~60% marketshare over the past 3 years to companies like HP, EMC, IBM and others does not speak well for Slootmanns forecast for 2009.
The three vendors have also announced recent product updates. The latest came from ExaGrid, which is going after the bigger fish in its small and medium-sized customer base with a 50% boost in overall system capacity, from 20 TB to 30 TB. The company also said that its EX Series of systems will now support cross replication among up to nine of its data center locations. Exagrid has not figured out how to scale beyond 30TBs which makes it a SMB only play. Having lost out on OEM deals with HP, IBM and Dell we feel that Exagrid is not going to be a player over the next 6 to 12 months.
Data deduplication reporting features
But what's really piquing user interest is the addition of data deduplication reporting features that will show users their data deduplication ratio and replication status by backup job. This is similar to reporting features already offered by Sepaton, but Sepaton generally sells into larger accounts than ExaGrid.
"The reporting is certainly of interest to us," said Edward Ruffolo, IT director for Miron Construction. The company already uses reports from its CA ArcServe backup product daily. "Now we can match those with daily reports from Sepaton, and that will help us avoid any potential problems with restores."
Sepaton and EMC Avamar also attributed much of their recent success in the data deduplication arena with recently released products, notably the 2100 array and Avamar version 4.0, respectively.
As the market expands, the diversification of product lines has also begun to increase. Data Domain has repackaged its system for use as both nearline NAS and archiving, as well as a backup target. "Mixed use is on the rise," Slootman said. "There are further efficiencies to be gained by consolidating backup and archive storage."
Better integration between data deduplication and other types of products has also probably contributed to the recent boom, Burgener said. "EMC [has integrated] the Avamar technology into the networker client, making it much easier for people to start using it, [since] they don't have to reinstall; they just have to shut down, make a few configuration changes and reboot," he said. We see EMC over taking Data Domain later this quarter.
Competition will only get hotter
Among those companies losing the most market share to data deduplication technologies are makers of tape autoloaders, which used to be the most popular backup media for SMBs. Although it's bringing its newer disk-based backup products to the forefront, Quantum is also among the vendors with a legacy autoloader business and finds itself with its stock hovering in the $1 range. It also finds itself the subject of acquisition talk for EMC. Overland Storage, which recently partnered with Diligent Technologies for its own data dedupe push, also finds its stock in a similar range.
Another company that seems to have been left behind in this increasingly volatile market is FalconStor, whose Single Instance Repository data deduplication product didn't pass muster with its major OEMs -- EMC and IBM -- both of which turned to other partners for data deduplication capability.
It also remains to be seen which way Quantum will go. EMC says it has gotten "excellent feedback" in a few weeks of availability.
Despite Data Domain's promising financials, Wall Street analysts were concerned about how the company will fare with increased competition, especially from titans like IBM, Hewlett-Packard and EMC with huge sales forces. Data Domain has yet to build a channel and the several VARs interviewed in this report stated Data Domain has gone direct so the VARs are no longer selling Data Domains. "It's no longer an option for large vendors to be on the sidelines of this opportunity," Thom acknowledged. But Data Domain has been adding salespeople in preparation for what he called the "ground war" on the company's earnings call, a war in which Data Domain has 150 sales reps vs. 165,000 at IBM, HDS and HP. I am thinking it will be a 100 hour war, akind to Gulf War One.
Coming advances in data deduplication are expected to make the market even hotter. For example, Data Domain and Diligent still haven't released multinode clustered versions of their products, which would allow customers to scale their data dedupe solutions without buying multiple boxes. When that happens, "things will really get interesting," McCarthy said. "When the major players come out with multinode systems, then it becomes a pricing war."
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/storage-virtualization.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
Storage Virtualization the next BIG thing! - March 22, 2009
Orlando Florida -- The initial approach to storage virtualization, which has been around for years, was to address it in the storage-area network because the SAN sat between the storage and servers, and would cause the least disruption to these systems. However, after nearly a decade, this approach has not taken off while server virtualization has become widely accepted. What needs to be changed to make storage virtualization as ubiquitous as server virtualization?
Before the advent of server virtualization, servers were configured for peak load but most of the time sat idling, resulting in average utilization rates in the low teens. Many attempts were made to consolidate applications on servers to utilize idle cycles, but it was difficult to convert applications between different operating systems. The breakthrough came with the ability to virtualize the server so it could run any operating system, enabling applications to be consolidated without converting them.
The utilization of storage systems is also low, typically in the 20% to 30% range. Storage gets stranded because application owners do not want to share storage and risk having other applications impact performance or availability. Since most open systems do not allow storage volumes to be expanded as the application generates more data, the common management practice is to simply overallocate storage capacity. While the declining cost of storage helps limit the cost of that practice, the operational cost for environmentals, change management, backup/recovery, technology refresh, and search and discovery escalates as storage capacity becomes increasingly oversubscribed and underutilized, stated Brian McCarthy CEO of Sencilo Solutions, a enterprise-class reseller in Lake Mary, Florida.
Storage for open systems is presented through logical unit numbers (LUN) or volumes that a storage system carves out of a RAID array group of physical disk drives and presents to the application. This process of creating LUNs and managing them is vendor unique. In order to virtualize storage from different storage systems, the difference in LUN or volume management must be masked, says McCarthy.
Back then
Early attempts at storage virtualization tried to address this problem by remapping heterogeneous LUNs to a common virtual LUN format for presentation to the host systems. But remapping introduced another layer of operational and management complexity, which inhibited the acceptance of the approach.
The breakthrough came with the ability to virtualize physical LUNs without the need to remap them by using a virtualization technique based on storage control units. LUNs are configured in the external storage systems in their vendor-specific way. These LUNs are then connected to the virtualization control unit over Fibre Channel ports as though they were connecting to a host server. Software in the control unit discovers the LUNs on the Fibre Channel port and presents them through the control unit's cache to an application server as if the LUNs were one of its own internal LUNs.
This approach does not remap the LUN, but enables LUNs from different systems to be managed with the common management tools of the storage virtualization control unit. The LUN image is presented inside the control unit cache and inherits all the services that are available in that control unit, like copy, move and replicate. There is no need to reinvent these functions for the purposes of virtualization. Lower-level storage can improve their native performance by connecting through the large high-performance cache of the virtualization control unit.
This approach to storage virtualization is simple to implement. It masks the complexity of managing heterogeneous storage systems and can aggregate the existing storage control unit services to enhance lower-level storage systems. Since virtualization is done at the control unit level, it is not limited to SAN connections, and it provides storage virtualization to any application server that connects through standard protocols like Fibre Channel, ESCON, FICON, network-attached storage (NAS), SAN, and direct attach.
Another feature that has been missing in early storage virtualization approaches is partitioning. Partitioning guarantees users who share virtualized storage safe multitenancy and quality of service (QoS). In server virtualization, time slicing is used to partition virtual servers and QoS can be managed by controlling the allocation of time slices.
In storage virtualization, users who share a pool of storage resources must be guaranteed safe multitenancy, the guarantee that other users who share the same virtual storage resources will not be able to access their data nor impact performance. With a controller-based virtualization approach, partitioning can be done through cache addressing and port priority processing. Partitioning can be done close to the physical storage, where it can be enforced.
Right Now
The time is right for storage virtualization, and DataCore Software storage virtualization approaches can provide these basic capabilities:
* Use existing LUNs from heterogeneous storage systems and avoid the complexity of remapping LUNs to keep it simple
* Provide storage virtualization for all storage users, whether they are direct attach, SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, ESCON, FICON, etc.
* Aggregate storage services and make them available as reusable services to enhance lower-level storage systems.
* Provide users the ability to safely share resources without impacting their security, availability or performance requirements.
Storage virtualization simplifies today's increasingly complex storage environment, allowing organizations to simplify the management of their infrastructures and consolidate storage systems from different vendors into one pool of storage. Additionally it allows organizations to mask the complexity of the underlying physical structure and greatly increase utilization through the use of thin provisioning, the ability to provision storage capacity as it is actually used and provide it as a service to storage systems that do not have that capability. Storage virtualization also brings about significant cost reductions and efficiencies by reducing the need for additional storage management tools, licences and administrators.
Storage virtualization will deliver significant efficiencies, cost savings, power and cooling benefits, as well as greater agility in aligning storage infrastructure to business requirements. For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/storage-virtualization.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
Case Study - Storage Virtualization from DataCore and Server Virtualization from VMware - March 21, 2009
The Challenge
City of Inverness in Citrus County, Florida, has selected DataCore's SANmelody storage virtualization solution to manage and protect their data center. With SANmelody, not only was the City of Inverness able to use existing hardware, it was able to get twice as much use out of its existing storage space as well as adding a new level of business continuity protection and scalability for the future, which the city did not previously have.
When Joey Johnston, IT director, City of Inverness, came on board he inherited approximately thirteen server systems. He knew enough about VMware to know that he could greatly improve productivity and cost savings.Therefore, he decided to consolidate these servers. In order to take full advantage of the functionality of VMware across systems, he also knew he needed to deploy a SAN. Johnston did his research and a key priority at the outset was finding a SAN that would work with VMware and provide a level of automated failover protection. Johnston soon found DataCore in his research and identified the company's SANmelody as a potential solution that supported and was fully compatible with VMware. He also spoke with EqualLogic and LeftHand Networks as well as some other, major SAN solution providers. What Johnston soon realized was that other SAN solutions were not very scalable in comparison with DataCore's SANmelody.
Taking EqualLogic, for example, if he would have purchased a 3TB solution and then needed to add another terabyte or two in the future, he would have then needed to buy another storage hardware module as an upgrade. This could cost $25,000 just to accommodate the additional storage capacity. Also, while fiber channel (FC) was not an immediate requirement, the fact that SANmelody supported all of its services over FC or iSCSI protocols on Ethernet connections left the option open for the future.
The Solution
"With DataCore, you can simply add an additional license to manage three more terabytes of storage - or sixty terabytes, or an unlimited option," said Johnston. "The high-availability option was also a very big deal as was being able to re-provision servers. We could take a server that might not be up to the task of managing a geographical information system (GIS) or a mail host and re-provision it as a SAN server solution running SANmelody. It is very easy to just add more disks to a SANmelody server, since it is a standard server just like the ones running other applications. You simply populate the SANmelody server with more disks to get to six terabytes
in capacity - in our case all for under $5,000. On another vendor's solution, you will easily spend three or four times the amount just to get the same capacity." Johnston took about eight weeks in total to make this decision - from his initial introduction to DataCore to signing off on purchasing SANmelody. That time was primarily taken doing some of the underlying work to get his environment ready for the new SAN, such as making sure the switch fabric was up to the task. "I talked and met with each vendor, I attended the webinars they offered and considered the options," continued Johnston. "Budgetwise and performance-wise, SANmelody won out. The performance numbers on SANmelody are right there with any of the top vendors and we are able to use servers that would either be doing nothing or would be offered up for auction. The main business drivers for going with SANmelody were the price point, the scalability, as well as the breadth of storage services that can be taken advantage of with the product."
SANmelody now runs on Dell PowerEdge 2500 servers - servers that would have been decommissioned. SANmelody supports the city's GIS system, which is used to map properties, chart water lines, track tree management initiatives as well as monitor and manage roads and streets for maintenance and usability purposes. SANmelody will go a long way in terms of ease-of-management as the City of Inverness outgrows its direct, attached storage. Of huge benefit to Johnston, who is the only IT person working on behalf of the City of Inverness, is the ability to scale his thirteen servers into one virtual machine. Likewise, consolidated storage and the ability to automate the provisioning of storage to servers without human intervention was a major plus. Furthermore, Johnston is now able to do fast disk-to-disk back-ups and replication and he is able to test these services. Before, he neither had the time nor the funds to buy a server to test back-ups. "SANmelody is all about ease of use and scalability and allows you to have enterprise-level functionality at an SMB price," added Johnston. The AIM technology DataCore offers for asynchronous IP mirroring enables Johnston to replicate critical data over the Internet. Next year, Johnston plans on fully implementing a remote server at a replication site. With a location smack in the hurricane zone of Florida, the ability to protect data outside of Florida with another local government agency in another state will mean Johnston can achieve a higher level of disaster recovery as well as have highavailability. He plans to connect to that remote site via a thin-client and do asynchronous data mirroring transfers at night. The replicated environment will encompass both payroll information as well as email on the servers. The financial package, which currently runs on Solaris, is also migrating to Windows and will live on the VMware platform too, all running in conjunction with SANmelody.
"The City of Inverness bought DataCore and VMware in tandem," said George Teixeira, president and CEO, DataCore Software. "They knew they needed to go with a SAN in order to fully leverage the functionality inherent to VMware. Whereas a SAN originally looked cost-prohibitive to the City of Inverness, when Joey found our SANmelody solution he was able to get full functionality without sacrificing his requirements. He was also able to repurpose some of his old servers that he had slated to be retired. Not only has DataCore delivered an affordable SAN, but now he has at his disposal a fully automated high availability SAN that can grow with his needs."
The mail server is in the process of going live this month along with the financial servers and the GIS systems. The deployment at the City of Inverness will first manage six terabytes on a DataCore powered SAN supporting auto failover and recovery across dual SANmelody servers - each supporting three terabytes. When Johnston fields calls now from the other SAN providers who are keen to know why he went with DataCore, he has the answers for them. "DataCore offers up functionality and the most competitive price point," he said. "Moreover, in terms of functionality, I mention high-availability and auto failover data protection as well as AIM - asynchronous mirroring for remote site disaster recovery. And the price point was just over $15,000 for all that functionality and two licenses. This is less than half of what I was quoted for one box from a traditional SAN hardware solution." Johnston concluded, "We bought a scalable storage infrastructure and not a box that we would soon find ourselves outgrowing."
About DataCore Software
DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization SAN software, fundamentally changes the economics of managing storage with innovative software that combines advanced functions and services with the agility and savings of hardware independence. DataCore lowers the cost and complexity of IT by making storage efficient, fast, flexible, fail-safe and virtual. DataCore's portable storage server software simplifies and automates capacity expansion and centralizes storage management for Windows, UNIX, Linux, MacOS and NetWare operating systems as well as hypervisors from VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and other suppliers. DataCore is privately held and its corporate headquarters are in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/storage-virtualization.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
Over 70 million Website-infected with SQL injection attacks and counting - March 17, 2009
Orlando Florida -- Website-infecting SQL injection attacks hit 450,000 a day Cybercriminals are spreading invisible infections far and wide across the Internet by hammering hundreds of thousands of websites each day with so-called SQL injection attacks.
The trend started last summer and has continued to accelerate. Sencilo Solutions Internet Security Systems says it identified 50% more infected Web pages in the last three months of 2008 than it did in all of 2007, says Brian McCarthy, CEO and well known Security expert of Sencilo Solutions.
Click on one and you won't notice anything. Your PC gets turned into an obedient "bot," short for robot, deployed to attack other computers. All of your sensitive data get stolen.
SQL attacks take aim at the database layer of websites. They typically were manual attacks designed to pilfer customer data from merchant websites. But last June someone figured out how to automate the attacks, and use them to plant infections.
"It was a brilliant tactical move. You sit back and wait for someone to visit the site, and soon you infect thousands of PCs," says Ryan Barnett, Breach Security's director of research.
An infected PC thereafter gets put to work delivering spam and spreading more infections. And any sensitive data, such as log-ons and account numbers, get stolen.
For the first five months of 2008 Sencilo Solutions ISS helped a Orlando based financial corporation block about 5,000 SQL attacks a day. By mid-June, daily attacks spiked to 25,000; by October they topped 450,000 a day. Andrew Mape, Sencilo Solutions ISS threat response manager, says the infections take advantage of security flaws in cool website features, such as online-delivered video, music, photos, documents and work files.
"Web applications are one of the most outward facing components a corporation could have, and one of the least protected," he says. "And SQL injection is the fastest-growing category of attacks affecting Web applications."
Financial institutions and online merchants have put up strong defenses, says Brian McCarthy, CEO of a security Sencilo, a security firm. "The same is not necessarily true of regional banks and credit unions, smaller online retailers and state government agencies."
Security experts say consumers must keep updates for anything to do with their browser current, though most now do not do this. This includes updates for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, iTunes, QuickTime, Windows Media Player and RealPlayer. Such updates increasingly include important security patches that can block infections from taking hold.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/services-penetration.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
How IT can cut cost? - February 28, 2009
Orlando Florida -- It is great to see so many different ways of business have benefited from the Internet. One of the benefits has been the ease of outsourcing. Now you can outsource almost everything to the experts, thus save time and money…not to forget peace of mind.
Outsourcing your server management; server monitoring and server maintenance to an IT services outsourcing company usually helps you to focus your time and energy in expanding your own business by focusing on your core expertise, rather than dealing with technical support staff every day and manage the quality they provide to your customers. If you have business critical applications running then server uptime is critical to your business.
Server monitoring and server management is a full time job that needs real professionals who can handle your servers professionally. Outsourcing your server management; server monitoring and server maintenance requires specific skill sets and hiring people with such skill sets and with right attitude is a difficult job in its own way. Due to these reasons, outsourcing of server monitoring, server maintenance and server management has become the norm.
There are many businesses that have business critical applications running on the server. Any kind of server downtime or application down time means a huge loss of money and wasted labor for the day. Not to mention running upgrades, applying patches and analyzing the risk factor before performing these tasks. Due to such reasons server management; server monitoring and server maintenance are critical for these small businesses. There are many IT outsourcing companies that provide these services round the clock…. round the year, says Brian McCarthy President of Sencilo Solutions.
Most of these companies will provide access to your employees with a HelpDesk environment by phone, email, chat or remote control. This Helpdesk environment is a place from where your employees will get in touch with your techs who would have a similar interface to answer our queries. Helpdesk interface is a great way to contact your support team. All of the above mentioned points can be described briefly ...OutSourced Helpdesk.
There are many organizations which have cut costs by outsourcing helpdesk to a third party. Cutting costs is important to all businesses, irrespective of the size. Monitoring cost starting at $1. Call us today: (407) 265-6293 x1910 or go to http://www.sencilo.com/managed-services.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
Hurricane Season just a few months away, Will You Be Ready? - February 28, 2009
This year is predicted to bring 14 named storms to the Atlantic Ocean, with seven of them becoming hurricanes, according to a university report that forecasts an "above average" 2009 hurricane season. The annual report was released Wednesday by Colorado State University forecasters Philip Klotzback and William Gray -- six months before the Atlantic hurricane season starts.
Storms do not acquire names until they are designated tropical storms with sustained maximum winds of at least 39 mph. The CSU report predicted that three of the season's seven hurricanes will develop into intense or major storms, meaning Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Category 3 storms have sustained winds of at least 111 mph. There is a 63 percent chance that at least one major hurricane will make landfall on the United States, according to the report. The authors of the report stress that it is preliminary and will be revised several times as the hurricane season approaches. "The media and general public should realize that there is a large amount of uncertainty with our early December prediction, issued seven months prior to the start of the hurricane season," Klotzbach said. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30.
In May, CSU predicted 15 named storms for the 2008 season. Of those, it predicted eight would become hurricanes and four would grow into major hurricanes. The university's December 2007 report had predicted there would be 13 storms. The revised May report turned out to be more accurate. There were 16 named storms during the 2008 season. Eight became hurricanes and five were Category 3 or higher. A typical season has 11 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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
