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Will Data Domain and Falcon Stor Survive? - April 19, 2008
IBM’s acquisition of Diligent Technologies today will alter several relationships of major vendors as they look to add data deduplication to their VTLs. Until now, IBM’s VTL partner was FalconStor while Diligent supplies Hitachi Data Systems and Overland Storage. IBM and HDS say they’re still ommitted to HDS selling Diligent’s ProtecTier software even though it’s now owned by IBM.
“We don’t’ see any change with Diligent, the agreements we’ve had with them will continue,” HDS CTO Hu Yoshida said today. He compared the situation to EMC buying VMware. “VMware works well for us, we drive a lot of business from VMware,” he said. “This is a new world, we’re in an era of coopetition.” Still, you don’t have to squint hard when reading the statement HDS issued today to see plenty of wiggle room:
The ProtecTIER software from Diligent Technologies offers very tailored data de-duplication technology that addresses only a fraction of the overall business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities that our customers require. This product comprises a single component of the broader portfolio of market-leading back-up and data protection solutions that Hitachi Data Systems offers its customers.
In other words, HDS is saying it could get by fine without ProtectTier. Where else can HDS go if it wants to switch? FalconStor is certainly available now that IBM has Diligent and EMC is partnered with Quantum for dedupe. Sun and Copan sell FalconStor dedupe software, but Sun and Copan don’t exactly equate to EMC and IBM for disk backup market share. There’s also Sepaton, which has a VTL OEM deal with Hewlett-Packard — although HP has yet to offer Sepaton’s dedupe software.
One dedupe vendor not looking for an OEM partner is Data Domain, which rode deduplication backup products from stealth to IPO in four years and is generally considered the dedupe market leader. Data Domain CEO Frank Stootman says his channel partners wouldn’t appreciate competition from OEMs. At least one partner Sencilo Solutions reminded us the reason that Data Domain is taking this position is that Data Domain twice tried to get aquired by those OEMs mentioned earlier without success. McCarthy goes on to say, "that based on his five years of selling disk based backup the last two years was a good year for selling Data Domain but now that the tier one players are entering the market (IBM, EMC, NetApp, etc.) that interest in start-ups companies like Data Domain and Falcon Stor are quickly falling off their clients purchasing radar in favor of larger storage companies."
“That’s a decision you have to make early on as a company,” Slootman said. “If you start off as a channel company like we are, it’s difficult to run an OEM model right alongside it because they are incompatible. OEM usually means death to your channel.” Another Data Domain reseller not willing to be idenified stated, "Data Domain's death in the channel will come as a result taking deals direct after the reseller has done all the work". Look for poor Q3 and Q4 performance in 2008, that will be the writing on the wall, says McCarthy.
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GSA Army Contract awarded to Expand Networks beating out Riverbed Steelheads - April 18, 2008
Orlando Florida - Expand Networks recently announced that General Dynamics C4 Systems (GDC4S) and the United States Army awarded the Warfighter Information Network – Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2–3 TCP Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) contract to Expand Networks. Expand Networks is porting the Accelerator Operating System to General Dynamics’ WIN-T hardware platform. The Expand PEP will operate in a mobile ad-hoc environment where dynamic outbound links are created and broken frequently, thereby providing the Warfighter with maximum communications efficiency on the move as well as at the halt. According to GDC4S, WIN-T is the U.S. Army’s on-the-move, high-speed, high-capacity backbone communications network, which links ground level warfighters with commanders and the Global Information Grid, the U.S. Dept. of Defense’s worldwide network-centric information system. WIN-T is a critical enabler of LandWarNet, the Army’s far-reaching effort to transform into joint, network-centric, knowledge-based warfare. The network provides a lucid operational snapshot for theater combatant commanders by using true satellite on-the-move capabilities, robust network management and high-bandwidth radio systems to keep mobile forces connected, communicating and synchronized at all times. (For more information on WIN-T, refer to: http://www.gdc4s.com/news/detail.cfm?prid=197) “Expand Networks has long and widespread experience with national security communications programs at sea, on land and in the air,” said Howard Teicher, Expand Network’s Vice President for Public Sector & Satellite Markets. “Operating enterprise-class applications over low bandwidth-high latency satellite links demands a dynamic, robust WAN Optimization capability to satisfy the users’ performance requirements. Porting the Expand Accelerator Operating System to the Army’s WIN-T architecture demonstrates the power and flexibility of Expand’s technology and our ability to deliver high performance mobile communications, while saving taxpayer resources.” Positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Leaders” quadrant in their Magic Quandrant for WAN Optimization 2007 Report, Expand’s complete WAN Optimization solution will be available on the WIN-T blade to increase throughput, accelerate application performance and interoperate with other communications nodes equipped with Space Communications Protocol Standard (SCPS- TP) Acceleration devices. The Expand PEP mitigates the effects of latency and ensures that tactical networks deliver maximum performance. GSA Since its initial 1999 rollout in the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), more than 9,000 Expand Accelerators have been deployed in networks throughout the US government and in all branches of the United States Military. Battle-proven in Afghanistan and Iraq with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, Expand accelerators are also deployed in U.S. government enterprise networks, such as the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/network-application-acceleration.php About Us Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage, security and networking solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, NetApp, Juniper Networks, Expand Networks, Barracuda Networks, and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the networking 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.
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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.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/products-security.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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EMC leading the way in disk-based security with new encryption capabilities - April 12, 2008
Hialeah, Florida -- EMC Corp., a provider of information infrastructure solutions, announced Tuesday new data encryption capabilities for storage-devices that protects information at rest from unauthorized access or the unauthorized removal of a disk drive or array from a secured environment.
The new EMC PowerPath Encryption with RSA integrates EMC PowerPath path management software with encryption and key management technology from RSA, the security division of EMC. Now, customers deploying EMC Symmetrix and EMC CLARiiON storage systems can benefit from a consistent security strategy and deployment in and around the data center and across the IT stack with central management and automation of encryption keys.
With this integration, EMC continues to execute and deliver another proof point of its commitment in providing information-centric security in the infrastructure. PowerPath Encryption with RSA is part of a series of announcements made this week at the RSA Conference.
Leveraging EMC PowerPath software, with more than 600,000 licenses deployed, EMC PowerPath Encryption with RSA encrypts and decrypts data at the host, as it is sent to and from the array. The solution protects against unauthorized access or inadvertent loss of un-protected information via malicious attacks and spoofing of Fibre Channel hosts, and makes information inaccessible in the event of physical theft of media from the data center.
The new encryption solution uses RSA Key Manager for the Datacenter, an easy- to-use, centrally administered encryption key management system that can manage encryption keys at the database, file server, and storage layers. It is designed to simplify the deployment and ongoing use of encryption throughout the enterprise, and helps ensure that information is properly secured and fully accessible when needed at any point in its information lifecycle.
"Improving the level of information protection using encryption helps companies comply with internal, private and government standards, including the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), an applicable compliance standards," says Brian McCarthy President of Sencilo Solution in Orlando Florida, and Enterprise partner for EMC. The PCI DSS applies to every organization that processes credit or debit card information, including merchants and third-party service providers that store, process or transmit credit card/debit card data. As of the end of last year, any organization that accepts payment card transactions must be in compliance with the standard and PowerPath Encryption with RSA can form a foundation for meeting that standard.
Heidi Biggar, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), said, "Recent ESG studies indicate that securing data independent of where it resides or how it's stored is a critical customer requirement. While important for organizations of all sizes, EMC PowerPath Encryption with RSA can yield immediate security benefits for those heavily regulated industries, such as public sector, financial services, retail and healthcare, by making sure data is inaccessible in the event of loss or theft. With this announcement, EMC delivers another solid proof point in how storage and security can work hand in hand."
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/storage-protection.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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Best Practices for Backup, Archive, Recovery and E-Discovery - April 12, 2008
St. Peterburg Florida -- Many IT administrators at small and medium businesses (SMBs) are facing a new budget cycle as the New Year dawns. One of the items which many are considering investing in is data protection technology. Most have experienced an explosion in the amount of data requiring protection while not experiencing an equivalent increase in their IT budget. Additionally, the responsibility of complying with new governmental and industry regulations for data retention, archiving and electronic discovery has fallen squarely in the lap of IT staffs which stretches their budgets further.
Data Protection Has Become More Complex
Data protection used to be an easier proposition. You could simply designate a system as the backup server, install some backup software, attach a tape library and start backing up production servers to it. But, with the advent of critical production applications, server and storage virtualization, critical data stored on desktops and laptops, and increased recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO and RPO) data protection has become much more complex.
Companies Must Now Do More with Less
It is easy to say that organizations must be more current and comprehensive in their backup, recovery and archiving procedures. Yet, few companies have the luxury of being able to assign the resources to address all these tasks optimally. The reality is that most organizations now count on increased productivity to drive profits. This means accomplishing more with fewer resources.
New Data Protection Technologies Abound
For companies looking to improve their data protection technology and procedures, there are a bewildering number of point solutions and possible combinations for data protection and archiving to be considered. It was not long ago when the backup solution was based on one piece of software. Now organizations must decide on all the hardware, too, including the compatible and scalable nature of each piece. In addition, they must consider a number of capabilities: disk-to-disk backup, VTLs, replication, snapshots, CDP, de-duplication, sophisticated archiving, email archiving, data encryption and security. Many options exist and many more are coming.
Deciding on a Solution – Conventional Approaches Do not Meet Today’s Requirements
Traditional solutions for data protection, email archiving and SAN storage are too complicated. There are too many parts to manage and consider: software, hardware, disk, tape, network, SAN – the decisions are overwhelming. Once the technology decisions have been made, the pieces have to be put together which can take weeks or even months.
Total Solution Appliance Solves Many Problems
Now, more than ever, organizations need the best products available to provide them with effective data protection. A new approach for companies to consider for their storage and data protection is an all-in-one, automated solution preconfigured to address all data storage and protection functionality, usually called an “appliance.”
Organizations piecing a solution together will need to work with several companies. Each will have a comprehensive and in-depth view of what their specific product can do to address a particular problem. These vendors, however, do not have a total view of the organization’s requirements and are not able to address the entire problem. When buying individual components, an organization makes a huge trade-off. Buyers search for components optimized for their specific function; not for a best-of-breed total solution. This time-consuming purchasing process involves a complex set of comparisons to work with compatible vendors. An appliance vendor, by contrast, picks the best and most compatible components and takes ownership of them. Most SMBs will only solve their backup problem once. The appliance vendor has solved the same problem hundreds of times.
When a company purchases an appliance, it forgoes the relationship with the individual component vendors. Thus, an appliance vendor is motivated to install a reliable product because they will have to support it! The “data protection” appliance vendor will have a more holistic view of an organization’s problem and is more concerned that the entire data storage and protection solution works to satisfaction.
Upgrading an appliance is also simpler for the end user. When an organization upgrades, it can be sure that all components remain compatible with each other. With an individual components solution, an upgrade often results in an entire system overhaul. Finally, a data protection appliance allows a company to buy the capacity and capabilities it needs now and expand the appliance as the company’s requirements grow. The business dictates the functionality of a storage solution, rather than the reverse.
The conventional integration of a component approach requires manual integration and diagnostic activities that consume both human and system resources. An appliance addresses this problem by providing a pre-integrated simple-to-install solution. This is a benefit for all companies but is particularly useful for SMBs that normally have only a few minutes a day to address any one problem.
Selecting an Appliance Solution
Below is a short laundry list of things to consider when evaluating a data protection appliance:
Easy to purchase, install, manage and support.
Optimizes backups, archives, restores, disaster recovery and electronic discovery to meet corporate RTO and RPO.
Complies fully with regulated retention policies.
Efficiently uses media.
Automates daily functions and reduces administrative hours.
Provides an adaptable and scalable foundation for future data protection and storage needs.
In sum, organizations must look beyond the conventional approaches and toward recovery solutions packaged and implemented with appliance approaches that incorporate the best in component technologies. To do less will probably assure being an early casualty of the tremendous data changes coming in the 21st century.
The new PowerPath Encryption with RSA yields a number of advantages compared to other encryption technologies, such as gateway products, including easier deployment. PowerPath Encryption with RSA can be added to environments and is transparent to hosts, applications, replication, and backup infrastructure. It also offers built-in high availability, as the PowerPath Encryption with RSA provides a management appliance that is configured in redundant pairs for no single point of failure, compared to alternative solutions that need multiple appliances to provide high availability.
The new PowerPath Encryption with RSA also offers better scalability and centralized management. PowerPath Encryption with RSA provides encryption at the host and centralizes key management with RSA Key Manager for the Datacenter, which can support tens of thousands of hosts compared to other solutions that need additional appliances to meet growth requirements and cannot be centrally managed. It also offers better Flexibility, as the PowerPath Encryption with RSA gives users the ability to choose the LUNs (logical unit number) or volumes they want to encrypt.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/storage-protection.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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An Effective Disaster Recovery Strategy for Branch Offices - April 12, 2008
Tampa Florida -- The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season will start early this year, the second time in five years a storm will formed before June 1. As a result, experts are again predicting an above average hurricane year, estimating that there is a 74 percent chance a category three or higher storm will hit the U.S. mainland.
While the chance your business will be affected by a major natural disaster or terrorist attack is slim, other causes of unplanned downtime such as a hardware component failure, fire, power outage or surge, network attack or even human error are more prevalent. It is important to ensure your company has a reliable strategy for getting the business up and resuming normal business operations, no matter what the cause. Without a disaster recovery strategy the consequences to your business could be paramount. According to the Wall Street Journal, 92 percent of small businesses that experience significant data loss due to a major disaster go out of business within five years. You don't want to become part of this statistic.
With mission-critical data growth exploding in the small to midsized enterprise (SME) market-much of it on the edge of the network in branch offices-traditional disaster recovery solutions may not be enough to ensure business continuity throughout your entire organization.
Complete Restoration Disaster Recovery
In order to protect all company data regardless of physical location and to ensure business continuity across the entire organization, SMEs need to deploy a complete disaster recovery solution that integrates local backups and remote off-site vaulting in a single solution. Using a complete and integrated solution allows your organization to restore entire systems quickly, and get them back in the production environment as soon as possible after experiencing downtime. A complete bare metal restoration solution restores systems from the ground up-including the operating system (Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc.), business applications (Exchange, SQL, Oracle, Novell, etc.), user profiles and data files, in addition to reformatting drives.
The following details what SMEs should look for in a complete disaster recovery solution that protects their data center as well as data and systems in remote offices.
Quick Recovery
When it comes to quick recoveries and an SME's ability to resume normal business operations after experiencing downtime, the stakes couldn't be higher. Simply put, if customers are inconvenienced by not being able to visit a retail location, access a Website, email a sales rep, or receive requested information in a timely manner-regardless of the reason-they will move on to a competitor. The availability of services and products at headquarters and in branch offices is absolutely vital to the health of the company, making quick restoration of the IT systems that run the business a top priority. Minutes do matter.
Most SMEs do not realize that quick restores not only rely on recovering lost data, but also rely on rebuilding damaged or lost servers and workstations. Operating systems need to be restored, drives need to be reformatted, business applications need to reinstalled, data needs to be recovered and user profiles need to be restored. End users cannot do their job unless workstations and servers are returned to their normal state before downtime occurred. This takes time.
The most effective disaster recovery solutions speed up the systems recovery process by automating this process through scripting. Automatic bare metal restore allows administrators to perform a complete systems restoration to an existing system or to a new system with different hardware. While it typically takes a seasoned IT veteran a full day or longer to completely restore a system manually, there are disaster recovery solutions that allow staffers with little IT training to recover a complete system in less than an hour.
Off-Site Backups and Vaulting
In an effort to protect against data center outages and regional natural disasters, it is essential that SMEs implement off-site backups and a remote vaulting system that store data and system information at least 150 miles away. Tape rotation at a warehouse across town, a common approach of SMEs, does not provide the same level of off-site protection since the facility will most likely be impacted by the same disruption. The best backup and recovery solutions incorporate both local and off-site backups in one package. After first performing a local backup in the branch office, the solution replicates data to an off-site location where it is stored in a data vault and is easily recoverable.
Because bandwidth and server requirements could affect performance for end users, it is essential that SMEs deploy a solution that incorporates electronic data synchronization to off-site vaults. By only sending data that is new or has changed since the last backup, the solution requires less resources and dramatically reduces the amount of data that has to be sent over the WAN. This allows backups to be completed more quickly, efficiently and reliably. In the same vein, synchronization technology enables administrators to pause and re-engage in the middle of a backup if a connection is disrupted during the data transfer, preventing administrators from ever having to manually restart a transfer.
Vendor Neutral
When a disaster hits and remote offices are pulled off-line, SMEs don't always have the luxury of being able to replace their servers with the exact model or even the same brand. Often, they must make a quick replacement with what is available. Because of this, it is important that the company's disaster recovery solution is able to restore systems to different hardware. For example, an HP server needs to be able to be restored on a Dell box if that is what is available. This also gives SMEs flexibility with their purchasing decisions, allowing them to choose hardware that is the best suited for specific business needs and budget rather than letting interoperability inhibit choice.
Point-in-Time Recovery
Giving customers the ability to restore systems to a set point in time is an essential element of a complete disaster recovery solution. This is especially useful if a single system crashes and a database needs to be synched up with other end users. Email is another example. Point-in-time recovery allows administrators to recover deleted emails or files as needed or restore systems to a point in time within the past 30 days.
Simple Management
Most SMEs do not have the IT and staffing resources to dedicate to backup management and monitoring, making it essential that any disaster recovery solution be easy to use and automate as much manual process as possible. This is especially true on the edge of the network in branch offices where often there is no full-time IT administrator and a business staff member is typically tasked with starting the backup process each night.
It doesn't have to be this way. SMEs can make sure their disaster recovery solution is managed consistently from a central management console, giving a trained and dedicated administrator at headquarters complete access and visibility into the backup cycle. In addition, the solution needs to automate basic tasks, including the recovery process. This can help streamline IT management, prevent human errors and take business continuity responsibility off the shoulders of untrained business staff.
Scalability
Complete restoration solutions also need to be scalable to allow SMEs to expand their disaster recovery strategy in line with the business. It seems strange to think that a company can over-protect its IT systems, but it is nearly impossible to protect every server all of the time. SMEs need to determine what systems need to be protected and how fast they need to be recovered. Deploying a scalable disaster recovery solution that is flexible is a good start, as growing companies' needs can change quickly.
Some providers price their solutions on a per gigabyte of user data basis in conjunction with time-to-recovery needs. This ensures that SMEs are getting exactly what they require at an affordable price and that the IT budget is directly tied to the needs of the business.
Security
Another feature that SMEs may need is encryption technology that secures data as it is in transit and while being backed up and restored. Industry and government regulations are getting tighter every year, forcing companies-especially growing businesses-to plan for future compliance requirements, making it essential that all sensitive data is properly encrypted from the outset.
It is vital that SMEs take into account remote office computing when implementing their business continuity strategy, relying on a robust and complete disaster recovery solution that enables efficient backups and quick restores. Administrators need to ensure that they are able to manage the backup and recovery process from a central location, conduct complete restorations and recover systems to different hardware. Only then can SMEs be truly prepared for whatever Mother Nature throws their way.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/storage-protection.php
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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.
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'Well Above-average' Hurricane Season Forecast For 2008 - Will You be Ready? - April 12, 2008
Miami Florida Science Daily (Apr. 10, 2008) — The Colorado State University forecast team upgraded its early season forecast today from the Bahamas Weather Conference, saying the U.S. Atlantic basin will likely experience a well above-average hurricane season.
"Current oceanic and atmospheric trends indicate that we will likely have an active Atlantic basin hurricane season," said William Gray, who is beginning his 25th year forecasting hurricanes at Colorado State University.
The team's forecast now anticipates 15 named storms forming in the Atlantic basin between June 1 and Nov. 30. Eight of the storms are predicted to become hurricanes, and of those eight, four are expected to develop into intense or major hurricanes (Saffir/Simpson category 3-4-5) with sustained winds of 111 mph or greater. Long-term averages are 9.6 named storms, 5.9 hurricanes and 2.3 intense hurricanes per year. DR BC plans will be tested this year.
"Based on our latest forecast, the probability of a major hurricane making landfall along the U.S. coastline is 69 percent compared with the last-century average of 52 percent," said Phil Klotzbach of the Colorado State hurricane forecast team. "We are calling for a very active hurricane season this year, but not as active as the 2004 and 2005 seasons." Disaster Recovery should be on the minds of every Florida based companies.
Current conditions in the Atlantic basin are quite favorable for an active hurricane season. The current sea surface temperature pattern in the Atlantic - prevalent in most years since 1995 - is a pattern typically observed before very active seasons. Warm sea surface temperatures are likely to continue being present in the tropical and North Atlantic during 2008 because of a positive phase of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). Also, the currently observed weak Azores High will likely promote weaker-than-normal trade winds over the next few months enhancing warm SST anomalies in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic. Be it Backup Exe, NetBack, CDP or Snap Shot just backup your data.
Additionally, the team expects neutral or weak La Nina conditions in the tropical Pacific, which, combined with a predicted warm north and tropical Atlantic, is a recipe for enhanced Atlantic basin hurricane activity. These factors are similar to conditions that occurred during the 1950, 1989, 1999, and 2000 seasons. The average of these four seasons had well above-average activity, and Klotzbach and Gray predict the 2008 season will have activity in line with the average of these four years. When you backup to disk or tape look for companies with VTL De-dupe Data Domain, Quantum, EMC or Exagrid.
The hurricane forecast team predicts tropical cyclone activity in 2008 will be 160 percent of the average season. By comparison, 2005 witnessed tropical cyclone activity that was about 275 percent of the average season.
The hurricane forecast team reiterated its probabilities for a major hurricane making landfall on U.S. soil:
A 69 percent chance that at least one major hurricane will make landfall on the U.S. coastline in 2008 (the long-term average probability is 52 percent).
A 45 percent chance that a major hurricane will make landfall on the U.S. East Coast, including the Florida Peninsula (the long-term average is 31 percent)
A 44 percent chance that a major hurricane will make landfall on the Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle west to Brownsville (the long-term average is 30 percent).
The team also predicted above-average major hurricane landfall risk in the Caribbean.
"The United States was quite fortunate over the last two years in that we had only one hurricane landfall (Humberto - 2007)," Klotzbach said. "None of the four major hurricanes that formed in 2006 and 2007 made U.S. landfall." Using virtualization from VMware vs. Virtual Iron for disaster recovery is the best way to keep businesses running.
The Colorado State hurricane forecast team has cautioned against reading too much into the hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005 when Florida and the Gulf Coast were ravaged by four landfalling hurricanes each year. Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne caused devastating damage in 2004 followed by Dennis, Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005.
"The activity of these two years was unusual, but within the natural bounds of hurricane variation," Gray said.
Probabilities of tropical storm-force, hurricane-force and intense hurricane-force winds occurring at specific locations along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts within a variety of time periods are listed on the forecast team's Landfall Probability Web site. The site provides U.S. landfall probabilities for 11 regions, 55 sub-regions and 205 individual counties along the U.S. coastline from Brownsville, Texas, to Eastport, Maine. The Web site, available to the public at http://www.e-transit.org/hurricane, is the first publicly accessible Internet tool that adjusts landfall probabilities for regions, sub-regions and counties based on the current climate and its projected effects on the upcoming hurricane season. Klotzbach and Gray update the site regularly with assistance from the GeoGraphics Laboratory at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts.
The hurricane team's forecasts are based on the premise that global oceanic and atmospheric conditions - such as El Nino, sea surface temperatures and sea level pressures - that preceded active or inactive hurricane seasons in the past provide meaningful information about similar trends in future seasons.
The team will issue seasonal updates of its 2008 Atlantic basin hurricane activity forecast on June 3, Aug. 5, Sept. 2 and Oct. 1. The August, September and October forecasts will include separate forecasts for each of those months.
Tropical Cyclone Forecast for 2008
(1950-2000 Averages in parenthesis)
Named Storms 15 (9.6)*
Named Storm Days 80 (49.1)
Hurricanes 8 (5.9)
Hurricane Days 40 (24.5)
Intense Hurricanes 4 (2.3)
Intense Hurricane Days 9 (5.0)
Net Tropical Cyclone Activity 160 (100%)
* Numbers in ( ) represent average year totals based on 1950-2000 data.
The entire report is available on the Web at http://hurricane.atmos.colostate.edu
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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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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
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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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Why is VMware and LeftHand offering a iSCSI SAN, Customers are asking? - April 5, 2008
Orlando Florida -- LeftHand Networks Inc.'s Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) today becomes the first software-only storage device named to VMware's hardware compatibility list. The two companies' mutual channel partners will begin selling the VSA packaged with VMware's Infrastructure Acceleration Kits this week.
The bundles of 2 TB VSA licenses with VMware's small and medium-sized business (SMB) license packages turn an iSCSI SAN into a virtual machine running on the same physical server as virtualized applications, eliminating the need to support separate storage devices in small environments. "VMware is showing it means to take the value of the hypervisor well beyond server virtualization with this release," said Mark Bowker, an Enterprise Strategy Group analyst. "This shows a new way for virtualization to leverage the same hardware platforms." Wants VSA to support more than 2 TB of storage At least one user would like to see the VSA support more storage. "I'd definitely like to see them expand beyond 2 TB," said Pat O'Day, chief technology officer of IT infrastructure service provider BlueLock LLC, which is planning to offer its smaller clients prepared packages of server hardware with the VSA bundles. "You can always set up SAN/iQ on a server, but some clients have older disk shelves and are looking for an economical way to turn them into an iSCSI SAN." BlueLock uses the VSA to save space in its data center, further compressing its iSCSI SAN environment by loading VMware and the VSA on Hewlett-Packard c-Class blade server chassis. Using VSA this way turns HP's SB40c blades into networked storage for VMs running on direct-attached server blades. O'Day said he's hoping to see HP break the hard-coded relationships between server blades and SB40c blades in the chassis, so he can also use Storage VMotion to move VSAs around. O'Day added, "The only thing I don't have with this setup right now is the ability to have the same redundancy for my storage as I do for my virtual servers." Christopher Kalos, network manager for medical publishing company Jobson Medical Information LLC, said he recently installed a VSA on the same box as VMware hosts at a small branch office to eliminate the need for on-site IT staff and tape backups. "We can give this environment true remote support this way," he said. Backups are snapshots sent through LeftHand's replication to a secondary site for disaster recovery. Staff at the company's headquarters can log in and manage all the storage and server software remotely. Cost and remote support were the two main factors in Kalos's decision to put in the VSA. "It cost us about $6,000 for the VSA, and the cheapest module of LeftHand's software otherwise is still about $13,000," he said.
But not all VMware and Storage VARs are buying it, I have seen primary testing from some early production systems and I have to say, customers are not seeing value. When you can purchase a SAN that goes way beyond 2TBs, say Brian McCarthy President of Sencilo Solutions. We sell SAN storage from the top manufactures in the world including HDS, EMC and NetApp, for under $5,000 for 2TBs. By the time you add up the VMware and Lefthand licenses, plus the cost of HP storage you will pay by 3 to 4x the cost of a SAN. Oh by the way who are you going to call for support, VMware, Lefthand or HP when the trouble starts, McCarthy asks? McCarthy goes on to say, rumors are all saying if Lefthand is not bought by the end of 2008 their investors will close them down, so watch for a firesale.
Like O'Day, Kalos said the single-box approach cut down on the redundancy of the system. "If I want to do maintenance on the box, I can't do it whenever I want like I can with the full LeftHand SANs where I can use the two-way replication [between servers] and failover," he said. Because of the limitations of the VSA approach, one analyst said it's a good idea to go with the full iSCSI SAN if possible. "For very small businesses and branch offices, this is a very good solution," said Chris Wolf of the Burton Group "But if users have the resources and physical space to do a full SAN, that's definitely what they should be doing." McCarthy from Sencilo agrees with Chris completely on that point.
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