Atempo - Backup and CDP solutions

Sunstar Company is pleased to announce that we recently signed on with Atempo. Atempo offers Continuous Data Protection and high-performance backup and recovery to secure long-term archiving.

Two of the solutions we would like to highlight today are: Time Navigator and Live Backup

Server Backup and Recovery - Time Navigator

Time Navigator delivers security to companies that operate in dynamic environments and demand increased performance, scalability and reliability for data protection. Time Navigator
uniformly and centrally manages multiple environments, provides an optimal combination of fast backups and restores and delivers multilayered security. This easy-to-use solution includes a Web-based GUI for remote administration and end-user recovery.

• Combining the best of data protection and storage security, Atempo Time Navigator offers an advanced, high-performance protection and archival solution for heterogeneous environments.
• Powerful and easy to use, Time Navigator makes it easy to manage enterprise data throughout its lifecycle and meet critical business requirements, from digital privacy and regulatory compliance to long-term archiving.
• A unique approach to data restoration locates and restores individual files from any point in time and any tier of storage.
• User single file access at any time
• Full view of the file directories for fast and easy selection of data to restore
• Convenient display of deleted files for easy retrieval
• Disk to Disk to Tape backup functionality managed with VTL
• Security & Compliance
• Snapshot Management
• Replication
• Mixed SAN & NAS Architecture
• Archiving Module
• Wide Platform, Database, and Application Support
• Reporting and monitoring tools

http://www.sunstarco.com/Software/Atempo/Atempo_time_navigator.htm

Continuous Data Protection for your Notebook/Laptop - Live Backup

Do you have a sales force of notebooks and workstations that are not being backed up? Atempo's CDP solutions continuously capture all data, including any modifications, from the moment it is created.

• Say "Goodbye" to backup windows Live Backup uses Continuous Data Protection (CDP) so you never have to schedule a backup again
• Perform Self-Recovery to restore files in seconds With the Recovery Assistant, users can use a simple wizard to recover their own files, which frees up your IT staff
• Reduce data storage & network bandwidth. Live Backup only transmits the changed blocks of data, and only stores each file one time, even if it's on every laptop.
• Protect your mobile workforce 24/7Live Backup protects data even when your users are disconnected or traveling
• Restore entire systems through Bare Metal Recovery. With Full System Protection, users can perform a complete recovery in case of hard drive failure or laptop theft.

http://www.sunstarco.com/Software/Atempo/Atempo_live_backup.htm

Please do free to contact Sunstar Company so that we can schedule a live WebEx for either Time Navigator or Live Backup.

Many Thanks

Sunstar Company

800-663-5523 info@sunstarco.com

www.sunstarco.com

Email lifecycle management - MS Exchange

Sunstar Company would like to make you aware that we offer Email lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft Exchange developed by C2C.

Key solutions:

• Optimize email system resource capacity, performance and usage
• Manage email according to e-Policy or retention and archiving regulations
• Reduce risk associated with email affecting your business
• Enable full message search and e-discovery both in archived and non-archived systems
• Control and verify Mailbox and public folder access rights and permissions
• Reduces mailbox quota frustrations, removing the need for PST files
• Manages legacy PST files from discovery to the archive
  

C2C solutions are:

• Built for fast installation
• Simple menu-driven management
• Total Cost of Ownership

http://www.sunstarco.com/Software/c2c/c2c%20Main.htm

Please do contact us at your convenience and we can set up a WebEx at your convenience and demonstrate the features that are of interest to your company.

Many Thanks

Sunstar Company, Inc.

www.sunstarco.com

800-663-5523 info@sunstarco.com

Data Mirroring, Striping with and without parity

Mirroring, Striping and Striping with parity are the three fundamental RAID techniques and the various RAID types (RAID 5, 6 etc) can use one or more of these techniques.

Data mirroring stores the same data across two hard drives which provides redundancy and read speed.
Upside: - Redundant - if a single drive fails, the other drive still has the data. Great on read I/O performance and read throughput because it can independently process two read requests at the same time.
Downside: - Your capacity is only half of the total capacity of all your hard drives expensive.

Striping the data distributes the data across multiple hard drives.
Upside: - Scales very well on read and write throughput for single tasks but it has less read throughput than data mirroring when processing multiple tasks.
Downside: - Rarely used by itself because it provides zero fault tolerance and a single drive failure causes not only the data on that drive to fail, but the entire RAID array.

Striping with parity solves the reliability problem at the expense of some capacity and a big hit on write IOPS and write throughput. Data is striped across multiple hard drives just like normal data striping but a parity is generated and stored on one or more hard drives. Parity data allows a RAID volume to be reconstructed if one (sometimes two) hard drives fail within the array.
Upside: - Data is safe – Loss of data is less likely
Downside: - Can be expensive – With drive capacities increasing – xTB is no longer available for use.

For additional information - understanding RAID
http://www.sunstarco.com/Education/RAID%20Solutions.htm

Please feel free to visit our web site for more information, we have an assortment of storage solutions that will take advantage of the technologies stated above.

www.sunstarco.com
800-663-5523
info@sunstarco.com

SATA, SAS and Fibre RAID Arrays

In the last eight years there has been a tremendous growth in the need to purchase storage; this is true for every business and industry.

For some time there were only two technologies used in RAID arrays - Fibre and SCSI. NexSAN Technologies was the first ton introduce an array named the "ATABoy" that utilized PATA Drives. It took less than two years for others to accept this as an option for secondary storage and soon this morphed to the newer SATA drives. In the last year or so, SCSI drives are slowly been replaced by the newer SAS drives. In another post I will discuss the drives in great depth.

Sunstar Company does work with a number of vendors that we believe off terrific solutions encompassing all drive technologies and supporting both Fibre and iSCSI connectivity.

Some of the manufacturers that we offer to our clients are; NexSAN Technologies, iQstor, StoreVault (a NetApp Co.), IBM Storage, Arena Products , EqualLogic, Reldata, OnStor and Overland Storage.

Each have their strength in specific markets. Please fee free to contact us and we can point out the solutions that we feel will best fit your needs.

Specifically:
NexSAN offers:

• SATABoy - Limited to 14 SATA Drives - Single or Dual Controller - Up to 4 Fibre & 4 iSCSI ports
• SASBoy - Limited to 14 SAS Drives - Single or Dual Controller - Up to 4 Fibre & 4 iSCSI ports
• SATABeast - Limited to 42 SATA Drives - Single or Dual Controller - Up to 4 Fibre & 4 iSCSI ports
• SATABeastXi - Limited to 14 SATA Drives - Single or Dual Controller - Up to 4 Fibre & 4 iSCSI ports (For Mac - Apple)
• DATABeast - Fully configured SAN in a rack with multiple of any of the above solutions

iQstor offers:

• iQ2280 - 15 SATA Drives - Single or Dual Controller - Up to 4 Fibre ports - Up to 240 drives (Fibre or SATA), using expansion chassis
• iQ2880 - 15 Fibre Drives - Single or Dual Controller - Up to 4 Fibre ports - Up to 240 drives (Fibre or SATA), using expansion chassis
• iQ2850 - 15 Fibre or SATA Drives - Single or Dual Controller - Up to 4 iSCSI ports - Up to 240 drives (Fibre or SATA), using expansion chassis

StoreVault offers:

• S550 - Limited to 12 SATA Drives - Single Controller - 2 iSCSI ports - iSCSI SAN or NAS

As mentioned above, Sunstar does offer more options so please do visit our site by following the link below.

http://www.sunstarco.com/Network%20Attached%20Storage/SAN/SAN%20Partners.htm

Sunstar Company, Inc.

800-663-5523

info@sunstarco.com

Storage for the Mac

Nexsan has taken its award-winning SATABeast storage system and redesigned it for Mac environments. With unparalleled density, availability and energy efficiency, SATABeast Xi is the perfect fit for Mac storage. Sunstar Company, Inc has been working with NexSAN for many years, having sold ATA and SATA solutions to organizations attaching the said arrays to both Intel and Apple servers.

The SATABeastXi user interface provides access to your system from any standard Web browser including Safari or any host computer directly or via a LAN or WAN.



High Density Data Storage for Mac Users:
-High density storage - up to 42 TB in only 4U
-Built for Xserve and Mac Pro systems
-AutoMAID energy saving technology greatly reduces power consumption & operating costs
-Full Enterprise class performance, reliability and management
-iSCSI connectivity with wire-speed performance
-Fibre Channel connectivity

For additional information:

http://www.sunstarco.com/Storage/Nexsan/NexSAN_SATABeastXi.htm

Thank You

Sunstar

www.sunstarco.com

info@sunstarco.com 800-663-5523

Green Technology

Solutions for Energy Savings

Nexsan's storage and archiving solutions deliver energy savings innovation that will greatly cut power and cooling costs without sacrificing performance including:

High capacity storage that not only reduces power and cooling requirements, but frees up valuable rack space

Storage Arrays
At no additional cost, Nexsan storage arrays come standard with AutoMAID and all our other energy saving features. SATABeast: With up to 42TB in 4U and enterprise class performance, reliability and management, SATABeast offers energy efficiency for secondary, online archive, and nearline storage applications
SATABeast - Designed for the Xserve and Mac Pro systems, SATABeast Xi delivers the same power and cooling savings as SATABeast
SATABoy: The highly scalable SATABoy enables energy efficient storage of large amounts of information online
Archiving
Built upon our award-winning storage arrays, Nexsan archiving solutions benefit from the same energy saving technologies like AutoMAID.: An intelligent and secure archive appliance, Assureon offers storage for long term retention and management of fixed content information.

All of NexSAN RAID technoloy experts do take advantage to NexSAN RAID Storage

http://www.sunstarco.com/Network%20Attached%20Storage/Nexsan/Nexsan%20Main.htm
Thank You!

Data De-Duplication

Data de-duplication as the process removing redundant files, bytes or blocks of data to ensure that only ‘unique’ data is stored.

In essence our goal is to:

1. Eliminates failed backups and restores
2. Greatly reduces your backup window
3. Work with existing backup application

Sunstar Company has teamed up with ExaGrid

Read the frequently asked questions and in all likelyhood ExaGrids scalable solution will work for you.

http://www.sunstarco.com/Storage/Exagrid/ExaGrid_Questions.htm

ExaGrid's byte-level data de-duplication technology stores changes from backup to backup instead of storing full file copies. This unique approach reduces the disk space required by 10 to 50:1, or more, delivering unparalleled cost savings and performance.

1. Disk-based backup with compression/data de-duplication at the cost of tape
2. Optional WAN-efficient offsite system for tape replacement/disaster recovery
   

Thank You

Sunstar Company, Inc.

Sunstar Company in Southern California

Sunstar Company was founded in the early 1980's and boy having things changed!
We primarily focus on back up and storage. We recognize that this is quite a large swath in the computer industry however we do focus primarily on both disk and tape solutions.

Storage Area Networks, Direct Attached Storage and Network Attached Storage are the terms that you are most likely to hear.

• Storage Area Networks - SAN's are most likely to be attached via Fibre or more recently via iSCSI connectivity. For block level activity and giving acces to multiple file server and a significant number of clients.
• Direct Attached Storage - A DAS is most likely to be attached via Fibre or SCSI connectivity. Not seen as often as in the past. Directly attached to a single Server.
• Network Attached Server - NAS is most poular with users where data is file based. Not recommended when a database is in use. Attaches via ethernet. Often combined with iSCSI.

http://www.sunstarco.com/

Regarding Tape. We offer both Tape Automation (multiple drives and media) or a single tape option. We work with different tape technologies, current and end of life. These drives are offered with manufacturers warranties or limited warranties for refurbished drives. Sunstar does repair most tape drives and we have the ability to transfer data from one technology to another.

http://www.sunstarco.com/Tape%20Partner%20Page.htm

Please do visit our site and do let us know if we can be of assistance.

Sunstar Company

info@sunstarco.com

800-663-5523