84TB in 4U with 2TB Disk Drives

NexSAN has done it again. Density, density and greater density! 84TB in 4U?

This is indeed the case now that the NexSAN SATABeast and SATAbeastXi can be populated with the new 2TB SATA disk drives.

If you are looking for a solution that has absolute density, look no further as once again this Green RAID solution is absolutely unique and with thousands of units in the field this tested solution will certainly not disappoint you.

Interested in the SATABeast. Contact us at Sunstar Co.
info@sunstarco.com 800.663.5523
Gavin
www.sunstarco.com

De-Duplication - a new player in towm

Until now there have been just a few players in the de-duplication market that have the bulk of the market share. Well there is a new player in the market that has better performance, greater density and cost significantly less than the established competition.

NexSAN's DeDupeSG is a turn-key de-duplication solution with:
Fast write to disk cache
Independent high speed RAID system
Block level deduplication
NAS base system
Replication with global dedupe and yes it is a Green Storage solution.

DeDupe SG delivers performance that is 20% to 100% faster than competitive vendors by combining the latest high speed CPU processing technology with Nexsan’s high speed RAID subsystem. Not only is it faster, DeDupe SG is smarter by first writing and storing backups on its high speed disk cache (deduping at a later time or concurrently) so that backup tasks are completed in a fraction of the time.

NexSAN is not doing this alone. The SATABoy and SATABeast solutions are certainly proven and now with FalconStor software solution, this integrated product is bound to be a winner!

Please feel free to call Sunstar Company at any time:
info@sunstarco.com or 800-663.5523
Many Thanks
Gavin
www.sunstarco.com

Sunstar at work

Even though the USA is experiencing a depression, corporations still are purchasing storage. The data continues to grow and we at Sunstar Company are seeing from our clients a need for even large capacity appliances.

Recently we sold a SASBeast from NexSAN Technologies for a large database. With 42 SAS drives spinning at 15,000 RPMS this is one heck of a unit. I am told by the network administrator that the SASBeast is unbelievable fast and although it does not have as much data as their existing SATABeast it is performing beyond their expectations.

We at Sunstar Company continue to offer an excellent selection of storage solutions and we we would very much like to help you select your next RAID storage solution.

Many Thanks
Gavin
info@sunstarco.com
800.663.5523

NexSAN Promotions

NexSAN Technologies recently announced the following promotion:

Buy 2, Get 1 FREE
Buy 2 SAS drives, get the next one FREE on SASBoy and SASBeast products. Purchase orders must be received by March 16, 2009. Get the performance you need and capacity you want to meet the broadest range of storage requirements.
Offer is good on 300GB and 450GB SAS drives for SASBoy and SASBeast products in both single and dual controller configurations at exclusive pricing. Offer good on ANY SIZE SYSTEM (not just fully loaded).

NBD Onsite Support Dollar Deal
Purchase a SAS/SATABoy or SAS/SATABeast with a minimum of 14 drives and receive one year of Next Business Day onsite support service for $1. Purchase orders must be received by March 16, 2009.
Offer is good on single or dual controller SAS/SATABoy or SAS/SATABeast with a minimum of 14 drives at exclusive pricing. Purchase orders must be received by March 16, 2009.

If this entices you to purchase a NexSAN storage Solution, please do contact us at Sunstar Company.

info@sunstarco.com (800) 663-5523

Gavin

Sun StorageTek T10000B Tape Drive

The new T10000B tape drive from Sun StorageTek.
Features:
1 TB native capacity and 120 MB/sec throughput drive datacenter efficiencies
Protects your investment with T10000 media re-use and broad compatibility
Supports demanding 24x7 business operations, minimizing risk
Enhances security and ensures data protection

Sunstar Company on occasion has these drives in stock.
Contact us for all your Sun Storagetek tape requirements.

800.663.5523 info@sunstarco.com

Tandem 9840 and 9940 Tape Drives

At Sunstar company we carry and support Tandem 9840 and 9940 tape drives.

The following models are available:
TANDEM CT9840-1
TANDEM CT9840-2
TANDEM CT9840-3
TANDEM CT9840-4
UNISYS CTS9840

Let us know if we can be of assistance. 800.663.5523
info@sunstarco.com

Thanks
Gavin

MaxOptix Magneto Optical Drive

Sunstar Company stocks the following MaxOptix optical drives

MaxOptix T7-9100 9.1GB Internal MO Drive, 8MB Cache, 5.25" HH

MaxOptix T8-BT23 23.3GB Internal BL Drive, 16MB Cache, 5.25" HH

MaxOptix TMT8-BT23 23.3GB External BL Drive, 16MB Cache, 5.25" HH

MaxOptix T7-9100 9.1GB Internal MO Drive, 8MB Cache, 5.25" HH

MaxOptix TMT7-9100 9.1GB External MO Drive, 8MB Cache, 5.25" HH

MaxOptix Star T6-5200 5.2GB Ultra SCSI Turbocache

MaxOptix Star T5-2600 2.6GB Ultra SCSI

Choice of 2.6GB, 5.2GB, 9.1GB and 23GB magneto optical drives.

Do let us know if we can be of assistance.

800.663.5523 info@sunstarco.com

Thanks
Gavin

Sony Magneto Optical Drives

Sunstar Company stocks the following Sony Magneto Optical Drives:

SMO-F561/S 9.1GB 5¼" MO Internal Kit
RMO-S561 9.1GB 5¼" MO External Kit
SMO-F551/S 5.2GB 5¼" MO Internal Kit
RMO-S551/D 5.2GB 5¼" MO External Kit

These drives are utilized by numerous manufacturers, including IBM, HP and Plasmon.
If you have a need for one of these drives, please do contact us.
800.663.5523 info@sunstarco.com
Many Thanks
Gavin

Storage and Backup for 2009

Storage needs continue to grown and like other industries in the USA, there has been a slowdown. Will this continue. Personally I doubt that the larger companies will hold back for to much longer. The CTO will be demanding money as they have no choice to replace legacy hardware (out of warranty) will new faster, larger capacity and certainly more reliable solutions.

Sunstar Company is a player in this market and will continue to support the needs of our present and future customers.

For so many companies, their data is their product or solution so they must maintain it's integrity. No one wants to loose their data.

Data will continue to grow and we need to back it up, via tape, replication etc.

Sunstar is always available for a free consultation

Contact us: info@sunstarco.com 800.663.5523
Many Thanks
Gavin

Tiered Storage

Sunstar company would like to make you aware that we can carry a line of storage that supports both SATA and SAS drives within the same chassis.

NexSAN recently released Tiered Storage in both their 14 Bay and 42 Bay chassis. Many of our clinets see absolute value in tiering their storage. In the recent past they had no option but to add another shelf of storage. This is no longer the case. NexSAN has thoroughly tested their solutions with 15K and 7.2K disk drives and they run just fine. Speed and heat is not an issue.
Consider adding a second controller within the chassis supporting mixed drives and your performance will jump.

For additional information contact us directly: 800.663.5523 info@sunstarco.com
Thank You
Gavin

Tape Speed and Capacity comparrison

There are many manufacturers and models of new and existing tape drives and sometimes it is much easier to make a decision or solve a naging questions when you see the data, simplified in a format that you can easily read.

Well we at Sunstar have done just that.

The msot common drives are listed on a specific page on our web site. Just follow the link below and you will be amazed how fast you will find the drive and manufacturer in question.
Drive Comparison Chart
We inventory (where possible) and support these drives.
If you have addition questions - contact us directly.
800.663.5233 info@sunstarco.com

Many Thanks
Sunstar Compnay, Inc.
Inglewood, Ca

Sun StorageTke Tape Drives

Sunstar Company supports the following Sun StorageTek tape drives. We carry a significant inventory of drives for stand alone purposes or for an existing tape library. Units are available with the appropriate shelves. Models available:

STORAGETEK T9840A ULTRA SCSI, ESCON, FIBRE CHANNEL 20GB Native, Transfer Rate 10MB/sec

STORAGETEK T9840B FICON, ESCON, FIBRE CHANNEL 20GB Native, Transfer Rate 19MB/sec

STORAGETEK T9840C FICON, ESCON, FIBRE CHANNEL 20GB Native, Transfer Rate 30MB/sec

STORAGETEK T9840D FICON, ESCON, FIBRE CHANNEL 75GB Native, Transfer Rate 16.5MB/sec

STORAGETEK T9940A ULTRA SCSI, ESCON, FIBRE CHANNEL 60GB Native, Transfer Rate 10MB/sec

STORAGETEK T9940B FICON, ESCON, FIBRE CHANNEL 200GB Native, Transfer Rate 30MB/sec

STORAGETEK T10000 FICON, FIBRE CHANNEL 500GB Native, Transfer Rate 120MB/sec

STORAGETEK T10000B FICON, FIBRE CHANNEL 1TGB Native, Transfer Rate 120MB/sec

Please do contact us and we will gladly answer all your questions.
800.663.5523 or info@sunstarco.com
Gavin

Tandem 5285ACL

Sunstar Company will will receiving a shipment o a number of Compaq Tandem 5285ACL. These are rare to find and will not last long.

The 5285ACL tape drive is a high performance, high capacity, streaming cartridge tape product designed for use on midrange and high-end computing systems. The 5285ACL tape drive features 10 cartridges, with 1.1 TB of native storage capacity (2.2 TB compressed), and transfer speeds of 11 MB/second.

If you have an interest in these units, please call us at 800.663.523

NexSAN Storage offered by Sunstar Company

Sunstar Company would like to make you aware that we offer the following NexSAN Technologies storage solutions.

All units are available with a choice of single or dual controllers, redundant power supplies, fans and offer significant energy savings.
AutoMAID™ allows NexSAN storage to place its disk drives to an idle state to conserve energy yet provide near-instantaneous access to data.

SATABeast Up to 42TB in a single chassis, SATA Drives
42 Bay, 4U, Fibre Channel & iSCSI to host

SASBeast Up to 12.6TB in a single chassis, SAS Drives
42 Bay, 4U, Fibre Channel & iSCSI to host

Tiered Storage - Mix of SAS & SATA Drives
42 Bay, 4U, Fibre Channel & iSCSI to host

SATABeast Xi Up to 42TB in a single chassis Mac environments SATA Drives
42 Bay, 4U, Fibre Channel & iSCSI to host

SATABoy Up to 14TB in a single chassis, SATA Drives
14 Bay, 3U, Fibre Channel & iSCSI to host

SASBoy Up to 4.2TB in a single chassis, SAS Drives
14 Bay, 3U, Fibre Channel & iSCSI to host

SATABoy (STH) Up to 14TB in a single chassis, SATA Drives
14 Bay, 3U, SAS & iSCSI to host

SASBoy (STH) Up to 4.2TB in a single chassis, SATA Drives
14 Bay, 3U, SAS & iSCSI to host

DATABeast Highly managed solution that can grow to several Petabytes - SAS & SATA Drives
Scalable SATA/SAS solution in a high density, low profile form factor

To learn more about NexSAN storage, please do contact us a Sunstar.
800.663.5523 or info@sunstarco.com

Thank You
Gavin

Management of fixed content

NexSAN's Assureon has been designed to to address the long term storage and management of fixed content and compliance information. Sunstar Company would like to introduce the Assureon to you and your company.

The Assureon does the following:

• Compliant-level privacy, integrity and longevity
• Self-auditing, self-healing file management technology
• Enterprise class manageability, scalability and energy efficiency
• Affordable: enterprise class archive to meet your needs at a price to meet your budget

Most storage systems provide you "hope" - hope about your data privacy, integrity and longevity. But there is some data that demands guarantees.Can you guarantee a file. . . has not been tampered with? is safe from prying eyes? is not corrupted over time?

Nexsan’s Assureon online disk storage archive provides the privacy, integrity and longevity of a digital safe deposit box with the high speed access of disk drive technology. Assureon assures Privacy Assureon ensures the privacy of data with innovative security features
Data Separation and Security

Every user or department can have their files in their own virtual safe deposit box. Assureon establishes an unalterable audit trail for the life of an archived file. Every time a file is accessed, a record is kept of who accessed it and when it was accessed. Assureon ensures the integrity of data with next generation self-auditing and self-healing technology.

In a new world of regulatory compliance, you need to guarantee the retention and deletion of files. With automated integrity management and file immutability technology, Assureon protects against accidental or unauthorized file deletion and ensures you can retain files for compliant or flexible time periods as well as delete them when their retention period is over.

Ideal Markets
Healthcare, Banking, Brokerage, Law, Compliance Officers, Legal Counsel etc.

Do contact us at info@sunstarco.com or call us 800.663.5523 if you would like to learn more about the NexSAN Assureon.
Gavin

NexSAN SATA and SAS Storage Solutions

Sunstar Company continues top promote the NexSAN SATA and SAS storage solutions as we have found over the years that the performance, quality, reliability, support, functionality and pricing offered by NexSAN overshadows all the competitors in this tier.

NexSAN Technologies has expanded its line of storage solution over the last couple of months, and there is more to follow.

Let's look at the line:

3U Chassis supporting a choice of 14 SATA or SAS drives
SATABoy Up to 14TB in a single chassis, SATA Drives - 14 Bay, 3U, Fibre Channel & iSCSI to host, - Single or Dual controller, active - active, AutoMaid - Green Technology
SASBoy Up to 4.2TB in a single chassis, SAS Drives - 14 Bay, 3U, Fibre Channel & iSCSI to host, - Single or Dual controller, active - active, AutoMaid - Green Technology
SATABoy(STH) Up to 14TB in a single chassis, SATA Drives - 14 Bay, 3U, SAS & iSCSI to host - Single or Dual controller, active - active, AutoMaid - Green Technology
SASBoy(STH) Up to 4.2TB in a single chassis, SAS Drives - 14 Bay, 3U, SAS & iSCSI to host - Single or Dual controller, active - active, AutoMaid - Green Technology

4U Chassis supporting a choice of 42 SATA or SAS drives
SATABeast Up to 42TB in a single chassis, SATA Drives - 42 Bay, 4U, Fibre Channel & iSCSI to host - Single or Dual controller, active - active, AutoMaid - Green Technology
SASBeast Up to 12.6TB in a single chassis, SAS Drives - 42 Bay, 4U, Fibre Channel & iSCSI to host - Single or Dual controller, active - active, AutoMaid - Green Technology
Tiered Storage - Mix of SAS & SATA Drives - 42 Bay, 4U, Fibre Channel & iSCSI to host - Single or Dual controller, active - active, AutoMaid - Green Technology
SATABeast Xi Up to 42TB in a single chassis Mac environments SATA Drives - 42 Bay, 4U, Fibre Channel & iSCSI to host - Single or Dual controller, active - active, AutoMaid - Green Technology

Network Attached Storage
The Edge - NAS for SMB, FC connected RAID storage, capacity and density - up to 84TB, Green Storage - Consolidates file and block into a single solution with CIFS, NFS and iSCSI
The Big One - grow with new or existing NexSAN Storage to several Petabytes - secure and highly managed

DATABeast Highly managed solution that can grow to several Petabytes - SAS & SATA Drives - Scalable SATA/SAS solution in a high density, low profile form factor

Assureon - Secure Storage. Encryption, Compliance, De-Duplication, Archiving, e-Discovery.

Green Storage - Intelligent, disk-based archiving appliances - complete hardware/software systems that give users powerful and cost-effective choices for the protection, retention and long term care of their information assets

If you have a need or an interest in purchasing some additional RAID storage, please contact us at Sunstar Company. info@sunstarco.com or (800) 663.5523
Gavin
http://www.sunstarco.com/

Quantum Scalar 50 and Scalar 500 Tape Libraries

Scalable, Simple to Operate and Easy to Service are some of the features that drive many companies to purchase tape libraries from Quantum.

Today I am going to focus on two of their libraries in particular.
The Scalar 50 and the Scalar i500

The Scalar 50 start with 38 slots and scale up to 76 slots. The user-friendly interface enables simple installation, operation and maintenance. Functionality, includes partitioning, multiple drive type support and connectivity choices: SCSI, iSCSI, SAS and Fibre Channel all from Quantum. The scalar 50 supports the following tape drives: LTO-4, DLT-S4, LTO-3, or LTO-3HH. Bottom line Quantum has released a great library and for the most part this unit will support most small to medium sized companies for some time to come.

The Scalar i500 like the scalar 50 was originally engineered by Adic and once again we have a hit. The Scalar i500 combines modular design with continuous robotics to provide industry-leading scalability, performance, and reliability. Supporting up to 18 LTO tape drives, starting with 36 slots and the ability to grow to 400 slots this modular library has the potential to support enterprise corporations. Standard warranty is for one year with uplifts available.

If you would like to learn more about these libraries do contact info@sunsatrco.com or call (800) 663-5523 for immediate help.

Many Thanks

Gavin
www.sunstarco.com

Healthcare - Archiving your data

NexSAN's Assureon has been designed to to address the long term storage and management of fixed content and compliance information. For the medical industry, this is good news. The PACS just keep growing and we know we can't go back to the "old" hard copy that we used for decades.

The biggest problems faced by this medical market are compliance and yes the files tend to grow significantly and there is an associated cost as these images need to be kept for a predetermined period of time.

The NexSAN Assureon can be your savior.

The NexSAN Assureon is fast, manages itself, self auditing and healing, is very reliable, is secure, offers longevity, easy to grow and is very simple to own and use.

Nexsan Assureon adds value in many different ways:

• Securely archives PACS images to meet long-term retention policies
• Meets mandatory HIPAA requirements
• WORM storage ensures image immutability
• Continual auditing to ensure image integrity and authenticity
• Provides audit trail of user access
• Archived images can be encrypted to ensure patient security and privacy
• At the end of an image’s retention period, either the retention period can be extended or the images can be permanently deleted
• Provides local or remote replication for Business Continuity
• In remote replication: when primary site is down, applications transparently fail over to secondary site.
• When primary site is back up and active, Assureon’s automatic self-healing replication re-synchronizes the two sites.
• Solution in place for satellite offices, local or worldwide.

This is not the easiest solution to explain in written words. Basically it will adapt to your environment.

Assureon has been certified or is compatible with:
PACS Certified: GE, AGFA, Plasmon.
PACS Certification in process: Siemens, Cerner and McKesson

Bottom line it works and is significantly less expensive than the competition and offers additional features.

Please contact me at Sunstar Company and rather quickly we can determine if the Assureon is a match.

Gavin@sunstarco.com 800.663.5523

Thanks

Gavin
www.sunstarco.com

42TB in a single chassis

Sunstar Company is proud to introduce to you the NexSAN SATABeast. No just like any other SAN, the SATABeast will save you money.

Interested in going green, save power.

The SATABeast employs Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy saving technology. AutoMAID transparently places SATABeast disk drives in an idle state reducing power consumption and operational costs. AutoMAID delivers the cost-saving benefits of MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) without the limitations of slow access times and special host software. Nexsan's AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or RAID set and enables users to determine the level of access speed and energy savings desired. AutoMAID is the first MAID architecture that supports VTL (Virtual Tape Libraries), full file format D2D and standard RAID implementations.

NexSAN's award-winning Performance SATAT RAID controller architecture utilizes dual RAID engines on each SATABeast controller to provide extremely high throughput performance across 42 spindles. SATABeast's 42 high capacity drives can be segmented into multiple RAID sets or a single large storage pool. LUN Mapping allows users to easily configure the massive disk capacity for dozens of servers or one.

• Highest storage density in the industry - up to 42 TB in only 4U
• NexSAN's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy saving technology greatly reduces power consumption and operating costs.
• Full Enterprise class performance and reliability
• Dual function Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity with wire-speed performance. Flexible, scalable and completely OS independent, SATABeast easily supports a broad range of storage infrastructures.
• High performance – over 700 MB/s sustained throughput
• Integrated Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity for flexible implementation
• Reduced energy consumption and costs through AutoMAID™ technology.
• All active components are redundant and individually hot-swappable
• Highest density per rack inch
• Completely OS independent. No special software drivers or server-based management applications required.
• Supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5 and 6 & supports multiple RAID sets and multiple volumes per set.
• Up to 2GB cache per controller and supports up to 32 LUNS per controller.
• Online SATABeast delivers access to data up to 500 times faster than tape libraries and 20x faster than other MAID systems.
• Embedded web-browsable GUI over 10/100/1000 port, supports email alerts and SNMP traps
• Horizontal midplane design promotes superior airflow and alleviates insertion stress points
• Anti-Accumulative Rotational Vibration design enables maximum drive reliability.
• WorldView™ - Provides ability to manage and configure multiple Nexsan units from a single GUI
• Warranty - three years
• Reliable - YES

Looking for more than 42TB, look at the DataBeast, in essence, multiple SATABeasts and more.

More spped, well the SASBeast (not confirmed) is not yet on the market, consider the NexSAN SASBoy, very similar to the 14 drive SATABoy , however SAS drives and very fast.

Interested, contact me at Sunstar. (800) 663.5523 or info@sunstarco.com

Cheers

Gavin

iSCSI Storage here to stay

It's easy to install - almost as fast as Fibre attached storage and yes reliable. So why not purchase an iSCSI SAN?

Actually many companies are going the iSCSI root, however it is not the ideal solution for all. If you need very fast storage and are working with large databases - perhaps it will be best to stay with Fibre attached storage. Not all vendors agree and some vehemently state - "ours is fast enough". This might indeed be the case, however most primary storage in enterprise accounts tend to stick with a particular manufacturer and Fibre has worked in the past so why not continue.

We at Sunstar Company do recommend iSCSI Attached Storage for many many of our clients. For the most part they are easy to install, reliable and yes fast. Most manufacturers that do offer an iSCSi solution have in the past paired the unit with SATA drives, thus good but not great performance. Now with the new SAS drives, we are looking at a higher performing solution.

We tend to offer the following solutions when we have a client looking to purchase iSCSI:

• NexSAN - Their line of storage supports a choice of Fibre and iSCSI ports or SAS and iSCSI ports. In conjunction with The Edge that SATABeast or SATABoy will now supports NAS with a choice of SATA or SAS drives.
• iQstor - iSCSI storage with software functionality, choice of Fibre or SATA drives.
• RELDATA - iSCSI Gateway (use your existing storage) or purchase the head with storage. iSCSI - add NAS, replication and more.
• Arena- basic box - add drives and you are ready to go.
• StoreVault from NetApp - Twelve drive solution - SATA drives - NAS options and software.

All these manufacturers support iSCSI and you have a choice when connecting to your network. Download the Microsoft iSCSI drive (free) and install or purchase a TOE [network interface cards with TCP/IP offload engines] . Not absolutly necessary - however some folks tend to think that they do offer an advantage. Personally I have not see too much of a diiference in performance.

Contact us at Sunstar and let us steer youi to the solution that best fits your requirements and budget.

info@sunstarco.com (800) 663-5523

Thank You

Gavin