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

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

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

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/

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