Storage and Backup: Email Management Appliances

Storage and Backup: Email Management Appliances
PivotStor Site
http://pivotstor.com/

Email Management Appliances

Do you have an need to find and old email? Ideally we want to conduct a search using a command very similar to that of what we expect when we search within Google.

This option is available from PivotStor when install one of their email management appliances. What's more it is definable and has centralized policies for total information protection.

Let's use Sunstar Company as an example. We send and receive email every day, and we need the email to be filtered. Email enters the system and is then subject to the centralized policies of the EP-Archive storage engine. Its customizable rules can be tuned to match Sunstar's business needs. If the email or its attachments are duplicates, EP-Archive automatically tags it as a “single instance”, which serves to reduce storage drain. The email is then fully indexed for easy search and retrieval by end users.

And thanks to the sophistication of the EP-Archive software, archived data can be retrieved in minutes, not hours or days. This feature is particularly important in cases with legal ramifications.

Models available from Sunstar Company, designed to manage to over 2500 mailboxes and 800,000 emails per day:

EP-1000™ SMB is designed to protect up to 1000 mailboxes in a small to medium-sized company. A 1U rack-mount, short-form design with a low power footprint makes it ideal for any SMB company, ISP or ASP provider.

EP-2500™ SME is designed to protect up to 2500 mailboxes in a small to medium-sized enterprise. A 1U rack-mount, short-form design with a low power footprint makes it ideal for any SME company, ISP or ASP provider.

EP-2500+™ Enterprise is designed to protect over 2500 mailboxes in an enterprise environment. A 2U rack-mount design with a low power footprint makes it ideal for any enterprise company, ISP or ASP provider. It can be customized to support over 50,000 users per node.

Please contact us and let Sunstar help you select the appropriate solutions that will safeguard you and your emails. (800) 663-5523 info@sunstarco.com

Gavin
www.sunstarco.com

NAS for the SMB Market

There are numerous manufacturers of NAS (Network Attached Storage) solutions that incorporate Microsoft's Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 (WUDSS) as their software engine.

However, I would like to focus on NexSAN's -The Edge NAS solutions that differs from the competition even though that they all utilize WUDSS.

A little about The Edge.

• Greater capacity and density - Scale from a few TBs to14TBs to 46TBs to 84TBs
• 1U compact size with integrated FC storage ports and IP host and client ports
• More robust reliability with NexSAN enterprise class RAID storage - FC connected RAID storage for higher performance
• Quad core processor with 4GB of memory and two 80GB drives configured in a mirror
• RAID operations are separate and off-loaded from The Edge NAS server maximizing NAS server CPU and memory performance.
• Green benefits with Nexsan's energy saving AutoMAID technology
• Consolidates file and block into a single solution with CIFS, NFS and iSCSI

The competition tends to incorporate a server at the head with a RAID controller or perhaps software RAID. Here NexSAN is somewhat different. Sure the operating system resides on the head - but that's where we part from the competition. Every NexSAN storage array includes a choice of a single or dual RAID controller. As we add another RAID box, we add another RAID controller. Perhaps you add a:

• NexSAN SATABeast or
• NexSAN SASBoy or
• NexSAN SATABoy

Each NexSAN box has it's own fast controller and a choice of SATA or SAS drives, ensuring that the NAS will not chug along but rather performance will increase as you add more Fibre Channel connected storage.

Green technology is supported. When you install The Edge and incorporate any of the NexSAN Storage Arrays you have the ability to take advantage AutoMaid at no additional charge thus reducing power and cooling costs. When activated you will reduce your power consumption by at least 15% to 50+%.

Sunstar Company continues to offer NexSAN Storage solutions. Their track record is excellent and having seen The Edge in action I am confident that this NAS box will be a terrific solution.

For additional in formation - contact us at: (800) 663-5523 or info@sunstarco.com

Gavin

http://www.sunstarco.com/

Sun StorageTek T10000B Tape Drive

The Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive delivers the industry’s highest capacity, making it ideal for 24x7 datacenter operations requiring high duty cycle data storage and retrieval.

Basic Facts:

• 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

As a result of its 120 MB/sec throughput, the StorageTek T10000B lets you write a terabyte of data in less than 2.5 hours, shrinking backup windows and saving staff time and resources. Add optional sport cartridges to the mix and get 2x faster average access to data. The StorageTek T10000B is compatible with Sun StorageTek enterprise libraries and integrates seamlessly with leading third-party enterprise software libraries and business applications.

The T10000B utilizes the same physical tape drive for FICON and Fibre Channel, allowing you to easily transition between both open systems and mainframe environments.

A great feature of the The StorageTek T10000B, it comes with built-in encryption. This tape-encryption appliance provides a simple, centralized, scalable solution for managing the keys used to encrypt and decrypt data written by the tape drive, ensuring that only the right people have access to the data.

Contact us here at Sunstar Company for your new and re-certified T10000 tape drives.

info@sunstarco.com (800) 663-5523

Many Thanks

Gavin

Tandberg Data for the SMB

We all are aware that Tandberg Data purchased Exabyte and it seems that they have covered all the bases if you are looking for a small tape library or autoloader.

Yes they do focus in the SMB enviroment, however with some of their larger libraries I feel that some enterprise accounts could certainly purchase one of the Tandberg libaries.

Let's review them:

Tandberg Data's new or renamed Exabyte Libraries - certainly their flagships.
StorageLibrary 24 Supporting 1 - 2 LTO Drives with 24 Slots
StorageLibrary T40 Supporting 1 - 4 LTO Drives with 40 Slots
StorageLibrary T80 Supporting 1 - 8 LTO Drives with 77 Slots

The reason for stating "say 1 - 4 drives," Tandberg has designed these units to support full height and half height LTO drives. Note: Most of these units support a variety of LTO generations and models and please look at each unit as to connectivity.

Hold outs from Exabyte.
StorageLoader LTO-4 Supporting 1 drive with 8 slots
StorageLoader LTO-3 Supporting 1 drive with 8 slots
StorageLoader LTO-2 Supporting 1 drive with 8 slots
Magnum 1x7 LTO Autoloader Supporting 1 drive with 7 slots
Magnum 224 Library Supporting 1- 2 drives with 24 slots (see T40)
Magnum 448 Library Supporting 1-4 drives with 48 slots

All in all, well manufactured LTO Tape Libraries and these units are available from Sunstar Company, Inc.
Please contact us: (800) 663-5523 or info@sunstarco.com
Many Thanks

Gavin

HP Business Class Tape Libraries

Supporting up to 16 tape drives and 240 slots with a capacity to 96TB native. The Hewlett Packard (HP) Business Class Libraries are ideal for small to medium IT networks with or without a storage area network (SAN). Investment protection with both capacity and performance upgrades for environments with unpredictable data growth.


HP StorageWorks MSL6000 Tape Library
Supports LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 and LTO-3 Ultrium 960

HP StorageWorks MSL8096 Tape Library
Supports LTO-4 Ultrium 1840; LTO-4 Ultrium 1760; LTO-3 Ultrium 960 and LTO-3 Ultrium 920

HP StorageWorks MSL4048 Tape Library
Supports LTO-4 Ultrium 1840; LTO-4 Ultrium 1760; LTO-3 Ultrium 960 and LTO-3 Ultrium 920

HP StorageWorks MSL2024 Tape Library
Supports LTO-4 Ultrium 1840; LTO-4 Ultrium 1760; LTO-3 Ultrium 960; LTO-3 Ultrium 920 and LTO-2 Ultrium 448.

Each library includes two removable 12-slot magazines, and one user-configurable mail slot dedicated for import/export of data cartridges. A barcode reader is part of the standard configuration for facilitating media management.

We at Sunstar sell new and refurbished LTO tape drives.
(800) 663-5523 info@sunstarco.com
Gavin at Sunstar

HP LTO Tape Drives

Looking for a new or used LTO tape drive manufactured by Hewlett Packard. HP has a plethora of models for you to choose from.

Questions to ask:

1. Connectivity - Fibre Channel, SCSI or SAS
2. Full Height or Half Height Drives
3. Capacity and speed. Choose from four generations of the Ultrium LTO drives: LTO1, LTO2, LTO3 or LTO4
4. Internal (System or library) or External

LTO4
HP Ultrium 1840 800GB at 120MB/s, 1.6TB at 240MB/s
HP Ultrium 1760 HH 800GB, 1.6TB at 576GB/hr

LTO3
HP Ultrium 960 400GB at 80MB/s, 800GB at 160MB/s
HP Ultrium 920 HH 400GB, 800GB at 432GB/hr

LTO2
HP Ultrium 460 200GB at 30MB/s, 400GB at 60MB/s
HP Ultrium 448 HH 200GB, 400GB at 173GB/hr

LTO1
HP Ultrium 232 HH 100GB, 200GB at 115GB/hr
HP Ultrium 230 100GB at 15MB/s, 200GB at 30MB/s

Do not be surprised if we at Sunstar have the model of your choice on hand.

info@sunstarco.com (800) 663-5523

Cheers

Gavin

www.sunstarco.com