Today was not a good day for the US stock market. The Dow dropped 770 points and the Nasdq lost almost 200 points.
So why am I noting all this gloom on the Sunstar Blog Site - after all Sunstar Company is a data storage and backup company.
Quite simply - our data continues to grow and we need to ensure that the data we have is available be it on RAID storage or perhaps archived onto tape. Look at your home computer, yes we are adding more data all the time and backup up less frequently. This we knno is not good. The disk drive manufacturers are increasing the drive capacities for two basic reasons: Technology alows for larger capacity and secondly, the consumers demand more capacity. Bottom line our data will continue to grow and I believe we are near the bottom of the curve.
Data is there and we need to deal with it. The consumers of RAID storage have few choices. Sure we can archive more, tape is great but we all question reliability. Primary storage can be cost prohibitave. So we must look to secondary storage.
Sunstar works with storage manufacturers such as NexSAN, iQStoar and Arena and thes folks tend to fucus on primarily SATA II storage, thus the secondary tier of storage.
As for tape - LTO, IBM and the StorageTek line are still popular - but now for archive purposes.
Please conatc Sunstar if we can be of assistance.
800.663-5523 info@sunstarco.com
Gavin
Monday, September 29, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
iQstor with Fibre Drives
Fibre Disk drives are the standard for 3.5-inch 10K-RPM and 15K-RPM hard drives used in mission-critical server and storage solutions where system availability and reliability are of utmost importance.
If performance, reliability and innovation for enterprise applications is of importance to you, I would recommend that you looks at utilizing Fibre disk drives in your RAID. These drives tend to set the standard for e-business and real-time commerce infrastructure computing. Fibre drives are ideal for 3.5-inch mainstream and enterprise storage applications and is an excellent choice for demanding mission-critical network and server storage environments.
If performance, reliability and innovation for enterprise applications is of importance to you, I would recommend that you looks at utilizing Fibre disk drives in your RAID. These drives tend to set the standard for e-business and real-time commerce infrastructure computing. Fibre drives are ideal for 3.5-inch mainstream and enterprise storage applications and is an excellent choice for demanding mission-critical network and server storage environments.
- Broad range of capacities—from 36 GB to 450 GB
- Serial Attached SCSI, Ultra320 SCSI, 2-Gb/s and 4-Gb/s Fibre Channel interfaces
- A 40 percent improvement in IOPS/watt performance.
- RoHS compliant
- Sustained data rates up to 125 MB/s
- Seek times as fast as 3.5 ms
- Highest reliability rating in the industry
- Generally - 5-year limited warranty
Sunstar Company offers the iQstor line of storage that utilize Fibre and SATA drives. Each shelf supports 15 drives and the two models that I would like to bring to you attention are:
Fibre to Fibre - iQ2880 4Gb Fibre to Fibre and iSCSI to Fibre - iQ2850 iSCSI to SATA or Fibre along with the JBOD that supports a choice of Fibre or SATA Drives. (240 Drives max)
Contact me and we discuss these options: 800.663.5523 info@sunstarco.com
Gavin
Advantages of SAS Drives
Sunstar Company and NexSAN Technologies would like to introduce you to their new SASBoy Storage Array.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), the follow-on to parallel SCSI, is designed for high performance enterprise requirements.
SAS provides significant benefits to external storage subsystems and offers users "one-stop-shopping" to satisfy their requirements for the following three main data types.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), the follow-on to parallel SCSI, is designed for high performance enterprise requirements.
SAS provides significant benefits to external storage subsystems and offers users "one-stop-shopping" to satisfy their requirements for the following three main data types.
Throughput Data: High MB/s and large data intensive files; Large block, random read/writes; Video streaming; CAD; Transaction Data; Reference Data
Transaction Data: Maximum IOP, calculation intensive files; Small block, random read/writes; Reservation systems; Billing systems
Reference Data: Large block, sequential writes / reads
SAS based external storage arrays (such as the NexSAN SASBoy) provide benefits in four areas: performance, availability, flexibility, scalability and cost of ownership.
SASBoy: High capacity – up to 4.2 TB in only 3U and Data Transfer Rates: Fibre: Up to 50,000 random IOPS from cache.
Many Thanks
Gavin
(800) 663-5523 info@sunstarco.com
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
iSCSI RAID now VMware Certified
Sunstar Company, Inc is please to announce that the iQ2850 iSCSI storage system has been certified for use with VMware Infrastructure 3. Based on this completed interoperability testing, iQstor’s iQ2850 will now be included in the Storage / SAN Compatibility Guide for VMware ESX 3.5, a part of VMware Infrastructure 3, as a supported storage platform.
The iQstor iQ2850 iSCSI SAN is easily installed in under twenty minutes -- simplifying integration and accelerating migration into virtual environments. By deploying the iQ2850 with VMware Infrastructure 3, IT managers are able to leverage a simple, flexible virtual storage solution that can scale easily and affordably to meet changing business requirements.
iQstor’s iQ2850 iSCSI SAN includes:
The iQstor iQ2850 iSCSI SAN is easily installed in under twenty minutes -- simplifying integration and accelerating migration into virtual environments. By deploying the iQ2850 with VMware Infrastructure 3, IT managers are able to leverage a simple, flexible virtual storage solution that can scale easily and affordably to meet changing business requirements.
iQstor’s iQ2850 iSCSI SAN includes:
- integrated data protection and management features such as storage virtualization
- snapshot
- volume-copy
- remote replication
- storage provisioning
- and policy-based capacity growth.
The iQ2850 provides simple storage consolidation, enabling virtual infrastructures to improve storage utilization and data protection methods, facilitate disaster recovery and optimize virtualized server availability and workload migration.
Every iQ2850 offers seamless and affordable online capacity expansion - up to 240 drives - and features eight iSCSI host ports for flexible, multi-host accessibility. iQstor’s fully redundant active-active architecture provides a complete and fault-tolerant SAN.
If this is iSCSI RAID solution is of interest to you please contact us:
800.663.5523 info@sunstarco.com
Gavin
Data Transcription and Migration Services
Are you in need to repair or replace an existing tape drive?
Sunstar Company, Inc has the ability ro repair and supply new or replacement tape drives to companies offering:
Sunstar Company, Inc has the ability ro repair and supply new or replacement tape drives to companies offering:
- Tape Media Copying
- Tape Transcribing
- Data Re-mastering
- Data Archiving
- Data Processing Services.
- Tape drives supported:
LTO (Ultrium)
LTO 4, 3, 2 and 1 - Internal External (FH & HH) and for specific tape libraries
T9840, T9940 and T10000
T9840A, B, C & D; T9940A & B and T10000- Internal, External and for specific tape libraries
3480
All Manufacturers - Internal, External and for specific tape libraries
3490
All Manufacturers - Internal, External and for specific tape libraries
3490e
All Manufacturers - Internal, External and for specific tape libraries
3590
All Manufacturers - Internal, External and for specific tape libraries
3592 TS1120 TS1130
IBM, Internal, External and for specific tape libraries
DLT
DLT & SDLT drives - Internal, External and for specific tape libraries
SLR 9 Track 4mm 8mm
Internal, External and for specific tape libraries
DIR & DTF Drives
Internal, External and for specific tape libraries
Do let us know if we can be of assistance?
(800) 663-5523 info@sunstarco.com
Many Thanks
Gavin
Monday, September 22, 2008
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
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
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