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Enterprise Data Virtualization Leader Adds Senior Marketing Executive as Company Prepares for Growth
SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 31, 2010 – Queplix™ Corp ., the leader in enterprise data virtualization, today announced that it has appointed Michael Zuckerman to the post of chief marketing officer (CMO). Zuckerman brings more than 20 years of senior level marketing, sales and operations management experience in enterprise software, information security, integrated enterprise search, and data storage technologies. Reporting to Queplix CEO Mark Cashman, Zuckerman will drive the company's strategic marketing efforts to support its rapidly increasing customer, partner and sales momentum as it transitions to the next level of growth.
Enterprise data virtualization enables companies to automatically and securely integrate cloud and SaaS-based applications with the rest of the enterprise, with speed and simplicity. This benefits application areas such as customer relationship management (CRM) where cloud-based solutions such as SalesForce.com® require integration and data harmonization with on-premise applications such as PeopleSoft®, Siebel®, SAP® enterprise resource planning (ERP) and many other applications. Queplix solutions can be implemented to enable a consistent view to this vital customer information in a matter of days vs. months. As a result, customers achieve far greater agility, cost savings and rapid return on their investment than with alternative technologies. With marquee customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson, Queplix is positioned to expand its growing footprint, capitalizing on a total available market for enterprise data virtualization that is projected to reach billions of dollars.
"Established legacy technology offerings from companies such as Cast Iron Systems* have paved the way for a new generation of advanced solutions for cloud and application integration. Queplix is poised to advance its market leadership with a data virtualization solution that delivers unprecedented automation, simplicity, security, and rapid return on customer investment," said Zuckerman. "I look forward to contributing to the next stage of Queplix' growth and industry leadership."
Before joining Queplix, Zuckerman was senior vice president, marketing, at I-Many, Inc. (IMNY), a public company in the contract management software market. Prior to that, he held positions as senior vice president, marketing and senior vice president, general manager for the 3D business unit of Immersion (IMMR), also a public company. Zuckerman was also vice president of worldwide marketing at Verity, Inc. (VRTY), a public company in the enterprise search market ultimately acquired by Autonomy (AU).
The Queplix Secure Data Virtualization Platform™ (QSDV)
As businesses adapt to accelerating market changes, competitors, and regulatory conditions, they rely on timely access to critical information from multiple data silos. The QSDV Platform p rovides a non-disruptive way to integrate cloud and SaaS applications such as CRM, ERP, human resources, and finance and accounting with on-premise data systems. Queplix's breakthrough data virtualization technology is up to a thousand times faster than a database engine and provides a rapid ROI at a fraction of the cost of other technologies. The QSDV Platform is designed to scale from a handful of applications to massive deployments across hundreds of data sources.
Companies interested in learning more about Queplix integration capabilities for SalesForce.com are invited to send an email to SFcloud@queplix.com .
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Queplix is the leader in enterprise data virtualization. Enterprise data virtualization enables companies to automatically and securely integrate cloud and SaaS-based applications with the rest of the enterprise with speed and simplicity. Once virtualized, enterprise data becomes a liquid resource that can automatically be extended securely to any application. Customers benefit from fast implementation and rapid return on investment. Queplix has thousands of users around the world and serves customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson. Please visit www.queplix.com for more information.
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AFS Technologies selects Nexsan to implement a robust data protection strategy and high-performance primary storage environment for the company’s heavy-volume, transactional SQL Server application AFS Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of business enterprise and on-demand software solutions. The company serves over 1,200 customers across the Americas with a portfolio of software solutions for food, beverage, and financial enterprises. AFS Food and Beverage solutions are designed to reduce costs, improve efficiency, increase sales and margins, streamline internal processes and assist in regulatory compliance. AFS Financial Solutions address the complex issues related to revenue recognition as part of a comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) system including general ledger, accounts receivable and accounts payable. All AFS solutions use a service-oriented architecture (SOA) built with Microsoft .NET framework technology. To match the needs of its diverse customer base, products are available on both a license and true software-as-a-ser vice (SaaS) basis. Business Challenge: Replace Existing Storage Arrays to Increase Capacity and Performance While Reducing Capital Costs With a sophisticated SaaS infrastructure and a very active customer base, AFS Technologies’ data was growing at a rapid rate, stretching the existing disk-to-disk-to-t ape backup and recovery environment on their StorageTek SATA arrays. With more than 23 TB of data, there was no room for future growth since they reached their capacity limit. AFS Technologies needed to find a reliable storage solution that could deliver the scalability the company needed to meet both its existing and future storage requirements. Reliability and cost efficiency were also key criteria for this growing on-demand software company. “Adding more StorageTek arrays wasn’t an option,” said Michael Mulligan, network operations manager, AFS Technologies. “It would be simply too costly . We needed to find a lower-cost option that delivered the high reliability and performance we needed to protect our customers’ critical data while also giving us the scalability to support our continued growth into the future.” Solution: Nexsan SATABoy and SASBoy Highly Efficient Storage Solutions Once AFS Technologies identified that adding more StorageTek arrays would be cost prohibitive, the company began to evaluate other options and found Nexsan. The Nexsan SATABoy storage units could deliver expandable storage for AFS Technologies’ 23 TB of data at one-third the cost of adding additional StorageTek arrays. SATABoy also fully supported the company’s Tivoli File Manager backup environment and delivered higher performance that made it easier to meet recovery time objectives (RTOs). AFS Technologies installed two Nexsan SATABoy units in a disk-to-disk-to-t ape configuration using their existing tape libraries as the final archive. The primary SATABoy is set up at a co-location site where all of the data is backed up. A secondary SATABoy, in an AFS Technologies location, is configured to replicate data from the SATABoy backup target for disaster recovery assurance.
Because the Nexsan systems performed so reliably, AFS Technologies also installed a Nexsan SASBoy at its co-location site to handle the backend storage processes for its SQL Server database. The SQL Server data is continuously online and accessed by AFS Technologies’ end-user customers for ordering and other customer operations. As such, performance and reliability were critical requirements. The SASBoy met all their requirements with 15K SAS drive performance and high reliability. “The Nexsan systems have proven to be exceptionally reliable,” said Mulligan. “The SASBoy, in particular, is well suited for our high-transaction database, which needs to remain up and running at all times. Nexsan delivered it all by giving us the performance, scalability and reliability our environment required within the parameters of our strict IT budget.” Results: Nexsan Solutions Deliver Higher Performance and Reliability for One - Third the Cost The Nexsan SATABoy and SASBoy systems have given AFS Technologies higher performance storage and reliability at one-third the cost of a replacement StorageTek system while delivering scalability to meet the company’s future storage needs. The Nexsan systems also assure that critical business data is secure in the event of a disaster or server outage. Benefits AFS Technologies receives from Nexsan’s highly efficient storage solutions include:
High Performance. The SATABoy and SASBoy systems are high-performance RAID solutions built around the latest high-capacity SATA and SAS disk drives, respectively. High Capacity. Each SATABoy and SASBoy storage system provides 14 drives in only three units of rack space. High Reliability. The Nexsan storage systems offer fully redundant and individually hot-swappable active components (RAID controllers, fans, power supplies and disks) along with innovative design for vibration reduction and cooling. High Power Efficiency. All Nexsan storage comes standard with AutoMAID® energy-saving technology that reduces power consumption up to 60% without penalizing storage performance. “Nexsan impressed us with their reliability, performance and value,” noted Mulligan. “Their systems delivered everything we needed and more for a fraction of the price.” Results: Nexsan Solutions Deliver Higher Performance and Reliability for One-Third the Cost The Nexsan SATABoy and SASBoy systems have given AFS Technologies higher performance storage and reliability at one-third the cost of a replacement StorageTek system while delivering scalability to meet the company’s future storage needs. The Nexsan systems also assure that critical business data is secure in the event of a disaster or server outage. Benefits AFS Technologies receives from Nexsan’s highly efficient storage solutions include:
High Performance. The SATABoy and SASBoy systems are high-performance RAID solutions built around the latest high-capacity SATA and SAS disk drives, respectively. High Capacity. Each SATABoy and SASBoy storage system provides 14 drives in only three units of rack space.
High Reliability. The Nexsan storage systems offer fully redundant and individually hot-swappable active components (RAID controllers, fans, power supplies and disks) along with innovative design for vibration reduction and cooling. High Power Efficiency. All Nexsan storage comes standard with AutoMAID® energy-saving technology that reduces power consumption up to 60% without penalizing storage performance. “Nexsan impressed us with their reliability, performance and value,” noted Mulligan. “Their systems delivered everything we needed and more for a fraction of the price.” Nexsan Corporation is a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term storage systems. Nexsan delivers secure storage appliances and modular, capacity-optimize d disk-storage systems for a broad range of applications including fixed content storage and archiving, email, medical imaging, compliance and litigation support, disk-based backup, digital video security, and rich media. Nexsan’s solutions are the choice of small and medium-sized companies as well as large global enterprises and major governmental agencies around the world who are seeking cost-correct, high density storage solutions. Founded in 1999 and based in Thousand, Oaks, Calif., Nexsan sells its products exclusively through a select global network of VARs, OEMs and system integrators. For more information, please see the company’s website at www.nexsan.com. Read this case study in its entirety at http://www.nexsan .com/case_studies /Nexsan_CaseStudy _AFS_Technologies .pdf
Legal Consulting Firm Increases Business Performance and Reduces Storage Operating Costs by 40% with Nexsan
Nexsan Delivers Solutions to Improve Performance and Reduce Costs by 40%
Customer Overview
With offices in Washington DC and San Diego, Calif., Bates White is a consulting firm offering services in economics, finance and business strategy to leading law firms, Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Bates White provides the latest empirical and theoretical technologies to data mining and processing that bring clarity to complex issues which, in turn, enable their clients to make more informed decisions.
Business Challenge: Eliminate The Storage Performance Bottlenecks Impacting Business Performance
At Bates White, storage system performance bottlenecks were having a serious impact on business productivity. Sluggish primary storage performance and maintenance issues were slowing the company’s response to customer requests, which impacted overall business productivity. In addition, the firm’s traditional tape backup solution had become very cumbersome, and it was becoming difficult to effectively protect data within an ever shrinking backup window. Bates White needed to optimize storage response times, ensure disaster recovery and implement a highly reliable solution without adding heavy costs or complex management requirements.
One of Bates White’s core customer services is the electronic discovery of client data. To perform this service, client data is imported into the Bates White data center where the company conducts detailed legal research across securely stored client information. With growing archives of data, the storage system bottlenecks and business-constraining performance issues were having a negative impact on customer service. Researchers were faced with slow system response times which impacted productivity and extended customer delivery dates due to storage-related delays. This drove the organization to seek a higher performing and more efficient storage solution to ensure better access to customer data and protect more than 100 TB of data.
“We needed to quickly remedy performance bottlenecks experienced with our previous solution so that we could deliver client results more quickly,” said Larry Chou, network manager, Bates White.
In addition to performance and reliability, Bates White needed a solution that would be easy to operate and manage so they could reduce management demands on staff resources.
Solution: Two Nexsan SATABeasts for Secondary Storage and a Nexsan SASBeast for Primary Storage
To solve its storage performance challenges, Bates White first selected two Nexsan SATABeasts for reliable, high speed backup and recovery of client data. Later, Bates White selected Nexsan’s SASBeast to provide primary data storage to their client SQL Server data. With their storage performance and reliability issues resolved, Bates White was able to efficiently review and analyze client data and increase overall productivity.
“The Nexsan SATABeast delivered a very powerful, reliable and easy to use solution for our secondary storage,” said Chou. “The SATABeast experiences lead us to the SASBeast extending the same benefits to our primary storage applications. We initially thought that we might have to look at two separate vendors to meet our storage needs, but Nexsan solved them both. The SASBeast easily met our primary storage requirements by consolidating everything into a high-performance SAS solution.”
Results: Increased Storage Performance and Reliability with a 40% Reduction in Storage Operating Costs
Since installing the systems a year ago, Bates White has seen exceptional storage performance and reliability. They have also seen dramatic cost savings. Both the SASBeast and SATABeast delivered an exceptionally low capital cost expenditure compared to other solutions. In addition, operating expenses were significantly reduced with the SATABeast when compared to the high management issues associated with their previous tape backup solution. Together, Bates White has been able to reduce their annual cost savings by an estimated 40%.
The high storage density of the systems reduced the need to purchase additional storage that was previously projected to meet increasing capacity demands. In addition, simplified management operations freed staff resources for other IT tasks. And by eliminating the storage performance bottlenecks that constrained the business, Bates White was able to deliver client results much more quickly.
About Nexsan
Nexsan Corporation is a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term storage systems. Nexsan delivers secure storage appliances and modular, capacity-optimized disk-storage systems for a broad range of applications including fixed content storage and archiving, email, medical imaging, compliance and litigation support, disk-based backup, digital video security, and rich media. Nexsan’s solutions are the choice of small and medium-sized companies as well as large global enterprises and major governmental agencies around the world who are seeking cost-correct, high density storage solutions. Founded in 1999 and based in Thousand, Oaks, Calif., Nexsan sells its products exclusively through a select global network of VARs, OEMs and system integrators. For more information, please see the company’s website at www.nexsan.com
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SANpulse has been selected as a finalist for "Early Stage Company of the Year" by the New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC), recognizing the company’s high level of customer adoption and robust revenue growth this year
Jersey City, NJ – Paving the path to the next generation data center through people, process and technology, SANpulse Technologies, Inc . today announced that it has been selected as a finalist for "Early Stage Company of the Year" by the New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC), recognizing the company’s high level of customer adoption and robust revenue growth this year. The NJTC chose SANpulse for its product innovations and sales potential relating to the company’s SANlogics™ technology platform that enables Fortune 500 enterprises to reduce the risk of human error and slash IT costs by simplifying and automating storage migration and data center consolidation. SANpulse has had great success with marquee Fortune 100 clientele, delivering analysis and optimization on over 25,000 servers with over 40 PB of data. This has allowed SANpulse to grow at an astounding 280% for the first half of 2010 as compared to the same period last year.
The selection by the NJTC is the latest in a series of honors and awards that SANpulse has achieved this year and recognition of the company’s unique value proposition that combines people, process and technology. The company was previously awarded Product of the Week from Network World and was chosen as a 2010 Emerging Technology Vendor by CRN Magazine, a Top 10 Storage Startup by Enterprise Storage Forum and was named an AlwaysOn East Top 100 Private Company. Additionally, SANpulse CEO Peter Mehta was chosen as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist and company President and CTO, Gerard Lam, was named a 2010 Storage Superstar by CRN Magazine.
“SANpulse is honored to be among the elite early stage companies recognized for excellence by the New Jersey Technology Council,” said Mehta. “The tireless effort of our talented team has produced leading-edge storage migration and data center consolidation technology and the strategic foundation to propel SANpulse with accelerated growth for the remainder of 2010 and beyond.”
About SANlogics
SANlogics is an innovative, multi-vendor software platform that simplifies and accelerates SAN migration, consolidation, and infrastructure optimization. The patent-pending technology combines on-demand data analysis, business-process aware functionality, and rapid execution into a powerful solution that Fortune 500 organizations leverage to upgrade and optimize their IT storage infrastructures.
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About the New Jersey Technology Council The New Jersey Technology Council provides business support, networking opportunities, information, advocacy and recognition of technology companies and their leaders. Founded in 1996, NJTC's more than 1,200 member companies work together to support their own enterprises while advancing New Jersey's status as a leading technology center in the United States.
About SANpulse Technologies, Inc.
SANpulse paves the path to next generation data centers, transforming the world’s largest IT infrastructures and creating efficiencies to help reduce IT-related operational and capital expenses. Through the combination of people, process and technology, the company’s SANlogics solution provides actionable insight to mitigate the risk of navigating complex data center infrastructures. SANlogics adaptive technology supports organizations in meeting new technology and business requirements through discovery , analytics and auto-generation of executables that simplify data center migration, consolidation and optimization processes. Since its inception in 2005, SANpulse has helped Fortune 500 clients across the globe maximize the efficiency of their storage infrastructure, mitigate risk and guarantee greater business agility. SANpulse is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, with regional offices in Dallas, TX, Tampa, FL, and London, UK. For more information, please visit www.SANpulse.com.
Innovative, Context Recognition and Activation Engine Enables Rapid User Access to Leading Document Lifecycle Management Tools Without the Add-in Hassle
ILTA Conference, LAS VEGAS, August 23, 2010 – Litéra®, the global leader in document lifecycle management (DLM), today introduced Litéra Launchpad, a point-and-launch desktop toolbar for instant access to Litéra document lifecycle management solutions without the management complexity of software integrations. Based on Litéra’s patent-pending context recognition and activation engine, Litéra Launchpad enables law firms and corporations to benefit from feature rich document lifecycle management solutions without the IT management and resource costs associated with maintaining desktop software with third party integrations.
“Third party add-ins have been a source of significant frustration to IT departments. Litéra Launchpad is both an innovative and practical product,” said Sean Scott, CIO of Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice, PLLC. “It eliminates integration headaches and allows me to upgrade Microsoft Office or Windows OS to the next version at any time. With Launchpad, there are no add-ins or plug-ins to manage, no integration costs and no performance degradation. It’s the best document lifecycle management solution we have seen in years.”
Using Litéra Launchpad, organizations can enable users to easily launch applications to compare complex compound documents, PowerPoint decks and spreadsheets. They can also control PDF documents, extract from and print to a PDF, and cleanse metadata from Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents, and from Webmail and Blackberry emails.
Litéra products that can be launched from the Litéra Launchpad include:
• Litéra Change-Pro® – for WORD, PowerPoint and PDF document comparison
• Litéra Change-Pro® for Excel – for Excel spreadsheet comparison
• Litéra LDF® – for PDF control and management
• Litéra PDF Suite – for PDF printing and extraction
• Litéra Metadact® – for metadata cleaning
• Litéra Screen Capture Suite – for on the fly documentation of online presentations
All Litéra products are Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) and Office 2010 ready.
“Today’s organizations want to increase user productivity without adding additional complexity or IT staff burden,” said Deepak Massand, CEO of Litéra. “That was the inspiration behind the development of Litéra Launchpad. This first-of-its-kind product helps to eliminate software conflicts and upgrade issues that can erode value and cause user downtime. As a result, users are productive on day one without any added IT intervention, management time or resources.”
Availability
Litéra Launchpad is available now with purchase of Litéra DLM products. Pricing starts at $50 per user. For more information, please visit, www.litera.com , or register today to join an online demonstration at www.litera.com/launch . ILTA conference attendees and press are also invited to see a demonstration of Litéra Launchpad at Litéra booth 416 and 418 from August 23 – 26, 2010 at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas, NV.
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About Litéra
Litéra is the global leader in document lifecycle management (DLM) with intelligent productivity solutions for the critical document management needs of today’s business professionals. The Litéra product portfolio represents the most comprehensive collection of DLM functionality available in an integrated suite, and includes products such as Litéra Innova® for document creation and automation, Litéra IDS® for secure document collaboration, Litéra Change-Pro® for document comparison, Litéra LDF® for PDF control and management and Litéra Metadact® for metadata cleaning. Learn more at www.litera.com .
New Group Sets Agenda to Enlighten the Industry Through Collaboration with End Users, Analysts, Cloud BUR Vendors and Channel Providers
Asigra Inc., a leading Cloud Backup™ and recovery software provider since 1986 , today announced that company executive Ashar Baig has been named by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) as Chairman of the new Cloud Backup and Recovery (Cloud BUR) Special Interest Group (SIG). T he Cloud BUR SIG is a project of SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) that promotes th e adoption of cloud storage as a new delivery model providing elastic, on-demand storage billed only for what is used. Baig will lead the group’s efforts in educating the market about Cloud BUR benefits through use cases and in defining requirements for standards that are part of SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative. The new group will create best practices and conduct surveys to enlighten the industry through collaboration with end users, the channel, analysts and Cloud BUR vendors.
“I look forward to representing Asigra in taking on this new challenge and leading SNIA’s efforts in expanding the awareness and establishing best practices for implementing Cloud Backup,” said Baig. “Recognition of the Cloud Backup industry by SNIA and the active participation of other industry leaders in this project gives new momentum in establishing backup to the cloud as a more effective, affordable and flexible model of protecting critical data with improved IT efficiency.” “It’s natural that SNIA would appoint Ashar Baig to head this new group, gi ven the leadership that Asigra has demonstrated in developing the Cloud Backup market,” said Val Bercovici, Chairman of the SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative. “The Cloud Backup and Recovery group is a key extension to the SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative and is expected to greatly accelerate the awareness and deployment of this critical cloud storage application.”
The Cloud BUR SIG will fulfill its mission by:
· Defining and promoting standards around Cloud BUR
· Promoting the value of Cloud BUR to the industry and adopters
· Promoting industry’s implementation of Cloud BUR standards through the sharing of real use cases
· Conducting and promoting interoperability demonstrations and plugfests
· Leveraging SNIA and CSI committees and events to educate end-users
· Advocating customer needs and reflecting user concerns and issues back into the Cloud BUR SIG members
· Promoting Cloud BUR as an application extension of the CSI and the CDMI standard
SNIA’s Cloud Backup and Recovery SIG will consist of standing committees on marketing, education, end-user liaison, channel relations, international relations and more. In addition to its educational mission, the group is charged with defining the requirements for standards around Cloud BUR and promoting Cloud BUR as an application extension of the CSI and the SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standard. Along with Asigra, founding members of the SNIA Cloud Backup and Recovery SIG include EMC, NetApp, i365, Iron Mountain, CoreVault, TeraSky, EVS, Terremark Worldwide, HMK and Recovery Networks.
For more information on SNIA’s Cloud Storage activities, please visit www.snia.org/cloud or get involved in the conversation at www.twitter.com/SNIACloud or http://groups.google.com/group/cloudstorage .
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About Asigra Asigra transforms the way businesses manage and protect their data by delivering market leading cloud backup solutions that seamlessly and efficiently manage, scale and deliver data protection services. Asigra Cloud Backup™ is built for new and existing MSPs/VARs who focus on data protection, IT constrained organizations, and industries with compliance mandates that are looking to improve their backup with a secure, reliable and predictable data protection cloud backup model. With 25 years of experience as backup/recovery pioneers, Asigra technology protects more than 100,000 sites globally ranging from the Global 100 to SMBs. The world’s largest and most profitable service providers including CDW, HP and Terremark Worldwide power their cloud backup services using Asigra technology. Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices globally. For more information, visit www.asigra.com .
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Nexsan’s Assureon online archive gives IPR the reliability and compliance-level privacy it needs to deliver high data availability to its customers while reducing overall costs by 40%
Leading disaster recovery and data protection service provider IPR International was facing growing operational and capital costs associated with its data archive infrastructure for customer emails and unstructured files. Needing to lower overall costs without risking the high service-level they guarantee their demanding customer base, IPR turned to Nexsan. Nexsan’s Assureon online archive has given IPR the reliability and compliance-level privacy it needed to deliver high data availability to its customers while reducing overall costs by 40%.
Headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and serving clients in 17 countries, IPR International was founded on a simple concept: that technology will change at such a rapid pace that most mid-size organizations will not be able to keep up with it. Thus, the company has dedicated itself to providing state-of-the-art data protection technologies, so clients can focus on their core business operations knowing their electronic data is safe and accessible at all times.
A recognized leader in managed data center and data protection services, IPR International offers a comprehensive suite of solutions to protect, preserve, secure and make available clients’ data at all times. By offering constantly improving and evolving services combined with a passion for security, integrity, availability and ingenuity, IPR helps its clients maintain their own business operations and supports them through any interruptions.
For IPR, the service levels offered to their customers are critical. While governments and corporations alike require that data be kept for extended periods of time, and in a retrievable form, inactive data can have a negative impact on the performance of the production environment. To help solve these challenges, IPR needed a robust archiving solution that would satisfy operational, performance and compliance requirements for its clients.
“Our customers need to reduce the capital and operational costs of managing and archiving data,” said Kevin Sullivan, head of services, development and marketing, IPR International. “Additionally, our customers need to improve their compliance posture by using a service where they can reallocate their IT resources for other, more strategically important objectives. We created our DataGuardian® service to meet these increasing customer demands.”
With customers ranging from mid-sized law firms and insurance companies to healthcare organizations, IPR takes its DataGuardian service levels very seriously. These types of organizations require constant access to their email and unstructured file data while being prepared to recover from any disaster, from simple server outages to extensive unexpected natural events. To meet backend storage needs, IPR was using a combination of NetApp and EMC SANs. However, the infrastructure was becoming increasingly costly and difficult to manage as the volume of customer data increased. To maintain very high service levels for their customers without incurring extensive costs, IPR needed to identify an alternative archiving solution upon which to base its DataGuardian service.
Solution: A Comprehensive Archiving and Failover Strategy Based on Nexsan’s Assureon and SATABeast Systems
After evaluating the high cost of expanding its existing infrastructure, IPR began to look for a highly reliable, lower cost alternative. During their search, IPR evaluated a number of solutions, including those from Nexsan and EMC. IPR selected Nexsan’s Assureon archiving platform over Centera because of the flexibility in configuring redundancy. With Centera, two copies are required at both the local and disaster recovery site in order to ensure redundancy.
Replicating to another Centera would mean having four copies of archived data (two at each site) instead of one per site. While Assureon can be configured similarly, it also allows administrators to configure the systems so that only a single copy is stored on each Assureon while ensuring the highest levels of data protection. IPR still maintains two copies of the data, but they are at two locations in order to provide DR protection. IPR deployed two Assureon appliances, each with two SATABeast systems, connected via 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel. Each Assureon / SATABeast combination is installed at separate IPR locations and set to failover to the other in case of any failure. With Assureon, IPR has doubled its usable capacity over Centera while spending less on purchase costs and operating expenses. Nexsan’s Assureon storage appliances provide IPR with a safe, cost-effective means to archive the growing volumes of customer email. The appliances keep email online and rapidly retrievable so that customers always have access to them. At the same time, the Assureon appliances dramatically reduce the time required to back-up current, active email by offloading archived email into a separate repository. “We were very impressed with the reliability and flexibility of the Nexsan solution,” said Sullivan. “Assureon is delivered as an appliance, with the storage, and Nexsan remotely connects, monitors and performs automatic updates on the systems without our staff involvement, which makes these systems exceptionally easy to administer.”
Results: High Performance and Reliability Means Strong Customer Satisfaction
The Nexsan Assureon solution has reduced IPR’s overall capital and operating expenses by 40% compared to expanding their previous solution. Cost savings have come from replacing NetApp Filers and EMC Celerra NAS systems (traditional iSCSI and CIFS storage) with the Assureon CAS storage archive. With Assureon, Nexsan has delivered the most efficient and scalable approach to storing unstructured data (email and documents).
In addition, the Nexsan-based storage infrastructure ensures that IPR can deliver high service-level guarantees to its customers while knowing that it has the scalability to easily grow its storage capacity to meet future customer needs. Benefits IPR has received from its Nexsan-based archiving infrastructure include:
• Compliance-level privacy – Assureon uses innovative security features to ensure data privacy. The software establishes an unalterable audit trail for the life of data in the archive; every time archive content is accessed, a record is kept of who accessed it and when.
• High-availability storage – Supporting the innovative Assureon appliance is Nexsan’s highly reliable SATABeast green storage, which provides redundant controllers, power supplies and fans along with support for RAID 6 to overcome double drive failures.
• Automated retention and deletion – Assureon offers automated integrity management and file immutability technology that protect against accidental or unauthorized file deletion. This ensures that files can be retained for regulation compliance or flexible time periods, and be deleted when their retention period is over.
• Self-auditing and self-healing – Assureon continually monitors files for fingerprint discrepancies, protecting them against tampering, viruses and corruption as well as accidental or deliberate deletion or theft. If discrepancies are discovered, Assureon notifies the system administrator and self-heals the file.
“Nexsan has greatly reduced the IT resources required to deliver recovery services thereby improving overall cost-efficiency for clients,” said Sullivan. “We are happy to have selected Assureon as our archiving platform and very content with what the solution has allowed us to do.”
About IPR
IPR was founded as one of the first Managed Electronic Data Protection Service Providers in the United States and is one of the very few companies to have developed and deployed a complete set of services to protect its clients’ data. Currently, IPR protects data for over 240 clients in 17 countries around the globe, providing protection for over 2.5 petabytes of data in our Data Centers. With the opening of the IPR Reading Business Continuity Center in 2008 and the Wilmington Data Center in 2010, IPR has expanded its Managed Data Center and Infrastructure Services to include production and dedicated recovery computing environments for our clients. IPR enjoys a 97% client retention rate, as well as 40% annual growth per year. IPR has been named one of “Fastest Growing Companies” in the Philadelphia Region (“Philadelphia 100”) in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009 and Inc. Magazine ranked IPR as number 593 on its first-ever“ Inc. 5000” list of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in 2007.
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Actifio’s Next-Generation Solution for Data Protection, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Transforms Data Management Application Silos into a Single, Simple and Virtualized Offering
WALTHAM, Mass. - Actifio™, the emerging leader in Data Management Virtualization (DMV), today announced general availability of the first three solutions in the Actifio software suite, Actifio™ DP, for data protection, Actifio™ DR, for disaster recovery and Actifio™ BC, for business continuity. Built on Actifio’s VirtualData Pipeline™ (VDP) technology, these solutions are the first of a series of data management applications, offering radical simplicity, unprecedented agility, and up to an order of magnitude lower cost, while co-existing with the current infrastructure.
While data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity have been business critical initiatives, they also rank at the bottom for deployment, ease of use, and flexibility. Deployments of multiple point tools, each addressing parts of the data lifecycle, has resulted in a complex and expensive infrastructure, with the cost of managing copies of data now exceeding that of managing primary business data. Actifio’s patent-pending VirtualData Pipeline™ technology, transforms the infrastructure from individual silos of point tools to a virtualized solution managing data across the entire lifecycle.
“Organizations face diverse challenges with multiple silos of data and point solutions to manage it all and double-digit data growth is exacerbating the situation as well as data protection strategies,” said Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Data management virtualization solutions like Actifio bring true simplicity to underlying storage resources by unifying silos of data and streamlining data protection through a single solution. Actifio removes a huge burden from IT resources, reducing bottom line costs while improving backup times and recovery objectives.”
Driving Down Operational Expenses with Radical Simplicity and Unprecedented Agility
Actifio’s VirtualData Pipeline™ platform is purpose-built to deliver next-generation data management solutions by leveraging the trends of the rapid adoption of server virtualization, backup-to-disk and commoditization of storage. With the theme of delivering radical simplification, Actifio’s solutions enable management of business requirements via a Service catalog that defines the Service Level Agreement (SLA) for each application. Translating business requirements is a 3-click process that includes choosing a business application, appropriate SLA, and virtual resources to deliver the SLA. Also, responding to changes in business requirements is a simple 1-click operation of selecting another SLA.
VirtualData Pipeline™ integrates capacity optimization with data de-duplication, compression, encryption and network usage optimization to virtualize and optimize the copy-store-move-restore operations. Actifio’s unique technology results in zero-backup windows and enables creation of virtual copies of data, with zero-footprint of storage.
Reduce Capital Expense with Storage Virtualization
Traditional data management tools come with bundled disks and users pay by the capacity. Actifio changes the paradigm by de-coupling the management of data from where it is stored. Vendor-independent physical and/or cloud-based storage devices are virtualized into private, public or hybrid clouds, by an integrated storage virtualization engine and used to store the managed copies of business data. Users now have the freedom to re-use existing storage, or de-couple their choice of cost-effective storage for data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity and other data management applications from the choice of primary storage.
Actifio DP, Actifio DR and Actifio BC not only drive down the capital expenses by copying less, storing less and moving less, the radical simplicity of the solutions establishes a new benchmark for reduced operational expense.
“Today, we address the most complex, expensive and rigid part of the IT infrastructure and finally enable the transformation of the data center stack to a fully virtual IT infrastructure,” said Ash Ashutosh, president and CEO, Actifio. “Much like the Server Virtualization paradigm, administrators can use Data Management Virtualization to de-couple data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity operations from the underlying storage infrastructure. The resulting simplicity, flexibility and order of magnitude lower cost is now a proven paradigm shift, validated by our users.”
Actifio DP Customers Lower the Cost and Risk of Data Protection
Wireless technology developer, Airvana, chose Actifio DP to standardize data management across the company to meet business changes and drive down the cost point, while keeping storage technology options open. Using Actifio DP, Airvana realized a reduction of total cost of ownership for data protection by over 70 percent. The company further cut storage costs by over 50 percent by selecting a lower cost storage device for secondary data.
“Actifio DP helps me regain control over my storage environment, enabling consistency, flexibility, and reduced footprint for backup and keeps our options open for technology refresh,” said Brian Dickson, director of IT, Airvana. “It helps us apply our data classification process to meet the business requirements at the right price point.”
Cramer, a digital marketing and event solutions agency, adopted Actifio DP to simplify their data protection, disaster recovery and information availability operations. With Actifio DP, Cramer has reduced the total cost of addressing data protection issues by over 75 percent while reducing the total amount of capacity used for local data protection by 70 percent. The single integrated solution for rapid recovery and operational recovery (Backup/Restore) also eliminated the licensing costs for individual point tools that Cramer had to manage separately. The resulting simplified solution has driven down the time spent by the company’s IT team on data protection and restore by over 90 percent.
“The ability to create tapes for archive from a restored virtual volume, gives us an infinite backup window,” said Deanne Damato, director of IT, Cramer. “We installed Actifio DP in the morning and I was using it on my own in the afternoon. Previously, it was scary to see a data restore ticket on the help desk. Now it’s done in seconds giving me total assurance and reliability.”
Actifio DR Increases Business Availability for Customers Deploying VMware SRM
Focus Technology Solutions quickly leveraged the integrated capabilities of Actifio DR to simplify its data management operations in the IT organization. While the built-in deduplication significantly reduced the storage footprint, Focus was able to further reduce the storage costs by leveraging the storage virtualization capability and deploying a lower cost storage system for local and remote protection data.
“The key for Actifio’s solution was the ability to not only meet our current DR requirements, but seamlessly help us eliminate multiple tools in the current environment,” said Bill Smeltzer, CTO, Focus Technology Solutions. “Actifio is clearly the first company to take the service catalog approach and makes the entire data management process simple, consistent and drives down the cost.”
Pricing and Availability
Actifio DP, DR and BC are available immediately. For more information, please visit, www.actifio.com .
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About Actifio
Actifio™ delivers the next generation solution for data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity in virtual and physical IT environments. Based on Data Management Virtualization technology, Actifio integrates data deduplication, compression, encryption and bandwidth optimization, along with storage virtualization, to transform individual silos of point tools into a unified data lifecycle management solution. The result is radical simplicity, unprecedented agility and up to an order of magnitude lower cost.
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Free White Paper Provides Checklist, Ensuring Smooth Transition to New Storage Devices, Resulting in Optimal Performance, Utilization and Cost-Savings
Jersey City, N.J. - Paving the path to the next generation data center through people, process and technology, SANpulse Technologies, Inc. today announced the publication of a free white paper that provides best practices for successfully transitioning data to new storage platforms. While upgrading and/or expanding storage can deliver a number of benefits, it can also result in stalled applications, lost data, business disruptions, and immobilized end users. Understanding the challenges in advance can ensure a smooth migration process for better performance, utilization & cost-savings.
The white paper – Moving data successfully: Take 10 for a smooth transition to new storage ( http://www.sanpulse.com/content/white-paper-10-steps-best-practices-migrations ) – provides 10 steps – six before, two during, and two after performing a migration – to ensure success. Following this guide can reduce errors, support successful migrations, shorten project timelines, and even help organizations come in under budget. Additional benefits can include the opportunity to complete related or long-overdue work such as systems consolidation, upgrades, or reorganization of IT structures.
Storage migration projects are often complex and time consuming, requiring detailed planning to mitigate risk and ensure business continuity. These projects often place a high demand on an organization's internal IT resources and have a negative effect on the overall storage solvency of the organization during the project.
“The faster you can move your new platform from the loading dock and into your IT infrastructure, the faster you’ll be putting your investment to work and helping the business derive maximum value,” states Ralph Hennen, managing director of product development at SANpulse, the white paper's author. “Plan well, communicate clearly, follow these ten steps, and your team will be able to complete the migration more quickly, with minimal disruption, and most cost-effectively.”
Following a few basic steps can make all the difference between good and bad results. IT professionals can get the most out of the process by creating a work breakdown structure (WBS) for each step and including it in a project database. It starts with ensuring that every activity planned, completed, changed, targeted and so on is included in a project database as a starting point of the project. Personnel conducting the migration will use this database to manage the entire process, from setting customer expectations to actually moving the data. It will be an all-in-one working document, project summary, and reconciliation tool. It will help measure efficiencies and more easily acquire and release resources as one moves through this common, yet complex, procedure.
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SANpulse paves the path to next generation data centers, transforming the world’s largest IT infrastructures and creating efficiencies to help reduce IT-related operational and capital expenses. Through the combination of people, process and technology, the company’s SANlogics solution provides actionable insight to mitigate the risk of navigating complex data center infrastructures. SANlogics adaptive technology supports organizations in meeting new technology and business requirements through discovery , analytics and auto-generation of executables that simplify data center migration, consolidation and optimization processes. Since its inception in 2005, SANpulse has helped Fortune 500 clients across the globe maximize the efficiency of their storage infrastructure, mitigate risk and guarantee greater business agility. SANpulse is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, with regional offices in Dallas, TX, Tampa, FL, and London, UK. For more information, please visit www.SANpulse.com. ###
Netezza Co-founder Joins Actifio Board to Provide Proven Leadership and Guidance to Actifio as it Addresses Market Demand for Dynamic Data Management Virtualization Solutions
Actifio, the emerging leader in Data Management Virtualization (DMV), today announced that Jit Saxena, co-founder and former CEO of Netezza Corp., has joined the Actifio Board of Directors. In his role, Saxena brings a wealth of proven leadership and guidance to Actifio as it addresses the industry demand for dynamic DMV solutions.
Jit Saxena brings with him a long and successful career of entrepreneurship and business leadership in growing successful new global industries. Saxena is an internationally-recognized and much sought-after business expert in the IT industry. In 2000, he co-founded Netezza, a data warehouse server manufacturer that is globally recognized as inventing the data warehouse appliance product category. Upon co-founding the company, Saxena served as its CEO until January 31, 2009, and retains his position as Netezza Chairman of the Board.
“Actifio has all the ingredients for success to deliver on the multi-billion dollar virtualization market opportunity and I am pleased to accept a position on the board as the company charts its next stage of growth,” said Jit Saxena. “I look forward to working closely with Ash and his exceptional management team as they deliver a new category of data management virtualization solutions that eliminate customer challenges associated with legacy, silo-based data protection solutions.”
As CEO of Netezza, Saxena grew the business from start-up to a more than $180 million revenue leader in the data warehouse server industry. Saxena took the company public in 2007 with a $124 million initial public offering. Prior to founding Netezza, Saxena was the founder, chairman and CEO of Applix Inc., a leading analytical CRM software provider that he took public in 1994. Before he founded Applix, Saxena held several senior management positions, including senior director in charge of software development, at Data General.
Saxena holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, an MBA from Boston University and a B. Tech (EE) from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. He was named an Ernst & Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003 and a Mass High Tech All-Star in 2008.
"We consider ourselves very fortunate that Jit has accepted the invitation to join our Board," said Ash Ashutosh, founder and CEO of Actifio. "His global leadership experience and proven track record of creating and dominating new emerging markets brings Actifio a wealth of industry insight and guidance as we deliver a new era of Data Management Virtualization solutions to market that will change the paradigm of how data is protected and managed across the data lifecyle.”
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Actifio delivers a next-generation data management solution with radical simplicity, unprecedented agility and up to an order of magnitude lower cost. Based on Data Management Virtualization (DMV) technology, Actifio transforms individual silos of point tools into a unified solution using efficient pipelined management across the data lifecycle. The company’s patent-pending DMV technology delivers unified data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity across the data lifecycle for virtual and physical IT environments. For more information, please visit: http://www.actifio.com .
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