Selects CTERA to Deliver Data Protection and File Collaboration to Business Customers. Petach Tikvah, Israel—March 7, 2012 – CTERA Networks, the leader in cloud storage enablement, announced today that Swisscom IT Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swisscom AG, one of Europe’s leading telecommunications providers, is launching a range of Swisscom-branded cloud data protection and file collaboration services based on CTERA Networks’ Cloud Attached Storage® technology.Swisscom IT Services ranks as one of the top European providers specializing in the integration and operation of complex IT systems, and provides IT outsourcing and managed services to approximately 400 enterprise customers in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria and Singapore. CTERA’s Cloud Attached Storage solution empowers cloud owners to create, provision and manage a variety of storage services, such as backup and recovery, cloud on-ramping, file sharing, and mobile collaboration. The solution uses hybrid deployment architecture, consisting of a cloud-side service delivery platform, on-premises cloud storage gateways, and managed end-point agents. It gives service providers the flexibility to use the back-end storage infrastructure of their choice, while ensuring end-to-end security and optimized performance. Swisscom IT Services chose CTERA’s solution for its flexibility in delivering multiple services using a unified management platform; its ability to deliver those services in mixed environments that include mobile users, remote offices and virtualized hosted servers; and its seamless integration with Swisscom’s existing object storage datacenter infrastructure. Click here to see the entire Press Release. Posted in CTERA, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage
Posted by Ryan Hulse at Scale Computing
Chances are you get to think about your storage on a regular basis because the pressure of needing more is always there. If you are thinking about some of the following issues, it may be time to think about unified storage:
If so, it may be time to adopt a unified scale-out storage system that combines SAN and NAS protocols in a single system with the capability to grow with you. Direct attached storage, or DAS, is the most basic level of storage. DAS is directly connected to a single server and can only be accessed by that one server. This may be fine for environments with no more than a couple servers where storage capacity requirements are fairly static. The benefit of DAS is that it’s simple to deploy and has a lower initial cost than networked storage. However, if your company anticipates rapid data growth and wants to get the most out their spending, consider a networked storage model because DAS is limited in its scalability and features. Since resources are not shared beyond a single server in DAS, systems may use as little as half of their full capacity. One DAS system might be completely full while the available space on other systems can’t be accessed. Network attached storage, or NAS, shares file level data across servers and clients on a network. NAS is ideal for simple, cost-effective data sharing for multiple clients at the file level. Network shares allow important data to be centrally managed and shared. In contrast to DAS, the utilization rate with NAS can be high since storage is consolidated. Also, IT administrators can centrally manage NAS systems, thus reducing management time and costs. But for application data, not every application can use networked storage. Many applications will only work with storage that is on the server where the application is installed.
WatchGuard Extends Next-Generation Firewall Capabilities with Application Control to Award-Winning XTM 8 Series Family of Multifunction Security AppliancesBuilt for speed, the WatchGuard next-generation XTM 8 Series delivers up to 5Gbps firewall throughput, making it ideal for demanding networks of 1,000 to 5,000 users. With Application Control and IPS activated, the XTM 8 Series achieves a faster-than-line-speed 1.2Gbps throughput, which represents a major leap forward for next-generation firewalls in delivering high security without compromising network performance. Leveraging WatchGuard’s “defense-in-depth” advanced firewall technology, which includes stateful packet inspection, deep packet inspection and WatchGuard’s proprietary proxy technology, the XTM 8 Series embodies the most robust and in-depth security technologies available today to protect business networks. With its built in application proxies, the WatchGuard XTM 8 Series natively stops a myriad of blended threats, fragmented and malformed packet attacks, spyware, malware, denial of service and many other types of threats and attacks. “Until now, next-generation firewalls were available only to enterprise organizations,” said Roger Klorese, Director of Product Management at WatchGuard Technologies. “By extending next-generation firewall capabilities to the WatchGuard XTM 8 Series, businesses of all sizes can now leverage advanced firewalling, Application Control and integrated IPS. This gives businesses the latest tools to keep their data, applications and networks safe while maintaining control over social media and Web 2.0 applications.” WatchGuard Application Control – Key to Controlling Social Media in the Workplace Read Full Release Here. Posted in Cloud Storage, WatchGuard
Selected vs. HP LeftHand and Dell EqualLogic Scale Computing announced that Mays Chemical has deployed Scale’s intelligent storage to complete its virtualization project.
Scale’s S-Series, 4TB cluster has delivered a simple, scalable, VMware Ready storage solution. In addition, Scale’s cost-effective storage, combined with VMware’s vSphere Essentials Kit, made Mays Chemical’s virtualization project an economic reality. Mays Chemical is recognized as a source for chemicals, related raw materials, formulated products, chemical management expertise and outsourcing services. Mays Chemical services a variety of industries including: food and beverage, pharmaceutical, automotive, personal care, electronics and laboratory and healthcare. As the company’s servers aged, several new IT projects emerged that would require new hardware. Mays Chemical’s IT department concluded that virtualization was the best solution and began researching options to virtualize and consolidate the company’s servers. “As a small business, our budget was more limited than that of a large enterprise. We knew that we wanted to virtualize our servers but were concerned about the costs associated with virtualization solutions and the necessary storage. VMware’s vSphere Essentials Kit was a cost-effective solution to consolidate our servers, but we needed to find a storage solution that had enterprise-level performance and power at a price that was within our budget,” said Tony Davitto, network administrator, Mays Chemical. Posted in Cloud Storage, ICOS Technology, Scale Computing
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The CTERA C800 Cloud Attached Storage rack-mount appliance is the optimal solution for SMBs and enterprise branch offices that need high-capacity local network storage, combined with end-to-end data protection with automated cloud backup and recovery. |
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The all-in-one solution for storage and data protection
The C800 is an all-in-one NAS, file server and backup appliance, with a low total cost of ownership and comprehensive enterprise-grade features.
Using the C800, data is synchronized between individual PCs on the network and the C800 drives, then efficiently backed up using CTERA’s integrated online backup service. Files can be restored anytime, anywhere, using a web based interface or from CTERA’s Virtual Cloud Drive™.
Easy to deploy and maintain
The CTERA C800 is easy to install and set up, and with full remote management capabilities, it is cost-effective to run and maintain as a component of a managed services offering.
Posted in CTERA, Cloud StorageScale Computing for Archiving |
Data archives are the foundation of data retention and protection. But successful backup and archive are getting more challenging all the time as data grows, hitting rates of 60 to 100 percent year over year. At the same time, IT budgets are tightening even as backup and archives grow to consume more and more storage.
Just throwing a lot of cheap storage at the problem causes a whole new set of problems. Tape-based storage is hard to manage and difficult to recover. Disk-based storage shrinks data center real estate and escalates power and cooling costs. Large arrays can house a great deal of backup and archived data but are expensive to buy and manage. Cheaper and smaller storage will only house a certain amount of data before you have to add and manage more. And no matter what type of storage you choose, capacity planning becomes a gateway to over-provisioning and an inefficient and very risky storage infrastructure.
Scale’s third generation ICOS storage system solves these problems and more. ICOS powers a clustered architecture that is effective and highly available, exceptionally scalable, and extremely cost-efficient. The entry-level Starter Cluster begins with three S1’s, each sporting 1 terabyte (TB) of highly available and fully integrated storage. The S2’s higher capacity form factor offers 2 useable TB, while the S4 offers 4 useable TB. The ICOS architecture gives IT managers the node-by-node scalability they need to house continually growing backups and archives.
And the nodes are highly redundant and protected. Built-in snapshots and replication store data across multiple nodes. If a single node fails, data is immediately re-replicated and another node seamlessly takes the load. ICOS maintains system uptime up to N/2-1, meaning that nearly half of the storage system nodes can fail and the system will continue to operate.
With Scale’s ICOS, you may safely and efficiently house your backups and archives without risk of data loss or system failure.
Benefits
- System-wide management tools available from every node
- Extremely high system uptime
- Data and service protection even during drive failure
- Non-disruptive scaling by simply adding storage nodes
- Grid architecture preserves data access speeds
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Scale Computing Positioned in Leading Analyst Firm’s Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions
Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, clustered storage solutions tailored to the virtualization and archiving needs of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), today announced that Gartner, Inc. has recognized Scale in its 2011 Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions report*. Scale is positioned in the Niche Players quadrant.
According to Gartner, “Vendors in the Niche Players quadrant are often narrowly focused on specific market or vertical segments, such as SMBs or high-performance computing (HPC), that are generally underpenetrated by the larger midrange and high-end NAS vendors. This quadrant may also include vendors that may have products that address the broad market but are still ramping up their overall go-to-market efforts and have yet to develop the vision or the execution to break out of the Niche Players quadrant.”
“We are focused on delivering scale-out storage solutions that offer the features needed by SMEs, and at a price that fits within their budget,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder, Scale Computing. “Our intelligent storage solution is perfectly suited for virtualization implementations, providing an affordable storage solution that is able to scale with both capacity and performance. As our traditional competitors push non-unified, non-scalable Generation 2.0 technology not ideal for virtual strategies, demand for our offering positions Scale Computing for continued growth.”
Read the full Release here.
Posted in Cloud Storage, Scale ComputingScale Computing for Education |
Scale’s ICOS is the perfect solution for schools and universities. It’s full-featured functionality comes at no extra cost. When combined with quality commodity hardware, it delivers the most flexible, affordable, scale-out product for its price.
Watch the video to learn how the GEO Foundation saved hundreds of thousands of dollars when it combined Scale’s storage products with its virtual desktop strategy to achieve a 1:1 student / computer ration two years ahead of schedule.
Scale ICOS Benefits for Education
- Extremely cost-effective and powerful storage benefits tight education budgets.
- Highly scalable systems let education invest in technology as-needed.
- Third generation grid-based computing lets education assign compute and storage resources where they need it and when they need it.
- Highly scalable storage system lets education provide up-to-the-minute resources to a hungry student population.
- Strong data protection preserves confidential work products and academic records.
Scale for the Education Industry: Powerful Storage on a Limited Budget.
Educational institutions are charged with teaching technology and using it as a valuable learning tool. But because of the education industry’s severe budget challenges, many students have only a cursory education in technology. This sad scenario holds true from the youngest grade levels all the way up to higher education.
Watch a video on Scale Computing for Education here.
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Posted in Cloud Storage, ICOS Technology, Scale ComputingDistributed Enterprise Solution from CTERA |
CTERA for Enterprise Branch Offices
Distributed enterprises with many small branch offices are often found in industry verticals including retail, commercial banking, gas stations and public services, such as postal services, medical clinics and schools.
The Challenge
Enterprise branches create and use a lot of data, not all of which is necessarily stored centrally at corporate HQ. The unique characteristics of such an environment pose many challenges:
- Lack of on-site branch IT staff and skills
- Expensive remote storage at corporate HQ
- Inability to control branch data protection policies
- Difficulty in facilitating information sharing within branches and between them
- Lack of uniformity in how data is accessed, shared and protected across the enterprise
The Solution: Private Enterprise Storage Cloud with Local Branch Capabilities
With CTERA, enterprises can launch a private storage cloud that provides data protection and collaboration for its remote branches, while being highly cost-effective and easy to use by non-IT personnel.
Using the CTERA Portal at the datacenter, and deploying CTERA appliances in branch offices, enterprises provide their branch offices with robust data protection while reducing IT overhead and avoiding the need for on-site IT personnel.
Key Benefits
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Posted in CTERA, Cloud Computing, Cloud StorageScale Out, not Up |
Are you losing Storage opportunities due to budget?
Does room for growth, high availability and disaster recovery seem out of your customers reach?
Storage needs are growing exponentially each year and it is happening RAPIDLY, NOW, and NOT in the future.
Companies need to be able to keep up with this growth and act quickly and affordably. The problem is, budgets are tightening and the storage solutions of the past don’t cut it.
WHY SHOULD YOU LOOK AT SCALE COMPUTING???
It is the Next Generation Scale-Out Storage Solution at almost half the price of the nearest Competitor. Scale offers enterprise functionality that is affordable in the SMB market and can scale out in an enterprise environment. With a pay-as-you-grow, all-inclusive pricing model and intuitive storage management, this storage system is perfect for the budget-minded customer.
Storage needs are changing in light of server virtualization, data growth, business continuity demands and cost pressures. Scale Computing’s unified storage systems, representing a virtualized pool of storage resources, deliver enterprise SAN functionality that enhances virtual environments, simplifies management, and reduces costs.
- Technical Highlights
All data is mirrored and striped across the nodes in the cluster
All data is mirrored on at least 2 nodes. This provides continuous uptime if a drive, network port, power supply or even an entire node stops working
Up to 512 nodes per cluster, more than 2.2 PBs per single file system
Nodes of different sizes can all participate in the same cluster and be used at full capacity
(Limitation: 1 node cannot be bigger than 50% of the total cluster capacity)
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