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Nexsan Expands Highly Efficient Storage with 84TB SATABeast

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:27:00 EST

The Nexsan SATABeast is an enterprise-class RAID system designed to deliver exceptional performance, reliability and simplified operation in a very dense storage footprint. With a customer reported system reliability rating of more than 99.9%, the high density SATABeast is the premier option for both primary and secondary storage applications, including content archiving, disaster recovery and disk-based backup. The system's chassis design reduces hard drive stress with unique anti-accumulative rotational vibration and horizontal midplane cooling technology supporting one of the lowest storage system maintenance rates in the industry. As with all of the company's storage systems, the Nexsan SATABeast features AutoMAID (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) technology for policy-based power management that cuts energy demands up to 70% without impacting storage performance.

Nexsan Debuts New Partner Opportunities at European NexStep Conference

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:12:00 EST

Nexsan kicks off its annual NexStep EMEA VAR conference on November 18th in Berlin, Germany.

Mimosa Systems to Present Session on Records and Storage Management

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:45:00 EDT

Mimosa Expert and Microsoft MVP to Share the Differences Between a Records Archive and SharePoint 2010 In-Place Records

Petabyte Explosion: How CalTech Manages to Manage Billions of Files

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:00:00 EDT

Managing billions of small files effectively requires a clear understanding of data flows and a system based on common Lego-like building blocks that provide services to application owners. This was the message at the September 29th, 2009 Peer Incite Research Meeting, where an industry practitioner, Eugene Hacopians, Senior Systems Engineer at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), addressed the Wikibon community. Visit the following link to read articles and listen to podcasts related to this post: http://www.nexsan.com/news/articles.php. Post provided by www.nexsan.com

Mimosa NearPoint for SharePoint Named by InfoWorld

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:34:00 EDT

Mimosa NearPoint provides a holistic solution to manage and protect SharePoint Server data with integrated recovery and archiving capabilities, while maintaining easy end-user access to information, or advanced eDiscovery workflow to manage legal holds. In addition, Mimosa NearPoint offers the most comprehensive SharePoint Server data capture available. Customers can capture all content types and associated metadata and attachments, perform continuous capture via Change Notification, and preserve the relationships between sites and content. NearPoint also provides full-text indexing and global single-instance storage on all archived content. This content can then be optionally offloaded from SharePoint Server to enable storage cost savings while maintaining seamless end-user access via stubbing. Mimosa NearPoint also manages the retention and disposition of SharePoint Server content across the archive in accordance with records management policies.

dataguise Expands Sensitive Data Discovery and Masking for Enterprises

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:30:00 EDT

dataguise today announced the next generation of the company’s popular dataguise security solution - dgdiscover 3.0 and dgmasker 3.0. Version 3.0 is an integrated solution for comprehensive sensitive data discovery and masking. It is designed to find structured database repositories across the network, search and discover sensitive data in structured databases, and then mask or de-identify to protect sensitive data.

Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department Automates Email Retention

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:21:49 EDT

Agiliance Unified Privacy Management Solution

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:25:00 EDT

Mimosa Systems’ Next-Generation Archiving Solution

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:45:00 EDT

After evaluating several archiving solutions including Symantec, Sunbelt and GFI, Provident selected Mimosa NearPointTM because of its next-generation architecture, storage management, and self-service search capabilities. Since deploying NearPoint ten months ago, Provident has reduced storage requirements by 70 percent, boosted Exchange performance, and cut email-related help desk calls by 90 percent – freeing the IT staff to focus on the strategic needs of the business. In addition, the company has transformed its email system without incurring the expense and hassle of upgrading to a larger Exchange Server, or having to add additional hardware.

An Approach to Cyber Security

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:25:00 EDT

Mandated by FISMA and OMB A-130, Certification and Accreditation (C&A) is the formal process of assessing the technical, operational and management controls for a given system, determining the residual risk, and authorizing the system to operate. “C&A Automation: An Integrated Approach to IT and Cyber Security Operations” will be hosted on September 24, 2009 at 2:00 PM EDT featuring distinguished panelists, Stefan Smith, CISSP-ISSEP and CTO, SecureForce, LLC, Mike Saintcross, Director, Federal Solutions, Agiliance and hosted by Ed King, Vice President of Marketing, Agiliance.

Mimosa and Global Storage to Deliver SharePoint Archiving Solution

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:06:22 EDT

Mimosa Systems, a next-generation email, file, and SharePoint archiving solutions, and Global Storage, an Australian backup and disaster recovery specialist, today announced a strategic partnership for the integration of the Mimosa NearPointTM unified content archiving platform into Global Storage’s hosted ArchiveReady™ - Enterprise Managed Archival Service. The combined solution will offer Global Storage’s government, healthcare, professional services and corporate customers throughout Australia a comprehensive solution for the protection, retention and recovery of critical email, file and SharePoint data through a managed service supported by a state-of-the-industry data center.

Nexsan Sponsors Conference on Power Efficient, Space Efficient and Cost Efficient Storage Systems

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:43:00 EDT

Thousand Oaks, Calif., -- Nexsan, a leading storage systems provider for the mid-market, today announced the start of its NexStep conference which takes place this week in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Venetian Hotel. Over one hundred and forty North American based VARs and System Integrators are registered to attend the conference which features state-of-the-industry presentations from leading analysts, including Roger W. Cox, research vice president for Gartner and Mark Peters, senior analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group.

Mimosa Systems’ Next-Generation Email Archiving Solution Selected

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:00:00 EDT

Mimosa NearPoint provides resellers with tremendous opportunities in many different markets. It enables resellers to quickly address various customer requirements around email archiving, eDiscovery, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and storage optimization in a unified solution. The product provides comprehensive content archiving, mailbox management, self-service recovery, “one-click” recovery, and end-user search in a single unified product offering.

High-Throughput Cloud Backup and Recovery

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:30:00 EDT

TORONTO – Asigra Inc., a leading cloud backup and recovery software provider, today announced that it has joined the Hitachi Data Systems Technology Alliance Program. As a Hitachi Data Systems Technical Alliance Program partner, Asigra also announced certification of its Hybrid Cloud Backup™ and Recovery platform with the Hitachi NAS Platform, delivering enterprise-class backup that ingests and stores less and requires minimal management for midmarket organizations. The resulting best-in-class backup and recovery solution overcomes the challenges faced today by users of traditional backup and recovery hardware/software solutions.

Palm Beach County to Archive SharePoint Data Using Mimosa NearPoint

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:00:00 EDT

Mimosa Systems, a provider of next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced that Palm Beach County in the state of Florida will be expanding its use of Mimosa NearPoint beyond archiving its Microsoft Exchange Server data to provide comprehensive content archiving, data protection and eDiscovery support for its Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment. Ranked one of the top ten fastest growing counties in the nation , Palm Beach County originally selected Mimosa NearPoint following a pilot deployment of its archiving solution for email archiving. Since its initial deployment of NearPoint in 2007 for email archiving, the growing county has since chosen to expand its use of Mimosa NearPoint to archive and protect its rapidly growing SharePoint infrastructure.

Microsoft SharePoint Adoption Fuels Channel Opportunities for Archiving

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:15:00 EDT

Mimosa Systems, a provider of next-generation email, file, and SharePoint archiving solutions, today reported that its ecosystem of channel partners are experiencing tremendous interest and revenue upside when selling the Mimosa NearPointTM for SharePoint for archiving, discovery and recovery. The rapid and dramatic adoption of Microsoft SharePoint has resulted in many opportunities for SharePoint archiving and is fueling revenue growth for many of Mimosa’s value added resellers and system integrators focused on Microsoft SharePoint.

Mimosa Systems Sees Rapid Growth Throughout Asia Pacific Region As Demand For Email, File And SharePoint Archiving Accelerates To Decrease Discovery And Storage Costs

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:12:53 EDT

Asigra Named Among "10 Canadian Cloud Solutions to Watch"

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:11:46 EDT

Chichester School District Prepares for eDiscovery

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:00:00 EDT

Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced that the Mimosa NearPointTM next-generation content archiving solution has been selected by Chichester School District to help them prepare for eDiscovery while supporting their email management, disaster recovery and record retention requirements.

Nexsan and FalconStor Announce Industry’s First High-Performance, Power-Efficient Data Deduplication Product Family

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:15:00 EDT

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., and MELVILLE, N.Y., Aug. 11, 2009 – Nexsan Technologies, a leading provider of power-efficient disk-based storage and FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the provider of TOTALLY Open™ data protection solutions, today announced a strategic venture to deliver a joint solution, which has resulted in the delivery of an integrated deduplication product family for high-performance, power-efficient data storage. Based on Nexsan’s power-efficient storage systems and the FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) software, the new, Nexsan DeDupe SG (“Speed with Green”) product family will be delivered by Nexsan through its worldwide network of channel partners.

ITV Builds Efficient, High-Performance Online Broadcasting Site

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:30:00 EDT

Nexsan, a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term disk storage, today announced that ITV, the biggest commercial television network in the UK, has increased the storage capacity and performance for its online broadcasting site, ITV.com, by 20 percent with the high-density SATABeast Xi. Using Nexsan's evolutionary AutoMAID (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) energy saving technology, ITV.com has also dramatically reduced overall datacenter power consumption and cooling costs without compromising online editing productivity.

Concerns Over Complex Backup Mitigated with Disk-Based Solution

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:45:00 EDT

Nexsan, a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term disk storage, today announced that Franklin Synergy Bank is ensuring simple, reliable and cost-efficient data recovery using Nexsan SATABoy™ storage systems as the hardware foundation for its disk-based backup and recovery environment. Using Nexsan AutoMAID™-enabled SATABoy disk storage, the successful independent bank ensures fast data recovery while reducing storage system energy requirements.

The Return of True Value

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:27:00 EDT

Things have changed, and along the way something has happen to the meaning of value. Back in the day, value meant you got a lot for your money. More bang for the buck, so to speak. Value was never supposed to mean merely low price. Just because something is low-priced, doesn’t mean it’s a good value.

Asigra Launches Hybrid Cloud Backup

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:15:00 EDT

Asigra Inc., the leading cloud backup and recovery software provider, introduces the Asigra Hybrid Cloud Backup™ and Recovery platform. The ninth generation Asigra platform brings transformational backup architecture, allowing users to outsource backup to a public cloud, build a private cloud or select a hybrid of the two models. The latest generation offering brings industry firsts in automation, security and efficiency to reduce IT resources spent on mundane backup jobs, allowing redirection of those resources toward more strategic initiatives.

Agiliance Rated "Strong Positive" in Leading Analyst Firm's IT-GRC Marketscope

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:15:00 EDT

Agiliance Inc., the leader in integrated Governance, Risk and Compliance has received the highest possible rating, "Strong Positive," in Gartner's April 2009 MarketScope for IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Management (IT-GRCM).

Mimosa Systems Expands Proactive eDiscovery Capabilities

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:00:00 EDT

Mimosa Systems, a provider of next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced Mimosa NearPoint™ 4.0, the fourth major version of its comprehensive solution for archiving, eDiscovery and business user productivity. Including new capabilities for expedited eDiscovery in very large enterprise deployments and support for multiple data capture methods, NearPoint 4.0 also offers significant new functionality for today’s information worker that unifies information from all content types into a powerful personal productivity and business decision platform powered by an intelligent archive.

Mimosa Systems Expands proactive eDiscovery Capabilities With Industry’s Most Comprehensive Enterprise Archiving Solution

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:32:30 EDT

Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced Mimosa NearPoint™ 4.0, the fourth major version of its comprehensive solution for archiving, eDiscovery and business user productivity.

LiveOffice and Mimosa Forge First Partnership

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:30:00 EDT

LiveOffice, the leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) email archiving, email hosting and email continuity solutions, and Mimosa Systems, the leader in next-generation email, file and SharePoint archiving solutions, today announced beta availability of LiveOffice CloudMerge for Mimosa NearPointTM, a software application that seamlessly connects Mimosa’s on-premise archive to LiveOffice’s cloud-based archive. The joint offering leverages the best of both infrastructures to deliver cost-effective, long-term storage and expedited external eDiscovery for on-premise Microsoft Exchange Server environments.

StrataScale Channel Program Enables Rapid Deployment

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:45:00 EDT

StrataScale, Inc., a leading provider of fully automated managed server hosting solutions, today announced its StrataScale Channel Partner Program for resellers of its IronScaleSM on-demand managed hosting solution. Developed to enable resellers to address the growing demand for cost-effective next-generation managed services, the StrataScale Partner Program supports partners throughout the entire sales and support cycles. Through the program, value-added resellers (VARs), consulting services partners, and systems integrators can reduce costs, more quickly realize recurring revenues, and see improved resource efficiency for increased profitability with the IronScale hosting solution.

StrataScale Emerges as Technology Leader with IronScale

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:00:00 EST

StrataScale, Inc., a provider of productivity enhancing managed hosting solutions, today revealed that its clients are demanding greater flexibility and control in their IT infrastructure. Faced with stretched resources, many small and mid-tier businesses are migrating to outsourced IT solutions that can deliver improved efficiency and flexibility. StrataScale's server hosting product, IronScaleSM, features on-demand control of servers, security, storage, and network management from anywhere at anytime in a single, turnkey solution. This new level of flexibility and control allows clients to do more with less by dynamically managing infrastructure and scaling based on business requirements – eliminating the need for capital expenditures and to continually over-commit by purchasing and over-provisioning resources.

LA Law Firm Selects Redact-It Desktop Electronic Redaction

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:50:00 EST

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC)has announced that Los Angeles-based Kegel, Tobin and Truce, a pioneering law firm and leader in the field of workers’ compensation defense, has selected Redact-It Desktop by IGC to redact privileged and privacy information from documents requested during discovery.

CDW Moves to the Cloud

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:07:00 EDT

Asigra announced that CDW has selected Asigra Televaulting as its online backup platform. Chosen for its unmatched service-oriented architecture, powerful data de-duplication and broad interoperability, Asigra Televaulting will be the technology platform behind CDW’s Remote Backup Service.

Open-E Experiences Strong Channel Growth to Address Growing Market for Next-Generation IP Storage Management Software

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:15:00 EDT

Open-E announced that the number of companies using its comprehensive NAS/iSCSI software offering has grown by more the 30 percent since its entry into the U.S. market this year. The company has established a worldwide presence with 220 OEMs, resellers and integrators located across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific regions, and is positioned to outpace first-generation solution providers. With over 10,000 installations, in over 93 countries, Open-E data storage solutions are used by Fortune 500 customers worldwide.