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Hybrid Storage

Blending flash-based solid state disk and hard disk drives to provide high performance at an affordable price seems to be a trend in the marketplace today.  It seems as if every vendor offers a solution that meets this criteria. Bear in mind these systems are not the typical SAN storage arrays with a couple of SSD […]

Nexsan E Series

Looking for that perfect SAN? Is there such a solution? Consider  The Nexsan E-Series V storage arrays and expansion units offer mid-size organizations affordable enterprise-level Fibre Channel, SAS and/or iSCSI SAN storage used for a variety of capacity-optimized and performance-driven applications. E60VT (360 TB in 4U) E48VT (288 TB in 4U) E32V (38.4 TB in […]

Performance SAN Storage with 2½” Drives

      Reliable High Density Storage Arrays Turbocharged for High Performance. The Nexsan E32V 32 x 2½”  Drives in 3U, Single or Dual Controller SAN, Active / Active Controllers Innovative ease-of-use functionality makes deploying and managing dense storage a simple task for the resource constrained IT administrator. Simply pull out a drawer to service drives […]

Looking to evaluate SAN Storage, Consider Nexsan

Why Nexsan? Nexsan and Imation Company has been around ~14 years and manufacturers terrific storage solutions. Consider the Nexsan E Series V and their Nexsan NST Series . E Series V High Density Storage Imation’s Nexsan® E-Series SAN storage solutions are ultra dense and super efficient Reduces power use and cost, needs less space, and […]

AssuredSAN 4000 from Dot Hill

Consider the Dot Hill AssuredSAN™ 4000 SAN storage arrays for your storage needs. Offering up to 6400 MB/s sequential reads, and 5300 MB/s sequential writes. Designed with a powerful processor, these SAN storage systems are tuned for sequential workloads. Ideal data storage solutions for high performance computing, oil and gas siesmic data analysis, telecommunications data capture, […]

Data Protection Strategy

Let me get straight to the point. The sheer volume and variety of ways in which data can be breached is daunting, including: silent data corruption due to hardware failure and software failure, malicious attacks from cybercriminals or human error such as accidental file deletion or overwriting by employees, etc. Yet for all too many data center managers, their […]

Are you looking for denisty within your storage array?

Connect via Fibre and iSCSI simultaneously to the host. Expand from 60 drives in 4U to 180 drives in 12U With 6TB Drives you can now achieve 1PB in 12U All this can be achived with Nexsan E60VT, 60 Drives in 4U, Single or Dual Controller SAN, Active / Active Controllers E60VT with 8 x  16GB […]

Unified Storage, Fibre Channel Option

The Nexsan NST2000 by Imation expands the availability of fault-tolerant FASTier™ DRAM caching and Fibre Channel SAN connectivity, and puts them in reach of mid-range businesses Use SSD to increase the cache memory pool so that I/Os are accelerated before they go through the controller to the back-end disk drives. The larger the cache memory […]

Looking for a reliable SAN Manufacturer

If you have a need for a SAN Storage Solution, perhaps there is a need for: Density and /or Performance and /or Future Growth Consider NEXSAN: E-SERIES V :  The Nexsan E-Series V is an ultra-reliable, high-density, high performance, efficient storage array that enables lower storage costs, maximum storage uptime, and data storage ROI boosts for […]

Looking for a Backup Solution?

At some point in time a backup solution will be deployed in all organizations. Sure there is a wide choice of offerings and we are not just talking about disk or tape.  For the most part a number of vendors are required for a backup solution to be deployed. More likely both software and hardware […]

Should we consider Hybrid Storage

Hybrid Storage  is defined as a combination of solid-state disk (SSD) and hard disk drives (HDD) in a single storage system. Two approaches; the first being the more common method of placing SSD drives behind the controller as a capacity tier within the storage system.In the case of Nexsan, their E Series, fits this option […]

Nexan High Density Storage – E60VT

Nexsan E60VT is a super dense RAID array that supports 60 Drives in 4U, choice of controllers, single or dual. Ideal for unstructured data, backup ballooning data growth. Designed with energy conservation in mind. Choice of connectivity:  8GB Fibre 16GB Fibre 10GbE iSCSI 6GB SAS Expansion: Easy with the E60X (Max 2), Supporting a total of […]

Unified Storage Explained?

What is Unified Storage? Often we at Sunstar Company are asked by prospective clients questions such as, “can you tell me the difference between SAN, NAS and Unified Storage?” A simple explanation about Block and File Storage and the different connectivity options often suffice. The looming questions, what about unified?” Unified Storage is a storage system […]

Purchase Online from Sunstar Company

Sunstar Company’s Web Site Has Been Refreshed! Today we added additional content for our customers that have a need for additional hardware and or software that traditionally would be purchased at a higher cost. PURCHASE ONLINE Sometimes there is no need to engage with your Sunstar representative when you know exactly what you want and […]

Nexsan E48VT RAID Array can expand to 864TB in 12U

Do you need fast, reliable storage that can support vast quantity of capacity? The Nexsan E48VT can do just that and more. Add two expansion shelves, now 864TB in 12U. Using active drawer technology the disk drives are easily accessible as are the Dual Active-Active Controllers, Power Supplies and Fans. (We are told that 8TB […]

Unitrends New Recovery Appliance

Unitrends is making waves again. Yesterday they announced the release of the 3rd generation, all-in-one integrated appliance models New to these models: Faster CPU clock speeds AES-NI hardware encryption Increased I/O bandwidth Scales from 1TB to 97TB of raw storage 8GB to 256GB Memory in an appliance 2 to 16 CPU Cores in an appliance. Solid State […]

Next Generation of Unitrends Recovery Appliances

Unitrends Unveils Next-Generation Physical Backup and Recovery Appliances with Tiered Flash Storage BURLINGTON, Mass., Jan. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Unitrends today unveiled the next generation of its Recovery-Series family of purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs). With its new portfolio, which includes 11 models that scale from 1 terabyte (TB) to 97 TB of raw storage, Unitrends sets a new standard in backup […]

Dump your backup software when you purchase the Unitrends Backup Appliance

Offered in shrink-wrapped packages based on an integrated, scalable architecture, the Unitrends Appliances offer flexible deployment options and No Limits Licensing™, giving you maximum protection at the industry’s lowest TCO. Supporting 100+ versions of computers, storage devices, operating systems, hypervisors and applications, work alone or in tandem with Unitrends Enterprise Backup virtual appliances, and can extend from […]

On-Site Data Center Support

Sunstar Company delivers a range of services specifically designed to meet the ever changing IT support needs of modern businesses. Through our trained field engineers and our approved service partners around the globe, Sunstar Company is able to provide the most complete range of services within the data center. From smaller server installations to the […]

Nimble Storage CASL Architecture

Nimble Storage’s Adaptive Flash platform is the first storage solution to eliminate the flash performance and capacity tradeoff. The Adaptive Flash platform is based on Nimble’sCASL™ architecture, and InfoSight™, the company’s data sciences-based approach to the storage lifecycle. Flexible scaling of storage resources to satisfy the changing demands of business-critical applications Five times greater performance and capacity […]

Imation’s Nexsan NST6000

Imation’s Nexsan NST6000 along with NestOS 3.0 is highly scalable unified storage solution in a compact footprint that uses a caching technology called FASTier® to accelerate reads and writes I/O requests. FASTier intelligently and automatically moves data through solid-state and spinning disk to speed your virtual and cloud environments. Built with the time-constrained IT administrator […]

Archive to LTFS

Data is exploding across the digital universe faster than ever before. While new information may need to be preserved for 2 or 20 years, data always needs to be accessible and accurate. StrongBox solves data storage and protection challenges at a low cost while keeping your files fully accessible and simplifying long-term preservation. StrongBox Key Benefits: Reduces […]

Nexsan NST Hybrid Storage

Imation’s Nexsan® NST® combines high performance, high capacity and Imation’s innovative FASTier® caching technology to provide scalable performance for mixed application workloads and virtualized environments. NST fulfills changing application and storage needs with unified NAS and SAN access capabilities in a single hybrid solution. This lets you right-size your initial acquisition by scaling storage, performance, or both as […]

NEXSAN NST4000 UNIFIED STORAGE WITH FIBRE OPTION

NEXSAN NST4000 UNIFIED STORAGE WITH FIBRE OPTION   If you prefer Fibre Channel to other SAN protocols, this scalable storage is built for you. The Nexsan NST4000 by Imation expands the availability of fault-tolerant FASTier™ DRAM caching and Fibre Channel SAN connectivity, and puts them in reach of mid-range businesses The introduction of NST4000 and NestOS 3.1 […]

Why customers choose Nimble

The Nimble platform has been adopted by cloud service providers, and mid-sized and Fortune 500 companies across a wide range of industries. These customers rely on a mix of applications, and run a variety of workloads and then there is their superior customer experience. Nimble believes flash will upend traditional disk-based architectures, and that cloud-based […]

Digital Imaging

As archives grow, storage performance must keep pace so that valuable files are accessible at all times. The exponential growth of digital imaging is driving up demand for storage capacity: High definition (HD) cameras produce denser images Data retention polices require longer term storage of images and video Data replication multiplies images as business seek […]

Media & Entertainment Storage Solutions

Video production and distribution is evolving at a faster pace than ever before. Post-production activities require massive amounts of storage. Editors cut and coordinate raw content from multiple feeds. Staying on top is all about asset management and the ability to scale storage on the fly. To learn more about the storage offerings available to […]

Imation Nexsan NST Hybrid Storage

    Imation’s Nexsan® NST combines high performance, high capacity and innovative FASTier® caching technology to provide scalable performance for mixed application workloads and virtualized environments. Fulfills changing application and storage needs with unified NAS and SAN access capabilities in a single hybrid solution Lets you right-size your initial acquisition by scaling storage, performance, or […]

Digital Imaging

Digital Images are electronic snapshots taken of a scene or scanned from documents, such as photographs, manuscripts, printed texts, and artwork. The digital image is sampled and mapped as a grid of dots or picture elements (pixels). Each pixel is assigned a tonal value (black, white, shades of gray or color), which is represented in […]

Drowning in Backup?

Active Archive Is the Lifeboat We all need to protect our data. Businesses typically have to back it up, and there are hundreds of backup solutions out there. Why then, do so many storage administrators say that managing backup data is their biggest challenge? As data continues to grow, content is lodged in backup cycles, […]

Compliance-capable, easily managed, cost-efficient archive solutions do exist.

The Nexsan Assureon line of products is specifically designed for long-term retention and adherence to compliance requirements. Archive File Shares Offload File shares and reduce storage overhead. Take advantage of de-duplication and advanced federated search across File and Exchange servers. Full support for hybrid and dedicated cloud infrastructures to improve cost-efficiency and accessibility. Offload File Servers […]

Nexsan E60VT SAN Storage

The Nexsan E60VT is an ultra-reliable, high-density, high performance, efficient storage array that enables lower storage costs, maximum storage uptime, and data storage ROI boosts for your organization. E-Series V systems consume less than one-third of the power in one-third of the rack space of typical arrays, with up to 360TB of capacity in just 4U and […]

Nexsan E32V with 2½” disk drives

The Nexsan E32V is an ultra-reliable, high-density, high performance, efficient storage array that enables lower storage costs, maximum storage uptime, and data storage ROI boosts for your organization. E-Series V systems consume less than one-third of the power in one-third of the rack space of typical arrays, with up to 38.4TB of capacity in just 2U utilizing […]

Nexsan E48VT in 4U

The Nexsan E48VT is an ultra-reliable, high-density, high performance, efficient storage array that enables lower storage costs, maximum storage uptime, and data storage ROI boosts for your organization. E-Series V systems consume less than one-third of the power in one-third of the rack space of typical arrays, with up to 288TB of capacity in just […]

Sunstar Services

Additional services offered by Sunstar Company, Inc. Asset Buybacks Asset Redeployment Data Eradication Secure Data Destruction End of Life Asset Disposition Compliance IT Recyling To learn more, please contact us online, call 310.330.2900 or 800.663.5523

Data Storage and Management

Sunstar Company, Inc. partners with the best hardware and software vendors in the industry. Our extensive experience means we can identify and assess products as they come onto the market, and select the leading technologies for integration onto existing or upgraded storage solutions. We constantly review new products to provide our customers with the best […]

Nexsan NST4000

Imation (NYSE:IMN), a global data storage and information security company, today at VMworld® 2014 introduced the NST4000 – a new ultra-efficient hybrid storage appliance purpose-built for media and entertainment and data protection workloads that will deliver Fibre Channel connectivity and new levels of capacity and performance to the mid-range enterprise. The NST4000, the latest addition to Imation’s […]

Spectra Logic Tape Library

Spectra Logic develops deep storage solutions that solve the problem of long term storage for business and technology professionals dealing with exponential data growth. Dedicated solely to storage innovation for more than 35 years, Spectra Logic’s uncompromising product and customer focus is proven by the largest information users in multiple vertical markets globally. Spectra enables […]

Nexsan E Series VT

The Nexsan E-Series V is an ultra-reliable, high-density, high performance, efficient storage array that enables lower storage costs, maximum storage uptime, and data storage ROI boosts for your organization. E-Series V systems consume less than one-third of the power in one-third of the rack space of typical arrays, with up to 240 terabytes of capacity […]

Nimble CS300 and CS500

Nimble Storage has released two new hybrid storage arrays, the CS300 and CS500. The new units refresh Nimble’s lower and mid-range offerings, boasting a 50% increase in performance over the CS200 and CS400 models they’re replacing. Like the high-end CS700, the new systems leverage Nimble’s Adaptive Flash technology which allows for independent scaling of capacity and performance. […]

Nimble CS700 Series Arrays and All-Flash Shelf

Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL), the flash storage solutions company, is redefining the storage market by enabling enterprises to meet performance and capacity requirements for any workload in virtualized datacenters and cloud environments. Nimble Storage’s Adaptive Flash platform provides the performance of flash-only arrays and the capacity of hybrid arrays with the introduction of the CS700 Series arrays […]

StrongBox Archive

StrongBox is a network attached storage (NAS) appliance that is purpose-built to lower the costs of long-term storage and protection for unstructured, fixed content. By pairing a flexible, policy-driven disk cache with Linear Tape File System (LTFS) technology, StrongBox empowers you to control storage costs without sacrificing data availability. The StrongBox® DataManager is a complementary software […]

Nexsan Assureon

The Nexsan Assureon™ is an archive system that is ideal for primary storage optimization, regulatory and corporate compliance, and the secure, long-term retention of files. Assureon offloads data from primary storage to free up space for active data and greatly reduces the size, cost and complexity of backups. Security features comply with corporate and governmental regulatory requirements including HIPAA, SOX and SEC-17. Stringent data integrity features […]