Archiving data reduces pain and cost.

Rather than spending more on expensive primary and backup storage to accommodate data growth, move data to protected archive or extended online storage. Your data can then be accessed and protected on less expensive storage without disrupting your day to day workflow. As data is moved to archive storage it is no longer part of […]

Nexsan Assureon Storage Required

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is a formalized means of organizing and storing an organization’s documents, and other content, that relate to the organization’s processes.The term encompasses strategies, methods, and tools used throughout the lifecycle of the content. A trusted system is a system that is relied upon to a specified extent to enforce a specified security […]

Corporate Governance

Data storage compliance and corporate governance regulations are having a tremendous impact on the storage organization, as well as the management practices employed to retain, search, certify and destroy data. It’s not just the major regulations, like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which influence storage — there […]

Archive your data adhearing to regulatory requirements

Nexsan’s Assureon advanced archive system is ideal for freeing up primary storage, reducing the size and cost of backups, or complying with governmental regulatory requirements including HIPPA, SOX, and SEC-17. Also corporate regulators have introduced stringent compliance archiving requirements regarding electronic communications in response to the explosive growth of email & instant messaging (IM) as principle […]

Assureon Archive

Imations’s Nexsan Assureon Archive Assureon is an archive storage solution from Nexsan that is suitable for primary storage optimization, regulatory and corporate compliance, and the secure, long-term retention of files. The Assureon offloads data from primary storage, freeing up capacity for active data and greatly reduces the size, cost and complexity of backups. Security features comply […]

We All Need To Archive Our Data

Can you afford to loose your data? None of us wish to loose data, and hopefully we backup our data on a regular basis. For many of us we find that we tend to be backing up the same data time and time again, Ask yourself the following. How much of your Corporate Data changes […]

Nexsan Assureon Features and Benefits

80 Percent of data on primary storage is unstructured and never changes or changes infrequently. This data can be moved easily and transparently to a more cost-effective archive storage platform. With the Nexsan Assureon Archive Solution from Imation, data can be moved one time and recalled as needed. With the assistance of shortcuts the original […]

Active archives became a more mainstream best practice in 2014.

Businesses and organizations are recognizing the value of active archives in addressing their overall long-term storage needs. Here’s a look at what’s to come according to some of the industry’s top storage experts: Advanced Data Tape Will Carry More of the Storage Load With all th innovation occurring in the tape market, the pieces are […]

How Safe is Your Data?

Do you know if all your files are in the “backup” or archive? Is there a copy of all your flies at your remote site? What is the health (integrity) of your files at each site? If they are different which one is correct? Imation’s Nexsan Assureon will allow your Data Center Manager to state […]

Imations Nexsan Assureon

I feel that it is necessary to highlight a number of what I would call some of the hidden features of Imation’s Nexsan Assureon. It is most important to understand that when an Assureon is purchased it comes as a pair.Recently we sold a 128TB Nexsan Assureon, the physical capacity was certainly more than 128TB […]

Data Storage Solutions

Imation’s Nexsan portfolio features solid-state optimized unified hybrid storage systems, secure automated archive solutions and high-density enterprise storage arrays. Nexsan solutions are ideal for mission-critical IT applications such as virtualization, cloud, databases, and collaboration; and energy efficient, high-density storage for backup and archiving By Application Data ProtectionProtecting your company’s data is as important to Imation as […]

Imation’s Nexsan Assureon Key Facts

Optimizing data storage requires moving infrequently accessed data from expensive, high-performance primary storage to lower-cost secondary storage. This secondary tier of storage functions as an archive, so IT administrators must ensure that their storage optimization strategy provides the same level of data protection (if not more) that they would expect from their primary storage. Assureon, […]

Archive – solving problems

Data storage is too expensive and exceeds current budget Fixed content is still being backed up Archival data requires online file access Unstructured data management is too complex Disaster Recovery (DR) – second copy and/or off-site copy, compliance/regulatory requirements  The Solution StrongBox is a NAS appliance designed for unstructured data StrongBox is primary storage with […]

Archive your Data

Offload NAS: Data such as photographs, video, medical records, scanned documents, court evidence, reports, experimental results and email messages do not change. Rather than fill expensive primary storage with this data, and then wasting time and media backing it up repeatedly, it is best offloaded onto a data archiving storage system where it will be better […]

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 […]

Data Archiving Solution

Nexsan : 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. Imation’s Nexsan Assureon archive system is a complete, turn-key archiving solution for fixed […]

What is Crossroads StrongBox?

StrongBox is the ultimate storage solution for unstructured data. StrongBox® is a NAS appliance that provides online, near-line & archive storage for unstructured data while simplifying data management and protection. Combining flexible, policy-driven disk storage with Linear Tape File System (LTFS) technology, StrongBox empowers users to control storage expenses without sacrificing performance or adding complexity. […]

Imation unveils fortified data security for archive storage

OAKDALE, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 9, 2014– Imation (NYSE:IMN), a global data storage and information security company, today announced that it has introduced a way for IT administrators to better ensure data security in their archive storage. The new Nexsan Assureon™ 8.0 secure archive storage system, which is now generally available to the market, contains features and functionality that significantly boost system […]

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, […]

Understanding LTFS

LTFS (Linear Tape File System) is a file system specification that allows Linear Tape-Open (LTO) storage technology to be indexed. LTFS partitions LTO-5 or LTO-6 tapes into two segments called partitions. Partition 0 holds directory structures and pointers that let the tape drive quickly seek specific data from the tape; the data itself is stored in Partition 1. Applying a […]

Tape drive repairs

We have heard it before, tape is dead and that the next generation of disk drives will eliminate the need for tape. The explosion of data re-assures all of us that we must rely on tape. The good news, tape technology has improved significantly, the tape drive of yester year is not at all like […]

Backup, replication and recovery

Sunstar Company  has a long history in Backup & Recovery.  Our Backup, Replication & Archive solutions give customers control over their evolving business by delivering total protection, recovery and availability for data centers, remote offices, applications and data.  We continue to help organisations protect their most valuable asset. From basic backup and recovery solutions to […]

Sunstar Company, archive offerings

Featured Archive Solutions here at Sunstar Company, Inc. Nexsan : 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. StrongBox from Crossroads: A network-attached storage (NAS) […]

LTFS

LTFS has impacted tape’s modern role in data storage. But, what is LTFS? And more importantly, why does it matter? LTFS Facts Linear Tape File System (LTFS) refers to both the format of data recorded on magnetic tape media and the implementation of specific software that uses this data format to provide a file system interface to data stored on magnetic tape. […]

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 […]

Crossroads Introduces Seamless Archiving for NetApp, Windows and Linux File Systems

Unmatched price point as well as impressive data management and automation capabilities can change how organizations approach long-term storage Crossroads Systems, Inc. global provider of data protection solutions, today announced the availability of StrongBox® DataManager, the newest component of the award-winning StrongBox shared storage solution for data protection and preservation. StrongBox DataManager is specifically designed to […]