Q4 Promotion, 14 1TB Drives for Free!

To all new Nexsan clients, or those who have not ordered within the past 24 months, please inquire how you can receive (14) 1TB. enterprise Hitachi 7200 RPM drives for FREE w/purchase of the SATAbeast award winning SAN solution. Any OS supported incl. MAC/Apple. This is 14 Terabytes for Free and comes at an economic time where every bit and byte of savings is a step toward a profitable 2010. Visit Our Contact Us page and request the details. http://www.condorstorage.com/contact_info.htm

Limited Condor Promotion

 

Whitepapers on Storage

New Oct 2009 Nexsan Whitepaper Available

Abstract: If all storage array vendors buy disk drives from the same small set of disk manufacturers then why is there such a big reliability gap between storage vendors? While excellent work has revealed the reality of failure rates and types, the focus has merely been on ”what” happens when components fail. There is very little to describe “why” subsystems fail and “why” some vendors produce exceedingly reliable subsystems while others fall drastically short. Please email: sales@condorstorage.com and request a .pdf copy of the “If Disk” WP. We think you will find this has solid technology pointers you should be aware of.

 

Condor Storage offers Superior, Turnkey DeDuplication Solution

Condor Storage Inc. Rolls Out One Mean Green DeDup NAS Machine

Nexsan and FalconStor have designed a turnkey, deduplication solution that is available now from their authorized channel partners. Please contact us for representative pricing, assistance with calculating your target storage capacity, and a web based overview with Q&A.

 

Nexsan and Falconstor Partner

Condor Storage selects De-Dup/NAS/Vault Solution as a must see new product ! Please contact us for a powerpoint and price quote. This is exactly what our clients have needed with one source of support! Vs. Data Domain: 35% greater raw capacity, 60% more power efficient, 66% faster performance,50% more cost efficient. Now that’s mind bending.

 

Falconstor VTL Solutions

We have been getting increased inquries regarding VTL software and VTL appliances. Appliances come with disk storage and go beyond the simple addition of raid arrays for D2D backups. They incorporate file level de-duplication and they are designed to streamline the backup process without affecting performance of the LAN. Here is a great article on how Falconstor can help your backup process.
http://falconstor.dciginc.com/2009/04/disk-based-backup-lan-bottleneck.html

Please inquire with us for a webinar and custom proposals. We have an evaluation program and promotions in place for new clients.

 

April Promotions

We’re inundated with promos, this is a buyers market. Something to Talk About: 2 for 1 iSCSI SAN offers-get a free iSCSI SAN appliance and replicate your data. Free, to new clients only, recieve one SATA drive free for every 2 ordered in a raid array.

Where can you get 5 TB. free? Buy an 8TB raid array and get either a free second controller for active/active failover OR choose 5 1TB. drives for FREE. Our clients like FREE. Also, free shipping in/out and free evaluation on our new SSD PCI card. Here’s another free offer, -order a 12 slot tape autoloader, get a unit with 24 slots-that’s 12 slots for FREE. Restructure any text file with our custom migration and archival software…get a free trial to move 500 files and test this, ask for a FREE download link. Here’s another zinger…get a 4TB. free license for an easy to use and administer NAS paralllel file system.

Solid State Offer: Test drive a PCI flash based card that can resolve performance problems and accelerate applications up to 2500%. See for youself how SSD can dramatically increase the number of concurrent users and simultaneous transactions in your existing environment. Save money by reducing the need for expensive new servers, software licenses, server-based RAM and monolithic RAID. We have a unique solution for NetApps clients with this product, please inquire. Talk to us for more details. 888-472-8028 or 928-284-2535

 

March/April 2009 Webinar Topics

Condor is excited to bring on some new webinar topics, available by signing up on our Contact Us page.
Cloud Archival: Archive CIFS and NFS data to your own private cloud with new software, it’s Symantec [Vault] on Steroids.
Parallel NAS: Illustrates Processes for private cloud based storage, behind the corp. firewall for file based data. Eliminates the need for HA hardware and SLA’s.
SSD Storage Options: Details what is available for the Enterprise, via Solid State Disk.

 

Our 2009 Look Ahead at IT Trends

Our focus revolves around storage trends in the multi-terabyte range.  i.e. Challenges with explosive data growth, how to implement D2D based archival at affordable prices, and ways to scale up and out without being locked into primary vendor choke holds. Tiered Storage was our 2008 theme and we architected and implemented a great deal of it. Email archival also took off, while dedup and compliance issues just seemed to be alot of noise. iSCSI and NAS options are what we were asked most to configure and quote.  Our theme for 2009 is “Front Ending Open Storage”. We already have our favored 24/7 raid array suppliers in place and factoring in cost per GB. at all time lows with green power and equal or superior support/service-we can take on bigger brand names and come out way ahead on cost containment w/o  sacrificing features. What clients still worry about most, is the fact that they have been single vendor biased for so long that if they stray, their jobs could be on the line. We are now talking to former “all EMC” or “All IBM” shops who see the need to tier.  If you could implement a backup copy of all critical files to be failed over to, in event of a data center disaster, why wouldn’t you do that? Cost is the only answer. These purebred shops are now looking at becoming hybrid shops. We can help and that’s what Condor Storage does a great job at.

You must know the game you are in, esp. in today’s “economy”. We are on direct with emerging storage vendors and offer unique front end ways to scale commodity disk to petabytes. We’ve added HPC servers and clustered solutions this year. A carry over from 2008 are value deals for SMB’s. 24 slot tape loaders are a steal right now, as well as turnkey NAS appliances and D2D backup solutions. You won’t find our specials and incentives on this blog very often, you’ll need to get on our mail list this year by visiting our “Contact Us” page. We are happy to impart our knowledge via a one-to-one phone call or site meeting. I hope to hear from more of you with unique IT issues to solve. Bring it on for 2009 and bring me your brand name snobs too! We’ll be gentle in our sales approach, aggessive with our price quotes and will focus 100% on “your unique” data storage questions. To quote a client of mine managing a PB., it’s the not asking that can get you in trouble! Call me directly at 888-472-8028.

Happy 2009. -Jeanne

 

End of Year Deals and Steals

Deal of the Day for simple tape backup: Overland’s 12 slot ARCVault tape loader as thru 12-20, you will actually receive a 24 slot ARCVault for the 12 slot price. This comes turnkey and supports all major OS’s and backup software. Email for a color brochure with specifications and pictures.  Pricepoint: LTO-3 loader under <$4K.

Nexsan’s released their SASBeast, available w/up to 42TB of SATA disk or all SAS drives or tiered with SAS/SATA. This is the only 42 bay with the following feature list: Green powered, density of design with 42 disks per 4U shelf, supports 15K RPM SAS “450 GB drives” as well as SATA 1TB. 7500 RPM drives in the same enclosure, Superior LUN management, and enterprise level service and support. There is no other design like this available. Please contact us for a promotional discount thru end of year.

NAS Bundle: RelData or OnStor-we are direct with both channel vendors, who prefer to resell thru storage vars like Condor. We work with their engineers to architect the features you need. Scalable to petabytes, blazing HA performance and IOPS and industry reviewed and recognized. Email us for reviews, pricepoints and a webinar w/free $20 gift reward.

Have a great December and a very Happy Holiday Season.

Jeanne

 

Collaboratively Edit from AVID with non AVID hardware

Earlier this year Condor was in the press for rolling out the first 42TB. array built for the MAC/Apple platform while concurrently supporting other OS’s. Combined with backup software that ignores per terabyte licensing costs, we were able to deliver the perfect D2D backup solution for larger MAC clients. That brought us to the question…what other nifty MAC products can we find to help clients reduce costs, save time and go non-proprietary with Apple/Apple vendors. We have clients developing websites, video games and involved with both pre and post production and usually they have more than one person working on things. For clients with three or more editing stations wanting to collaboratively share one project with true file level sharing, not just read access sharing, that’s been expensive to achieve. Condor Storage now has storage plus the front end share solution and it’s truly unique. Avid and Final Cut Pro editors can instantly see, copy or revise the work of colleagues with the assurance that a bin, sequence or project will never get accidentally deleted or overwritten. This kind of sharing “fuels’ the creative process, and is crucial for feature film editing, news editing, promo production, reality TV production, and any genre where rapid content creation is required.
Please contact us for more information, a detailed brochure and a technical call with our industry expert on this topic.