November 16, 2009
Condor Storage offers the full line of Texas Memory Systems solid state arrays, as well as cost affordable PCI cards. Here is a great article on this topic.
http://www.infostor.com/index/articles/display/3844378763/articles/infostor/volume-13/Issue_10/Features/Where_do_SSDs_fit__Servers_or_arrays_.html
November 13, 2009
Despite the economy, we are bustling with two hot project themes, archival and virtualization. Here’s an update on what is exciting us now and what gets us fueled up first thing Monday morning besides that new dog gone good caramel coffee from Godiva. It’s not the mundane job duties we must endure, it’s the ability to turn on lightbulbs, show people a better way and then receive appreciation.
Archive and Storage Optimization: Cut re-occurring b/u licensing costs and get your mind blown away. I have a custom use model license with a sw manu. for unlimited capacity data to off-site or on-site tape, which looks like disk to the b/u library. It avoids b/u sw altogether and gets out of per TB/ license models for VTL or virtualized storage. It can recover in full file format without b/u jobs having to be restored and optimize your existing disk, it can also snap oracle and dbases direct to tape at 70MB/sec. Plus, can use a UDP based file transfer product optimized for sending and receiving large files outside the LAN/WAN-Amazon S3 approved. Condor has several expert consultants whom we engage to speak with our clients on-site to showcase this, upon request, no cost.
iSCSI for the Enterprise: We offer two unified iSCSI/NAS gateway solutions-both scale to a petabyte, one powered by a robust Broadcom chipset/switch design and the other powered by a 64 bit Linux OS and a plug ‘n play appliance. Differentiators vs. Dell/Equalogic : Both our solutions support NFS files and can replicate over fibre or 1GB links, and both can scale independently of each other, and both support existing storage pools plus open storage out the back and both are lower priced by 22%, and both have 3 year warranty w/on-site plans. Condor is offering these through 12/20/09 at up to 49% off MSRP.
See these both in a webinar: first come, first served basis. Contact us online via drop down menu and request a meeting. Easy to book and no talking to a lizard scaled, slick and oily ”sales person”. 
http://www.condorstorage.com/contact_info.htm
October 20, 2009
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
October 20, 2009
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.
September 22, 2009
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.
August 10, 2009
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.
May 7, 2009
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 17, 2009
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 10, 2009
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.
January 14, 2009
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
