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IT Resilience Everywhere; Zerto 8.0 Expands Data Protection and Recovery Capabilities Across On-Premises and Cloud

by Phil Marsden
written by Phil Marsden

 

Zerto Announces Partnership with Google Cloud and Deeper Integration with Azure, AWS and VMware

Boston, March 24, 2020 – Zerto, an industry leader for IT resilience, today announced the general availability of Zerto 8.0, expanding disaster recovery, data protection, and mobility for hybrid and multi-cloud environments with strategic partners. Zerto 8.0 introduces new integration with Google Cloud, deeper integrations with Azure, AWS public cloud platforms, and new innovations with VMware.

“With Zerto 8.0, our mission is to deliver IT resilience everywhere, by introducing a range of new and powerful features along with deeper integration with market-leading public cloud providers. We give customers the protection they want, wherever they need it,” explained Ziv Kedem, CEO of Zerto. “Zerto has been moving the dial on resilience for the past decade, and the ongoing development and wider integration of our platform shows the importance of technology leadership in an era where businesses can never stand still on data protection and recovery.”

Zerto 8.0 brings unrivalled data protection and mobility for hybrid, multi-cloud environments with a range of new, innovative features and capabilities:

    • New support for Google Cloud by bringing its leading Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technology to Google Cloud’s VMware-as-a-Service offering. Zerto 8.0 will support VMware on Google Cloud, enabling users to protect and migrate native VMware workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with Zerto’s leading RTOs, RPOs and workload mobility.

 

  • New cost savings, operational efficiencies and visibility with support for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols).

 

    • Expanded VMware vCloud Director (vCD) connection with Zerto’s self-service recovery portal for Managed Service Providers (MSP).

    • Deeper integration with Microsoft Azure for increased simplicity and scalability of large deployments, which includes support for Microsoft Hyper-V Gen 2 VMs, users leveraging UEFI for VMs running in their on-premises environments can now use Microsoft Azure as a target for disaster recovery, without a need to convert the VMs to legacy formats.

 

  • AWS Storage Gateway to be used as a target site for inexpensive and efficient cloud archive and data protection.

  • New data protection capabilities, extending the value of Virtual Protection Groups (VPGs) to data protection, delivering application consistency from seconds to years.

  • A single pane of glass for data protection reporting with status performance and capacity reporting of protected workloads.

  • Zerto’s failback functionality as part of the cost-effective incremental snapshots of Azure managed disks is now available across ALL regions.

  • New unified alert management with prioritized views of critical alerts and customization for users to receive the alerts exactly when needed for critical operations.

 

    • New impact analysis capability to mitigate risk to an organization’s protected and unprotected environment for on-premises or cloud.

 

  • New resource planning view of Unprotected VM’s for better insight into an organizations’ unprotected VMs.

 

Additional features to automate and streamline the processes for failover and configuration in the public cloud with automated OS configuration, automatic failback configuration and more.

Additionally, Zerto 8.0 lays the foundation for the future of data protection, replacing traditional snapshot-based backup with low RPO journal-based “operational recovery,” enabling enterprises to perform day-to-day granular recovery quickly.

“We’re excited to partner with Zerto and to integrate its capabilities in disaster recovery and backup with Google Cloud,” said Manvinder Singh, Director, Partnerships at Google Cloud. “Zerto’s expertise in supporting and securing VMware workloads in the cloud will be a benefit to organizations that are increasingly running mission-critical workloads on Google Cloud.”

“Zerto support for VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) helps our mutual customers protect their digital infrastructure,” said Lee Caswell, VP Marketing, HCI BU, VMware. “As an Advanced tier Technology Alliance Partner, Zerto is helping customers realize the unique VMware ability to offer consistent storage policy-based management across traditional storage and hyperconverged infrastructure.”

“At Coyote, the security and protection of our customers’ data is our top priority,” said Brian Work, Chief Technology Officer, Coyote. “We take every precaution to keep their information safe, and our work with Zerto is a perfect example of this. Our mutual focus on data protection allows us to offer our customers the innovative tech solutions they need with the security they require.”

Learn more about Zerto 8.0 here: https://www.zerto.com/zerto-8-0-general-availability/

About Zerto

Zerto helps customers accelerate IT transformation by reducing the risk and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption. By replacing multiple legacy solutions with a single IT Resilience Platform, Zerto is changing the way disaster recovery, data protection and cloud are managed. With enterprise scale, Zerto’s software platform delivers continuous availability for an always-on customer experience while simplifying workload mobility to protect, recover and move applications freely across hybrid and multi-clouds. Zerto is trusted globally by over 8,000 customers, works with more than 1,500 partners and is powering resiliency offerings for 450 managed services providers. Learn more at Zerto.com.

VMware, vSphere, VMware Cloud Director, and VMware Virtual Volumes are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

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Backblaze Bootstraps to Hit One Exabyte

by Phil Marsden
written by Phil Marsden

Reposting Blog from BackBlaze CEO.

Blog Post Title: An Announcement With 18 Zeros

Author: Gleb Budman, CEO and Co-Founder

Since the beginning of Backblaze—back in 2007, when five of us were working out of Brian Wilson’s apartment in Palo Alto—watching the business grow has always been profoundly exciting for me. And I’m not talking about financial growth (that’s nice too, of course).

Our team has grown. From five way back in the Palo Alto days, to 145. Our customer base has grown. Today, we have customers in over 160 countries… it doesn’t seem that long ago when I was excited about having our 160th customer.

More than anything else, the data we manage for our customers has grown.

In 2008, not long after our launch, we had 750 customers and thought ten terabytes was a lot of data. But things progressed quickly, and just two years later we reached 10 petabytes of customer data stored (1000x more). (Good thing we designed for zettabyte-scale cloud architecture!)

By 2014, we were storing 100 petabytes – the equivalent of 11,415 years of HD video.

Years passed, our team grew, the number of customers grew, and—especially after we launched B2 Cloud Storage in 2015—the data grew. At some scale it got harder to contextualize what hundreds and hundreds of petabytes really meant. I like to remember that each byte is part of some individual’s beloved family photos or some organization’s critical data that they’ve entrusted us to protect.

This is a belief that we’ve included in every Backblaze team member’s job description, to remind us of why we do what we do:

“Our customers use our services so they can pursue dreams like curing cancer (genome mapping is data-intensive), archive the work of some of the greatest artists on the planet (learn more about how Austin City Limits uses B2), or simply sleep well at night (anyone that’s spilled a cup of coffee on a laptop knows the relief that comes with complete, secure backups).”

It’s critically important for us that we achieved this growth by staying the same in the most important ways: being open & transparent, building a sustainable business, and caring about being good to our customers, partners, community, and team. Which is why I’m excited to announce a huge milestone today. Our biggest growth number yet.

We’ve reached 1.

Or, by another measurement, we’ve reached 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Yes, today, we’re announcing that we are storing 1 exabyte of customer data.

What does it all mean? Well. If you ask our engineers, not much. They’ve already rocketed past this number mentally and are considering how long it will take to get to a zettabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes).

But, while it’s great to keep our eyes on the future, it’s also important to celebrate what milestones mean. Yes, crossing an exabyte of data is another validation of our technology and our sustainably independent business model. But I think it really means that we’re providing value and earning the trust of our customers.

Thank you for putting your trust in us by keeping some of your bytes with us. We have a couple more announcements in the next few weeks that I’m looking forward to sharing with you. But for today, here’s to our biggest 1 yet. And many more to come.

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New BEAST Elite Models Bring Major Performance & Connectivity Improvements for BEAST Platform

by Phil Marsden
written by Phil Marsden

StorCentric’s Nexsan Announces Major Performance & Connectivity Improvements for BEAST Platform with New BEAST Elite Models

BEAST Elite & Elite F with QLC Flash Deliver Industry-Leading BEAST Reliability with Enhanced Performance

Nexsan, a StorCentric company and a global leader in unified storage solutions, has announced significant enhancements for its high-density BEAST storage platform, including major improvements in performance and connectivity. The new BEAST Elite increases throughput and IOPs by 25% while maintaining the architecture’s price/performance leadership. Connectivity has been tripled, providing 12 high-speed Fibre Channel (FC) or iSCSI host ports, reducing the need for network switches.

BEAST Elite: Industry-Leading Reliability, Enhanced Performance and Scale

The BEAST Elite has been architected for the most diverse and demanding storage environments, including media and entertainment, surveillance, government, health care, financial and backup. It offers ultra-reliable, high performance storage that seamlessly fits into existing storage environments. In addition to a 25% increase in IOPs and throughput, BEAST Elite provides an all-in enterprise storage software feature set with encryption, snapshots, robust connectivity with FC and iSCSI, and support for asynchronous replication.

Designed for easy setup and streamlined management processes for administrators, BEAST Elite is highly reliable and was built to withstand demanding storage environments, including ships, subway stations and storage closets that have less than ideal temperatures and vibration. The platform now supports 14TB and 16TB HDDs with density of up to 2.88PB in a 12U system.

BEAST Elite F: QLC Flash Delivers Unrivalled Price/Performance Metrics

The BEAST Elite F storage solution supports QLC NAND technology designed to accelerate access to extremely large datasets at unrivalled price/performance metrics for high-capacity, performance-sensitive workloads. It is ideally suited to environments where performance is critical, but the cost of SSDs has historically been too high.

The BEAST Elite and Elite F both support the new E-Flex Architecture, which allows users to select up to two of any of the three expansion systems available. This gives organizations the flexibility to size the systems exactly as required within their rack space requirements.

“The new BEAST Elite storage platform with QLC flash provides a significant performance improvement over HDDs with industry-leading price/performance. This storage platform is ideal for customers who want extremely dense, highly resilient block storage data lakes, analytics and ML/AI workloads,” said Surya Varanasi, CTO of StorCentric, parent company of Nexsan.

“With a reputation for reliability stretching back over two decades, our BEAST platform has become a trusted solution for a huge range of organizations and use cases,” commented Mihir Shah, CEO of StorCentric, parent company of Nexsan. “BEAST Elite and Elite F retain those levels of superior-build quality and robust design while adding significantly to performance, scale and connectivity capabilities. We will continue to enhance and introduce new products as a testament to our unrelenting commitment to customer centricity.”

For further information, please visit https://www.nexsan.com/beast-elite/.

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Rancher Labs Achieves 169% Revenue Growth, Doubles Customer Base in 2019 as Kubernetes Management Market Matures

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

Unique solution, commitment to open-source innovation, and world-class customer experience keys to success

CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rancher Labs, creators of the most widely adopted Kubernetes management platform, more than doubled its commercial revenue and enterprise customer base in 2019. This significant year-on-year growth demonstrates an accelerating demand for containers within the enterprise and, specifically, containerized workloads running on Kubernetes.

@Rancher_Labs achieves 169% revenue growth, doubles enterprise customer base in 2019 as multi #cloud, multi-cluster #Kubernetes management market matures

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The rapid adoption of Kubernetes has been widely predicted. According to 451 Research, 76% of enterprises worldwide will standardize on Kubernetes by 2022. Additionally, Rancher Labs’ own industry survey indicates multi-cluster environments are the norm, hybrid cloud deployments are prevalent, and edge is emerging as an important use-case.

“The Kubernetes marketplace saw significant consolidation in 2019 with the acquisitions of Heptio and Pivotal by VMware, and Red Hat by IBM,” said Sheng Liang, CEO of Rancher Labs. “Understandably, many organizations are concerned by the possible consequences of this consolidation and are turning to Rancher as the only vendor-neutral, multi-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes management platform.”

Unique Approach to Managing Kubernetes

Rancher’s unique Run Kubernetes Everywhere strategy is built on three simple tenets:

  • Certified Kubernetes Distributions – organizations need to deploy certified Kubernetes distributions everywhere they need to compute – in the datacenter, on multiple clouds, and across desktop, branch, and edge locations. With the Q4’19 GA of K3s, a lightweight and certified Kubernetes distribution purpose-designed for small footprint workloads, Rancher supports the industry’s broadest range of Kubernetes distributions including RKE, EKS, AKS, and GKE.
  • Central Control & Visibility – IT operations teams need simple, consistent cluster operations for all clusters running anywhere, as well as centralized security and policy management across multi-cluster and multi-cloud environments. In Q4’19, Rancher Labs launched v2.3 of their flagship product, Rancher, which is already the industry’s most widely adopted Kubernetes management platform.
  • Streamlined DevOps – any Kubernetes strategy must make it easy for developers and DevOps teams to build, deploy, and manage containerized applications at scale. With the Q4’19 beta release of Rio, a new application deployment engine for Kubernetes that delivers fully integrated deployment experiences from operations to pipeline, DevOps teams can leverage an opinionated application deployment engine that accelerates workload delivery to any Kubernetes cluster.

Commitment to Open-Source Innovation

Illustrating Rancher Labs commitment to open-source innovation, in 2019 the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted Rancher’s vendor-neutral container storage solution − Longhorn − as its latest Sandbox project. Longhorn joined 20 other current projects and was accepted in recognition of the unique value it brings to the cloud-native ecosystem.

Additionally, Rancher Labs received a Firestarter Award by 451 Research, awarded to the company for innovation, enterprise leadership, and its ‘trailblazing work that made it possible to handle a range of Kubernetes implementations from a common management platform.’

Gartner Research also recognized Rancher Labs in 2019, citing the company in two of its Container Industry reports and five different Gartner Hype Cycle reports.

World-Class Customer Experience

Rancher’s customers include many of the world’s largest enterprises. As such, another key factor in Rancher’s continued growth is their commitment to a world-class customer experience which includes onboarding services, certification programs, professional and consulting services, and 24/7 support. Rancher’s commitment to their customers is reflected in the company’s industry-leading net-promoter-score of 70.

What Customers Are Saying

One of the largest commercial banks in the Netherlands is standardizing on Kubernetes and Rancher. Erik van der Meijde, Platform Delivery Manager at de Volksbank comments: “Containers are now at the heart of our growth and innovation strategy. In order to be competitive, we need to increase the velocity of development through automation, while maintaining reliability and security. Rancher represents ‘next level’ containerization that allows us to become more agile and innovative.”

Netic is one of a group of companies creating the first truly national and entirely digital health service in Denmark; making Rancher an intrinsic part of its deployment plans. Kasper Kay Petersen, Sales and Marketing Director at Netic comments: “For a hybrid environment, Rancher is ideal for managing components across on-premise and the cloud. The ongoing health of the Danish population relies on a healthcare infrastructure that is ‘always on’ and completely reliable. As new applications are added to FUT the volume of patients connecting to the service will quickly expand. Rancher allows us to scale rapidly, develop and test new services concurrently securely and in a stable way.”

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About Rancher Labs

Rancher Labs delivers open source software that enables organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes at scale, on any infrastructure across the data center, cloud, branch offices, and the network edge. With 30,000 active users and greater than 100 million downloads, their flagship product, Rancher, is the industry’s most widely adopted Kubernetes management platform. For additional information, visit www.rancher.com and follow @Rancher_Labs on Twitter. All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

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Nexsan Announces QLC-Powered E-Series 18F Storage Platform With Unbeatable Economics

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

Designed for extremely large datasets and analytics, E-Series 18F delivers industry-leading price/performance metrics and supports seamless upgrades with new E-Flex Architecture

 

Thousand Oaks, CA – Feb. 5, 2020– Nexsan, a global leader in unified storage solutions and part of the StorCentric family, today announced the release of its new E-Series 18F (E18F) storage platform. The E18F is designed and optimized for quad-level cell (QLC) NAND technology, allowing users to accelerate access to extremely large datasets at industry leading economics. 

 

The E-Flex Architecture is the next logical iteration of the high performing E-Series architecture. The E-Flex Architecture provides customers the flexibility to start with an extremely small footprint and grow the same footprint to several petabytes of storage. This architectural extension simplifies how customers can deploy and grow their E-Series systems over time. 

 

“Organizations understand the need to optimize the performance of their data lake architectures in order to monetize their data,” said Mihir Shah, CEO of StorCentric, parent company of Nexsan. “The E18F delivers on these requirements with the best cost/performance ratio in the market. The E18F is one of the many new products we plan to announce in the next few months as we execute on our 2020 strategy.”

Designed for Diverse, High-Performance Applications

The E18F has been designed for a wide variety of demanding applications, including real-time analytics and big data users who need a performance uplift for their big data, as well as business intelligence and decision support systems where users need to quickly mine massive data sets using faster, deeper queries. 

Users of performance-intensive artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications can benefit from the data analysis speed they need at a cost-effective price point. Furthermore, for content delivery, video on demand and content streaming applications, the E18F can deliver additional content or video to more users with greater consistency with support for massive parallel requests and streams.

“Nexsan has demonstrated its capabilities for creating storage platforms that can be deployed in the most demanding enterprise environments while offering unrivaled price and maximum performance,” said Surya Varanasi, CTO of StorCentric, parent company of Nexsan. “The E18F is ideal for customers who require capacity, performance and scalability. Our new E- Flex Architecture allows our customers to match the growth of their storage with the growth of their business.” 

 

E18F offers a number of enterprise features to users, including: 

●     High speed storage connectivity over Fibre Channel, iSCSI or SAS connectivity and seamless interoperability

●     High availability, non-disruptive upgrades, snapshots and asynchronous replication across data centers using 10GE Ethernet.

●     Key third-party integrations including Veeam, Commvault, VMware, Windows and Xen

●     Active Drawer Technology™ allows drives to remain active when the drawer is open for hot-swap drive management

 

 

About Nexsan

Nexsan® is a global enterprise storage leader, enabling customers to securely store, protect and manage critical business data. Established in 1999, Nexsan has built a strong reputation for delivering highly reliable and cost-effective storage while remaining agile to deliver purpose-built storage. Its unique and patented technology addresses evolving, complex enterprise requirements with a comprehensive portfolio of unified storage, block storage, and secure archiving. Nexsan is transforming the storage industry by turning data into a business advantage with unmatched security and compliance standards. Ideal for a variety of use cases including Government, Healthcare, Education, Life Sciences, Media & Entertainment, and Call Centers. Nexsan is part of the StorCentric family of brands. For further information, please visit: www.nexsan.com

 

About StorCentric

StorCentric provides world-class and award-winning storage solutions. Between its Drobo, Nexsan, Retrospect and Vexata divisions, the company has shipped over 1M storage solutions and has won over 100 awards for technology innovation and service excellence. StorCentric innovation is centered around customers and their specific data requirements, and delivers quality solutions with unprecedented flexibility, data protection, performance and expandability. For further information, please visit: www.storcentric.com

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A view into Snapt , an application delivery designed for today and tomorrow.

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

Today I want to talk about Snapt:

but wait…… lets talk about Modern service delivery and cover some lingo first.

 

We all have heard the words “Digital Transformation” , “Mode 2 bimodal IT“. Businesses in 2020 are trying to use “Digital innovation” I’ve linked these terms from the first google matches I could find. In short companies are trying to use modern app delivery fabrics like Kubernetes with a set of DevOps practices.

 

Sounds easy, right? Well traditional application delivery applications will not support cloud ‘s micro services eccentric design.

 

But first, what is Kubernetes? “Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. Kubernetes services, support, and tools are widely available.”

 

As you can see above, containers allow you for a easy way to bundle and run applications. But also adds in standards for a framework, so things like process’s and tasks can be automated. Lets see what the Kubernetes website says Kubernetes provides you with:

 

  • Service discovery and load balancing
    Kubernetes can expose a container using the DNS name or using their own IP address. If traffic to a container is high, Kubernetes is able to load balance and distribute the network traffic so that the deployment is stable.
  • Storage orchestration
    Kubernetes allows you to automatically mount a storage system of your choice, such as local storages, public cloud providers, and more.
  • Automated rollouts and rollbacks
    You can describe the desired state for your deployed containers using Kubernetes, and it can change the actual state to the desired state at a controlled rate. For example, you can automate Kubernetes to create new containers for your deployment, remove existing containers and adopt all their resources to the new container.
  • Automatic bin packing
    You provide Kubernetes with a cluster of nodes that it can use to run containerized tasks. You tell Kubernetes how much CPU and memory (RAM) each container needs. Kubernetes can fit containers onto your nodes to make the best use of your resources.
  • Self-healing
    Kubernetes restarts containers that fail, replaces containers, kills containers that don’t respond to your user-defined health check, and doesn’t advertise them to clients until they are ready to serve.
  • Secret and configuration management
    Kubernetes lets you store and manage sensitive information, such as passwords, OAuth tokens, and SSH keys. You can deploy and update secrets and application configuration without rebuilding your container images, and without exposing secrets in your stack configuration

 

As you can see this why Kubernetes has become the default back-end of modern service delivery.

 

Center Stage.

 

Today I’m going to talk about Snapt – Nova.

 

Snapt-Nova, Centrally Managed, Cloud Native Application Delivery

Kubernetes native ADC platform for DevOps, Developers and Infrastructure IT at companies embracing digital transformation and migrating workloads from legacy load balancers to a more modern app delivery fabric.

Nova features:

  • Hyper scale Cloud & Kubernetes native ADC: Load Balancer, WAF, GSLB
  • Easy Self-Service – Centrally Orchestrated, Configured, Deployed, Monitored
  • Automatically Scale out for bursts, scale back in. No more overprovisioning
  • Host on-prem or in Snapt’s cloud
  • Dynamic and intelligent GSLB
  • Control Plane Native – Easily replicate configurations at scale
  • Robust telemetry, repotting, metrics
  • Deploy in any cloud and any location

How Nova Works

  • Nova ADC Platform – Centrally deployed anywhere, anytime. Nova deploys ADCs into any cloud, VM and container. Nova ADCs are Layer 7 load balancers, web accelerators, WAF and GSLB.
  • Nova Cloud Controller– the Nova Cloud provides centralized deployment, configuration, management, analytics, monitoring, telemetry and more for all of your Nova ADC Nodes.
  • Nova Destinations – destinations are powerful Nova powered intelligent DNS addresses that allow auto-scaling, traffic routing, disaster recovery, multi-cloud routing and much more.

 

Use Cases/Platform

Kubernetes

Kubernetes native Load Balancer, WAF, GSLB centrally managed, and autoscaling for Kubernetes visibility, performance, and reliability.

Multi-cloud and Multi-site ADC

Snapt Nova is a centralized platform for ADC’s. Deploy into any clouds or locations and manage, configurations, rote the ADCs centrally.

Cloud Native

Snapt-Nova – Cloud-Native ADC Service-discovery. Snapt-Nova features automated service discovery for Kubernetes, Consul, Docker, Rancher, more.

DigitalOcean

Snapt-Nova – the first purpose built microservices and cloud-native ADC for DigitalOcean. Droplet discovery, automated deployments and more…

Amazon AWS

Snapt for AWS EC2 is a supercharged load balancer, web accelerator and WAF much more robust than ELB. Deploy our AMI right into AWS

Web/HTTP Load Balancing

Intelligent, powerful Web Layer 7 HTTP/S Load Balancing, WAF and GSLB for your website, e-commerce store, and web apps. Free trial

Microsoft

Snapt intelligent load balancing, WAF and GSLB for Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2013 and 2016, Microsoft RDP and IIS. Snapt is a Microsoft partner.

Who is Snapt-Nova for?

  • For companies embracing digital transformation that need a full featured yet right sized ADCs for different clouds, platforms, locations and budgets
  • For DevOps, Developers and Infrastructure IT pro’s embracing digital transformation that need a future proof and flexible on-demand application scalability for any platform and need.
  • For enterprises migrating from legacy hardware load balancers to a modern app delivery fabric that is more scalable and easier to manage than legacy vendors offer.
  • FOR IT looking to consolidate disparate load balancers and combine them into a single, powerful, scalable platform for providing application delivery and visibility in clouds, Kubernetes, on-prem, vm’s, anywhere and any scale

Setup and Deployment

But what’s using this like? How do I sign up? What are my first setups?

 

  • First some house keeping. I’m going to show you how easy it is to deploy a node, and even go through the first steps of the orchestration.
  • This isn’t a example of a best practice deployment but rather a snapshot view into the product,  to allow you to see how easy and simple the product is to use and deploy.

 

That said, On wards!

 

Sign up for the free trial at https://nova.snapt.net/

Fill out the details and we all set to rock and roll.

You’ll see a page asking about your org, type that in and click create organization.

Next you’ll see Step one through four.

 

 

Let’s walk through creating a node, by clicking on Create a Node.

 

I’m going to add a node called, First Node, one I typed it in I hit create.

You will see this page, showing you Nova Installation Options.

Here you can proceed with a docker install, Ubuntu Linux or grab a Virtual Machine image.

 

You’ll also see the Manuals.

 

Linux Client

Docker Image

Installation Guides

Sizing Guide

 

I’m going to show you a example on how to deploy this with the above docker image. I have abstracted the id and key for security reasons.

 

sudo docker run --cap-add=NET_ADMIN --ulimit nofile=500000:500000 -d -t \
--network=host --restart=always \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /etc/nova:/etc/nova \
-e NODE_ID='putidhere' \
-e NODE_KEY='putkeyhere' \
-e NODE_HOST='poll.nova-adc.com' novaadc/nova-client:latest

sudo: docker: command not found

hmmm looks like I have to install docker. Lets do that quick.

 

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt install docker.io -y

sudo systemctl start docker && sudo systemctl enable docker

Unable to find image ‘novaadc/nova-client:latest’ locally
latest: Pulling from novaadc/nova-client
6abc03819f3e: Pull complete
05731e63f211: Pull complete
0bd67c50d6be: Pull complete
5573ecb4be96: Pull complete
049e27438cf3: Pull complete
eb98b228f2cd: Pull complete
be9c74bbddc6: Pull complete
e315c15c9b6c: Pull complete
d205ee8965c2: Pull complete
73a00ea2ce43: Pull complete
16948cade704: Pull complete
b7db21670be1: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:3c148e55f5242915f9a7d54948e6118a1481206eb4f1a0ad138d3b6a19ce1cad
Status: Downloaded newer image for novaadc/nova-client:latest
f59b400db07c59bc3bc8313f9fffdd3b22680aad49eacceb02c606115cd86066
user001@ubuntutest01:~$

Woowhoo!

Stage Right, Platform usage.

 

OK, now we should be set. Next navigate to ADC’s, Management and Backends and lets make a backend.

You’ll see a result like this.

Next we will need a ACD.


Lets go ahead and create one. I just selected the first option purely as a example.

Success!

As you can see you can change and configure this as needed. Next, I want to attach a node to my ADC.

I clicked Edit. In this example, I’m just going to click my only node, and tag it with all nodes, as it’s my only tag in my example.


My Deployment is running! Now, In most cases you would be doing a full deployment , while I’m just showing you a example of how to use the product. But as you can see here is my dashboard.

I hope this example of what Snapt – Nova‘s platform has to offer was interesting to you. I hope I get a chance to dive deeper into this interesting technology in the future.

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Datadobi Eases NAS Migrations with New DIY Starter Pack.

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

News Release.

 

 

Leuven, Belgium — Jan. 28, 2020 — Datadobi, the global leader in unstructured data migration software, is making its purpose-built NAS migration technology – already in use by hundreds of the world’s largest organizations for the biggest, most complex projects – available to companies of all sizes via a Starter Pack. The channel-ready pack enables an entirely new class of companies to reap the benefits of fast, easy, and secure migration between any NAS platform, regardless of the size or complexity of their project.

 

The DobiMigrate Starter Pack is available in three sizes: SMB (up to 50 TB), Commercial (up to 200 TB), and Enterprise (up to 500 TB). The Starter Pack contains the DobiMigrate software plus live services for installation, initial migration, and cut overs to the new platform, plus ongoing support services as needed. By reducing the risk of complex manual migration processes, the Starter Pack allows organizations to more quickly realize the ROI in new hardware with minimal disruption to business.

 

“An enterprise NAS migration has a ton of complexity involved, high costs, data integrity risks, and possible disruptions to your business,” said Charles Bass, VP of business development at Lifeboat Distribution. “Datadobi introducing the DobiMigrate Starter Pack is a game changer for our channel partners by simplifying the enterprise NAS migration conversation with their customers. Resellers now have the ability to capture some of the growing data migration market and have a trusted partner like Datadobi behind them to grow that business.”

 

The Starter Pack also helps organizations make informed decisions about project objectives, easily adapt to changing business priorities, and facilitate communication between all levels of the organization. In addition, the Starter Pack comes with access to the world’s best NAS migration experts.

 

“When it comes to today’s complex migrations, outdated tools, scripts, and processes simply won’t suffice. What’s required is software that is purpose-built for the task, and that’s what the DobiMigrate Starter Pack provides,” said Michael Jack, co-founder, Datadobi. “By removing the risk and pain of manual NAS migrations, DobiMigrate minimizes disruption to daily business, so organizations can focus their time on more important tasks. And by getting them there faster, they can very quickly realize the ROI of their new storage platform.”

 

For additional details, visit www.datadobi.com.

 

About Datadobi

Datadobi, a global leader in data management and storage software solutions, brings order to unstructured storage environments so that the enterprise can realize the value of their expanding universe of data. Their software allows customers to migrate, archive, and protect data while discovering insights and putting them to work for their business. Datadobi takes the pain and risk out of the data storage process, and does it ten times faster than other solutions at the best economic cost point. Founded in 2010, Datadobi is a privately held company headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, New York, and Melbourne. For more information, visit www.datadobi.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

 

 

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Nexsan announce Assureon Archive storage system. Version 8.3

by Phil Marsden
written by Phil Marsden

 

Thousand Oaks, CA – Jan. 15, 2020 – Nexsan announced the newest release of its Assureon Archive storage system. Version 8.3 includes Private Blockchain and end-to-end RMDA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) both adding a whole new level of data security and protection.

Assureon is ideal for organizations that need to implement regulatory and corporate compliance, the long-term archiving of unstructured data, or storage optimization.

The Private Blockchain feature means that customers can now protect their data by:

Storing it in an immutable data structure
Utilizing cryptography to secure transactions
Relying on an automated integrity audit at the redundant sites to maintain data integrity and transparency.

 

Full  press release :

Nexsan Adds RoCE and Private Blockchain Technology to Award Winning Assureon® Solution  

Nexsan Assureon 8.3 includes Private Blockchain to protect and secure digital assets and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) to enable over a 2x performance improvement for data retrieval

Thousand Oaks, CA – Jan. 15, 2020 – Nexsan, a global leader in unified storage solutions and part of the StorCentric family, today announced the newest release of its Nexsan Assureon active data vault storage solution. Version 8.3 includes Private Blockchain and end-to-end RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). The latest version is also ideal for organizations that need to implement regulatory and corporate compliance, the long-term archiving of unstructured data, or storage optimization.

Assureon Private Blockchain enables organizations to protect and secure digital assets by storing data in an immutable data structure, utilizes cryptography to secure transactions and relies on an automated integrity audit at the redundant sites to maintain data integrity and transparency. Combined with Assureon’s unique file fingerprinting and asset serialization process, with metadata authentication and a robust consensus algorithm, Assureon Private Blockchain allows secure archiving of digital assets for long-term data protection, retention and compliance adherence.

Nexsan has adopted the high performance and low latency RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) to eliminate the performance-robbing layers of the network stack. Together, Nexsan with RoCE ensures all customers have ultra-low latency, are regulatory compliant and that the solution is ready for the ever-increasing data demands.

“Nexsan has a strong track record of creating products and services that capitalize on the advances in data archiving, security, protection and retrieval,” commented Surya Varanasi, CTO of StorCentric, Parent Company of Nexsan. “With the release of Assureon 8.3, we have implemented RoCE to provide over a 2x performance improvement and private blockchain technology for a secure, immutable data structure. Users are now able to quickly and efficiently retrieve data with a 40G RDMA Converged Ethernet connection between the Assureon server and Assureon Edge servers, and thereby accelerate access to archived data storage securely.”

Assureon 8.3 offers a number of benefits to Nexsan customers, including:

  • Virtual shortcuts that require zero disk space and reside purely in memory as reference points to physical files in the Assureon archive.
  • A 40Gb/s ethernet connection that provides blazing fast data retrieval from the Assureon server.
    • Data is retrieved directly from user-space with minimal involvement of the operating system and CPU.
    • In addition, zero-copy applications can retrieve data from the Assureon archive without involving the network stack.
  • Security, traceability, immutability, and visibility of data with Assureon Private Blockchain technology.

About Nexsan

Nexsan® is a global enterprise storage leader, enabling customers to securely store, protect and manage critical business data. Established in 1999, Nexsan has built a strong reputation for delivering highly reliable and cost-effective storage while remaining agile to deliver purpose-built storage. Its unique and patented technology addresses evolving, complex enterprise requirements with a comprehensive portfolio of unified storage, block storage, and secure archiving. Nexsan is transforming the storage industry by turning data into a business advantage with unmatched security and compliance standards. Ideal for a variety of use cases including Government, Healthcare, Education, Life Sciences, Media & Entertainment, and Call Centers. Nexsan is part of the StorCentric family of brands. For further information, please visit: www.nexsan.com

About StorCentric

StorCentric provides world-class and award-winning storage solutions. Between its Drobo, Nexsan, Retrospect and Vexata divisions, the company has shipped over 1M storage solutions and has won over 100 awards for technology innovation and service excellence. StorCentric innovation is centered around customers and their specific data requirements, and delivers quality solutions with unprecedented flexibility, data protection, performance and expandability. For further information, please visit: www.storcentric.com

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Manju Agarwal Joins Board of StorCentric

by Phil Marsden
written by Phil Marsden

Financial Services Visionary to Help Shape Products and Accelerate Growth Strategy

 

Sunnyvale, CA – January 21, 2020 – StorCentric, a global provider of world-class and award-winning storage solutions, today announced it has added Manju Agarwal to its Board as an advisor. Agarwal brings over 30 years of banking experience in India and internationally, and has unique expertise in financial technology innovation and digital transformation.

 

Agarwal joins StorCentric during an exciting growth phase. The company has increased its pace of acquisitions and recently expanded its product line with All-Flash NVMe solutions to address the massive data growth and need for data driven applications in the financial services industry. “Manju’s incredible depth of experience and knowledge will be instrumental in helping to shape and enhance StorCentric’s products and services to further enable our customers to innovate, modernize and transform their IT infrastructure. In addition, Manju’s business experience will contribute significantly as the company executes on this strategy,” said Mihir Shah, CEO, StorCentric. “I am very pleased to add someone of Manju’s caliber to our team as we accelerate our growth strategy.”

“I am excited and honored to have been invited to join StorCentric’s board as an advisor,” said Agarwal. “StorCentric is a leader in the financial services market, with an enviable roster of high-profile customers. I look forward to teaming with what I view as one of the most stellar teams in the industry, as we work to cement StorCentric as the most recognized and trusted storage solutions company in the marketplace.”

Ms. Agarwal currently serves as Independent Director for Hinduja Leyland Finance, Indialdeas.com Limited and IFFCO Kisan Finance Limited. Prior, she held the position of Deputy Managing Director, Digital Banking and New Businesses, at State Bank India, the country’s largest bank, where she was responsible for all digital products and new initiatives, and led the government business, transaction banking, issuing and acquiring business initiatives of the bank. This included ensuring the opening of approximately 40 million new accounts, in a six-month time frame. She holds a Masters of Arts in Political Science from the University of Allahabad, a Certification in Documentary Credits from EuroMoney United Kingdom, a Certification in Marketing from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Certification in Financial Inclusion from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Tweet this: .@StorCentric Adds #FinancialServices Visionary Manju Agarwal to Board of Advisors (BOA) www.storcentric.com @Nexsan @Drobo @Retrospect @Vexata

About StorCentric

StorCentric provides world-class and award-winning storage solutions. Between its Drobo, Nexsan®, Retrospect and Vexata divisions, the company has shipped over 1M storage solutions and has won over 100 awards for technology innovation and service excellence. StorCentric innovation is centered around customers and their specific data requirements, and delivers quality solutions with unprecedented flexibility, data protection, performance and expandability. For further information, please visit: www.storcentric.com.

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Introduction to HPE Cloud Volumes

by Roger Lund
written by Roger Lund

Introduction to HPE Cloud Volumes

Coming to you live from California at the Tech Field Day event, #TFDx, @HPE_Storage , #NthSymp2019

Dianne Gonzalez

Hybrid Cloud is the future

Empower innovators agility and innovation across all clouds

  • On-Demand
  • Elastic Sale
  • Consumption

Across Edge , Private and Public Cloud

Digital Transformation Drives hybrid cloud challenges

IT-OPS are catch in aBi-Model world.

 

Virtualized Business Critical Apps , Mode 1

New Devops Style Apps, Mode 2

  • Offering Enterprise Grade, 99.9999% availability
  • Unified, Consistent Application Data Services
  • Data Mobility & Portability

Targeted Solutions:

  • Bi-Directional Migration
  • Hybrid CI/CD
  • Hybrid AI/Analytics
  • Multi-Cloud Protection
  • Hybrid Data Protection

HPE Delivers Leading Cloud software and services to customers

  • HPE Infosight
    • AI-Driven Operations for Hybrid cloud.
  • HPE Cloud Volumes Block
    • Enterprise-grade multi cloud services for storage and managing data in public clouds.
  • HPE Cloud Bank Storage
    • Integrated end-to-end protection from the data center to the cloud

350PB of data under management, Excluding Infosight.

 

HPE Cloud Volumes Block

  • Public Could services that scale performance capacity independently and elastically
  • Low latency data access
  • Multi-cloud without the hassle of data migration
  • Enterprise grade data management
  • Hybrid mobility and data protection
  • No Lock-in, no egress charges, complete visibility
  • Managed on-demand through portal and API’s

Multi-Cloud Data Storage and Management

 

No egress charger to migration back to on-prem nimble.

Allows for failure of a Cloud provider to another , by failing over the storage to a different cloud provider.

Infosight Predictive analytics provides for visibility to present cost data

 

 

Hybrid And Multi-Cloud Experience for containerized workloads

 

 

True Hybrid Cloud for Containers

 

 

HPE Cloud Bank Storage – Simple and Cost  Effective Archive.

  1. Muti Cloud Support
  2. Backup to the cloud for cost effective long term retention
  3. Protect > 100 PB in the public clouds at low cost starting at .001GB /month.

 

This is part of the Tech Field Day Exclusive with HPE Storage 2019

https://techfieldday.com/event/tfdxhpe19/

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