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Introducing vSphere 7: Essential Services for the Modern Hybrid Cloud :repost

by Phil Marsden
written by Phil Marsden

Exciting news from Vmware this week.

https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2020/03/vsphere-7.html

“Our customers who are most successful in meeting the changing needs of their customers simultaneously work on two initiatives: modernize their approach to applications, and modernize the infrastructure that those applications run on, to meet the needs of their developers and IT teams.

As part of these initiatives, customers want to gain the benefits of a cloud operating model, which means having rapid, self-service access to infrastructure, simple lifecycle management, security, performance, and scalability.

This is exactly what vSphere now provides. vSphere 7 is the biggest release of vSphere in over a decade and delivers these innovations and the rearchitecting of vSphere with native Kubernetes that we introduced at VMworld 2019 as Project Pacific.

The headline news is that vSphere now has native support for Kubernetes, so you can run containers and virtual machines on the same platform, with a simple upgrade of the system that you’ve currently standardized on and adopting VMware Cloud Foundation. In addition, this release is chock-full of new capabilities focused on significantly improving developer and operator productivity, regardless of whether you are running containers.”

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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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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.

 

 

Roger L

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Lemongrass Secures $10 Million Series C Financing Round Led by Blue Lagoon Capital

by Phil Marsden
written by Phil Marsden

 

Global SAP® on AWS® services firm announces infusion of experienced board members and leadership team to bring renewed commitment to strategic vision and accelerate sales, marketing and execution of aggressive product roadmap.

 

ATLANTA, GA — Lemongrass Consulting, the leading professional and managed service provider of SAP enterprise applications running on AWS hyperscale cloud infrastructure, today announced it has completed a $10 million Series C round of financing. Blue Lagoon Capital led the investment round with participation from existing investor Columbia Capital. The investment brings Lemongrass’s total funding since launching its services to $29.3 million and will enable the company to build out its senior leadership team, broaden and accelerate product development, and aggressively expand its sales and marketing efforts.

 

Lemongrass, founded in 2008 by Eamonn O’Neill and Walter Beek, is recognized as the leading professional and managed service provider focused solely on the complex task of running SAP on AWS. The company provides end to end support for the entire client lifecycle spanning discovery, landing zone build out, workload migration and implementation at scale, and ongoing operational services. Additionally, the company has developed a cloud management platform, MiCloud, widely recognized as the most sophisticated set of purpose-built tools to facilitate the migration of SAP to the AWS cloud, and to support the on-going operation of the resulting SAP on AWS environments. Automation includes a full suite of migration, build and steady-state run services, self-service deployments and self-healing capabilities.

 

Lemongrass works with leading enterprises, across multiple verticals in the Americas, EMEA and APAC. The company has been working with AWS since 2010, is a Premier APN Consulting Partner, was the second company globally to achieve the SAP on AWS capability and was just recently awarded the coveted AWS Migration Competency award, in addition to the AWS Managed Services Competency award, in recognition of the thousands of SAP systems that they have migrated with a 100% success rate.

 

“Lemongrass is an exceptional company. The magnitude of their vision and the quality of their solutions positions them well to dominate the SAP on AWS growth market,” said Rodney Rogers, Co-founder and General Partner, Blue Lagoon Capital. “We could not be more delighted about this investment.”

 

In addition to the investment, Rogers will join Lemongrass as Chairman of the Board. Rogers is an expert technologist with more than 30 years of success in the technology services industry, recognized most recently for his leadership as Virtustream’s co-founder and CEO, a technology startup that achieved a billion-dollar+ valuation through its acquisition by EMC in 2015. Also, new to the Board is Kevin Reid, co-founder and CTO of Virtustream and co-founder and General Partner at Blue Lagoon Capital. Kevin is a technology entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience creating software-enabled solutions that deliver efficiency, enable innovation and drive superior financial results for enterprises worldwide.

 

The company also announced new appointments to round out the global management team and bring aboard the additional experience needed to support Lemongrass’s next era of growth and maturity.

Mike Rosenbloom joins the company as the Group CEO. Mike has over 25 years in IT Leadership and comes to Lemongrass from Accenture where he was Managing Director for the company’s Intelligent Cloud & Infrastructure business.

 

Walter Beek, previous Group CEO of Lemongrass, will continue with the company in the role of Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer and will focus on his passion for driving the innovation agenda for the company’s services and the MiCloud platform.

 

“These are exciting times for Lemongrass and the momentum we have in our business is evident.” said Beek. “Our business has ambitious goals to pursue and achieving them will require immense skill, rapid growth and scale, and collaborative leadership. The addition of Rodney, Kevin, Mike and the rest of the new executives to our current accomplished team marks an important milestone in Lemongrass’s evolution. I’m confident we will grow faster, innovate as never before, and truly differentiate ourselves in this market.”

 

Other new leaders joining Lemongrass’s executive leadership team at this time are:

 

Mike Provenzano, Chief Financial Officer

  • Mike has over 25+ years of high-tech and software executive experience providing strategic, financial and operational leadership to both public and private companies at various stages of their development. Prior to Lemongrass, Mike was CFO of Virtustream, a cloud services and software provider.

Lisa Desmond, Chief Marketing Officer

  • Lisa brings 20+ years of experience in global IT marketing creating and operationalizing marketing visions for entrepreneurial tech businesses. Lisa was most recently CMO for Beep, an autonomous mobility solutions company, and before that, she was the CMO of Virtustream.

“The most exciting days for Lemongrass are ahead. This is a remarkable team and I am honored to be a part of this journey,” said Mike Rosenbloom, Lemongrass’s new CEO. “This latest funding and the strategic addition of these key leaders will drive exponential growth, enable strategic investments ‘ahead of the curve’, increase operational discipline, and inspire our team to be the absolute best as we execute on our commitments to our customers, partners, and investors.”

 

About Lemongrass

Lemongrass Consulting, headquartered in Reading with operations in all global geographies, was established in 2008 as a specialist SAP Technology consultancy. Lemongrass specializes in the implementation, migration, operation, innovation and automation of SAP on AWS, covering both the SAP Business Suite and Business One applications. The company is an AWS Premier partner, an Advanced APN Consulting Partner, an AWS accredited Managed Service Provider and was the second company globally to achieve the SAP on AWS capability.

 

To learn more about Lemongrass, visit https://lemongrassconsulting.com/

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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.

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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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Top 10 virtualization strategies of 2019

by Shawn Cannon
written by Shawn Cannon

Top 10 virtualization strategies of 2019 (shared from searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com)

Top 10 virtualization strategies of 2019

As virtualization technology continues to advance, admins must use different strategies to manage their complex data centers, such as vCenter maps, hybrid cloud and more.

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The Kemp Application Experience (AX) Fabric

by Shawn Cannon
written by Shawn Cannon

Kemp (formally KEMP Technologies) recently introduced a more robust way to make sure your applications are highly available to your customers!  This is called the Kemp Application Experience (AX) Fabric.  What exactly is this?  Here is what Kemp states on their web site

The Kemp 360 Application Experience (AX) Fabric is an elastic and infinitely scalable application delivery and load balancing interconnect. The Kemp 360 AX Fabric combines best-in-class load balancing, centralized management and predictive analytics to enable customers to deliver an optimal application user experience while maintaining the centralized insight required to be in total control of the application environment

Sounds pretty impressive!  Being able to scale resources on demand and centrally manage the process is ideal.  Let’s look into the features!

Advanced ADC – Best-in-class load balancers that can be deployed easily as hardware, virtual or natively in public cloud environments

Kemp has always been known for great load balancers so it makes sense that this would be a key feature in the AX fabric.  The ADCs can be anywhere you need them to be, on premises as hardware or virtual and also in public cloud.  Being able to serve all type of deployments is very important and Kemp delivers.

Management & Control – Centralized automated load balancer provisioning and simplified day-to-day management of application experience

As I said before, centralized management on the AX is the best way to deliver the best application experience for your users.

Predictive Analytics – Intelligent data correlation provides early detection of AX issues with actionable insight to resolve issues before they occur

Predictive Analytics is on par with Artificial Intelligence in my opinion.  This feature is very important if you want to deliver a top-notch application experience to your users. Being able to resolve potential issues before they occur is how this experience can be delivered.

Metered Licensing – Unlimited ADC instances, Monthly billing, Subscription tiers from 1Gbit, Deploy on premises or in the Cloud

I am seeing more and more products charge by the throughput used which is how Kemp licenses the AX Experience Fabric.  This allows you to deploy unlimited instances of the ADC no matter where they reside.

Scalability – Metered licensing means that traffic is never restricted due to a license limitation allowing deployed ADC instances to scale down, up and out as demands change.

Scalability goes right along with the licensing.  Being able to deploy unlimited instances of the ADC allows you to scale down as demand decreases or scale up as demand increases.

Simplified Cloud Migration – No cost overhead on having multiple ADCs on-premises and in the cloud means that Kemp 360 Central provides cross platform management with a single point to control all ADC resources (including 3rd party) and simplify cloud transition with single click migration of virtual services.

As stated, if you want to migrate ADCs from on premises to the cloud, this can be done with one click. Kemp has made this process super easy!

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud – The Kemp Application Delivery Fabric ensures application resilience and total flexibility in where ADC resources are deployed. Because the fabric is licensed based on overall measured throughput, ADC resources are not tied to any application or platform.

This is one of the best features in my opinion.  You can have your ADC resources running anywhere, even in multi-cloud instances.  There may be business reasons for using more than one cloud provider so being able to run ADCs in both is amazing!

Maintaining AX with Predictive Analytics – Kemp 360 Vision is a proactive monitoring and remediation service that ensures the availability and performance of the application delivery fabric by identifying emerging issues and providing pre-emptive remediation using a combination of machine and human analysis.

As touched on before, to keep AX up and running and performing optimally, Kemp 360 Vision help identify issues that it believe are about to occur and remediate them before a problem arises.  This is the future of application availability.

Check out these videos to learn about some of these features:

Kemp 360 | Vision – How predictive analysis prevents service outages

 

Metered Licensing – An overview of metered licensing (MELA) from Kemp

Learn more about the Kemp Application Experience (AX) Fabric here!

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post. Kemp compensated me for my time but any opinions given are my own.

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