Thursday, November 10, 2011

Kahuna Ventures improves email archiving, data retention and recovery with @Metalogix Archive Manager http://bit.ly/rNj3K7

Metalogix Archive Manager ? Exchange Edition Allows Kahuna Ventures To Eliminate PST Files and Improve Email Archiving, Data Retention and Recovery

Natural Gas Consulting & Engineering Firm Reduces Email Archiving Storage Volume by 50% and Dramatically Improves Email Backup and Management Processes with Metalogix

WASHINGTON, DC, – Metalogix Software, the trusted provider of content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and Cloud platforms, announced today that KAHUNA VENTURES LLC has purchased its Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition solution to manage its Outlook mailboxes and PST files. The company chose Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition because it needed an email archiving solution that would offer sound data protection and disaster recovery for email data by backing up email to an offsite location.

In just 12 years, Kahuna Ventures has grown from a one-employee company to an organization supporting a variety of clients ranging from midstream limited partnerships to major gas producers. As a longstanding leader in natural gas engineering and consulting, Kahuna Ventures employees often rely on previous email communications to support current or past project details and often need to access email information that might be years old. With some mailboxes topping 10GB and risking corruption, Kahuna Ventures needed to act fast in order to protect their data.

“We didn’t want to go through with the overhead created by most email archiving solutions that focused mainly on legal retention,” said Steve Russell, Manager, Information Technology, Kahuna Ventures. “That’s when we were introduced to Metalogix. After looking at Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition, we narrowed it down very quickly and decided Metalogix was the best fit for what we were looking for.”

Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition includes the legal retention features that Kahuna Ventures needed with a lightweight implementation that other competitors could not match. Metalogix Archive Manager – Exchange Edition is a flexible solution for email archiving, retention and disposition that collects, uploads and archives PST files to protect them and make them available, even when working remotely. The product features an easy-to-use Outlook or Outlook Web Access experience, which makes it transparent for users while providing complete email lifecycle management by capturing, routing, storing, restoring, migrating and deleting emails automatically based on company policy.

Kahuna Ventures reduced its email volume by 50% after installing Metalogix Archive Manager, making it much easier to backup and manage to its offsite data center. Kahuna Ventures now has the email protection it needed without the management risk of burdensome PST files as its email data is reliably backed up and can be easily recovered by the users themselves.

“Metalogix Archive Manager – Edition Exchange provided Kahuna Ventures with the email archiving solution it needed to archive emails due to legal retention and securely protect email data," said Steven Murphy, CEO of Metalogix. "Thanks to our solution’s lightweight implementation and ability to reduce the company’s email volume in half, Kahuna Ventures entrusted Metalogix to archive their files. Kahuna Ventures has been able to increase productivity as their end users now have the freedom to quickly recover business-critical emails that could be several years old.”

Metalogix Archive Manager—Exchange Edition
Metalogix Archive Manager is the market leading e-mail and file archive solution for the mid-market. Through its powerful single instance and hierarchal storage management, you can meet your compliance and performance requirements. Archive Manager is transparent to end-users, minimizes Exchange mailbox and unstructured content storage requirements, improves search and recovery at the e-mail and mailbox level and establishes an efficient and standardized eDiscovery workflow. Archive Manager simultaneously enhances Exchange performance and uptime, allowing for reduced server and administration costs and with continuous access to data.

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About Metalogix
Metalogix is the trusted provider of innovative content lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange and Cloud platforms. We deliver high-performance solutions to scale and cost-effectively manage, migrate, store, archive and protect enterprise content. Metalogix provides global support to thousands of customers and strategic partners and is a Microsoft Gold Partner, a managed partner in Microsoft’s High Potential ISV Group and GSA provider. Metalogix is a privately held company backed by Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: www.metalogix.com

About KAHUNA VENTURES

Kahuna Ventures was founded on the precepts of providing sound project management, quality engineering and outstanding safety measures. These principles coupled with our shared vision to be the premier Natural Gas Consulting firm drives our ability to form meaningful partnerships with our clients. In order to accomplish this we strive to create the best working environment for our employees, delivering vital products and services to our customers, and thus providing an unsurpassed value to our clients. For more information please visit: www.kahunaventures.com
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Marketing and Communications Manager, Metalogix
(202) 568-8072
soleary@metalogix.com

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

@StorageSwiss report identifies @Gridstore 2.0 as the easiest Scale-Out NAS solution they’ve tested http://bit.ly/tS3ovN

STORAGE SWITZERLAND 90-DAY TEST DRIVE IDENTIFIES GRIDSTORE 2.0 AS THE EASIEST SCALE-OUT NAS SOLUTION THEY?VE TESTED

Hands-On Review Demonstrates that the Gridstore Scale-Out NAS Solution Succeeds in Installation, Expansion and Harnessing Multiple File Servers into a Single Powerful Storage Grid

Mountain View, Calif. – November 2, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced that its Gridstore 2.0 solution has received top marks in a three-month “test drive” by analyst firm Storage Switzerland as the easiest scale-out NAS implementation they have tested. In the hands-on review, “Storage Switzerland Drives SME Scale Out NAS – Initial Set Up of Gridstore 2.0,” Storage Switzerland’s senior analyst, George Crump, focuses on all aspects of the Gridstore Scale-out NAS out-of-the box experience including installation, expansion, and consolidation of multiple file servers into a single storage grid.

Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution has stood up to months of rigorous performance and reliability testing by Storage Switzerland with absolutely no issues or outages. In the past, the analyst firm has tested other NAS systems without proper power shutdown and found that they inexplicably reboot, turn themselves off or just drop their network connection. However, Gridstore excelled at the challenge by continuing to run no matter what torture testing was done to it.

“What makes Gridstore unique is its combination of a grid architecture with virtualization to eliminate the need for clusters,” said Crump. “This allows them to take advantage of parallel processing and I/O which should significantly improve throughput. Having been involved in several scale-out implementations, this is the easiest that I have seen thus far. We had the systems from box to accepting data in less than 30 minutes.”

In the report from Storage Switzerland, they found that Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution significantly reduces cost and complexity while delivering on the promise of harnessing multiple file servers into a single, powerful storage grid.

“Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution eliminates the heavy upfront cost of buying an enterprise NAS platform while still providing organizations, no matter how small or large, enterprise-class performance and fault tolerance of a true scale-out NAS – eliminating single points of failure, complexity and cost of multiple devices,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “And, as Storage Switzerland has validated in their test drive evaluation, implementation can be completed in as little as a half an hour with reliability that exceeds other vendors tested.”

Gridstore Scale-out NAS storage solutions offload storage processing onto an unlimited number of Virtual Storage Controllers running in client side machines. This enables very simple low cost storage nodes to be used in parallel while generating exceptional performance, scaling and reliability that goes beyond any product it its class.

“Gridstore’s NAS provides a simple, scale-out file storage solution with surprising performance and an even more surprising price point,” said Crump. “The Gridstore system continues to impress. It has been reliable, performs very well and has been easy to use and expand.”

The Storage Switzerland report includes video of the lab’s installation of the management software and system configuration. To view the complete Storage Switzerland report visit:
http://ping.fm/YMrzm

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About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise-class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/bHN7L

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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com
@StorageSwiss report identifies @Gridstore 2.0 as the easiest Scale-Out NAS solution they’ve tested http://bit.ly/tS3ovN

STORAGE SWITZERLAND 90-DAY TEST DRIVE IDENTIFIES GRIDSTORE 2.0 AS THE EASIEST SCALE-OUT NAS SOLUTION THEY?VE TESTED

Hands-On Review Demonstrates that the Gridstore Scale-Out NAS Solution Succeeds in Installation, Expansion and Harnessing Multiple File Servers into a Single Powerful Storage Grid


Mountain View, Calif. – November 2, 2011 – Gridstore™, the leader in scale-out NAS solutions, today announced that its Gridstore 2.0 solution has received top marks in a three-month “test drive” by analyst firm Storage Switzerland as the easiest scale-out NAS implementation they have tested. In the hands-on review, “Storage Switzerland Drives SME Scale Out NAS – Initial Set Up of Gridstore 2.0,” Storage Switzerland’s senior analyst, George Crump, focuses on all aspects of the Gridstore Scale-out NAS out-of-the box experience including installation, expansion, and consolidation of multiple file servers into a single storage grid.

Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution has stood up to months of rigorous performance and reliability testing by Storage Switzerland with absolutely no issues or outages. In the past, the analyst firm has tested other NAS systems without proper power shutdown and found that they inexplicably reboot, turn themselves off or just drop their network connection. However, Gridstore excelled at the challenge by continuing to run no matter what torture testing was done to it.

“What makes Gridstore unique is its combination of a grid architecture with virtualization to eliminate the need for clusters,” said Crump. “This allows them to take advantage of parallel processing and I/O which should significantly improve throughput. Having been involved in several scale-out implementations, this is the easiest that I have seen thus far. We had the systems from box to accepting data in less than 30 minutes.”

In the report from Storage Switzerland, they found that Gridstore’s next-generation NAS solution significantly reduces cost and complexity while delivering on the promise of harnessing multiple file servers into a single, powerful storage grid.

“Gridstore’s Scale-out NAS solution eliminates the heavy upfront cost of buying an enterprise NAS platform while still providing organizations, no matter how small or large, enterprise-class performance and fault tolerance of a true scale-out NAS – eliminating single points of failure, complexity and cost of multiple devices,” said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. “And, as Storage Switzerland has validated in their test drive evaluation, implementation can be completed in as little as a half an hour with reliability that exceeds other vendors tested.”

Gridstore Scale-out NAS storage solutions offload storage processing onto an unlimited number of Virtual Storage Controllers running in client side machines. This enables very simple low cost storage nodes to be used in parallel while generating exceptional performance, scaling and reliability that goes beyond any product it its class.

“Gridstore’s NAS provides a simple, scale-out file storage solution with surprising performance and an even more surprising price point,” said Crump. “The Gridstore system continues to impress. It has been reliable, performs very well and has been easy to use and expand.”

The Storage Switzerland report includes video of the lab’s installation of the management software and system configuration. To view the complete Storage Switzerland report visit:
http://ping.fm/LZIc6

Tweet this: @StorageSwiss report identifies @Gridstore 2.0 as the easiest Scale-Out NAS solution they’ve tested http://bit.ly/tS3ovN

Follow Gridstore on Twitter at http://ping.fm/e7ymV

About Gridstore
Gridstore is the leader in scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) products. The Gridstore Scale-out NAS solution uniquely combines virtualization with a grid processing platform to deliver a single pool of storage that simplifies management while increasing performance, scaling and reliability. The Gridstore system is designed for organizations who struggle with the risk, cost and complexity of storage sprawl and who need enterprise-class storage without the cost and complexity. Founded in 2007, Gridstore is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and has development facilities in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please visit: http://ping.fm/yk7NY

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Media Contact:
Sabrina Sanchez
Ventana Public Relations
(540) 253-5060
sabrina.sanchez@ventanapr.com

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

@AtlantisILIO broadens storage optimization offering AtlantisILIO for Citrix XenServer http://bit.ly/se1WK2