"TriAxis is a great partner for us. When we have had a disk problem in the middle of the night, and I ask what needs to happen, the president says, 'You should not do anything, let me take over from here.'"

Greg Folsom
Arnold Worldwide
Boston, Massachusetts
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"TriAxis Storage Solutions, Inc. was most helpful in supplying, advising, and implementing SAN and Data Protection technology in our Dallas, Texas office. We utilize Landmark Graphics software and cannot risk any down time.

"TriAxis provided the solution to migrating our data, Oracle environment, and applications from old disk technology to SAN technology with no downtime and user-transparent. When our SAN environment needed additional space, the TriAxis solution grew our SAN filesystems transparently and even increased access speed! TriAxis is reliable, dependable, and provides the best in storage solutions at a reasonable price! I would choose no other vendor – TriAxis is the solution!"

Ron Nichols
Netherland, Sewell & Associates
Dallas, Texas






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"The sale of the Snap Server business allows us to focus on strengthening our leadership position in the Unified Serial RAID controller business, leverage our iSCSI assets and continue to streamline the company's operations," said S. "Sundi" Sundaresh, president and chief executive officer, Adaptec Inc.

"With the acquisition of the Snap Server storage appliances, Overland is well positioned to extend our end-to-end data protection offerings while also meeting our customers' and partners' growing needs for best-of-class, distributed NAS appliances," said Vern LoForti, president and chief executive officer, Overland Storage. "The award-winning Snap Server family complements our existing robust portfolio of disk-, tape- and SAN-based products to reinforce Overland's strength as a global leader in the growing data protection market. At the same time we are thrilled at the creative talent pool that will be joining our existing team in strengthening a truly world class organization."

Overland Storage will take over control of all existing Snap Server networked and desktop storage appliance assets including licenses, patents, existing product inventory and fixed assets and assume customer support obligations. Approximately 50 Adaptec employees will receive offers to join Overland Storage effective June 30, 2008. These employees will remain in the same facility in Milpitas, California which Overland is subleasing from Adaptec.

Today, Adaptec offers a comprehensive family of products built upon its Unified Serial(TM) Architecture that allows VARs, OEMs and IT organizations to create flexible storage solutions with cost-effective, high-capacity Serial ATA (SATA) disk drives, or high-performance Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives, or both, in a single storage system. In addition, Adaptec will continue to focus on iSCSI market opportunities, and the development of new technologies for integrating high-value, competitive advantages into its RAID controller and HBA products lines. It is also working to expand its global sales channels and strategic partnerships within the data storage ecosystem to increase its visibility in strategic markets. ]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:20:23 -0400 http://www.triaxisinc.com/content/library.php?itemid=94
(by Bob Spurzem and T.M. Ravi of Mimosa Systems.)This growth of unstructured information is the driving force of a significant surge in knowledge worker productivity and is creating an enormous risk for enterprises with no tools to manage it. Content Archiving is a new class of enterprise application designed for managing user-generated, unstructured electronic information. The purpose of Content Archiving is to manage unstructured information over the entire lifecycle, ensuring preservation of valuable electronic information, while providing easy access to historical information by knowledge workers. With finger-tip access to years of historical business records, workers make informed decisions driving top line revenue. Workers with legal and compliance responsibility search historical records easily in response to regulatory and litigation requests; thereby reducing legal costs and compliance risk. Using Content Archiving enterprises gain “finger-tip” access to important historical information - an important competitive advantage helping them be successful market leaders.

Unstructured Electronic Information

One of the most remarkable results of the computer era is the explosion of usergenerated electronic digital information. Using a plethora of software applications, including the widely popular Microsoft® Office® products, users generate millions of unmanaged data files. To share information with co-workers and anyone else, users attach files to email and instantly files are duplicated to unlimited numbers of users worldwide. The University of California, Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems measured the impact of electronically stored information and the results were staggering. Between the years 1992 to 2003, they estimated that total electronic information grew about 30% per year. Per user per year, this corresponds to almost 800 MB of electronic information. And the United States accounts for only 40% of the world’s new electronic information.

* Email generates about 4,000,000 terabytes of new information each year — worldwide.
* Instant messaging generates five billion messages a day (750GB), or about 274 terabytes a year.
* The World Wide Web contains about 170 terabytes of information on its surface; in volume this is seventeen times the size of the Library of Congress print collections.

This enormous growth in electronic digital information has created many unforeseen benefits. Hal R. Varian, a business professor at the University of California, Berkeley, notes that, “From 1974 to 1995, productivity in the United States grew at around 1.4 percent a year. Productivity growth accelerated to about 2.5 percent a year from 1995 to 2000. Since then, productivity has grown at a bit over 3 percent a year, with the last few years looking particularly strong. But unlike the United States, European countries have not seen the same surge in productivity growth in the last ten years. The reason for this is that United States companies are much farther up the learning curve than European companies for applying the benefits of information technology.”

Many software applications are responsible for the emergence of the electronic office place and this surge in productivity growth, but none more so than email. From its humble beginning as a simple messaging application for users of ARPANET in the early 1970’s, email has grown to become the number one enterprise application. In 2006, over 171 billion emails were being sent daily worldwide, a 26% increase over 2005 and this figure is forecasted to continue to grow 25-30% throughout the remaining decade. A new survey by Osterman Research polled 394 email users, “How important is your email system in helping you get your work done on a daily basis?” 76% reported that it is “extremely important”. The Osterman survey revealed that email users spend on average 2 hours 15 minutes each day doing something in email, but 28% users spend more than 3 hours per day using email. As confirmed by this survey and many others, email has become the most important tool for business communication and contributes significantly to user productivity.

The explosive growth in electronically stored information has created many challenges and has created a fundamental change in the way electronic digital information is accessed. Traditionally, electronic information was managed in closely guarded applications used by manufacturing, accounting and engineering and only accessed by a small number of trained professionals. These forms of electronic information are commonly referred to as structured electronic information. User-generated electronic information is quite different because it is in the hands of all workers - trained and untrained. User-generated information is commonly referred to as unstructured electronic information. Where many years of IT experience have solved the problems of managing structured information; the tools and methods necessary to manage unstructured information, for the most part, do not exist. For a typical enterprise, as much as 50% of total storage capacity is consumed by unstructured data and another 15-20% is made up of email data. The remaining 25-30% of enterprise storage is made up of structured data in enterprise databases.

Content Archiving

User-generated, unstructured electronic information is creating a chasm between IT staff whose responsibility it is to manage electronic information and knowledge workers who want to freely access current and historical electronic information. Knowledge workers desire “finger-tip” access to years of information which strains the ability of IT to provide information protection and availability, cost effectively. Compliance officers desire tools to search electronic information and preserve information for regulatory audits. And overshadowing everything is the need for information security. User-generated electronic information is often highly sensitive and requires secure access. As opposed to information that exists on the World Wide Web, electronic information that exists in organizations is meant only for authorized access.

Content Archiving represents a new class of enterprise application designed for managing user-generated unstructured electronic information in a way that addresses the needs of IT, knowledge workers and compliance officers. The nature of Content Archiving is to engage seamlessly with the applications that generate unstructured electronic information in a continuous manner for information capture, and to provide real-time end-user access for fast search and discovery. The interfaces currently used to access unstructured information (e.g. Microsoft Outlook®) are the same interfaces used by Content Archiving to provide end users with secure “finger-tip” access to volumes of electronic information.

Content Archiving handles a large variety of user-generated electronic information. Email is the dominate form of usergenerated electronic information and is included in this definition. So too are Microsoft Office files (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and the countless other file formats such as .PDF and .HTML. Files that are commonly sent via email as attachments are included in both the context of email and as standalone files. In addition to email and files, there are a large number of information types that are not text based, and include digital telephony, digital pictures and digital movies. The growing popularity of digital pictures (.JPG), audio and voice mail files (.WAV, .WMA) and video files is paving the way for a new generation of communication applications. It is within reason that in the near future full length video recordings will be shared just as easily as Excel spreadsheets are today. All these user-generated data types fall under the definition of Content.

Content Archiving distinguishes itself from traditional data protection applications. Data protection solves the important problem of restoring electronic information, but does little more. Archiving, on the other hand, is a business intelligence application that solves problems such as providing secure access to electronic information for quick search and legal discovery; measuring how much information exists; identifying what type of data exists; locating where data exists and determining when data was last accessed. For managing unstructured electronic information, Content Archiving delivers important benefits for business intelligence and goes far beyond the simple recovery function that data protection provides. Using tools that archiving provides, knowledge users can easily search years of historical information and benefit from the business information contained within.

Information Life-Cycle Management

The three phases of unstructured information

Content Archiving recognizes that electronic information must be managed over its entire life-cycle. Information that was recently created has different needs and requirements than the same information years later and should be managed accordingly. Three distinct phases exist for the management of electronic information, which are the recovery phase, discovery phase and compliance phase (see figure). It is the strategic purpose of Content Archiving to manage electronic information throughout the entire life-cycle; recognizing the value of information in the short-term for production and long-term as a record of business; while continually driving information storage levels down to reduce storage costs and preserving access to information.

During the recovery phase all production information requires equal protection and must be available for fast recovery should a logical error occur, or a hardware failure strikes the production servers. Continuous capture of information reduces the risk of losing information and supports fast disk-based recovery. The same information stores can be accessed by end users who desire easy access to restore deleted files. Content Archiving supports the recovery phase by performing as a disk-based continuous data protection application. As compared to tape-based recovery, Content Archiving can restore information more quickly and with less loss of information. It captures all information in real-time and it keeps all electronic information on cost-efficient storage where it is available for fast recovery and also can be easily accessed by end users and auditors for compliance and legal discovery. The length of the recovery phase varies according to individual needs, but is typically 6-12 months.

At a point in time, which varies by organization, the increasing volume of current and historical information puts an unmanageable strain on production servers. At the same time the value of the historical electronic information decreases because it is no longer required for recovery. This is called the discovery phase. The challenge in the discovery phase is to reduce the volume of historical information while continuing to provide easy access to all information for audits and legal discovery. Content Archiving provides automated retention and disposition policies that are intelligent and can distinguish between current information and information that has been deleted by end users. Retention rules automatically dispose of information according to policies defined by the administrator. Further reduction is achieved by removing duplicates. For audits and legal discovery, Content Archiving keeps information in a secure, indexed archive and provides powerful search tools that allow auditors quick access to all current and historical information. By avoiding using backup tapes, searches of historical information can be performed quickly and reliably; thereby reducing legal discovery costs.

Following the discovery phase, electronic information must be managed and preserved according to industry rules for records retention. This phase is called the compliance phase. Depending on the content, information may be required to be archived indefinitely. Storing information long-term is a technical challenge and costly if not done correctly. Content Archiving addresses the challenges of the compliance phase in two ways. First, Content Archiving provides tools which allow in-house experts, who know best what information is a record of business, to preserve information. Discovery tools enable auditors and legal counsel to flag electronic information as a business record or disposable. Second, Content Archiving manages electronic information in dedicated file containers. File containers are designed for long-term retention on tiered storage (e.g. tape, optical) for economic reasons and have self-contained indexes for reliable long-term access of information.

Conclusion

The explosive growth in user-generated electronic information has been a powerful benefit to knowledge worker productivity but has created many challenges to enterprises. IT staff is challenged to manage the rapidly growing information stores while keeping applications running smoothly. Compliance and legal staff are challenged to respond to regulatory audits and litigation requests to search and access electronic information quickly. Content Archiving is a new class of enterprise application designed to manage unstructured electronic information over its entire life-cycle. Adhering to architectural design rules that ensure no interruption to the source application, secure access and scalability, Content Archiving manages information upon creation during the recovery phase, the discovery phase and the compliance phase where information is preserved as a long-term business record. Content Archiving provides IT staff, end users as well compliance and legal staff with the business intelligence tools they require to manage unstructured information economically while meeting demands for quick, secure access and legal and regulatory preservation.

(This article is reposted and the full newsletter is available here.)

About the Authors

Bob Spurzem
Director International Business
Mimosa Systems

Bob has 20+ years experience in high technology product development and marketing and currently he is a Director International Business with Mimosa Systems Inc. With significant experience throughout the product life cycle, from market requirements and competitive research, through positioning, sales collateral development and product launch, he has a strong focus in bringing new products to market. Prior to this his experience includes work as a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Legato Systems and Veritas Software companies. Robert has an MBA from Santa Clara University and a Masters Degree in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University

T. M. Ravi
Co-founder, President, and CEO
Mimosa Systems

T. M. Ravi has had a long career with broad experience in enterprise management and storage. Before Mimosa Systems, Ravi was founder and CEO of Peakstone Corporation, a venture-financed startup providing performance management solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Previously, Ravi was vice president of marketing at Computer Associates (CA). At Computer Associates, Ravi was responsible for the core line of CA enterprise management products, including CA Unicenter, as well as the areas of application, systems and network management; software distribution; and help desk, security, and storage management. He joined CA through the $1.2 billion acquisition of Cheyenne Software, the market leader in storage management and antivirus solutions. At Cheyenne Software, Ravi was the vice president responsible for managing the company’s successful Windows NT business with products such as ARCserve backup and InocuLAN antivirus. Prior to Cheyenne, Ravi founded and was CEO of Media Blitz, a provider of Windows NT storage solutions that was acquired by Cheyenne Software. Earlier in his career, Ravi worked in Hewlett-Packard’s Information Architecture Group, where he did product planning for client/server and storage solutions.]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:01:33 -0400 http://www.triaxisinc.com/content/news.php?itemid=93
Pete Scully, TriAxis' own BDM, sings a duet with Stevie Wonder to close out a recent Mohegan Sun concert.Pete, a Business Development Manager here at TriAxis, has long been known by his clients for "his pipes". However, over 10,000 Stevie Wonder fans, including Stevie and his 10-piece band, found out they could do more than help customers with disk storage-related solutions. Pete won a local contest held by a Hartford-based radio station, WDRC-FM, and receive a pair of fourth row seats and this once-in-a-lifetime chance to sing a duet with Mr. Wonder. The concert was held at Mohegan Sun Arena on Thursday, June 19th.

Pete and Stevie co-opted on the last song of the evening, "Another Star". This was not a planned song on their set-list, but it was what Pete wanted to sing, so they closed out the show with it.

Pete, who is usually talking to customers and prospect about storage products from the likes of CommVault, Compellent, Data Domain, Dell / EqualLogic, ExaGrid, Mimosa, Spectra Logic, and the like, was able to get back to his musical roots. In addition to having be a professional singer, Pete has done commercials (oddly enough, one for CA called 'Why I'm CA' to the melody of 'YMCA!') and voice-overs before settling down to high-tech storage sales. Pete takes off personal time each year to sing in a benefit concert, The Paper Bag series back on Long island, NY. This year, he will be opening up the concert with, quite appropriately, with "Karn Evil 9" from Emerson Lake & Palmer which begins with "Welcome back my friend, to the show that never ends..." Additionally, Pete will be singing "Enter Sandman" from Metallica, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" from The Tokens (in falsetto, he tells us), and Frank Zappa's "Kosmic Debris", among others.

When regaling us at the office about the show, Pete told us, "Prior to the start of the show, one of Stevie Wonder's producers met with me to determine which song I'd be singing. I had decided on "Another Star," because the song is better suited to sing in duet-style. He gave me the set list and told me that I would be closing the show with this song - with no rehearsal….gulp!!!!. It was then time for me to get back to my seat.

"The show was fantastic," Pete continued. "as Stevie likes to involve the audience throughout the course of the show. He played all of the classics as well as a few new songs. It then came time for me to do my thing. I was escorted side-stage, and at this point Stevie was telling the audience that I had won a singing competition through DRCFM, and that I'd be doing a duet with him."

As if that wasn't enough to make Mr. Scully nervous, he told us, "I had a chance to tell the crowd, 'I have Stevie Wonder as a safety net - How do ya like that?' What happened next??? I sang my butt off!!!"

What was it like to meet Stevie? "He was very gracious, in that he gave me the opportunity to meet with him at a party after the show. He told me that during the song, he was forgetting his own lyrics. He also gave me permission to use the photo seen here as it was taken by his photographer."

After The Paper Bag series in Long Island, Pete will be doing a cameo appearance at MumFest 2008 a few weeks later. All we can say is "Wow!!"]]> Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:54:09 -0400 http://www.triaxisinc.com/content/library.php?itemid=92
1. Don't use one tool for everything.
The best tool for backing up file servers isn't necessarily the best tool for archiving email, for example. Likewise, SAN-based replication doesn't get too expensive unless you're trying to use it for everything. Take a realistic look at the backup requirements for each of your projects--whether it's disaster recovery/business continuity, data archiving for compliance or legal discovery--and use the most appropriate tools for that particular area.

2. Standardize on a few good tools.
Find and use the tools that work well for your environment and make sure that the versions you use are consistent across all of your data silos and backup servers. Standardizing on hardware can also pay dividends, whether you're standardizing host bus adapters for SAN connectivity or tape drives. Having many different brands and types of tape drives with dozens of types and capacities of tape cartridges isn't uncommon, but it introduces one of the greatest sources of complexity in backup strategies.

3. Standardize directory structures on file servers.
This goes beyond putting user directories in the same place on file servers. Standardize and document database installations, Web servers, mail servers and so on. This makes it much easier to ensure that all critical data is backed up regularly without having to do daily full backups of the whole server drive.

4. Consider disk-to-disk (D2D) backups.
D2D doesn't just provide faster backups and restores; it lets you consolidate multiple backup servers onto one storage system, which can then be more easily managed. Disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) allows for offsite archiving; you can also replicate your backup store to a remote site depending on your requirements for long-term archiving.

5. Consider storage management programs.
Storage management platforms require a considerable investment, not only in software licensing but in the installation and configuration of the framework. In the long run, however, the reduction in man hours required to keep storage organized and easy to back up, and backups verified and organized, will pay off.

6. Don't let inertia keep you from trying new solutions.
Administrators accustomed to tape backups can progress from tape libraries to virtual tape libraries, not realizing that there might not be a need to simulate tape drives if it makes more sense to back up to disk. Even if you're eventually archiving to tape, simulating tape libraries in the intermediate stages may not be necessary. Likewise, instead of looking for a faster way to do what you're doing now, look around at the alternatives--there's a lot of new storage technology available.

7. Try dividing tasks by requirements to make them easier to manage.
Instead of managing all file server backups in one place and all application server backups in another, try to manage all disk-based backups in one place, all replication-based backups in another, all offsite tape backups in another and so forth. This will let you consolidate and simplify backup targets, rather than treating each backup source as unique.

Backup administrators can be conservative, sticking with existing tools simply because they aren't broken yet and are familiar to them. Unfortunately, they often don't discover that those tools aren't functional until an attempt to restore fails. Don't be afraid to reengineer your backup infrastructure. You may not only save administrative costs and speed up responses to user requests for restored files, but also avoid having to explain to the higher ups why the "old, reliable" backup system wasn't.

--Logan G. Harbaugh

Note: to view this in it's original content, click here.]]> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:10:57 -0400 http://www.triaxisinc.com/content/events.php?itemid=91
Inadvertent deletion of emails by employees is a growing legal risk for companies.Companies that can’t or won’t preserve and protect potentially responsive records for eDiscovery run the risk of huge fines and “negative inference” jury instructions. The new FRCP Rule 37(e) amendments provide protection for companies who accidently delete potentially responsive records. But, to make effective use of the safe harbor defense, a company must show “routine, good faith” in meeting their obligations for protecting potentially relevant records.

In this webinar, Attorney Tom Allman and William Tolson of Mimosa Systems will discuss:

• An effective “good faith” strategy to meet the Safe Harbor expectations
• Lessons learned from cases that applied—or rejected—Rule 37(e) since the Amendments
• Best practices which will enable you to document your processes and procedures
• Future trends and predictable court attitudes towards cutting-edge technology

When:

Tues, July 1, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM ET

Featured Speakers:

Tom Allman
Attorney and Consultant

Bill Tolson
Director of Legal & Regulatory Solutions Marketing, Mimosa Systems, Inc.

Click here for more information about the speakers

Register to attend this by calling Christina Johnson at 888-721-9691 x13 or by emailing her at christina.johnson@triaxis.com and find out if your “good faith intent” is good enough.
]]> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:08:52 -0400 http://www.triaxisinc.com/content/news.php?itemid=90 Compellent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Arca: CML) today announced it has won the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year award for Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Storage Solutions.The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.

“The Microsoft Partner of the Year award is a great validation of our efforts to optimize Compellent virtualized storage so users do more with their data in Windows environments,” said Phil Soran, CEO and co-founder of Compellent. “Compellent remains committed to providing the most advanced, intuitive storage solution for enterprises of all sizes. We will continue to provide value to our partners, and listen to our customers to deliver the best storage solution for the virtual data center.”

Awards were presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of more than 2,000 entrants worldwide. Compellent was recognized for superior technology and innovation in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Storage Solutions. The Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Storage Solutions Partner of the Year award honors partners that have storage infrastructure practices in designing and/or implementing various storage solutions to solve customers’ issues with data growth in their Windows-based environments. Customers are looking to Microsoft technologies to meet the growing demands on their storage infrastructure due to compliance requirements and the massive year-over-year data growth. The winning partner will have developed and deployed cost-effective storage solutions that integrated Windows Server storage technologies or Windows Storage Server in customer environments.

“Compellent Technologies Storage Center simplifies numerous storage tasks for administrators and helps reduce overall storage total cost of ownership,” said Robert Deshaies, Vice President, U.S. Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. “Microsoft is excited to recognize Compellent Technologies Storage Center solution because it makes it possible for administrators to recover data for Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, and other Microsoft applications quickly and easily.”

The Microsoft Partner Program Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the last year.

Compellent is a Microsoft Certified Gold-Level Partner and a Sponsor-level partner of the Microsoft Partner Solution Center (MPSC) in Redmond, Wash. The Compellent SAN was also recently selected as a core storage component of the MPSC’s virtual data center and disaster recovery strategy. For additional information about the alliance or to schedule a Compellent demo at the MPSC, visit www.compellent.com/microsoft. More information about Compellent Storage Center is available by calling 888-721-9691 x13. ]]> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:56:11 -0400 http://www.triaxisinc.com/content/partners.php?itemid=49

	BakBone Software is a leading international data protection solution provider that develops and distributes heterogeneous data backup, restore, disaster recovery, replication and storage reporting software for network storage and open-systems environments. BakBone delivers scalable solutions that address the complex demands of large enterprise environments, as well as small- to medium-sized businesses.
	CommVault's groundbreaking Simpana software is a single product with application modules for Data Protection, Archive, Replication, Resource Management and Search—all built from the ground up, on a single code base and platform. This efficient, scalable design quite literally changes the way information is protected, archived, managed, and accessed. The Result? Singular efficiency, flexibility, and scalability other products can only dream about.
	Traditional storage vendors promise to reduce the amount of time and money spent on storage, but instead deliver a patchwork of complicated and inefficient point products that are difficult to learn, integrate and manage. By starting from scratch, without the burden of software legacy code and the limitations of a proprietary hardware platform, Compellent developed a revolutionary SAN that reduces storage costs up to 74%, cuts storage administration time in half, and ensures continuous data availability.
	Data Domain is a leading provider of Enterprise Protection Storage systems for disk backup and network-based disaster recovery. Over 500 companies worldwide use Data Domain’s award-winning solutions to reduce backup costs and simplify their data recovery. Data Domain’s Global Compression™ and replication technologies offer breakthrough data reduction rates that enable new efficiencies in enterprise data protection. The company’s products and solutions integrate seamlessly into customers’ existing infrastructure and are compatible with all leading enterprise backup software products.
	EqualLogic is the leading provider of iSCSI-based, all-inclusive storage area network (SAN) solutions that enable businesses to realize the economic benefits of consolidated, self-managing storage. Based on a vision of "simplifying networked storage," EqualLogic's peer storage architecture combines advanced software features with fully-redundant, hot-swappable hardware integrated in a modular chassis design. This architecture delivers an affordable, enterprise-class storage system that is easy to manage and always available. EqualLogic solutions enable fast, flexible storage provisioning and dramatically reduce the time and costs required to manage and maintain a SAN environment - locally or remotely.
	Headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts, ExaGrid is the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with byte-level data deduplication. A highly scalable system that works with existing backup applications, the ExaGrid solution is ideal for mid-market and small enterprise companies looking to quickly eliminate the hassles of tape backup while reducing their existing backup windows. ExaGrid’s patented approach minimizes the amount of data to be stored by providing standard data compression for the most recent backups along with byte-level data de-duplication technology for all previous backups. Customers can deploy the ExaGrid system at a primary site and at a second site to supplement or eliminate offsite tapes with a live data repository or for disaster recovery.
	Hitachi Data Systems leverages global R&D resources to develop storage solutions built on industry-leading technology with the performance, availability and scalability to maximize customers' ROI and minimize their risk. They focus on the customer's perspective as they apply the best hardware, software, and services that uniquely satisfy our customers' business needs. TriAxis' primary focus with this Tier-1 vendor is in deploying their virtualization products (Universal Storage Platform, formerly TagmaStor) and their archiving products (HCAP, formerly Archivas).
	Infortrend, the RAID storage expert, is a pioneer in cost-effective, high performance networked storage. The company's products include EonStor® storage systems and RAIDWatch® software for virtually all storage interfaces including SAS, SCSI, iSCSI, SATA and Fibre Channel. For over a decade, Infortrend has provided reliable, fault-tolerant technology to prominent OEMs, distributors, and storage integrators worldwide. The company's core competency includes performance optimized RAID ASICs, feature-rich firmware, and redundant, high availability RAID subsystems.
	Mimosa Systems, Inc. delivers next-generation information management solutions for information immediacy, discovery and continuity. Mimosa NearPoint™ for Microsoft® Exchange Server is the industry's most comprehensive information management software solution for Microsoft Exchange, unifying e-mail recovery, archiving and storage optimization. NearPoint assures e-mail continuity and regulatory compliance, while leveraging cost-effective disk technologies to optimize e-mail storage growth. Mimosa’s next-generation data management solutions help transform everyday business processes and drive benefits across the organization, from CxOs to legal, HR, IT, and most importantly to employees.
	ONStor NAS Gateways combine network infrastructure-grade hardware and purpose-built software to consolidate enterprise-wide file services on multi-vendor storage. ONStor storage solutions dramatically reduce management costs by providing customers with the most easily scaled storage environment, and reduce capital costs by delivering the freedom and flexibility of the industry's most interoperable platform.
	In business more than 25 years, Overland Storage is a market leader and innovative provider of simply protected storage solutions – smart data protection appliances and software modules designed to work together, affordably, to ensure that information is automatically safe, readily available and always there. Overland’s award-winning data protection solutions include the REO SERIES™ of disk-based backup and recovery appliances; and the NEO SERIES® of scalable tape libraries.
	Promise Technology's external storage product offerings are designed to take maximum advantage of Serial ATA (SATA) drives for reference and high-bandwidth data applications such as disk-based backup, document imaging and video surveillance and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives for enterprise transactional applications like modeling, simulation and billing. Promise has created its external storage product line with complete customer satisfaction in mind by providing exceptional value and by giving customers the ability to select the product that best fits their needs.
	Protocol Networks provides professional and managed services to help customers Create, Connect & Evolve their communications across their business to improve their processes and profitability. They focus, not only on getting the right resources to a problem, but also on serving you with “Old Fashioned" customer service, one of their key tenets. We are confident that once you experience their professional customer service, you will understand why we at TriAxis chose them as an extension of our own storage service offerings.
	Qualstar has been designing and manufacturing some of the world's finest tape products since 1984. Their "Simply Reliable" Automated Tape Library Families provide backup, archive storage, and disaster protection for thousands of customers around the clock, worldwide. Qualstar is a manufacturer of automated tape libraries used for backup, archival storage, data protection and disaster recovery. Qualstar's products are known throughout the world for their rugged, simply reliable design, yielding years of trouble-free operation.
	Sepaton, Inc. is one of the industry's leading developers of high performance, modularly scalable data protection appliances that are non-disruptive to existing infrastructures. Sepaton enables managers of corporate data centers to keep pace with increasingly complex management needs, while reducing their total cost of ownership. With innovative, proprietary technologies and significant investment in engineering resources Sepaton is committed to expanding its family of products to provide the industry’s most advanced solution for protecting critical enterprise data—and preserving our customers’ technology investments.
	Spectra Logic Corporation is the leader in innovative hardware-driven data backup and archival solutions for companies worldwide. Spectra Logic’s tape, disk and encryption libraries help organizations save time, lower costs and reduce risks while protecting and storing data. Spectra® products support AIT, LTO, SAIT and SDLT tape, provide capacities ranging from 60 gigabytes to multiple petabytes, and integrate encryption and RAID. Today, the company has tens of thousands of libraries installed worldwide. Spectra Logic has introduced many industry first products including: first with all-native Fibre Channel and iSCSI libraries; first to offer hardware-based, encryption-enabled libraries.
	StoreVault™, A NetApp Division, was formed to focus specifically on the mid-tier market segment. StoreVault is also the name of the new line of network storage solutions. Mid-tier customers today have major pain points around data protection and recovery, and the NetApp enterprise-proven storage technologies offer unique ways to solve these customer problems. The StoreVault S500 has integrated these technologies into an affordable solution with a simplified management interface that allows firms to focus on growing their business instead of their growing storage.
	Storage at enterprise data centers continues to grow. But every new technology, strategy, or process raises storage complexity, and the existing multi-vendor storage infrastructures found in most data centers compromise end-to-end visibility and control. Veritas storage software solutions from Symantec are the industry leading heterogeneous solutions to ensure data in the enterprise is protected by leveraging backup and recovery, storage management and archiving technologies.
	Syncsort Incorporated develops, markets, and services high-performance software for data management and data protection. With emphasis on technical excellence and superior service, Syncsort products are assisting customers around the world in realizing the performance potential of their data processing systems. Syncsort's products are used in more than 50 countries to speed data warehouse processing, improve database loads, improve query performance and back up and protect data in distributed environments.
	As an independent Silicon Valley-based provider of hardware and software maintenance services, Terix offers a full menu of technology support services, both nationally and internationally for critical enterprise applications. Terix support options include on-site server maintenance with plans that include 24/7 coverage, spares on-site, next day parts, Solaris™ and AIX™ software support. Terix provides a measurable means of reducing the total cost of ownership for clients' technology assets by providing cost effective support and maintenance options that extend the useful life of technology installations.

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