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2nd Consecutive Time NetApp Leads Enterprise Array Quality Awards

Jun 24th

Posted by Admin in NetApp

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Just incase you needed any more assurance about the quality of our enterprise array products, here’s some “sweet” news you can use.

NetApp consultancy, deployment and maintenance available in Nigeria via 24Cube Nigeria.
24Cube is a registered NetApp partner here in Nigeria providing expert consultancy, installation and management of all NetApp solutions in Nigeria backed by the full support of NetApp.

In the six edition of the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Quality Awards for enterprise arrays, NetApp finishes first. The Quality Awards recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability in use. The results are derived from a survey of qualified readers who assess products in five main categories: sales-force competence, initial product quality, product features, product reliability and technical support. Products are rated on a scale of 1.00 to 8.00, where 8.00 is the best score. A total of 441 respondents provided 727 system evaluations.

This is the second consecutive time NetApp has finished first, after sharing top honors with EMC on the fourth edition of the Quality Awards. The strong showing from NetApp is further proof of NetApp’s strength in Enterprise SAN. NetApp had an overall score of 6.71 by taking top honors in four (sales force competence, initial product quality, product features, technical support) of the five rating categories. Hitachi Data Systems finished second, and EMC and IBM were tied for third.

A strong indicator of product satisfaction is a customer’s willingness to make the same purchase all over again. When that question was asked on the survey, NetApp was the highest rated with 92% of the respondents saying they would purchase NetApp again.

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Go Further, Faster More Efficiently with NetApp — NetApp — Corporate

Jun 24th

Posted by Admin in NetApp

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Network Appliance is a leading provider of innovative data management solutions that simplify the complexity of storing, managing, protecting, and retaining enterprise data. Market leaders around the world choose NetApp to help them reduce cost, minimize risk, and adapt to change. 24Cube is a registered NetApp partner here in Nigeria providing expert consultancy, installation and management of all NetApp solutions in Nigeria backed by the full support of NetApp.

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Compare 2 different NetApp Solutions with the FAS2000

Jun 24th

Posted by Admin in NetApp

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Whether you are responsible for a remote or branch office, a department, or a midsized enterprise, you are challenged more than ever before by shrinking budgets, overextended staff, and the need to do more with less. These challenges, coupled with the increasing complexity of your Windows® environment, can quickly eat into your budget and affect your productivity.

NetApp® FAS2000 systems provide a powerful range of technologies and features based on Data ONTAP® to help increase storage utilization and the efficiency of your system and storage administrators.

With new powerful FAS2040 systems and our preconfigured FAS2020 systems that include high-capacity drives at attractive prices, you can pick the perfect balance of price, performance, and features that best fits your needs.

Our common end-to-end unified storage architecture and breadth of optional software available via easy to deploy software packs makes it possible for you to add functionality to our systems quickly. Our new system manager based on Windows can cut setup time to under one hour.

Managing server and application sprawl on a shoestring budget is now a lot easier with the NetApp FAS2000 series.

 

FAS2050
FAS2050
FAS2040
FAS2020
FAS2020
FAS2020
Application Environments Mid-sized Enterprises (MSE), remote or branch offices (ROBO), and departments of large enterprises
Ideal for Specialized storage deployments Higher performance or capacity needs Value oriented deployments
Storage Networking Support FC SAN, IP SAN, NAS, and FCoE
Full Hardware Redundancy Yes Yes Yes
Max. Raw Capacity 104TB 136TB 68TB
Max. Disk Drives 104 136 68
Disk Drive Types SAS, FC or SATA
Memory 4GB 8GB 2GB
Controller Form Factor 1 or 2 controllers in a single 4U chassis 1 or 2 controllers in a single 2U chassis 1 or 2 controllers in a single 2U chassis
Gigabit Ethernet

Onboard ports

Max. ports

4

8

8

8

4

4

Fiber Channel

Onboard ports

Max. ports

4

8

4

4

4

4

Onboard SAS ports

Max. SAS ports

0

4

2

2

N/A

N/A

PCI Expansion Slots

10GbE Support

FCoE Support

Multipath Capacity Expansion

2 PCI express

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N/A

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Network Appliance is a leading provider of innovative data management solutions that simplify the complexity of storing, managing, protecting, and retaining enterprise data. Market leaders around the world choose NetApp to help them reduce cost, minimize risk, and adapt to change. 24Cube is a registered NetApp partner here in Nigeria providing expert consultancy, installation and management of all NetApp solutions in Nigeria backed by the full support of NetApp.

Give us a call today and let’s talk about your IT and backup needs 08033051621
netapp@24cube.co.uk

 

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NIGERIA : Need a reason to choose NetApp storage consolIdatIon for WIndows fIle servIng? How about 10?

Jun 24th

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Need a reason to choose NetApp storage consolIdatIon for wIndows fIle servIng in NIgeria?
How about 10?

Network Appliance is a leading provider of innovative data management solutions that simplify the complexity of storing, managing, protecting, and retaining enterprise data. Market leaders around the world choose NetApp to help them reduce cost, minimize risk, and adapt to change. 24Cube is a registered NetApp partner here in Nigeria providing expert consultancy, installation and management of all NetApp solutions in Nigeria backed by the full support of NetApp.

Save Money
1. radically reduce your Microsoft® Windows® file server count. NetApp consolidated file serving and home directory storage improve your bottom line. You get more efficient storage utilization, fewer servers to manage, and fewer software upgrades. And you can expand storage quickly and easily, when you need it, at the lowest incremental cost.
2. reduce management overhead.
NetApp management applications help you minimize administrative overhead for storage, backup, restore, and disaster recovery. NetApp data management solutions also enable users to restore their online files without administrator help.
3. Increase your organization’s productivity. NetApp enables more efficient data sharing throughout the enterprise, across any mix of computing platforms and protocols. How? NetApp storage systems can support additional protocols, applications, and users, at a lower incremental cost. With a simplified architecture and fewer servers to manage, your administrators can focus on tasks that add value for users.

AchIeve the performance and relIabIlIty your busIness needs
4. get data faster. Optimized for serving Windows data, NetApp solutions deliver faster response times and greater throughput than the traditional Windows file server infrastructure.
5. Keep your business up and running.
NetApp solutions deliver high availability and reliability. Rapid restores and instan­taneous backups reduce downtime— planned and unplanned—and maximize access to data.
6. protect your data. NetApp data protection solutions simplify backup, reduce recovery time, and reduce the risk of unrecoverable data, with inherent support for third­party antivirus software.
7. solve real business problems with advanced technology. Optimize and innovate with NetApp storage solutions that provide a complete data management, distribution, and retention strategy for
the enterprise. Your business operations benefit from more frequent, instantaneous, non disruptive backups, mirroring, and restores—with lower overhead and no performance degradation.

GaIn an InnovatIve busIness partner

8. use the best and the brightest.

NetApp is recognized as a storage industry innovator, with an architecture that delivers maximum performance, simplicity, and scalability. NetApp also enables multitiered storage; data resides at the optimal cost per megabyte based on its value to your organization.

9. future-proof your investment.

Business environments change. Whatever your technology mix—NAS or SAN (including iSCSI), Windows, UNIX®, or Linux®—you can increase future flexibility with innova­ tive storage solutions from NetApp.

10. enterprise services see you through.

NetApp delivers global, enterprise ­grade services and support to help ensure your long­term success, free up your internal resources, minimize disruption, and maximize uptime. NetApp offers services and support programs to complement every phase of your solution, from evaluation within your environment to installation, including services to maximize your return on investment through the life of ownership.

 

Give us a call today and let’s talk about your IT and backup needs 08033051621
netapp@24cube.co.uk

 

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NETAPP SOLUTIONS IN NIGERIA – EFFICIENT IT MANAGEMENT

Jun 24th

Posted by Admin in NetApp

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How are you managing your IT infrastructure ?

NetApp can help and the solutions are now more affordable and available than ever before.

24Cube is a registered NetApp partner here in Nigeria providing expert consultancy, installation and management of all NetApp solutions in Nigeria.

Some facts about NetApp in Nigeria

NetApp range of storage and backup solutions is by far the industry leader her in Nigeria.

8 out of the top 10 banks in Nigeria use NetApp

The Apex bank, CBN uses NetApp.

NetApp is used by almost all the top GSM companies in Nigeria

It has the ability to backup your entire network without any agent based installation on your clients machines.

NetApp® solutions are extremely user friendly, easy to manage, and quick to deploy, offering increased availability with fewer IT resources. This means that they dramatically lower the lifetime total cost of ownership. Where others manage complexity, NetApp simply eliminates it.

In the name NetApp Unified Storage Architecture, “unified” refers to a family of storage systems that simultaneously supports SAN, NAS, and iSCSI across many operating environments (VMware®, Windows®, and UNIX®, to name a few). This single architecture provides access to data by using industry standard protocols, including NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, FCP, SCSI, FTP, and HTTP. As shown in Figure 1, connectivity options include standard Ethernet (10/100/1000), Fibre Channel (1, 2, or 4 Gb/sec), and SCSI (for tape backup only). Additionally, all systems can be configured with high-performance Fibre Channel disk for primary storage applications, low-cost SATA disk for secondary applications (backup, archive, and so on), or a mix of both.

 
Give us a call today and let’s talk about your IT and backup needs 08033051621
netapp@24cube.co.uk

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TS-859 Pro Turbo NAS in Nigeria

Oct 12th

Posted by Admin in QNAP

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We have recently received shipment of a few units of TS-859 Pro Turbo NAS in Nigeria. The stock is limited and is guaranteed to run out very quickly.

You can also contact us to place orders for all QNAP range of products, all orders are backed up with full manufacturer’s warranty and support.

Please feel free to contact us to reserve one of the available units – qnap@24cube.co.uk

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QNAPModern business faces the challenge of dramatic growth of digital data, including documents, emails, applications, and so on. To deploy the IT environment with a reliable, affordable and expandable storage center to securely store, share, and back up the digital assets has become an important task for the server managers of the SMB and entry-level enterprise nowadays.

The TS-859 Pro is the powerful 8-bay network attached storage (NAS) server, which is designed to provide an affordable and easy-to-management solution with iSCSI service for virtualized and clustered environment. The TS-859 Pro also offers versatile business applications to maximize the efficiency of the data center in the business environment.

Incorporating the next-generation Intel® Atom™ Dual-Core processor and 1GB DDRII RAM, the Turbo NAS delivers exceptional performance and maintains high reliability for multiple concurrent applications and intensive data transfer with guaranteed low power consumption.

Brand New Turbo NAS Series for Business
The Most Affordable and Flexible Virtualization Solution
The TS-859 Pro is certified as compatible with VMware® vSphere4 (ESX 4.0 and above) virtualization platform. The NAS can be utilized as the networked shared storage of VMware virtualization environments and Windows cluster servers. Comparing with traditional SAN (Storage Area Network), the Turbo NAS is a competitive alternative with much lower setup and maintenance costs in an IP SAN.

The Feature-rich and Integrated Applications for Business
The NAS supports file sharing across Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX platforms. Versatile business applications such as file server, FTP server, printer server, web server, and Windows AD support are provided. The dominant features, such as WebDAV, Share Folder Aggregation (also known as DFS), IPv6 and IPv4 dual-stack, Wake on LAN, schedule power on/ off, HDD S.M.A.R.T, comprehensive log systems, and policy-based unauthorized IP blocking are all included features of a QNAP NAS server.

New iSCSI for Virtualization Deployments
The Turbo NAS provides flexible and secure storage server deployment with the following enhanced iSCSI features:

  • NAS + iSCSI storage solution
    The Turbo NAS can serve as a NAS for file sharing and iSCSI storage concurrently.
  • Flexible multiple LUNs management
    The NAS supports multiple LUNs (Logical Unit Numbers) and iSCSI targets. The LUNs can be flexibly mapped to, unmapped from, and switched among different iSCSI targets.
  • Secure IP SAN environment deployment
    Designed with CHAP authentication and LUN masking, the advanced ACL (Access Control List) offers you the capability to block unauthorized access from the initiators.
  • Designed for virtualized and clustered environments
    Comparing with the high cost of Fibre Channel SAN, the Turbo NAS is an affordable system that can be deployed as a storage center for virtualized and clustered server environments, such as VMware and Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster.

QNAP

iSCSI feature QNAP NAS Other NAS
VMware Ready® certified iSCSI array QNAP Supported Other NAS not Supported
SPC-3 for clustered environment deployment QNAP Supported Other NAS not Supported
MC/S for failover, load balancing and performance gain QNAP Supported Other NAS not Supported
MPIO for failover and load balancing. QNAP Supported Other NAS not Supported
LUN masking for advanced security QNAP Supported Other NAS not Supported
LUN mapping for flexible management QNAP Supported Other NAS not Supported
Thin Provisioning for efficient disk usage QNAP Supported Other NAS not Supported

Virtual Disk Drive (VDD) adds flexibility to storage expansion along with ease of management
The unique “Virtual Disk Drive” adds flexibility to expand the capacity of NAS. By using the built-in iSCSI initiator, the NAS can connect to other iSCSI targets on the network and turn them into virtual disks, which become multiple single volumes on the NAS. Up to 8 virtual disks can be stacked. The NAS serves as the storage stack chaining master. The user only needs to connect to this single entry (QNAP NAS) and is able to reach and use all the iSCSI LUN on the network.

QNAP

Superior Performance and Eco-friendly Design
The NAS delivers superior performance and high reliability for critical business applications. It is optimized to achieve low noise and low power consumption for environment protection.

NetBench
QNAP

  • Testing benchmark program: ZD NetBench version 7.0.3
  • Client PCs (20 Total): Intel Celeron 1.6GHz CPU, 1GB DDRII 667, Atheros AR8121 GbE Chip, Windows XP SP1

SAMBA/ FTP Access
QNAP

  • FTP/SAMBA Testing Environment: Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q8300 2.50GHz/ 4GB DDRII RAM, WD640AAKS 640GB, Windows 7 Enterprise 32 Bits,Intel PRO 1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter 82571
  • FTP/SAMBA Testing Method: Connect the TS-859 Pro and PC to switch, upload/download 5GB File without Jumbo Frame, FTP Tool: File Zilla

Power Consumption (with 8 hard drives installed)
QNAP

Abundant Business Features
The Turbo NAS provides diversified server applications in the business environment.

1 QNAP FTP Server:
You can establish your own FTP server by the Turbo NAS and share the files conveniently with your friends or customers.
2 QNAP Encrypted Remote Replication:
The data on the Turbo NAS can be backed up to or from other Turbo NAS or Rsync servers over the network.
3 QNAP File Server:
The Turbo NAS allows file sharing across Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX platforms. It also supports WebDAV for you to access the share folders via HTTP/HTTPS protocol remotely.
4 QNAP Printer Server:
The Turbo NAS supports USB printer sharing over the network (max. 3 USB printers).
5 QNAP Backup Server:
The Turbo NAS offers you the most complete backup solution with Apple Time Machine support, remote replication to an Rsync server, Windows client backup software NetBak Replicator, and third party backup software support, and so on.
6 QNAP Web Server:
You can easily create a website to publish information over the Internet using the built-in web server by the Turbo NAS.
7 QNAP Surveillance Station:
The Turbo NAS enables you to configure and connect multiple IP cameras simultaneously for remote monitoring, video recording and playback.
QNAP IPv6:
The Turbo NAS supports IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) which makes your NAS a dual-stack IP host running IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time.

Advanced RAID Management with Hot-swap Design
The NAS offers RAID 0, 1, 5, 5+spare, 6, 6+spare, single, and JBOD disk configurations. It also supports hot-swap design that a failed member drive of a RAID configuration (RAID 1 or above only) can be replaced by hot swapping without turning off the server.

QNAPOnline RAID Capacity Expansion
The storage capacity of a RAID configuration can be expanded by replacing the larger hard drives. All the data will be kept and seamlessly moved to the newly installed hard drives without turning off the server.

QNAPOnline RAID Level Migration
You can upgrade the disk configuration to higher RAID level with the data retained without turning off the server.

The Most Complete Backup Solution
The NAS offers complete backup solution for data protection, including cloud-based storage backup (Amazon S3),Apple Time Machine support, encrypted remote replication, third party software backup, one-touch-copy backup and QNAP exclusive Windows-based utility NetBak Replicator. The users can choose different backup modes for redundant data backup.

QNAP

Benefits of Dual LAN Deployment
The Turbo NAS supports multiple bonding modes: Balance-rr (Round-Robin), Active Backup, Balance XOR, Broadcast, IEEE 802.3ad, Balance-tlb (Adaptive Transmit Load Balancing) and Balance-alb (Adaptive Load Balancing)

Scenario Benefits to your company
Failover
QNAP
Provides continuous services when one network port fails.
Load Balancing
QNAP
QNAPAggregates bandwidth to boost the file transfer speed.
QNAPData traffic is evenly distributed to balance network loading.
Multi-IP Setting
QNAP
Allows sharing among different workgroups in two different subnets.

Practical System and Authority Control Management Tools

QNAP Instant SMS and Email Alert
You can configure the SMTP server and SMSC server settings on the NAS in order to receive instant system warning or error messages by email and/or SMS.
QNAP SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
You can collect the information, warning or error of the NAS and send to maximum 3 SNMP servers for centralized management and real-time monitoring.
QNAP Comprehensive Event Log System
Detailed logs of file-level data access to the NAS via SAMBA, iSCSI, FTP, AFP, HTTP, HTTPS, Telnet, and SSH, and networking services accessed by online users are all recorded.
QNAP Wake on LAN
Enable this option to power on the Turbo NAS remotely by Wake on LAN. Wake on LAN helps you manage your NAS conveniently.
QNAP S.M.A.R.T. & Advanced HDD Health Scanning (HHS)
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) helps you to monitor the HDD status. Moreover, the Turbo NAS is embedded with HHS (HDD Health Scan) which supports disk checking and bad blocks scanning.

Windows Active Directory (AD)
The Windows AD feature enables you to retrieve the user accounts from the Windows AD server to the NAS to reduce the time and effort for account setup. Users can use the same set of login name and password to access the NAS.

Shared Folder Aggregation
You can easily access the share folders of other servers on Microsoft Networking through the “portal folder” on the Turbo NAS. This saves your time and effort to login different servers one by one.

QNAP

AES 256-bit Volume-based Data Encryption
The disk volume with AES 256-bit encryption can only be accessed by an authorized encryption password or key. This prevents the NAS data from unauthorized access and data breach even if the hard drives are stolen.
*Data encryption functions may not available in accordance to the legislative restrictions of some countries.

DOM Architecture and Fail-safe Dual OS
Two operating systems are built on the DOM of the Turbo NAS for system booting alternatively upon every system startup. When one fails, the other one will be used to boot up the NAS, and the failed OS is recoverable from the other healthy OS.

Touch-N-Go PC-less Installation
You can use the handy front panel LCD display to complete the first time installation in a few simple steps. The Turbo NAS will automatically complete the hard disk formatting and RAID building.

QNAP

Software Expansion via QPKG
The QPKG feature enables the users to maximize the usage of Turbo NAS by installing additional software packages developed by the users and community worldwide.

QNAP

Please feel free to contact us to reserve one of the available units – qnap@24cube.co.uk

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VMware vSphere & Cloud Computing Overview

Mar 18th

Posted by Admin in Management

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VMware vSphere & Cloud Computing Overview
Brought to you by 24Cube Concepts, Nigeria’s leading IT hub for small businesses and individuals
VMware vSphere is the industry’s first cloud operating system.

To place your order please send mail to vmware@24cube.co.uk

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New Qnap TS-439 Pro, TS-639 Pro, TS-809 Pro, TS-809U iSCSI NAS Storage Range

Mar 18th

Posted by Admin in storage

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New Qnap TS-439 Pro, TS-639 Pro, TS-809 Pro, TS-809U iSCSI NAS Storage Range – The Best in business data storage solution.

Full loaded with great features.

Brought to you by 24Cube Concepts, Nigeria’s leading IT hub for small businesses and individuals

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VMware High Availability and vSphere

Mar 18th

Posted by Admin in Management

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VMware High Availability and vSphere
Brought to you by 24Cube Concepts, Nigeria’s leading IT hub for small businesses and individuals
In this video a VMware Engineer will discuss VMware High Availability

To place your order please send mail to vmware@24cube.co.uk

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NetSupport Manager – Remote Management Tools

Mar 18th

Posted by Admin in Management

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NetSupport Manager – High level overview
Brought to you by 24Cube Concepts, Nigeria’s leading IT hub for small businesses and individuals

The latest evolution in Remote PC support and desktop management. Monitor multiple systems in a single action, deliver hands on remote support or interactive training. Gather real-time inventory and system data.

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