The Eagle Series is one of the Top 30 Tech Innovations of the Year

January 19, 2009

The Eagle Series IP Storage, from our IP Surveillance focused DNF Security group is one of Security Sales and Integration’s top 30 technology innovations of 2008.  Congrats Security Team!


2 VCP’s and a Truck: Tale of Two Datacenters

January 19, 2009

A parable of poor cable management in your datacenter from the 2VCPs blog.

2 Datacenters ....

Pretty funny.  And a nice reminder to keep it clean if you want to save money on your professional services engagements.



VMware’s Virtualizing Exchange 2007

January 16, 2009

Are you thinking about virtualizing your mail server?  VMware corporate did  it, and put together this white paper/cookbook. It’s pretty detailed, and offers some practical advice for virtualizing your mail server.

Which servers are you virtualizing today?

Do you want to learn more about server virtualization?  Check out our server and storage virtualization ebook.


Facebook + Surveillance Footage = Solved

January 15, 2009

Arstechnica has a story about New Zealand police using Facebook to catch a criminal. They posted the footage on their facebook page, and in a few hours they knew the identity of the perp.  How’s that for creative crime solving?

Now the real questions:

  • Did they have a megapixel camera?
  • When will facebook add facial recognition to its face tagging feature?
  • If  facebook had facial recognition, would police departments everywhere add crime photos and the like in aims of getting a quick recognition? (People are already getting served via facebook, it’s not too far off)

Check out the story here.  Thanks Ars.

FYI, we are on twitter too, follow us and look for more frequent updates in the coming weeks!


8 Tips on Data Migration from Tech Target

January 14, 2009

Here are a few great tips for data migration from Tech Target.

  1. Understand server to storage mapping
  2. Get metrics on usage patterns, network capacity and storage bandwidth so you can plan the migration accordingly
  3. Plan for downtime
  4. Don’t forget about data security and the current security profiles
  5. You can potentially use host based server virtualization to accomplish this task, but use carefully
  6. Thin provisioning might be helpful to accomplish this goal
  7. Details, details, details. Make sure array software versions match up and are compatible before proceeding
  8. Save time for homework and practicing. You will make mistakes, so be prepared and prepare to learn

Built in tool like synchronous mirroring and campus mirroring in your IP SAN can also make this task easier. Use SAN volumes as a target for your host volumes, copy, and give access to your secondary server. This will have little impact on the primary host (and its associated volume) and give you a clean copy to verify with. Share your tips and tricks in the comments.


Hypervisor shootout in Network World

January 14, 2009

Wow Xen’s fast.  Newtork World re-ran its virtual server testing, and Xen based systems won 9 out of 12 times.  Here is the summary chart, but follow the link above for the full review.

IOPs summary.

Novell smoked the competition here.


StoneFly Webinars, Moving to Wednesdays

January 12, 2009

We are moving our Webinars to Wednesdays at 10AM, from Thursdays last year. These webinars discuss how to use iSCSI/IP SANs for virtual servers, disaster recovery, storage consolidation and more.  Sign up for the next upcoming session.


Welcome Aboard!

January 6, 2009

Happy New Year!  This is the first post in our new blog!

Look here for info on us, our upcoming events, our products and the technologies that impact us  — and you use.  Please send us questions, comments or topic ideas in the comments to to marketing(at)dnfcorp(dot)com.

We’ll be covering topics including:

  • iSCSI, IP SANs, network attached storage, NAS, RAID
  • Server Virtualization
  • IP Surveillance
  • IP, ethernet and networking
  • 10 Gigabit Ethernet
  • Storage protocols
  • IT Best Practices
  • Storage best practices
  • disaster recovery and business continuity
  • IT planning
  • IT training
  • and more to come

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