Weiss Group Chooses StorMagic

StorMagic, a fast-growing developer of storage management software,
today announced Weiss Group Inc. as a new customer. Weiss Group is one
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information. The company uses the cost-effective StorMagic SM
series software designed specifically for the SMB market to manage its
archived and backup data.

“I know that many small and medium businesses
such as ours think that SANs are too complex to manage,”
said James Santillo, Weiss Group system administrator. “As
an innovative company, always looking for leading-edge technologies to
meet our increasing storage needs, we found that the flexibility to buy
standard Intel servers, configure them with any type or amount of
storage we needed, and then install the StorMagic SM series software on
them gave us the cost-effective, yet reliable iSCSI SAN solution that
could safely manage our mission-critical archived and backup data.”

“In my search for an iSCSI SAN solution that
was easier to install and manage while providing the migration
capabilities that I needed, I tested a few appliances. Most of them
offered a CLI interface, requiring the user to learn proprietary
commands,” commented Santillo. “When
I first installed the StorMagic software, which turns standard Intel
servers into iSCSI storage appliances, all it took was a simple,
intuitive three-step process to set up and configure. It was so much
easier than any other iSCSI storage appliance I tested or managed before.”

After a user-friendly interface guided him through the software
installation, Santillo found that he only needed basic networking skills
and fundamental TCP/IP knowledge to assign the IP address to the
StorMagic storage appliance in order to operate on Weiss Group’s
iSCSI SAN. Using StorMagic’s transparent data
migration software, Weiss Group was able to migrate data to the
StorMagic storage servers over its iSCSI SAN without unexpected
application outages. The StorMagic software leverages the native Windows
software for its inherent networking features and the Intel server’s
RAID controller for data availability.

Weiss Group expects to realize even greater benefits from StorMagic’s
SM series software in the future. Currently, the company is preparing
its server environment from the introduction of server virtualization
and a virtual desktop infrastructure. By using StorMagic in conjunction
with its iSCSI SANs, it can cost-effectively provide storage for these
systems using their Ethernet network.

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