JSO MAN second installment

We are excited to have released the second installment of JSO MAN. You can view it here http://www.jsotechnology.com/jso_man.html.

Fortinet URL Filtering Tech Tip

Many of our clients utilize Fortinet firewall’s for their security needs. Many of our clients are also using the Fortiguard URL web filtering to keep good employees from doing bad things.

A good way to determine which category a website might belong to, go to the following URL http://www.fortiguard.com/webfiltering/webfiltering.html#urllookup.

Also, if you are struggling with your users going to websites that are hosted on home computers, Fortinet has an unrated category. This unrated category will prevent access to websites that are not rated. Fortinet has over 40 million URL’s rated, so the chance that someone should be going to the unrated category is rare.

Disaster Recovery Highlight – HP Lefthand Networks

At the end of September, we held an event which highlighted various solutions that can help in your Disaster Recovery efforts.

I am going to highlight HP’s LeftHand Networks PA4000 series in today's blog post.

The HP PA4000 is an iSCSI based SAN (storage area network), that contains some advanced Disaster Recovery features. The first feature is the ability to have multiple SAN’s and creating a network RAID. You can provision 2 separate LeftHand Networks chassis and replicate data across 2 of them. If one of the SAN’s would crash, the other would be functional. This prevents against the SAN hardware being a single point of failure.

The second feature is snapshots. You can take a snapshot of the data that is contained on your SAN. You can customize the snapshot schedule to be as often or as little as you would like. This allows for a quick recovery if someone deletes data or data is corrupted.

The third feature that is a very good feature is remote snapshots. You can replicate data asynchronous across to a remote location. In a disaster, you can make this snapshot active and be up and running in hours instead of days.

The HP PA4000 can help you with your disaster recovery plan by providing the ability to quickly recover using snapshots. It can also provide high availability in your data center by providing the ability to cluster storage nodes

The HP PA4000 series is a very well designed product. It has a great feature set at a great price. You can find the presentation HP did at our Miller Park event located here.

You can also find out more about the HP LeftHand Networks solutions by visiting this website http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/p4000/index.html.