Storage Networking technology has been growing at an exceedingly rapid rate and the pace at which innovations and technologies have been releasing in the market has put immense pressure on Storage Networking Vendors for faster rollouts of quality products. IzelTech is one of the few service companies in India with a focus and extensive experience in Storage and Storage Networking technology.
IzelTech has multiple areas of expertise in the area of storage networking systems. The primary area of our work has been block- level device drivers in order to implement CDP (continuous data protection), CDR (continuous data replication), or point- in- time backups. IzelTech has expertise in VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service). We have worked with VSS writers for different applications such as Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, Active Directory, ASR, Hyper-V etc. IzelTech has considerable experience in the area of Bare Metal Recovery, especially for Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris environments.
In the area of storage networking optimization, IzelTech’s focus has been on data duplication (de-dup) at file level during backups. Integrating our backup tool with any setup requires minimal changes to the environment.
IzelTech also caters to ISV’s and OEM’s working in the storage networking domain. Companies focused on NAS products and allied products are also our target audience. Our product development team has in-depth expertise in Kernel and Application programming, Device driver development, Storage networking protocols, Firmware, RAID systems, NAS, Backup & Replication, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and Network File Systems. We specialize in building software components that are part of the management suite that resides on a NAS box. Entire product development life cycle in this area falls in our capability map.
Our extensive experience in offshore concept to solutions development for Storage Networking products and flexible business models in terms of offering fixed cost project bids or just competent Storage Networking resources has made us a partner of choice to leading Storage Networking vendors. Our entire services profile right from development, testing and verification across various storage networking platforms has been a great value proposition to our clients.
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| Storage Networking Product Competency Areas | |
| Kernel | Block Level, Network Storage |
| File System | EXT2, EXT3, DFS, NFS, CIFS, AFP |
| Protocols | iSCSI, SCSI, WBEM, SNMP, NDMP, CIM |
| Applications | Sync, Backup, Snapshot, Remote Replication, SAN, NAS |
| UI & Management | .NET, Java, Corba, SMI-S, CIM, WBEM |
| Frameworks | VDS, VSS, WMI, SMI-S |
| OSS Technology | Python, Apache, Perl, MySQL, Eclipse |
| Services | Quality, Testing, Technical Support, Documentation, Application Porting |
| OS | Windows, MacOS X, Linux, Unix, AIX |
| Backup, Replication, Continuous Data Protection, De-duplication | Runtime Block level Snapshot supportBlock level Continuous Data ProtectionIntegration of Data Deduplication modulesBareMetal Recovery on all platforms |
| Device Drivers (Windows and *nix) | Windows |
| Generic VSS requester for all supported writers – System State, ASR, DFS, SQL, ExchangeASR writer for Windows XP as NTFS VDBackup/restore using VDI infrastructureVolume filter driver for snapshotsNDIS and TDI drivers File-system filter driversDirectCIFS and DirectNFSDesktop security – SecureFileWeb-server security – SecureSite | |
| *nix (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MacOS) | |
| LKM for encryption with custom ACLs and 2 factor authenticationDevice mapper targets to implement CDP mechanismLKM for mounting Virtual Volume Images from backed up dataEnhancements in multiple snapshot of LVM to reduce CoW operationsBlock level snapshot drivers for FreeBSDContinuous Data Protection drivers for SolarisBaremetal Recovery using pseudo devices on MacOS 10.6Full scale iSCSI driver based on IETF draft | |
| File Systems – Local, Distributed, Clustered, LustreFS | Distributed File Systems – NFS, CIFS proxy implementation for load balancing |
| LustreFS performance measurement and feature enhancements Stackable File Systems implementing encryption, compression | |
| SCSI, Fiber Channel, Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), NDMP | Fiber channel (FC)- Drivers/ FcoEISCSI Target Performance OptimizationiSCSI Target Compliance Verification AutomationSCSI- Drivers |