Intelligent IP SANs Made Simple with StoneFusion

The award-winning StoneFusion® Intelligent Network Storage Platform (NSP), StoneFly's patent-pending baseline storage networking architecture, reduces the total cost of ownership by lowering management costs and increasing storage utilization. By adding block level storage intelligence to the IP networking core, StoneFusion powered Storage Concentrators deliver all the benefits of managed SANs, including increased storage utilization through resource consolidation, storage provisioning, access control, volume management, and feature-rich managed storage supporting advanced storage services including clustering, mirroring, and snapshotting. At the core of StoneFusion is a robust storage virtualization engine that enables provisioning of physical storage resources in to virtual storage volumes. These logical volumes are presented to the host as normal SCSI disks, using industry standard hardware and software iSCSI initiators. With StoneFusion the power of IP SAN centralization is at your fingertips.

Each StoneFly HSC is simple to deploy, with high storage capacities and support for clustering in an IP SAN-in-a-Box ideal for mission critical deployments, primary storage, replica sites or campus mirrors.

Centralized Storage Management

With StoneFusion's layered approach, each StoneFly IP SAN uses storage virtualization to create storage pools independent of the physical hardware devices for enhanced redundancy and availability. Each storage pool can be tagged based on target applications including high performance, high spindle count, disk-based archives, campus mirrors and more. With centralized storage provisioning and volume-level access management, IT administrators save time and effort with StoneFly's intuitive user interface to quickly respond to new storage requests and requirements. StoneFly IP SANs also support industry standard security protocols including CHAP for simplified access control.

Advanced Storage Services

StoneFly HSCs support StoneFusion's advanced storage services including centralized storage management, active/active clustering, cluster-mirror technology, snapshots, and local and campus mirroring for simple to deploy managed SANs giving administrators fibre channel SAN intelligence without the high price tag.

Advanced System Management

StoneFly's web-based control panel offers quick access to standard reports monitoring system health, configuration, load and utilization, sessions, and usage patterns to offer administrators a complete perspective on their IP SAN utilization manage effectively. The control panel offers a variety of alert settings including email, cell phone and text messaging.