July 6, 2011
Medical Doctor Associates (MDA), a national medical staffing company, was a fast growing business that soon found that their aging fiber channel appliance simply did not cut their ever growing IT environment.
Lacking the ability to network their off-site servers and storage, MDA’s was struggling with a difficult and overall limited backup infrastructure. With this in mind, the company chose StoneFly’s ISC IP SAN and expansion units to implement a three-phase plan that:
- Fully virtualized and networked IT infrastructure
- Allotted for ease-of- manageability from StoneFusion OS’ ability to allocate and reallocate critical resources
- Created a scalable storage solution
- Accelerated performance exponentially by adding an expansion unit with SAS 6g RAID architecture
Learn more about how StoneFly’s line of high-performing IP SAN solutions helped MDA on this case study.
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Posted by Roela Regalado
June 29, 2011
As everybody knows that when it comes to RAID, there are certain configuration myths that everybody seems to know:
1. RAID 10 is a requirement for databases. This is no longer the case. Today’s RAID controllers are much more dynamic that it once was as a combination of 400GHz and higher ASICS and IO processors as well as better algorithms have lessened the advantages of RAID 10.
2. RAID 1 configuration is perfect for holding the operating system. Actually this is false – small partition of the OS or applications from a RAID 5/6 is more than adequate. However, with the movement towards centralized storage, shared by high server counts, there is a justification to hold the operating system in the server and protect it with a mirror only because it is not practical to build multi-spindle performance effective RAID5/6 sets in 1U servers or blades.
Learn more about RAID and how to optimize RAID configuration on this white paper.
Also check out our RAID calculator.
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Posted by Roela Regalado
June 27, 2011
Last week I came across this interesting whitepaper on CIO.com about the rapid growth of server virtualization practices within mid-market businesses. Just over the past few years, the jump to server virtualization among midsized enterprises have increased dramatically and is expected to grow up until 2012. Here are some key findings:
- 30% of midsized companies (worldwide) started server virtualization before 2009, but that number doubled by the end of 2009
- 75% of companies expect to implement server virtualization by 2012
- From 2009 to 2012, the use of server virtualization jumped nearly 46% (from 29.1% to 75.1%)
- Transition to server virtualization compelled to upgrade and deploy storage area network (SAN) appliances
- Within the next 2 years, implementing disaster recovery to virtualization efforts becomes a big priority
Want to learn more about server virtualization? Here are some helpful links.
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Posted by Roela Regalado
May 23, 2011
StoneFly is proud to announce that CRN Magazine has chosen us to be on their Virtualization 100 list. Featuring the top 100 vendors in the virtualization space, this list 100 is specifically hand-picked by the editorial staff of CRN. The list serves as the de facto resource by which VARs can begin to evaluate the best virtualization products for their business.
We are honored to be a part of this list as we continue to push the boundaries of virtualization in the IT space. To learn more about the CRN Virtualization 100, read our latest press release.
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Posted by Roela Regalado
May 9, 2011
Today StoneFly releases the Clustered SCVM, a powerful virtual IP SAN software appliance designed for VMware environments. This fully redundant and fault tolerant IP SAN software can be created from two existing virtual servers, and is ideal for your virtualized and cloud environments.
With this latest release, the new clustering feature eliminates the risk of hardware failover by recognizing failures within a virtual storage server and instantaneously switching its resources to the other virtual active storage nodes.
To learn more about Clustered SCVM visit www.iSCSI.com or call us at (510) 265-1616. Also read more about this release on our latest press release.
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Posted by Roela Regalado
May 2, 2011
StoneFly’s StoneFlex USS is a finalist for UK’s Storage Magazine annual Storage Awards. We are excited and honored that the product has been nominated for the “Storage Virtualisation Product of the Year” category.
Released in late 2010, the StoneFlex USS (which stands for: Unified Server and Storage) was engineered to fully consolidate your datacenter in one fault-tolerant appliance. With the ability to drive several virtualized operating system in one storage system, this dynamic solution can meet more demanding applications, while allowing for complete hardware utilization and reducing overall operating costs.
To learn more about the Storage Awards and how to vote for us, visit http://www.storage-awards.com/.
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Posted by Roela Regalado
March 31, 2011
StoneFly is proud to announce that the company has teamed up with Fusion-io to bundle StoneFly’s virtual SAN software, the SCVM™ and ESS™, with Fusion-io storage memory platform.
By marrying these two dynamic storage solutions, this new platform is set to significantly extend system performance, provide for sharable, iSCSI connected storage, and gives the ability to be provisioned as an IP-SAN for internal quest VMs as well as outside hosts in virtual environments.
Learn more about this collaboration on our latest press release.
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Posted by Roela Regalado
March 30, 2011
We all know the importance of implementing a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan, but what happens when you don’t have one? In our latest StoneFly case study, we provide a sound BC and DR plan while exceeding RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) for a Utah-based professional industrial packaging company.
By implementing StoneFly’s high-performance Voyager-TSC IP SAN with SCVM (for asynchronous replication), the company was able virtualize their IT environment by 95%, reduced server space by 80%, and now has the option to scale up their storage for the future.
To learn more about how our Voyager-TSC and SCVM achieved this on this case study.
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Posted by Roela Regalado
December 1, 2010
This week we launched the Storage Concentrator Virtual Machine (SCVM™), StoneFly’s first IPSAN software appliance. We are excited to bring this new and innovative product out to the market, which is why we compiled the top 5 things you need to know about the SCVM™. So here they are:
- SCVM™ is a virtual IPSAN, which can be used on your existing virtual server
- Currently SCVM™ can be used on VMWare and Hyper-V environments, and soon Xen (which will be available on Q1 of 2011)
- It is ideal for your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans
- This appliance lowers operational datacenter costs and increases RTO
- You can download a FREE trial version of SCVM™ on the StoneFly website
Learn more about SCVM™ and what it can offer you, check out our latest Press Release or call us at (510) 265-1616.
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Posted by Roela Regalado
August 30, 2010
Today Stonefly Inc. announces the release of the StoneFlex Quad Unified Storage & Server (QUSS™) the first Series of Appliances targeted for Cloud Computing and Enterprise Environments. The StoneFlex QUSS provides full datacenter consolidation, combining storage and server into one Fault Tolerant Appliance.
Learn more about the StoneFlex QUSS on our recent Press Release.
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Posted by Roela Regalado
Medical Doctor Associates (MDA), a national medical staffing company, was a fast growing business that soon found that their aging fiber channel appliance simply did not cut their ever growing IT environment.
