Dynamic Network Factory Blog

StoneFly Inc. introduces the StoneFlex QUSS

dnfmarketing — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:46:21 +0000

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.

China’s Growing Video Surveillance Market – How will it benefit Overseas Surveillance Brands?

dnfmarketing — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:03:40 +0000

China, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, might also be one of the biggest consumers in the surveillance global market. In a study conducted by IMS Research last month, it is expected that the Chinese surveillance market between 2010 to 2014 will grow over 20% annually, boosting the national surveillance market to $3.5 billion by 2014. This is a substantial amount, considering that the estimated Chinese surveillance market in 2009 was $1.4 billion.

However what does this mean to the global surveillance market? As we all know entering the Chinese market, in general, can be tricky especially for businesses coming from the West. The culture, the fierce competition, and everything else in between can determine the success or failure of a business. However one of the biggest adversities that foreign companies endure, especially in the surveillance and technology industry, are the strict Chinese trade rules and regulations.

In fact companies in the foreign business community find that these strict trade regulations often hinder them from doing business in China, ultimately giving domestic brands the upper hand in the end. So is it worth surveillance-based companies in the US or Europe to enter into the “Wild East”? The verdict is still up in the air, but one thing is for sure, China is a hot emerging surveillance market.

Design for Practical Disaster Recovery using Virtualization and IP SAN Storage

dnfmarketing — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:31:17 +0000

Are you planning for disaster recovery plan that will achieve your virtualization goals? Check out this week’s Stonefly webinar and find out how IP SAN Storage and Virtualization can achieve a practical disaster recovery plan.

Attend this Wednesday, August 9, 2010 at 10am Pacific/ 1pm Eastern and learn:

Fundamentals of High Performance and flexible IP SAN

Virtual machine provisioning and optimizing

Network optimization configuration

Different levels of load balancing

Plan for path failover, MPIO, and performance

Visit us at the Navy Small Business Conference

dnfmarketing — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:53:00 +0000

Heading off to San Diego for the Navy Small Business Opportunity Conference on August 17th to 18th?

We’ll be there and we’re excited to meet all of you! Stop by Booth #128 on the Ground Level Exhibit Halls in the San Diego Convention Center and chat with a Stonefly representative about our products, your storage virtualization needs, and any questions you might have.

To find out more about the event and how you can attend visit the Navy Gold Coast website for more information.

See you in sunny San Diego!

Worldwide Digital Data surpassing One Zettabyte by year end

dnfmarketing — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:39:31 +0000

Imagine measuring the world’s digital data – every download, every blog post, and every “tweet” that’s created and duplicated on the web. In May 2010, the International Data Corporation (IDC) created a study predicting that all of the world’s digital data would reach 1.2 zettabytes (or 1.2 million petabytes) by the end of 2010 and 35 zettabytes by the year 2020.

This is quite an extraordinary number, but how are we supposed to house all of this data? Virtualization and deduplication are options, but the IDC believes that cloud computing will play a vital role in the storing these extensive amounts data. However one thing is certain, as the amount of digital information continues to skyrocket, many of us are exploring and finding different ways to store all of this data.

United Utilities & End Users Towards Greater Energy Efficiency

dnfmarketing — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:24:16 +0000

Stonefly is teaming up with the Green Data Center Alliance (GDCA) to present a webinar on Wednesday, August 4^th, 2010 at 10am PDT. This webinar is aimed to address the best practices, techniques and solutions to optimizing your data center by going green. With experts in the green data center and storage industries, we will cover:

How going green will reduce your CapEx and OpEx
Best practices and procedures to achieve a green data center
Storage solutions and technologies that reduce energy consumption
How going green affects data center’s performance and reliability

Cut To The Chase: What Do You Want Your IP SAN To Do?

dnfmarketing — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:56:38 +0000

What are your needs, expectations, and reservations about your IP SAN solution? In short, what do you want your IP SAN to do?

As experts, we at DNF Corp. try our hardest to understand what your needs are. But when it comes down to it we need to hear it from the source –you. Please join us on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 10am PDT for an informative Stonefly webinar as we present: “Cut To The Chase: What Do You Want Your IP SAN To Do?“

Tune in to our webinar and learn:

How much usable capacity can you get?

How much do some competitors loose to get true High Availability?

What is the real cost to expand?

What are the realities of real cost for remote data storage?

And lastly, how can our Stonefly ISC product line achieve your virtualization expectations?

Come on over with your inquiries and let us know what you are looking for in an IP SANs solution. Also, learn how you can have a chance to WIN $50 by attending this session. See you there!

Increase performance 10 fold with Tiered Storage and SSD!

dnfmarketing — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:12:47 +0000

Trying to find new ways to increase your storage systems performance is an ongoing battle for many of us. You might be wondering to yourself: “how can I raise my system’s speed and efficiency without sacrificing my budget?” The answer is integrating tiered storage and solid-state drives (SSD).

On Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 10am PST, Stonefly Inc. will be hosting the “Tiered Storage and SSD? Increase performance 10 fold: Technology and Techniques Made Simple” webinar. Learn from one of our veteran storage solutions experts as we discuss:

1) What is the technology behind Tiered Storage and how can it accelerate my application performance?
2) What’s the latest SSD technology and how it can help me?
3) What are the most cost effective high performance server and storage system architectures?

Register right now and have a chance to win a $50 American Express Gift Card! Simply attend one of this week’s Stonefly or DNF Security webinars and you will be automatically entered to win an AmEx Gift Card. At the end of the week, a raffle will be drawn and a winner will be contacted.

How can iSCSI can achieve your Virtualization Goals? Find out this Wednesday!

dnfmarketing — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:35:13 +0000

Is iSCSI the right storage technology for you? Although the technology is quite popular among the storage solutions industry, you might still have your own reservations about iSCSI, its technology capabilities and how it can benefit you and your deployment goals.

Let us ease you anxieties this Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 10am PST as we present this week’s Stonefly Webinar:

“How and why iSCSI can achieve your Virtualization Goals – Technology and Implement Made Simple”

Learn why and how to implement iSCSI technology storage solutions, as we answer the following:

Will iSCSI achieve my virtualization deployment goals?
What are the best practices and procedures to using iSCSI? Live Demo
How to use Multi Path IO (MPIO) in iSCSI environment? Live Demo
What is VSS and what does it do for me?
What does iSCSI technology buy me? What are the features I can benefit from?

To register, please sign up here for more details: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/331831523

“How to build a resilient Video Surveillance & Storage Solution? When ‘Up-time’ is a Must!”

dnfmarketing — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:30:57 +0000

When it comes to security solutions, there are two major issues that we come across with everyday: one is the possibility of failover, and the other is redundancy. It is a frustrating situation to be in, but there are ways to eliminate these unfortunate predicaments and design a Resilient Surveillance and Storage System.

Tune in on Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 10:00am PST (1:00am EST) as we present our weekly DNF Security Webinar. This week’s webinar is titled “How to build a resilient Video Surveillance & Storage Solution? When ‘Up-time’ is a Must!” We will cover the following:

How to define, the high availability, redundancy and failover requirements from Server- to-Storage?
What are the parameters of design and the components to choose from?
What are the statistical possibilities of failover?
What are the tools and techniques in designing a resilient & robust system?

Walk away with a better sense of how to build a resilient video surveillance and storage solution. Register here for more information:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/922809258