StoneFly storage OS software now delivers WORM, deduplication and ransomware protection

StoneFly released a newer version of their patented storage Operating System (OS): StoneFusion and SCVM. The storage software also facilitates cloud integration with StoneFly appliances and other servers. Supported cloud repositories include Azure, Amazon S3, other S3 compatible cloud and StoneFly private cloud.

SCVM is also available as a standalone product compatible with VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, and Citrix (formerly XenServer) hypervisors facilitating data center consolidation, VM migration, VM snapshots, DR, and other similar use-cases.

The latest version (8.0.4) of the enterprise storage software includes WORM (Write-Once, Read-Many) storage provisioning; anti-virus, malware and ransomware detection and removal; deduplication for NAS volumes (in addition to iSCSI SAN workloads); and GUI (Graphical User Interface) update that offers real-time performance reporting of provisioned NAS, SAN and unified storage resources.

StoneFly patented storage OS, StoneFusion and SCVM, enables users to provision NAS, SAN and unified (NAS + SAN) volumes on bare-metal, Windows and Linux servers. The enterprise storage OS comes pre-configured in all StoneFly storage and backup and disaster recovery (DR) appliances.

StoneFusion is also available as a standalone software. The storage OS can be installed on bare-metal servers and mainstream enterprise storage appliances such as Dell EMC, HPE, among several others.

Besides storage provisioning, the storage OS facilitates integration of several enterprise-grade features such as delta-based snapshots, synchronous and asynchronous replication, volume encryption, automated storage tiering, and others.

The SCVM storage OS can be installed on mainstream hypervisors such as VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, and Citrix (formerly XenServers) to provision virtual NAS, virtual SAN, virtual unified (NAS + SAN) storage repositories and/or to integrate desired cloud repositories to build a hybrid HCI storage solution. With SCVM, users can run VMs in their preferred cloud, create snapshots in the cloud, replicate to the cloud, and more.

StoneFly also recently introduced StoneFusion MSP edition, the storage OS version that facilitates MSPs and large organizations to provision virtual, purpose-built, multi-tenant and noise-less storage repositories on on-premises, remote or cloud-based servers. 

Commenting on the new update the CEO and founder of StoneFly Mo Tahmasebi said, “Our culture is driven by customer feedback. We listen to our enterprise customers and develop our solutions accordingly to enhance their experience. The latest version of our storage OS is developed to help with concerns such as high impact ransomware attacks, compliance and data center consolidation. It’s an eighth generation product, which is truly one-of-a-kind in the context that it facilitates NAS, SAN, unified and hyperconverged workloads. Not many storage OS in the market can do that”

StoneFusion comes pre-configured in all StoneFly NAS, SAN and Unified (NAS + SAN) appliances. It’s also available as a standalone product for bare-metal, Windows and Linux-based servers.

SCVM is the built-in virtual storage appliance in StoneFly HCI appliances including Unified Server and Storage (USS) appliances, the DR365, DR365V and DR365U backup and DR appliances.

StoneFly Smart Cloud Gateway improves efficiency, scalability for IT systems; allows transfer of data to the cloud of choice

StoneFly Smart Cloud Gateway delivers enhanced performance and scalability that gives enterprises the power to configure storage, backup, disaster recovery and archival options in the cloud of their choice by integrating StoneFly Smart Cloud Gateway with their existing infrastructure. 

The Smart cloud gateway is purpose-built to support enterprise-scale workloads without compromising performance and data availability. StoneFly Smart cloud gateway makes data transfers simple, hassle-free and easy for IT administrators.

Being an eighth generation product, StoneFly Smart Cloud gateway has been developed in accordance with user feedback. The appliance classifies data into tiers according to user-defined policies. Users can choose to move data from on-premises to cloud storage tiers like Azure Cool blob, AWS S3-IA or Azure Archival Blob. This automated process reduces cost of data retention and simplifies data management for IT administrators.

StoneFly smart cloud gateway appliance is a purpose-built plug and play infrastructure. The gateway appliance can effortlessly move hotdata to high performance storage tiers, cold data to lower-cost, high capacity drives and older data to archival data tiers for exceptional application performance and reduced TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of storage.

Headquartered in the Silicon Valley (Hayward) California, StoneFly was founded to deliver upon the vision of simple and affordable enterprise-class products. Purpose-built, optimized, fully security hardened and tested enterprise-class products, StoneFly provides physical, virtual, cloud, software as a service (SaaS), consulting, enterprise managed services, cloud migration services, public/private cloud infrastructure, backup, disaster recovery (DR), cloud file/sync collaboration and office in the cloud.

With constant threats like ransomware, power outages and hardware failure targeting business data, it’s important that businesses have reliable data protection strategies setup. With StoneFly cloud storage gateway, businesses can setup the 3-2-1 rule of data protection, creating copies of their backup data in the cloud. This creates an additional layer of recoverability and enables IT administrators to initiate data recovery from anywhere, anytime.

Last December, StoneFly Smart Cloud Gateway added backup and archiving to its capabilities, thus enabling the service that connects on-premise appliance with cloud-based storage. Users can adopt the Smart Cloud Gateway to store data in Microsoft Azure Cloud, Amazon AWS, any S3 compatible cloud or any other public or private cloud for scalable and cost-effective storage.

Using standard backup software and the Smart Cloud Gateway, consumers can write backups to the cloud and store data durably. This enables both long-term data retention for compliance and recovery into the cloud, locally or other site on-premises.

With the Smart Cloud Gateway, clients can expand on-premise storage into the cloud without having to physically buy additional disks to expand on-premise storage. It works with existing applications whether it is a backup application, a line of business application or file server. The Smart Gateway works with all those types of scenarios and provides a low latency access to users/customers.

StoneFly cloud storage gateway protects important business data using SSL/TLS tunneling and AES 256-bit encryption. This prevents malicious software from gaining access to the data in transit. Businesses can choose to encrypt data before transit as well and then decrypt using secure decryption key on the receiving end. It also leverages snapshot technology to create snapshot images that deliver data protection from ransomware and data loss, while going back in time and quickly recovering in the event of a ransomware attack, accidental and malicious deletion or similar disaster.

StoneFly cloud storage gateway can transfer from terabytes (TBs) to petabytes (PBs) of data. With StoneFly’s technology, the cloud gateway facilitates data transfers for enterprise-scale workloads without affecting the outbound network. With a simple to use interface, users can easily setup data transfers from on-premises to cloud or cloud to cloud. The cloud storage gateway does not require complex setup and deployment procedures. It’s easy to setup and can be deployed within minutes.