Storage Network Management

A cornerstone of StoneFly Business Advantage, StoneFly Network Storage Management provides key functions users have come to expect in an IP SAN: Centralized management, storage consolidation, access control, storage provisioning, volume management and mirroring. These features built into the Storage Concentrator™, powered by the StoneFusion™ Intelligent Network Platform, reduce the total cost of ownership by lowering management costs and increasing storage utilization.

By adding block-level storage intelligence to the IP networking core, Storage Concentrators deliver all the benefits of SANs, including increased storage utilization through storage consolidation, feature-rich managed storage capabilities, rapid deployment of new storage and SAN-based backup capabilities.

Storage Concentrators enable storage provisioning, which turns physical disks into virtual storage units, or logical volumes. These logical volumes are presented to the host as local SCSI disks. Each logical volume points to physical storage in disk arrays by blocks. StoneFly's Storage Concentrators also facilitate advanced storage management functions, such as synchronous mirroring through StoneFly Reflection and FailOver Clustering.

StoneFly's IP SANs are based on the company's patent-pending storage networking foundation architecture, StoneFusion. An intelligent iSCSI storage packet routing technology, the StoneFusion Intelligent Networking Platform effectively standardizes message/file and storage I/O onto an Ethernet/IP network to ultimately "converge" existing networking and storage architectures.