StoneFly, Inc., has introduced two new IP SANs as well as upgrades to its existing products.

 

The new Integrated Storage Concentrator (ISC) 801 system is ideal for small- and medium-sized enterprises that want to transition from direct attached storage to an entry-level IP SAN. The High-Availability Storage Concentrator (HSC) 1601 claims to deliver the industry's highest levels of redundancy to organizations requiring maximum data protection.

 

StoneFly’s new ISC-801 is an easy-to-deploy "IP SAN-in-a-Box" that provides everything customers need for enterprise-class SAN storage. Available now at an entry-level price, the system installs in minutes and features centralized storage management and integrated business continuity, with support for eight drives and up to 4TB of storage.

 

Mo Tahmasebi, CEO of DNF said in a statement that the ISC-801 gives growing companies the perfect introduction to all that IP SANs have to offer, while the HSC-1601, along with the powerful new features now available for their existing IP SANs, will ensure that their more established customers can meet and exceed today’s escalating IT requirements.

 

Replacing the HSC-1420, the HSC-1601supports 10GB Ethernet and StoneFly’s field-tested clustering technology to offer mirroring at the hardware level. This minimizes downtime in all failure scenarios from the component level, to the system level, and chassis level. The HSC-1601 offers scalability to 16TB in a single chassis with support for 16 disks and capacities ranging from 150GB to 1TB.

 

The upgrades to StoneFly’s existing ISC-1601 and ISC-2401 systems reportedly include the addition of Intel’s (News - Alert) quad core processing power to deliver higher levels of IP SAN performance; and support for 1TB drives as well as 10K RPM, 150GB SATA drives (Western Digital's Raptors.)

 

According to StoneFly, all HSC and ISC IP SANs are anchored by their StoneFusion Operating System. This IP-based block-level provisioning appliance centralizes storage management, control and monitoring of logical storage volumes. StoneFusion 6.0 has the ability to provide enhanced VMware and Xen support for fast integration of networked storage with virtual servers. Version 6 also includes StoneFly Reflection for local and campus mirroring, asynchronous replication and StoneFly Snapshot for fast, efficient data recovery.

 

Boasting capabilities for external expansion, all HSC and ISC systems also allow organizations to leverage nearby SAN storage to meet emerging requirements. This is definitely an advantage for mid-to-large-size enterprises with multiple SANs.