Monday,
June 17, 2002 — San Diego, Calif.—June 17,
2002—StoneFly Networks™, the innovator of the first
simple, affordable, end-to-end IP SAN appliances, today
announced that its new class of Storage Concentrators™
which combine the functionality of an iSCSI (Internet small
computer system interface)-based storage router, bridge and
an extensible logical volume manager, is providing its
customer base with an end-to-end storage provisioning
solution that installs in minutes to enable easy-to-manage,
centralized pools of storage. Using the prolific Ethernet
network infrastructure, Storage Concentrators consolidate
SAN block data to move intelligence to the network core to
allow easy management of storage assets, as well as
interoperability and scalability, to substantially reduce
the complexity and total cost of ownership of storage area
networks (SANs).
“StoneFly’s Storage Concentrators are the first storage
provisioning solutions to deliver the benefits of
traditional SANs through inexpensive, easy-to-maintain IP
SAN appliances, to provide our customers with a simplified
way to manage storage assets, increase administrative
productivity and reduce network complexity,” said Jeffrey
Schnabel, vice president of marketing, StoneFly Networks,
Inc. “Storage Concentrators deliver a much simpler, and
more cost effective SAN solution than traditional methods,
and priced at under $10,000, they provide an incredible
return on investment for any company. Storage Concentrators
are very easy to install and manage, and with software
upgrades available via the Internet, they significantly
reduce on-going support costs and overall total cost of
ownership.”
Storage Concentrators Deliver Unprecedented Customer
Benefits
For the first time, customers can implement powerful,
simple-to-use IP SANs. In less than 15 minutes, Storage
Concentrators turn standard IP networks into intelligent IP
storage networks that support existing applications and
traffic to provide customers with the ability to optimize
storage resources as well as the scalability to handle
growing storage requirements.
“We're running multiple application servers using Computer
Associates for backup and needed a way to easily consolidate
our tape and disk backups,” said Gary Davis, system
analyst, HME Electronics. “StoneFly's Storage
Concentrators are truly plug-and-play. We had a full
functioning IP SAN in minutes utilizing the graphical user
interface. We've been able to reduce our backup and restore
times using disk-to-disk technology, and extend the life and
productivity of our servers.”
Unlike other offerings on the market today, Storage
Concentrators provide in-band iSCSI block-level storage
pooling to enable customers to access storage without the
need to know where the devices are located on the network,
or how they are configured. Through effective storage
pooling, Storage Concentrators deliver virtual volumes to
hosts connected over industry-standard Ethernet networks,
without the need for host-based agents or a separate
metadata out-of-band storage management device.
“StoneFly's Storage Concentrators were very easy to
install and we’ve found that its logical volume manager
and easy to use GUI has enabled us to quickly reconfigure
our storage assets to enable better performance without
having to move drives around,” said Scott Brehm, manager,
Information Technology, Jaycor. “We're also seeing faster
backup and restore times by being able to back up to a
virtual iSCSI disk. It is clear that StoneFly’s Storage
Concentrator will increase our administrative productivity
by allowing us to efficiently manage our storage and will
allow us to maintain our current network infrastructure-in
short, Storage
Concentrators will provide us with a far simpler alternative
to traditional SAN solutions.”
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