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Networks’ Storage Concentrators First to Provide Customers
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About Storage Concentrators
Storage Concentrators are ideally suited for small and
mid-tier enterprises, and workgroups and departments within
larger enterprises. By using the emerging iSCSI standard,
TCP/IP and Gigabit Ethernet, StoneFly’s new i1000 and
i1500 Storage Concentrators add intelligent block-level
logical volume management to existing IP networks to pool
existing and new storage assets, thus providing more
efficient utilization, streamlined management, rapid
deployment and reconfiguration of storage, and reduced
SAN-based backup and restore times. Storage Concentrators
feature an easy-to-use HTML-based GUI to allow
administrators to easily manage storage operations,
including controlling distributed Storage Concentrators,
centrally and securely from anywhere on the Internet. The
Storage Concentrator i1500 adds high availability features
including dual hot-swappable power supplies, and RAID
mirroring of the OS and metadata.
Availability
StoneFly’s feature-rich i1000 and i1500 Storage
Concentrators are highly cost-effective at a MSRP of $7,995
and $9,995 respectively, and are now available through the
company’s channel distribution partners and select
resellers. For future releases, i1000 and i1500 customers
will have a clear upgrade path via the Internet. StoneFly is
committed to providing unparalleled customer support through
its advanced call center, customer-accessible knowledge base
and 24X7X365 four-hour onsite parts and labor support.
About StoneFly Networks, Inc.
StoneFly Networks™, Inc. is based in San Diego, California
and was founded in April 2000 to develop simple, affordable
IP SAN appliances that add intelligent storage management to
IP networks transforming them into IP storage area networks
(SANs). The company’s complete line of Storage
Concentrators™ combine the functionality of an iSCSI-based
storage router, bridge and provisioning manager to provide
an end-to-end storage provisioning solution that reduces the
cost and complexity of managing storage assets. Storage
Concentrators are based on StoneFly’s patent-pending
StoneFusion™ storage networking architecture to
consolidate and optimize data storage to reduce total cost
of ownership (TCO) and increase return on investment (ROI).
StoneFly Networks is a member of the Storage Networking
Association (SNIA) and the founding member of the IP Storage
Institute (IPSI). For more information, please visit the
company’s Web site at www.stonefly.com.
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