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Compare Array vs Host vs Hypervisor vs Network-Based Replication - Explore the array, host, hypervisor, and network-based replication techniques. This blog provides a detailed comparison, covering use cases, advantages, and disadvantages. Make informed decisions for your data protection and disaster recovery strategies. Continue Reading
Mirroring vs Replication vs Clustering: A Data Protection Comparison - Explore the essential concepts of high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery, and understand how they contribute to ensuring uninterrupted business operations. Discover the key differences and benefits of each approach, helping you make informed decisions to safeguard your organization's… Continue Reading
Comparing High Availability vs Fault Tolerance vs Disaster Recovery - Explore the essential concepts of high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery, and understand how they contribute to ensuring uninterrupted business operations. Discover the key differences and benefits of each approach, helping you make informed decisions to safeguard your organization's… Continue Reading
BaaS vs RaaS vs DRaaS Comparison – Which is Best - Are you confused about whether your business needs Backup as a Service (BaaS), Recovery as a Service (RaaS), or Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)? With so many options available, it can be overwhelming to choose the right one that… Continue Reading
How to Size Air-gapped and Immutable Storage for Veeam v12 - When used correctly with Veeam v12, air-gapped and immutable storage provides an additional layer of protection against cyber threats and ransomware attacks. However, it's important to properly size your storage capacity and follow best practices such as implementing a 3-2-1… Continue Reading
How to Calculate and Improve Recovery Time and Point Objectives - In disaster recovery, Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) are crucial metrics to ensure minimum data loss and maximum recovery speed. Calculating the right RTPO values depends on factors like potential risks, data availability costs, and business… Continue Reading
From Backup to Video Editing: 5 Use-Cases for NAS Storage - This blog explores the primary use-cases for Network-Attached Storage (NAS) and emphasizes the importance of choosing the right NAS solution for specific business needs. Readers will gain insights into how NAS can enhance their storage infrastructure, increase data accessibility, and… Continue Reading
Azure Backup vs AWS Backup: Which Cloud Backup Solution is More Secure - In this blog, we compare and contrast the security and backup features of two major cloud platforms, Azure and AWS. We delve into the key differences between Azure and AWS security and backup, and provide best practices for securing data… Continue Reading
Safeguarding Your Data: Best Practices for Secure Cloud Storage - Are you concerned about the security of your data in the cloud? Do you struggle with planning and managing your storage capacity effectively? Are you looking for ways to maximize your cloud storage efficiency? If so, you're not alone. In… Continue Reading
Maximizing Data Protection with Cloud Backup and Recovery - Protecting your enterprise data is crucial, and having a comprehensive cloud backup and recovery solution is vital for your business continuity. StoneFly offers enterprise-grade cloud backup and recovery solutions in Azure, AWS, and private cloud, with a focus on security… Continue Reading
Guide to Sizing Your Enterprise SAN Appliance for Optimal Storage - This blog provides IT managers with practical tips on sizing an enterprise SAN storage appliance, including storage capacity, CPU, and system memory. It also covers data protection, disaster recovery, and cost considerations. Continue Reading
On-Premise vs Private Cloud: Choosing the Right Infrastructure for Your Business Needs - Learn how to choose the right cloud infrastructure for your business with this comprehensive guide from StoneFly. Explore the pros and cons of on-premise data centers and private clouds, the benefits of different private cloud services, and how to ensure… Continue Reading
Enterprise Cybersecurity Solutions: Best Practices and Strategies for Data Protection - Protecting enterprise data and assets is critical in today's threat landscape. This blog discusses the importance of enterprise cybersecurity and provides an overview of different solutions and best practices. Don't wait until it's too late to secure your organization's data… Continue Reading
Upgrade 3-2-1 Rule with Veeam ONE v12’s Immutability and Monitoring - The 3-2-1 rule is a proven method for safeguarding data with multiple recoverable copies. In today's threat landscape, it's crucial to enhance the rule by incorporating immutability and continuous monitoring to ensure the integrity of backups without added effort or… Continue Reading
2022 Ransomware Attack Trend Report: Key Findings - Comprehensive report about ransomware attack trends including common attack vectors, industries targeted by ransomware, and ransomware costs for 2022. Continue Reading
How is Ransomware Affecting the Healthcare Industry - Healthcare sector continues to be a prime target for ransomware attacks. Hackers attempt to steal patient data, and sensitive information to sell in the dark web. This makes ransomware protection necessary for the healthcare sector. In this blog we discuss… Continue Reading
What to Consider when Implementing DRaaS for ransomware protection - Looking to set up disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) to protect your critical systems from ransomware? In this blog, we’ve compiled a list of questions IT managers need to ask themselves in order to do that effectively. Continue Reading
Downtime Cost: How to Calculate and Minimize it - Downtime costs are more than lost revenue. It includes reputational damage, SLA fines, recovery, and PR costs. Learn how to calculate IT downtime costs, and the best practices to minimize it. Continue Reading
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) or On-Site DR Appliance? - Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) vs On-Site DR Appliance: Serverless recovery where service provider is responsible for management versus a secondary site that delivers faster recovery and helps with compliance. Which one do you need? Continue Reading
FC SAN vs iSCSI SAN: What’s the Difference? - Differentiate between Fibre Channel (FC) SAN vs iSCSI SAN: which is suitable for which use-case, and what are the pros and cons of each. Continue Reading
What is BCDR – A Guide to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - A business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plan protects an organization from disruption, downtime, and data loss in the event of a disaster such as ransomware attack, human error, accidental/malicious deletion, natural disasters, etc. Continue Reading
NAS Security: What to Expect and How to Secure your NAS - Qlocker, Deadbolt, and other ransomware target NAS appliances. Learn what to expect and how to protect your file-level unstructured data from cyberthreats. Continue Reading
Log Archiving: What Challenges to Expect and How to Overcome Them - Challenges with log archiving, how to overcome them, and how to build a secure, low power, low carbon, zero ransomware log archiving system. Continue Reading
Physical vs Virtual Backup Appliances – A Comparison - Physical vs virtual backup appliances: High performance secondary site versus portable and scalable virtual machine - which one is best for your business? Continue Reading
Cloud Disaster Recovery vs On-Premise – Which is Best? - Cybersecurity threats are aimed at accessing an organization's sensitive data. In 2021, cyberattacks were at an all-time high, and they will not be slowing down any time soon. Continue Reading
What you need to know about cybersecurity threats in 2022 - Cybersecurity threats are aimed at accessing an organization's sensitive data. In 2021, cyberattacks were at an all-time high, and they will not be slowing down any time soon. Continue Reading
How to add air-gapping and immutability to Veeam backup appliance - Even with a Veeam backup appliance, if your Veeam backups are accessible via the production network, then your backup and DR is vulnerable. Learn how to add air-gapping and immutability to your infrastructure to ensure data security and ransomware protection. Continue Reading
Backup and Disaster Recovery Best Practices for Dental Offices - Dental clinics need to protect patient dental records and comply with HIPAA using backup and DR. Here are some best practices that can help with the process. Continue Reading
What is Automated Backup and Why Should You Use it - Automated backups enable you to automate backup and recovery for critical workloads. Learn what automated backups are, and how to use them effectively in this blog. Continue Reading
Agentless Backups vs Agent Based Backups: Which is Best? - Agentless-backups versus agent based backups: what's the difference between the two? which costs more? which is more effective? Find the answers and more in this blog. Continue Reading
NAS vs Cloud Storage – Which is Best for Your Hybrid Workforce - NAS vs cloud storage: what’s the difference between the two storage technologies and which one should you use for your hybrid workforce? Continue Reading
What Ransomware Taught us in 2021 - In 2021, ransomware attacks grew in number, scale, and complexity disrupting healthcare, education, and more. Here's what we learned from ransomware in 2021. Continue Reading
Ransomware Recovery: How to Plan for and Recover from Ransomware - A complete guide to ransomware recovery: how to recover ransomware encrypted files, how backup and DR mitigate the risk of ransomware attacks and more. Continue Reading
Ransomware Attacks Report 2021 - A comprehensive report of notable ransomware attacks, the most targeted industry, and the new ransomware groups per quarter. Continue Reading
8 Things You Can Do to Protect Your Endpoints from Ransomware - Ransomware looks for vulnerabilities and exploits them to attack your network. In this blog, we share 8 things you can do to protect your endpoints from cyber-attacks and ensure disruption-free business continuity and high availability. Continue Reading
SAN vs NAS vs DAS – A Closer Look - What's the difference between SAN vs NAS vs DAS? What are the advantages of each? When should you use them? And which data storage platform should you choose for your business? Find the answers and more in this blog. Continue Reading
Meet Cyber Insurance Requirements with Immutable Backups - Cyber insurance protects your business from liability in the event of a cyber-attack. In order to satisfy cyber insurance requirements, you need to set up regular backups, air-gapping, and immutability and we can help you with that. Learn more in… Continue Reading
Best Cloud Backup: Veeam Cloud Connect to Azure - It's risky to store all your data at one place because your business becomes vulnerable to ransomware attacks. Cloud backup & DR offers an affordable and reliable solution to that problem. Learn the advantages of using cloud backups, and why… Continue Reading
On-Prem vs. Cloud Solutions: Which is Best for Your Business? - Learn the difference between on-premises vs. cloud infrastructure so that you can choose the right infrastructure for your business that supports your day-to-day operations within your budget. Continue Reading
Keep Your Data Safe: S3 Object Lockdown for Compliance and Security - Learn more about S3 object lockdown, why should you use it, and how you can add it to your existing environment(s) to protect your critical object-level workloads from ransomware attacks. Continue Reading
Protecting Video Surveillance Storage: How To Keep Video Data Safe - Learn why do you need to protect your video surveillance storage systems and how to do so using backup and disaster recovery solutions with air-gapping, immutability, and snapshots. Continue Reading
How safe is tape storage against ransomware? - Is tape storage safe from ransomware attacks? Is it the same as air-gapped nodes? And can you use tape storage for backup and recovery? Find the answers and more in this blog post. Continue Reading
Choosing the Right Data Backup Solution for Educational Sector - Educational institutes aren't safe from ransomware attacks. In this blog post, we explore the different data backup solutions that schools, colleges, and universities can implement to protect their administrative and student data from ransomware. Continue Reading
A Definitive Guide to Hybrid Cloud Computing - What is hybrid cloud? Why should you use it? How to implement a hybrid cloud architecture? Find the answers and more in this blog post. Continue Reading
11 Reasons to Choose StoneFly Azure Cloud Storage for Your Business - Here are 11 reasons why Azure cloud storage is a better choice for your business and how StoneFly uses the platform to deliver enterprise storage capabilities with integrated data services. Continue Reading
Finding the Right Data Backup Strategy: 3-2-1 vs 3-2-1-1-0 vs 4-3-2 - Differentiate between 3-2-1 vs 3-2-1-1-0 vs 4-3-2 backup strategies and learn which backup strategy works best for your organization. Continue Reading
Cloud Backup – A Comprehensive Overview - What is cloud backup, how can you backup your data to the cloud, and how can you use cloud backups to restore data and restore business operations. Find the answers to these questions and more in this blog post. Continue Reading
Simplify your Data Center with a Unified Veeam Ready Appliance - Read how you can simplify your IT infrastructure by replacing multiple dedicated servers with our unified Veeam ready appliance (DR365V) - in turn, reducing costs and simplifying management. Continue Reading
What is virtual SAN (vSAN) and why is it better than traditional SAN? - Learn everything you need to know about virtual SAN (vSAN) from its benefits, uses, features & why it's better than traditional SAN in this blog. Continue Reading
Backup versus Replication – What’s the Difference - This article takes a look at data backup and data replication, two solutions that are very similar but have distinct differences. Continue Reading
Backups aren’t Enough – Here’s Why Air-Gapping and Immutability are Necessary - Most IT professionals think about backups when they're considering data security, but the truth is that this isn't enough. Data can still be breached with a backup. Continue Reading
What Is A Software Storage Solution (SDS)? Introduction & Benefits - Software defined storage is a term that has been making the rounds in recent years. It’s not entirely new, but it’s an evolving concept and as such, there are still some people who are confused about what it means. Continue Reading
Business Continuity with Veeam Replication, Failover & Failback - You can leverage Veeam replication, failover, and failback to ensure business continuity and reduce RTOs and RPOs. Learn more about how the Veeam replication capabilities work and how StoneFly solutions enhance the Veeam experience. Continue Reading
Remote Office/Branch Office Backup & DR: How to do it right - In this blog post, explore remote office/branch office backup and recovery challenges, how to overcome them, and how StoneFly backup & DR solutions help. Continue Reading
5 ways to protect your servers from ransomware attack - In this blog post, we’ll share 5 things that you can do to prevent successful ransomware attacks. Considering how frequent ransomware attacks target a business, if you aren’t prepared, your business is vulnerable to downtime & consequent financial losses, loss… Continue Reading
How StoneFly and Veeam offer the best ransomware protection - Find out what makes StoneFly’s Veeam-ready backup and DR solution different than most mainstream solutions – and how it offers the best ransomware protection Continue Reading
How to update your StoneFusion & SCVM to the latest version - This blog shares the process of updating StoneFly’s patented storage OS (StoneFusion & SCVM) to the latest version. Each new update brings new features, bug fixes (if any), and patches to enhance the experience of StoneFly customers. While older versions… Continue Reading
Protect your servers from ransomware attacks with backup & DR - The most effective way to ransomware-proof your servers is by using backup and DR. Typical practices like offsite storage, tape archiving, or anti-malware software just won’t cut it. Read why conventional methods don’t work and what makes backup & DR… Continue Reading
Why should you worry about ransomware attacks? - Ransomware attacks are dangerous. They can cost you money, your reputation, and even your business. Read this blog to find out why ransomware should worry you and why you should be prepared for it. Continue Reading
How to setup NAS backup repository for Veeam backup software - Learn how to create NFS or CIFS/SMB NAS volumes using StoneFly storage concentrator (SCVM) and configure them as target backup repositories for Veeam Availability suite version 10. Continue Reading
How to Setup & Use StoneFly’s Free Data Migration Software - Learn how to install, setup, and use StoneFly’s free data migration software and migrate your unstructured data volumes effortlessly. Continue Reading
How Clustered HCI Appliances Ensure Hyper-Availability - What makes StoneFly TwinHCI systems the best high availability clustered HCI appliance solution in the market? Find the answer to this question and more in this blog post. Continue Reading
What makes converged storage the best data storage infrastructure - In this blog post, we take a look at converged storage infrastructure, what is it, how it works, how can you use it effectively, and what makes StoneFly USO the best unified storage in the market. Continue Reading
AWS Hybrid Cloud Storage for Media and Entertainment Industry - AWS hybrid cloud storage technology allows users to share data and work in collaboration from multiple locations. StoneFly cloud storage gateway enables you to build a data life cycle which capitalizes on your on-prem systems and cloud based repositories while… Continue Reading
Veeam-Ready Appliance with Immutable / WORM Storage - StoneFly Veeam-ready appliance enables users to provision WORM storage repositories for secure & compliant backup data storage. Learn more about the feature in this blog post. Continue Reading
Enhance Your AWS Cloud Storage Experience with StoneFly - Amazon cloud storage is the single place for whatever data your business needs to store, manage and analyze. And StoneFly cloud storage gateway gives you the tools to fully leverage the high performance and scalable AWS cloud storage tiers. To… Continue Reading
Best VMware Live VM Migration Solution in the Market - VM migration is typically a disruptive process. Many businesses need an alternative to this disruptive migration process. To help with that, we’ve introduced live VM migration solutions that include a VMware plugin, DTDs & professional services. Learn more in this… Continue Reading
8 Best Practices of Disaster Recovery - In this article we are going to talk about the best practices of DR; how can you effectively plan for it, set it up and test it. Continue Reading
Coronavirus & Ransomware Infection – What’s the Connection? - Opportunistic scammers are using Coronavirus as an excuse to infect your storage infrastructure with ransomware attacks using phishing emails. One wrong click can lead to data loss, data breach, or a successful ransomware infection. Read this blog to learn how… Continue Reading
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery: What’s the difference? - In this article, we differentiate business continuity from disaster recovery and discuss how StoneFly DR solutions can play an integral part in enterprise business continuity. Continue Reading
Disaster Recovery Challenges & Solutions: A Brief Overview - What are the challenges data owners have to face when setting up disaster recovery and how can they overcome them? This is the question we’ll be tackling in this article. Continue Reading
GDPR Compliance & Its Importance for an Organization - What is GDPR compliance? What does it mean to your organization? Why is it important to achieve it? And how can StoneFly and Veeam help with GDPR compliance? Continue Reading
Considerations to Make While Planning NAS in AWS Cloud - This blog includes an overview of key deployment considerations including NAS in AWS cloud instance size, networking requirements and memory. Continue Reading
Taking a Closer Look at Cloud Storage Gateways - What are cloud storage gateways? When should you use them? And what makes StoneFly Smart cloud storage gateway the best in the market? Find answers to these questions and more in this article. Continue Reading
StoneFly 2019 Review: New Products, Features & More - 2019 was a busy year for us. We introduced additional compliance and security features to our hardware and software solutions. We also introduced solutions for MSPs along with data migration services for enterprise workloads this year. Continue Reading
Another Review – Another Award for Our Storage Operating System - FinancesOnline, a leading business software review platform awarded our enterprise storage operating system the 2019 Rising Star and Premium Usability awards in their recent review. Their survey concluded our user satisfaction ratings to be 91%. Read more about our storage… Continue Reading
Medical Record Storage and PACS Archiving: Challenges & StoneFly’s Solutions - This article explores PACS, the challenges with medical record storage and PACS archiving, what kind of data archive solutions can healthcare organizations employ for medical record storage and PACS Archiving; and lastly it mentions StoneFly’s data archive solutions. Continue Reading
Data Center Hardware Overview: Disaggregated HA Appliances - This blog is the fourth in the series of blogs that explain StoneFly’s innovative data storage appliance hardware architecture. In this blog, explore the appliance architecture and key components of our disaggregated high availability cluster appliances. Continue Reading
Data Center Hardware Overview: Scale Out Appliances - This blog is the third in the series of blogs that explore StoneFly’s innovative storage appliance hardware. In this blog post, explore the architecture, key components, storage capacities, and the scalability of StoneFly scale out systems. Continue Reading
Data Center Hardware Overview: Dual Node Shared Nothing - This blog is the second in the series of blogs that explore StoneFly’s innovative data storage appliance hardware. In this blog post, explore the architecture, key components, storage capacities, and the scalability of the dual node shared nothing hardware. Continue Reading
Data Center Hardware Overview: Integrated Appliance - This blog is the first in the series of blogs that explore StoneFly’s innovative data storage appliance hardware. In this blog post, explore the architecture, key components, storage capacities, and the scalability of the integrated appliance hardware. Continue Reading
What makes StoneFly SSO NAS Appliances Ransomware-Proof? - This article explores the vulnerabilities of traditional NAS systems and what makes them prone to data loss. The article also provides insight on what makes StoneFly SSO NAS appliances the reliable and secure data storage choice for enterprise data centers. Continue Reading
StoneFly & a Free Cup of Coffee Waiting for You at VMworld 2019 US - We're at VMworld 2019 and we're waiting to talk to you about your enterprise projects, problems, and challenges. We've got the solutions, the expertise, and a hot cup of coffee waiting for you. Continue Reading
Public versus Private: Which Cloud is Best for Enterprise Backups? - Enterprises have to make a decision when it comes to selecting which cloud is the best for their use-case either public or private. It tends to be a difficult decision. If you are an IT administrator or CTO trying to… Continue Reading
iSCSI, NAS, Hyperconverged: Manage All with Award-Winning Software - StoneFusion is the ultimate software defined storage solution capable of facilitating NAS, iSCSI, converged, and hyperconverged enterprise workloads. StoneFusion enables data service integration and cloud storage integration making data storage efficient, enterprise-friendly, and cost effective. Learn more about StoneFusion in… Continue Reading
Best Use-Case of Enterprise Cloud Storage Technology - Enterprise cloud is used for storage, running enterprise workloads, archiving data, and backups; but what is the best use-case for it? This article answers that question and provides insight on leveraging enterprise cloud storage technology. Continue Reading
Best Way to Remove Single Point of Failure from Your Storage Infrastructure - Business continuity is important for every industry. Single point of failure in data storage systems risk disruption and disruption is very costly. In this blog learn what’s single point of failure, how costly disruption is, and what options do businesses… Continue Reading
Cloud Storage Adoption: Challenges & Solutions - Enterprise cloud storage integration can be challenging since they have to consider costs, bandwidth usage, integration complexities and other similar questions. StoneFly helps meet these challenges and deliver more value with our innovative enterprise cloud storage solution Continue Reading
Ransomware Attack Targets City Departments of Baltimore - Baltimore city services were disrupted by Robinhood ransomware attack shutting down most of its servers. Due to not having an effective backup, they expect high volume of data loss. StoneFly DR365 is a backup and recovery solution which offers enterprise… Continue Reading
Do you want scalable architecture? - Ask yourself, will it not be amazing if you get automated scalable solution? If you don’t have to waste your money on extra racks of storage. Well, Of course for any business owner it would be a dream come true.… Continue Reading
Exploring StoneFly Enterprise Cloud Storage in Azure - In order to facilitate businesses and make data storage easier, StoneFly offers Enterprise Cloud Storage in Azure. In this article we briefly explore what makes StoenFly Cloud Storage Solutions different and why should businesses choose StoneFly storage solutions. Continue Reading
Surveillance Video Archive: Enterprise Requirements & StoneFly Archiving Solutions - Compliance regulations need businesses to retain surveillance video archives for months or even years. What kind of technology and features should businesses look-for for their surveillance video archives? And what kind of archiving solutions does StoneFly offers for surveillance video… Continue Reading
Secure, Reliable & Simple Email Archiving for the Enterprise - Email archiving reduces cost and enables IT administrators to effectively protect email data. This article explores email archiving and why businesses should set it up. The article also explores how email archiving with compliance and mentions StoneFly’s solutions for email… Continue Reading
Demystifying Cloud Archiving & its Role in Business Environments - What are the challenges that businesses face without cloud archiving? What really is cloud archiving and what are its benefits? This article answers these questions and introduces the idea that cloud archiving can be very cost-effective and productive for businesses,… Continue Reading
What’s a Backup Gateway and how can it solve data protection challenges - Businesses running storage infrastructures always find themselves perplexed about the decision of setting up dedicated backup infrastructure; mostly due to the cost implications. In this article explore how StoneFly BG365™ - backup gateway addresses these data protection challenges and facilitates… Continue Reading
Benefits of Using the StoneFly Cloud Archiving Solution - The StoneFly Cloud Archiving solution provides a low-cost storage service built for data archival. One of the benefits of the Cloud Archiving solution is you can start archiving your storage data in as little as $10/Tb per month... Continue Reading
What have we been doing in 2018 - In 2018, StoneFly introduced three products to our diverse range of enterprise products: CDR365, StoneWAN and the VSO™ appliance series. This article reviews 2018 and provides insight about these three enterprise-level products. Continue Reading
Transforming Traditional Data centers with the StoneFly USS Hyper-converged Appliance - The StoneFly USS Hyperconverged appliance combines server, networking and storage in as little as 3U of Rackspace and presents a solution for traditional datacenters to run any application or consolidate multiple virtual machines, workloads and data stores into a single… Continue Reading
Short Story: The Relation between Cloud Storage and Cloud Backup - The term “Cloud” has become mainstream but there’s still quite a bit of confusion on the application of the cloud. In this article, explore the difference between cloud storage and cloud application and why both have their importance in an… Continue Reading
Backup and Archiving with the Smart Cloud Gateway - Smart Cloud Gateway is a service that connects your on-premise appliance with cloud-based storage. You can use the Smart Cloud Gateway to store data in Microsoft Azure Cloud, Amazon AWS, any S3 compatible cloud or any other public or private… Continue Reading
Reduce Costs and Move Data to Azure, AWS or any S3 Compatible Cloud - In our webinar: “Reduce costs and Move data to Azure, AWS or any S3 compatible Cloud” we discussed StoneFly Smart Cloud Gateway product. The enterprise-level cloud gateway solution enables businesses to leverage existing infrastructure and integrate the cloud of their… Continue Reading
8th Generation DR365 Backup and Disaster Recovery Appliances - The 8th Generation of the StoneFly DR365 Backup and Disaster Recovery Appliances is the latest update of the StoneFly comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery solutions. The 8th generation of StoneFly DR365 appliances include an update to our award-winning StoneFusion... Continue Reading
Protecting AWS Workloads with Veeam backup & replication to StoneFly Cloud - Veeam backup & replication to StoneFly Cloud provides a backup and disaster recovery for your Amazon EC2 instances. It is gives you the ability to automatically backup and recover data quickly and as often as needed than on-premise backup solutions. Continue Reading
Affordable Data Backup in Microsoft Azure and AWS Cloud - In our latest webinar “Affordable Data Backup in Microsoft Azure and AWS Cloud”, we discussed StoneFly CDR365™ - cloud backup and disaster recovery solution. In this blog post, we will briefly overview the webinar session and the questions that the… Continue Reading
Backup your Data to Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS with CDR365 - CDR365 is StoneFly’s backup solution that is built for the cloud. It allows you to backup your data to major public clouds like Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. You can leverage more than one cloud platform and store your backup… Continue Reading
Rapid recovery of large data sets with flash array backup and DR appliance - StoneFly and Veeam are delivering innovation to customers in the storage and the backup industries, that is simplifying operations, increasing availability and driving net new agility to organizations. Read this blog and learn about our rapid recovery for large datasets... Continue Reading
Leveraging Purpose Built Cloud Service Provider for Backup and Disaster Recovery - Backup and disaster recovery top the list of applications that companies hope to migrate to the cloud. Storing backup data offsite, retaining it for long-term, scaling up, and testing and performing reliable disaster recoveries make the cloud ideally suited for... Continue Reading
VSO™ Appliance: Affordable Data Storage, Backup & Disaster Recovery - Data storage, backup and disaster recovery are costly but important for IT driven businesses. In order to facilitate budget conscious businesses, StoneFly offers the VSO™ appliance series comprising of affordable data storage, backup and disaster recovery infrastructure. Learn more in… Continue Reading
Tech or Treat: StoneFly’s Special Halloween offers - This Halloween, StoneFly is joining the fun and offering a number of treats for our Halloween enthusiastic IT administrators. In this article, explore the special Halloween offers that we have for our storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions. Continue Reading
Microsoft Office 365 Backup – Why is it Important? - Adoption of Office 365 is growing exponentially. Customers need to mitigate the risk of losing access to email and ensure availability for Office 365 users. In this blog we discuss why is it important to backup Office 365 data, what… Continue Reading
Data Availability in the Digital Financial Services Enterprise - Financial services organizations face many challenges in order to comply with rapidly evolving regulatory requirements for data security and integrity. In addition, volumes of stored data continues to grow at exponential rates. Continue Reading
Build a Scalable & Future-proof Data center - StoneFly offers a number of enterprise-grade solutions that can be used to build a scalable and future proof data center. This article explores some of StoneFly’s enterprise-grade storage technology that can be used to build such a data center. Continue Reading
The Business Value of using StoneFly and Veeam Backup & Disaster Recovery Solution - Data is increasingly at the core of any business or organization, and is fueling new digital transformation initiatives. Data runs nearly every aspect of a company, from customer and employee engagement, to product and service development, to operations Continue Reading
How to setup a SAN cluster by configuring target portals? - SAN clusters share storage resources and enhance efficiency and cost effectiveness. Clustering SAN appliances also improves data availability. By clustering SAN appliances, a number of challenges are easily overcome. StoneFly’s SCVM™ software facilitates SAN clustering via target portals. Continue Reading
Network Attached Storage (NAS) for Unstructured Big Data - Unstructured big data is growing exponentially. Analyzing and managing this data enables IT driven businesses to add value to their core operations. With StoneFly’s Network Attached Storage appliances businesses can effectively store, manage and control their unstructured big data. Continue Reading
Purpose-built Backup and DR appliance for Nutanix - Explore what risks businesses take by not deploying reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions for enterprise-level infrastructures like Nutanix. The article also sheds light on StoneFly’s purpose-built backup and DR appliance that empowers businesses to ensure high availability and data… Continue Reading
Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practices: # 4 – Data reduction techniques - Optimizing the cost or benefit of various backup techniques and storage technologies means we will need to understand business requirements associated with the use of backup data and retention requirements. There are trade-offs associated with each of the major techniques... Continue Reading
Hurricane Florence – Protect Enterprise IT Infrastructures - Hurricane Florence and its triggered floods are major threats for IT driven businesses in South Carolina. IT administrators can deploy cloud disaster recovery solutions and ensure that their IT systems aren’t compromised due to the disaster. Continue Reading
Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practices: #3 – Architecture overview - Veeam Backup & Replication has a scale out architecture, in which multiple components (both for data processing and control) work together in a coordinated fashion. This blog provides a brief overview of these components and provides the best practices for… Continue Reading
Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practices: #2 – Hypervisor, Backup Job and Restore - StoneFly and Veeam Offer state of the Art backup and disaster recovery solutions for Commercial, Public Sector and Cloud Service Providers. Veeam is the premier availability software for StoneFly, which offers high performance, elastic and always available IT infrastructure solutions.… Continue Reading
Veeam Backup and Replication Best Practices: #1 – Backup Proxies - This article is the first in the series about the best practices about Veeam backup and replication. The article explores how enterprise IT environments can deploy and use backup proxies. It also provides insights about storage optimization, intelligent load balancing… Continue Reading
Deploy a Complete Business Model in the Cloud with the StoneFly SCVM™ - Data is essential for delivering value to your customers and outpacing your competitors. But as data growth accelerates and with 80% of new data being unstructured, finding a way to store, distribute and manage all your data is a big… Continue Reading
Data Encryption Essential for Data Storage - A lot of data is transmitted these days, lots of private information is exchanged. In order to save the private data from any malicious attack encryption is used. This article covers, what is encryption, types of data encryption, why and… Continue Reading
Affordable Enterprise Cloud Based Server - Cloud has changed the way people do business. Cloud has empowered many people to consume technology. You have to choose a cloud service provider that handles all for you. StoneFly Cloud Enterprise provides performance, reliability and scalability for your mission… Continue Reading
How Media Organizations Can Protect Themselves from Ransomware Attacks - Cyber-crime is on the rise and it is affecting all types of industries worldwide. Media industry is also vulnerable to cyber-attacks. StoneFly™ helps the media and entertainment industry to secure their data against data breaches. StoneFly™ offers disaster recovery solutions… Continue Reading
Protect your Law firm from Ransomware with DR365™ - Law firms and departments process, store and manage important and sensitive data. A successful ransomware attack results in confidentiality concerns, law suits and financial losses. For law organizations, ransomware is a major threat. It’s important that law firms and organizations… Continue Reading
Protecting Finance Industry from Ransomware Attacks - Ransomware is a major threat to FinTech Organizations and the Finance industry needs effective backup and disaster recovery solutions. However, there are a number of challenges associated with the industry. Learn about the challenges of FinTech organizations and explore how… Continue Reading
How Healthtech can be made Ransomware-proof with DR365™ - Healthcare industry deals with PII and mission-critical data that cannot tolerate downtime or disruption. Ransomware is a global threat that does not spare healthcare IT environments. Using StoneFly's feature-rich backup and DR appliance - DR365™ healthcare IT environments can effectively… Continue Reading
Make IT environments Ransomware-proof with DR365™ - Ransomware is a continuously growing and forever lingering cyber-threat to enterprise IT environments worldwide. A successful attack can lead to millions of dollars in losses, discontinuity, data loss and brand reputation damage. Enterprises can easily avoid the disaster of ransomware… Continue Reading
Eradicating storage and disaster recovery challenges with StoneFly SCVM - There is an increase in data day by day. With this increase in data, the traditional ways of data storage have failed to answer the data storage requirements of the enterprises. Cloud based solutions are cost effective, easy to manage,… Continue Reading
Integrating Automated Tiering to Empower Enterprise IT environments - Automated tiering enables IT environments to effectively leverage storage resources and reduce the overall cost of data storage. StoneFly SCVM™ offers automated data tiering and a range of enterprise-scale services to empower enterprise IT environments. Learn about automated tiering and… Continue Reading
Simplified Storage, Backup & DR with StoneFly SCVM™ - Dedicated solutions are complex, expensive and inefficient. As the workload volumes increase the complexity and costs increase. Instead of deploying dedicated solutions, IT environments can leverage their existing storage resources with StoneFly’s innovative All-in-one software: SCVM™ that delivers storage, backup… Continue Reading
Why is SCVM™ perfect for Microsoft and VMware hypervisors - StoneFly’s SCVM™ delivers an enterprise-level, highly available and feature-rich storage solution that also provides native data protection. It’s a single solution that addresses storage requirements and backup and disaster recovery requirements as well. This article explores the capabilities of StoneFly… Continue Reading
Backup Nutanix Infrastructures in Microsoft Azure with StoneFly and Veeam - This article explores what kind of enterprises can integrate cloud backup and disaster recovery to ensure business continuity and recovery for their enterprise workloads. Also explore the cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions that StoneFly offers to facilitate enterprises running… Continue Reading
StoneFly Data Protection Solutions for Enterprise Workloads - Hyper-converged infrastructure efficiently delivers according to enterprise storage requirements. However, the infrastructure cannot ensure high availability and data recoverability for enterprise workloads. In this article explore the major causes of data loss for enterprise workloads and StoneFly’s enterprise-level backup products… Continue Reading
Microsoft Azure Cloud Security for Enterprise Data and Applications - Microsoft Azure cloud supports businesses around the globe. The Azure cloud processes gigantic chunks of sensitive and confidential data on a daily basis. Data security and privacy is of paramount importance. This article explores Azure cloud’s practices and policies to… Continue Reading
How to configure volume and copy volumes in SAN? - These series of articles are the step to step guide for the StoneFly storage concentrator GUI. The StoneFly Storage Concentrator™ appliance software. The articles will be discussing that, how you can deploy different parts of Storage concentrator. The previous article… Continue Reading
How can you restore encryption USB device in SAN - This is the fourth article in the StoneFly Storage Concentrator Series. The series was created to help users understand how to use the StoneFly Storage Concentrator™ (SSC). This post guides users through the process of deploying different segments of the… Continue Reading
How to discover and add Storage resources in Storage Concentrator SCVM™ - This article will discuss the resources section in StoneFly Storage Concentrator, how to discover resources and how to add resources in StoneFly Storage Concentrator (SCVM). Continue Reading
Introduction to storage concentrator GUI - This article, is the second article which is meant to guide you, how to deploy different segments of GUI. The introductory article went through the process of launching the administrative interface in your StoneFly Storage Concentrator. This article will go… Continue Reading
How to launch the administrative interface in your StoneFly Storage Concentrator - This article will guide you about StoneFly storage concentrator GUI. The StoneFly Storage Concentrator™ appliance software provides the interface through which a system administrator can configure and monitor different parts of their GUI like: Continue Reading
How to expand volumes in SAN? - The series of articles are meant to guide you how to deploy different segments of GUI. The previous article was meant to guide you how to configure and copy volumes in SAN. This article is following to the previous one… Continue Reading
How to deploy software defined Virtual Machine (SCVM) on VMWare ESXi? - These articles will guide you that how can the users deploy software defined SCVM on VMware ESXi. This article is meant to guide you through the process of deploying. The step by step process is explained in the article to… Continue Reading
Ensuring business continuity by Veeam recovery to Microsoft Azure - Business continuity is one of the major considerations of organizations. When it comes to business continuity data backup and data restoration goes hand to hand. This article discusses about how Veeam Recovery to Microsoft Azure helps you in business continuity.… Continue Reading
Resilience from ransomware with StoneFly SCVM - Today's cyber security threats are constantly evolving. Most companies have preventive security software to stop these types of attacks but no matter how secure we are vulnerable to cyber-crimes. Ransomware is a type of malicious software which restrains the access… Continue Reading
Things to know before considering SAN - SAN appliances can store files and can work as storage for specific applications like databases and Virtual machine file systems. In SAN data transportation is much efficient and reliable. Each storage volume can be treated as an independent disk drive… Continue Reading
Multi-cloud solutions for your data storage needs - With multi-cloud data storage solutions you can acquire not one but more than one cloud hosting environments. Multi-cloud in simple terms means the utilization of more than one cloud. This article discusses a number of details pertaining to multi-cloud environments… Continue Reading
How StoneFly delivers Data Transportability - Data Transportability is the migration of data between applications or cloud services; however, StoneFly adds more to the concept of data transportability. With StoneFly’s application of data transportability, it delivers reliability and prevents data loss due to a disaster. In… Continue Reading
Understanding Erasure Coding - Erasure Coding is the data protection method through which data is broken into sectors. Then data is encoded with redundant data pieces and stored across different storage media. This article explains what Erasure Coding is, how it works and how… Continue Reading
Implementation of Data redundancy in data storage - Data redundancy means: two copies of data in a single database or two different spots in multiple software environments or platforms. This article explains what data redundancy is, what level of data redundancy is right for you and what the… Continue Reading
Storage Snapshot technology: techniques and details - When selecting a snapshot technology from a vendor one must carefully consider the requirements and the environment of the enterprise, which is about to deploy the technology. The main aim of this article is to provide an overview of snapshot… Continue Reading
Understanding Scalability in Data Storage - The demands of storage are increasing, scalability is the feature which will address the data growth and enable businesses to effectively leverage their data. This article explores the concept, working and types of scalability to enable businesses to effectively leverage… Continue Reading
Data Replication Technology: What it is & how does it work? - Data Replication delivers data redundancy for the enterprise; it also empowers disaster recovery technology to ensure reduced downtime. This article explores data replication technology: what it is, how it works and what is its role in disaster recovery. Continue Reading
What is Scalability in the Cloud? - Data growth demands storage, backup and disaster recovery at scale. Cloud technology effectively addresses the demands imposed by continuously growing data. Scalability in the cloud facilitates data growth and enables businesses to effectively leverage their data. This article explores the… Continue Reading
Understanding Thin Provisioning and How it works - Thin provisioning optimizes storage utilization rates and enables enterprises to effectively leverage their storage resources. This article explains what Thin Provisioning is, how it works and how it’s different from traditional provisioning. Continue Reading
Exploring Data Deduplication for the Enterprise - Data deduplication is essential for effective storage space utilization. Enterprises can reduce their storage and backup costs by integrating deduplication in their solutions. This article explores what is deduplication and how it delivers efficiency and cost effectiveness for the enterprise. Continue Reading
Network Attached Storage (NAS) Appliance: Practicality and Usage - NAS storage appliances can effectively address the storage requirements of businesses while reducing latency and facilitating remote accessibility to data. This makes NAS storage appliances the prime choice for unstructured big data storage. In this article, explore the practicality and… Continue Reading
What is Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)? - Hyperconvergence is required to provide easy scaling and management. It is a single system that reduces data center complexity and increases scalability. Multiple nodes of the appliance can be clustered together to create pools of shared computing and storage resources… Continue Reading
Breaking down High Availability Configuration: Purpose and Necessity - High availability node comprises of full active active cluster with two active active head controllers plus dual active-active RAID controllers and two management engines. Data is failed over in few seconds. There is no point of failure. The purpose of… Continue Reading
- SAN: Construction, Usage and its role in Business Continuity Management - For business continuity management you require SAN. SAN is a high speed network which provides shared pool of storage devices to several servers. Business continuity management is a framework that detects the exposure of organizations to internal and external threats.… Continue Reading
How to add a Failover plan in StoneFly Cloud Connect - Keeping backup of your data is the essential step which you should take for your company. Through backup you can save the copies of your data and by disaster recovery you can ensure business continuity. Failover is part of disaster… Continue Reading
StoneFly CDR365: Innovative and Cost Effective Backup Solution for SMEs - Data protection is essential for the businesses of all sizes. If you assume that only large enterprises require it or you think that backup solutions are expensive, then you are at wrong track. Both assumptions aren’t true and this article… Continue Reading
StoneFly StoneWAN: Innovative Bandwidth Accelerator for the Multi-Branch Enterprise - Increasing the bandwidth does not deliver throughput; instead it creates a Long Fat Network (LFN). For the multi-branch enterprise, high bandwidth and high latency networks are a headache. StoneFly’s StoneWAN meets this challenge effectively and delivers 100 times faster data… Continue Reading
Closer look: StoneFly’s Innovative Storage Concentrator Virtual Machine (SCVM) - Software-defined storage (SDS), as purists argue, is any storage product that requires software to manage underlying hardware and control. The marketing term, software-defined storage is however, commonly associated with software products that run on server hardware to enable cost savings… Continue Reading
How The Cloud Solves Data Storage Challenges - Having loads of data from reliable sources is just not enough. What to do with that data is the most important part as organizations use the data in effective ways to generate profits. Finding an efficient way to store, distribute… Continue Reading
Enabling Automation for HIPAA/HITRUST Compliance in Microsoft Azure Cloud - Microsoft introduces automation for HIPAA/HITRUST compliance; facilitating enterprises to deploy industry compliant systems. The new release also includes a blueprint with a test sample, an FAQ and a video to help users understand the working of the service. Continue Reading
Erasure Coding: Innovative Method of Robust Data Protection and Disaster Recovery - Old school backup tools are failing to prevent major outages and data loss as they place high demands on the data administrators which in turn are not able to cope with ever-increasing data. As the traditional tools become obsolete, IT… Continue Reading
Enterprise Data Protection: Cloud Sync versus Cloud Backup - Although cloud sync and cloud backup feel as though they serve the same purpose, they’re not the same processes. This article explores the differences between the two and why both of them are needed to effectively leverage enterprise data. Continue Reading
- Innovative and Technologically Sound Considerations for Disaster Recovery and Cloud Backup - Disaster Recovery plan is a crucial step of any business continuity strategy and it often needs to be updated. In modern days, data backup has moved from traditional tapes to cloud-based solutions. This offers organizations a far more easy and… Continue Reading
- How the cloud fits in an enterprise data protection strategy? - Many of the companies using a data protection solution often find the cloud more secure for the data protection. The cloud presents itself as a native solution for data protection. It offers data protection options at reasonable prices. However, addition… Continue Reading
Combining the Cloud with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity - Finding a way to store, distribute and manage all your data in today’s dynamic world is a big challenge. Running applications, delivering content to users, hosting high traffic websites or backing up documents, databases and email all require a lot… Continue Reading
Integrating Veeam PN for Microsoft Azure with StoneFly’s Enterprise Level Services - StoneFly and Veeam cloud connect services make up an efficient and reliable backup and disaster recovery solution. Integrating Veeam PN into the mix establishes a simple enterprise network that secures data transmission and reduces complexity for IT staff for DR… Continue Reading
5 Data Management Best Practices for Small to Mid-size Businesses (SMBs) - Small enterprises may assume that they do not need to invest in data management. However, this assumption can potentially make them fall behind competition and eventually limit their enterprise’s potential to grow. It is necessary for SMBs to invest in… Continue Reading
- The Role of Cloud Computing in the Internet of Things - The Internet of Things (IoT) is a dimension of connectivity in itself which makes the world better through innovations and inventions. The internet of things can be seen as an epitome of connectivity which will help in the growth of… Continue Reading
Why Does Your Enterprise Need a Disaster Recovery Plan? - In this blog we will talk about why is it extremely important to have a disaster recovery plan and how DR365-backup and disaster recovery appliance is the ultimate disaster recovery solution. We will also discuss how it ensures that organizations… Continue Reading
Erasure Coding for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery - The era of rapid technological advancements is helping the world develop more and more insight into methods of data protection and disaster recovery. The need to understand the importance of backup and recovery has gained utmost priority as we move… Continue Reading
Storage System Technologies and their Configurations - An enterprise can devise their perfect storage solution using a specific storage architecture in a specific configuration. In order to do that, enterprises need to identify their data requirements. Only then can an enterprise make an efficient and comprehensive backup… Continue Reading
Overcoming Tape Backup limitations with StoneFly Cloud Connect Gateway - With the customer oriented services provided by StoneFly and cloud service providers, enterprises can focus on their core competency instead of expending resources to monitor and manage tape storage libraries. This positively impacts the budget of the enterprise as it… Continue Reading
Exploring the basics of Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) - Gartner estimates that Disaster Recovery as a service (DRaaS) is now a mainstream service in the market and it will grow 6.5 times by 2021 (over the next three years). With digitalization and virtualization driving the enterprise, data has become… Continue Reading
Why StoneFly Is the best Choice for your Enterprise? - Stonefly has a huge range of products and services providing enterprise level on-premises and cloud storage, backup and data recovery (DR) solutions. StoneFly’s innovative solutions facilitate access to cloud based services like Microsoft Azure, AWS, StoneFly’s own Cloud Business Center… Continue Reading
How Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Works in the Veeam Cloud Connect - One of the challenges that the service provider (SP) needs to solve to offer disaster recovery as a service is mimicking the tenant network as SP cannot control the tenant network design. Veeam cloud connect provides a unique way to… Continue Reading
Enterprise NAS Storage Solution for Big Data Storage Challenges - Big data storage requires reduced latency, manageability, ability to support high IOPS and data security and protection. These challenges can be overcome using traditional storage; however, the cost implications and the foot print is excessive and unnecessary. The best solution… Continue Reading
Cloud Storage and Backup: Providing a Solution to the Storage Needs of Banking Sector - StoneFly’s Scale-Out NAS cloud storage partnered with Veeam provides the most applicable and intact solution to the storage needs of every industry. The banking sector sees growing customers every day and to manage such growth, expertise of trusted storage providers… Continue Reading
IT Infrastructure Upgradation with Hybrid Cloud - The hybrid cloud facilitates high IOPS requirements, reduces latency and optimizes processes. This makes flexible enough to accommodate IT environments with diverse workloads with a range of requirements. Continue Reading
When Big Data is a Big Headache: Addressing the Challenges to Reap Awards - The internet of things is made up of interconnected devices that generate Petabytes of data every day. From surfing the internet to make a purchase to actually making purchases, all the data can be useful for organizations trying to make… Continue Reading
Disaster Recovery as a Service Appliances: Backup for Sustainable Growth - The development of greater tools for hacking have created more threats for businesses. Companies are vulnerable to cyber-attacks more than ever before - disaster recovery has gained utmost importance. Moreover, natural disasters have also become an occasional occurrence hence, disaster… Continue Reading
Archiving Veeam Backups in Amazon Glacier - The advantage of storing data in Amazon Glacier is its low cost. And although Amazon glacier is designed for cold data with scarce chance of being recovered, the real challenge is to manage information and maintain the management process. Continue Reading
Why utilize more than one solution for cloud backup? - Enterprise may rely heavily on a single cloud but if anything happens to that cloud, they’re basically doomed. This is one of the prime, but not the only, reasons to acquire more than one cloud. Effective backup plans include more… Continue Reading
- Backup and Disaster Recovery Made Easy with the StoneFly DR365 Appliance - Research and development around the world has helped the world gain insight into the intricate workings of data around the world. Data protection and disaster recovery have gained utmost importance as new technologies for both of them are devised every… Continue Reading
Difference between Managed backup and self-service backup - With the growing data being generated every day, a lot of considerations have to be kept in mind when deciding where to store the data. A speedy, reliable and secure storage needs to be used to protect the data from… Continue Reading
Virtualization Containers and how they compare to Virtual Machines - In the world of technology, IT pros need to customize technology solutions to meet their physical and virtual infrastructure needs. Various industries and firms are using systematically important workloads. Increased daily data generation is leading the world to innovation with… Continue Reading
Difference Between Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and Cloud Backup - Cloud-based backup and recovery have become common these days. If a backup is fast enough and if recovery times hit recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTPOs) service levels you are good to go. Continue Reading
Cloud Storage Solutions for Life Sciences Research - Life sciences are making the world a better place by invoking research every day which tackles the up and coming problems. The ability to analyze, explore and share tremendous volumes of scientific data is critical for research, discoveries and collaborations… Continue Reading
How Microsoft Azure Can Empower Your Company’s Data & Infrastructure in The Cloud - The thing about Microsoft Azure is that it doesn’t force you to buy a plan or an entire package. Most services can be used independently of each other. For instance, you can choose to use only storage and not computing,… Continue Reading
Enterprise Storage Optimization with The StoneFly CacheCloud Storage Appliance - Everyone is exploring cloud for its utilization and benefits. Enterprises can use cloud-based services for multiple purposes and increase their productivity, add value to their data all while protecting and making it recoverable and highly available. The StoneFly CacheCloud Storage… Continue Reading
- CacheCloud Storage Gateway to Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS Cloud Storage - Big cloud storage companies like Microsoft have been providing customers with well-balanced storage solutions from the time when such solutions seemed distant. Partnerships between the big companies provide enterprises with cloud based backup solutions which hold the highest integrity in… Continue Reading
Cloud Cyber Security to Keep a Threat Free Corporate Environment - Increased data generation is resulting in greater problems in the corporate environment of an organization. Authorship attribution for crimes and cyber-attacks is becoming a major problem for all law enforcement agencies. Governments around the globe have taken decisions regarding cyberspace… Continue Reading
Bad Rabbit: A New Ransomware Attack Hits USA and Europe - A new Ransomware sample called Bad Rabbit hit Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Bulgaria, USA, Germany, and Japan on October 24, 2017. Among all of the countries, Russia and Ukraine were hit the most as the infection started through some hacked Russian… Continue Reading
Difference between Backup and Archiving - In the past, protection and retention were handled by copying data to tape, but the improving economics of disk storage and emergence of backup solutions create new options. Both Backup and archiving are complementary workloads that are part of an… Continue Reading
Maximize your Data Protection with the 3-2-1 Backup Rule - Loss of data has direct impact on business. In this Modern World, technology is constantly changing and bigger, faster and better ways are introduced for storing data, but the 3-2-1 backup rule has remained the same. This gold rule withstood… Continue Reading
GDPR Compliance & Its Importance for an Organization - What is GDPR compliance? What does it mean to your organization? Why is it important to achieve it? And how can StoneFly and Veeam help with GDPR compliance? Continue Reading
StoneFly 2019 Review: New Products, Features & More - 2019 was a busy year for us. We introduced additional compliance and security features to our hardware and software solutions. We also introduced solutions for MSPs along with data migration services for enterprise workloads this year. Continue Reading
Data Center Hardware Overview: Disaggregated HA Appliances - This blog is the fourth in the series of blogs that explain StoneFly’s innovative data storage appliance hardware architecture. In this blog, explore the appliance architecture and key components of our disaggregated high availability cluster appliances. Continue Reading
StoneFly & a Free Cup of Coffee Waiting for You at VMworld 2019 US - We're at VMworld 2019 and we're waiting to talk to you about your enterprise projects, problems, and challenges. We've got the solutions, the expertise, and a hot cup of coffee waiting for you. Continue Reading
What have we been doing in 2018 - In 2018, StoneFly introduced three products to our diverse range of enterprise products: CDR365, StoneWAN and the VSO™ appliance series. This article reviews 2018 and provides insight about these three enterprise-level products. Continue Reading
Tech or Treat: StoneFly’s Special Halloween offers - This Halloween, StoneFly is joining the fun and offering a number of treats for our Halloween enthusiastic IT administrators. In this article, explore the special Halloween offers that we have for our storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions. Continue Reading
Data Availability in the Digital Financial Services Enterprise - Financial services organizations face many challenges in order to comply with rapidly evolving regulatory requirements for data security and integrity. In addition, volumes of stored data continues to grow at exponential rates. Continue Reading
Data Encryption Essential for Data Storage - A lot of data is transmitted these days, lots of private information is exchanged. In order to save the private data from any malicious attack encryption is used. This article covers, what is encryption, types of data encryption, why and… Continue Reading
Integrating Automated Tiering to Empower Enterprise IT environments - Automated tiering enables IT environments to effectively leverage storage resources and reduce the overall cost of data storage. StoneFly SCVM™ offers automated data tiering and a range of enterprise-scale services to empower enterprise IT environments. Learn about automated tiering and… Continue Reading
How StoneFly delivers Data Transportability - Data Transportability is the migration of data between applications or cloud services; however, StoneFly adds more to the concept of data transportability. With StoneFly’s application of data transportability, it delivers reliability and prevents data loss due to a disaster. In… Continue Reading
Understanding Erasure Coding - Erasure Coding is the data protection method through which data is broken into sectors. Then data is encoded with redundant data pieces and stored across different storage media. This article explains what Erasure Coding is, how it works and how… Continue Reading
Implementation of Data redundancy in data storage - Data redundancy means: two copies of data in a single database or two different spots in multiple software environments or platforms. This article explains what data redundancy is, what level of data redundancy is right for you and what the… Continue Reading
Storage Snapshot technology: techniques and details - When selecting a snapshot technology from a vendor one must carefully consider the requirements and the environment of the enterprise, which is about to deploy the technology. The main aim of this article is to provide an overview of snapshot… Continue Reading
Understanding Scalability in Data Storage - The demands of storage are increasing, scalability is the feature which will address the data growth and enable businesses to effectively leverage their data. This article explores the concept, working and types of scalability to enable businesses to effectively leverage… Continue Reading
Data Replication Technology: What it is & how does it work? - Data Replication delivers data redundancy for the enterprise; it also empowers disaster recovery technology to ensure reduced downtime. This article explores data replication technology: what it is, how it works and what is its role in disaster recovery. Continue Reading
What is Scalability in the Cloud? - Data growth demands storage, backup and disaster recovery at scale. Cloud technology effectively addresses the demands imposed by continuously growing data. Scalability in the cloud facilitates data growth and enables businesses to effectively leverage their data. This article explores the… Continue Reading
Understanding Thin Provisioning and How it works - Thin provisioning optimizes storage utilization rates and enables enterprises to effectively leverage their storage resources. This article explains what Thin Provisioning is, how it works and how it’s different from traditional provisioning. Continue Reading
Exploring Data Deduplication for the Enterprise - Data deduplication is essential for effective storage space utilization. Enterprises can reduce their storage and backup costs by integrating deduplication in their solutions. This article explores what is deduplication and how it delivers efficiency and cost effectiveness for the enterprise. Continue Reading
Erasure Coding: Innovative Method of Robust Data Protection and Disaster Recovery - Old school backup tools are failing to prevent major outages and data loss as they place high demands on the data administrators which in turn are not able to cope with ever-increasing data. As the traditional tools become obsolete, IT… Continue Reading
5 Data Management Best Practices for Small to Mid-size Businesses (SMBs) - Small enterprises may assume that they do not need to invest in data management. However, this assumption can potentially make them fall behind competition and eventually limit their enterprise’s potential to grow. It is necessary for SMBs to invest in… Continue Reading
Why StoneFly Is the best Choice for your Enterprise? - Stonefly has a huge range of products and services providing enterprise level on-premises and cloud storage, backup and data recovery (DR) solutions. StoneFly’s innovative solutions facilitate access to cloud based services like Microsoft Azure, AWS, StoneFly’s own Cloud Business Center… Continue Reading
When Big Data is a Big Headache: Addressing the Challenges to Reap Awards - The internet of things is made up of interconnected devices that generate Petabytes of data every day. From surfing the internet to make a purchase to actually making purchases, all the data can be useful for organizations trying to make… Continue Reading
Virtualization Containers and how they compare to Virtual Machines - In the world of technology, IT pros need to customize technology solutions to meet their physical and virtual infrastructure needs. Various industries and firms are using systematically important workloads. Increased daily data generation is leading the world to innovation with… Continue Reading
Cloud Storage Solutions for Life Sciences Research - Life sciences are making the world a better place by invoking research every day which tackles the up and coming problems. The ability to analyze, explore and share tremendous volumes of scientific data is critical for research, discoveries and collaborations… Continue Reading
Cloud Cyber Security to Keep a Threat Free Corporate Environment - Increased data generation is resulting in greater problems in the corporate environment of an organization. Authorship attribution for crimes and cyber-attacks is becoming a major problem for all law enforcement agencies. Governments around the globe have taken decisions regarding cyberspace… Continue Reading
Overcome Lock-in Limitations with StoneFly’s Multi-cloud Services - Vendor lock-in is a strategy used by major solution providers. If you want your backup and Disaster recovery plan to be comprehensive, you simply cannot make do with the list of options available to you by a specific vendor. Lock-in… Continue Reading
- How Blockchain Will Change the Financial Services Industry - Secure transactions and transmission of data is becoming a challenge in the continuously evolving IT world. Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) is a cloud computing platform that addresses the trust issues when trading or sharing data by employing immutable data. Continue Reading
Natural Disasters in Every Place! Get Data Protection at Rapid Pace - Natural disasters have become a frequent occurrence over the period of time. Large storms are becoming more and more frequent. Rising temperatures are causing a snowball effect which ultimately results in more atmospheric instability. Weather patterns are changing with the… Continue Reading
Tools of Protection from Ransomware - Greater data usage has increased the importance of data protection around the globe. Hackers have set their minds on valuable information which can impact the relations of the world in context of the global economy. Hacking tools are being devised… Continue Reading
Why Storage Companies Are Partnering with StoneFly for Cloud Storage - Cloud has been developed over the period of time to avoid putting the users in hassle. It is a kind of an Internet-Based-Service offered on demand to users. These users are looking to avoid implementation details or maintenance. Cloud storage… Continue Reading
Big Data Storage Challenges and Solutions in Genomics - Big data refers to the vast volumes and types of information that companies can now collect and process using increasingly high-tech systems. Genomics research leads to a huge lakes of data. The storage, processing and effective management of this data… Continue Reading
Comparing Hadoop and SQL - If you have been familiar to working with conventional SQL-databases, hearing someone talk about Hadoop can sound like a crazy mess. In this blog, we are going to try and simplify three of the many differences between conventional SQL sources… Continue Reading
Petya – How to Protect Yourself from the Global Ransomware Outbreak - Another Ransomware attack, the Petya or Petrwarp, is spreading across the globe hitting a number of high-profile organizations, government agencies, public utilities and transportation networks in the United States and Europe. The virus downed systems monitoring radiation at the site… Continue Reading
After WannaCry. What Businesses Need to Withstand the Ransomware Era - WannaCry, one of many Ransomware variants, has been turned into a deadly virulence with data stolen from the NSA (National Security Agency), spread across 100 countries and counting, bringing down the Telefonica company in Spain, 16 hospitals in the UK,… Continue Reading
Why FedRAMP is Important? - The Federal Risk & Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that provides a standardized-approach to continuous monitoring, authorization and security assessment for cloud services and products. This allows Cloud Security Solutions to be assessed and that assessment can… Continue Reading
Ransomware is dangerous; but StoneFly has your ‘Back’ - Ransomware has become a serious epidemic affecting businesses of all shapes and sizes. Protecting your business is a serious ‘business’ now, more than ever before. According to a U.S interagency report, there have been 4000 daily ransomware attacks since 2016.… Continue Reading
Why Analytics and Cloud Are Essential For the Success of IoT and 5G? - Today, Massive amounts of data are being generated from billions of smart-phones and cellular users. New 5G networks designed for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication and inexpensive sensors in the IoT (Internet of things) devices means that current human-users will soon be… Continue Reading
StoneFly and Big Data Solutions for the Internet of Things - Internet connected devices that make the Internet of Things accumulate petabytes of data. There is more data to store from user smartphones such as images and videos or log file data captured from millions of sensors. As a result, datacenters… Continue Reading
Accelerate Scientific Discovery with Microsoft Azure and Stonefly Storage - Today’s cutting-edge researchers move to the cloud leaving behind the limitations of physical data processing facilities and high costs. Cloud computing has changed the way research is done, bringing almost limitless computational-power and scalability to data intensive research. StoneFly cloud… Continue Reading
What is Ransomware and How Can You Protect Yourself from It? - A new threat to your data is ransomware. Ransomware is at a sudden explosion making your data vulnerable to be hostage. Recent years have seen a rise in ransomware attacks. Making your data secure is the only solution. The Word… Continue Reading
What is Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective? - Backing up your data is not enough alone. Backup and disaster recovery goes hand to hand to provide business continuity. Disaster recovery has the two main concepts. When designing disaster recovery plan you need to keep in mind two concepts… Continue Reading
Life Cycle of The Azure Stack Integrated System - Azure Stack in your data center is not just a software solution but it’s also a set of hardware that’s been tested, configured to align, essentially to the requirements of the enterprise. Azure Stack Integrated system partners help you extend… Continue Reading
Internet Networking Problems - Today’s internet is suffering significant problems and growing pains and it’s worth bearing some of these in mind and thinking about them, as many of them give rise to interesting research problems to think about. The thing that all of… Continue Reading
Deep Dive in Virtualization - Creation of virtual operating system, server, and storage device or network resources instead of actual is known to be virtualization. You can manage workloads by radically transforming traditional computing to make it more scalable. In full virtualization the idea is… Continue Reading
Five Stages of Security for Incident Response - Threats to your data are on the explosion. You need a strong security system to keep your data safe. Ask yourself how many of you can ensure that your data is secure. Ransomware attacks are on the advancement. Ransomware is… Continue Reading
Key Considerations When Looking for a Cloud Services Provider - In order to ensure the business continuity, you have to make the right choice about the cloud service provider. You need PERFECTION so that, you can ensure your business continuity. The market comprises of large number of service providers which… Continue Reading
Basics of Microsoft Azure Cloud platform’s latest technology: Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) - Blockchain is a digitalized, decentralized, safe, shared, distributed ledger of all the cryptocurrency transactions. Blockchain is directly linked to the number of organizations or companies that participate in each of the Blockchains. Distributed-there are lots of replicas of the same… Continue Reading
What is Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) - iSCSI is the abbreviation for internet Small Computer System Interface. Sending block storage from the storage arrays to client computers through a storage area networking protocol is iSCSI. The storage area network is not directly connected to storage client’s computer.… Continue Reading
Things that you should look at when building a container ecosystem - Many enterprises have million budget and they want to build container environments. There are plenty of ecosystem tools which make the things easier for them. But there’s a lot of risk involved in moving that way right now because the… Continue Reading
Containers Made Easy - The world of containers is amazing. Today, Containers are very popular, and due to them being so popular, they have built a large ecosystem around them. They are used by millions of individuals and professionals. Containers make your application portable… Continue Reading
Azure Backup vs AWS Backup: Which Cloud Backup Solution is More Secure - In this blog, we compare and contrast the security and backup features of two major cloud platforms, Azure and AWS. We delve into the key differences between Azure and AWS security and backup, and provide best practices for securing data… Continue Reading
Exploring StoneFly Enterprise Cloud Storage in Azure - In order to facilitate businesses and make data storage easier, StoneFly offers Enterprise Cloud Storage in Azure. In this article we briefly explore what makes StoenFly Cloud Storage Solutions different and why should businesses choose StoneFly storage solutions. Continue Reading
Microsoft Azure Cloud Security for Enterprise Data and Applications - Microsoft Azure cloud supports businesses around the globe. The Azure cloud processes gigantic chunks of sensitive and confidential data on a daily basis. Data security and privacy is of paramount importance. This article explores Azure cloud’s practices and policies to… Continue Reading
Ensuring business continuity by Veeam recovery to Microsoft Azure - Business continuity is one of the major considerations of organizations. When it comes to business continuity data backup and data restoration goes hand to hand. This article discusses about how Veeam Recovery to Microsoft Azure helps you in business continuity.… Continue Reading
Enabling Automation for HIPAA/HITRUST Compliance in Microsoft Azure Cloud - Microsoft introduces automation for HIPAA/HITRUST compliance; facilitating enterprises to deploy industry compliant systems. The new release also includes a blueprint with a test sample, an FAQ and a video to help users understand the working of the service. Continue Reading
Integrating Veeam PN for Microsoft Azure with StoneFly’s Enterprise Level Services - StoneFly and Veeam cloud connect services make up an efficient and reliable backup and disaster recovery solution. Integrating Veeam PN into the mix establishes a simple enterprise network that secures data transmission and reduces complexity for IT staff for DR… Continue Reading
How Microsoft Azure Can Empower Your Company’s Data & Infrastructure in The Cloud - The thing about Microsoft Azure is that it doesn’t force you to buy a plan or an entire package. Most services can be used independently of each other. For instance, you can choose to use only storage and not computing,… Continue Reading
- CacheCloud Storage Gateway to Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS Cloud Storage - Big cloud storage companies like Microsoft have been providing customers with well-balanced storage solutions from the time when such solutions seemed distant. Partnerships between the big companies provide enterprises with cloud based backup solutions which hold the highest integrity in… Continue Reading
Cloud Service Map: Facilitating Comparison between AWS & Azure Services - Amazon and Microsoft Azure provide amazing services and at times it becomes difficult to choose between their services. To address this challenge, Microsoft has come with a cloud service provider to facilitate decision making. Continue Reading
Azure Confidential Computing: Optimum Data Security from Ransomware. - Ransomware are the prime reasons for data loss. Ransomware attacks are disrupting the flow of operations and damaging the reputation of enterprises globally. A secure means of preventing the damage dealt is necessary. Realizing this necessity, Microsoft has come up… Continue Reading
Ease of Data Protection: Cloud Backup to Microsoft Azure Storage - StoneFly encompasses the needs of the customers to provide only the easiest and effective methods to set up cloud backup and storage. The customers are taken out of distress to be provided with simple yet effective methods to fulfill their… Continue Reading
How to configure Veeam cloud connect for the Enterprise VM in Azure Portal? - This article is the second part of how to articles, which is meant to guide your through the process of setting up and configuring Veeam cloud connect for the enterprise virtual machine (VM) in the Microsoft Azure Portal. The first… Continue Reading
How to setup Veeam Cloud Connect for the Enterprise Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure Portal - We have created two parts to facilitate you with step by step explanation of how you can setup Veeam Cloud Connect for an enterprise virtual machine in Microsoft Azure. The article will cover how you can find Veeam Cloud Connect… Continue Reading
- PACS Storage: Addressing the Healthcare Industry File Growth Challenge - Taking care of loads of populations, providers of medical services offer extensive medical services throughout the world. The services of these facilities are increasing by the second as more and more patients and practitioners join the mix every day. The… Continue Reading
- How to add disk drives & scale out NAS storage in Microsoft azure VM? - Azure faciliatets you to scale out your NAS storages. You can add additional drives and you can scale out the virtual machine as well, which enables you to add more disk drives. The number of disk drives determine the total… Continue Reading
How to setup StoneFly Scale out NAS VMs in Microsoft Azure portal? - This article is intended to guide you through the entire process of setting up StoneFly’s scale out network attached storage (NAS) virtual machines (VMs) in Microsoft Azure portal. Make sure to keep checking StoneFly’s blog so you don’t miss anything. Continue Reading
A Comparison between AWS S3 Infrequent Access and Azure Cool Blob Storage - Amazon web services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure have introduced their tier of object storage, particularly directed at protecting stored data. AWS S3 Infrequent Access (S3-IA) and Azure Cool Blob Storage (CBS) are the new lower frequency access cloud storage tiers. Continue Reading
Microsoft Azure and its Unique Functionality for A True Hybrid Platform - Amazon has dominated the cloud market for several years, so much so that it had become synonymous with the term “Private Cloud”. However the trend is changing now and organizations are making progress towards cloud adoption. They are now keen… Continue Reading
Why FedRAMP is Important? - The Federal Risk & Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that provides a standardized-approach to continuous monitoring, authorization and security assessment for cloud services and products. This allows Cloud Security Solutions to be assessed and that assessment can… Continue Reading
Why choose Veeam Cloud Connect using StoneFly Cloud Storage in Microsoft Azure? - Veeam and Microsoft have partnered with StoneFly to offer state-of-the-art storage options leveraging StoneFly’s Scale-Out NAS Cloud Storage in Azure and StoneFly Cloud for the ultimate backup and disaster recovery solution. Continue Reading
Accelerate Scientific Discovery with Microsoft Azure and Stonefly Storage - Today’s cutting-edge researchers move to the cloud leaving behind the limitations of physical data processing facilities and high costs. Cloud computing has changed the way research is done, bringing almost limitless computational-power and scalability to data intensive research. StoneFly cloud… Continue Reading
Microsoft Azure cloud and StoneFly Cloud Storage - While moving to the cloud you have many things to consider about. We need to think about the operating system we’re going to use and how to keep that patched and up to date. We need to think about the… Continue Reading
A Comprehensive Guide to Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage: Features and Benefits - Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage is Microsoft’s cloud storage solution which is for the modern data storage needs. Azure provides the massively scalable storage for data objects, file systems for the cloud. Microsoft Azure Cloud consists of three main components. Microsoft… Continue Reading
Set of Attributes that are Associated with the Azure Stack Region - Azure Stack regions is a separation of physical hardware, and so you as a customer can take and essentially apply whatever other attributes are meaningful to you as that customer. The concepts of regions which are logical entities, comprised of… Continue Reading
What is an Azure Stack instance or installation? - Azure Stack provides the on-demand, scalable computing resources which you can deploy before virtual machines. We have a single ARM instance that manages, or essentially is that portal for the instance of Azure-Stack. Then you can have 1 or more… Continue Reading
Overview of the Azure Cloud Stack Architecture - Azure Stack is a hybrid cloud platform which lets you deliver Azure services in your data center. It comprises of new systems that enables you to have new scenarios for your modern applications meet security and compliance requirements. The Azure… Continue Reading
Life Cycle of The Azure Stack Integrated System - Azure Stack in your data center is not just a software solution but it’s also a set of hardware that’s been tested, configured to align, essentially to the requirements of the enterprise. Azure Stack Integrated system partners help you extend… Continue Reading
Basics of Microsoft Azure Cloud platform’s latest technology: Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) - Blockchain is a digitalized, decentralized, safe, shared, distributed ledger of all the cryptocurrency transactions. Blockchain is directly linked to the number of organizations or companies that participate in each of the Blockchains. Distributed-there are lots of replicas of the same… Continue Reading
Azure Backup vs AWS Backup: Which Cloud Backup Solution is More Secure - In this blog, we compare and contrast the security and backup features of two major cloud platforms, Azure and AWS. We delve into the key differences between Azure and AWS security and backup, and provide best practices for securing data… Continue Reading
Safeguarding Your Data: Best Practices for Secure Cloud Storage - Are you concerned about the security of your data in the cloud? Do you struggle with planning and managing your storage capacity effectively? Are you looking for ways to maximize your cloud storage efficiency? If so, you're not alone. In… Continue Reading
Maximizing Data Protection with Cloud Backup and Recovery - Protecting your enterprise data is crucial, and having a comprehensive cloud backup and recovery solution is vital for your business continuity. StoneFly offers enterprise-grade cloud backup and recovery solutions in Azure, AWS, and private cloud, with a focus on security… Continue Reading
On-Premise vs Private Cloud: Choosing the Right Infrastructure for Your Business Needs - Learn how to choose the right cloud infrastructure for your business with this comprehensive guide from StoneFly. Explore the pros and cons of on-premise data centers and private clouds, the benefits of different private cloud services, and how to ensure… Continue Reading
NAS vs Cloud Storage – Which is Best for Your Hybrid Workforce - NAS vs cloud storage: what’s the difference between the two storage technologies and which one should you use for your hybrid workforce? Continue Reading
Meet Cyber Insurance Requirements with Immutable Backups - Cyber insurance protects your business from liability in the event of a cyber-attack. In order to satisfy cyber insurance requirements, you need to set up regular backups, air-gapping, and immutability and we can help you with that. Learn more in… Continue Reading
On-Prem vs. Cloud Solutions: Which is Best for Your Business? - Learn the difference between on-premises vs. cloud infrastructure so that you can choose the right infrastructure for your business that supports your day-to-day operations within your budget. Continue Reading
Keep Your Data Safe: S3 Object Lockdown for Compliance and Security - Learn more about S3 object lockdown, why should you use it, and how you can add it to your existing environment(s) to protect your critical object-level workloads from ransomware attacks. Continue Reading
Choosing the Right Data Backup Solution for Educational Sector - Educational institutes aren't safe from ransomware attacks. In this blog post, we explore the different data backup solutions that schools, colleges, and universities can implement to protect their administrative and student data from ransomware. Continue Reading
A Definitive Guide to Hybrid Cloud Computing - What is hybrid cloud? Why should you use it? How to implement a hybrid cloud architecture? Find the answers and more in this blog post. Continue Reading
Cloud Backup – A Comprehensive Overview - What is cloud backup, how can you backup your data to the cloud, and how can you use cloud backups to restore data and restore business operations. Find the answers to these questions and more in this blog post. Continue Reading
AWS Hybrid Cloud Storage for Media and Entertainment Industry - AWS hybrid cloud storage technology allows users to share data and work in collaboration from multiple locations. StoneFly cloud storage gateway enables you to build a data life cycle which capitalizes on your on-prem systems and cloud based repositories while… Continue Reading
Enhance Your AWS Cloud Storage Experience with StoneFly - Amazon cloud storage is the single place for whatever data your business needs to store, manage and analyze. And StoneFly cloud storage gateway gives you the tools to fully leverage the high performance and scalable AWS cloud storage tiers. To… Continue Reading
Medical Record Storage and PACS Archiving: Challenges & StoneFly’s Solutions - This article explores PACS, the challenges with medical record storage and PACS archiving, what kind of data archive solutions can healthcare organizations employ for medical record storage and PACS Archiving; and lastly it mentions StoneFly’s data archive solutions. Continue Reading
Public versus Private: Which Cloud is Best for Enterprise Backups? - Enterprises have to make a decision when it comes to selecting which cloud is the best for their use-case either public or private. It tends to be a difficult decision. If you are an IT administrator or CTO trying to… Continue Reading
Best Use-Case of Enterprise Cloud Storage Technology - Enterprise cloud is used for storage, running enterprise workloads, archiving data, and backups; but what is the best use-case for it? This article answers that question and provides insight on leveraging enterprise cloud storage technology. Continue Reading
Cloud Storage Adoption: Challenges & Solutions - Enterprise cloud storage integration can be challenging since they have to consider costs, bandwidth usage, integration complexities and other similar questions. StoneFly helps meet these challenges and deliver more value with our innovative enterprise cloud storage solution Continue Reading
Exploring StoneFly Enterprise Cloud Storage in Azure - In order to facilitate businesses and make data storage easier, StoneFly offers Enterprise Cloud Storage in Azure. In this article we briefly explore what makes StoenFly Cloud Storage Solutions different and why should businesses choose StoneFly storage solutions. Continue Reading
Secure, Reliable & Simple Email Archiving for the Enterprise - Email archiving reduces cost and enables IT administrators to effectively protect email data. This article explores email archiving and why businesses should set it up. The article also explores how email archiving with compliance and mentions StoneFly’s solutions for email… Continue Reading
Demystifying Cloud Archiving & its Role in Business Environments - What are the challenges that businesses face without cloud archiving? What really is cloud archiving and what are its benefits? This article answers these questions and introduces the idea that cloud archiving can be very cost-effective and productive for businesses,… Continue Reading
Short Story: The Relation between Cloud Storage and Cloud Backup - The term “Cloud” has become mainstream but there’s still quite a bit of confusion on the application of the cloud. In this article, explore the difference between cloud storage and cloud application and why both have their importance in an… Continue Reading
Reduce Costs and Move Data to Azure, AWS or any S3 Compatible Cloud - In our webinar: “Reduce costs and Move data to Azure, AWS or any S3 compatible Cloud” we discussed StoneFly Smart Cloud Gateway product. The enterprise-level cloud gateway solution enables businesses to leverage existing infrastructure and integrate the cloud of their… Continue Reading
Affordable Data Backup in Microsoft Azure and AWS Cloud - In our latest webinar “Affordable Data Backup in Microsoft Azure and AWS Cloud”, we discussed StoneFly CDR365™ - cloud backup and disaster recovery solution. In this blog post, we will briefly overview the webinar session and the questions that the… Continue Reading
Backup your Data to Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS with CDR365 - CDR365 is StoneFly’s backup solution that is built for the cloud. It allows you to backup your data to major public clouds like Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. You can leverage more than one cloud platform and store your backup… Continue Reading
Affordable Enterprise Cloud Based Server - Cloud has changed the way people do business. Cloud has empowered many people to consume technology. You have to choose a cloud service provider that handles all for you. StoneFly Cloud Enterprise provides performance, reliability and scalability for your mission… Continue Reading
Simplified Storage, Backup & DR with StoneFly SCVM™ - Dedicated solutions are complex, expensive and inefficient. As the workload volumes increase the complexity and costs increase. Instead of deploying dedicated solutions, IT environments can leverage their existing storage resources with StoneFly’s innovative All-in-one software: SCVM™ that delivers storage, backup… Continue Reading
Why is SCVM™ perfect for Microsoft and VMware hypervisors - StoneFly’s SCVM™ delivers an enterprise-level, highly available and feature-rich storage solution that also provides native data protection. It’s a single solution that addresses storage requirements and backup and disaster recovery requirements as well. This article explores the capabilities of StoneFly… Continue Reading
Microsoft Azure Cloud Security for Enterprise Data and Applications - Microsoft Azure cloud supports businesses around the globe. The Azure cloud processes gigantic chunks of sensitive and confidential data on a daily basis. Data security and privacy is of paramount importance. This article explores Azure cloud’s practices and policies to… Continue Reading
Multi-cloud solutions for your data storage needs - With multi-cloud data storage solutions you can acquire not one but more than one cloud hosting environments. Multi-cloud in simple terms means the utilization of more than one cloud. This article discusses a number of details pertaining to multi-cloud environments… Continue Reading
What is Scalability in the Cloud? - Data growth demands storage, backup and disaster recovery at scale. Cloud technology effectively addresses the demands imposed by continuously growing data. Scalability in the cloud facilitates data growth and enables businesses to effectively leverage their data. This article explores the… Continue Reading
How to add a Failover plan in StoneFly Cloud Connect - Keeping backup of your data is the essential step which you should take for your company. Through backup you can save the copies of your data and by disaster recovery you can ensure business continuity. Failover is part of disaster… Continue Reading
StoneFly StoneWAN: Innovative Bandwidth Accelerator for the Multi-Branch Enterprise - Increasing the bandwidth does not deliver throughput; instead it creates a Long Fat Network (LFN). For the multi-branch enterprise, high bandwidth and high latency networks are a headache. StoneFly’s StoneWAN meets this challenge effectively and delivers 100 times faster data… Continue Reading
How The Cloud Solves Data Storage Challenges - Having loads of data from reliable sources is just not enough. What to do with that data is the most important part as organizations use the data in effective ways to generate profits. Finding an efficient way to store, distribute… Continue Reading
Enabling Automation for HIPAA/HITRUST Compliance in Microsoft Azure Cloud - Microsoft introduces automation for HIPAA/HITRUST compliance; facilitating enterprises to deploy industry compliant systems. The new release also includes a blueprint with a test sample, an FAQ and a video to help users understand the working of the service. Continue Reading
Enterprise Data Protection: Cloud Sync versus Cloud Backup - Although cloud sync and cloud backup feel as though they serve the same purpose, they’re not the same processes. This article explores the differences between the two and why both of them are needed to effectively leverage enterprise data. Continue Reading
- Innovative and Technologically Sound Considerations for Disaster Recovery and Cloud Backup - Disaster Recovery plan is a crucial step of any business continuity strategy and it often needs to be updated. In modern days, data backup has moved from traditional tapes to cloud-based solutions. This offers organizations a far more easy and… Continue Reading
- How the cloud fits in an enterprise data protection strategy? - Many of the companies using a data protection solution often find the cloud more secure for the data protection. The cloud presents itself as a native solution for data protection. It offers data protection options at reasonable prices. However, addition… Continue Reading
Combining the Cloud with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity - Finding a way to store, distribute and manage all your data in today’s dynamic world is a big challenge. Running applications, delivering content to users, hosting high traffic websites or backing up documents, databases and email all require a lot… Continue Reading
Integrating Veeam PN for Microsoft Azure with StoneFly’s Enterprise Level Services - StoneFly and Veeam cloud connect services make up an efficient and reliable backup and disaster recovery solution. Integrating Veeam PN into the mix establishes a simple enterprise network that secures data transmission and reduces complexity for IT staff for DR… Continue Reading
- The Role of Cloud Computing in the Internet of Things - The Internet of Things (IoT) is a dimension of connectivity in itself which makes the world better through innovations and inventions. The internet of things can be seen as an epitome of connectivity which will help in the growth of… Continue Reading
IT Infrastructure Upgradation with Hybrid Cloud - The hybrid cloud facilitates high IOPS requirements, reduces latency and optimizes processes. This makes flexible enough to accommodate IT environments with diverse workloads with a range of requirements. Continue Reading
Archiving Veeam Backups in Amazon Glacier - The advantage of storing data in Amazon Glacier is its low cost. And although Amazon glacier is designed for cold data with scarce chance of being recovered, the real challenge is to manage information and maintain the management process. Continue Reading
Why utilize more than one solution for cloud backup? - Enterprise may rely heavily on a single cloud but if anything happens to that cloud, they’re basically doomed. This is one of the prime, but not the only, reasons to acquire more than one cloud. Effective backup plans include more… Continue Reading
Difference between Managed backup and self-service backup - With the growing data being generated every day, a lot of considerations have to be kept in mind when deciding where to store the data. A speedy, reliable and secure storage needs to be used to protect the data from… Continue Reading
Difference Between Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and Cloud Backup - Cloud-based backup and recovery have become common these days. If a backup is fast enough and if recovery times hit recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTPOs) service levels you are good to go. Continue Reading
Cloud Storage Solutions for Life Sciences Research - Life sciences are making the world a better place by invoking research every day which tackles the up and coming problems. The ability to analyze, explore and share tremendous volumes of scientific data is critical for research, discoveries and collaborations… Continue Reading
How Microsoft Azure Can Empower Your Company’s Data & Infrastructure in The Cloud - The thing about Microsoft Azure is that it doesn’t force you to buy a plan or an entire package. Most services can be used independently of each other. For instance, you can choose to use only storage and not computing,… Continue Reading
Enterprise Storage Optimization with The StoneFly CacheCloud Storage Appliance - Everyone is exploring cloud for its utilization and benefits. Enterprises can use cloud-based services for multiple purposes and increase their productivity, add value to their data all while protecting and making it recoverable and highly available. The StoneFly CacheCloud Storage… Continue Reading
- CacheCloud Storage Gateway to Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS Cloud Storage - Big cloud storage companies like Microsoft have been providing customers with well-balanced storage solutions from the time when such solutions seemed distant. Partnerships between the big companies provide enterprises with cloud based backup solutions which hold the highest integrity in… Continue Reading
Difference between Backup and Archiving - In the past, protection and retention were handled by copying data to tape, but the improving economics of disk storage and emergence of backup solutions create new options. Both Backup and archiving are complementary workloads that are part of an… Continue Reading
Cloud Storage Security – Iron-Clad Data Defense - In this blog, we discuss what organizations can do to protect their data from cyber-security risks, what challenges they might face with cloud storage security, and how StoneFly can help. Continue Reading
Overcome Lock-in Limitations with StoneFly’s Multi-cloud Services - Vendor lock-in is a strategy used by major solution providers. If you want your backup and Disaster recovery plan to be comprehensive, you simply cannot make do with the list of options available to you by a specific vendor. Lock-in… Continue Reading
Cloud Service Map: Facilitating Comparison between AWS & Azure Services - Amazon and Microsoft Azure provide amazing services and at times it becomes difficult to choose between their services. To address this challenge, Microsoft has come with a cloud service provider to facilitate decision making. Continue Reading
Why Move Your Company’s Storage to the Cloud? - The dominance of Amazon in the cloud market for several years has given it unmatchable importance. So much so, it had become synonymous with the term “Private Cloud”. StoneFly Cloud Connect to Amazon Web Services has further helped make progress… Continue Reading
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for Financial Services Providers - Financial services have many different entities. Each and every single entity shares the same common requirement which is availability of services. Providing this successfully is in the hands of IT administrators and decision makers who have to provide a platform… Continue Reading
What You Need to Know About Migrating to a CJIS Compliant Cloud - CJIS is a policy that enables government agencies to evaluate their own Procedures, Networks and Cloud providers. For secure Cloud Storage, Amazon Web Services (AWS) signed the contract to run CJIS workload in the AWS Cloud. Continue Reading
Natural Disasters in Every Place! Get Data Protection at Rapid Pace - Natural disasters have become a frequent occurrence over the period of time. Large storms are becoming more and more frequent. Rising temperatures are causing a snowball effect which ultimately results in more atmospheric instability. Weather patterns are changing with the… Continue Reading
AWS Management Tools & Features for Efficient Cloud Backup and Recovery - Amazon’s innovative management tools and features are designed to ease the process of backup and disaster recovery while retaining their cost efficient nature. Amazon provides a number of tools that facilitate data analysis, management and the creation of policies that… Continue Reading
Cloud Backup and replication for Hyper-V Environments - Backup and disaster recovery are essential for enterprises around the globe because these services ensure data availability and recoverability. However, data security and protection is even more significant and comparison. Only the combination of efficient data security with backup and… Continue Reading
Azure Confidential Computing: Optimum Data Security from Ransomware. - Ransomware are the prime reasons for data loss. Ransomware attacks are disrupting the flow of operations and damaging the reputation of enterprises globally. A secure means of preventing the damage dealt is necessary. Realizing this necessity, Microsoft has come up… Continue Reading
Amazon Macie: Artificial Intelligence for Efficient Data Security - Recent studies indicated that over 60,000 sensitive files of the government had public access due to incorrect classification and access management control. This revelation prompted the realization that classification and management of access to files is crucial for privacy purposes.… Continue Reading
Optimal data archival with Glacier: Understanding Archival data and its challenges - There are a lot of benefits when backing up to Amazon Glacier. Amazon Glacier is an extremely low cost storage service that revolutionizes data archiving and backup. Glacier also allows you to scale your storage space as needed Continue Reading
Increased Natural Disasters: A Dire Need for Data Protection and Disaster Recovery - We live in a truly digital age where records and information of all kinds are no longer kept in labeled boxes and vaults or stuffy basements. Information has become ever important. It can be readily used to derive great benefits… Continue Reading
Addressing the Growing Storage Needs for Financial Services - Financial sector is the backbone of any economy. It is dominated by banks which play a vital role in ensuring the growth of the economy. They are always in need of secure and resilient solutions for the storage and access… Continue Reading
How to configure Veeam cloud connect for the Enterprise VM in Azure Portal? - This article is the second part of how to articles, which is meant to guide your through the process of setting up and configuring Veeam cloud connect for the enterprise virtual machine (VM) in the Microsoft Azure Portal. The first… Continue Reading
What you should know before moving Disaster Recovery to the cloud - Why are enterprises, small businesses and even domestic users employing disaster recovery appliances and services? Cloud disaster recovery (DR) ensures high availability of the data, continuous flow of the process and provides a reliable recovery and failover Continue Reading
- How to add disk drives & scale out NAS storage in Microsoft azure VM? - Azure faciliatets you to scale out your NAS storages. You can add additional drives and you can scale out the virtual machine as well, which enables you to add more disk drives. The number of disk drives determine the total… Continue Reading
How to setup StoneFly Scale out NAS VMs in Microsoft Azure portal? - This article is intended to guide you through the entire process of setting up StoneFly’s scale out network attached storage (NAS) virtual machines (VMs) in Microsoft Azure portal. Make sure to keep checking StoneFly’s blog so you don’t miss anything. Continue Reading
Scale-Out NAS is The Way IoT and Big Data Storage Can Move Forward - Big data is helping shape the future of the world. Smart cities are appearing on the world map, with amazing innovations automating and regulating a number of things. In order to achieve efficient automated operations and processing, the main challenge… Continue Reading
Affordable and efficient cloud-based disaster recovery - It wasn’t that long ago when most people were priced out of disaster recovery. Protecting your environment came down to two choices one double up on existing hardware and just leave it on standby until needed or to restore from… Continue Reading
Microsoft Azure and its Unique Functionality for A True Hybrid Platform - Amazon has dominated the cloud market for several years, so much so that it had become synonymous with the term “Private Cloud”. However the trend is changing now and organizations are making progress towards cloud adoption. They are now keen… Continue Reading
Cloud Data Protection for VMware Environments - An organization’s data protection and disaster recovery (DR) strategy often consists of many disparate recovery and backup “solutions,” which may or may not be compatible with each other. As a result workloads are often isolated and it becomes difficult to… Continue Reading
Why FedRAMP is Important? - The Federal Risk & Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide program that provides a standardized-approach to continuous monitoring, authorization and security assessment for cloud services and products. This allows Cloud Security Solutions to be assessed and that assessment can… Continue Reading
Why Analytics and Cloud Are Essential For the Success of IoT and 5G? - Today, Massive amounts of data are being generated from billions of smart-phones and cellular users. New 5G networks designed for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication and inexpensive sensors in the IoT (Internet of things) devices means that current human-users will soon be… Continue Reading
Understanding The StoneFly Cloud Service Models - Cloud service models are essentially a set of IT-related services offered by a cloud Provider to provide IT resource to a consumer. Many cloud Service-Providers offer a wide spectrum of cloud services such as Storage, Content Management, CRM, Social Computing… Continue Reading
StoneFly and Big Data Solutions for the Internet of Things - Internet connected devices that make the Internet of Things accumulate petabytes of data. There is more data to store from user smartphones such as images and videos or log file data captured from millions of sensors. As a result, datacenters… Continue Reading
Accelerate Scientific Discovery with Microsoft Azure and Stonefly Storage - Today’s cutting-edge researchers move to the cloud leaving behind the limitations of physical data processing facilities and high costs. Cloud computing has changed the way research is done, bringing almost limitless computational-power and scalability to data intensive research. StoneFly cloud… Continue Reading
Microsoft Azure cloud and StoneFly Cloud Storage - While moving to the cloud you have many things to consider about. We need to think about the operating system we’re going to use and how to keep that patched and up to date. We need to think about the… Continue Reading
A Comprehensive Guide to Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage: Features and Benefits - Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage is Microsoft’s cloud storage solution which is for the modern data storage needs. Azure provides the massively scalable storage for data objects, file systems for the cloud. Microsoft Azure Cloud consists of three main components. Microsoft… Continue Reading
Set of Attributes that are Associated with the Azure Stack Region - Azure Stack regions is a separation of physical hardware, and so you as a customer can take and essentially apply whatever other attributes are meaningful to you as that customer. The concepts of regions which are logical entities, comprised of… Continue Reading
What is an Azure Stack instance or installation? - Azure Stack provides the on-demand, scalable computing resources which you can deploy before virtual machines. We have a single ARM instance that manages, or essentially is that portal for the instance of Azure-Stack. Then you can have 1 or more… Continue Reading
Overview of the Azure Cloud Stack Architecture - Azure Stack is a hybrid cloud platform which lets you deliver Azure services in your data center. It comprises of new systems that enables you to have new scenarios for your modern applications meet security and compliance requirements. The Azure… Continue Reading
Life Cycle of The Azure Stack Integrated System - Azure Stack in your data center is not just a software solution but it’s also a set of hardware that’s been tested, configured to align, essentially to the requirements of the enterprise. Azure Stack Integrated system partners help you extend… Continue Reading
How and What to move to the cloud - Being an IT professional you are under pressure, you have to keep your company’s data up and running with simplicity. Every bite and bit of data, every key element depends on you. You ought to be focused on greater things… Continue Reading
Key Considerations When Looking for a Cloud Services Provider - In order to ensure the business continuity, you have to make the right choice about the cloud service provider. You need PERFECTION so that, you can ensure your business continuity. The market comprises of large number of service providers which… Continue Reading
Basics of Microsoft Azure Cloud platform’s latest technology: Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) - Blockchain is a digitalized, decentralized, safe, shared, distributed ledger of all the cryptocurrency transactions. Blockchain is directly linked to the number of organizations or companies that participate in each of the Blockchains. Distributed-there are lots of replicas of the same… Continue Reading
Backup and Disaster Recovery – On premise and Cloud - DATA is the most vital business assets. Any harm to your data can lead to the downfall of your company. Keeping your data safe is the key to protect your business. Keeping three backup copies of your data can save… Continue Reading
How to add air-gapping and immutability to Veeam backup appliance - Even with a Veeam backup appliance, if your Veeam backups are accessible via the production network, then your backup and DR is vulnerable. Learn how to add air-gapping and immutability to your infrastructure to ensure data security and ransomware protection. Continue Reading
How to Setup & Use StoneFly’s Free Data Migration Software - Learn how to install, setup, and use StoneFly’s free data migration software and migrate your unstructured data volumes effortlessly. Continue Reading
How to setup a SAN cluster by configuring target portals? - SAN clusters share storage resources and enhance efficiency and cost effectiveness. Clustering SAN appliances also improves data availability. By clustering SAN appliances, a number of challenges are easily overcome. StoneFly’s SCVM™ software facilitates SAN clustering via target portals. Continue Reading
How to configure volume and copy volumes in SAN? - These series of articles are the step to step guide for the StoneFly storage concentrator GUI. The StoneFly Storage Concentrator™ appliance software. The articles will be discussing that, how you can deploy different parts of Storage concentrator. The previous article… Continue Reading
How can you restore encryption USB device in SAN - This is the fourth article in the StoneFly Storage Concentrator Series. The series was created to help users understand how to use the StoneFly Storage Concentrator™ (SSC). This post guides users through the process of deploying different segments of the… Continue Reading
How to discover and add Storage resources in Storage Concentrator SCVM™ - This article will discuss the resources section in StoneFly Storage Concentrator, how to discover resources and how to add resources in StoneFly Storage Concentrator (SCVM). Continue Reading
Introduction to storage concentrator GUI - This article, is the second article which is meant to guide you, how to deploy different segments of GUI. The introductory article went through the process of launching the administrative interface in your StoneFly Storage Concentrator. This article will go… Continue Reading
How to launch the administrative interface in your StoneFly Storage Concentrator - This article will guide you about StoneFly storage concentrator GUI. The StoneFly Storage Concentrator™ appliance software provides the interface through which a system administrator can configure and monitor different parts of their GUI like: Continue Reading
How to expand volumes in SAN? - The series of articles are meant to guide you how to deploy different segments of GUI. The previous article was meant to guide you how to configure and copy volumes in SAN. This article is following to the previous one… Continue Reading
How to deploy software defined Virtual Machine (SCVM) on VMWare ESXi? - These articles will guide you that how can the users deploy software defined SCVM on VMware ESXi. This article is meant to guide you through the process of deploying. The step by step process is explained in the article to… Continue Reading
How StoneFly delivers Data Transportability - Data Transportability is the migration of data between applications or cloud services; however, StoneFly adds more to the concept of data transportability. With StoneFly’s application of data transportability, it delivers reliability and prevents data loss due to a disaster. In… Continue Reading
How to add a Failover plan in StoneFly Cloud Connect - Keeping backup of your data is the essential step which you should take for your company. Through backup you can save the copies of your data and by disaster recovery you can ensure business continuity. Failover is part of disaster… Continue Reading
How The Cloud Solves Data Storage Challenges - Having loads of data from reliable sources is just not enough. What to do with that data is the most important part as organizations use the data in effective ways to generate profits. Finding an efficient way to store, distribute… Continue Reading
Ease of Data Protection: Cloud Backup to Microsoft Azure Storage - StoneFly encompasses the needs of the customers to provide only the easiest and effective methods to set up cloud backup and storage. The customers are taken out of distress to be provided with simple yet effective methods to fulfill their… Continue Reading
How to configure Veeam cloud connect for the Enterprise VM in Azure Portal? - This article is the second part of how to articles, which is meant to guide your through the process of setting up and configuring Veeam cloud connect for the enterprise virtual machine (VM) in the Microsoft Azure Portal. The first… Continue Reading
How to setup Veeam Cloud Connect for the Enterprise Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure Portal - We have created two parts to facilitate you with step by step explanation of how you can setup Veeam Cloud Connect for an enterprise virtual machine in Microsoft Azure. The article will cover how you can find Veeam Cloud Connect… Continue Reading
- How to add disk drives & scale out NAS storage in Microsoft azure VM? - Azure faciliatets you to scale out your NAS storages. You can add additional drives and you can scale out the virtual machine as well, which enables you to add more disk drives. The number of disk drives determine the total… Continue Reading
How to setup StoneFly Scale out NAS VMs in Microsoft Azure portal? - This article is intended to guide you through the entire process of setting up StoneFly’s scale out network attached storage (NAS) virtual machines (VMs) in Microsoft Azure portal. Make sure to keep checking StoneFly’s blog so you don’t miss anything. Continue Reading
Upgrade 3-2-1 Rule with Veeam ONE v12’s Immutability and Monitoring - The 3-2-1 rule is a proven method for safeguarding data with multiple recoverable copies. In today's threat landscape, it's crucial to enhance the rule by incorporating immutability and continuous monitoring to ensure the integrity of backups without added effort or… Continue Reading
How to add air-gapping and immutability to Veeam backup appliance - Even with a Veeam backup appliance, if your Veeam backups are accessible via the production network, then your backup and DR is vulnerable. Learn how to add air-gapping and immutability to your infrastructure to ensure data security and ransomware protection. Continue Reading
Best Cloud Backup: Veeam Cloud Connect to Azure - It's risky to store all your data at one place because your business becomes vulnerable to ransomware attacks. Cloud backup & DR offers an affordable and reliable solution to that problem. Learn the advantages of using cloud backups, and why… Continue Reading
Simplify your Data Center with a Unified Veeam Ready Appliance - Read how you can simplify your IT infrastructure by replacing multiple dedicated servers with our unified Veeam ready appliance (DR365V) - in turn, reducing costs and simplifying management. Continue Reading
What is virtual SAN (vSAN) and why is it better than traditional SAN? - Learn everything you need to know about virtual SAN (vSAN) from its benefits, uses, features & why it's better than traditional SAN in this blog. Continue Reading
Backup versus Replication – What’s the Difference - This article takes a look at data backup and data replication, two solutions that are very similar but have distinct differences. Continue Reading
Backups aren’t Enough – Here’s Why Air-Gapping and Immutability are Necessary - Most IT professionals think about backups when they're considering data security, but the truth is that this isn't enough. Data can still be breached with a backup. Continue Reading
Business Continuity with Veeam Replication, Failover & Failback - You can leverage Veeam replication, failover, and failback to ensure business continuity and reduce RTOs and RPOs. Learn more about how the Veeam replication capabilities work and how StoneFly solutions enhance the Veeam experience. Continue Reading
Remote Office/Branch Office Backup & DR: How to do it right - In this blog post, explore remote office/branch office backup and recovery challenges, how to overcome them, and how StoneFly backup & DR solutions help. Continue Reading
5 ways to protect your servers from ransomware attack - In this blog post, we’ll share 5 things that you can do to prevent successful ransomware attacks. Considering how frequent ransomware attacks target a business, if you aren’t prepared, your business is vulnerable to downtime & consequent financial losses, loss… Continue Reading
How StoneFly and Veeam offer the best ransomware protection - Find out what makes StoneFly’s Veeam-ready backup and DR solution different than most mainstream solutions – and how it offers the best ransomware protection Continue Reading
How to setup NAS backup repository for Veeam backup software - Learn how to create NFS or CIFS/SMB NAS volumes using StoneFly storage concentrator (SCVM) and configure them as target backup repositories for Veeam Availability suite version 10. Continue Reading
Veeam-Ready Appliance with Immutable / WORM Storage - StoneFly Veeam-ready appliance enables users to provision WORM storage repositories for secure & compliant backup data storage. Learn more about the feature in this blog post. Continue Reading
Protecting AWS Workloads with Veeam backup & replication to StoneFly Cloud - Veeam backup & replication to StoneFly Cloud provides a backup and disaster recovery for your Amazon EC2 instances. It is gives you the ability to automatically backup and recover data quickly and as often as needed than on-premise backup solutions. Continue Reading
Microsoft Office 365 Backup – Why is it Important? - Adoption of Office 365 is growing exponentially. Customers need to mitigate the risk of losing access to email and ensure availability for Office 365 users. In this blog we discuss why is it important to backup Office 365 data, what… Continue Reading
The Business Value of using StoneFly and Veeam Backup & Disaster Recovery Solution - Data is increasingly at the core of any business or organization, and is fueling new digital transformation initiatives. Data runs nearly every aspect of a company, from customer and employee engagement, to product and service development, to operations Continue Reading
Purpose-built Backup and DR appliance for Nutanix - Explore what risks businesses take by not deploying reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions for enterprise-level infrastructures like Nutanix. The article also sheds light on StoneFly’s purpose-built backup and DR appliance that empowers businesses to ensure high availability and data… Continue Reading
Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practices: # 4 – Data reduction techniques - Optimizing the cost or benefit of various backup techniques and storage technologies means we will need to understand business requirements associated with the use of backup data and retention requirements. There are trade-offs associated with each of the major techniques... Continue Reading
Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practices: #3 – Architecture overview - Veeam Backup & Replication has a scale out architecture, in which multiple components (both for data processing and control) work together in a coordinated fashion. This blog provides a brief overview of these components and provides the best practices for… Continue Reading
Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practices: #2 – Hypervisor, Backup Job and Restore - StoneFly and Veeam Offer state of the Art backup and disaster recovery solutions for Commercial, Public Sector and Cloud Service Providers. Veeam is the premier availability software for StoneFly, which offers high performance, elastic and always available IT infrastructure solutions.… Continue Reading
Veeam Backup and Replication Best Practices: #1 – Backup Proxies - This article is the first in the series about the best practices about Veeam backup and replication. The article explores how enterprise IT environments can deploy and use backup proxies. It also provides insights about storage optimization, intelligent load balancing… Continue Reading
Backup Nutanix Infrastructures in Microsoft Azure with StoneFly and Veeam - This article explores what kind of enterprises can integrate cloud backup and disaster recovery to ensure business continuity and recovery for their enterprise workloads. Also explore the cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions that StoneFly offers to facilitate enterprises running… Continue Reading
Integrating Veeam PN for Microsoft Azure with StoneFly’s Enterprise Level Services - StoneFly and Veeam cloud connect services make up an efficient and reliable backup and disaster recovery solution. Integrating Veeam PN into the mix establishes a simple enterprise network that secures data transmission and reduces complexity for IT staff for DR… Continue Reading
How Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Works in the Veeam Cloud Connect - One of the challenges that the service provider (SP) needs to solve to offer disaster recovery as a service is mimicking the tenant network as SP cannot control the tenant network design. Veeam cloud connect provides a unique way to… Continue Reading
Archiving Veeam Backups in Amazon Glacier - The advantage of storing data in Amazon Glacier is its low cost. And although Amazon glacier is designed for cold data with scarce chance of being recovered, the real challenge is to manage information and maintain the management process. Continue Reading
Office 365 Backup & Disaster Recovery: Challenges and Solutions - Communication is a key element of operation for enterprises. Office 365 is a mainstream email service provider. It is necessary to ensure that all elements of office 365 are secure, backed up and recoverable. However, Microsoft does not offer any… Continue Reading
Hybrid Cloud DR: On premises Backup and Offsite Replication with StoneFly and Veeam - Modern age is the era of big data. Cloud Backup is one of the solutions for the storage and Disaster Recovery. These Cloud backup files can be used to create Replication copies. StoneFly provides a cloud gateway that allows customers… Continue Reading
Cloud Backup and replication for Hyper-V Environments - Backup and disaster recovery are essential for enterprises around the globe because these services ensure data availability and recoverability. However, data security and protection is even more significant and comparison. Only the combination of efficient data security with backup and… Continue Reading
Veeam Cloud Connect in Amazon AWS: Services of the Cloud - Veeam Cloud Connect in Amazon AWS provides customers with cloud backup services which resolve the problems customers are faced with. The Veeam cloud connect provides a turnkey-solution to customers who are looking to secure their on-premise data. It can now… Continue Reading
How to configure Veeam cloud connect for the Enterprise VM in Azure Portal? - This article is the second part of how to articles, which is meant to guide your through the process of setting up and configuring Veeam cloud connect for the enterprise virtual machine (VM) in the Microsoft Azure Portal. The first… Continue Reading
How to setup Veeam Cloud Connect for the Enterprise Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure Portal - We have created two parts to facilitate you with step by step explanation of how you can setup Veeam Cloud Connect for an enterprise virtual machine in Microsoft Azure. The article will cover how you can find Veeam Cloud Connect… Continue Reading
Veeam and StoneFly the Right Solution for Backup - StoneFly aims to provide only the best storage to its customers. We revolve around the customers to cater to even those cloud backup solutions of the customers where others shut their eyes. Continue Reading
Hybrid Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery with StoneFly and Veeam - StoneFly has partnered with Veeam to provide enterprise level backup and disaster recovery solutions. Veeam specializes in backup and replication solutions for on-premise based VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. These solutions are now extended to the public cloud with the… Continue Reading
StoneFly and Veeam Backup Solution for Office 365 in Cloud or on-premises - Veeam backup for Microsoft Office 365 provides organizations that are using it the ability to pull back down Office 365 email and data and back it up on premises or even back it up to another cloud. It offers all… Continue Reading
Why choose Veeam Cloud Connect using StoneFly Cloud Storage in Microsoft Azure? - Veeam and Microsoft have partnered with StoneFly to offer state-of-the-art storage options leveraging StoneFly’s Scale-Out NAS Cloud Storage in Azure and StoneFly Cloud for the ultimate backup and disaster recovery solution. Continue Reading
StoneFly partners with Microsoft and Veeam for state of the art Cloud Services - StoneFly, Veeam and Microsoft: better together. On-premises data solutions require a lot of money and highly paid staff to manage data. StoneFly has partnered with Microsoft and Veeam to offer state of the art cloud storage, cloud based backup and… Continue Reading
What Is A Software Storage Solution (SDS)? Introduction & Benefits - Software defined storage is a term that has been making the rounds in recent years. It’s not entirely new, but it’s an evolving concept and as such, there are still some people who are confused about what it means. Continue Reading
How to update your StoneFusion & SCVM to the latest version - This blog shares the process of updating StoneFly’s patented storage OS (StoneFusion & SCVM) to the latest version. Each new update brings new features, bug fixes (if any), and patches to enhance the experience of StoneFly customers. While older versions… Continue Reading
What makes converged storage the best data storage infrastructure - In this blog post, we take a look at converged storage infrastructure, what is it, how it works, how can you use it effectively, and what makes StoneFly USO the best unified storage in the market. Continue Reading
Another Review – Another Award for Our Storage Operating System - FinancesOnline, a leading business software review platform awarded our enterprise storage operating system the 2019 Rising Star and Premium Usability awards in their recent review. Their survey concluded our user satisfaction ratings to be 91%. Read more about our storage… Continue Reading
Data Center Hardware Overview: Disaggregated HA Appliances - This blog is the fourth in the series of blogs that explain StoneFly’s innovative data storage appliance hardware architecture. In this blog, explore the appliance architecture and key components of our disaggregated high availability cluster appliances. Continue Reading
iSCSI, NAS, Hyperconverged: Manage All with Award-Winning Software - StoneFusion is the ultimate software defined storage solution capable of facilitating NAS, iSCSI, converged, and hyperconverged enterprise workloads. StoneFusion enables data service integration and cloud storage integration making data storage efficient, enterprise-friendly, and cost effective. Learn more about StoneFusion in… Continue Reading
Transforming Traditional Data centers with the StoneFly USS Hyper-converged Appliance - The StoneFly USS Hyperconverged appliance combines server, networking and storage in as little as 3U of Rackspace and presents a solution for traditional datacenters to run any application or consolidate multiple virtual machines, workloads and data stores into a single… Continue Reading
Reduce Costs and Move Data to Azure, AWS or any S3 Compatible Cloud - In our webinar: “Reduce costs and Move data to Azure, AWS or any S3 compatible Cloud” we discussed StoneFly Smart Cloud Gateway product. The enterprise-level cloud gateway solution enables businesses to leverage existing infrastructure and integrate the cloud of their… Continue Reading
How to setup a SAN cluster by configuring target portals? - SAN clusters share storage resources and enhance efficiency and cost effectiveness. Clustering SAN appliances also improves data availability. By clustering SAN appliances, a number of challenges are easily overcome. StoneFly’s SCVM™ software facilitates SAN clustering via target portals. Continue Reading
Deploy a Complete Business Model in the Cloud with the StoneFly SCVM™ - Data is essential for delivering value to your customers and outpacing your competitors. But as data growth accelerates and with 80% of new data being unstructured, finding a way to store, distribute and manage all your data is a big… Continue Reading
Affordable Enterprise Cloud Based Server - Cloud has changed the way people do business. Cloud has empowered many people to consume technology. You have to choose a cloud service provider that handles all for you. StoneFly Cloud Enterprise provides performance, reliability and scalability for your mission… Continue Reading
Eradicating storage and disaster recovery challenges with StoneFly SCVM - There is an increase in data day by day. With this increase in data, the traditional ways of data storage have failed to answer the data storage requirements of the enterprises. Cloud based solutions are cost effective, easy to manage,… Continue Reading
Simplified Storage, Backup & DR with StoneFly SCVM™ - Dedicated solutions are complex, expensive and inefficient. As the workload volumes increase the complexity and costs increase. Instead of deploying dedicated solutions, IT environments can leverage their existing storage resources with StoneFly’s innovative All-in-one software: SCVM™ that delivers storage, backup… Continue Reading
Why is SCVM™ perfect for Microsoft and VMware hypervisors - StoneFly’s SCVM™ delivers an enterprise-level, highly available and feature-rich storage solution that also provides native data protection. It’s a single solution that addresses storage requirements and backup and disaster recovery requirements as well. This article explores the capabilities of StoneFly… Continue Reading
How to configure volume and copy volumes in SAN? - These series of articles are the step to step guide for the StoneFly storage concentrator GUI. The StoneFly Storage Concentrator™ appliance software. The articles will be discussing that, how you can deploy different parts of Storage concentrator. The previous article… Continue Reading
How can you restore encryption USB device in SAN - This is the fourth article in the StoneFly Storage Concentrator Series. The series was created to help users understand how to use the StoneFly Storage Concentrator™ (SSC). This post guides users through the process of deploying different segments of the… Continue Reading
How to discover and add Storage resources in Storage Concentrator SCVM™ - This article will discuss the resources section in StoneFly Storage Concentrator, how to discover resources and how to add resources in StoneFly Storage Concentrator (SCVM). Continue Reading
Introduction to storage concentrator GUI - This article, is the second article which is meant to guide you, how to deploy different segments of GUI. The introductory article went through the process of launching the administrative interface in your StoneFly Storage Concentrator. This article will go… Continue Reading
How to launch the administrative interface in your StoneFly Storage Concentrator - This article will guide you about StoneFly storage concentrator GUI. The StoneFly Storage Concentrator™ appliance software provides the interface through which a system administrator can configure and monitor different parts of their GUI like: Continue Reading
How to expand volumes in SAN? - The series of articles are meant to guide you how to deploy different segments of GUI. The previous article was meant to guide you how to configure and copy volumes in SAN. This article is following to the previous one… Continue Reading
How to deploy software defined Virtual Machine (SCVM) on VMWare ESXi? - These articles will guide you that how can the users deploy software defined SCVM on VMware ESXi. This article is meant to guide you through the process of deploying. The step by step process is explained in the article to… Continue Reading
Resilience from ransomware with StoneFly SCVM - Today's cyber security threats are constantly evolving. Most companies have preventive security software to stop these types of attacks but no matter how secure we are vulnerable to cyber-crimes. Ransomware is a type of malicious software which restrains the access… Continue Reading
What is Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)? - Hyperconvergence is required to provide easy scaling and management. It is a single system that reduces data center complexity and increases scalability. Multiple nodes of the appliance can be clustered together to create pools of shared computing and storage resources… Continue Reading
Closer look: StoneFly’s Innovative Storage Concentrator Virtual Machine (SCVM) - Software-defined storage (SDS), as purists argue, is any storage product that requires software to manage underlying hardware and control. The marketing term, software-defined storage is however, commonly associated with software products that run on server hardware to enable cost savings… Continue Reading
Virtualization Containers and how they compare to Virtual Machines - In the world of technology, IT pros need to customize technology solutions to meet their physical and virtual infrastructure needs. Various industries and firms are using systematically important workloads. Increased daily data generation is leading the world to innovation with… Continue Reading
Things that you should look at when building a container ecosystem - Many enterprises have million budget and they want to build container environments. There are plenty of ecosystem tools which make the things easier for them. But there’s a lot of risk involved in moving that way right now because the… Continue Reading
Elastic Storage for Physical, Virtual and container environments - In the growing data world your storage should grow along with your business growth. Data is on the explosion and structured unstructured data is produced anywhere, anytime. The traditional storage can’t answer the growing data needs of organizations. To overcome… Continue Reading
Compare Array vs Host vs Hypervisor vs Network-Based Replication - Explore the array, host, hypervisor, and network-based replication techniques. This blog provides a detailed comparison, covering use cases, advantages, and disadvantages. Make informed decisions for your data protection and disaster recovery strategies.
Mirroring vs Replication vs Clustering: A Data Protection Comparison - Explore the essential concepts of high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery, and understand how they contribute to ensuring uninterrupted business operations. Discover the key differences and benefits of each approach, helping you make informed decisions to safeguard your organization's…
Comparing High Availability vs Fault Tolerance vs Disaster Recovery - Explore the essential concepts of high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery, and understand how they contribute to ensuring uninterrupted business operations. Discover the key differences and benefits of each approach, helping you make informed decisions to safeguard your organization's…
BaaS vs RaaS vs DRaaS Comparison – Which is Best - Are you confused about whether your business needs Backup as a Service (BaaS), Recovery as a Service (RaaS), or Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)? With so many options available, it can be overwhelming to choose the right one that…
How to Size Air-gapped and Immutable Storage for Veeam v12 - When used correctly with Veeam v12, air-gapped and immutable storage provides an additional layer of protection against cyber threats and ransomware attacks. However, it's important to properly size your storage capacity and follow best practices such as implementing a 3-2-1…
How to Calculate and Improve Recovery Time and Point Objectives - In disaster recovery, Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) are crucial metrics to ensure minimum data loss and maximum recovery speed. Calculating the right RTPO values depends on factors like potential risks, data availability costs, and business…
Enterprise Cybersecurity Solutions: Best Practices and Strategies for Data Protection - Protecting enterprise data and assets is critical in today's threat landscape. This blog discusses the importance of enterprise cybersecurity and provides an overview of different solutions and best practices. Don't wait until it's too late to secure your organization's data…
2022 Ransomware Attack Trend Report: Key Findings - Comprehensive report about ransomware attack trends including common attack vectors, industries targeted by ransomware, and ransomware costs for 2022.
How is Ransomware Affecting the Healthcare Industry - Healthcare sector continues to be a prime target for ransomware attacks. Hackers attempt to steal patient data, and sensitive information to sell in the dark web. This makes ransomware protection necessary for the healthcare sector. In this blog we discuss…
What to Consider when Implementing DRaaS for ransomware protection - Looking to set up disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) to protect your critical systems from ransomware? In this blog, we’ve compiled a list of questions IT managers need to ask themselves in order to do that effectively.
From Backup to Video Editing: 5 Use-Cases for NAS Storage - This blog explores the primary use-cases for Network-Attached Storage (NAS) and emphasizes the importance of choosing the right NAS solution for specific business needs. Readers will gain insights into how NAS can enhance their storage infrastructure, increase data accessibility, and… Continue Reading
Guide to Sizing Your Enterprise SAN Appliance for Optimal Storage - This blog provides IT managers with practical tips on sizing an enterprise SAN storage appliance, including storage capacity, CPU, and system memory. It also covers data protection, disaster recovery, and cost considerations. Continue Reading
FC SAN vs iSCSI SAN: What’s the Difference? - Differentiate between Fibre Channel (FC) SAN vs iSCSI SAN: which is suitable for which use-case, and what are the pros and cons of each. Continue Reading
NAS Security: What to Expect and How to Secure your NAS - Qlocker, Deadbolt, and other ransomware target NAS appliances. Learn what to expect and how to protect your file-level unstructured data from cyberthreats. Continue Reading
Log Archiving: What Challenges to Expect and How to Overcome Them - Challenges with log archiving, how to overcome them, and how to build a secure, low power, low carbon, zero ransomware log archiving system. Continue Reading
SAN vs NAS vs DAS – A Closer Look - What's the difference between SAN vs NAS vs DAS? What are the advantages of each? When should you use them? And which data storage platform should you choose for your business? Find the answers and more in this blog. Continue Reading
Protecting Video Surveillance Storage: How To Keep Video Data Safe - Learn why do you need to protect your video surveillance storage systems and how to do so using backup and disaster recovery solutions with air-gapping, immutability, and snapshots. Continue Reading
How to setup NAS backup repository for Veeam backup software - Learn how to create NFS or CIFS/SMB NAS volumes using StoneFly storage concentrator (SCVM) and configure them as target backup repositories for Veeam Availability suite version 10. Continue Reading
How Clustered HCI Appliances Ensure Hyper-Availability - What makes StoneFly TwinHCI systems the best high availability clustered HCI appliance solution in the market? Find the answer to this question and more in this blog post. Continue Reading
Best VMware Live VM Migration Solution in the Market - VM migration is typically a disruptive process. Many businesses need an alternative to this disruptive migration process. To help with that, we’ve introduced live VM migration solutions that include a VMware plugin, DTDs & professional services. Learn more in this… Continue Reading
Considerations to Make While Planning NAS in AWS Cloud - This blog includes an overview of key deployment considerations including NAS in AWS cloud instance size, networking requirements and memory. Continue Reading
Taking a Closer Look at Cloud Storage Gateways - What are cloud storage gateways? When should you use them? And what makes StoneFly Smart cloud storage gateway the best in the market? Find answers to these questions and more in this article. Continue Reading
Data Center Hardware Overview: Scale Out Appliances - This blog is the third in the series of blogs that explore StoneFly’s innovative storage appliance hardware. In this blog post, explore the architecture, key components, storage capacities, and the scalability of StoneFly scale out systems. Continue Reading
Data Center Hardware Overview: Dual Node Shared Nothing - This blog is the second in the series of blogs that explore StoneFly’s innovative data storage appliance hardware. In this blog post, explore the architecture, key components, storage capacities, and the scalability of the dual node shared nothing hardware. Continue Reading
Data Center Hardware Overview: Integrated Appliance - This blog is the first in the series of blogs that explore StoneFly’s innovative data storage appliance hardware. In this blog post, explore the architecture, key components, storage capacities, and the scalability of the integrated appliance hardware. Continue Reading
What makes StoneFly SSO NAS Appliances Ransomware-Proof? - This article explores the vulnerabilities of traditional NAS systems and what makes them prone to data loss. The article also provides insight on what makes StoneFly SSO NAS appliances the reliable and secure data storage choice for enterprise data centers. Continue Reading
Public versus Private: Which Cloud is Best for Enterprise Backups? - Enterprises have to make a decision when it comes to selecting which cloud is the best for their use-case either public or private. It tends to be a difficult decision. If you are an IT administrator or CTO trying to… Continue Reading
Best Way to Remove Single Point of Failure from Your Storage Infrastructure - Business continuity is important for every industry. Single point of failure in data storage systems risk disruption and disruption is very costly. In this blog learn what’s single point of failure, how costly disruption is, and what options do businesses… Continue Reading