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BlackCat/ALPHV Ransomware: In-Depth Analysis and Mitigation - Explore the ins and outs of BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware – from its evolving tactics to proactive defense strategies. Arm yourself with insights to safeguard your digital landscape against this ever-adapting cyber… Continue Reading
5 Backup Strategy Options To Protect Sensitive Data In 2024 - In this blog, we delve into the essential components of a robust backup strategy. These five key options are imperative for any enterprise seeking to fortify its backup infrastructure, providing… Continue Reading
The Spear Phishing Survival Guide - Dive into the realm of spear phishing – understanding its tactics, preparing against it, and mitigating risks. Arm yourself with actionable insights for robust cybersecurity. Continue Reading
Understanding Detection and Response: EDR vs MDR vs XDR vs NDR - iscover the pillars of modern cybersecurity — EDR, MDR, XDR, and NDR. Uncover the distinctions, working mechanisms, and benefits of each to fortify your organization's digital defenses. Continue Reading
Trigona Ransomware: What is it and How to Defend Against it - Explore the shadowy world of Trigona ransomware, a formidable cyberthreat. Delve into its origins, infection methods, and impacts. Discover how to prepare for and defend against this digital menace. Continue Reading
Lockbit Ransomware: Inside the Cyberthreat and Defense Strategies - Discover the inner workings of LockBit ransomware, its origins, and its continuous evolution in the relentless world of cybercrime. Learn how to safeguard your organization against this potent threat. Continue Reading
What Defending Against Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) Entails - Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) has emerged as a formidable adversary. This blog delves into what RaaS entails and offers insights on how to fortify your defenses against this evolving peril. Continue Reading
What are Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and How to Stop Them - Explore the realm of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks, understand their strategies, detection methods, and fortify your defenses for unyielding data security. Continue Reading
Remote Code Execution (RCE) Attack and Vulnerabilities: Complete Overview - Dive into the realm of Remote Code Execution (RCE) attacks and fortify your cybersecurity. Discover how air-gapped and immutable backups can be your shield against evolving cyber threats. Continue Reading
DDoS Attacks Decoded: Defending Against Modern Cyber Onslaughts - Delve into the disruptive realm of DDoS attacks, understanding their operations and motives. Learn how air-gapping and immutability fortify defenses, ensuring a resilient cybersecurity posture against relentless online assaults. Continue Reading
Botnets Unveiled: Navigating the Underworld of Cyber Threats - Discover in-depth insights on protecting your databases from SQL injection attacks with our comprehensive guide. Dive into detection, prevention, and best practices to fortify your security. Continue Reading
Demystifying SQL Injection: How It Works and How to Defend Against It - Discover in-depth insights on protecting your databases from SQL injection attacks with our comprehensive guide. Dive into detection, prevention, and best practices to fortify your security. Continue Reading
Remote Access Trojans (RATs): The Silent Invaders of Cybersecurity - Delve into the realm of Remote Access Trojans (RATs) – their tactics, impact, and defense strategies. Explore the evolving landscape of cyber threats. Continue Reading
How to Set Up Immutable Snapshots for Ransomware Protection - Discover the significance of immutable snapshots for enhanced data security. Explore their benefits, practical applications, and step-by-step setup guide to bolster your data protection strategy. Continue Reading
Finance Industry at Risk: Navigating the Ransomware Threat Landscape - As cyber threats loom large over the finance industry, understanding the gravity of ransomware's impact is paramount. Explore the repercussions, regulatory concerns, and proven strategies to safeguard your financial systems. Continue Reading
Defending Your Data: The Vital Role of Multi-Factor Authentication - Discover the power of multi-factor authentication (MFA) in modern data security. StoneFly's innovative storage solutions offer a seamless and robust approach to safeguarding your critical data. Enhance your data protection… Continue Reading
Immutable File-Level WORM: Setup Guide and Best Practices - Unleash the strength of Immutable File-Level WORM (FileLock) to secure your critical data. Safeguard against unauthorized changes and ransomware threats. Explore our step-by-step guide to implement this advanced data protection… Continue Reading
How to Integrate Azure/AWS Object Storage to On-Premises Appliance - Discover how to integrate Azure Blob, AWS, or other S3-compatible clouds with your on-premises appliance. Seamlessly manage and store data, leverage cloud benefits, and enhance your data management capabilities across… Continue Reading
Preventing Data Loss: Importance of Volume Deletion Protection - Volume deletion protection provides the necessary safeguard to ensure data integrity and availability. Learn the importance of this feature and how it enhances data security and business continuity in this… Continue Reading
How to Stop Ransomware Attacks from Deleting Backup Data - Ransomware attacks pose a significant threat to backup data, leaving organizations vulnerable and with limited options. Discover effective strategies to protect your valuable backups and thwart ransomware's hold. Learn about… Continue Reading
From Production to Protection: Securing Manufacturing Against Ransomware - Discover why the manufacturing industry is a prime target for ransomware attacks and learn crucial steps to protect your operations, data, and reputation from evolving cyber threats. 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… 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… 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… 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,… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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;… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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.… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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™… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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,… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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.… 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… 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… 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… 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.… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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.… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Continue Reading