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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
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
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 strategy with MFA-enabled storage, hyperconverged, backup, and disaster recovery solutions. 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 feature. Discover how StoneFly empowers your data security. 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 hybrid environments. 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 blog. Safeguard your valuable data and maintain operational resilience with… 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 crucial features and best practices that safeguard your data, ensuring… 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 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

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