StoneFly Virtual Storage Gateway With De-Dupe, Ransomware Protection and WORM Storage Provisioning

StoneFly, Inc. adds deduplication, ransomware protection, and WORM storage provisioning to their virtual cloud storage gateway solution.

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The virtual storage gateway facilitates Azure blob and Amazon S3 integration with legacy infrastructure, enterprise servers such as Dell EMC, HPE, etc. and HCI such as StoneFly USS, HPE Nimble, etc. It facilitates cloud storage for NAS, SAN, unified NAS + SAN volumes and HCI workloads running on VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, and Citrix (formerly XenServer) hypervisors.

The cloud storage gateway solution communicates with industry standard x86 servers and legacy infrastructure using standard NFS and CIFS/SMB protocol and it supports iSCSI and FC protocols for SAN volumes.

To deliver upon the company’s goal of simplified enterprise storage, the virtual storage gateway integrates cloud storage repositories in a similar way to local storage hardware. For the end user, the experience is the same as setting up and provisioning a dedicated storage appliance. However, the capabilities, scalability and operational efficiency of the cloud is delivered via the gateway solution. These abilities make the firm’s virtual gateway a fit for a variety of enterprise use-cases.

Typical Virtual Storage Gateway use-cases:
The software gateway solution is built for enterprise customers and enables cloud storage and data migration use-cases for terabytes of data; and business-critical VMs.

Some common use-cases for virtual gateway solution are:

• Medical record storage

• PACS archiving

• Email archiving

• Surveillance video storage

• Old data archiving (NAS or SAN – iSCSI)

• Backup target storage in Azure, AWS, or other S3 compatible cloud

• SaaS migration

• VM migration (including live VM migration)

• CAD storage

• Cloud storage for relational databases such as MySQL, NoSQL, PostGreSQL

• Cloud storage for CRM software

• Cloud storage for Electronic Medical Records/Electronic Health Record software

With these features, the company is looking to facilitate the compliance and efficient storage usage requirements of enterprise customers and multiple industries.

Standard Virtual Gateway features:

• Immutable Delta-based snapshots

• Synchronous and/or asynchronous replication for NAS, iSCSI volumes and VMs running on VMware, Hyper-V, KVM and Citrix (XenServer) hypervisors

• Data encryption at rest and during transit

• Automated tiering

• Unified central management of on-premises and cloud storage resources

• Snapshot schedule utility

For a complete list of features, contact technical support.

Recently added features:

• Deduplication for NAS volumes (along with iSCSI Volumes)

• Ransomware, malware and virus detection and removal

• Immutable WORM storage provisioning

• Real-time graphical performance reporting

Simplifying enterprise cloud journey
Commenting about the latest features of the enterprise cloud storage gateway, John Harris, director, technical sales, StoneFly, said: “We’ve always been focused on delivering simplified, efficient & secure storage for enterprise users. The virtual cloud storage gateway is built for a number of use-cases including video surveillance storage, CRM, EHR or EMC storage, medical record archiving, and the list goes on. With the latest features, we’re confident that our solution simplifies the compliance journey of our customers; all the while securing business-critical workloads from threats like ransomware“.

Limited time offer for Virtual Storage Gateway
For a limited time, the company is offering free trials and several terabytes of free storage in Amazon and Azure clouds.

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