Cloud Ready Solutions and StoneFly Partner

Cloud Ready Solutions Pty Ltd, a VAD in Australia and the Pacific Islands, has partnered with StoneFly, Inc.

The partnership adds integrated turnkey solutions to Cloud Ready’s growing portfolio of data center technologies and solutions.

As a StoneFly partner and reseller, Cloud Ready Solutions brings the following SMB, SME, and enterprise-scale solutions to the Australian market:

• StoneFly DR365V Veeam Ready Air-Gapped Vault and Immutable Backup and DR Solution
• StoneFly DR365U Universal Commvault, Rubrik, Veritas, and HYCU Air-Gapped and Immutable Backup and DR Solution.
• StoneFly Unified Scale Out (USO) SAN, NAS, and S3 Storage
• StoneFly Unified Storage and Server (USS) Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

“With StoneFly’s ransomware-proof solutions now in our portfolio, Cloud Ready Solutions is empowering Australian businesses with unmatched data security and resilience,” said Nicholas Gee, co-founder, Cloud Ready Solutions. “As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, our focus is on providing our clients with ironclad protection that ensures their data remains secure, accessible, and ready for anything.“

The storage, HCI, and backup and DR appliances are available as 8, 12, 16, 24, 36, and 60-bay appliances with single/dual Xeon processor(s), terabytes of memory, 10 to 400 Gbps network, NVMe SSD, and SAS storage media with support for single node, dual node cluster, scale out, and HA, and cloud-scale data center infrastructure configurations.

All StoneFly solutions come pre-configured with StoneFly’s 8^th gen patented storage virtualization engine, StoneFusion and SCVM, which deliver integrated security, ransomware protection, optimization and management features.

Security and Ransomware Protection Features:

• Air-Gapped Vault and Immutable Storage
• Always On-Air Gapped Backups
• Software-Defined Network Isolation Zone
• Immutable FileLock
• Immutable S3 Object Lockdown
• Immutable Delta-Based Snapshots (SnapLock)
• Hardware-Based Encryption
• Encryption at Rest and in Transit
• Anti-Ransomware/Virus/Malware Scanner
• Chain of Command Security in Multi-Controller(s)
• Up to 4x Multi-Controller(s) Per Node
• Direct VM Spin Up
• FastTrak Restore
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
• Volume Deletion Protection
• Sync/Async Replication
• Sandbox for Testing
• Automated Failover/Failback
• Hardware RAID for Local Redundancy
• Erasure Coding Across Multiple Nodes

Storage Optimization and Management Features:

• 4k, 8k, 16k, 32k, and 64k Variable Block De-duplication
• Thin Provisioning with Space Reclamation Technology
• Frontend SSD Caching
• Hot/Cold NVMe SSD/SAS/Cloud Automated Storage Tiering
• Single Namespace Scale Out Support
• Load Balancing
• Expansion – Scale Up Support (Up to 256 Drives Per Node with EBODs)
• Expansion – Scale Out Support

As part of the partnership, CRS will provide, alongside secure ransomware-proof products and services, dedicated technical support and consulting to custom-build and deploy storage, HCI, and backup solutions for SMBs, SMEs, MSPs, and enterprise businesses. CRS customers and partners will have access to technical support, extended warranty services, and pre-sales consulting for configuring the right solutions.

StoneFly solutions are available at CRS for Australia and Pacific Islands.