StoneFly, Inc.'s New Voyager IP SANs Deliver Exceptional Enterprise-Class Performance at an Economical Price Point

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Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:31am EDT

  HAYWARD, CA, Mar 17 (MARKET WIRE) -- 
StoneFly, Inc., a leading supplier of integrated IP storage area network
(SAN) systems and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory,
Inc. (DNF), today introduced Voyager, a new line of virtualized IP SAN
appliances designed to deliver exceptional performance at an economical
price point. With entry-level pricing starting at US$25,000 MSRP, Voyager
is ideal for enterprise customers in need of a robust SAN offering both
high availability and versatility for primary and secondary storage
applications.

    As the newest member of the StoneFly Storage Concentrator(TM) family of IP
SANs, Voyager comes standard with six or 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) iSCSI
connections, but is offered with optional quad 10Gb Ethernet connections
to achieve performance of up to 950MB/s. This performance makes Voyager
ideal for critical applications involving online transaction processing,
databases, email, disk-based archives, disk-to-disk backup, virtual
servers and other core business uses.

    Voyager supports a wide range of virtual server environments including
VMware, Citrix XenServer, Virtual Iron and Microsoft.

    "With more than 75 percent of our customers either considering or
currently using server virtualization, Voyager gives them all the speed
and performance they require, plus high availability to ensure support of
the most demanding applications and IT environments," said Bahman Jalali,
director of product management for StoneFly.

    Featuring active-active components for business continuity, Voyager offers
full RAID protection and requires no down time for storage expansion.
Although less scalable than other StoneFly IP SANs such as the
OptiSAN(TM), Voyager's architecture enables customers to start smaller
and then expand to up to 128 drives via expansion arrays. For added
flexibility, configurations can be mixed and matched according to
customer need with any combinations of SAS, SATA, and SSD drives.

    At the cornerstone of the Voyager design is StoneFly's patented storage
virtualization engine, which delivers quad-core processing power,
dedicated iSCSI cache, and the StoneFly StoneFusion(TM) storage
management operating system. StoneFusion provides block-level
provisioning as well as centralized storage management and advanced
storage features including replication, mirroring and snapshotting.

    Voyager is now available, with prices starting at US$25,000 MSRP for a
standard 5U rackmount configuration. Expansion arrays in 3U rackmount form
factors start at US$11,000.

    About StoneFly, Inc. and Dynamic Network Factory, Inc.

    StoneFly, Inc., headquartered in San Diego, was founded in April 2000 to
deliver upon the vision of simple and affordable storage optimization and
disaster recovery protection through IP SAN solutions. StoneFly is a
subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, Inc. (DNF), a leading maker of
high-performance network attached storage, storage area networks, RAID and
iSCSI systems. For more information, please visit www.stonefly.com or
www.iscsi.com.

    Founded in 1989, Dynamic Network Factory, Inc. (DNF) is a privately held
company based in Silicon Valley (Hayward, Ca.). DNF consists of seven
business divisions including StoneFly, DNF Security, DNF Professional
Services, DNF Medical, DNF Defense, DNF Systems and DNF Storage. DNF has
thousands of customers ranging from consumers and small-to-medium
businesses, to government agencies, universities, hospitals, financial
institutions and Fortune 500 companies. For more information, visit
www.DNFCorp.com.

    StoneFly, StoneFusion, StoneFly Reflection, StoneFly Snapshot, OptiSAN and
Storage Concentrator are trademarks or registered trademarks and the
property of StoneFly, Inc. All other company and product names contained
herein are property of their respective owners.

    

Contact:
Shonal Narayan
StoneFly, Inc.
800.947.4742 x249
Email Contact

Paula Johns
Paula Johns Communications
760.487.1799
Email Contact

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