Consolidating hardware resources into virtual storage, servers, operating systems, applications or networks allows any organizations to improve efficiency and simplify the management of its datacenter or IT infrastructure. Since its founding in 2000, StoneFly has been applying the principles of virtualization in the development of simple-to-operate, highly available, high-performance IP SAN technology. Centralizing storage resources into an intelligent storage area network supporting advanced storage services provides the benefit of increasing storage utilization and removing islands of underutilized disk resources.

Definition of Storage Virtualization

Server virtualization consolidates physical servers into a single system running multiple operating systems and applications. This allows for increased system utilization, which is analogous to the increased storage utilization of a SAN when compared to a DAS environment.

Virtual servers benefit from a centralized and virtualized storage infrastructure environment to reduce system management requirements, capital expenditures and administrative overhead.

An IP SAN powered by StoneFusion Intelligent Network Storage Platform optimizes virtual server environments by providing centralized storage management and rapid storage deployment for new servers and applications.