Wednesday, August 5, 2009

StoneFly a economical way for High Availability and Performance

Back in March 2009, StoneFly introduced Voyager a new line of virtualized IP SANappliances designed to deliver exceptional performance at an economical price point. With entry-level pricing starting at US$25,000 MSRP.

Jim Addlesberger, President of NavigateStorage says "Voyager is ideal for enterprise customers in need of a robust SAN offering both high availability and versatility for primary and secondary storage applications."

Yesterday in our blog we said that Voyager comes standard with six or 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) iSCSI connections, but is offered with optional quad 10Gb Ethernet connectionsto achieve performance of up to 950MB/s. That's all true. But today NavigateStorage learned that technically the voyager would achive well over 1600MB/second with 32SAS but our performance tests with 16 SAS drives gives us 980MB/sec – we have another 110 drives to scale performance. That's screaming!

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

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.

NavigateStorage is a premier partner. Give us a call 978-318-9000 or drop us a line to learn more.

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