StoneFly

StoneFly is the original innovator of iSCSI storage technology, with over two decades of experience delivering simple, affordable storage optimisation and disaster recovery solutions. Their product range spans four categories: iSCSI/Fibre Channel/SAS SAN storage, SMB/NFS/AFP NAS file storage, hyperconverged infrastructure that combines compute and storage on one platform, and a cloud gateway that bridges on-premises storage to Azure, AWS and private cloud.

Appliances scale from 8TB up to 2PB and beyond within the same product family, built on SSD, NVMe, SAS and SATA drives with global inline deduplication and real-time compression, so the platform grows with an organisation rather than forcing a rip-and-replace once initial capacity is outgrown. StoneFly's Air-Gapped Vault® technology, combined with WORM and object-lock immutability, shuts down ransomware encryption attempts at the storage layer itself — even if an attacker compromises the backup software or credentials, the air-gapped copy stays unreachable. Synchronous and asynchronous replication, unlimited point-in-time snapshots, and automated DR testing and reporting round out the data-protection side, so failover readiness is verified on a schedule rather than assumed.

The lineup is organised around three practical starting points. Backup Appliances are purpose-built backup targets from 8TB to 96TB with inline deduplication, cloud tiering and immutable snapshots — a straightforward drop-in target for Veeam, NAKIVO or Commvault. DR Appliances combine backup and disaster recovery in one box, with instant VM recovery, automated failover and an optional cloud DR path. Cloud Gateway appliances focus purely on the hybrid bridge: on-premises cache-and-tier architecture with multi-cloud support and a pay-as-you-grow cost model for organisations that want cloud economics without losing local performance.

Real deployments back up the pitch. World Wildlife Fund Canada replaced complex, expensive legacy backup software with a StoneFly DR365V Veeam-Ready appliance, cutting upfront costs by $12,200 with $5,000 in annual savings and a setup simple enough to extend capacity without a migration project. Contra Costa Water District chose a StoneFly IP SAN after alternative vendor pricing and delivery timelines both fell through, validating performance with its own benchmark testing before deployment.

StoneFly's other core markets — healthcare PACS and medical imaging, manufacturing and engineering data, government and public-sector compliance storage, and media workflows — share a common thread: large, growing datasets that need enterprise-grade performance and protection without an enterprise-grade budget. That combination of iSCSI pedigree, flexible architecture and straightforward day-two management is why StoneFly appliances show up as both primary storage and the backup target sitting behind it.