StoneFly ISC

The ISC is StoneFly's bread-and-butter SAN appliance — now in its 10th generation. It's a purpose-built block storage platform for databases, transactional systems, and virtualisation environments where low latency and high IOPS matter more than anything else. It speaks iSCSI and Fibre Channel natively, presenting storage to your servers as local disks.

StoneFusion handles the storage virtualisation under the hood, with active-active RAID controllers, hardware AES-256 encryption, deduplication, and automated tiering across NVMe, SSD, and SAS drives. Business continuity is well covered: synchronous campus mirroring for zero-loss replication, asynchronous replication for remote sites, and up to 2,520 delta-based snapshots per subsystem for instant point-in-time recovery.

What makes the ISC attractive for the Australian market is its affordability. You get genuine enterprise SAN features — the kind of thing Dell EMC and NetApp charge a fortune for — at a price point that mid-market organisations can actually justify. If you need reliable, fast block storage for SQL, Oracle, Exchange, or virtual server infrastructure, the ISC delivers without the premium pricing.