Store, Share, and Scale Enterprise Data in the Cloud with StoneFly Azure Cloud Storage
Cloud storage with enterprise level scalability, performance and security
- Simplified management with web GUI
- Support storage protocols like NFS, CIFS/SMB, and iSCSI in the cloud
- Use off-site private or public cloud storage for regulatory compliance such as HIPAA, FedRAMP, CJIS, and several others
- Deploy multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments
StoneFly Storage as a Service in Azure
We make data storage in the cloud easy with our innovative centralized management interface and our packaged offers make cost management simpler.
Accelerate Your Business with StoneFly Cloud Storage in
Microsoft Azure
Make cloud data storage hassle-free for your business with StoneFly cloud storage solution. StoneFly cloud storage enables your business to cut costs, move data faster, and manage and control your data easily and effectively. With our cloud storage solution, business can:
Reduce Storage Costs
Save up to 60% on capital and operating expenses (CapEx and OpEx) by configuring data services, using StoneFly storage gateway, optimizing data storage and enhancing storage utilization rates.
Facilitate Lift & Shift Operations for Business Applications
POSIX compatibility enables users to move their existing on-premise applications to Azure without rewriting them. With StoneFly cloud storage solution, businesses can migrate documents, images, video to NAS volumes in Azure or databases and applications to iSCSI volumes configured in Azure cloud.
Leverage Business Data to Add More Value to the Business
Businesses can configure high performance scale out NAS storage, iSCSI or SAN volumes and hyperconverged volumes across Azure; enabling business to make the most of their data with a single cloud storage solution
Move Data Faster
Eliminate bottlenecks and optimize data transfer rates with StoneFly cloud gateway technology. StoneFly’s partnership with Microsoft Azure enables businesses to setup storage in Azure datacenters worldwide. This also helps in reducing latency and enhancing data transfer speeds.
Effortlessly Manage & Control Data Storage
StoneFly cloud storage provides users a single, centralized management console that enables easier data and management of data and storage volumes. Users can control NAS volumes, iSCSI volumes and hyperconverged volumes using a single management interface. The interface is easy-to-use and has a GUI that’s developed to simplify the end-user experience.
Store Veeam Backups in Azure
Our cloud storage solution in Azure can be leveraged to configure NAS volumes as storage repositories for Veeam backup and replication software facilitating businesses to create offsite cloud backup copies that they can use to recover, whenever necessary.
Support NAS and iSCSI Volumes in Microsoft Azure Cloud with StoneFly Cloud Storage Solution
Use-Cases of StoneFly Storage in Azure Cloud
iSCSI Volumes in Azure – NAS Volumes in Azure – Remote Replication to Azure
Cost Effective Enterprise NAS Storage in Azure Cloud
Store and share unstructured file-level data in StoneFly NAS storage in Azure cloud. StoneFly NAS in the cloud supports NFS and CIFS/SMB.
Our enterprise software, StoneFusion, facilitates users to automate cloud storage in Azure using automated tiering. And with data services such as deduplication, our users can control their data and the cost of data storage in Azure cloud.
Simplify your enterprise cloud storage experience with StoneFly NAS in Azure Cloud Today.
High Performance Block-level - iSCSI storage in Azure
Run database workloads directly in Azure cloud and reduce compute requirements and cost implications of maintaining dedicated iSCSI servers.
StoneFly iSCSI storage deployed in Azure delivers the full iSCSI SAN appliance experience. To the end user, a provisioned StoneFly iSCSI storage in Azure appears as a local iSCSI SAN storage.
NAS and SAN Volumes in Microsoft Azure Cloud
Leverage state of the art cloud storage technology to provision converged storage (NAS + SAN) in Microsoft Azure cloud.
Our StoneFusion (for physical servers) and SCVM (for Virtual environments) enable users to handle, manage, and control NFS, CIFS/SMB, and iSCSI protocols using a single easy-to-use cloud storage in Azure with their existing storage infrastructure.
Instead of managing complex and dedicated cloud storage repositories for your NAS and SAN workloads, provision a single one with the capabilities of both using our cloud storage in Azure solution.
Remote Replication from On-Premises to Cloud Storage
Configure synchronous or asynchronous replication and replicate mission-critical workloads to Microsoft Azure with StoneFly StoneFusion™ or StoneFly SCVM™ (for Hyperconverged Infrastructures). Move Terabytes to Petabytes of workloads without having to worry about file-size restrictions or bandwidth consumption challenges. Leverage the replication abilities to ensure business continuity and high availability for NAS, iSCSI SAN, and hyperconverged enterprise workloads.
Cloud-to-Cloud Replication of NAS and SAN Workloads in Azure Solution
Looking for additional redundancy due to business data protection plans or for compliance reasons? Setup cloud-to-cloud replication with our innovative cloud storage in Azure. Our cloud storage facilitates cloud-to-cloud replication for NAS and SAN workloads in Azure cloud storage tiers.
Our cloud-to-cloud replication feature also supports multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments.
StoneFly Azure Cloud Storage Features
To facilitate businesses and make data storage easier, StoneFly cloud storage solutions deliver a number of enterprise-grade data services. These data services optimize data storage and enhance storage utilization rates – enabling businesses to make the most of their purchased cloud storage capacity and reduce data storage costs.
Data mobility is important for your business. Don’t compromise business productivity and choose the best cloud storage solution for your business.
Setup StoneFly cloud storage in Azure to leverage these enterprise-grade data services:
Provision Storage Faster for Applications with Thin Provisioning
Enhanced Data Security with Data Encryption
Support Industry Standard Protocols
Prevent Data Loss & Corruption with Delta-Based Snapshots
Make Data Highly Available with Geo-Redundancy
Synchronous and Asynchronous Replication
Effective Data Management with Automated Storage Tiering
StoneFly Azure Cloud Storage Solution – Licensing Options
StoneFly cloud storage in Azure is available in three licensing options. Customers can also choose to bring their own license (BYOL – Bring Your Own License) for a more customized configuration. The following is a list of features that the different licensing options offer:
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Synchronous Replication (Campus Mirroring) |
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Volume Encryption |
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Data Deduplication |
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Easy Active Directory Integration |
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Scale Out Storage |
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Azure Privacy Accreditation, Certifications & Compliance
27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 1 and SOC 2, as well as country-specific standards including
Australia IRAP, UK G-Cloud, and Singapore MTCS.
Choose Your Azure Data Center
With StoneFly storage gateway, our customers can create real-time replicas or scheduled replicas in the Azure data center of their choice.
