StoneFly Releases Z-Series DR Backup Appliance

StoneFly, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, Inc. (DNF), announced its Z-Series DR Backup Appliance.

This company’s backup and DR line of products provides a total backup solution for all of an office or datacenter’s physical and virtual servers and workstations. Utilizing the latest in storage technology architecture, Z-Series offers capacities ranging from just a few teraBytes, all of the way up to 1PB.

Like the DR365 and M-Series, the Z-Series features the same enterprise backup engine supporting a central management console, granular file/folder/volume or bare metal recovery, SSL-encryption, compression, data deduplication, and all four types of P2P, P2V, V2P and V2V operations to restore any backup to any physical or virtual platform.

“Z-Series appliances are available in integrated, modular and HA configurations,” said Mo Tahmasebi, president and CEO, StoneFly. “An optional embedded hypervisor combined with our versatile backup engine allows any backup image of a physical or virtual system to be automatically converted into a VM and spun up directly on the Z-Series appliance.“

Z-Series backup agents support a multitude of environments, including Windows servers and workstations, VMware, Hyper-V, Xenserver, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Oracle VM, as well as multiple flavors of Linux. VMware ESX/ESXi and Hyper-V servers implement agentless backups where the agent is installed only on the hypervisor and not on the actual VMs. Specialized backup agents for Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and Active Directory provide reliable recovery down to an individual email message or database table.

Compatible with the CDR365 cloud DR Service, backup images from the Z-Series appliance can be replicated to secure cloud storage for a hybrid cloud solution. The CDR365 application combines an easy to use interface with powerful functionality, making a DR plan simple, reliable and affordable.