StoneFly Unveils IP SANs

SAN DIEGO -- StoneFly, Inc., a leading supplier of integrated IP storage area network(SAN) systems and a wholly owned subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, Inc.(DNF), today announced support across its entire IP SAN product line on SunMicrosystems, Inc.'s Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). The announcement wasmade following StoneFly's completion of rigorous certification testing aspart of Sunss Solaris Ready Logo Program.

All StoneFly product families, including its recently introducedHigh-Availability Storage Concentrator (HSC), have been certified as havingproven interoperability with the Solaris 10 OS on UltraSPARC and x86/x64server platforms. In addition, StoneFly's StoneFusion Intelligent NetworkStorage Platform, which offers comprehensive storage services and comesstandard with each StoneFly IP SAN, is now interoperable with the built-inSolaris iSCSI initiator as well as other third-party hardware-based iSCSIinitiators designed for the Sun platform.

"We are pleased to welcome StoneFly into the Solaris Ready Logo family.Their participation ensures that the Sun market can take advantage ofSun-certified iSCSI solutions that address high-performance storagerequirements while also offering scalability and affordability," said RogerDay, Director, Collaboration and ISV Engineering, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Inaddition, with the new third-generation Solaris software-based initiatorfrom Sun, Sun customers can now rapidly deploy IP SAN solutions such asStoneFly's without additional hardware or infrastructure costs, making iteasy and cost-effective to gain all the benefits of storage centralizationvia storage virtualization."

StoneFly Inc.