StoneFly Inc., headquartered in Silicon Valley (Hayward) California, was founded to deliver upon the vision of simple and affordable storage optimization and disaster recovery protection through IP storage area network (IP SAN) solutions. StoneFly branded enterprise-class products have been shipping since 2006. StoneFly, Inc. is a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory, Inc. (DNF), a leading maker of high-performance network attached storage (NAS), storage area networks (SAN), RAID and iSCSI systems and has offices in Northern and Southern California. StoneFly™ is the innovator of powerful, cost-effective IP Storage products for departments, mid-tier workgroups, and enterprise organizations. StoneFly IP SAN among other features, includes features such as Snapshot, Mirroring, Encryption, Asynchronous Replication, Deduplication, Thin Provisioning that provides advanced disaster recovery. The heart of StoneFly IP SAN products is an award winning software called StoneFusion™ Intelligent Network Platform. This platform includes advanced Storage Network Management, storage provisioning, centralized volume management, data migration and storage consolidation. All of StoneFly's range of physical and virtual IP SAN appliances is protected by StoneFly's Storage Virtualization Patents as certified by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Patent #: 7302500, 7555586, 7558885, 8069292) In addition to IP Storage Solutions, StoneFly has created a series of Unified Storage & Server™ and Unified Scale Out™ products that they all include StoneFly's IP SAN and provide a one stop solution to consolidate their whole data center into one appliance. StoneFly is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and the founding member of the IP Storage Institute (IPSI).