Welcome to the Dynamic Network Factory Newsletter for July 2009! We at DNF aim to keep the featured stories relevant to our readers; email marketing@dnfcorp.com with any feedback or suggestions. 

Recent News: Better, Faster, Greener IP SANs with Solid State Drives (SSD)
We have added SSD support to our IP SANs, enabling tiered storage for improved performance, and high capacity.  Using a mix of SSD, SATA, and SAS drives, administrators are able to provision storage without under or over utilizing storage capacity. Energy-saving SSD combined with 10GbE iSCSI is ideal for improving overall SAN IO (input/output), and lowering energy consumption and cooling requirements by 80% compared to previous SAS/SATA metrics. Check out our SSD supporting IP SAN products online. Interested in a product demo? Contact our sales team, or signup for our Wednesday IP SAN webinar.

Customer Profile: Itim, Ltd. Stores More With StoneFly
Itim, Ltd., a supplier of software systems, uses StoneFly's OptiSAN as the building block of its IT infrastructure. By eliminating direct attached storage and centralizing storage operations with iSCSI, Itim has increased availability, simplified system management, and support hundreds of customers who access its systems daily. Read the full case study, or read more StoneFly customer success stories online.

Featured Video: How to Create an iSCSI SAN Volume 
Intelligent volume management is an essential part of centralizing storage resources. Watch this video tutorial on storage provisioning and learn how to turn physical disks into virtual storage units, or logical volumes. Our StoneFusion OS takes physical devices and, pools and carves them into multiple iSCSI volumes to better manage availability, performance and reliability. To learn more about storage consolidation, check out the following white paper. For more videos, subscribe to our Youtube channel. 

News From Headquarters: VMware ESX 4.0 Compatible 
Are you running the latest and greatest ESX?  Did you know, our StoneFly IP SAN products are certified with ESX 4.0? Check out VMware compatibility guide for more details.