StorONE

StorONE is a modern, software-defined storage platform engineered to transform the way businesses store, access, and manage their data across all workloads and environments. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, the company emerged with a mission to disrupt the traditional storage industry by offering unprecedented efficiency, flexibility, and simplicity in enterprise storage solutions. Developed over years of intensive research and innovation, StorONE’s platform is built from the ground up—eschewing the patchwork of legacy software layers common in rival solutions—in order to deliver peak performance and cost-effectiveness without hardware lock-in. At the heart of StorONE’s appeal is its capacity to serve as a unified storage engine, seamlessly supporting block, file, and object storage protocols within a single, consolidated software stack. This means enterprises can deploy the same platform across any standard x86 server hardware, whether on-premises, in hybrid cloud setups, or exclusively in the cloud. StorONE’s hardware-agnostic design isn’t restricted by vendor-specific equipment, allowing businesses to mix and match storage types, including high-performance flash (SSD, NVMe) and low-cost hard disk drives, to suit diverse performance and capacity needs. This approach simplifies data management, eliminates storage silos, and enables IT teams to scale efficiently as business requirements evolve. One of the platform’s most celebrated features is its advanced auto-tiering technology, known as TierONE. This system leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically move data between high-speed flash storage and more affordable disk tiers, all without manual intervention. Frequently accessed or active data remains on ultra-fast solid-state media for optimal access speed, while less critical, “cold” data is migrated to cost-effective hard disks. Critically, TierONE ensures that even cold data remains instantly accessible, resolving a common industry pain point and significantly reducing total storage costs without sacrificing performance. The combination of auto-tiering and hardware independence allows customers to achieve industry-leading performance—up to 85% of a drive's maximum throughput—using fewer resources, thereby maximizing return on investment. StorONE’s innovation extends to robust data protection and disaster recovery. The platform offers powerful snapshotting capabilities, enabling organizations to create immutable backup copies of their data at frequent intervals. With the SnapONE feature, users can now restore individual files or entire volumes rapidly, minimizing downtime and accelerating business recovery after incidents. Furthermore, StorONE’s replication tools automatically synchronize these snapshots with disaster recovery environments, enhancing resilience against ransomware or hardware failure. Other enterprise features include native support for multiple hypervisors, unlimited snapshots, granular permission settings, and consistent data integrity even without external hardware-based protection.

StorONE’s competitive edge stems from its unique approach to software-defined storage (SDS), delivering higher efficiency, performance, and cost-effectiveness than most rivals. Unlike solutions built on old software layers, StorONE rewrote its storage engine from the ground up, flattening complex storage stacks into a powerful, unified architecture. This means end-users benefit from hardware-agnostic storage—they’re free to leverage any commodity hardware (SSD, NVMe, HDD) without being locked into proprietary vendor ecosystems. As a result, this approach dramatically lowers the total cost of ownership by using fewer drives and maximizing their performance and available capacity, often delivering 80–90% of a drive’s potential while competitors typically require far more resources for similar throughput. StorONE’s efficient storage stack enables organizations to consolidate all their workloads—block, file, and object storage—onto one platform, streamlining management and reducing complexity across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. The system’s advanced auto-tiering intelligently migrates data between high-performance and cost-effective media, ensuring rapid access for active data and significant savings for less-used “cold” data. This auto-tiering is especially valuable for use cases like backup, archive, AI, health imaging, and video surveillance, where storage needs can balloon, but performance can’t be compromised. Data protection is another area where StorONE excels. Its platform provides nearly unlimited snapshot capability—over 100,000 per volume and up to 1 million per system—with instant recovery and built-in backup/disaster recovery features. The unique vRAID protection uses erasure coding rather than legacy RAID, allowing rapid rebuilds without hot spares and supporting mixed drive types. This level of data resiliency, paired with encryption and robust disaster recovery readiness, ensures minimal downtime and protection against ransomware, hardware failures, and human error, without sacrificing speed or demanding additional licensing fees.

• Small Businesses (1-99)
• Mid Market (100-500)
• Enterprise (500+)