How StoneFly Helped an Engineering Manufacturing Company Protect Its Data from Ransomware?

A US-based engineering and manufacturing company faced the challenge of safeguarding its critical data and multiple locations from ransomware attacks while maintaining large-scale VMware deployment and terabytes of data.


In October 2021, the company fell victim to a ransomware attack that encrypted their hypervisor, rendering terabytes of data and virtual machines inaccessible. However, thanks to StoneFly’s data backup solutions, they experienced no data loss and swiftly recovered their systems, including email and data, with StoneFly's trusted support.

They needed an affordable solution that could support virtualization at scale and ensure data security. The company selected the StoneFly Veeam-ready backup and disaster recovery (DR) appliance, the DR365V, due to its performance, data protection, and customization options that fit their budget.


StoneFly’s renowned storage appliances offered air-gapped and immutable storage capabilities, Veeam backup support tailored to their needs. 


In this case study we will dive deep into the requirement part, challenges faced during the execution of this process, what kind of solutions StoneFly offered to that manufacturing company to overcome the data protection issues, and what were the results at the end!


Read the detailed case study here: StoneFly DR365V Protects Engineering Manufacturer from Ransomware

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