Ensuring Business Continuity: Insights into Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategies

1. BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY SOLUTIONS FOR GOVERNMENTS Reliable, Secure and industry approved methods ensure continuous availability and backing up of sensitive data.

2. Whitepaper Introduction Private companies are striving for services with little to no downtime so citizens are getting used to faster response times. This is elevating the expectations from the government and all relevant organizations. Legacy backup and traditional technology is no longer capable of keeping up with this demand. The internation- al community also has similar expectations from governments, adding additional emphasis on the continuity, availability and recoverability of data. To ensure data is always available, accurate data protection, backup and recov- ery is essential. Efficient access to data ensures public safety and international security, making it necessary to improve inter departmental collaboration and overall government productivity. This is the reason why Federal IT environments have made the move from phys- ical servers and workloads to cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions; because that’s where security, accessibility and control of data are paramount.

3. Whitepaper Challenges for Governments Data Security & Secrecy Continuity & Automated Disaster Recovery Even though StoneFly secures your data, you’re the one who keeps the encryption keys. This makes StoneFly preferable in situations where security and secrecy are paramount. Non-government organization can tolerate downtime to some extent. When it comes to government organi- zations, there’s no room for downtime because it can translate to a lot more than reputation or productivity loss. Discontinuity of data can mean weak- ened public and international security at times and in the worst case scenar- io, it can lead to the loss of lives. Secure Encryption of all pro- cesses Government and federal agencies require capable secure encryption processes due to the sensitive nature processed by them. StoneFly com- plies with industry security policies and encryption standards including FIPS 140-2. Continuous Operations Regardless of the size of the data, StoneFly and its partners ensure that all data is always available using replication means, even disasters cannot interrupt processes and opera- tions. Simplified Management StoneFly utilizes a single console to manage all data. This tool also helps in managing and analyzing data ensuring productivity and overall effi- ciency. Accessibility with Cloud backup Federal and government processes and operations can sometimes rely on the dynamic availability of information. With cloud backup, governments acquire a reliable, flexible and cost effective mean to access data any- where and at any time securely.

4. Whitepaper StoneFly’s Certifications What benefits to Governments and Federal Agencies get due to FedRAMP? Applying FedRAMP provides the following benefits: 1. Uniform authorization and assessment of cloud information security and controls. 2. Cost and time efficiency in comparison to conduction independent assessments, which can prove pointless. 3. Speedier adoption of cloud solutions. 4. Improved trust in the validity of system checks and alleviated cloud security concerns. 5. Increased visibility concerning all aspects of cloud security controls.

5. Whitepaper Challenges for Governments Data Security & Secrecy Continuous Operations All of StoneFly’s appliances, services, processes and operations are in com- pliance with industry standards. StoneFly enables users to keep the keys of their encrypted data. No data is retained on StoneFly’s servers for any compliance or internal policy reasons. You decide where your data goes, how it’s encrypted and who accesses it. With the data under lock and key, only you hold the keys. StoneFly employs standard SSL encryption methods to ensure data security before transit, during transit and after transit. StoneFly, in combination with its part- ners, ensures that your data flow is never interrupted and all data is always available. A technology partner of StoneFly ensures: • High Speed Recovery: Enables RTOs1 of < 15 minutes. • Data loss Avoidance: Delivers low RPOs2 and smooth disaster recovery. • Recoverability Verification: Data recovery is assured through rigor- ous automated verification tests. Simplified Management • Low risk deployment, enabling you to test changes in a produc- tion-like environment before actual deployment. StoneFly provides you with the Stor- age Concentrator Virtual Machine (SCVM), a simple solution to manage and access all your storage resourc- es, backups and more. You can ana- lyze the flow of data and manage accessibility protocols. Regardless of the size of your data, the simplicity remains. • Complete visibility. All data flow is within your line of site using Stone- Fly’s own tools.

6. Whitepaper About StoneFly Headquartered in the Silicon Valley (Hayward) California, StoneFly Inc. was founded to deliver upon the vision of simple and affordable enterprise-class prod- ucts. StoneFly pioneered the creation, development and deployment of the iSCSI storage protocol. Beginning with its registration of the iSCSI.com internet domain name in March 1996, StoneFLy shipped its first iSCSI storage appliance in 2002 and subsequently made iSCSI into the established storage standard which is used by IT professionals around the world. StoneFly provides physical, virtual, cloud, software as a service (SaaS), consult- ing, enterprise managed services, cloud migration services, public/private cloud infrastructure, backup, disaster recovery (DR), cloud file/sync collaboration and office in the cloud. StoneFly Cloud Storage has been deployed in all the Microsoft commercial and government datacenters worldwide. StoneFly products have been deployed on US Navy Litteral Combat Ships (LCS) and Virginia Class Nuclear Submarines. StoneFly’s the innovator of powerful, cost-effective IP storage products for departments, mid-teir workgroups, and enterprise organizations. The heart of StoneFly’s innovative products is the award winning software called StoneFusion ™ Intelligent Network Platform. All of StoneFly’s physical and virtual SAN appli- ances are protected by StoneFly’s storage virtualization patents as certified by the United States Patent and Trademark office (Patent #: 7302500, 7555586, 7558885, 8069292). StoneFly is a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Factory (DNF) Inc, and is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the founding member of the IP storage institute (IPSI), a VMware TAP Elite Partner, a VMware Professional Solution Provider Partner, a certified Azure Marketplace Partner, a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partner, and an Amazon AWS Technolo- gy Partner.

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