Harnessing the Power of Veeam and Microsoft Azure: Data Recovery Solutions

1. www.stonefly.com Top 5 Reasons to Use StoneFly, Veeam and Microsoft Azure for Data Recovery

2. Page 1 Whitepaper With organizations tackling budget restrictions, despite knowing the signifcance of a secondary recovery site, setting it up is a difcult choice. However, down- times and outages are a real threat and they tend to be very costly. With powerful partnerships like StoneFly, Veeam and Microsoft Azure; these organizations can setup a cost efective and efcient recovery site in the public cloud. No 1: Compatibility No 2: Reduce Cost Implications Considering the possible benefts of leveraging cloud technology as an of-site recovery platform, the exponential growth of the global cloud backup and recov- ery market isn’t surprising. According to the “Global Cloud Backup and Recovery Market 2018-2022” report by Technavio in February 2018: the compound growth rate is 14% a year, with “reduction in IT expenditure” the major growth driving factor. No 3: Reduce Com- plexity No 4: Enhance Agility No 5: Improve Availability Verily, cloud backup and recovery solutions deliver optimized data recovery for organizations. However, a number of additional factors should contribute to your decision on which cloud service to use. Here are the top 5 things to keep in mind when considering cloud backup and recovery: No. 1: Compatibility When it comes to cloud based services, one of the major concerns is the compat- ability. If you have an existing infrastructure and its not compatible with a public cloud, then you have to compromise and continue with your infrastructure. The same concept comes into play in acquisition. If your organization is running with the basics and are looking to expand their IT environment, then its very important to pay attention to appliances that are compatible with the desired software and cloud service. StoneFly’s Veeam Ready appliances facilitate a simple integration of the public cloud. If you’re running your workloads on StoneFly’s NAS appliance or SAN appli- ance, then setting up a cloud recovery site is very simple and fast. StoneFly’s innovative Veeam ready appliances are compatible with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), StoneFly’s private cloud and other private and public clouds. © 2018 StoneFly Inc. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

3. Page 2 Whitepaper No. 2: Reduce Cost Implications Most organizations don’t necessarily need a dedicated hot site with a mirrored system for data recovery. This is particularly true for SMBs (Small to Medium Sized Businesses) where the cost implications of acquiring and setting up a dedicated site for recovery tends to be prohibitive. By leveraging the combination of StoneFly, Veeam and Microsoft Azure, any size organization can maintain business continuity at an extremely low cost. The combination of StoneFly’s Veeam ready storage appliance, Veeam’s backup and replication software and Microsoft Azure cloud enables these organizations and SMBs to setup a hybrid solution with a cloud data recovery site cost efective- ly. Even large enterprises can leverage this setup and address their hot tier data requirements locally with StoneFly’s appliances while ensuring recoverability and high availability using Veeam and Microsoft Azure. Every customer can achieve signifcant cost savings and improve data mobility and availability by using this combination. For existing customers of StoneFly, the incremental costs are minimal. Instead of setting up a dedicated solution for this, our customers can easily take advantage of the platform that IT admins are already familiar with. No. 3: Reduce Complexity - Simple Integration Besides the reduction of cost implications, if you employ this combination of products and services you end up with a rather simple yet efcient purpose-built system. StoneFly’s Veeam ready appliances and their cloud connect services with Micro- soft Azure are battle tested and they deliver efcient data storage, backup and data recovery services to businesses around the globe. Each new update is focused on enhancing user experience and optimizing the storage, backup and data recovery experience. With Veeam recovery to Microsoft Azure, you can simplify recovery site confgura- tion and deployment with a complete solution for networking setup. As a com- plete turnkey solution, it is easy to deploy, delivering Azure based cloud restore for Veeam backups. © 2018 StoneFly Inc. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

4. Page 3 Whitepaper No. 4: Enhance Agility All kinds of businesses, whether SMBs or Enterprises, are under signifcant pres- sure to continuously enhance business agility. By being able to move on-premises backup to Azure cloud, you are increasing business agility. With simplifed migra- tions using Veeam and Microsoft Azure, you can respond quicker from failures and use IT resources more strategically. These capabilities are particularly crucial at a time when exponential data growth is making it increasingly difcult to scale, manage and secure the organization’s most critical workloads. Consolidating backup and recovery in the cloud with simple, easy and cost-ef- cient data recovery can translate into competitive business advantage through higher availability and improved business and IT efciency. No. 5: Improve Availability Many organizations are still relying on tape archives for backup and recovery. This legacy technology simply cannot deliver the performance nor the reliability that today’s organizations need. The technology is costly, prone to data loss and not as much as reliable as the cloud. In the long run, your organization will end up unprepared for future data requirements and you’ll be spending quite a bit by then. The ability to get up and running quickly and scale seamlessly is another factor in ensuring availability. StoneFly delivers the ability to get up and running quickly and scale seamlessly ensuring availability. With Veeam and Microsoft Azure, you don’t have to wait to producre hardware or software; StoneFly can integrate the service in your existing solution with ease. To setup StoneFly’s appliance with Veeam and Microsoft Azure, you can purchase the equipment online in a hassle free acquisition procedure and be up and run- ning quickly. © 2018 StoneFly Inc. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

5. Choosing the right solution is essential to maximizing the potential benefits for your organization. Integrate StoneFly’s Veeam Ready appliances with Microsoft Azure and leverage your enterprise data efficiently and cost effectively. Contact us Visit our website: www.stonefly.com Call us: 510-265-1616 Corporate Office (USA) 26250 Eden Landing Rd Hayward, CA 94545 USA © 2018 StoneFly Inc. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.