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

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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.
Introduction

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Continuity & Automated Disaster
Recovery
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.
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.
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.
Challenges for Governments
Data Security & Secrecy
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.
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.
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.

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StoneFly’s Certifications
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.
What benefits to Governments and Federal Agencies get due to FedRAMP?

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Continuous Operations
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.
• Low risk deployment, enabling
you to test changes in a produc-
tion-like environment before actual
deployment.
• Complete visibility. All data flow is
within your line of site using Stone-
Fly’s own tools.
Challenges for Governments
Data Security & Secrecy
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.
Simplified Management
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.

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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.
About StoneFly

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Copyright Notice.
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Official Blog.
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