Backup & Disaster Recovery Solutions: Ensuring Business Continuity in the Digital Age
                     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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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. 
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Challenges for Governments
Continuity & Automated Disaster Data Security & Secrecy
Recovery
Even though StoneFly secures your 
Non-government organization can data, you’re the one who keeps the 
tolerate downtime to some extent. encryption keys. This makes StoneFly 
When it comes to government organi- preferable in situations where security 
zations, there’s no room for downtime and secrecy are paramount. 
because it can translate to a lot more 
than reputation or productivity loss. Secure Encryption of all pro-
Discontinuity of data can mean weak- cesses
ened public and international security 
at times and in the worst case scenar- Government and federal agencies 
io, it can lead to the loss of lives.  require capable secure encryption 
processes due to the sensitive nature 
Continuous Operations processed by them. StoneFly com-
plies with industry security policies 
Regardless of the size of the data, and encryption standards including 
StoneFly and its partners ensure that FIPS 140-2.
all data is always available using 
replication means, even disasters Simplified Management
cannot interrupt processes and opera-
tions. StoneFly utilizes a single console to 
manage all data. This tool also helps 
Accessibility with Cloud backup in managing and analyzing data 
ensuring productivity and overall effi-
Federal and government processes ciency.
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. 
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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. 
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Challenges for Governments
Continuous Operations Data Security & Secrecy
StoneFly, in combination with its part- All of StoneFly’s appliances, services, 
ners, ensures that your data flow is processes and operations are in com-
never interrupted and all data is pliance with industry standards. 
always available. A technology partner StoneFly enables users to keep the 
of StoneFly ensures: keys of their encrypted data. No data 
 is retained on StoneFly’s servers for 
• High Speed Recovery: Enables any compliance or internal policy 
RTOs1 of < 15 minutes. reasons. You decide where your data 
goes, how it’s encrypted and who 
• Data loss Avoidance: Delivers accesses it. With the data under lock 
low RPOs2 and smooth disaster and key, only you hold the keys. 
recovery. StoneFly employs standard SSL 
 encryption methods to ensure data 
• Recoverability Verification: Data security before transit, during transit 
recovery is assured through rigor- and after transit.
ous automated verification tests. 
Simplified Management
• Low risk deployment, enabling 
you to test changes in a produc- StoneFly provides you with the Stor-
tion-like environment before actual age Concentrator Virtual Machine 
deployment. (SCVM), a simple solution to manage 
and access all your storage resourc-
• Complete visibility. All data flow is es, backups and more. You can ana-
within your line of site using Stone- lyze the flow of data and manage 
Fly’s own tools. accessibility protocols. Regardless of 
the size of your data, the simplicity 
remains. 
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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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