Paper Manufacturing Company Secures Backup Data in Azure Cloud.

Paper Manufacturing Company Secures Backup Data in Azure Cloud Customer Success Story

© 2019 StoneFly, Inc. | All Rights Reserved

Organization A paper, pulp, and packaging company with variety of paper and forest-products. The company has a number of remote branches in different US states and sales outlets around the country.

Industry Manufacturing Industry | Paper & Forest-Products

Challenges - Larger Volume of Backup Data - Limited & Difficult to Scale Storage Space - Long Term Storage and Retention of Mission Critical Data

Solution Challenges The organization had a reliable enterprise-grade backup software that protected their mission-critical data from data loss and other threats such as ransomware, accidental / malicious deletion, etc. The challenge that they were facing was the continuous increase in backup data volume and the limited storage space on their in-house data center.

Furthermore, they didn’t want to put all their backup data in one place because they understood that it wasn’t a good practice.

“Our backup software had a proven record of

performance. The only problem for us was that we had storage space limitations in our data center and we didn’t want all of our data in one place. We were looking into cloud integration options and StoneFly’s gateway solutions caught our eye” said Gabriel, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the organization.

Solution To facilitate their cloud integration needs, our cloud experts suggested StoneFly Azure cloud gateway in conjunction StoneFly Azure cloud storage as a bundled solution.

“We’re not an IT-centric company. Our primary focus is our products and we wanted a solution that made the entire process simpler for us; StoneFly did that. Their customized package simplified our experience, the solution worked well with what we already had and the billing process was far simpler than expected” noted Hazel, the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) of the organization.

- StoneFly Storage Concentrator Virtual Machine (SCVM™) - StoneFly storage in Microsoft Azure Cloud

Results - Highly Scalable Virtual NAS Storage in Azure - Simplified Management - Feature-Rich Cloud Storage Experience - Cost-Effective Long Term Storage of Large Volumes of Backup Data

Results The StoneFly gateway enables the organization to store their backup data in Azure’s reliable, compliant and cost-effective cloud. The integration process was simple, quick and our team of experts guided them through every step of the way.

“We were up and running in less an hour” – noted Bill, the Solutions architecture of the organization.

Secure Azure Cloud Storage Azure ensures high availability for mission-critical with built-in geo redundancy. Our gateway secures the data at rest and at transit while Azure takes care of the physical security of the servers where the data is stored.

Azure’s security measures also make it a compliant Cloud Service Provider (CSP); facilitating the organization to comply with several industry standards if necessary.

StoneFly SCVM™ Overview - Virtual Storage Appliance with Support for Hyper-V, VMware, KVM, & Citrix (XenServer) hypervisors - NFS, CIFS/SMB & iSCSI Support - Supported Cloud Object Storage: Azure Cloud, AWS, StoneFly Private Cloud & Other S3 Compatible Clouds - Supported Servers: All StoneFly HCI Appliances, Dell EMC, HPE Nimble & More - Supported Backup Software Include Veeam, Acronis, Veritas, Commvault, Quest & More

Cost-Effective Serverless Storage Compared to the cost of acquiring dedicated servers for long term storage and retention, our packaged solution, comprising of the cloud storage gateway and our storage in Azure cloud, offered a more budget-friendly storage option.

The organization doesn’t have to deal with the maintenance of physical servers; the absence of additional servers contributes to the cost-effective and reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the solution.

StoneFly & Azure Partnerships - Micosoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) - Azure Marketplace Partner - Microsoft Government Cloud Service Provider

Feature-Rich Storage Experience in StoneFly Azure Cloud Storage StoneFly’s gateway appliance and Azure cloud storage delivered an array of enterprise features to the organization which in turn facilitated them to set up a consolidated and optimized hybrid backup solution.

Following is a list of the standard features included in StoneFly cloud storage gateway appliance and StoneFly storage in Azure cloud: • Deduplication for NAS and iSCSI SAN volumes • Virus, malware and ransomware detection and removal • Automated tiering (NAS only) • Advanced encryption at rest and during transit • Delta-based snapshots • Synchronous & asynchronous replication • Real-time graphical performance reporting

StoneFly Storage Solutions have been Deployed in Azure Data Centers Worldwide!

Highly Scalable Storage Repositories The provisioned StoneFly storage repositories in Azure are highly scalable and can store from a few terabytes to hundreds of terabytes of data. The organization can choose to scale their storage repositories seamlessly while they pay only for the storage they use.

Our gateway appliance facilitates faster and secure transfers between the on-premises infrastructure of the organization and the configured StoneFly storage repositories in Azure. The cloud storage repositories also offer volume encryption to add another layer of security to the stored data and protect the organization’s important data.

“We’re happy with the storage capacities we have

in Azure. If we need more, we can scale whenever we want to. It’s simple, quick and rather efficient” noted Bill.

Unified Management of Cloud Storage Gateway & Storage in Azure With StoneFly’s cloud storage gateway and Azure cloud storage integrated with their existing systems, the organization had data distributed on different storage media but StoneFly’s unified management interface simplified the management process.

“We have tiered data spread across our servers and Azure storage tiers but we can easily manage all of it with a single centralized GUI. Our system admins love that experience” – said Bill.

StoneFly Azure Cloud Storage Overview - Cost-Effective Cloud Object Storage for Hundreds of Terabytes of Enterprise Data - NFS, CIFS/SMB, and iSCSI Supported - Easy to Scale NAS and SAN Storage Repositories - Supported Integration with All StoneFly Appliances & Most Mainstream Servers such as Dell EMC, HPE Nimble, etc.

- Windows, Linux & macOS Supported - Suppoted Integration with Veeam, Commvault, Veritas, Acronis, and Other Mainstream Backup Software - Supported Integration with MySQL, NoSQL, PostGreSQL Databases and Applications like SAP HANA and More!

StoneFly Storage in Azure can be Directly Purchased from Azure Marketplace

Move Your Mission-Critical Workloads to the Cloud of Your Choice Today Get a Free Trial or Schedule a Demo Email: Phone: Website:

sales@stonefly.com +1 510 265 1616 www.stonefly.com | www.iscsi.com

StoneFly Inc. is the original innovator of the iSCSI protocol. We offer enterprise-grade storage solutions, hyper converged infrastructure, backup and disaster recovery, and archiving solutions. With decades of experience in the market and backup solutions deployed in nuclear class submarines, StoneFly has over 2000 enterprise customers around the globe. © 2019 StoneFly Inc. All Rights Reserved. StoneFly is a trademark of StoneFly Inc. registered in the United States and other countries. All other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holders.