Navigating Digital Transformation with Software-Defined Storage

1. Accelerate Digital Transformation with Software-Defined Storage © 2024 StoneFly, Inc. | All rights reserved.

2. Contents 1 Digital Transformation 2 Cloud powered Digital Transformation 3 Companies that move to the Cloud 4 Digital Transformation with StoneFly SCVM™ 5 StoneFly and Microsoft Azure The StoneFly Advantage StoneFly is a pioneer in IP Storage and was a contributor to the iSCSI protocol. As a result, Stonefy customers have been deploying SCVM™ based solutions with confdence since 2006. The SCVM™ powered IP Storage solutions ofer key features including multiprotocol support, active/active clustering, storage virtualization, snapshots, synchronous mirroring and asynchronous replication. StoneFly solutions are cost-efective, and ofer a range of deployment options to ft every use case.

3. Digital Transformation In order to remain competitive in the market, all businesses whether big or small need to digitally transform themselves. Digital transformation is more than just the integration of advanced technology with the existing or legacy IT infrastructure. It’s a cultural change that pushes businesses to challenge the status quo and adhere to the requirements of their customer base by adding more value to their core operations. Digital transformation sometimes means walking away from long-standing business processes that companies were built upon in favor of newer practices and technologies that are still being defned and tested. The integration of cloud technology, powered by StoneFly SCVM™, enables businesses to digitally transform and be more innovative and efcient at a much faster pace. The troubles of integrating the Cloud with existing infrastructure While a number of large enterprises are successfully integrating the cloud via a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution or a cloud frst strategy, many organizations still struggle with the move to the cloud and in turn digital transformation as well. The reason is that it is important to understand that digital transformation cannot be achieved by simply moving to the cloud. In other words, a simplifed “Lift-and-shift” process to move to the cloud is not enough to achieve digital transformation. In order to efectively leverage cloud technology and enhance business value, data mobility and cost efectiveness businesses need to strategize and develop policies that focus on the core operations of the business while simplifying IT processes. Such strategies are enabled by automated services and standardized enterprise-level data services and features that improve utilization rates, simplify management of storage resources, secure workloads within the cloud and deliver a truly scalable and future-proof solution.

4. Cloud powered Digital Transformation In a typical enterprise, a fraction of IT staf focus on the core operations of the business while most IT personnel are working round-the-clock to keep the lights on. Traditionally, business applications are designed to run on customer-confgured systems, each application requiring dedicated storage, networking and compute resources. As a result, the IT department is flled with administrators. As the number of IT solutions increase, the overhea necessary for testing, integration, maintenance also increase proportionally. The migration from traditional infrastructure and procedures can reverse the ratio and enables enterprises to better manage their infrastructures and leverage their data. The integration of cloud technology enables businesses to save costs and shorten time to market while improving service levels. Cloud integration is a great enabler of the much needed digital transformation. With cloud technology, businesses can: Reduce IT overhead costs by 60%. Scale IT processes up and down as required, optimizing utilization rates. Enhance data mobility and accessibility - enabling IT administrators to manage and control resources anywhere, any time. Leverage enterprise-level data security to ensure high availability and data recoverability of important workloads. Increase the quality of their services through “self-heal” nature of standard solutions. For instance, automatically allocating additional storage to a database. Enterprises can efectively reduce IT incidents by 70% by using cloud computing as an opportunity to rethink their IT operations. To efectively leverage these benefts, enterprises can’t rely on just “lift-and-shift” processes, when most of the business operations are manual and heavily customized. In order to gain these benefts, enterprises need a full-featured solution that facilitates “lift-and shift”, delivers storage, backup and disaster recovery and supports management, control, accessibility and scalability for enterprise workloads.

5. Companies that moved to the Cloud Netfix is a public example of the digital transformation via the integration of cloud technology. In order to streamline the process and make the it disruption free and frictionless, the company spent seven years. Netfix restructured their operations and employed APIs (Application Performance Interfaces) to reduce legacy applications into smaller components; making their infrastructure fexible and then they made the move to AWS (Amazon Web Services). As a result of this transformation, the company stated that they’re now nearing their goal of 99.99% uptime. The move to the cloud has also reduced their overall IT costs for streaming fall to a fraction of what they used to be when they were operating with their data center. Netfix is not the only company to have made this big a move. There are a number of other giants who are integrating cloud technology with their existing infrastructure and improving the quality of their operations and adding more value to their business. For instance, NASCAR is leveraging machine-learning solutions on the cloud for real time data analytics to simulate scenarios and improve performance. Capital One is running their bank’s mobile app on AWS cloud. Similarly, GE Oil and Gas is migrating most of their workload volumes to the public cloud. Even companies that initially chose to setup their own infrastructure as a strategic advantage are now going through digital transformation and integrating the cloud to leverage advanced scalability and better functionality. Spotify is a prime example of such digital transformation.

6. Digital Transformation with StoneFly SCVM™ StoneFly SCVM™ enables businesses to easily transform and integrate the cloud with their existing legacy infrastructure. SCVM™ is an All-in-One virtual appliance that delivers storage, backup and disaster recovery gateway enabling IT environments to efortlessly store, manage, protect, and control their workload volumes in the cloud. SCVM™ can be integrated with a number of mainstream servers and it supports VMware ESX/ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors. The innovative tools and data services of StoneFly SCVM™ facilitate enterprise IT environments to: Consolidate storage infrastructure. Automate data management across the enterprise. Accelerate disaster recovery. Ensure compliance to numerous industry regulations like FedRAMP, CJIS, HIPAA/HITRUST etc. Enhance IT agility to support core business. Scale-up or Scale-down Performance and Capacity. Setup a Cloud Storage Gateway to Public clouds like Microsoft Azure cloud (Standard, Commercial, Government). Protect mission critical workloads using advanced data encryption technology like AES 256-bit encryption and SSL/TLS tunneling. Deploy NAS, SAN or both NAS and SAN in the cloud. To enhance simplicity and optimize data management, SCVM™ provides a single GUI (Graphical User Interface) which can be accessed via all types of browsers (Google Chrome, FireFox etc.). This enables IT administrators to maintain, control and manage their To learn more about StoneFly SCVM™: http://bit.ly/SCVM-2 Click Here http://bit.ly/SCVM-2

7. StoneFly and Microsoft Azure + Our partnership with Microsoft Azure puts us in a unique position to facilitate our customers. SCVM™ can be purchased and setup using Microsoft Azure marketplace. Businesses can easily integrate SCVM™ with their existing infrastructure using their Azure accounts. For enterprises that are looking to setup SCVM™ directly, they can use our API to leverage automated provisioning services and easily setup in Azure without the hassle. Automated provisioning enables users to directly setup in Azure without having to purchase storage in Azure frst to integrate it with SCVM™. Instead of jumping between Azure marketplace and our website, it can all be done from our API. The process is simpler and faster. StoneFly’s partnership with Microsoft Azure enables our clients to setup their storage and backup in Azure data centers around the globe. Our customers can choose to keep their data closer or keep it in a diferent region for redundancy and protection from natural disasters. SCVM™ also facilitates government clients by delivering cloud connect services to Microsoft Azure cloud. With Azure government, the department leveraging SCVM™ as a virtual appliance can stay compliant to a number of federal regulations such as FedRAMP, CJIS and more. The combination of SCVM™ and Microsoft Azure empowers organizations to adhere to strict privacy and data protection policies like GDPR. Explore Data management in Azure with SCVM™ in this brochure: http://bit.ly/data-management-in-Azure-with-SCVM Download Brochure http://bit.ly/data-management-in-Azure-with-SCVM http://bit.ly/data-management-in-Azure-with-SCVM http://bit.ly/data-management-in-Azure-with-SCVM

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