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Paraflow has extensive experience in the integration, design and construction of data centers, backup disaster recovery centers, complete infrastructure solutions, a wide range of data storage, protection and archiving systems. Paraflow is a longtime partner of EMC. CONSOLIDATED DATA BACKUP SOLUTIONS An IDC study shows that the volume of data worldwide in 2009 amounted to 0.8ZB (1ZB = 1 trillion GB), and in 2020 will reach 35ZB. The unstoppable growth of data poses serious challenges to specialists in the field of information technology. The main ones are: Back up ever-growing data for backup within an increasingly limited backup window. The complexity associated with managing multiple devices and storing media in traditional tape data protection solutions. Increasing the requirements (RTO and RPO) of the business regarding the availability of critical systems and minimizing the downtime. One of the modern technologies to deal with these challenges is centralized backup with deduplication - a technology that avoids the storage of duplicate data blocks. IT GIVES THE OPPORTUNITY TO REDUCE THE VOLUME OF BACK-UP COPIES ON AVERAGE ABOUT 20 TIMES. EMC PROPOSES TWO DEDUPPLICATION SOLUTIONS EMC DATADOMAIN - specialized disk arrays for backup, using source-based deduplication and / or target-based inline deduplication. EMC AVAMAR - a complete solution that includes specialized software and backup hardware using source-based deduplication. Depending on where the deduplication process takes place, it is of two types - source based (the process is performed on the server) and target based (the process is performed on the disk array). The choice of the type of deduplication in a given system is based on many factors (application software, network throughput, data volume, time window, etc.), and hybrid implementations are possible. GOOD PRACTICES increasingly require the use of new technologies for recording backup data on specialized disk drives by deduplication. It is recommended to use two systems: productive - located in the main data center of the organization, and backup - located in the backup center. Productive data is copied to the backup via replication. The main ADVANTAGES when using solutions for centralized backup on disk devices with deduplication are: • Increasing the speed of data recording (backup), which allows you to fit the process into a smaller time window. • Significantly increase the speed of data recovery (restore) in case of need. • Improving these parameters also allows the achievement of lower values ​​of residence time (RPO and RTO). • Easy monitoring and management of backup and restore processes from one console. PRIVATE CLOUD STORAGE PLATFORM In the recent past, users relied on the traditional physical disk array (storage) to meet their information needs. The development of technologies such as virtualization and the trend towards consolidation of multiple systems from one or more data centers (ICs) of the organization have set new requirements for the ways of management and access to disk space. To keep up with these new requirements, disk systems had to evolve into new methods of freeing data from their physical attachment to disk devices. Disk space must now maintain connectivity to virtual environments while providing automation, integration with existing infrastructure, resource provisioning, security, high availability, and cost-effectiveness. EMC VPLEX the family of devices is the latest generation of data mobility and resource federation solutions, both within one and between several ICs of the organization. VPLEX in combination with EMC virtual storage technologies such as FAST (fully automated storage tiering) transform disk arrays in the same way that server virtualization technology changes physical servers - from dedicated single-purpose machines to highly efficient, flexible, aggregate resources. shared across multiple operating environments and geographic locations. VPLEX is a device located between physical servers and heterogeneous disk systems that uses a unique cluster architecture that allows servers from one or more ICs to have read and write access to shared block disk drives. UNIQUE ADVANTAGES OF THE SOLUTION Scale-out clustered hardware architecture, allowing starting with a small installation and upgrading in parallel with the needs of the organization. Advance data caching technology uses large amounts of SDRAM cache memory to increase productivity and reduce the latency of I / O operations. Distributed coherent cache for automatic sharing, balancing and switching to a backup component in case of failure of the main (failover) of I / O operations within the cluster. Separation of resources into pools, allowing to achieve high levels of system availability and redistribution of workload within one or more ICs. The VPLEX family contains three products: EMC VPLEX Local - provides local federation of resources by providing simplified data management and mobility between heterogeneous disk arrays without system downtime EMC VPLEX Metro - provides resource federation and data access to two VPLEX clusters in synchronous mode EMC VPLEX Geo - provides access and mobility of data between two VPLEX clusters in asynchronous mode DATA PROTECTION SOLUTIONS Nowadays, business dynamics require IT resources and data to be constantly available and available. This fact makes it extremely important that there is a technical possibility in the data centers that the data can be recovered at any time. The EMC RECOVERPOINT family of products makes disaster recovery easy and simple both within a single data center and between different data centers. In case of compromise or loss, the data can be recovered from the moment of loss and restored to a consistent state. EMC RECOVERPOINT is the optimal solution for remote data storage in virtual environments. EMC RECOVERPOINT is the solution that allows you to protect any application in any array and anywhere, using point-to-time recovery and zero target recovery point (RPO). The system improves the company's operational and disaster recovery processes by reducing data losses and reducing recovery time. The EMC RECOVERPOINT family of products offers cost-effective solutions for local continuous data protection (CDP), continuous remote replication (CRR) and combined local and remote data protection (CLR), allowing data to be restored at a specific point in time. RECOVERPOINT / SE is the basic capabilities solution that simplifies replication and continuous data protection for the EMC VNX, CLARiiON CX, CX3 UltraScale and CX4 arrays. RECOVERPOINT / EX supports local and remote replication for the arrays of the Symmetrix VMAX, Symmetrix VMAXe, VPLEX Local, VPLEX Metro, VNX series, as well as for the CLARiiON CX3 and CX4 arrays. RECOVERPOINT / CL is a full-featured solution that adds support for smart factories, heterogeneous servers and heterogeneous storage platforms. All products are hardware and software systems designed to provide data protection in local and / or remote sites. They allow users to centralize and simplify data protection management and provide opportunities to recover data at almost any time. For any further information and consultations, please do not hesitate to contact the Paraflow's Team. #Backup #Datastorage

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HP Security Manager offers a simple, intuitive process for securing your fleet. Efficiently deploy and monitor devices by applying a single security policy across the fleet, and secure new HP devices as soon as they are added to your network with HP Instant-on Security. Actively maintain and verify compliance with your defined security policies using HP Security Manager’s automated monitoring and risk-based reporting. Rely on the automatic deployment and updating of identity certificates that strengthen information security while significantly reducing administrative overhead. How HP Security Manager secures your fleet HP Security Manager offers a simplified approach to HP fleet security that strengthens compliance and reduces risk. HP SureStart The printer’s BIOS is a set of boot instructions to initiate hardware components and load the HP FutureSmart firmware. HP SureStart validates the integrity of the BIOS image. If validation of the primary BIOS image fails the device providing a self-healing capability. Whitelisting Whitelisting validates the integrity of firmware system files during the load process. If validation fails the device reboots and holds at the preboot menu to prevent a potential malware exploit from executing. Runtime intrusion detection Intrusion Detection detects potential malware intrusions in system memory. Firmware runs in the background to validate the memory space and reboots the device if a possible intrusion is detected. If the Auto-recover feature is disabled, or a possible intrusion occurs twice within 30 minutes, the device reboots and holds at the preboot menu to prevent a potential malware exploit from executing. The device will attempt to wait until in process print jobs have been cancelled to reboot. For any further information and consultations, please do not hesitate to contact the Paraflow's Team. #HP #Paraflow #PrintSecurity #SecurityManager

We from Paraflow believe that in the current crisis we have to stay together and more than ever to support each other. That’s why we decided to donate to „United Against COVID-19” Fund, established by the Bulgarian Donors Forum, America for Bulgaria Foundation, the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria and the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria to support the fight with the virus. We also call on the companies in our industry to try to allocate funds despite the serious economic difficulties. The Fund will support vulnerable groups of people most severely affected by the coronavirus crisis - medical staff, people in need, adults, children and young people, minorities, homeless, unemployed, single parents and more. Medical institutions, civil organizations, community centers and social enterprises from all over Bulgaria can apply for funds from United against COVID-19.The electronic participation form is available on the specially created website: www.United4BG.org “United against COVID-19” has already collected BGN 815 000. We wish health to all of you and hope that we will soon be able to return to the normal way of life and work! #United4BG

For IT leaders struggling to achieve the agility and economics of the cloud, with the control and governance of on-premises IT, HPE SimpliVity 380 delivers a powerhouse hyperconverged solution - running some of the world’s most efficient and resilient data centers. A market and customer satisfaction leader, the solution dramatically simplifies IT by combining all infrastructure and advanced data services for virtualized workloads onto the bestselling server platform in the market. HPE SimpliVity 380, available on HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 Servers, is a compact, scalable 2U rack-mounted building block that delivers server, storage, and storage networking services. It also delivers a complete set of advanced functionality that enables dramatic improvements to the efficiency, management, protection, and performance of virtualized workloads—at a fraction of the cost and complexity of today’s traditional infrastructure stack. TCO Savings HPE SimpliVity 380 assimilates 8 to 12 core data center functions such as the hypervisor, compute, storage, storage network switching, backup, replication, cloud gateway, caching, WAN optimization, real-time deduplication, and more. It delivers the performance, reliability, availability, security, efficiency, backup, and disaster recovery that enterprises expect, in a fully integrated, easy-to-deploy system. Furthermore, the HPE SimpliVity solution consolidates these capabilities into a single x86 building block that scales out with additional nodes, resulting in up to three-fold TCO savings. Cloud economics with enterprise capabilities Enterprises today seek the agility, elasticity, and affordability promised by cloud computing. However, IT organizations also want the performance, reliability, and resiliency of on-premises infrastructure. HPE SimpliVity 380 delivers both. Independent studies show that running virtual machines on on-premises HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure is 22% to 49% less expensive than running them in a comparable Amazon Web Services environment, when considering total costs over a three-year period. Features and benefits • Fully integrated system: Combines x86 resources, storage, and storage networking in a single hyperconverged system. Simplifies management and delivers great cost efficiency and agility with increased visibility and control. • Peak and predictable performance: The all-flash solution provides predictable and linear performance at near‑wire speeds with reduced latency. Hardware-assisted inline deduplication, compression, and optimization helps minimize I/O and network traffic, improving performance while delivering great storage and bandwidth efficiency. • Scale in and scale out: Easily expand or shrink configurations as your needs change. Each node supports a large number of fully protected virtual machines (VMs), with the networked collection of nodes at both local and remote sites managed as a single entity. • VM centricity and mobility: Enables all actions, policies, and management at the VM level. Global unified management and integration with established administrative systems streamline operations and improve IT agility. • Dramatic TCO reduction: Drastically reduce the need to purchase multiple discrete components, optimize storage capacity with guaranteed 10:1 data efficiency, and prevent over-provisioning for performance and capacity with on‑demand expansion. Simplifying IT Today’s infrastructure complexity problem is caused by antiquated data architectures not suited for modern virtualized and cloud-integrated applications. The OmniStack Virtual Controller powers HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure and the OmniStack Accelerator Card. HPE SimpliVity’s enabling technology, along with the OmniStack Data Virtualization Platform, delivers three breakthrough innovations: 1. Guaranteed data efficiency: Only HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure deduplicates, compresses, and helps optimize all data globally, improving performance, guaranteeing 90% capacity savings across storage and backup.4 2. Built-in resiliency and data protection: Only HPE SimpliVity delivers a resilient hyperconverged infrastructure platform, including built-in backup and replication that helps eliminate the use of legacy solutions. 3. Global VM-centric management and mobility: Only HPE SimpliVity delivers policy-based, VM-centric management to simplify day-to-day operations and enable data mobility, increasing productivity. Powerhouse hyperconverged infrastructure HPE SimpliVity 380 A modern data architecture provides unmatched efficiency, performance, and resiliency Complete hyperconvergence Integrated compute, storage, and virtualization — with advanced data services for data efficiency, data protection, and VM-centric management and mobility. Advanced data services • Policy-based, VM-centric management to streamline operations • Built-in resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery for data protection • Always-on deduplication and compression for reduced capacity utilization by up to 10X — guaranteed2 Capitalize on HPE ProLiant Gen10 Enhance performance with new HPE ProLiant Gen10 features including: • HPE Secure Encryption—data-encryption-at-rest (DARE) with local and remote/central key management secures your sensitive data and complies with regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley • New Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors provide faster transaction processing with up to 71% performance boost over the previous generation • Up to 66% greater memory bandwidth increases application performance for memory-intensive applications with upgraded HPE SmartMemory • Ample speed and increased power efficiency boosts performance and maximizes uptime with HPE Smart Array Gen10 RAID controllers The HPE ProLiant DL380 Server is the world’s best-selling server, according to the CQ1’16 IDC Server Tracker. Modern data architecture Modern IT leaders face a dilemma. The cost and complexity of traditional IT leaves few resources to focus on transformative projects and innovation—let alone a worry-free environment. And while public cloud promises greater speed and agility, going all-in on cloud isn’t possible for business-critical workloads where performance, protection, privacy, and control are paramount. If you’re struggling to achieve the agility and economics of the cloud with enterprise-grade performance and protection, HPE SimpliVity 380 is the answer. This all-flash, pre-integrated, hyperconverged building block dramatically simplifies IT by combining all hyperconverged infrastructure and advanced data services for virtualized workloads—including VM-centric management and mobility, data protection and guaranteed data efficiency — with the world’s best-selling server platform, the HPE ProLiant DL380 Server. In addition to medium and large all-flash configurations, HPE is redefining entry-level hyperconverged infrastructure offerings by introducing extra-small and small solutions in single and dual-socket configurations, priced right for small to midsized business and remote and branch offices. These solutions offer all flash storage at 20% lower cost, twice the performance and half the latency of leading competitive offerings, plus built-in backup and recovery data protection — all at a very attractive price point. Power and protect your virtualized infrastructure with cloudlike agility Simplified VM management and mobility Rapidly deploy and scale hyperconverged building blocks to meet changing demands. Manage VM environments quickly and easily using the intuitive and familiar VMware® vCenter® interface. Single interface to view all data centers and remote/branch offices (ROBOs). Manage resources in a federated pool and seamlessly move data across sites. Powerful Powerful data protection with built-in resiliency, back-up and disaster recovery Mitigate data loss and ransomware risk with the highest levels of resiliency, built-in resilience, backup, and disaster recovery (DR). Simplify and accelerate DR and provide VM protection across primary and secondary sites with integrated and automated HPE SimpliVity RapidDR. Rapidly recover with native backup features that guarantee 60 seconds or less (on average) to back up or recover a 1 TB VM.2 Secure sensitive data such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley with HPE Secure Encryption—a level-1 validated solution that secures your sensitive data-at-rest. Efficient 10x reduction in data center devices when deploying HPE SimpliVit.3 Reduce total cost of ownership by 2.8X compared to traditional IT,3 and up to 2X compared to public cloud.4 Reduce capacity utilization by up to 10X across primary and backup storage—guaranteed—with always-on deduplication and compression.2 Deliver peak and predictable application performance with a modern data architecture that out paces any other hyperconverged solution. Optimize uptime with support for your entire solution provided by HPE Pointnext services, plus take advantage of HPE Flexible Capacity pay-per-use pricing Support high-end graphics virtualization with NVIDIA® GPUs. Start innovating now! There’s no need to wait. Contact your authorized HPE SimpliVity 380 sales representative to find out how you can start enjoying the benefits of hyperconvergence. What makes HPE SimpliVity 380 different from other solutions? Simple - Intuitive VM-centric management streamlines operations and empowers IT generalists. Powerful - A modern data architecture powers and protects some of the world’s most efficient and resilient data centers. Efficient - Achieve superior data efficiency with 90% capacity savings across production and backup storage - guaranteed - with always-on deduplication.2 For any further information and consultations, please do not hesitate to contact the Paraflow's Team. #Simplivity #HPE #Infrastructure

The hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365 Invite everyone you work with to chat, meet, call, and collaborate all in one place, no matter where you are. Chat from anywhere Share your opinion, and your personality. Send gifs, stickers, and emojis in a group chat or in one-to-one messages. Meet from anywhere Instantly go from group chat to video conference with the touch of a button. Teams of 10 or 10,000 can meet in one place, no matter how many places they’re in. Call from anywhere Never yell “who just joined?!” ever again. Use Teams calling, Phone System, Calling Plan, or Direct Routing to take the stress out of conference calls. Collaborate from anywhere Never do that frantic, searching-for-files thing ever again. In Teams you can access, share, and edit Word docs, PowerPoint, and Excel files in real time. For any further information and consultations, please do not hesitate to contact the Paraflow's Team. #RemoteWorking # Paraflow #MicrosoftTeams

Dear partners and clients, We would like to inform you that Paraflow is temporarily suspending cash payments in relation to the current COVID-19 situation in Bulgaria. All payments can be made only by bank transfer. Also, Paraflow's head office will be temporary working from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Thank you for the understanding! We hope that we will soon be back to normal way of work! Paraflow’s Team

Dear Clients, We have been following the COVID-19 epidemic very closely and the instructions of the competent authorities. We assure you that we are committed to safeguarding our employees and take all necessary measures for their safety and productivity. During these unprecedented times we have to take care and protect all of our customers, partners and employees from spreading the virus. As a modern technology company, we have exported most of our activities to a virtual environment without interrupting our daily communication with you. We continue to work hard and fulfill our commitments to you with high professional responsibility. We retain all of our usual ways of communication . If you notice any interruption or difficulty in using our services, do not hesitate to alert us immediately on phone +359 700 10 887 or by email: hotline@paraflow.bg We wish health to all of you! We hope that we will soon be able to return to the normal way of life and work! Paraflow’s Team

Paraflow is an approved ICT provider of the voucher scheme for the provision of information and communication technology services (ICT services) to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), implemented by the Executive Agency for SME Promotion. *The Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency (BSMEPA) For any further information and consultations, please do not hesitate to contact the Paraflow's Team. #SMB #BI

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Veritas Technologies Named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions. More Veritas Backup Exec Backup Exec gives you fast, simple, complete, cost-effective protection and recovery for your data, wherever it lives. Featured Highlights Easy to use Manage your entire data ecosystem from a single console Eliminate need for multiple point products Set up backup jobs in a few clicks Easily track every backup, replication and recovery job Save time and resources with easy deployment! Cloud Data Protection Deployable marketplace templates for both AWS and Azure - Microsoft Preferred solution for Azure Certified cloud connectors for all major cloud vendors Support for all AWS cloud storage tiers Optimize storage costs and bandwidth with in-line deduplication For any further information and consultations, please do not hesitate to contact the Paraflow's Team. #Veritas #NetBackup

HPE Synergy for IT infrastructure and data management Welcome to the Idea Economy, where it has never been easier to turn an idea into a new product or service. The technologies that enable disruption—cloud computing, mobile technology, Big Data analytics—are so accessible and affordable that they have produced an entirely new competitive landscape. While there have always been ideas, what’s different is that in our hyper-connected world, good ideas are not enough. Success today is defined by the ability to turn those ideas into reality faster than the competition. As the first infrastructure developed from the ground up for composability, HPE Synergy paves the way to the future with a unified API and partnerships with configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, and Ansible - allowing customers to control their hardware infrastructure as they would a public cloud. The era of Composable infrastructures is ahead of us. It is aimed at people with advanced technological thinking and leaders with vision how to turn IT functions into a business motivator. Benefits for your organization Run anything: Optimize any application and store all data on a single infrastructure with fluid pools of physical and virtual compute, storage, and fabric. Move faster: Accelerate application and service delivery through a single interface that precisely composes logical infrastructures at near-instant speeds Work efficiently: Reduce operational effort and cost through internal software-defined intelligence with template driven, frictionless operations. Unlock value: Increase productivity and control across the data center by integrating and automating infrastructure operations and applications through a unified API. The world of information technology is placed under conditions of a fundamental change in how to do business. Cloud solutions become ubiquitous, virtualization becomes a mandatory norm and, moreover, ensures the need for more and more burdens. Business has begun to become more technologically self-conscious than decades ago. This new example, now known as the economy of ideas, requires a different way of thinking and a different infrastructure. This is also the result of a number of critical trends, such as: Dynamic growth Increased yield Enhanced productivity Expanding innovation Greater resilience Improved user experience Reduce risks. By following the challenges of the economy of ideas, we meet the need for a thorough rethinking of IT. A key way to achieve the goals of economy of ideas is the transformation of the technological environment towards composite infrastructure. Composite infrastructure helps organizations in their quest to reach important infrastructure-related or hard-to-reach metrics, or even impossible to achieve, through mediocre traditional means such as: - Fast delivery of technical tools with easy to achieve flexibility, scalability and refresh - Ability to perform tasks on physical and / or viral environments, as well as in a container - Ensure the performance of any tasks that business depends on without the care of infrastructure resources or compatibility - Security that the infrastructure is able to guarantee such a level of service that the business really is in business. At any time, the infrastructure should be ready for demand and demand and be at the service of the person who uses it. Idea economics requires information technology to be part of the production of products and services, ensuring rapid innovation for each company. Information technology must ensure that business is well-functioning to remain competitive. Although many manufacturers of hypervisors may have a different opinion, many businesses use physical infrastructure for their applications or use applications that are not virtualized and run on a physical server. In turn, many hi-convergence systems only support virtual environments and do not provide the opportunity for individual applications to run on physical machines. Both application approaches - physical infrastructure and virtual environments - are a foundation that must be upheld by modern data centers. To date, containers are emerging technology with great potential, which provides a number of exceptional benefits for certain types of tasks. All of these things can be accomplished at the same time as the appropriate type of an infrastructure. Composable infrastructure will give you the power you need for every application and the right level of service as part of the architecture. Service levels - no matter where applications and services are deployed - are critical, except when a low level of criticality is defined for a given application. The levels of serviceability of composite infrastructure are defined, given the provision of users with resources from fluid pools of resource sets comprised of computing modules, storage devices and network resources. Different applications require a different combination of resources. Some may need extremely productive disk capacity, while others can run on low-capacity disk. In order to provide the appropriate infrastructure for each application and to function optimally, the need for an appropriate service level to be ensured for each application is required. This allows information technology to be transformed into a "need-to-use" resource management model. Only in exceptional cases is IT intervention necessary - a new application exceeds the set volume of the environment. HPE Synergy supports both two-socket and four-socket compute modules which provide the performance, scalability, density optimization, storage simplicity, and configuration flexibility to power a variety of workloads, including business processing, IT infrastructure, web infrastructure, collaborative, and high-performance computing. The HPE Synergy 480 Gen9 Compute Module delivers superior capacity, efficiency, and flexibility in a two-socket, half-height form factor to support demanding workloads. Powered by Intel's® latest E5-2600 v4 processors, HPE DDR4 SmartMemory supporting up to 1.5 TB, flexible storage controller options, three I/O connectors, and designed to create a pool of flexible compute capacity within a composable infrastructure the HPE Synergy 480 Gen9 Compute Module is the ideal platform for general-purpose enterprise workload performance now and in the future. The HPE Synergy 620 Gen9 Compute Module is a 2-socket mission-critical composable compute option designed to meet the needs of almost any enterprise IT tier and workload. This x86 compute module with Intel® Xeon® processors is ideal for financial, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail enterprises that require mission-critical levels of availability, extended versatility, and real-time performance. The HPE Synergy 680 Gen9 Compute Module is a 4-socket mission-critical composable compute option designed to meet the needs of almost any enterprise IT tier and workload. This x86 compute module with Intel® Xeon® v4 processors is ideal for financial, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail enterprises that require mission-critical levels of availability, extended versatility, and real-time performance. For any further information and consultations, please do not hesitate to contact the Paraflow's Team. #HPE #HPESynergy #ComposableInfrastructure