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Acopias Intelligent FileVirtualizationAcopias Intelligent FileVirtualization

Stefan PickertSales Director

Europe

[email protected]

+49-171-3171500

Stefan PickertSales Director

Europe

[email protected]

+49-171-3171500


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About Acopia Founded in January 2002

Founder/Chairman: Cheng Wu, Founder/CEO of ArrowPoint(Cisco), Founder of Arris (Cascade)

President/CEO: Christopher Lynch, VP of Sales & Marketing atArrowPoint (Cisco), Sales VP at Prominet (Lucent), BayNetworks

HQ in Lowell, MA; ~ 140 employees

Locations in US, Asia and Europe

Acopia is changing the way enterprises manage theirunstructured data by delivering file virtualization in thenetwork

Partnerships with leading NAS providers:


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Acopia Networks, Inc.

GAP

A Fundamental Information Mgmt Challenge

Information Producers and Consumers

(Requesters)

Physical Information Servers(Resources)

IP Networking

Acopia Fills The Gap

Scale, Availability, ILM, HeterogeneousTransparent to Requesters

Acopias Adaptive Resource Networking

Simple, Reliable, Trustworthy Global Information AccessIndependent of Physical Resources


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Trusted by Leading Companies


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Complex

Mixed vendors, platforms, file

systems

Inflexible

Access is tightly coupled to file

location Disruptive to move data

Inefficient

Resources are under and over

utilized

Growing rapidly 70% annually (80% are files)

Applications and Users

IP Network

File Servers and NAS

90%5%

The cost of managing storage is 5 to 10 times the acquisition cost (Gartner, IDC)The cost of managing storage is 5 to 10 times the acquisition cost (Gartner, IDC)

The Constraints of Todays Infrastructure


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Simplified access

Consolidated, persistent

access points

Flexibility

Data location not bound to

physical resources Optimized utilization

Balances load across sharedresources

Leverages technology Freedom to choose most

appropriate file storage


File Servers and NAS

Virtualization Breaks the Constraints

Intelligent File

Virtualization


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NAS and File Servers

Acopias Intelligent File Virtualization Works with existing infrastructure

Uses industry standard NFS / CIFS

No forklift upgrades, new file systemsor software agents

Purpose-built for real-time policyenforcement

Leverages IP / Ethernet network tomonitor and adapt dynamically

Highest performance and scale

GBytes/sec vs. Mbits/sec throughput

Billions vs. millions of files Enterprise-class availability

Maintains service in the event offailures

Intelligent File Virtualization

IP Network Acopia

Storage Pool


Acopias platform has the scalability to be deployed in large-scale data centers. ForresterAcopias platform has the scalability to be deployed in large-scale data centers. Forrester


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Data Migration with Acopia

Solution:

Transparent to users and

applications File-level granularity

NFS & CIFS support acrossmultiple vendors

Scheduled policies to automatedata migration

Benefits:

Reduce outages and businessdisruption

Lower operational overhead No client reconfiguration

Decommissioning without disruption

Automation

Applications & Users



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Challenges Need to seamlessly migrate

data from old filers to new Upgrade to NetApp ONTAP7G without impacting thebusiness

Solution

ARX1000 cluster Benefits

Multi-terabyte data migrationwithout disruption

NAS software upgrade,system de-commissioningwithout downtime

OPEX savings by eliminatingdowntime & automatingmigration

NetApp 800 SeriesR200 FAS960 FAS980c

ComputeNodes

Clients

ARX1000

Data Migration Case Study

Acopias products allowed us toperform a multi-terabyte data migration

without disrupting our users

Leon Roberge, Director of IS,Toshiba America

Acopias products allowed us toperform a multi-terabyte data migration

without disrupting our users

Leon Roberge, Director of IS,Toshiba America


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Tier 3

Storage Tiering with Acopia

Solution:

Automated & non-disruptive data

placement of flexibly definedfilesets

Multi-vendor, multi-platform

Clean (no stubs or links)

File movement can bescheduled

Benefits:

Reduced CAPEX Leverage cost effective storage

Reduced OPEX

Reduced backup windows andinfrastructure costs

Tier 1 Tier 2

Create

Applications & Users



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File Based Placement

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IP Network

Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 4

*.doc *.txt *.mp3

+

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IP Network

Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3

1 - 30 31 - 90 90+

Age Based Placement

Tier 3

*.pdf


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International trade-show company

Over 600 employees worldwide;

revenues >$380M Challenges

Move less business critical data toless expensive storage, non-

disruptively to users Solution

ARX1000 cluster

Benefits

50% reduction in disk spend Dramatic reduction in backup

windows (from ~14 hours to ~3hours) and backup infrastructurecosts

ARX1000HA Cluster

Tier 1 Tier 2

Clients & Applications

Based upon these savings, weestimate that we will enjoy a return onour Acopia investment in well under a

year.

Reinhard Frumm, Director Distributed IS,

Messe Dusseldorf

Based upon these savings, weestimate that we will enjoy a return onour Acopia investment in well under a

year.

Reinhard Frumm, Director Distributed IS,

Messe Dusseldorf

NetApp3020NetApp940c

Storage Tiering Case Study


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Data Replication with Acopia

Solution:

Fileset based replication

NFS & CIFS across multiplevendors

Replicas may be viewed

Supports multiple targets

Change-based updates only(file deltas)

Benefits:

Freedom to useheterogeneous storage

Cost effective disasterrecovery

Secondary SitePrimary Site


Replication



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Worlds largest equipment rentalcompany

Challenges Upgrade NAS platform

Introduce lower cost ATA disk

File-based Disaster Recovery solution

Solution

ARX1000 cluster at HQ & ARX1000 atremote DR facility

Benefits

NAS upgrade with no impact to users

50% savings through use of ATA disk Cost effective disaster recovery

solution

Dramatic reduction in backup andreplication times

Primary Site

WAN

Disaster RecoverySite

Tier 1

Tier 2

Replica

Acopia has reduced our total backupand replication times by about 70%.

Bonnie Stiewing, Senior Systems Administrator,United Rentals

Acopia has reduced our total backupand replication times by about 70%.

Bonnie Stiewing, Senior Systems Administrator,United Rentals

Data Replication Case Study


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Load Balancing with Acopia

200MB/s

50MB/s 50MB/s 50MB/s 50MB/s

20%Utilized

20%Utilized

20%Utilized

20%Utilized

Balance

Capacity

Aggregate

Capacity

Aggregate

Throughput

NAS / File Servers

Compute Nodes

Aggregate

CPU

Solution:

Automatically balances new

file placement across fileservers

Flexible dynamic loadbalancing algorithms

Uses existing file storagedevices

Benefits:

Increased application

performance Improved capacity utilization

Reduced outages associatedwith data management


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Load Balancing Case Study Challenges

Infrastructure was a bottleneck

to production of digital content Difficult to provision new storage

Solution

ARX6000 cluster

Benefits Ability to digitize >500% more

music

20% reduction OPEX costs

associated with managingstorage

Reduction in disk spend due tomore efficient utilization ofexisting NAS

NetApp 3050

Acopias products increasedour business workflow

by 560%

Mike Streb, VP Infrastructure, WMG

Acopias products increasedour business workflow

by 560%

Mike Streb, VP Infrastructure, WMG

ARX6000

ComputeNodes


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Business Benefits of Acopia

Acopia allowed us to automatically moveour older design projects to more cost

effective storagethe disk and tape costsavings alone will more than pay for our

investment in the Acopia switches."Iain Godwin, ICT Director, Foster and Partners

"In the past it's been complicated to introduce new vendorsnow I feel

comfortable opening up the door to additional storage vendors and lettingthem compete more.Mike Streb, VP IT Services Warner Music Group

Variable Cost SavingsVariable Cost SavingsFixed Cost SavingsFixed Cost Savings

Freedom of ChoiceFreedom of Choice

"As a result of the Acopia virtualizationimplementation, we have reduced theoperational overhead associated with

storage management by 40%.Yury Gutgarts, CIO Archive Systems


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Scalable product family

ARX6000 Data Center Device >2B files

ARX1000 Mid Tier Device 375M files

ARX500 Departmental Device 125M files

Common software across allplatforms

Enterprise-class managementand serviceability

CLI, GUI, SNMP Logging, reporting, scripting

Diagnostics, phone home

Acopias Intelligent File Virtualization Delivery Platform


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Summary Acopias solutions uniquely address the growing

challenges associated with managing file data

Operations that were disruptive are now transparent

Operations that were manual are now automated

Drives dramatic capital and operational expense reductions

Acopia offers the only enterprise-class, intelligent filevirtualization solution

Unique performance, scale, data integrity and accessibility

Multi-protocol, multi-vendor, multi-location

Proven in Fortune 500 environments


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Simplifying File Storage with Acopia

Simplified access

Flexibility

Optimized utilization

Leverage heterogeneoustechnology

Complex

Inflexible

Inefficient

Growing rapidly

Before Acopia After Acopia


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