Make Room for Hot Data; Offload Cold Data to the “Cloud”

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Make Room for Hot Data; Offload Cold Data to the “Cloud”

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.

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AGENDA

• Introductions• Market feedback• Discuss solutions• Wrap Up


1) Have a rapidly expanding storage footprint

2) Want to leverage lower cost cloud based storage options and develop a long term plan

3) Unsure how to manage their overall storage architecture today and moving forward

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WHAT CUSTOMERS ARE TELLING US


Expensive to keep on premises► Ties up equipment & real estate

Increasingly longer retention mandated► Regulations► Audits► Business Analytics (Trending)

Competes with hot data

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COLD DATA KEEPS PILING UP

New


SOLUTION:MIGRATE COLD DATA OFF-PREMISES TO CLOUD

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… Continuously …


IDEAL DISTRIBUTION

Cold data

Hot data SSD

HDD

CLOUD

Lowest cost per IOPS

Lowest cost per GB

Balance of IOPS & GB


a) More than 80%

b)40 to 70%

c) Less than 40%

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What percentage of your on-premises data would best be kept in the cloud?

Se-ries1


Do you speak “Cloud?”► Blobs / pages► Gets / puts

What’s hot and what’s not?

Keeping the flow going

Getting it back when you need it

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NOT SO EASY


HYBRID CLOUD

MicrosoftAzure Cloud

StorSimple Hybrid Storage Arrays

DataCoreSoftware

Integrated by

Planet Technologies


Cold data

Hot data

Virtual disks

FLASH15K SAS

NL SASSATA

On-premises

TIER 1TIER 2

TIER 3TIER 4

TIER n

Hosts

iSCSIINTERNET

StorSimple Hybrid Storage Array

HYBRID CLOUD: COST SAVINGS & SIMPLICITY

Low-cost elastic cloud storage

De-duped Compressed Replicated


AUTO-TIERING DYNAMICALLY OPTIMIZES RESOURCES

Below average moves down a tier

Tier 2 Tier 3Tier 1 Tier n

Hot ColdWarm Archive

Above average moves up a tier

Access Frequency


HeatMap

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3


Heaviest hit blocks take advantage of Tier 1 Other blocks moved to lower cost tiers

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SUB-LUN AUTO-TIERING

FrequentlyAccessed

InfrequentlyAccessed

ModeratelyAccessed

DatabaseDisk

FlashTier 1

CloudTier 3

HDDTier 2


AUTOMATED STORAGE TIERING

Select tiers based onprice / performance / capacity

Flash, SSD, SAS, SATA, …, Cloud Dynamically migrates blocks

among classes of storage Best location at the time

determined by:► Access frequency► User preferences

Make best tradeoff between performance & cost


MINIMIZE CLOUD SPACE CONSUMPTION


Usage meters

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Shared infrastructure Logically isolated

resources Globally prioritized Separately charged

Converged Storage

CentralStorage Pool

Finance

Manufacturing

Sales

Host Groups

DYNAMICALLY REGULATE QOS


DISASTER RECOVERY

Hosts

Virtual Disks

Central Storage Pools Flash / SSD

SATASAS

CloudStorage

ManagementConsole

StorSimple Hybrid Storage Array


DataCore SANsymphony-V

Cross-device Storage Services

Auto-tiering

Asynchronous Replication

Storage Pooling

Storage Load Balancing

Random Write Accelerator

Quality of Service (QoS)

Synchronous Mirroring

Adaptive Caching

Thin Provisioning

Data Migration

Snapshots

Continuous Data Protection

NAS/SAN (Unified Storage)

Virtual SAN

Centralized Management Analysis & Reporting


Lower storage costs up to 60% No anxious moments running

out of capacity Free up resources for hot data Automate off-site data protection and

accelerate disaster recovery Retain data without disposing of it prematurely Streamline storage and data management

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PAYOFF


ONE SOFTWARE PLATFORM FOR ALL YOUR STORAGE

Accelerate

Centralize & Automate

Pool & Protect


QUESTIONS? Contact: DataCore:

► [email protected]► www.datacore.com

Planet Technologies► [email protected]► www.go-planet.com

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.datacore.com/

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http://www.go-planet.com/

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Make Room for Hot Data; Offload Cold Data to the “Cloud”