10 things to look for in a cloud archive
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Presenters:
• Greg Campbell, CTO, HubStor• Geoff Bourgeois, CEO, HubStor
10 THINGS TO
LOOK FOR IN A
CLOUD ARCHIVE
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#1: Consumption-based economicsWATCH OUT FOR:
Complex and unpredictable commercial models.Intertwining fees on storage volume, user counts, and modules.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:Simple, pay-as-you-go models (no term commitments)Transparency, predictability
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#2: A tenancy model that works for youWATCH OUT FOR:
Noisy neighborsComingling of your data
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:An isolated cloud archive environment, single tenant approach (might be more expensive, but worth it)
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#3: No shared secret cloud integrationWATCH OUT FOR:
API credentials of the cloud storage container being exposed out in the wild.The capture application often stores the API credentials.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:A cloud integration that never externalizes the keys to the kingdom
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#4: Data protectionWATCH OUT FOR:
At what redundancy level is your data stored?Can you recover from the archive?
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:Recover data to on-prem, with features like:
Stub replacement.Content merge, folder structures rebuilt.Item, folder, share, top level recovery.
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#5: Search-as-a-ServiceWATCH OUT FOR:
No search options at all.Search that doesn’t scale, or is too costly.Poor search security.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR: Different levels of indexing.You control the indexing scope.Search with access control synchronization.
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#6: Native eDiscoveryWATCH OUT FOR:
No built-in eDiscovery capabilities.eDiscovery at a premium.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR: eDiscovery that is included.Intuitive UI, with role-based access, for Legal to apply holds and search themselves.Easy collection to export data as needed.
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#7: Cool storage optionsWATCH OUT FOR:
Archive services that offer no cost mitigation strategies when access is sporadic, and the archive is only for compliance or eDiscovery.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:Cool storage tiers at reduced pricing.Easy to scale down, scale back up as needed.
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#8: ComplianceWATCH OUT FOR:
Lack of compliance features.No activity audit.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:Data sovereignty.Immutability, WORM retention periods.PII detection and tagging.Activity intelligence.Multi-factor authentication.
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#8: Bank-grade securityWATCH OUT FOR:
Cloud solutions that base all of their security on encryption.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:Directory synchronization.Complete ACL synchronization.Trusted authentication.Built-in data loss prevention (DLP).Role-based access control (RBAC).Data aware storage features.
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#10: End-user accessWATCH OUT FOR:
User licensing.Poor user experience.Lack of search and sharing.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:Web-based user access.Mobile friendly.Synchronized folders with search and sharing.
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EXTRA: Easy outWATCH OUT FOR:
Technical lock-in.Contractual lock-in.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR:Zero lock-in!No penalties for leaving.Self-service capabilities for getting out.
PANEL DISCUSSION
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Geoff Bourgeois Greg CampbellGregory Breeze
PANEL DISCUSSION
Source: http://iginitiative.com/archiving-strategy-broken-new-benchmark-shows-organizations-making-poor-choices-protecting-long-term-digital-information/
68%of organizations use network file shares as the primary repository of their data.
PANEL DISCUSSION
56% of organizations said
that more than 50% of their data
is no longer accessed after just 60 days
Source: http://www.coredatacloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/State-of-Storage-Survey-eBook.pdf
More than half of these organizations surveyed retained this inactive data on expensive primary storage!
PANEL DISCUSSION
Ransomware attacks in Q1 2016
jumped 300% to a rate of 4,000 per day Sitting on primary storage, your data is at risk.
Source: http://fedscoop.com/ransomware-attacks-up-300-percent-in-first-quarter-of-2016
PANEL DISCUSSION
IDC said a survey of more than 6,000 IT organizations found
two-thirds
are using or planning to use IaaS
Source: http://www.zdnet.com/article/infrastructure-as-a-service-cloud-computing-revenue-to-surge-by-2020/
PANEL DISCUSSION
80%of IT organizations will commit to hybrid
architectures by 2018
Source: http://www.zdnet.com/article/infrastructure-as-a-service-cloud-computing-revenue-to-surge-by-2020/
PANEL DISCUSSION
Backup suffers with 30%-40% annual data volume growth.
And hardly any of it is ever deleted. Growing data volumes are making your backup and recovery a real challenge.
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