four reasons why your backup & recovery hardware will break by 2020

Learn the four reasons backup hardware will break:

1. Not Cost Effective Enough

2. Not Scalable Enough

3. Only Good for Backups - Not Enough Use Cases

4. Too Much Deduplication

Four Reasons Why Backup Hardware Will Break by 2020

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● Knowledge of these markets is gained

through product testing and interaction with

end users and suppliers

● The results of this research can be found in

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Who is Storage Switzerland?

Our SpeakersGeorge Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading

storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state

storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection.

He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on

such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs,

software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage

networking. He has over 25 years of experience designing storage

solutions for data centers across the US.

Our SpeakersDouglas Soltesz, Director Product Solutions, is responsible for

guiding the development and integration of software applications that

support the S3 API at Cloudian. Doug‘s passion for storage

technologies comes from his 15+ years of total experience working

both as an IT vendor and consumer. His positions range from CIO of

Budd Van Line to time working in the consulting, storage, and

backup industries as a Systems Integrator, Director of Engineering

and Product Manager.

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About CloudianBig Data Background

• Founded 2001 as Gemini Mobile, a

pioneer in high-volume wireless

messaging

• Long-term stability: Multiple telcos today

still supported on Gemini technology

• Cloudian launched 2011 to develop S3

object storage

Well-Funded

• $79 million in venture funding

Investors

Partners

Polling Question

As A Service

What was your biggest backup hardware

challenge last year?

• Data Protection is STILL an

ongoing problem

• Data is Growing,

Environment is changing

...and...

State of Backup 2017

❏ No Data Loss

❏ Instant Recovery

❏ Forever Retention

❏ For Free

User Expectations Are Very High

State of Backup by 2020

• Most organizations will double or

triple the amount of new data they

are creating on a daily basis

• Most of this data will be machine

generated

• lots of small files, and very unique

• Organizations will be required or

want to retain data for a much

longer period of time

State of Backup by 2020

• User Expectations will

continue to be harder to

meet

• Even less money will be

allocated to protecting and

preserving data

• Becoming more Myopic

• Some focus on single platform (VMware, Hyper-V)

• Some focus on specific application (Cassandra, Couchbase)

• A few focus on Data Management and Archive

• But Becoming Storage Savvy

• Including Deduplication and Compression

• Many including some level of Cloud Integration

• Some even adding Scale-Out Storage Management

• Overall more specialized, more capable and less expensive

The State of Backup Software

• 2001-2003 Massive Change

• Big move to deduplication and compression

• Made disk to tape cost ratio approachable

• Tape has been relegated to a “archive-only” tier

• Innovation Since

• Integration with backup applications (OST / hosting)

• Integration with Standard app (Oracle RMAN, etc..)

• Overall stagnant since Dedupe, hefty price premium vs.

standard disk

The State of Backup Hardware

1. Not Cost Effective Enough (at risk to the cloud)

• Software and Hardware are tightly coupled. Price

Premium.

• Few if any software defined options, forces vendor lock-in

• Few hardware defined options, usually mid-market

• Solution

• Software defined object storage solution, leveraging

commodity hardware

The Four Challenges Facing

Backup Hardware

2. Not Scalable Enough

• Backup hardware defines scalability as either:

A) Buy a bigger box that can hold more hard disk capacity

..or..

B) Buy a scale-out system (that really isn’t)

* Most scale-out backup hardware does not scale across nodes

• Solution

• Object based storage that is inherently scale-out


Backup Hardware

3. Only Good For Backups (Too Myopic)

• Most data centers have a secondary storage problem:

• Backup Data

• Operational Copies

• Archive Data

• User Data

• Cloud Migration

• Backup hardware is only good at one or two of these use cases

• Object Storage solutions can support all of the above use cases


Backup Hardware

4. Too Much Deduplication

• Deduplication created Disk Backup Appliance Market but...

• Backup software can:

• Provide its own deduplication

• Leverage block level incremental backup

• Solution - object storage system that can:

• Support data efficiency from the software

• Or provide capacity so inexpensively that efficiency is not needed


Backup Hardware

• Backup data needs a long term solution

• Object Storage is the key to creating a long term

backup storage strategy

• Multiple Use Cases

• Cost Effective

• Scalable

Summary

Meet Cloudian


•On-premises S3-compatible object storage

• Ideal for hybrid cloud

•Start small, scale to 100s of petabytes

On-Premises Storage is Still Essential


Why:

• Performance

• Security

• Compliance

• Cost of access

APPLICATIONSON PREM

STORAGE

DATA CENTER

New Challenge:

Manage multiple storage

poolsChallenge: Multiple Storage Environments to Manage

CLOUD

STORAGE

Cloud Storage in Your Data Center


PUBLIC CLOUD CLOUDIAN

Transparently scalable

Always available

Automatic data protection

Security built in

Access from anywhere

Pay as you grow

Resides in your data center

Industry’s Most Complete Feature Set


100% Native

Amazon S3 API

Multi Tenancy, QoS,

Billing

Policy-based

data protection

Integrated

Search & Data

Analytics

One System for

Files & ObjectsPolicy-based

Tiering

Summary


Only Cloudian combines:

Richest feature set• Guaranteed Amazon S3 interoperability

• Hybrid cloud automated tiering

Most deployment options• Appliances

• Software

• Metered by use

Industry’s most flexible scaling model• Start small and grow

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