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PROFESSIONAL ARCHIVAL STORAGE

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Archival Storage Technologies and StrategiesDieter Finke

Director of Sales

TerraLink IT Summit


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Plasmon Storage Portfolio

Connectivity Software

G-Series Libraries Powered by UDO

RAID Storage - NAS / SCSI / FC

Optical Drives and Media


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Archival Storage Market Drivers

• Compliance– Industry regulations

• Risk Management– Corporate polices to avoid / mitigate litigation

• Competitive Advantage– Maximizing data use

Necessity

Fear

Gain


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Storage Business Objectives

• Primary Storage– Availability for business critical applications and active data

• Backup– Short-term protection against system failure or data loss

• Disaster Recovery– Protection against infrastructure or site failure

• Archival Storage– Long-term secure storage of static data


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Tiered Storage Architecture

Create Modify / Access

Days - Weeks Weeks - Months Years - Decades

Archive

HighPerformance

RAID

Mirrored / Replicated UDO

Archive Disaster Recovery

Years - Decades

Backup

Days - Months

Tape or Low Cost Disk

Active Disaster Recovery

Days - Months

Mirrored / Replicated RAID


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What is UDO ?

• Unmatched Data Life– Very stable non-magnetic media - 50 year media life

• Unquestioned Record Authenticity– Physical true WORM data recording

• Scalable Capacity with Automated Libraries– Plasmon libraries range from 1TB to 19TB

• Fast Random Access– 35 msec seek, < 10 sec library access

• Removable Media– Flexible, low cost expansion and disaster recovery

• Secure Technology Roadmap– Backward compatible future generations

• Long-term Support Philosophy– Drive, media and library support

Designed for Archival Storage


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Meeting Diverse Archive Business Needs

Rewritable• Allows deletion and modification of data

UDO Media Formats

True Write Once• Prevents any form of data modification

Compliant Write Once• Prevents data modification• Permits data destruction


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UDO Technology Roadmap


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Archival Storage Technologies

Archival Storage Attributes

True Write Once Media

Removable Media

Professional Quality

Media Longevity

Media Capacity

Seek / Access Speed

Total Cost of Ownership

WORMTape

No

Yes

Yes

Med

High

Low

Low

WORMRAID

No

No

Yes

Low

Med/High

High

High

DVD

Yes

Yes

No

High

Low

Low

Low

UDO

Yes

Yes

Yes

High

Medium

Medium

Low

Data Destruction NoYes No Yes


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TCO Analysis – Result Summary

Archival Storage TCO20TB - 3 Years

0

100,000

200,000

300,000

400,000

500,000

600,000

700,000

LTO3 DVD UDO CenteraParity

CenteraMirrored

Archive Technologies

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US

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Power

Floor Space

SW Maintenance

HW Maintenance

Media Acquisition

SW Acquisition

HW Acquisition

Plasmon Archival Storage TCO Analysis version 3.0


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Customer Case Studies

How are customersusing Optical

Storage?


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Coal Authority

• Customer Profile– UK public authority founded in 1994 – Coal mine licensing– Property management and liability claims– Public access to mining operation information

• Archive Requirements– Technical and historical records– Wide range of format and document sizes– Most records need to be retained indefinitely– Necessity to demonstrate record authenticity– Total archive capacity greater than 120TB


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Coal Authority Architecture

Off-site DisasterRecovery

Off-lineArchive

Hardcopy Output &Electronic Access

Document &Large Format

Scanners

Short-termRAID Storage

Apple PowerMac G5s

MO and

OnlineArchive

Archive Server


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Deutsche Bank - London

• Company Profile– Leading global investment bank– € 992 billion in assets

• Archive Requirements– London based archive management group– Stock trading transactions and reports– Large number of small documents– SEC 17a-4 regulatory compliance– Necessity to demonstrate record authenticity – Typical retention period of 5 - 7 years– Total archive capacity greater than 40TB


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Deutsche Bank Architecture

Off-site DisasterRecovery

Trading FloorFinancial Analysts

Short-termArchive

GlobalUser Access

WAN

Long-termArchive

Archive Server

G-Series LibraryAMASS


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Medizinische Hochschule Hanover

• Company Profile– One of Germany’s leading teaching hospitals– 3,000 medical students each year– 1,400 beds with 200,000 yearly patient visits

• Archive Requirements– Medical images and patient records– German medical records regulations– Typical retention is longer than patient life– Necessity to demonstrate record authenticity – Total archive capacity greater than 10TB


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MHH Architecture

Off-site Archive

MedicalImaging

Scanners

PrimaryStorage

CentricityPACS Server

SecondaryArchive

WAN

Hospital ImageUsers


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UDO Archive Appliance

Hybrid Optical and Disk Technology

The performance of RAID with the

unmatched longevity and

authenticity of UDO

Network AttachedArchival Storage

Solution


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Saudi Arabian MOI

• Company Profile– Ministry of Interior - Civil Affairs Department– Saudi citizens ID archiving– 10,000 employees at 56 locations

• Archive Requirements– 19 million document archive– ID cards in TIFF format– Growth rate 10% per year– Access patterns - Up to 350 concurrent users – Long-term secure retention policy

Saudi ArabianMinistry of Interior


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MOI Architecture

DocumentCapture

ContentManagement

Riyadh

MirroredGx72Libraries

WAN

Gx24Library

FileNet ContentManagement

47 Regional OfficesAcross the Country


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Items GmbH

• Company Profile– Regional IT service provider– SAP integration, hosting, consultancy & process services– 145 employees in 4 northern German locations

• Archive Requirements– Current archive 1TB with the ability to scale– Unstructured records in TIFF, JPEG and PDF formats– 250 users - 50-60 concurrent users– Need to physically isolate customer data


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items Architecture

MOLibraries

HostedServicesCustomer

Access

PrimaryStorage

WAN

ArchivedData

G-SeriesLibraries

MigratedData

Off-lineMedia

DisasterRecovery


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UDO Technology Advantages

• Unmatched Data Life– Very stable non-magnetic media - 50 year media life

• Unquestioned Record Authenticity– Physical true WORM data recording

• Scalable Capacity with Automated Libraries– Plasmon libraries range from 1TB to 19TB

• Fast Random Access– 35 msec seek, < 10 sec library access

• Removable Media– Flexible, low cost expansion and disaster recovery

• Secure Technology Roadmap– Backward compatible future generations

• Long-term Support Philosophy– Drive, media and library support

Designed for Archival Storage


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G-Series Libraries

Gx24 / Gx32720GB to 1TB

1 - 2 Drives

Gx134 / Gx164 / Gx1745TB to 5.2TB2 - 6 Drives

G164 / G2385TB to 7TB

2 - 12 Drives

G43813TB

2 - 12 Drives

G63819TB

2 - 12 Drives

Gx72 / Gx802.2 TB to 2.4TB

2 - 4 DrivesEntryLevel

Midrange

Enterprise


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UDO Archive Appliance Product Line

AA32170GB Cache1TB Capacity

AA80e2TB Cache

2.4TB Capacity

AA174170GB Cache5TB Capacity

AA2387TB Capacity

AA43813TB Capacity

AA63819TB Capacity

AA80170GB Cache

2.4TB Capacity

AA174e2TB Cache

5TB Capacity

EntryLevel

Midrange

Enterprise170GB or 2TB

Cache


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Reference Material

White Papers and Articles on Archival Storage

• Archival Storage TCO Analysis

• Archive Security in a Tiered Storage Environment

• The Risks of Archiving on Tape

• Storage Ecosystem Modeling

• Compliant Write Once Media Technology

• Optical Disk Technology Overview


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Thank you…

Dieter Finke

Director of Sales

+49 (0)8751 8751 22 - Office

+49 (0)173 293 1155 - Mobile

[email protected]

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