wave goodbye to tape-based backups and archive your data in the cloud

Wave Goodbye to Tape-based Backups and Archive your Data in the Cloud

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Agenda• Problems with Backup Today• Storing Backups in the Cloud• Demo: Backup to the AWS Cloud• Why AWS for Backup & Archive?• SoftNAS Overview• Q&A

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Problems with Backup Today

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More and More Data are Generated Everyday


• Millions of data points are created every minute of the day

• A few minutes of downtime results in lost revenue and unhappy customers

• Backup options have increased, but is tape, disk or cloud the best option for your company?

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Challenges Facing On-Premise Solutions

Primary Block

Storage

Primary File

Storage

Archival Storage

Disk Based Backup Storage

Tape Infrastructur

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Replicated Storage for

Disaster Recovery

Offsite Location

Geo-Resilien

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Complex ExpensiveCapacity Guessing


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Traditional Backups


• Time: Long/slow and manual recovery time• Money: Capital intensive with ongoing upgrades• Effort: Complex to manage• Quality: Low durability, error prone

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Backup Has Changed Over The Years• Legacy backup software sent data to tape

– Slow backup, slower recovery– Limited data reduction– Trucks needed DR off-site copy

• Disk backup enabled innovations– Fast backup, faster restores– Support for Dedupe, CBT– Multiple on-line DR options– Random access to files


Backup is Still Changing• Explosion of unstructured data, especially digital content• Petabytes of data created every hour• Need for long-term retention• Companies need fast, continual file accessBut Backup systems are not…• Backup appliances need to evolve to support new backup

data requirements• Companies are slow to implement these changes• If it isn’t broke…

Storing Backups in the Cloud

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Why Store Backups in the Cloud?


• Availability– Platform independent– Everywhere– Backups

• Collaborate– Sharing made easy

• Scalability• Lower Costs• Security


Tape vs. Public CloudParameter Tape Cloud

Reliability• Prone to mechanical failures• Susceptible to damage by environmentand improper handling

• Mechanical risks minimized with high standard AWS data center• 99.999999999% durability

Cost

• Expensive overhead in transporting and maintaining the tapes• High Capex followed by considerable amount of Opex

• No overhead costs of managing the stored backups• Pay-as-you-go model

Ease-of-use• Labor intensive• Transportation• Manual addition of storage capacity

• No admin overhead• Scale storage as needed

Data Security• Risks of theft while in transit to off-site storage• Risk of damage both in on-site & off-site

• Highly secured AWS data center

Replication • Data replication is manual and can increase costs

• Data replication automated at no extra cost

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Why AWS for Backup and Archive?


No capital investment

No commitmentNo risk capacity

planning

Metered usage:Pay as you go

Avoid OpEx and risks of physical media handling

Control your geographic locality

for performance and compliance


AWS Global Infrastructure

11 Regions

28 Availability Zones

52 Edge locations

Control your geographic locality for performance and compliance

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Cloud Backup and Archive Topologies

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1. Branch office backup to cloud

2. Core data center backup to cloud

3. Cloud backup to cloud4. Hybrid cloud backup

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Data Center/Branch Office Backup to Cloud


• Considerations:– Backup Software– Storage / Caching Gateway– WAN or Internet– Deduplication– Compression– Encryption– WAN Acceleration

SoftNAS Cloud Overview


Migrate to AWS while Keeping Enterprise NAS Features

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On-Premises Data

What key features does SoftNAS Cloud® provide on AWS?- NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, AFP

support- Deploys in minutes- Storage Snapshots- Easy to learn and use- No training required- Thin Provisioning - Compression, deduplication- Disaster recovery and HA- No downtime guarantee SLA- Monthly/annual subscriptions

We expand and accelerate workload shifts to the cloud, while keeping enterprise NAS features…

“Lift and Shift” to the AWS public cloud

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