Cloud Archiving -

Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure

or Something Else?

Join us to Learn:

1. What are the Requirements of Cloud Archiving?

2. How do Amazon Glacier and Azure Blob Storage Meet Those Requirements?

3. What Needs to be Added to Complete the Archiving Picture?

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Our Speakers

George 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.

Geoff Bourgeois is the CEO at HubStor, the leading cloud archive service on Microsoft Azure. Geoff co-

founded HubStor with his long-time friend and colleague, Greg Campbell. Geoff has 18 years of experience

delivering enterprise software to assist with the management, search, protection, and compliance of

unstructured data. His focus in recent years has been centered on reinventing enterprise archiving for the

cloud era through Azure-based storage and data management.

Level Set - What/Why Archive

● Archive is an intentional and final copy of data made typically to

meet a compliance / regulatory reason or to free-up primary

storage capacity

● An Archive keeps organizations out of trouble

● An Archive can reduce the organization’s storage speen

● Most ROI models claim payback in months

● Plus the cost and reputation damage avoidance of having data

required by regulations

● Used to be the software

○ But Archiving software and operating system

integration is quite good now

● Used to be the hardware

○ Tape was too slow for access and generally

untrusted

○ Disk fixed access but delta savings was not

great enough when disk was primary storage or

when all cloud storage pricing was the same

Archive is the Most “Undone”

Thing Everyone Should Do

But Now

● Primary storage is mostly flash, or in

production cloud

● Archive storage is very inexpensive,

especially...

● Cloud Archive Storage

○ Started with Amazon Glacier…

○ Then Google Nearline and now…

○ Microsoft Azure Archive Blob Storage

(AABS) and Blob-level Tiering

Cloud Storage is

the Ultimate Fix● It can be bought as needed

● It is off-premises

● It is automatically replicated (disaster

protection) and has automated data

integrity checking

● And it is very inexpensive. $0.0018*

+ activity prices

* - Azure Archive tier public preview prices

But The Cloud isn’t Perfect

Comparing Amazon Glacier

with Microsoft Azure Archive

Blob Storage

Comparing Amazon Glacier with

Microsoft Azure Archive Blob Storage

● By default these are great tape

replacements and compete well vs.

sending tape media to Iron Mountain

● But for Archiving?

o The Importance of Granularity

o Common API across Tiers

o Better Retrieval Experience

The 7 Requirements for Cloud Archiving

Requirement # 1 -

Fast and Easy Recovery

● Again these are intentional copies with

a high likelihood of recovery - They’re

not backups

● Recovery should be fast

o Ability to tier even the archive

● Recovery should be easy

o Self-Service

o GUI and Application interface

Requirement # 2 -

Fully Managed

● Single Solution the provides:

o Gateway from legacy storage to

cloud storage

o Search - Metadata and optional

context

o Access Management / Chain of

Custody

o WORM/Compliance Storage

o Data Efficiency

(Deduplication/Compression)

Requirement # 3 -

Extend Existing Storage

● Many products add another on-

premises mount point. Copy from A

to B then to the cloud

● Ideally solution should extend

existing storage no additional mount

point

Requirement # 4 -

Data Awareness

● The Cloud is more than a Giant Data

Dumpster (especially archive)

● Data Aware Shows:

o What data is in the archive

o Policy status/health

o Data that is sensitive/legal hold

o User Interaction

o Custom queries

Requirement # 5 -

Integrated Data Search

● If you can’t find it, archive is an

exercise in frustration

● Integration is key, an add-on requiring

data movement and external

processes increasing complexity

● Control over search detail based on

data type / ownership (content search

is expensive)

Requirement # 6 -

Streamlined Access

● Easy to identify and egress content

● Individual file and bulk egress

scenarios

● Option to allow end-users with self-

service access

Requirement # 7 -

Storage Cost Optimization

● Dedupe and compression

● Policy-based tiering for

Windows/CIFS/NFS with seamless

recall

● In-cloud storage tiering:

Hot ←→ Cool ←→ Archive

● Containerization for small file

workloads (email, IoT)

Summary

● The Cloud is the Right Place to Archive Data

○ But the Cloud by itself is merely an

infrastructure

● Archive has deeper requirements than tape

vaulting

● Ideally archiving is delivered as a Software as

a Service model leveraging cloud infrastructure

About HubStor

· Founded March 2015.

· Customer funded.

· Experienced team:· Archiving

· eDiscovery

· Search

· Data Protection

What is HubStor?

SEARCHABLE COLD

ARCHIVE

Deep archive

Blob-level tiering

Smart indexing

STORAGE TIERING

Seamless for

Windows

Link-based for

CIFS/NFS

OFFICE 365

BACKUP

SharePoint

OneDrive for

Business

Mailboxes

Groups

Team Sites

Event History

WORM

COMPLIANCE

Immutability

Redundancy

Auditing

Export

EMAIL ARCHIVE

PST files

Mailboxes

Public folders

Journaling

Legacy archive

migrations

How it Works

Cloud-enable Windows/CIFS/NFS

Tier to Azure StoragePolicy driven

Syncs ACLs, folders

No disruption to users or apps

Offload aging dataShrink backups

Reduce costs for low-touch data

Eliminate data gravityUse for fast RTO

Streamline h/w refreshes, migrations

In-cloud Storage Tiering

· Build rules for Blob-level Tiering with criteria such as:· Folders

· Access rights

· Data ownership

· DLP/PII tags

· Last accessed

· Last modified

· Item types

· Custom fields

Hot Cool Archive

Optimize future use of Azure Storage with in-cloud tiering policies.

Thank you!

Storage Switzerlandhttp://www.storageswiss.com

georgeacrump@storageswiss.com

StorageSwiss on Twitter:http://twitter.com/storageswiss

StorageSwiss on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss

HubStorhttp://www.hubstor.net

HubStor on Twitter:https://twitter.com/hubstor

HubStor on FaceBook:https://www.facebook.com/hubstor

Cloud Archiving -

Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure

or Something Else?

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