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What’s the “Secret Sauce” for Protecting SSD Storage?

Joe Noonan, VP Product Marketing

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“External Storage Arrays Are So Boring!”

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Solid State Arrays (SSAs) are making storage hardware interesting again.

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Storage Hardware Shift

Spinning HDDs Hybrid Flash All Flash

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Growing Popularity of Solid State Arrays

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SSA Market Size

Revenue ($ Billions)Source: Gartner

CAGR: 29%

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50%External Array Market Share

by 2020Source: Gartner

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50%Projected increase in SSA

vendors by 2018Source: Gartner

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Another burden on IT

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Price & Capacity

Speed

Important Tradeoffs to Consider

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Is there a “Secret Sauce” for backup and continuity?

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Where possible, leverage SSDs as part of your backup and continuity strategy

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Array snapshotsLocal backups

Use as first line of protection

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Keep in mind COMPLETE continuityLong-term retentionDisaster Recovery

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Local• Tape• NAS• Disk

Offsite• Replication

• Co-lo

Cloud• Vendor-specific• Hyperscale

• Service Provider

Long-term Retention Strategies

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SAN replication Backup, replication, instant recovery

Keep in mind automation and recovery assurance

Disaster Recovery

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What if I don’t want to use SSDs to store backups?

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Improves performance of key metadata functions:

Deduplication Replication Archiving Recovery

Overall improves RTOs and RPOs.

SSDs help SOME backup applications too.

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Does any of this apply to cloud?

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Does any of this apply to cloud?Of course…some providers like Microsoft Azure have SSD options for their VMs. All prior options apply if your backup vendor can run in the cloud.

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So are backup appliances a weaker strategy?

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So are backup appliances a weaker strategy?Don’t think so. Here’s why…

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Apple: $11.1B Profit; $51.5B Revenue Q4-2015

All-in-one integrated personal devices displace separate telephones, cameras, music players, recorders, etc.

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Nutanix Grows 87% with $445M or Revenue and > $2B ValuationHyperconverged storage displaces servers, storage, hypervisor

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WHAT IS THE COMMON THREAD?

All-in-One!

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IT Professionals Now Expect to Have Less & Do More

No FingerPointing

MoreFlexibility

More Confidence

LessManagement

More Free Time

MoreUptime

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Unitrends TopicPresentation Name | Date 2016All-in-One

Enterprise Backup andContinuity

Old World• More vendors; more finger pointing, more

management• More work setting up and constantly tuning• Limited continuity; little or no recovery assurance• Windows deployment malware susceptible• Fragmented & lower customer satisfaction; more

worriesNew World• One vendor; one throat to choke• Less work - rack, connect, and go• Local & cloud continuity with recovery assurance• More security; purpose-built hardened Linux• Unified & higher customer satisfaction; more

confidence

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Flash is popular (and really fast!) Consider SSD as a backup location (with

caveats!) Mind your complete continuity strategy

(always!) Choose vendors that use SSDs internally (

Summary

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