Webinar: Three Steps to Eliminating Storage Silos

3 Steps to Storage Consolidation

● Understand why there are more storage silos than ever

● Learn why current unified solutions fall short

● Learn how to eliminate storage silos

Three Steps to Eliminating Storage Silos

Too Many Storage Systems?

For audio playback and Q&A go to:

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Our Speakers

George Crump, Lead Analyst

Gary Watson, CTO and Founder

Understanding Storage Silos

What’s Causing

Storage Silos

● New Use Cases

● New Requirements

● New Technologies

The Problems with

Storage Silos

● Expensive

● Inefficient

● Hard to Manage

● Difficult to Protect

Why Do Consolidation Efforts Fall Short

One Big Storage

System

● Features incomplete

● Lack performance

● Lack retention policies

● Lack data distribution

Attempts at Consolidation

Global File Systems

● Provides data distribution

● Compromises performance

● Increases complexity

○ still multiple systems plus

new file system

Software Defined

Storage

● Centralizes management

● No or limited data distribution

● Still complex - multiple systems

to manage

Lessons Learned

● One thing is easier to manage than a

dozen

○ The closer the organization can

get to a single system the better

○ Common software interface

Single System was Close but...

Needs:

● High performance (flash)

● High capacity (disk)

● File and Block

● Retention capabilities

● Data distribution capabilities

● Collaboration

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NEXSAN UNITY: UNIFIED STORAGE PLUS

▪Unified Storage

▶Enterprise NAS (NFS, CIFS/SMB)

▶High performance Block (FC, iSCSI)

▶FASTier™ accelerated RAM and Flash Caching

▶All-flash configurations

▶All the traditional storage functionality

▪PLUS Private Cloud Enterprise File Sync & Share

▶Mobile access (Win, Mac, iOS, Android)

▪PLUS Enterprise n-Way Sync (site-to-site sync)

▶Deliver large files where they are needed so they can be

accessed at LAN-speeds

▪PLUS Integrated Secure Archive (as an option)

▶Offload primary storage into secure, long-term archive

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UNIFIED STORAGE – NEXSAN STYLE

DRAM

NVRAMFlash Read Cache

SMB 1/2/3, NFS iSCSI, Fibre Channel

Flash

SSDs

FASTier®

Mix and Match

Up to 5 PB

NAS / SAN

STORAGE

HYBRID

UNIFIED

Hard Drives: 7200 RPM NL-SAS

Performance – SAS: 10K, 15K RPM

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UNITY - ENTERPRISE MULTI-SITE SYNC

▪ Private cloud file sync

and share between

multiple sites

▪ WAN Optimized – UDT

over UDP plus

compression and caching

▪ Automated Persistent

Replication

▪ LAN Access Speeds

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▪ Mobile Access on iOS and Android Apps

▪ Desktop Access on Mac or PC

▪ Web Access to manage and view

▪ Apps include sharing of folders

▶ Sharing makes Unity a serious alternative to Box / Dropbox / etc.

▶ Sharing can be enabled / disabled by Org Admin

▪ Send links to files – no need to e-mail large files

▪ Synchronize files to the devices to work offline

DATA ACCESS: MOBILE, DESKTOP AND WEB SYNC & SHARE

Central Service(Connection Broker)

Desktop Apps

Initial Connection Mobile Apps

Web Browser ViewData

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UNITY ACTIVE ARCHIVE - PROTECTS INFORMATION

▪ Policy Engine

▪ Captures copy of

new files

▪ Fingerprints and

issues serial

number, encrypts

▪ Replicates signed

object

▪ File changes stored

as new versions

▪ After period of

inactivity, converts

to shortcut (stub)

▪ Recover any or all

file versions from

any point in time

▪ Restore just stubs

▪ Users back in

operation in

seconds

▪ Inflate later if

desired

▪ Secure log retained

for forensic exam

Thank you!

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Three Steps to Eliminating Storage Silos

Too Many Storage Systems?

For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at:

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