SIMPLIFY DATA MANAGEMENT WITH AUTOMATED TIERING AND ARCHIVING USE CASE 1 Challenge Data volumes and storage infrastructure growth is increasing management complexity. Data needs to be preserved for longer periods of time and made available in real-time to more people in the organization to help them do their jobs more effectively. Benefits • Object Storage for file-based applications • Policy-based storage tiering and archiving • High durability, integrity and accessibility • Dramatically faster time to first byte • Consolidate storage tiers including tape Solution ActiveScale System and Versity Storage Manager (VSM) combine to create a continuous archiving solution for large- scale business and technical data environments. The combination of object storage performance and economics with a standard POSIX interface, brings together the best of both worlds. Ideal for enterprise IT or Cloud Service Providers offering data management services to those that don’t want to do it themselves. As companies expand their storage infrastructure to address the explosion of file-based data, they are struggling with increasing management complexity. Not only is more data being generated, it needs to be preserved for longer periods of time and made readily accessible to more people in the organization to achieve the company’s business objectives. Putting the right data on the right storage technology during its lifespan can help organizations save money and allows them to maximize the value of their data. A modern policy-driven tiered storage solution takes advantage of a range of storage technologies—flash, hard disk, cloud and tape—to meet the flexibility, performance and capacity demanded by large-scale business and technical data environments. This includes companies in energy exploration, financial services, life sciences, manufacturing and media/entertainment industries. Large-scale Data Management Designed to address these challenges, the combined solution from HGST and Versity makes data management easy with policy-based storage tiering, comprehensive data protection, and massively scalable, durable and affordable private cloud storage. Good data management today means the effective handling of information in order to harness its value within an organization. With HGST's ActiveScale TM object storage system and Versity Storage Manager (VSM), data storage and management can be done efficiently and automatically. Built upon a proven foundation of SAM-QFS, VSM supports virtually unlimited archive size and is compatible with a wide range of storage technologies. VSM supports nearly unlimited buckets of storage and offers a robust tiering and archive policy engine that transparently migrates and stores data to the HGST Active Archive System. A standard POSIX-compliant (Portable Operating System Interface) file system implementation supports a broad range of applications with no customization. All data is stored in open, standard file formats, so files managed by VSM are accessible by standard unmodified applications. Simplifying Complexity By continuously tiering and archiving data according to defined policies, VSM protects data and can even eliminate the need for traditional backup. VSM is not a backup system or a file system with add-on archiving features. It is designed from the ground up for managing large, complex archives. VSM adds an extended set of archiving metadata to existing, standard POSIX metadata, and requires no other applications to manage or synchronize metadata with the file system. File transfer rates are near the raw transfer rate of the ActiveScale System. Simplify Data Management with Automated Tiering and Archiving