eliminating the problems of exponential data growth, forever
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Balancing explosive data growth while addressing the need for extended data protection is mandatory for any IT department. But customers today find it difficult to address these challenges because of the software management layers and tools required in order to meet longer retention mandates. While exponential data growth is not a new problem, the quandary that IT faces in 2014, now has a new solution. Join Spectra and IDC as we identify the greatest dilemmas facing data centers in 2014, and explore the capabilities of Spectra’s newest product, the BlackPearl™ Deep Storage Appliance. During this brief webinar, attendees will learn about: -A situation analysis of today’s software-defined data center -How moving to an “elastic” data center enables more cost-effective and efficient data management -Emerging technologies and key strategies to store and manage data indefinitelyTRANSCRIPT
The Challenges of Managing and Protecting Expodential Data Growth
Robert Amatruda, Research Director Data Protection and Recovery
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The Challenges of Managing and Protecting Expodential Data Growth
Customers increasingly managing not just information but infrastructure
Increasingly, geo-dispersed data drive the need for flexible and agile infrastructure
Rapid unstructured data growth as a result of mobility, social media, big data and cloud adoption
Data growth, virtualization, optimization and edge protection coupled with more aggressive RTO/RPO’s driving more use of disk and replication
Explosion of Devices and Management Challenges in the Datacenter
…managing both infrastructure and information.
Data centers are the cornerstone of business…
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The Evolving Data Landscape
Ever-growing data sets require
dispersed data management
Workloads need to run where the
data is located
Geo-dispersed data sets require
geo-dispersed workloads
Workloads are gaining location
awareness
Social media, big data and cloud usage
is generating more unstructured data
Machines generating more semi-
structured
Decentralized data stores
Mobile Data
AppData
User Data
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Unstructured Data is Growing Rapidly
Implications of Unstructured Data
growth:
Drives the need for capacity
optimized systems that house
unstructured data
Unstructured data can be
stored/accessed via on-
premises or cloud-based
delivery models
Object-based storage platforms
also power the cloud storage-as-a-
service solutions
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Capacity Optimized (shipped PB)
Performance Optimized (shipped PB)
• UNSTRUCTURED DATA accounts for 70-80% of storage capacity growth
• Capacity-optimized storage spending growth has 16.2% CAGR
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Top Unstructured Data Use-Cases
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How is your organizations’ file-based data split amongst these following types of files?
31%
14%
19%
8%
7%
16%
5%
1%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
File and print services or network shares
Virtual server or desktop images
Back up/Recovery
CAD/Images (pictures, X-rays, records)
Video/audio (surveillance, training, entertainment)
Archive
Big Data (Hadoop Clusters)
Others
% of respondents
2013 2012 N=150
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Changes in the Protection and Recovery Landscape
Physical Virtual
Backup Back-office Structured Datacenter Data only 100’s of GB Initial SANs
+ Options C-level focus + Unstructured + Edge Data and images Multi-TBs Multi-approach
Cloud as-a-Service ++ Objects ++ Endpoints Convergence Petabytes Reuse freedom
Performance Consolidation Unified Mgmt
In the Past … Today … In the Future …
What’s driven these changes?
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Factors that have Driven Transformation
1. Virtualization Images and Data
2. Cloud Era Storage to/from the Cloud
3. Data Growth B2D, Storage Efficiency
4. Recovery Snaps, Replicated Backup
5. Better Retrieval Items, indexing
PAST TODAY Backup Replica DR
vBackup Snaps Archive
Disk as a Transformative
Technology
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Factors that will Drive Transformation
1. Control v. Data Movement Technology Integration
2. Copy Data reuse Native format
3. Role of Flash/SSD Performance
4. Scale out Storage Architectures Consolidation
5. Image mobility Recovery to/in the Cloud
Backup Replica DR
Unified Data Management
Snaps ArchiveSearch
FUTURE
Spectra Logic
Next Generation Technologies
• Unstructured data drives 70-80% of storage growth– Unstructured Data = Files… lots of them!
• What’s driving it?– Virtualization– Backup/Recovery/Archive– Big Data – Video/audio
• And this trend will continue into the future
What did we just hear from IDC?
nTier Verde – Simply Affordable File Storage
• No previous storage experience required• Half the cost of traditional file storage• Never lose data
• From power on to production in 10 minutes– Simple user interface– Minimal formatting of disks required
• Monitoring/reporting– Visual Status Beacon– Automatic alerts– Call home
No previous storage experience required
• Enterprise capacity storage for the cost of JBOD• Install it yourself• PriceLock for support pricing• Compression
Half the cost of traditional file storage
Subsystem Category $ / GB
Solid State Disk (DRAM) $400 - $1000
Flash < $50
Enterprise Disk Subsystem $5 - $16
Midrange Disk Subsystem $1 - $6
Economy Disk Subsystem < $.50
Automated Tape Library $.05 - $1
Source: Horison, Inc.
• Hardware– Enterprise-class, capacity drives– Burn-in at our factory to eliminate “infant mortality” of
components– Redundant power/fans
• Software– Triple parity option for RAID– No RAID write hole issue– Intelligent rebuilds
Never lose data
nTier Verde 2U nTier Verde 4U
Supported Hard Drives 4 TB 7200 RPM SAS Hard Drives
Master Node Capacity* 6 to 11 Drives24 TB to 44 TB RAW
10 to 35 Drives40 TB to 140 TB RAW
Expansion Node Support 1 Expansion Node 9 Expansion Nodes
Max Capacity* 220 TB RAW Max 1.7 PB RAW Max
Parity Options Mirroring, Single Parity, Double Parity, Triple ParityDouble Parity recommended for most use cases
Hot Spares Unlimited
Supported Protocols NFS, CIFS
3 x 1 GigE Data Ports Standard Standard
2 x 10 GigE Data Ports Optional Standard
nTier Verde
* Using 4 TB drives
Store massive data forever at virtually no cost
• Absolute lowest cost way to store data• Easiest way to move bulk data• Most scalable long-term storage available
Spectra BlackPearl plusT950 with TS1140 drives
6.4 PB uncompressed
@ $0.09/GB
Spectra BlackPearl plusT950 with LTO drives
2.4 PB uncompressed
@ $0.10/GB
Spectra BlackPearl plusT380 with LTO drives
1.9 PB uncompressed
@ $0.14/GB
Absolute Lowest Cost Way to Store Data
ClientSoftware
FCSAS
ObjectInterface
10 GigEStandard
Objectsto
DeepStorage
Easiest Way to Move Bulk Data
Inside BlackPearl: SSD Object tracking Tape Library
Management LTFS Data Integrity
Verification Data Security Integration
with BlueScale
Spectra’s DS3 interface makes it possible• Industry first interface to tape via a web browser• RESTful (the way the web works)• Modeled after Amazon S3
• LTFS for standard reading/writing• Scale from TB to Exabytes• Keep data forever w/ media migration
Most scalable long-term storage available
Questions?