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Lower Storage Cost and Complexity with Azure

and StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Solutions

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Our Speaker

Adetayo Adegoke, Director Cloud Infrastructure Practice

• Nationwide practice lead for the Cloud Infrastructure Group

• Drives solutions in the Microsoft Azure and Office 365 space

• Microsoft vTSP [Virtual Technology Specialist Program] specializing

in Hybrid Cloud Solutions

What We’re Discussing Today

• The storage situation – An overview

• What can be done?

• The first step

The Storage Situation

An Overview

The Current Situation

Cap

acit

y

Time

The Current Situation

Cap

acit

y

Time

CapEx, OpEx

of traditional storage

The Current Situation

Cap

acit

y

Time

CapEx, OpEx

of traditional storage

Data grows

exponentially(50–60% Annually)

Data Set CharacteristicsA

cc

es

s

Unstructured

data growing

40% YoY

Working data set

stays fairly

constant

Data working set

is relatively small

Significant

amount of

inactive data

Time

Current Storage Solution Architecture

Traditional Storage + Data Protection Architecture

Servers

Primary Volume

Snapshot

Disk Array

Media Server

Disk Backup/ VTL

Encryption

Appliance

Physical Tape

InfrastructureOffsite Vault

A Review of the Current Situation

Storage Today = Complex & Expensive

Data

Management

Complexity

Backup

Issues

Untested

Disaster

Recovery

Data

Growth

& Footprint

Equipment

Sprawl

Primary

Storage

Disk-based

Backup StorageTape Infrastructure

& Management

Archival

StorageReplicated

Storage for DR

Offsite Facility for

Geo-resilience

What can be done?

Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) Solutions

What if You Can Simplify…

How Microsoft HCS Saves You Money

Cap

acit

y

Time

CapEx, OpEx

of traditional storage

Cloud

Storage

Local

Storage

However, most I/O

happens to the

“Working Set” data

How Microsoft HCS Saves You Money

Cap

acit

y

Time

CapEx, OpEx

of traditional storage

Cloud

Storage

Local

Storage

However, most I/O

happens to the

“Working Set” data

Data grows

exponentially(50–60% Annually)

How Microsoft HCS Lowers Complexity

Storage Tomorrow = Flexible, Powerful and Less Costly

Microsoft

Azure

Primary

Storage

Disk-based

Backup StorageTape Infrastructure

& Management

Archival

StorageReplicated

Storage for

DR

Offsite Facility for

Geo-resilience

Two > Six ?

Microsoft

Azure

Primary

Storage

Disk-based

Backup StorageTape Infrastructure

& Management

Archival

StorageReplicated

Storage for

DR

Offsite Facility for

Geo-resilience

Azure + StorSimple = 60–80% Lower TCO

StorSimple Cloud Snapshots and RTO

StorSimple

Cloud

Snapshots

speed up

RTO by up to

100x

Recovery

Tim

e

Primary Data Size

1 TB 5 TB 20 TB 50 TB 100 TB

15 Min.

1 Hour

1 Day

7 Days

30 Days

90 Days

Regular Cloud

Backupwith 100 Mbps WAN

Link

Tape

StorSimple

Cloud Snapshotswith 50 Mbps WAN

Link

Application Recovery Times from offsite backups

in case of a disaster

Why Not Use a Pure Cloud Storage Solution?

Integration• HTTP/REST API

• Integration with existing backup

applications & processes

Performance• WAN latency performance impact

• WAN bandwidth costs

• Traditional WAN optimization does

not work with public clouds

Security• Data security & compliance risk

Application Servers

HT

TPS/

RES

T

Microsoft

Azure

Fundamental Value of StorSimple

Application Servers

Applications in Physical or Virtual

Servers

StorSimple

Customer Data Center

Enterprise SAN

storage

Inline de-dupe,

compression &

automatic tiering

Automated offsite

data protection

using cloud

snapshots

Highly efficient,

location

independent

disaster recovery

StorSimple connects Windows, Linux and Hyper-V/VMware servers to Azure Storage in minutes with no application modification

When to Consider HCS

Target Use Cases

File Share

• CIFS

• NFS

• File servers

• NAS

SharePoint

• Business

intelligence

• Collaboration

• Content & records

management

Archives

• EMR/PACS

• Legal

• Construction

• Media

• Engineering

• Logs, records

VMs

• Regional office

storage

• VM sprawl

• VM archives

Tier 2 Applications

Generic

Application

Server

SharePoint

Server

Backup to

the Cloud

File Share

ServerVirtual

Machines

Local

Storage

Backup

Archiving

Server

Regional

Office

Storage

How HCS works – Conceptual

Thin, Reduced

SnapshotsCloud Snapshots

Recover from

Cloud

to any DC

Automated

Cloud-as-a-Tier

Cloud-integrated

SAN Storage

StorSimple + Azure Storage

Data stored in

Cloud is

encrypted

Virtual Appliance

in the Cloud *

Available with the StorSimple 8000 series *

StorSimple Conceptual Architecture

SSD Deduplicated

SASDeduplicated

Compressed

Cloud

Deduplicated

Compressed

Encrypted

SSDLinear Tier

A B C A B D E

StorSimple Solution Operation

Microsoft

Azure

SSD Deduplicated

SASDeduplicated

Compressed

Cloud

Deduplicated

Compressed

Encrypted

SSDLinear Tier

A B C D E

StorSimple Solution Operation

Microsoft

Azure

SSD Deduplicated

SASDeduplicated

Compressed

Cloud

Deduplicated

Compressed

Encrypted

SSDLinear Tier

A B

C D

E

StorSimple Solution Operation

Microsoft

Azure

SSD Deduplicated

SASDeduplicated

Compressed

Cloud

Deduplicated

Compressed

Encrypted

SSDLinear Tier

A B

C DC

E

StorSimple Solution Operation

Microsoft

Azure

SSD Deduplicated

SASDeduplicated

Compressed

Cloud

Deduplicated

Compressed

Encrypted

SSDLinear Tier

A B

C DC D

E

StorSimple Solution Operation

Microsoft

Azure

SSD Deduplicated

SASDeduplicated

Compressed

Cloud

Deduplicated

Compressed

Encrypted

SSDLinear Tier

A B

C DC D E

StorSimple Solution Operation

Microsoft

Azure

SSD Deduplicated

SASDeduplicated

Compressed

Cloud

Deduplicated

Compressed

Encrypted

SSDLinear Tier

A B

C DC D E

StorSimple Solution Operation

Microsoft

Azure

SSD Deduplicated

SASDeduplicated

Compressed

Cloud

Deduplicated

Compressed

Encrypted

SSDLinear Tier

A B

CC

D

E

StorSimple Solution Operation

Microsoft

Azure

SSD Deduplicated

SASDeduplicated

Compressed

Cloud

Deduplicated

Compressed

Encrypted

SSDLinear Tier

A B

CC

D

E

StorSimple Solution Operation

Microsoft

Azure

SSD Deduplicated

SASDeduplicated

Compressed

Cloud

Deduplicated

Compressed

Encrypted

SSDLinear Tier

A B

CC

D E

StorSimple Solution Operation

Microsoft

Azure

SSD Deduplicated

SASDeduplicated

Compressed

Cloud

Deduplicated

Compressed

Encrypted

SSDLinear Tier

A B

CC

D

StorSimple Solution Operation

Microsoft

AzureE

SSD Deduplicated

SASDeduplicated

Compressed

Cloud

Deduplicated

Compressed

Encrypted

SSDLinear Tier

A B

CC

D

StorSimple Solution Operation

Microsoft

Azure

E

Cloud

Snapshots

Enterprise Data Center 1 Enterprise Data Center 2

Production Data Production Data

Seamless Scalability & Rapid Recovery

Microsoft Azure

Cloud

Snapshots

Enterprise Data Center 1 Enterprise Data Center 2

Connect many servers to cloud

storage and scale data sets

with StorSimple solution

Production Data Production Data

Seamless Scalability & Rapid Recovery

Microsoft Azure

Cloud

Snapshots

Enterprise Data Center 1 Enterprise Data Center 2

Connect many servers to cloud

storage and scale data sets

with StorSimple solution

Rapidly recover to any data

center (location independent) via

mounting the cloud

Production Data Production Data

Seamless Scalability & Rapid Recovery

Microsoft Azure

Azure Storage Overview

Primary Location

Secondary Location

Azure Storage Overview

Primary Location

Secondary Location

Azure Storage Overview

Primary Location

Secondary Location

Azure Storage Overview

Primary Location

Secondary Location

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