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Challenges• High data volumes make it difficult to keep

up with backup and replication windows

• Operational overhead managing multiple backup copies across multiple data centers

• Long restore times from tape impact business productivity; only most recent backups are kept on disk

• Data is difficult to access in silos making it challenging to unlock value and monetize older data

Solution HGST Active Archive System and Commvault® Simpana® software deliver a backup solution that solves data management and protection at petabyte-scale and provides instant access to data anytime, anywhere.

Massive data growth and tight budgets are forcing IT to find more effective storage strategies to meet capacity, performance and data protection requirements. Data is the life-blood of organizations, and it’s expected to grow at 40% per year well into the next decade.* Companies are using data to drive faster decision-making, accelerate product innovation and develop new revenue streams. The workforce is global and mobile, requiring access to data anytime, anywhere.

Today’s large data sets and shrinking backup and recovery windows are creating a huge challenge for storage administrators. It is becoming nearly impossible to meet service levels using legacy storage systems and backup methods in today’s complex data center environment. IT organizations facing these and similar challenges are anxious to get on with modernizing their backup and recovery capabilities. As they work through the process towards choosing a solution, there are important considerations when selecting the right underlying storage infrastructure, and backup and recovery application.

HGST and Commvault® deliver a unified cloud-scale storage and data management and storage solution that addresses these challenges. As a certified partner, Simpana® software seamlessly integrates with the HGST Active Archive System for petabyte-scale data protection and management.

Storage Infrastructure ConsiderationsThere are several storage infrastructure options to consider, including the role of the Cloud.

• Tape’s low acquisition cost on the surface sounds great, the accessibility at scale is impacting restore performance and subsequently business operations. Data recovery is slow and sometimes inconsistent. Not good for more active use. Better for long-term passive retention and disaster recovery (DR) insurance.

Transforming the Data Center with Unified Cloud-scale Data Protection and Management

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Benefits• Significantly lower operational complexity

and cost with a unified backup, recovery and archive solution

• “Cloud-scale economics” on premise — fully integrated geo-dispersed object storage backend for backups

• Eliminates the need for replication by consolidating multiple copies to a single geo-dispersed copy

• Data center disaster recovery protection with a single copy of data — uses less capacity than two full copies

• Seamless disaster recovery process with global accessibility; eliminates legacy active-passive model

• Manage 20X data volume with same resources and consistently achieve backup and restore SLAs

• Traditional nearline disk-based arrays offer capacity, performance and scalability, but are expensive and complex to manage. Good for aggressive backup windows and recovery point and time objectives. At petabyte-scale, RAID is no longer viable and replication adds to overall cost and complexity.

• Cloud storage technology offers limitless capacity scalability and global accessibility at low cost. Public cloud latency is not good for short backup windows. I/O transactions can get expensive, and compliance requirements may prohibit. Good for longest-term archive and DR.

Object Storage – Petabytes and Beyond Object storage is cloud storage technology used by most of the world’s largest service providers. It’s being used for public and private clouds, across industry verticals to store a variety of unstructured data types including documents, big data files, sensor data, photos, medical images, and videos. Based on a scale-out architecture, object storage offers high availability with massive scalability and the flexibility to support a variety of use cases. A single pool of storage is created, whether deployed in one or multiple data centers, with all data easily accessible in a single global namespace.

There are no RAID, volumes, or LUNs, making object storage easier to manage than traditional storage. Erasure coding or replication is used to provide data protection and resiliency in case of node or drive failures. As a result, object storage is the ideal foundation for petabyte-scale data, although not all object storage is created equal.

HGST Active Archive and Commvault® Simpana® SoftwareThe HGST Active Archive System is a massively scalable and efficient object store that removes the challenges of architecting, and operating an integrated backup, recovery and archive solution. As a rack-level system, it’s up and running quickly. Put it in place, connect the power, configure the network and it’s online, presenting an S3-compliant object interface for the Commvault® Simpana® data management platform.

The heart of the HGST system is its innovative EasiScale™ object storage software that delivers the highest levels of scalability, durability and efficiency. Patented BitSpread® technology delivers 15 nines durability with a single copy of data. With GeoSpread, data is spread across three sites keeping data protected and available during a full data center outage. The HGST Active Archive System offers the highest density and lowest power footprint, ideal for consolidating multiple backup and archive storage

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Figure 1: Benefits from each component of the HGST/Commvault® solution

targets. HGST Ultrastar® He8 8TB second-generation HelioSeal® hard drives consume 23% less power than air-based alternatives, enabling industry-leading storage density and power efficiency. A single rack holds 4.7 petabytes of raw capacity and delivers up to 3.5GB/s aggregate throughput. Performance scales linearly with added capacity to meet future backup and recovery needs.

Unified Backup, Archive and Recovery ArchitectureCommvault® Simpana® software is a long-term data retention and management platform. Combined with the HGST Active Archive System, the overall solution can dramatically simplify data management operations while lowering overall storage infrastructure costs. See Figure 1. Automated data tiering, deduplication, backup and archive fea-tures help reduce the complexity of managing multiple point products and associated storage capacity. The HGST Active Archive System is certified by Commvault® and integrates easily with Simpana® software as a cloud storage target using an S3 interface. No extra gateway is required. Backup and archive processes can be easily redirected to the HGST Active Archive System.

The embedded data deduplication capability can save up to 3-5X, while the Active Archive System’s 15 nines data durability and site-level fault tolerance can eliminate the need for replication and tape for long-term retention. This

simplicity at scale enables organizations to migrate from active-passive protection to continuous DR with a single copy of data. In addition, there can be significant WAN traffic savings as a result of reducing the amount of data and how often it moves throughout its lifecycle.

There is a lot of diversity in the types of data enterprises need to protect, the data protection products and infrastructure, and in the required backup and recovery service levels. Commvault® software’s integrated automated data management enables a single, complete view of all stored data no matter where it is — on premise or in the cloud. Figure 2 shows what a typical high-level enterprise multi-site deployment can look like.

GeoSpread

• Elimination of replica copies• 50% less capacity overhead• Full disaster recovery• Site level fault tolerance

Data ManagementApplication

• Lower operating costs with simplified solution• Auto tiering of data optimizes resources• Up to 3-5X dedupe/WAN savings• Built in automated retention/deletion

HelioSeal®HDDs

• Elimination of tape• Highest density footprint• 23% less power consumption• 2.5M hours MTBF

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