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EMC Centera
The best archive storage platform with lowest total cost of ownership
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Agenda
Reasons to archive
The optimal storage platform
Archive storage options
EMC Centera
Use cases
Recommended next steps
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Reasons to Archive
When information volumes dictate the need for:
– A better total cost of ownership– A simplified IT infrastructure– Much easier information management
Your backup process becomes time-constrained
Ensure corporate governance policies are met
Regulated industry requirements
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Archived Content
E-mail and files
Video surveillance Medical imaging
Call centervoice recording
Documents
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Requirements for the Best Archive Storage Platform
Safeguards access Enforces retention
and disposition within storage
Addresses business continuity and disaster recovery
Requires little to no management
Works with any application or any platform
Eliminates the impact of technology turns
Stores one copy of unique content
Provides lowest total cost of ownership
Simple Affordable Secure
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Other Archiving Options
Tape and Optical Too labor intensive
(management and repair) Too many technology turns Prone to media damage Slow response times Information is inaccessible
when offsite
Tape Library orOptical Jukebox ATA Array
SAN/NAS ATA arrays Provides online access Too labor intensive No intelligence to:
– Simplify management
– Reduce the quantity of storage consumed
– Assure information authenticity
– Improve total cost of ownership beyond acquisition price
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How Centera Works: Application Example
Application stores Content Addressfor future reference
Centera performs content address calculation and
sends address back to application
Application server sends object to Centera over IP network
Object is created and sent to application server
LANCA
CA
Content Address
10001010 Digital
fingerprint
Globally unique
Location- independent
ContentAddressalgorithm
Content Addressalgorithm
10111011
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What Content Addressing Brings to an Information Archive
Eliminates management overhead– Address is location-independent
Improved storage efficiency– Identical objects are stored only once
Guaranteed integrity– Absolute assurance of content
authenticity
Enforces application retention and disposition policies in storage
– Object level retention
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Centera User Comments
“Once you set [Centera] up and set up your rules, there is zero FTE time required to manage it.”
“Centera administration costs are one-thirtieth of the SAN administration costs.”
“We did not know where the Centera was located after one year because we never had to touch it.”
Hard Statistic: “In a very heavy change environment, we manage 8.9 PB of Centera with two people that have other things they do.”
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<User: Bill Brown, EVP><Date: April 10, 2010><Report from: T. Smith><Comment: Inconsistent
Revenue production><Retention Period = 5 years>
<User: Jane Doe, VP Sales><Date: April 2, 2010><Report from: T. Smith><Comment: Great Division Sales numbers><No retention period specified>
Clip ID:The Content Address of the metadata file (CDF) that Centera returns to the application
3C08JM40C8AMMe0N8ATEJHC2DQN
Clip ID:The Content Address of the metadata file (CDF) that Centera returns to the application
4AE7B39A2CEFe6J2PTDRWE4YYZ
Benefits of Content Address and Storage-Based Metadata
An archive with rich metadata allows: Retention and disposition by user Organization of content by user view Search and index Business logic that triggers application actions when information is read
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Pool 1
Application Pool 1
Pool 2 Application Pool 2
Pool 3
Application Pool 3
Default PoolDefault Pool
“Virtual Pools” Segregate Content
CDFBlob
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Source Target
Replicate all Virtual Pools Replicate selected Virtual Pools
Pool 1
Pool 2
Pool 3
Pool 1
Pool 3
Pool 1
Pool 2
Pool 3
Distributed Content for Business Continuity and Disaster RecoveryPools and replication
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Scalable RAIN Architecture:Redundant Array of Independent Nodes
Multiple cabinetsin a single cluster
Centera4-node
Up to 32 nodes per cabinet
Centera Virtual Archive
Easily scale by adding nodes to the cluster
Federate clusters with Centera Virtual Archive
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Archivingapplication
Archivingapplication
Centera Virtual Archive Software Creates a more scalable and efficient long-term archive
Centera is now:
More scalable– Aggregation of multiple clusters– Increased capacity (petabytes)
More flexible– Existing clusters join virtualized
cluster environment– Expand archive to overcome space,
distance, and technology limitations
Even simpler to use and manage– Applications interact with single virtual
archive– Retrieve objects stored on any cluster – Seamlessly aggregate available
capacity of multiple clusters
IP network
Centera cluster Centera cluster
Centera cluster Centera cluster
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275 EMC Centera Archive Solution Partners
File systems
Documents and images (enterprise content management)
Microsoft SharePoint
Medical images
SAP information
Databases
Voice recordings
Video
Check/document imaging
Life Sciences
Security Event and Information Management (SEIM)
Other archiving applications
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Centera’s Superior Total Cost of Ownership
Two 4-node Centeras (replicated)versus
Two NAS Storage Systems (replicated)
Co
sts
$0
$50,000
$100,000
$150,000
$200,000
$250,000
$300,000
$350,000
AcquisitionCost
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
NAS Centera
Two 4-node Centeras (replicated)versus
Two Optical Systems
Co
sts
$0
$100,000
$200,000
$300,000
$400,000
$500,000
$600,000
AcquisitionCost
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
Optical Centera
Two 4-node Centeras (replicated)versus
Two Tape Systems
Co
sts
AcquisitionCost
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
Tape Centera
$0
$50,000
$100,000
$150,000
$200,000
$250,000
$300,000
$350,000
$400,000
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A Large Air Carrier
Business challenge
Tape as the repository for aged e-mails was slow, unreliable, time consuming to manage, and costly
Decision criteria
Ease of use and management
Low cost
Internal governance and SEC compliance
Centera’s value
Provide end-to-end offering to meet all requirements including internal governance and SEC compliance
Significantly reduce backup window and eliminate PST folders
Provide the lowest total cost of ownership
USE CASE
E-mail archiving
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An Education Services Provider
Business challenge
A large on-campus provider of private for-profit post-secondary education needed a more cost-effective and easier-to-manage solution while satisfying the ongoing need for the long-term retention of e-mails with online performance
Decision criteria
Ease of use and management
Low cost
Content authenticity
Centera’s value
Archive and retain e-mails and other files for long periods of time
Enable “nearly zero” management expense
Provide online availability and rapid access
Ensure content integrity is beyond reproach
USE CASE
E-mail archiving
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USE CASE
The Boston Red Sox
Business challenge The Red Sox stores footage of entire games in files averaging
more than 500 MB each—they needed an easy and low-cost solution to archive their large video library, as well as to be able to quickly recall the archived videos
Decision criteria Ease of use and management
Fast access to archive
Low cost
Content authenticity
Centera’s value Enable online archiving of entire video library
Improve file retrieval time from many minutes to seconds
Provide the lowest total cost of ownership
Ensure content authenticity
File system archiving
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A Global Law Firm
Business challenge This global law firm, operating 30 offices in several countries
and four data centers worldwide, used tape for archiving and needed a cost-effective solution to improve backup while ensuring legal compliance
Decision criteria Relieve and optimize backup
Content authenticity
Low cost
Internal governance and legal compliance
Centera’s value Provide end-to-end offering to meet all requirements, including
internal governance and legal compliance
Significantly reduce backup window
Provide online availability and rapid access
Ensure content authenticity
File system archiving
USE CASE
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SharePoint Archiving
Business challenges Costly and complex to manage Storage Processor (SP) data
growth (Tier 1 storage) Good governance requires policies and controls be in place to
manage SP data Microsoft SQL Server performance slowed as the archive grew
Decision criteria Scalability Centralized control to enforce retention and compliance policies Content authenticity Data availability for e-discovery
Centera’s value Centera can expand easily to accommodate growing SP archives Security controls to facilitate corporate governance for
compliance, retention, etc. Assure content integrity Allows content to be stored on a cost-effective storage tier
SharePointarchiving
USE CASE
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A Large Healthcare Provider
Business challenge Support rapid and reliable access to electronically stored
archives to facilitate the best possible patient care and proficient business practice; in addition, solution must meet compliance requirements
Decision criteria Content authenticity Reliability and performance Easy to manage Must meet compliance needs
Centera’s value Assures integrity of content beyond reproach Saves storage costs by eliminating redundant images Excellent performance retrieving Picture Archiving
Communication System (PACS) and patient information Centera reduces management costs: “It takes care of itself and
doesn’t need constant attention”
Clinical imaging and business applications
USE CASE
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A Large Manufacturing Company
Business challenge: Automated archiving of all SAP archive objects with need to
optimize infrastructure management and lower costs
Decision criteria Seamless integration
Content authenticity
Scalability
Low cost
Centera’s value Archiving solution expandable to handle e-mail, images, and
reports
Enabled improved system performance
Ensured content authenticity
Secure, scalable platform for automated archiving of all SAP archive objects
SAP archiving
USE CASE
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A Large Police and Fire Department
Business challenge Manage an accelerating number of 911 emergency calls;
recordings were used by public safety officials conducting investigations from minor traffic accidents to violent crimes; needed to comply with public safety regulations
Decision criteria Easy to manage Fast access to calls Authenticity of information Comply with public safety regulations
Centera’s value Self-managing properties delivered a lower total cost of
ownership over tape solution Ensured an accurate, defensible chain of custody Achieved faster turnaround of discovery requests Centera’s compliance features were key to meeting public
safety regulations
Archive voice recordings
USE CASE
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A Major European Telecommunication Company
Business challenge 2006 EU Data Retention Directive requires all European
telecommunications and Internet service providers to retain all call detail records confidentially and securely for a period of up to two years and to be able to retrieve them “without undue delay”
Decision criteria Seamless integration Content authenticity Scalability Low cost
Centera’s value An archive solution that scales Ensured content authenticity Tightly integrated with key applications for complete security
and information authenticity Superior total cost of ownership
Voice recording for security purposes
USE CASE
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Why EMC Centera
Proven, purpose-built archiving platform with more than:– More than 5,500 customers– More than 1,700 systems installed– More than 370 PB shipped– 275 solution partners
Works with any application
Highly available and scalable
High-performance production archiving
The best offering when informationvolumes dictate the need for the:
Best total cost of ownership
Simplest IT infrastructure
Easiest information management
Centera4-node
Centera
Simple
Affordable
Secure
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Recommended Next Steps
Steps Business Benefits
Assess Leverage EMC Services and avoid the time and expense of developing expertise
Identify maximum investment and benefit opportunities
Archive first Creates the best information total cost of ownership Helps simplify IT infrastructure Makes managing information much easier Addresses governance and compliance requirements Reduce the size of backup
Deduplicatebackup to disk
Expedite application recovery Reduce backup storage infrastructure Reduce time and bandwidth backups Eliminate remote office backup infrastructure Reduce backup management overhead