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Rocket Arkivio Autoexplore enables IT managers to collect detailed information about each device, volume, and file in a heterogeneous storage network, without requiring installation of server agents. When combined with Rocket Arkivio professional services, the solution enables IT managers to implement a detailed storage audit that gathers critical information and produces in-depth reports about the data storage environment. By identifying and migrating less frequently accessed data off primary storage, IT managers can reduce the time required for backup and disaster recovery. Rocket Arkivio Autostor is an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) software solution that effectively manages the explosive growth of unstructured data by integrating data and storage discovery, contextual classification, and automated management into one intelligent file system archiving solution. The software collects and analyzes detailed information about storage usage and the criticality of data within its lifecycle in order to classify and prioritize data and storage resources. Additionally, the solution enables administrators to create policies that automate data management (migration, move, copy, retention, and clean-up) to consolidate and optimize resources across a heterogeneous storage environment and improve operational efficiency. Rocket Arkivio Automigrate is an agentless data migration tool that allows organizations to painlessly transition to a consolidated file services environment. Rocket Arkivio Automigrate can migrate data from any CIFS- or NFS-based file server or NAS device.
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Arkivio Intelligent Data Management
Solutions
© ICT Business Consulting 2013 Commercial in Confidence
© ICT Business Consulting 2013 Commercial in Confidence
• Introductions – ICT Business Consulting
• The Data Problem
• Who is Rocket | Arkivio?
• Who Buys ARKIVIO®
• Worldwide ARKIVIO® Partners
• The Software Modules
• Use Case Scenarios
• Why Execute an Assessment?
• Importance of Assessment
• Why ARKIVIO®
• Assessment Deliverables
• The Consulting Approach
• The Assessment Provides
• Classification & Reporting
• ARKIVIO® Autoexplore
• ARKIVIO® Data Collection
• ARKIVIO® Autoexplore Benefits
• ARKIVIO® Case Studies (Government | Education | Manufacturing)
• ARKIVIO® Autoexplore Pricing
• ICT Storage Professional Services
• ARKIVIO® Storage Assessment Summary
Agenda
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Blair Baxter – Principal Consultant
0403 750 580
http://www.linkedin.com/company/ict-business-consulting
https://twitter.com/blairbaxter1
ICT Business Consulting
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The Data Problem
70% 10X 5%
Unstructured
data in an
enterprise
Unstructured data growth versus structured
Unstructured data proactively managed
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Who is Rocket | Arkivio?
Arkivio is a Brand of Rocket Software focused on developing solutions for the intelligent
management of Unstructured Data
Founded in 2000 with the vision of developing solutions to help customer get the Right Data, to
the Right Place, at the Right Time
Shipping 6th Generation Solution
Data Center Tested and Proven
Consulting and professional services focused on
Data Classification Assessments for back-up optimisation, storage optimisations, migrations, and
consolidation projects
Leverages industry-leading people and a complete solution architected to deliver a non-
disruptive, high speed data classification assessment
Helps companies optimise storage and management of data by showing them how to store,
protect, and manage their business-critical information more efficiently and cost-effectively
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Who Buys ARKIVIO®
Any customer that has expediential data growth and is challenged with developing a long term strategy for the cost
effective growth, forecasting, protection and management of such resources.
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Worldwide ARKIVIO® Partners
Global Storage Partners
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The Software Modules
Autoexplore Autostor AutomigrateManage TransferDiscover
Easy to deploy with agentless solution
Full analysis with comprehensive
reporting on data and storage
Web portal monitoring
Scans up to six billion files
Organizes and classifies data and
storage based on use and deployment
Allows you to create “what if”
scenarios via policy simulations
Offers flexible grouping and
prioritization of data based on
contextual classification
Automates data management actions
through a customizable event-driven
policy engine
Features transparent data access that
is non-disruptive to the end user and
application functionality
Run independent, multi-threaded data
collectors with extraordinary speed
and scale
Unicode compliant software is ready
for deployment anywhere in the world
Scalable to petabytes of storage on a
single instance
Optimized for WAN deployment
Non-Disruptive data migration
Provides flexible scheduling options that allow users to action migrations during off-peak hours
Designed for Scalability (eight billion objects)
High performance multi-threaded data movers
Includes comprehensive reporting
Transparent to users, providing access to files even during migration
Performs migrations from any CIFS or network file system (NFS)-based file server or network attached storage (NAS)
Utilizes standard protocols
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Use Case Scenario
Autoexplore Autostor AutomigrateManage TransferDiscover
You have a scenario:
running out of storage space (or
storage utilisation is climbing and you
don't know why)
need to purchase more storage, but
cannot budget for it at the moment.
AutoExplore will quickly:
Provide a comprehensive report on
aged data that could be moved (i.e.
old redundant records that need to be
kept for x years..) to Tier 3 storage, or
a cloud-based storage solution.
Identify any files that are not "core-
business” that could be moved off the
primary array, thus extending the
usable life of the array.
Enable the infrastructure team to
identify the ROI of a Storage Solution
leveraging ARKIVIO®
Based on the results of the Autoexplore
Assessment or as a Data Management
Solution:
AutoStor can be deployed with a set
of policies to manage the data
according to business decisions on the
importance of the data.
Through flexible policies, the data
would automatically move between
storage arrays, a cloud-based
solution, or alternatively, cheaper
Tier2/3 arrays, thus increasing
performance and cost effectiveness on
the primary array.
Autostor is not in the data path,
performance and user access is not
impacted. No proprietary formats no
customer lock in.
When it’s time to move the data onto
another storage vendor, Automigrate will:
Transfer the data from an older SAN
to a new Storage System
Be the tool used as part of the overall
storage sale and installation.
AutoMigrate is used to seamlessly migrate
data from the old array to the new array,
WITHOUT impacting the users access to the
data during the migration.
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Why Execute an Assessment?
Addressing key client needs/issues;
Clients want to know what they have and how they are using it prior to additional investment in
storage hardware,
Clients unable to meet the required Back-up Windows or Recovery SLAs,
Optimize Storage Costs,
Improve Storage Forecasting and Planning,
Ideal for Storage Consolidation Planning.
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Importance of Assessment
Value of Assessment;
Develop a complete, thorough storage consumption plan to better understand the value of your business data.
Accelerate storage and project approvals internally with solid business case data to get funding.
The assessment will provide the following information;
Over and under utilized storage systems,
File Age Distribution,
Duplicate Files,
Misuse of storage,
Storage consumption by user,
Storage consumption by department,
Storage consumption by storage class & data class,
Differentiate high value data compared to low value data,
& much, much more…
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Why ARKIVIO®
Purchasing additional storage;
The data classification assessment can assist you in putting forward the best proposal based on your
actual environment.
Purchasing Data Management or Data Tiering solutions;
The agent-less, heterogeneous, high performance Data Classification Assessment enabled by Rocket
Arkivio is best in class.
The data management solutions offered by Rocket Arkivio are complete, scalable, heterogeneous and
provide the best in class ROI for clients.
Executing a storage consolidation;
The data classification assessment can improve planning and execution of the data migration to ensure
greater end-user satisfaction.
Purchasing additional storage;
Development of a complete internal storage proposal that address storage, back-up and recovery and
long-term data retention requirements.
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Assessment Deliverables
The storage assessment will provide essential information required to optimize your storage environment on an
ongoing basis, enabling a wide variety of cost savings and management reducing practices that can be
automated.
The assessment is a low cost, low impact service that provides storage administrators visibility and a greater
understanding of their data and storage environment, so they can make informed storage and data
management decisions.
Executive
Summary
• Objectives
• Key findings
• recommendations
Analysis
• Information
gathered
• Actions on
information
• Full set of reports
Reports
• Capacity
utilisation
• File age
distribution
• Consumption
• Last access and
modifications, etc.
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The Consulting Approach
The diagram below describes the key steps to executing a successful Data Classification Assessment.
1. Site Survey
• Complete a Site Survey form. Objectives:
• Understand customer’s IT environment
• Identify data management requirements.
• Determine the number of servers required
• Define requirements for a successful deployment.
• Create project schedule for installation.
2. Standard Software Installation
• Onsite, deploy and configure the Arkivio Autoexplore solution. This process includes the following:
• Verify the server and environment configuration.
• Install Arkivio Autoexplore components and verify successful set-up.
3. Software Configuration
• After the installation is completed, ICT Business Consulting will:
• Enter the designated hosts for management to Arkivio GUI
• Identify shares to be managed in consultation with the customer. The consultant will confirm proper connectivity to these hosts/file systems, including required access.
• Create Customer defined Data and Storage Groups and policies.
• Initiate or schedule File Data Collection (FDC).
4. Review and Refine Implementation
• After completion of the FDC, the consultant will
• Review initial finding with the customer.
• Make any modification or additions to the Data and Storage Groups.
5. Create and Simulate Data Mgnt Policy
• Once the data and storage classes have been established, the consultant will:
• Create customer defined data management policies for the groups of data and storage.
• Simulate policies and share results with the customer to ensure actions are in in-line with expectation and goals.
6. Prepare Report & Deliver
The ICT Business Consulting consultant will prepare the
Data Classification Assessment Report
(Executive Summary) and all other deliverables for
review with client.
The Executive Summary will define the objectives of service, key findings,
TCO analysis, and recommendations to
address the most common challenges in managing a
fast growing and ever changing data
environment: back-up windows, back-up cost,
effectively managing the data growth, align
retention policies with business requirements and purge data when it is no
longer required.
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The Assessment Provides
Full Analysis;
Data and Storage Resources
No Agents
Fast Results;
Less Time
Less Resources
Less Cost
Grouping and Classification;
Organise Based on Usage and/or
Deployment
Assign Relative Business Value
Policy Simulation;
Run “What if” Scenarios
Before and After Pictures
Justify the Purchase
Duplicates by number of files
Duplicates by file size (MB)
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Classification & Reporting
Comprehensive reporting on data and storage environment;
Enterprise-wide
By Server
By Volume
By Directory
Or any grouping of the above
Reports cover enterprise requirements;
Storage Utilization
File Type, Size, Access, Modified, and Created
De-duplication
Ownership/Security
Trending
Custom reports reflect data and storage classification
Space Consumption Grouped by File Type
File Age Distribution showing Size of Files based on Last Access Time
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ARKIVIO® Autoexplore
File Age Distribution
Quickly Identify
Areas for
Improvement!
Simulator;
Ability to run “what if” scenarios to obtain
predictable results
Quickly develop action plan or recommendations for
action plan
Information obtained from the simulator will enable
you to quickly develop an ROI based on actual
information about the clients environment
File System Integrity;
ARKIVIO® autoexplore does not change any of the
file meta-data information during data collection
Heterogeneous Support;
NAS, DAS or SAN
UNIX, Window & Linux
Simulator;
Ability to run “what if” scenarios to obtain
predictable results
Quickly develop action plan or recommendations for
action plan
Information obtained from the simulator will enable
you to quickly develop an ROI based on actual
information about the clients environment
File System Integrity;
ARKIVIO® autoexplore does not change any of the
file meta-data information during data collection
Heterogeneous Support;
NAS, DAS or SAN
UNIX, Window & Linux
Quickly Identify Areas for Improvement!
File Age Distribution showing Size of Files based on Creation Time
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ARKIVIO® Data Collection
LAN Remote Server Assistants (RSA)• Policy Execution• Data Retrieval & Cache
ARKIVIO Central Server (ACS)• Central Web Management• Central Policy Configuration• Central Reporting
WAN
Multi-threaded
Self-throttling
High Performance
Optimized for WAN
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ARKIVIO® Autoexplore Benefits
Simple, Fast and Reliable Assessments!
Installation made simple;
Software only solution that can be deployed on low cost Wintel Servers or VM environments
No Agents (agentless solution);
This is a non-disruptive data assessment that requires no or very little change to the clients
environment to execute the data classification assessment.
High Speed Data Collection;
The solution is architected with a multi-treaded data collector that can scan TBs of information in
an hour without ever exceeding a 10% load on network or storage
Optimized for WAN;
A multi-site Data Classification Assessment can be executed from single location by single PS
Data Center Proven;
Assessments have executed successfully for Fortune 1000 firms in Finance, Manufacturing, Oil &
Gas, Government, and Entertainment industry segments.
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ARKIVIO® Case Study #1
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ARKIVIO® Case Study #3
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ARKIVIO® Autoexplore Pricing
Software Pricing;
Licenses are costed on a “cost per Terabyte” basis
Professional Services Rates;
daily rates are conditional on total TB count per clients storage
Configuring or Scoping an Assessment;
Software license requirements based on Total Useable Capacity
Completed “Arkivio Pre-Assessment Discovery Questions” will enable ICT Business Consulting to
scope the services required for the execution of the Data Classification Service.
Consulting Engagement / Further Information;
Contact Blair Baxter, Principal Consultant – ICT Business Consulting ([email protected])
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ICT Storage Professional Services
Storage Optimization Assessment;
Determine the type of storage and data management requirements to improve storage utilization, storage management and storage acquisition.
Back-up Optimization Assessment;
Identify the data causing backup problems that could be migrated or removed.
Storage Consolidation-Migration Assessment;
Properly plan for storage consolidation by understanding data types and storage requirements.
Size out new storage infrastructure using actual data.
Improve planning by having a complete picture of the unstructured data; i.e. no. of files, size of files, age, location, no. of volumes and % utilized.
Technology Replacement Assessment;
Identify specific areas within storage utilization, management, and acquisition that could be improved with the deployment of the Storage Solutions.
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ARKIVIO® Assessment Summary
Value of Assessment;
Backup and storage optimization
Consolidation planning
Archiving
Reduce cost
Best-in-class Assessment Solution;
Complete, agentless, heterogeneous, scalable solution
Everything you need to help bring structure to your customer’s unstructured environment
ARKIVIO® Assessment Summary