Four Assumptions Killing Backup Storage Webinar

Available On DemandFour Assumptions that are

Killing your Backup Storage - and what to do about them

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Storage Switzerland’s White Paper: “New Requirements for Enterprise Backup”

1. Assuming backup is an archive

2. Assuming it can grow forever

3. Assuming it can support production applications

4. Assuming deduplication won’t impact recovery

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About George Crump

● Founder of Storage Switzerland, and its lead analyst

● Areas of expertise include performance optimization and data protection.

● Recognized for his talks, white papers and chalktalk videos on such current technology as all-flash arrays, SSDs and software-defined storage

● He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US

● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud and virtualization

● Knowledge of these markets is gained through product testing and interaction with end users and suppliers

● The results of this research can be found in the articles, videos, webinars, product analysis and case studies on our web site:

http://storageswiss.com

Storage Swiss Background

About Gideon Senderov

Gideon Senderov has over 22 years of experience within the storage industry in product management, technical marketing, and engineering. As director of Advanced Storage Products at NEC Corporation of America, Gideon is responsible for the product management, strategic direction, and technical marketing of NEC’s storage products in North America, including HYDRAstor scale-out grid storage platform and M-Series SAN storage.

Gideon earned a BSEE at the University of Florida, an MSEE from the University of Southern California, and an MBA with honors from Santa Clara University.

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Annual Revenue: $30 billion*

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NEC – Technology Powerhouse

Polling Question

What is your biggest problem with disk backup?

❏ Scalability - ability to expand and cost to do so❏ Performance - for backup or restore❏ Reliability - confidence to restore long term❏ Disaster recoverability

Polling Question

What is your biggest problem with disk backup?

Backup has Changed over the Years

Legacy backup software applications sent data to tape

• Slow backup, slower recovery• Limited data reduction• Trucks needed for DR off-site copy

Disk backup enabled innovations

• Fast backup, faster restores• Support for Dedupe, CBT• Multiple on-line DR options• Random access to files

Backup is still Changing

• Explosion of unstructured data, esp digital content

• Need for Long-term retention

• Need for fast, continual file access

Backup IS changing, but......

Backup systems are not

• Backup appliances need to evolve to support new backup data requirements

• Companies are slow to implement these changes

• “If it ain’t broke....”

Backup Systems Can’t Keep up

Assuming current storage systems can accommodate these new changes is killing backup

Assumptions Killing Backup Storage

• Assuming backup storage is an archive

• Assuming backup storage can grow forever

Assumptions Killing Backup Storage

• Assuming backup system can support production applications

• Assuming dedupe can improve recovery

What’s the answer?

How to Fix Backup Storage

• Greater throughput - faster backups while deduplicating - faster recoveries of large files

• Incremental capacity scaling - makes growth easy, affordable

• Support for mixed use cases - supports BU, archive and content repository

How to Fix Backup Storage

• No more RAID - large RAID rebuilds too slow - second copy not feasible for

large data sets

• Better resiliency - HA design

New Designs for Enterprise Backup

Nodes• Industry-standard servers• Multiple types allowed• Heterogeneous & open

• PERFORMANCE SCALABILITY

• CAPACITY SCALABILITY

Unrestricted Scalability Intelligent Management SW

• Fully distributed system • Self-aware & self-organizing• Data management services• Virtualizes hardware platform

Community of Smart Nodes

HYDRAstor – Scale-out Grid Storage Architecture

Accelerator Nodes

Storage Nodes

Hybrid Nodes


▐ Enable in-place technology refresh with no data migration

▐ Ever greener storage with faster, denser components

▐ Enable continuous data availability

▐ Reduce CapEx and OpEx with deduplication

▐ Non-disruptive scale-out with dynamic auto provisioning

Adaptive Grid Storage For Long-Term Data

Online Upgrade/Expansion with Multi-generation Nodes

Non-disruptiveRemove Non-disruptive Add/Upgrade

V2 Grid + V3 + V4 + Vx = 1 System


▐ Simple, fast deployment < 45 minutes to backup & archive

▐ Self-discovering capacity No storage provisioning No tape emulation tasks

▐ Self-tuning and Resource Management Optimized performance & capacity Scale-out object store back-end

▐ Self-healing Automatic recovery across resources High Availability and no SPOF

▐ Web-browser GUI Monitoring and Planning

Hands-Free Management


Distrib

uted

Resilien

t Data

™

Advanced Erasure-Coded Data Resiliency

▐ “User dialable” disk/node protection Default protection against 3 concurrent failures Dynamically allocated Intermix of multiple

resiliency levels (1-6) for different applications

▐ Greater protection with lower overhead Default setting: 25% capacity overhead 1.5x greater protection than RAID 6 with lower

overhead and faster recovery No idle spare drives

▐ Faster self-healing with less performance degradation Only data is reconstructed rather than entire drive Data is reconstructed across multiple spindles


Prevents silos of deduped data

Scale-out Inline Global Data Deduplication

▐ Distributed Two-Tier Architecture Independent linear scalability of

performance & capacity

▐ Global Deduplication Data deduplication across ALL

data from ALL nodes

▐ Distributed Hash Table Data routed to responsible

Storage Node Deduplication & hash table

processing scales linearly with Storage Nodes


HS3-4103.2TB/hr, 19.8TB/hr (OST)

8-24TB Raw104-312TB Effective

HS8-40014.9TB/hr, 25.2TB/hr (OST)

12-48TB Raw156-624TB Effective

HS8-4002-969.7TB/hr, 50.4TB/hr (OST)

96TB Raw1.2PB Effective

HS8-4001-964.9TB/hr, 40TB/hr (OST)

96TB Raw1.2PB Effective

HS8-4002-1929.7TB/hr, 80TB/hr (OST)

192TB Raw2.5PB Effective HS8-4010-720

29.2TB/hr, 378TB/hr (OST)720TB Raw

9.4PB Effective

HS8-4104-7920802TB/hr, 4,158TB/hr (OST)

7,920TB Raw103PB Effective

Single NodeModel

Grid Model

Capacity

Performance

Hybrid Node

Storage Node

Node Building Blocks


HYDRAstor HS3 & HS8 Series

▐ Common code/features for HS8-4000/3000/2000 and HS3-410/310/210

▐ Intermix of multi-generation nodes in the same grids

▐ All HYDRAstor Software Features supported for entire product line DRD™ protection – Advanced erasure-coded data resiliency DataRedux™ – Inline application-aware global data deduplication and compression Cloning/Snapshot – Instant fully deduplicated file system or file R/W copy Dynamic Data Shredding – Data shredding for deleted classified data AN Failover – Front-end failover for High Availability RepliGrid™ (Option) – WAN-optimized replication with in-flight encryption HYDRAlock™ (Option) – WORM file system functionality Encryption at Rest (Option) – Encryption to protect data at rest HYDRAstor OpenStorage Suite (Options)

• Dynamic I/O, Express I/O, Deduped Transfer• Optimized Synthetics, Optimized Copy, Auto Image Replication

Common Code Base and Functionality


HYDRAstor Scale-out Storage for Long-Term Data

4 PB/hr 100 PB


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