EMC CLOUD
TIERING APPLIANCE
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Information Tipping Point Ahead
The future will be nothing like the past
140,000
120,000
100X
100,000
80,000
MORE DATA
EACH DECADE
60,000
40,000
Data
A 10 TB data center in
2001 growing at 60%
We
YoY will be a 120
petabyte dataare
center
by 2021—but Here
IT
budgets remain flat
Automation
20,000
Budget
0
2000
2003
2006
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2009
2012
2015
2018
2021
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Content Creation Drives Next Decade
File data and data sharing: increasingly reasons for deployment
Exabytes Deployed
1200
1000
• Shift toward user-created,
unstructured data
– Secondary storage is the
new primary storage
800
• File-based storage raises
major management issue
600
– Online ingest of and
access to large volumes
of content
400
200
0
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
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Most Data Will Be Cold and Untouched
While we increasingly can’t erase data, we can store it better
4,123
GB
37.5
GB
110X
2013
2023
Hot
Warm
Cold
Evolution of 50 TB in 10 years
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EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance Extends
VNX FLASH 1st
100%
PRIVATE CLOUD
BUSINESS VALUE
80%
$$$
60%
“With the combination of the FAST tiering
functionality within the VNX and the CTA
tiering/archive migration tiering tool, EMC has
introduced a tiering architecture that embraces
the complete storage hierarchy from SSD to
cloud. The potential contribution of such a
capability to improving storage economics is
obvious.”
40%
‒ Bill Mottram, VeridictusAssociates.com
$$
20%
0%
FLASH 1st with
FAST
$
TIME
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PUBLIC CLOUD
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Optimize Capacity of Primary Storage
Reduce CapEx and
improve utilization of
primary storage
Lower OpEx for
infrastructure
Shorten backup windows
and improve performance
Zero impact for
end user
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Supported Platforms for Archiving
NetApp
EMC VNX EMC
Celerra
VNX
VNXe
Isilon
Celerra
Windows
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Centera
Data Domain
Atmos
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Capitalize on Public Cloud
 What data is a fit for public cloud?
– Cold user home directory data: documents, images, and music
– Inactive projects, source code, development
– Backup images
 How do I secure data in public cloud?
– Encryption ensures data is protected
 How do I lower OpEx with public cloud?
– Compression reduces bandwidth and space charged for in public cloud
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Start Archiving Immediately
Create a policy
Review
Schedule
and gowith
! the Policy Wizard
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How It Works
ARCHIVING
RETRIEVAL
Primary storage
Clients
Primary storage
Clients
Archive storage
1. Cloud Tiering Appliance scans the source storage
through CIFS or NFS to find files that meet a policy
2. When files match a policy, they are written to the
destination tier
3. Once file is committed to archive, a small stub is left
on the primary share/export
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Archive storage
1. Client requests moved file
2. Stub contains metadata with location of file
3. The file is recalled through CIFS or NFS from a share
or export
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End User and Application Transparency
Cloud Tiering Appliance has
allowed us to tier to Atmos
cloud from our unified
storage, freeing space on
our unified storage and
making backups more
manageable. The best part
is that, with the retrieval
speed, the medical staff has
no idea their files have been
archived. It’s just business
as usual…
‒ Audrius Polikatis, Ph.D
Chief Information Officer
University of Illinois Hospital
and Health Sciences System
Icon now
shows clock
Original file
size displayed
Offline bit
set
• Files are still visible and can be quickly recalled
• No need to re-train users or modify applications
• Backup and anti-virus processes need not be changed
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Repository Migration
• Move archived
files from one
platform to
another
– No recall of
archived
files
– Stub files
updated
with new
location
Isilon
Public Cloud
Centera
VNX
Atmos
Celerra
Windows
Data Domain
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VNXe
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Cloud Tiering Appliance for File Migration
• Files permanently moved from
one platform to another
VNX
Celerra
NetApp
Windows to VNX
– Multi-protocol
– Policy based
– Stub migration
• Automates technology
refreshes and platform
conversions
VNX
Celerra
VNXe
Isilon
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Customer Case Study
60.0
Corporate NAS Storage Growth
• Business challenge
– 30 TB of primary storage and
rapidly growing
TOTAL CAPACITY (TB)
50.0
40.0
30.0
• Solution
Archiving
Implemented
– EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance
• Results
20.0
– Flattened primary storage
growth curve
10.0
0.0
2007
2008
Without CTA
2009
YEAR
2010
With CTA
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2011
Freed up 18 TB of primary
storage capacity
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