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Business issues driving
change in data protection
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Data is growing at 100% per year
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Weekend backup windows are non-existent
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Remote office data is poorly protected
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Regulatory requirements driving systems that can guarantee
years/decades of reliable data retention
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Dozens of isolated & independent storage, protection, and
management tools – complexity leads to increased risk of
data loss
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Tape-based backup/restore & archiving systems are time
consuming to manage, unreliable
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Backup tapes are getting stolen, misplaced, and lost in
shipment & offsite storage facilities – huge security hole
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Site disaster recovery systems are unaffordable and complex
to manage.
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The Evolution of
Data Protection
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Hundreds of
servers with
tape drives and
backup software
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$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
Dozens of Backup,
Archive, HSM,
Replication systems,
Jukeboxes,
Offsite Tape Storage,
Snapshots, CDP, CAS, ..
Complex
1980’s
1990’s
2000’s
Simple
Jukebox
1 server with
a tape drive
& local backup
software
Backup
Server
Centralized
network-based
backup
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Cyclical trend - simple to complex to simple
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Advanstor
A Data Protection “Grid”
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Deployed across two sites
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Appliance model (Advanstor software on standard servers)
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Each site acts as a disaster recovery site for the other
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Advanstor
An Innovative Architecture
InfiniteFilers
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High-performance primary
NAS storage tier
Industry standard Microsoft
WSS2003
Repositories
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GRIDdisks - servers with SATA disk storage
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Execute data management tasks in parallel
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Simple to expand, shared pool, scalable architecture
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Onsite/offsite disk-based backup
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Lower-cost storage tier for inactive data
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Advanstor
Integrated Data Management
Intelligent Automated Backup
NAS Clients
NAS Applications
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Continual, hourly to daily
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Incremental only - no more weekend fulls
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Delta versioning – saves space & bandwidth
Fast, Ultra-reliable Restores
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InfiniteFiler
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InfiniteFiler
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Repository
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X
A
Inactive
Data
Repository
A
MAN/WAN
Seconds to restore, many backup replicas
Automated Data Migration
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InfiniteFiler filesystems don’t fill up
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Inactive data kept in lower $ repositories
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All files accessible to clients / apps
Self-Healing
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Each GRIDdisk continually checks and
corrects all backup files
Rapid Site Disaster Recovery
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Minutes to migrate any/all shares
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Global namespace w/Microsoft DFS
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Advanstor
Fast, Reliable Disaster Recovery
Tape-recovery Model
Advanstor
 Prepare 2nd facility
 Rebuild LAN
 Rebuild Storage
 Rebuild Servers
 Rebuild Backup /
Prepare 2nd facility
Rebuild LAN
Rebuild Storage
Rebuild Servers
Rebuild Backup /
 Initiate recovery
Initiate recovery
Restore System
from offsite tapes
Weeks of Downtime,
Error Prone Process
Restore System
from disk repository
Minutes of Downtime,
Ultra-reliable Process
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Advanstor
It works with what you’ve got…
Centralized Backup of
All Remote Offices
Primary NAS Storage
with Integrated Backup/DR/HSM
ECM, CAD,
SCM, …
WAFS
Remote
Offices
WAN
Replication
Remote
Offices
Email
Archiving
Email
Server
NAS
Clients
3rd Party
Backup
Database
Server
Email
Server
SAN
Disk-to-Disk Backup, >100GB/hr
Offsite Backup Replication
1000:1 delta compression
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Regulatory Compliance,
Fast “Discovery” Access to All Data,
Ultra-reliable Archive
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Simplified Administration
Global Reporting
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SNMP and Email Notification
Assets, configuration, status
Capacity, chargeback
Protection Policy
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Per share
How often to backup (hourly…daily)
Retention/Purge management
Point-and-Click Control
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Restore
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Any file version
A folder to an earlier point in time
Share Migration
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After site disaster
To increase overall performance
across multiple InfiniteFilers
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Advanstor
Business Impact
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Cost-effective
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Saves huge amounts of storage space and WAN bandwidth ($$$)
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Inactive data on lower $ storage
Secure
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No more lost/stolen tapes, trucks
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No fines - successfully execute regulatory “discovery searches”
Reliable
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No more failed restores from lost/unreadable tapes
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Foolproof DR, minimal downtime
Increased End-user productivity
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Transparent access to all data, all the time
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Seconds to restore lost/deleted data
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Minutes, not days, to recover from site disaster
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Advanstor
IT Operational Impact
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No more weekend full tape backups
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No more slow, unreliable restores from backup/archive tapes
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No more tapes to rotate onsite and offsite
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No more “filesystem full” alerts at 2AM
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No more guessing about which files to archive and when
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No more complex procedures for managing a site disaster
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No more tape drives or jukeboxes to purchase and repair
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No more tapes to verify and refresh
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No more complex procedures to manage dozens of
independent storage, backup and archiving products
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Comparative
Solutions
Advanstor replaces …
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Backup Server(s)
Backup Server & Client SW
Tape Jukebox(es)
Tape Drives
Tapes
Replication Software
NAS server(s)
HSM Software
Offsite tape storage service
2nd Site with all of the above
Capital Costs ($)
Advanstor customers have
reduced capital costs by
50% and operational costs
by 80%
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Advanstor Summary
Advanstor …
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Decreases the cost, complexity &
associated risk of storing, protecting,
restoring, retaining and recovering your data
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Increases the security, availability and
access to all of your data
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