File Management Solution for (ROBO) Pratyush Khare Technical Director, Content t & Cloud Solutions, APAC MAY-2011

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1 File Management Solution for Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) Pratyush Khare Technical Director, Content t & Cloud Solutions, APAC MAY-2011

2 Whom is this solution ideally meant for? Medium & Large Enterprises: That have more than 10 ROBO with file servers / NAS Customers from retail, BFSI & healthcare Files on NAS / filers at ROBO is critical & is backed up on tape for protection ROBO offices primarily create files (not database) 2

3 What are the typical storage challenges our customers face at ROBO? Low-end NAS / Filers Expensive: NAS needs to be backed-up at remote office using tape (High operational cost) Under utilized NAS at ROBO: capacity > Actual Data (Expensive) IT manpower (expensive) at remote office to manage NAS and backup De-Centralized & Lacks scalability: When data grows, add more storage to remote NAS or rip-nreplace filers with bigger filers Data remains de-centralized and IT has little control over it Non-Compliance Risk: Critical files (like account opening forms) can be accidentally deleted or get corrupted in ROBO leads to data loss. Retrieval from tapes is unreliable, time-consuming and cumbersome. 3

4 What is HDS ROBO storage solution? Solution consists of 2 products: Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) HDI is positioned to be placed at ROBO while HCP is positioned at central DC Low ROBO footprint solution Backup-free and seemingly bottom-less 4 Solution Features: HDI presents a seemingly bottom-less CIFS and NFS read/write access to local user at ROBO just looks like NAS HDI pushes actual files to central HCP retaining the 4 KB stub of the file Supports 400 Million files, thousand of users and 100 file systems. Support for leading WAN acceleration solutions like SilverPeak Supports active directory and LDAP authentication Hitachi Data Ingestor (ROBO) Hitachi Content Platform (Central DC)

5 How HDI interacts with central HCP? Application / User writes a file to HDI at ROBO HDI replicates the file to HCP can be as frequent as 15 minutes When the system capacity reaches 90%, HDI replaces the excess files with 4KB stubs Stubbing is transparent for the end-user no change in user behavior. Reading a link recalls the file back into HDI Recalled files are deleted from HDI later and replaced by another link, based on HDI s system capacity Application / Users CIFS/NFS (LAN) WRITE READ HDI REST/HTTP(S) (WAN) REPLICATE RECALL HCP ROBO ROBO Central DC 5

6 How HDI Maps to HCP s and Namespaces s Each HDI write maps file to system an to an assigned maps HCP tenant tofile a namespace system Enforces end-to-end access control rules and policies NO! Customer A FS 1 FS 2 Customer B FS 1 HDI A B Sub 1 Sub 2 FS 2 HDI NO! NO! Sub 2 FS 1 FS 2 HDI Sub 1 Customer C C Sub 1 Sub 2 Hitachi Content Platform (Central DC) Benefits Satisfy multiple applications, varying SLAs, workload types or organizations Determine utilization and chargeback per customer Enable E bl advanced d d ffeatures t att a customer t or more granular l llevell Examples: Replication, encryption, DPL levels (how many copies to keep), compliance and retention, compression and versioning 6

7 Other Features of Our Solution (HDI + HCP) Compression File Single- Instancing Charge Back Reports Multi- Tenancy File Retention (WORM) Encryption at rest and in transit Auto-detect corrupted file Auto-repair corrupted files Bandwidth Optimization Better protection w/o backup Intelligent caching at ROBO Low footprint ROBO presence 7 The features like Replication, WORM (SnapLock), Compression, Single-instancing instancing HDI Features are additionally priced in low-end NAS. Our solution has all these features inbuilt. HCP Features Legends

8 Benefits of HDS ROBO solution Benefits Remember! The main tangible benefit is Backup Elimination at ROBO. If customer does not care about protecting files at ROBO, this solution will not be compelling to him. Eliminate backup at ROBO Better and automated data protection Seemingly Bottomless ROBO storage Reduce Manpower cost 8

9 Distributed Enterprise: Banking Example Sydney Hong Kong Hitachi Data Ingestor Hitachi Data Ingestor Beijing Hitachi Data Ingestor HCP (London DC - DR Site) Sydney Beijing Hong Kong HCP (Singapore DC - Primary) Sydney Beijing Hong Kong 9

10 Two Options to Price Traditional Model Customer pay money upfront Managed Service Utility (Ideal for MSPs, Telcos and SIs) Pay-As-You- Go Solution hosted in partner s DC Gear owned, supported and maintained by HDS (remotely from SOC) Partner pays on actual capacity consumed Tech-refresh of gear is done and owned by HDS 10

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