Eight Tips for Better Email Archives Eight Ways Cloudian Object Storage Benefits Email Archiving with Veritas Enterprise Vault
Most organizations now manage terabytes, if not petabytes, of corporate and regulated data. Cost-effective management, storage and retention of this ever-growing amount of information, including email, is complex, time-consuming and has never been more challenging. New compliance regulation further increase retention demands and costs. Veritas-certified storage solutions from Cloudian provide archive storage that seamlessly integrates with Veritas Enterprise Vault (EV), the industry s most widely deployed solution for automating retention of email and other business information. HyperStore helps optimize performance, reduce costs and minimize business risks as a costeffective, limitlessly scalable storage archive. If you ve been using another storage platform for archive, such as Dell EMC Centera, it s time to consider migrating your critical business information to Cloudian. Here are eight ways to get a more reliable, more easily managed email archive at less cost with Cloudian and Veritas EV:
1. Unlimited Scalability, Unmatched Density Are you looking to eliminate.pst and.nsf files for your users? Or centralize retention management across email, files, and social media? You can do these with Veritas Enterprise Vault, but you ll need an archive that can be readily scaled to meet the added demand. This added storage could add significant complexity and workload and could consume additional data center space. Cloudian lets you archive file and object data to a virtually limitless pool of onprem storage. Unlike NAS, which limits growth with its file hierarchy, Cloudian HyperStore object storage retains files in a flat file system that can expand forever without disruption. And with the industry s most densely packed storage architecture, you ll be putting petabytes in space that previously held terabytes. Add geographies, too, simply by adding nodes anywhere you need capacity. One cluster can span the globe within a single namespace. Performance scales, too, thanks to HyperStore s peer-to-peer, shared-nothing architecture.
2. Enhanced Data Protection Does your archive have the right level of data protection? Having the right system ensures that your archive is protected if one storage node or even an entire data center fails. Also, different data types have varying protection and classification needs, and the archive infrastructure must reflect that. Archive solutions such as Veritas EV let you implement a content aware classification methodology. Cloudian complements this with configurable data durability. Select from various levels of replication and erasure coding, achieving up to 14 nines durability or more depending on the needs for various data types. Establish tiering policies based each data type, and employ fine grain control to optimize settings, taking into consideration factors such as cost efficiency, security levels, and proximity. 3. Fast, Safe Data Migration Keeping your archive infrastructure up to date helps minimize the risk of loss. Often, this means migrating data from legacy storage such as Centera. But, migrating EV email data from older storage platforms to a new, more cost-effective archive can be complex and time consuming. Cloudian collaborates with migration service providers who simplify and accelerate the process while ensuring that all requirements for compliance, retention, access, and search are met. This includes verification, testing, and cut-over to Cloudian HyperStore, all of which can be completed without impacting the production operation. Once data migration is completed, your old archive platform can be decommissioned at your convenience.
4. Simplified On-Prem/Cloud Storage Archive systems should have the flexibility to support both on-prem storage and multiple public clouds provides the best of both worlds. The need to keep data local, on-prem can ensure compliance and security, while other archive data can reside in the cloud. Having centralized management and a single view of all data no matter where it resides is also critical. Cloudian HyperStore has been designed to support a hybrid on-prem / public cloud implementation. Speaking the language of the cloud, it can seamlessly integrate your EV system with Amazon AWS, Google GCP, and Microsoft Azure. It also simplifies the sharing of on-prem archival data with cloud-based applications. In this hybrid cloud architecture, you can archive data in both public and private storage pools in a single namespace, with data management tools that manage policy-based tiering or replication among environments. To free up on-prem capacity, PST files, for example, can be automatically moved from the data center to the cloud. 5. Multi-Cloud Capable DATA CENTER ENTERPRISE VAULT Modern archive storage platforms should have the benefit of leveraging use of multiple public clouds. Multi-cloud lets you merge clouds from multiple vendors in a single management environment, and in combination with your private on-prem deployment. Ideally, your archive supports combining object storage from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, with your private cloud storage, to a single pool with one set of management APIs. RECENT BACKUP DATA Policy-based Migration MULTI-CLOUD SINGLE MANAGEMENT VIEW SINGLE DATA POOL Cloudian seamlessly integrates with multiple public clouds including Amazon AWS, Google GCP, and Microsoft Azure. With Cloudian multi-cloud, you can use different clouds for different reasons, letting you take advantage of various features or data center locations. This capability is ideal for cloud-bursting or other events that call for a temporary use of more storage resources than usual.
6. Deeper Search and Analysis with Metadata Using object storage to host your archive can potentially enable use and benefit of associated object metadata. Metadata identifies properties of a storage object and can be customized and updated over time. Cloudian HyperStore provides user-defined, rich metadata tagging to create additional value with your archived data. Google-like search and data visualization tools make information easy to access and analyze, even across your different archive sources. This capability allows you to search, categorize, and utilize data in your HyperStore archive at a much deeper level than previously possible. 7. Geo-Distribution Enterprise email and other corporate data typically reside in multiple locations and even multiple systems. It s important for compliance and other requirements to ensure that the associated storage archive is inclusive of all relevant files and kept up to date. Having centralized management of this ever-growing amount of information regardless of location is also important. Cloudian HyperStore offers a single, distributed storage pool that spans the globe. Nodes may be deployed wherever needed. Low-cost, remote storage lets analysis happen where the data is collected, rather than having to load your network with raw information. Whether providing local storage for remote applications, or disaster recover capability across sites, Cloudian possesses the needed data management capability to perform these tasks simply and economically.
8. Low TCO With a growing amount of email and other corporate data, it is easy for associated archive storage and management costs to rise quickly and exceed available budgets. Keeping your archive system cost-effective while also ensuring sufficient capacity, proper compliance and security needs has become increasingly challenging. EV archiving optimizes your storage to save space and reduce expenses. When information is archived on HyperStore, it is indexed and compressed to reduce the footprint and total cost of ownership of the archive. Cost-effective acquisition and operation are also designed into HyperStore; CAPEX benefits often reach 70% savings vs. primary storage. One reason for those savings is that Cloudian software runs on industry-standard hardware. This attribute eliminates the need for proprietary platforms, which keeps both acquisition and maintenance costs low. HyperStore does not require over-provisioning, scaling capacity only as needed, making Cloudian virtually future-proof. OPEX is reduced as well. A Cloudian solution can reduce your storage costs with up to 95% less management overhead and 30% less power/ space/cooling. CENTS per GB per MONTH including data protection 11 ACCESS CHARGES 0.4-2 0.5-1 ENTERPRISE STORAGE CLOUD STORAGE OBJECT STORAGE
Other Advantages of the Cloudian HyperStore Solution S3 API Interoperability The Amazon S3 Application Programming Interface (S3 API) is now the de facto standard for storing, managing, and retrieving data from object stores. S3 also makes integration with public cloud easier, providing more flexible options for storing archive data. HyperStore object storage has been designed to natively employ the S3 API, adding power and flexibility to your EV solution. Users existing S3 applications are guaranteed to work and can even use the same AWS S3 SDK for building S3 apps. Any object written using the S3 API can be moved to HyperStore. EV users can also access the plentiful resources of the global S3 community, including both individuals and companies. Veritas EV Certified The increasing deluge of data requires that organizations proactively address their long-term information management to help reduce IT costs and business risk or exposure. The right retention management platform will flexibly accommodate a diverse set of strategies to meet business and regulatory information retention requirements. This should include centralized management across email, files, social media, and other corporate data; scaling easily as needed to hundreds of petabytes; as well as deploying on-premises as well as in hybrid configurations. Cloudian HyperStore is a Veritas-certified Enterprise Vault storage platform. Enterprise Vault is the industry s leading solution for automated data retention and email archiving. As a member of the Veritas Technology Ecosystem (VTE), Cloudian offers a cost-effective, feature-rich, and limitlessly scalable storage platform that seamlessly integrates with your EV environment. The joint Veritas-Cloudian solution delivers a rock-solid option for generating, storing, and utilizing massive amounts data with all of the data protection your organization demands. Learn more about optimized storage with Veritas EV and Cloudian HyperStore Visit cloudian.com/solutions/data-protection/veritas/ Cloudian, Inc. 177 Bovet Road, Suite 450, San Mateo, CA 94402 Tel: 1.650.227.2380 Email: info@cloudian.com www.cloudian.com 2018 Cloudian, Inc. Cloudian, the Cloudian logo, HyperFile, HyperScale, and HyperStore are registered trademarks or trademarks of Cloudian, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders. DG-CTO-1118