Organizations today are being forced to do more with less, and the demand for scalable, reliable and secure cloud-based infrastructure and platform services is on the rise. The cloud is here to stay, and for good reason. StorSimple is a cloud-integrated storage (CiS) product that allows you to store commonly used data on premises and put more infrequently accessed data in Azure. With a hybrid storage appliance, you can seamlessly use Azure storage without worrying about what's on premises and what's in the cloud. In this webinar, we provided an overview of Azure's technical storage capabilities, and showed how a hybrid storage appliance like StorSimple can supply your organization with massive amounts of capacity and added functionality, all while providing disaster recovery and reducing costs by up to 50%.

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Lower Storage Cost and Complexity with Azure
and StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Solutions

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processes, improve worker productivity, increase customer loyalty and create a more agile
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6. Our Speaker
Adetayo Adegoke, Director Cloud Infrastructure Practice
• Nationwide practice lead for the Cloud Infrastructure Group
• Drives solutions in the Microsoft Azure and Office 365 space
• Microsoft vTSP [Virtual Technology Specialist Program] specializing
in Hybrid Cloud Solutions

7. What We’re Discussing Today
• The storage situation – An overview
• What can be done?
• The first step

8. The Storage Situation
An Overview

9. The Current Situation
Capacity
Time

10. The Current Situation
Capacity
Time
CapEx, OpEx
of traditional storage

11. The Current Situation
Capacity
Time
CapEx, OpEx
of traditional storage
Data grows
exponentially
(50–60% Annually)

12. Data Set Characteristics
Access
Unstructured
data growing
40% YoY
Working data set
stays fairly
constant
Data working set
is relatively small
Significant
amount of
inactive data
Time

13. Current Storage Solution Architecture
Traditional Storage + Data Protection Architecture
Servers
Primary Volume
Snapshot
Disk Array
Media Server
Disk Backup/ VTL
Encryption
Appliance
Physical Tape
Infrastructure
Offsite Vault

14. A Review of the Current Situation
Storage Today = Complex & Expensive
Data
Management
Complexity
Backup
Issues
Untested
Disaster
Recovery
Data
Growth
& Footprint
Equipment
Sprawl
Primary
Storage
Disk-based
Backup Storage
Tape Infrastructure
& Management
Archival
Storage
Replicated
Storage for DR
Offsite Facility for
Geo-resilience

15. What can be done?
Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) Solutions

16. What if You Can Simplify…

17. How Microsoft HCS Saves You Money
Capacity
Time
CapEx, OpEx
of traditional storage
Cloud
Storage
Local
Storage
However, most I/O
happens to the
“Working Set” data

18. How Microsoft HCS Saves You Money
Capacity
Time
CapEx, OpEx
of traditional storage
Cloud
Storage
Local
Storage
However, most I/O
happens to the
“Working Set” data
Data grows
exponentially
(50–60% Annually)

19. How Microsoft HCS Lowers Complexity
Storage Tomorrow = Flexible, Powerful and Less Costly
Microsoft
Azure
Primary
Storage
Disk-based
Backup Storage
Tape Infrastructure
& Management
Archival
Storage
Replicated
Storage for
DR
Offsite Facility for
Geo-resilience

20. Two > Six ?
Microsoft
Azure
Primary
Storage
Disk-based
Backup Storage
Tape Infrastructure
& Management
Archival
Storage
Replicated
Storage for
DR
Offsite Facility for
Geo-resilience
Azure + StorSimple = 60–80% Lower TCO

21. StorSimple Cloud Snapshots and RTO
StorSimple
Cloud
Snapshots
speed up
RTO by up to
100x
RecoveryTime
Primary Data Size
1 TB 5 TB 20 TB 50 TB 100 TB
15 Min.
1 Hour
1 Day
7 Days
30 Days
90 Days
Regular Cloud
Backup
with 100 Mbps WAN
Link
Tape
StorSimple
Cloud Snapshots
with 50 Mbps WAN
Link
ApplicationRecoveryTimesfrom offsitebackups
in caseof a disaster

22. Why Not Use a Pure Cloud Storage Solution?
Integration
• HTTP/REST API
• Integration with existing backup
applications & processes
Performance
• WAN latency performance impact
• WAN bandwidth costs
• Traditional WAN optimization does
not work with public clouds
Security
• Data security & compliance risk
App
HTTPS/REST
Microsoft
Azure

23. Fundamental Value of StorSimple
App
Applications in Physical or Virtual
Servers
StorSimple
Customer Data Center
Enterprise SAN
storage
Inline de-dupe,
compression &
automatic tiering
Automated offsite
data protection
using cloud
snapshots
Highly efficient,
location
independent
disaster recovery
StorSimple connects Windows, Linux and Hyper-V/VMware servers to Azure
Storage in minutes with no application modification

24. When to Consider HCS
Target Use Cases
File Share
• CIFS
• NFS
• File servers
• NAS
SharePoint
• Business
intelligence
• Collaboration
• Content & records
management
Archives
• EMR/PACS
• Legal
• Construction
• Media
• Engineering
• Logs, records
VMs
• Regional office
storage
• VM sprawl
• VM archives
Tier 2 Applications
Generic
Application
Server
SharePoint
Server
Backup to
the Cloud
File Share
Server
Virtual
Machines
Local
Storage
Backup
Archiving
Server
Regional
Office
Storage

25. How HCS works – Conceptual
Thin, Reduced
Snapshots
Cloud Snapshots
Recover from
Cloud
to any DC
Automated
Cloud-as-a-Tier
Cloud-integrated
SAN Storage
StorSimple + Azure Storage
Data stored in
Cloud is
encrypted
Virtual Appliance
in the Cloud *
Available with the StorSimple 8000 series *

26. StorSimple Conceptual Architecture

27. SSD Deduplicated
SAS
Deduplicated
Compressed
Cloud
Deduplicated
Compressed
Encrypted
SSD
Linear Tier
A B C A B D E
StorSimple Solution Operation
Microsoft
Azure

28. SSD Deduplicated
SAS
Deduplicated
Compressed
Cloud
Deduplicated
Compressed
Encrypted
SSD
Linear Tier
A B C D E
StorSimple Solution Operation
Microsoft
Azure

29. SSD Deduplicated
SAS
Deduplicated
Compressed
Cloud
Deduplicated
Compressed
Encrypted
SSD
Linear Tier
A B
C D
E
StorSimple Solution Operation
Microsoft
Azure

30. SSD Deduplicated
SAS
Deduplicated
Compressed
Cloud
Deduplicated
Compressed
Encrypted
SSD
Linear Tier
A B
C DC
E
StorSimple Solution Operation
Microsoft
Azure

31. SSD Deduplicated
SAS
Deduplicated
Compressed
Cloud
Deduplicated
Compressed
Encrypted
SSD
Linear Tier
A B
C DC D
E
StorSimple Solution Operation
Microsoft
Azure

32. SSD Deduplicated
SAS
Deduplicated
Compressed
Cloud
Deduplicated
Compressed
Encrypted
SSD
Linear Tier
A B
C DC D E
StorSimple Solution Operation
Microsoft
Azure

33. SSD Deduplicated
SAS
Deduplicated
Compressed
Cloud
Deduplicated
Compressed
Encrypted
SSD
Linear Tier
A B
C DC D E
StorSimple Solution Operation
Microsoft
Azure

34. SSD Deduplicated
SAS
Deduplicated
Compressed
Cloud
Deduplicated
Compressed
Encrypted
SSD
Linear Tier
A B
CC
D
E
StorSimple Solution Operation
Microsoft
Azure

35. SSD Deduplicated
SAS
Deduplicated
Compressed
Cloud
Deduplicated
Compressed
Encrypted
SSD
Linear Tier
A B
CC
D
E
StorSimple Solution Operation
Microsoft
Azure

36. SSD Deduplicated
SAS
Deduplicated
Compressed
Cloud
Deduplicated
Compressed
Encrypted
SSD
Linear Tier
A B
CC
D E
StorSimple Solution Operation
Microsoft
Azure

37. SSD Deduplicated
SAS
Deduplicated
Compressed
Cloud
Deduplicated
Compressed
Encrypted
SSD
Linear Tier
A B
CC
D
StorSimple Solution Operation
Microsoft
Azure
E

38. SSD Deduplicated
SAS
Deduplicated
Compressed
Cloud
Deduplicated
Compressed
Encrypted
SSD
Linear Tier
A B
CC
D
StorSimple Solution Operation
Microsoft
Azure
E

39. Cloud
Snapshots
Enterprise Data Center 1 Enterprise Data Center 2
Production Data Production Data
Seamless Scalability & Rapid Recovery
Microsoft Azure

40. Cloud
Snapshots
Enterprise Data Center 1 Enterprise Data Center 2
Connect many servers to cloud
storage and scale data sets
with StorSimple solution
Production Data Production Data
Seamless Scalability & Rapid Recovery
Microsoft Azure

41. Cloud
Snapshots
Enterprise Data Center 1 Enterprise Data Center 2
Connect many servers to cloud
storage and scale data sets
with StorSimple solution
Rapidly recover to any data
center (location independent) via
mounting the cloud
Production Data Production Data
Seamless Scalability & Rapid Recovery
Microsoft Azure

42. Azure Storage Overview
Primary Location
Secondary Location

43. Azure Storage Overview
Primary Location
Secondary Location

44. Azure Storage Overview
Primary Location
Secondary Location

45. Azure Storage Overview
Primary Location
Secondary Location

46. Pay for what you use

47. What’s next?

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