Learn how to quickly build Enterprise-Class, Highly Available, Network Attached Storage on Microsoft Azure. Presented by Bruno Terkaly, Principal Software Engineer/Developer Experience at Microsoft and Mark Bichlmeier, IT expert and Principal Solutions Architect for SoftNAS (a top-selling NAS application on leading cloud platforms). Live Q & A afterwards. You will learn: - How to migrate on-premise applications to the Microsoft Azure cloud and use cloud NAS storage - How to build highly available cloud NAS storage on Microsoft Azure - How to configure CIFS, NFS and iSCSI - How to configure Active Directory on Microsoft Azure for cloud NAS storage

1. How to Build Highly Available Shared
Storage on Microsoft Azure
February 19, 2015

2. Our Presenters…
Mark Bichlmeier
Principal Solutions Architect
SoftNAS
Bruno Terkaly
Principal Software Engineer/Developer Experience & Evangelism
Microsoft

3. •Overview: Azure Storage Options
•Building High-Availability NAS Storage on
Azure with SoftNAS
•Live Demo
•Q&A
Agenda
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4. •Cloud Storage – Anywhere and Anytime Access
•Blobs, Disks, Tables, Queues and Files
•Highly Durable, Available and Massively Scalable
•Pay only for what you use
•Exposed via REST APIs
•Rich Client Libraries and Tools
Azure Storage
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5. •Develop for the Cloud
•Utilize Basic Services
•Deploy an Enterprise-grade NAS Solution for
Shared Storage
Options?
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6. Building Highly Available
Shared Storage on Azure
Mark Bichlmeier
Principal Solution Architect
SoftNAS

7. About SoftNAS
• What we believe…
• Storage can be both powerful AND frictionless
Azure is reinventing how IT infrastructure is delivered. SoftNAS is
reinventing how cloud data is managed.
• SoftNAS Cloud
• Only NAS product built specifically for the cloud from the ground up
and delivered on-demand.

8.  Move to the cloud without changing
applications
 Disaster Recovery to the cloud
 Full data set replication for Development and
Testing
Top 3 Scenarios

9. •Continuous Protection of Data
•Security
•High-Availability
•Performance
•Ease of Use
Critical Considerations

10. 1. Simply Powerful™—A powerful, full-featured NAS filer
2. Non-Stop Storage—Up to 99.999% availability
3. Frictionless Experience™—Easy to try, buy and use
4. Agile Storage Software—On-demand, where and when you need
it
5. Pure Azure—Data stays in the secure Azure data center
6. Performance and Capacity—Performance-tuned to maximize IOPS
and data throughput
7. Open Architecture—Your data isn’t locked in, open source industry
standards
7 Reasons to Use SoftNAS Cloud

11. SoftNAS Cloud for Microsoft Azure

12. Show Me!
PRODUCT
DEMONSTRATION

13. •Learn more – softnas.com/azure
•Try it – bit.ly/softnas-azure
•Contact us – sales@softnas.com
•Follow us – @SoftNAS
Test Drive SoftNAS

14. Brands You Know Trust SoftNAS

15. Questions?
Mark Bichlmeier
Principal Solution Architect
SoftNAS
mbichlmeier@softnas.com
Bruno Terkaly
Principal Software Engineer/Developer Experience & Evangelism
Microsoft
bterkaly@microsoft.com