In this webinar, we will be discussing the top 5 challenges of moving to the cloud, and state-of-the-art solutions to ensure your success.

1. Webinar: Now is the Time to Move to
the AWS Cloud
Moving On Prem Storage for Existing Apps is Easier Than Ever
Brian Cha
Solutions Architect
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Lorena Sur
Marketing

2. • Before We Start
• About your presenters
• SoftNAS Introduction
• Key Challenges you may be asking yourself
• SoftNAS solution
• Q &A
• Resources
Agenda
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3. Brian Cha, Solutions Architect
• Brian has over 15 years experience in the areas of cloud
computing and datacenter technology.
• He has a passion for customer success, taking whatever time
needed to solve his customer’s challenges
• Brian lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, enjoys watching
bay area sports, and dining or preparing a variety of cuisines.
About Your Presenters
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Lorena Sur, Marketing
• Lorena has over 15 years experience in the areas of product
marketing, product line management and demand generation.
• She has additional expertise in storage, datacenter
consolidation and migration.
• She also lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys
gardening, hosting parties and being walked by her Australian
Shepard, Luna

4. Who is SoftNAS Cloud
– SoftNAS - the #1 best-selling NAS in the cloud, trusted by Fortune 500 to SMB’s
– SoftNAS Cloud for AWS delivers enterprise-class NAS features with NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI,
and AFP unified file services and AWS-backed storage connectivity.
Why SoftNAS - Accelerating Move to AWS
– SoftNAS helps AWS customers move their compute workloads to AWS by eliminating
the need to re-architect on-premises applications using file-based storage.
– The SoftNAS Cloud virtual storage appliance provides enterprise-class NAS functionality
while extending native AWS file storage capacities, helping customers move more
workloads to AWS faster.
SoftNAS – Who, Why, How …
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5. Brands You Know Trust SoftNAS
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6. Poll #1:
Do you currently have any storage in
the cloud?
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7. 1. How do I move away from On-premise storage?
2. What if I have file storage that exceeds the native AWS storage capacity?
3. Do I have to re-engineer my applications?
4. What will my performance look like?
5. How will I secure and protect my data in the cloud?
I want to migrate to the AWS cloud BUT ….
Top 5 Challenges
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8. • “I don’t want to buy another piece of storage
hardware “
• “I don’t want to pay another maintenance bill”
• ”Why do we call it a Data Center if my data
isn't centered?”
– Storage sprawl
– Upside down Tiering
• “How do I close my Data Center in the next
12 to 18 months?”
Challenge #1 – Where Do I Start?
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How do I move away from On-premise storage?

9. • Capacity Limitations
• AWS storage account size limits
• Directory size limitation
• File size limitation
• Protocol Support
• Support for CIFS, NFS, AFP and iSCSI
• Tiered Storage support and migration
– Block storage
– Object storage
Do you need file storage that exceeds the native AWS capacity?
Challenge #2: File Storage Capacity
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10. Challenge #3: Application Re-engineering
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Do I have to re-engineer my application?
Strategy Tradeoffs
Application
Modernization
Pros
● Build new applications or modify/update existing applications
to take advantage of “cloud native” services.
Cons
● Slower time to production implementation: months to years
● Cost
Lift and Shift
(Application
Migration)
Pros
● Faster time to cloud production: days to weeks
● Cost
Cons
● Not cloud API optimized

11. • Dedicated vs. Shared Infrastructure
– Dedicated instances provide the ability to tune
performance
– Shared infrastructure can be cost effective but
multi-tenancy means tuning is programmatic
• Bursting and Burst Limitations
– Design with the ability to burst beyond peak load
• Predictable Performance Levels
– Use benchmark programs to validate baseline performance
• Storage Throughput and IOPS
– Determine storage tier suited for your use-case
Challenge #4: Performance
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What will my performance look like?

12. • Effective Backup Strategy
• AV / Malware protection
• Snapshots and Rollbacks
– Protecting against user error or compromise
• Replication
– Data redundancy is key in every enterprise solution
• Protection from Data Corruption
– Design for data integrity while reducing or eliminating the possibility
of data corruption
• Data Efficiency
– Minimize the amount of data while designing for cost savings.
Challenge #5 – Protect Your Data
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How will I secure and protect my data in the cloud?

13. Customer success story for AWS
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“Very easy to configure when
upgrading or migrating data from
one host to another onto a
different VPC. [SoftNAS] makes
accessing and backing up data to
the cloud painless.”
Henry Truong
IT systems administrator
Brocade
“SoftNAS Cloud makes my life
easier because I can create large
S3 based disks for storing 10’s of
terabytes of imagery data with a
few clicks. It has greatly simplified
my data management tasks.”
Tisham Dhar
Research engineer Aerometrex
“Great for real-time backups
for DR to another availability
zone. The block replication
scales and handles our
millions of files nicely.”
Chris May
Senior systems
administrator
TheStreet

14. Poll #2:
Do you currently own datacenter
hardware or do you lease it?
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15. SoftNAS Cloud® Enterprise
Full-featured, enterprise cloud NAS filer for primary data storage
End-user
Desktops, Devices
Applications
and Servers
Volumes
AFP iSCSI
Storage Pools
Block or Object Storage
CIFS
Private
Cloud
Hybrid
Cloud
Public
Cloud
NFS
NFS
CIFS/SMB
iSCSI
AFP
Use existing
unchanged
applications…
Connect to public cloud
using standard NAS
protocols…
Through hosted compute
instances…
Using various storage
services for flexible capacity
Public / Private Cloud
Platforms Supported
SoftNAS
Cloud® Enterprise

16. Flexibility on Secondary and Primary Storage with SoftNAS Cloud®
Full spectrum flexibility – AWS
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Volumes
CIFS
AFP
NFS
iSCSI
VSA Performance
Compute Flexibility
Data Store Flexibility for
Cost / Capacity
Secondary Storage “Cool Data”
• Cloud Archive
• Cloud Backup
• Disaster Recovery
• Files Services for Object Storage
Primary Storage “Hot Storage”
• SaaS-enable Apps
• Migration of Business Apps
• File Server Consolidation
• Web Serving
• Dev/Test
• Home Directories
• Windows/Citrix Roaming Profiles
Use Cases
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EBS – Cold HDD
sc1
EBS –Magnetic
st1
EBS -General Purpose SSD – gp2
EBS –Provisioned IOPS
io1
AWS Options
S3

17. Enterprise NAS Features for AWS
• Scales from gigabytes to petabytes –
pay as you grow!
• Simple administration designed for
non-storage experts
SoftNAS Cloud Storage Enables…
• Adjustable virtual hardware
configurations
• Tuneable performance levels remain
elastic throughout the customer lifecycle
• Elastically switch to “new” storage
options over the entire lifecycle (e.g.,
higher speed SSDs, lower cost HDD).
• Use what’s needed and only pay for
what’s used
• Upgrade and grow as needs change!
SoftNAS Cloud for Enterprise Cloud NAS Storage
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FLEXIBLE DATA SERVICES
• AWS EBS and S3
• CIFS w/ Active Directory
• NFS w/LDAP
• iSCSI
• Performance adaptable
• Disk
• SSD
• Networking
• Caching
• Block replication
• Encryption
• Cloud disks
• Compression
• Inline deduplication
• Instant snapshots
• Multi-level caching
• Storage pools
• Thin provisioning
• Writable SnapClones™

18. Compression & Deduplication

19. • Snapshots Offer Multiple Levels of Protection
– Malware mitigation (rollback)
– Accidental deletions
– Correcting application problems (rollback)
• Near instantaneous
• Space conservation
– Changed blocks making up the snapshot
– Returned to the pool once pruned or deleted
• Flexible scheduled based on use case
Scheduled Snapshots
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20. High Availability is a key feature with SoftNAS
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• Non-Disruptive failover
• Maintain existing connections
• Consistent RPO
• HA per App or HA infrastructure?
How to plan for failure or Disruption of Service
region
Availability Zone A Availability Zone B
Amazon
S3
Amazon EBS Amazon
S3
Amazon EBS
Controller A Controller B
SnapReplicate/ HA
Windows/Linux clients
VIP
Windows/Linux clients
CIFS/NFS CIFS/NFS

21. AWS EFS Performance
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/performance.html
File System Size Aggregate Read/Write Throughput
A 100 GiB file system can... • Burst to 100 MiB/s for up to 72 minutes each day, or
• Drive up to 5 MiB/s continuously
A 1 TiB file system can... • Burst to 100 MiB/s for 12 hours each day, or
• Drive 50 MiB/s continuously
A 10 TiB file system can... • Burst to 1 GiB/s for 12 hours each day, or
• Drive 500 MiB/s continuously
Generally, a larger file system
can...
• Burst to 100MiB/s per TiB of storage for 12 hours each day, or
• Drive 50 MiB/s per TiB of storage continuously

22. Helping Customers Embrace the Changes
– Accelerating hybrid cloud adoption
– Reduce costs of corporate data storage systems
How?
– Bridging incompatible technologies, systems and architectures
– Simplifying the journey to the cloud
– Making backups run faster and leverage fast cloud storage
– Replace DR datacenters with cost-effective cloud DR
– Keep the 100,000’s of business applications as-is– only rewrite when truly required
Key Benefits
– Hardware-independent, flexible, multi-cloud that’s software-defined
– Readily integrates dozens to hundreds of data protocols
– Global offices on remote networks limit data transfer speeds
– IT administrators can drag & drop to create solutions, little to no development required
SoftNAS makes it fast, easy and safe to move to the AWS cloud
Focusing on Customer Challenges and Problems
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23. Learn More
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Contact Us
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Support
softnas.com/helpdesk
Try it!
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24. • Come visit us at booth #2222
• We'll be there doing demos and giving away some awesome swag!
• Speak to our experts and get their insights first hand
• Register to win in daily drawings. We’ll be raffling
Visit SoftNAS at AWS Re:Invent Nov 27th – Dec 1st
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25. AWS - Design and Configuration Guide
https://www.softnas.com/wp/support/aws-cloud-nas-design-configuration-guide/
Documentation
https://www.softnas.com/wp/support/documentation/
How to videos
https://www.softnas.com/wp/support/tutorial-how-to-videos/tutorial-amazon-ec2/
Knowledge Base and FAQ
https://docs.softnas.com/display/KBS/Knowledge+Base+and+Support
https://docs.softnas.com/display/FAQ/Frequently+Asked+Questions
Resources

26. Thank you
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