2. Simple and fast on-ramp to Azure
Active data instantly available locally
Archives less used data to Microsoft Azure
Recover data from any internet connection
Reduce enterprise storage TCO by 60-80%
15. What is Blob Storage?
Azure Blob storage is a service for
storing large amounts of unstructured
data that can be accessed from
anywhere in the world via HTTP or
HTTPS. A single blob can be hundreds of
gigabytes in size
Common uses of Blob storage include:
• Serving images or documents directly to a
browser
• Storing files for distributed access
• Streaming video and audio
• Performing secure backup and disaster
recovery
• Storing data for analysis by an on-premises or
Azure-hosted service
16. StorSimple
Simplified Approach For Managing Storage Growth
Primary
Storage
Archival
Storage
Disk based
backup
storage
Tape
infrastructure
and
management
Off-site DR
and geo-
resiliency
Primary
storage
growth
Pay-as you-
grow for
infrequently
accessed,
“cold” data
Pay-as you-
grow for
backup and
long term
retention
A single,
consolidated
solution
provided by
one vendor
Simplified DR
to any
StorSimple
solution
18. Lower Infrastructure And Management Cost
Performance
For frequently
accessed data set
Archive
Automated
tiering of data
between on-
premises storage
and the cloud
Protect
Automated Local
and Cloud
Snapshots
Recover
Use cloud as
secondary
datacenter;
recover data
anywhere
19.
20. Microsoft Azure And StorSimple SolutionONPREMISESDATACENTER
Servers
iSCSI
StorSimple
SSD
SAS
Block storage
PUBLICCLOUD
Object storage
Internet
connection
Data accessed most
frequently
Data accessed less
frequently
Data accessed rarely or
archived
21. 21
Scalability/Performance
Capacity
5520
10 TB usable local
1.2 TB SSD
300TB max cloud capacity
7520
20 TB usable local
2 TB SSD
500TB max cloud capacity
* Denotes usable local storage capacity with compression and de-duplication, varies by use case.
* Additional details about appliance specifications can be found at: http://storsimple.xyratex.com/storsimple/specifications
5020
2 TB usable local
400 GB SSD
100TB max cloud capacity
7020
4 TB usable local
600 GB SSD
200TB max cloud capacity2U
2U
2U
4U
File share/Backup
SharePoint/VM/File share/Backups
22.
23. • Live archives
• Automatic Backup
• Disaster Recovery
• Large data storage footprint for storing
engineering docs and chip designs for various
products
• Rapid data growth (1.8TB/month @ single
location)
• 95% of data not used
• Eliminate expensive on-premise storage
• 3x 7520 StorSimple systems with Azure
• Systems in two different locations for
providing file share/archive across
multiple volumes (~600TB)
• 5-week PoC
• Dramatic cost savings, ease-to-use,
secure data storage in Microsoft Azure
Total data size = 300TB
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DR
site
Phoenix, AZ
Austin, TX
7520
appliance
7520
appliance
Chandler, AZ
7520
appliance