For most enterprises, optimizing your Windows fileserver means buying a new, bigger server with more capacity and better network connections. Or it means buying a dedicated Network Attached Storage (NAS) system. Then they feel they need to add new ransomware and data protection software. All of these "solutions" are expensive, involve a costly data migration and don't really increase IT efficiency. In this webinar, experts from Storage Switzerland and Caringo teach you how data management can eliminate the need for additional Windows file servers, capacity and protection.

1. Learn how to:
1. Eliminate file server and capacity upgrades
2. Protect against ransomware
3. Reduce the need for file server backup
Capacity – Ransomware – Protection
Three Windows File Server Upgrades to Avoid
Webinar
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/UpgradesAvoid

2. Our Speakers
George Crump, Lead Analyst
Tony Barbagallo, VP of Product

3. Who Is Caringo?
Object Storage Experts
10+ Years
Swarm 9
The Cloud and Object
Storage Platform
500+ Deployments

4. Polling Question
What’s Your Biggest Windows File Server
Challenge?

5. • Very cost effective
• Easy to stand up
• Plugs into existing environment
(it’s Windows)
Why Are Windows File Servers So Popular?

6. • Eventually runs out of capacity or
performance slows
• The number of files makes it
difficult to backup and recover
• Number of files also makes it a
target of ransomware
The Challenge with Windows File Servers

7. • Leads to adding another Windows
File Server
• Windows file server sprawl
• Adds expense and complexity
The Challenge with Windows File Servers

8. • Buy a bigger server with
more capacity and
performance
• Upgrade to a NAS
• Implement DFS or some
other Global File System
Typical Workarounds

9. • The first two options raise the cost SIGNIFICANTLY
• NAS requires learning a new operating environment
• DFS or a GFS add complexity
• May be overkill for many enterprises
• All three just put a bandage on the real problem
Typical Workarounds

10. • The problem is not capacity, nor performance
• It’s too many files!
• And most (90%) of those files are in-active
• But instead of managing this data we ignore
• For good reason – it’s been hard, and you’ve
been busy!
Curing the Windows File Server Disease

11. • Move in-active data (95%) to secondary
storage
• But...
Solution

12. • No hacks! Windows has to know what’s happening
• Secondary Storage must do its job
• Cost effective
• Able to retain and preserve
• More resilient to failure
• Seamless to users and IT
• Data just moves
• Data just responds to access requests
Solution

13. • Data can be copied to secondary storage upon creation
• Eliminates backups
• Secondary storage more resilient to ransomware attacks
(read-only)
• Windows File Servers have 95% of capacity freed up
• Rate of growth is slowed
• Future ready
• Next wave of unstructured data will be machine generated
• Ideal for object storage
Impact

14. Identify inactive data
and automatically
migrate
Extract more value
from existing storage
and resources
Stay online and
productive, meet
RTOs
Enable consolidation
and collaboration
$
Secondary Storage Platform
Reduces TCO 75%
zzz…

15. Bloated Windows File Server
24 hours
for full
recovery
2 hours
for incremental
backup
90% utilization
500 TB server with 50 TB active & 400 TB inactive content

16. Identifies inactive data on bloated servers
for automatic migration to secondary storage

17. Windows Server System
Windows Server Services
Physical or Virtualized Deployments
Windows Virtualized Storage
Physical Storage
Secondary Storage
Caringo FileFly Agent
Hardware appliance or software-defined
Pointer remains in Windows File Server
Data migrates back on access
Seamlessly Integrate with Windows Server

18. 40 minutes
for incremental
backup
Un-bloated Windows File Server
6 hours
for full
recovery
20% utilization
500 TB server with 50 TB active & 50 TB inactive content

19. Protects against
ransomware attacks
Faster backup and
recovery
Automated,
scalable, self-healing,
data
Transparent to apps
and workflows
Secondary Storage Platform

20. University Reduces Windows File
Server Bloat, Improves TCO
Challenges:
• 50,000 users distributed across 200 departments
• Half petabyte initially with vastly different use
cases
• Looking to modernize complex file virtualization
infrastructure utilizing multiple arrays from
different vendors
Solution:
• FileFly for intelligent tiering to and from Windows
• Real-time protection, continuously replicating to
2nd site
Benefits:
• Ability to tier data off Windows File Server
• Cost-effective, scalable secondary storage
• Meet data backup and RTO requirements
• No additional third-party backup software
• End of forklift upgrades
“Maintaining backups and archives is very expensive.
With erasure coding, replication and other data
protection features, we can move away from traditional
backup…Resiliency and flexibility is the real benefit for
us.”
Ryan Curry
Assistant Managing Director, Texas Tech

21. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
georgeacrump@storageswiss.com
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https://www.caringo.com
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https://twitter.com/CaringoStorage
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22. Capacity – Ransomware – Protection
Three Windows File Server Upgrades to Avoid
For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at:
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