Velocity provides fast, on-demand access to virtual copies of databases without needing to create and store physical copies. It uses a virtual provisioning file system to create virtual database copies by mapping them to extents in the ingested databases stored on the Velocity storage server. Key features include supporting Oracle and SQL databases, scheduling ingestions, and empowering users to self-provision sandbox copies for tasks like testing and analytics.

1. Velocity Technical Overview
Presentation
Francesco Aeri
Technical Sales and Service

2. Agenda
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1 Presentation Purpose and Desired Outcomes
2 Customer Use Cases
3 Technical Architecture Overview
4 Features and Functionality
5 Veritas Product Integration
6 Summary and Additional Resources

3. Intended use of this presentation and its contents
Presentation Purpose and Desired
Outcomes

4. Presentation Purpose and Desired Outcomes
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 Illustrate the critical business challenges Velocity
addresses for our customers
 Describe Velocity features and technology
 Explain Velocity architecture
 Articulate Velocity Appliance strengths
Use this contents of this slide deck to create a custom presentation that addresses the
specific business challenges and associated pain points faced by your customer.
DESIREDOUTCOMES

5. Key customer challenges addressed by Veritas Velocity
Velocity Customer Use Cases

6. Velocity Customer Use Cases
Streamline data access
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Provide fast, self-service access to the right data at the
right time.
 Accelerate application releases, upgrades, and patches
 Empower end users with self-service data access
 Eliminate the waiting, delays, or resource dependencies of physical copies
by accessing virtual copies on-demand
Velocity – Streamline data access

7. Velocity Customer Use Cases
Improve storage optimization and cut costs
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Dramatically reduce copy data sprawl.
 Reduce your copy data footprint by up to 90%
 Use less storage by provisioning virtual copies on-demand
 Lower storage costs
Velocity – Improve storage optimization and cut costs

8. Velocity Customer Use Cases
Decrease information risk
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Set access permissions by role and improve
protection.
 Easily set access permissions by role
 Centrally control, manage, and track virtual copies via a single interface
 Protect vital information with dynamic data masking
Velocity – Decrease information risk

9. Velocity Customer Use Cases
Boost backup and recovery performance
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Reduce backup windows by eliminating redundant
data.
 Shorten backup windows by reducing the volume of copy data
 Ensure highly efficient storage utilization
 Lower storage costs
Velocity – Boost backup and recovery performance

10. Velocity Introduction
14
Velocity provides rapid, on-demand, self-
service access to data without the burden
of creating, storing, and maintaining physical
database copies or resource dependencies.
Velocity is part of the Veritas 360 Data Management
portfolio.
Veritas
Velocity

11. Velocity Core Capabilities
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Copy Data Virtualization
Velocity automates the creation, consumption, and deletion
of copy data, empowering authorized end users to instantly
access self-service virtual data copies.
Faster Copy Data Access
Velocity helps organizations consolidate storage, reduce
cost, and eliminate copy data management complexity.

12. Data Refresh Example
Without Veritas Velocity
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TIME NEEDED
Could take weeks…
• Data provisioning and preparation processes are manual and inefficient
• Work requires multiple teams to be involved and impacted
• May need to be repeated multiple times to realize the required resultTime Cost…
Ticket Sent
End user
Ticket Received
Workflow system
IT Engaged
IT admin
Data Located
Database admin
Data Copied
Storage admin
Data Prepared
Database admin
Data Ready
IT admin

Data Access
End user


13. Data Refresh Example
With Veritas Velocity
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TIME NEEDED
Takes minutes…
• Virtual data copy creation is fast and storage/network efficient
• Process can be fully automated
• Self-service experience for end users
User Access
Application host

Time Savings…
TIME SAVEDVelocity Used
Cloud Console
Data Needed
End user
Data Prepared
Database admin

14. Component roles and relationships in a Velocity
architecture
Technical Architecture Overview

15. Technical Architecture Overview
Architectural overview diagram
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Sandbox User
 Sandbox provisioning
 Self-service
Sandbox User
 Sandbox access
 Data mining
 Data analysis
 Data testing
 Data manipulation
Network
Admin User
 Solution setup
 User roles
 User privileges
Hosted in the Veritas Cloud
or available as on premise
solution
Not a Velocity
component
Not a Velocity
component
Database Server
Ingestion source
V
Application Host
Sandbox server
V
Velocity Console
Veritas Cloud or on premise
Control Connection
Registration
Database
Mount
Database
Ingest
Non-data movement eventData movement event
Virtual CopyDatabase
Storage Server
Virtual machine
VM

16. Technical Architecture Overview
Velocity Storage Server
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InfrastructureRole
Storage Server
• Veritas Provisioning File System (VPFS)
• Repository for ingested databases and
virtual database copies
• Data management and optimization
solution
• Virtual database copy generator
Storage Server
Virtual Machine
VM

17. Technical Architecture Overview
Velocity Console – Veritas Cloud
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Velocity Console
Veritas Cloud
InfrastructureRole
Velocity Cloud Console
• SaaS portal in the Veritas Cloud
• Multi-tenant platform
• Designed for user access and
Storage Server management
• Includes user identity and
authentication services

18. Technical Architecture Overview
Velocity Console – NEW! On-premises Management Server
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Velocity Console
On-premises Management Server
InfrastructureRole
On-premises
Management Server
• OVA provided by Veritas
• Comprised of six Docker images
• Based on RHEL 7
• Private cloud solution
• Does not require internet access
vSphere OVA

19. Technical Architecture Overview
Velocity Console – NEW! On-premises Management Server
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Preinstalled Image
Couchbase
Couchbase database datastore
Preinstalled Image
Elasticsearch
Clustering & indexing for events,
mdr bucket, and log data
Preinstalled Image
RabbitMQ
Message, routing, and queuing
Preinstalled Image
EPMP Services
Provisioning, identity, event,
messaging, and core
Preinstalled Image
Velocity Tomcat
Front-end for Private Cloud,
hosting the Cloud Console
Preinstalled Image
EPMP Tomcat
Java, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ,
Couchbase front-end
Docker Services
Velocity Console
On-premises Management Server
vSphere OVA

20. Technical Architecture Overview
Velocity Client
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InfrastructureRole
Velocity Client
• Deployed to database servers
• Secures communications
between database servers and
the Velocity Storage Server
• Database servers must be
registered with Cloud Console
Velocity Client
Installed to host database servers

21. Technical Architecture Overview
Database server (non-Velocity component)
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Database Server
Ingestion source
InfrastructureRole
Database Server
• Hosts production databases, such as
Oracle or SQL
• Server from which Velocity performs
ingestion operations
• Requires Velocity Client
• Not provided by Velocity
V

22. Technical Architecture Overview
Application host (non-Velocity component)
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Application Host
Sandbox server
InfrastructureRole
Application Host
• Used to access sandboxes on Velocity
Storage Server
• Requires appropriate database software
to interact with mounted sandboxes
• Requires Velocity Client
• Not provided by Velocity
V

23. Technical Architecture Overview
Preparation host (non-Velocity component)
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Preparation Host
Data preparation/masking
InfrastructureRole
Preparation Host (Oracle)
• Allows administrator to mask or remove
sensitive data from a ‘raw’ sandbox
• Velocity exposes a ‘raw’ sandbox to a
preparation server
• Requires Velocity Client
• Not provided by Velocity
V

24. Technical Architecture Overview
Process flow and benefits
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Velocity captures copies of production databases and stores them to
the Velocity Storage Server through a process called ingestion.
After ingestion, users can create virtual copies of a database for
various business purposes through a process called provisioning.
Process
Flow
Key
Benefits
 Self-service – Users create their own virtual database copies
 Performance – Provisioning is fast and does not impact production
 Security – Administrator controls user access permissions
 Flexibility – Storage server can be an appliance or virtual machine


25. Technical Architecture Overview
Velocity roles
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• Oversees all users and data; can assign additional users to the administrator role
• Can access all dialogs in the Velocity Cloud Console and can view all sandboxes,
database sources, and database copiesVelocity Admin
• Has access to specific databases and database copies
• Can create and delete sandboxes based on the databases that are made available
to themSandbox User
• Creates database sources by adding databases, allowing databases to be ingested
• Grants Sandbox Users, or groups of users, access to database sources allowing
them to creates sandboxesDatabase Admin

26. Important Velocity features and technical capabilities
Features and Functionality

27. Features and Functionality
Supported database workloads
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 Database users ingest databases from a
source server using the Velocity Console
 Databases are stored and deduplicated on
the Velocity Storage Server
 Sandbox users provision virtual database
copies using the Velocity Console
 Sandbox users access virtual database
copies using an application host server
Note: Refer to the Velocity Help Center for the
latest information on supported database
applications and versions.



28. Features and Functionality
Ingesting Oracle data
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Sandbox User
 Sandbox provisioning
 Self-service
Sandbox User
 Sandbox access
 Data mining
 Data analysis
 Data testing
 Data manipulation
Network
Admin User
 Solution setup
 User roles
 User privileges
Hosted in the Veritas Cloud
or available as on premise
solution
Not a Velocity
component
Not a Velocity
component
Oracle Server
Ingestion source
V
Application Host
Sandbox server
V
Velocity Console
Veritas Cloud or on premise
Control Connection
Registration
NFS
Mount
RMAN
Ingest
Non-data movement eventData movement event
Virtual CopyDatabase
Storage Server
Virtual machine
VM

29. Features and Functionality
Ingesting Oracle data
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Oracle Server
Ingestion source
V
RMAN/NFS
Ingest
Oracle RMAN
controls creation of
logical database copy
Data movement
event
Storage Server
Virtual machine
VM

30. Features and Functionality
Ingesting Oracle data
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Oracle Server
Ingestion source
N
RMAN/NFS
Ingest
NetBackup policies
control ingestion of
Oracle database
Data movement
event
NetBackup
Master Server
An Oracle database can also be ingested through integration with NetBackup, allowing both
NetBackup and Velocity to catalog and use the data for backup and data provisioning
respectively.
Job Management
Storage Server
Virtual machine
V
VM

31. Features and Functionality
Ingesting Oracle data
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• Velocity ingestion – Process is initiated by the Velocity Client on the Oracle
server, after receiving commands from the Velocity Storage Server
• NetBackup ingestion – Process is initiated by the NetBackup Client on the Oracle
server, after receiving policy commands from the NetBackup Master Server
When using NetBackup ingestion, both RMAN and NetBackup catalogs are notified of
the ingestion event and updated
• With either ingestion process, ingestion is performed by Oracle RMAN
• First ingestion is a full copy of the database; subsequent ingestions are incremental
Oracle Ingestion Notes

32. Features and Functionality
Ingesting Oracle data
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Sandbox User
 Sandbox provisioning
 Self-service
Sandbox User
 Sandbox access
 Data mining
 Data analysis
 Data testing
 Data manipulation
Network
Admin User
 Solution setup
 User roles
 User privileges
Hosted in the Veritas Cloud
or available as on premise
solution
Not a Velocity
component
Not a Velocity
component
Oracle Server
Ingestion source
V
Application Host
Sandbox server
V
Velocity Console
Veritas Cloud or on premise
Control Connection
Registration
RMAN
Ingest
Data movement event
Database
Storage Server
Virtual machine
VM
1
2 3
2 6
./sandbox snapshot
Snapshot
Masking Scripts
Preparation4
5
NEW! Automated Script Execution
“Copy Preparation Script Path” field in the
Velocity Console automates the execution of
DBA-provided data preparation (masking) scripts.

33. Features and Functionality
Ingesting Oracle data
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NEW! Support for Oracle 12c CDB/PDB Databases
• Velocity 2.8 supports ingesting Oracle container databases (CDBs) and pluggable
databases (PDBs)
• Databases ingested at the CDB level, and includes all pluggable databases within
• Processes for ingestion Oracle remains the same
• Process for provisioning virtual CDB/PDB database copies remains the same
• For more information on Oracle CDBs and PDBs:
https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/ADMQS/GUID-0FEBEF5F-DF3E-4101-B18B-
84921E2F6AA2.htm#ADMQS12498

34. Features and Functionality
Ingesting Oracle data
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Ingestion Scheduling
• Ingestion of Oracle databases can be scheduled
with Velocity 2.7 and later
• Schedules created in the Velocity Console but
driven by the Storage Server (vsched service)
• Schedules are tied to Database Sources
• Days/Weeks/Months granularity supported
• One schedule per Database Source
Frequency
Days
Weeks
Months
JAN
31
M-F
Storage Server
Virtual machine
VM

35. Features and Functionality
Ingesting SQL data
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Sandbox User
 Sandbox provisioning
 Self-service
Sandbox User
 Sandbox access
 Data mining
 Data analysis
 Data testing
 Data manipulation
Network
Admin User
 Solution setup
 User roles
 User privileges
Hosted in the Veritas Cloud
or available as on premise
solution
Not a Velocity
component
Not a Velocity
component
SQL Server
Ingestion source
V
Application Host
Sandbox server
V
Velocity Console
Veritas Cloud or on premise
Control Connection
Registration
CIFS
Mount
VSS Copy
Ingest
Non-data movement eventData movement event
Virtual CopyDatabase
Storage Server
Virtual machine
VM

36. Features and Functionality
Ingesting SQL data
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SQL Server
Ingestion source
V
VSS/CIFS
Ingest
VSS Copy snapshot
is used to create
logical database copy
Data movement
event
Storage Server
Virtual machine
VM

37. Features and Functionality
Ingesting SQL data
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• For Windows SQL servers, the Velocity Client is deployed as an MSI package
• Client must be installed manually or using a 3rd-party software management system;
silent install is supported
• Installing the Velocity Client creates a service with Local System Account privileges;
service facilitates execution of commands received from Velocity Storage Server
• Commands are received using an HTTPS pull request from Velocity Client
• Connections initiated from Velocity Storage Server (no need to open additional ports)
Velocity Client on SQL Servers

38. Features and Functionality
Ingesting SQL data
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• Ingestion is initiated by the Velocity Client on the SQL server, after receiving
commands from the Velocity Storage Server
• Process uses SQL VSS Writer to capture a snapshot of the SQL database
• Snapshot is captured using the VSS Copy method; SQL logs are not truncated
• Ingestion moves copy of SQL database to CIFS share on Velocity Storage Server
• Ingestion events are full database copies, and are supported for standalone SQL
configurations only
SQL Ingestion Notes

39. Features and Functionality
Ingesting SQL data
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• Ingestion can be initiated
immediately or at a later time
• Each SQL ingestion is a data
movement event which captures a
full copy of the source database
• Ingestion of SQL databases uses
‘VSS Copy’ method; logs are not
truncated during ingestion
SQL Ingestion Notes

40. Features and Functionality
Ingesting SQL data
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NEW! SQL Ingestion Scheduling
• Ingestion of SQL databases can be scheduled
with Velocity 2.8 and later
• Schedules created in the Velocity Console but
driven by the Storage Server (vsched service)
• Schedules are tied to Database Sources
• Days/Weeks/Months granularity supported
• One schedule per Database Source
Frequency
Days
Weeks
Months
JAN
31
M-F
Storage Server
Virtual machine
VM

41. Features and Functionality
Provisioning virtual database copies
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When a user requests a virtual database copy in Velocity, the Velocity Storage Server
creates a virtual database copy within the VPFS file system.
VPFS
Extent 3
Extent 1
Extent 2
Extent …n
Original Copy Extent
Map
Virtual Copy Extent
Map
Ingested Database Virtual Data Copy
Storage Server
Virtual machine
VM

42. Features and Functionality
Provisioning virtual database copies
46
Virtual Database Copies – Overview
Virtual Data Copies
Virtual database copies exist within the Storage Server’s VPFS as data blocks and extents, and an extent map that
represents the current virtual database copy. The extents can be shared across multiple virtual copies.
• Consists of a set of data extents and an extent map
• Extent map references data extents that represent current
copy
• As changes are made to virtual database copy, new extents
are created and map is updated

43. Features and Functionality
Provisioning virtual database copies
47
Virtual Database Copies – Changes
Virtual Data Copies
Virtual database copies exist within the Storage Server’s VPFS as data blocks and extents, and an extent map that
represents the current virtual database copy. The extents can be shared across multiple virtual copies.
• As changes occur over time, data may be overwritten or
deleted
• Extents for overwritten or deleted data are removed from map
• Deleted extents may still be referenced in saved database
copy or other virtual copies

44. Features and Functionality
Provisioning virtual database copies
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Virtual Database Copies – Access
Virtual Data Copies
Virtual database copies exist within the Storage Server’s VPFS as data blocks and extents, and an extent map that
represents the current virtual database copy. The extents can be shared across multiple virtual copies.
• Virtual copy is stored within Velocity Storage Server’s VPFS
• Virtual database copy is exposed transparently via VPFS
interface
• The VPFS interface is exported from the Velocity Storage
Server via NFS (Oracle) or CIFS (SQL) today

45. Features and Functionality
Provisioning virtual database copies
49
Virtual Database Copies – Removal/Deletion
• Users can delete old or obsolete sandboxes
• Sandboxes are tracked and accessed in the ‘Sandboxes’ section
of the Velocity Cloud Console, and are deleted from here also

46. Features and Functionality
Recovering databases
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Oracle Database Recovery
• Velocity supports recovery of Oracle databases
• No additional configuration or licenses required for Oracle recovery
• Oracle recovery is accomplished through Recovery Sandboxes
• Recovery Sandboxes can only be created by DBA and Admin users
• Creating a Recovery Sandbox executes an RMAN script which moves data
to target Oracle host
• Current valid control file must be available on the source Oracle host
• Post-recovery operations required by Oracle DBA to finish recovery

47. Features and Functionality
Recovering databases
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Network
Admin or DBA
 Create Recovery
Sandbox
 Currently supported
for Oracle databases
Not a
Velocity
component
Oracle Server
Recovery Target
V
Cloud Console
Based in the Veritas Cloud
Control Connection
Registration
Database
Recovery
Sandbox
Oracle Recovery Notes
• No additional configuration or licenses required to
support Oracle recovery capability
• Creation of Recovery Sandbox executes RMAN
script to transfer data files to target Oracle host
Sandbox User
 Recovery Sandbox
option not available
to Sandbox Users
Important: After Recovery Sandbox creation, Oracle DBA must
run recovery commands to finish the Oracle restore operation.
Hosted in the Veritas Cloud
or available as on premise
solution
Storage Server
Virtual machine
VM
Data movement event

48. Features and Functionality
Requirements and prerequisites
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Velocity Requirements and Prerequisites
• Information on Velocity requirements and prerequisites is provided by the Velocity
Help Center on-line resource
• The Velocity Help Center is the authoritative source of information on Velocity
requirements, and supported workloads
• The Velocity Help Center includes the Veritas Velocity Users Guide and Velocity
Release Notes
• Access to the on-line Velocity Help Center can be found here:
http://veritashelp.com/Welcome?locale=EN_US&context=VV2015

49. How Velocity integrates with other solutions in the
Veritas 360 Data Management portfolio
Veritas Product Integration

50. Veritas Product Integration
Velocity and NetBackup
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 Unified storage infrastructure for Data Protection and Copy Data Management
 Full benefits from proven Veritas data deduplication technology
Benefits
1. Notified of NetBackup-driven
database ingestion
2. Indexes ingested databases
for virtual copy provisioning
3. After ingestion, can provision
virtual copies
Velocity
1. Performs database ingestion
2. Use Oracle Intelligent
Policies & Storage Lifecycle
Policies
3. After ingestion, can create
backup copies with SLPs
NetBackup
Storage Server
Virtual machine
VM

51. Review of presentation desired outcomes and links to
additional resources
Summary and Additional Resources

52. Summary and Additional Resources
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 Illustrate the critical business challenges Velocity
addresses for our customers
 Describe Velocity features and technology
 Explain Velocity architecture
 Articulate Velocity Appliance strengths
Use this contents of this slide deck to create a custom presentation that addresses the
specific business challenges and associated pain points faced by your customer.
DESIREDOUTCOMES

53. Summary and Additional Resources
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Link Description
www.veritas.com Veritas website
www.veritas.com/product/data-virtualization Veritas data virtualization solutions
www.facebook.com/veritasvelocity Velocity Facebook page
https://twitter.com/veritasvelocity Velocity Twitter home page
http://veritashelp.com/Welcome?context=vv2015 Velocity Help Center

54. Enterprise
Vault &Information
Map
NetBackup
NetBackup
Appliance
VelocityeDiscovery
Platform
Data InfoScale
Availability
InfoScale
StorageResiliency
Platform
Data
Insight
Access
HyperScale for
OpenStack
and Cotainers
TheVeritas Portfolio of Enterprise Data ManagementCapabilities
File
Classification
Legal
Disposition
Unstructured
DataVisibility
Backup &
Recovery
Copy Data
Management
Software Defined
Storage for High
Performance
Workloads
Integrated PBBA
Business
Always On
Archiving &
Retention
Business ResiliencyStorage QoS for OpenStack
and Containers
SDS for
Unstructured Data
(Big Data, IOT,
Video)
EV.cloud
& Backup
Exec
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