This document discusses capabilities that primary storage should have but often lacks. It describes how flash should be integrated, how to enable file sync and sharing across multiple data centers, and how to optimize storage for cost-effective compliance and security. The presentation will cover why organizations refresh primary storage, key capabilities needed beyond just performance and capacity, and how Nexsan Unity storage addresses these needs with a unified solution for file sharing, data distribution, archiving and compliance.

1. Nail The Table Stakes: How flash should be
integrated into primary storage
Get What’s Missing:
● How to drop the box with integrated file sync and share
● How organizations with multiple data centers can keep
them all in sync
● How to optimize primary storage with cost effective
compliance and security
Capabilities Primary Storage Must Have
(but probably doesn't)
Storage Refresh?
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3. Our Speakers
George Crump, Lead Analyst
Gary Watson, VP of Technical Engagement
Charlie Hodges, Digital Services Manager

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NEXSAN COMPANY OVERVIEW
Nexsan finalizes deal with Spear Point Capital, separating from Imation,
and names new CEO
• January 24th, “Deal Closed: Nexsan to Prosper With Private Equity Capital Infusion”
• February 15th, “Nexsan Names Ron Bienvenu as CEO”
• Bob Fernander Chairman Emeritus
Nexsan
▪ Founded in 1999
▪ Pioneered capacity-optimized storage
▪ A history of technological innovation
▪ Over 40,000 systems installed
▪ Over 20,000 end-users, 60 countries
▪ Six major facilities: Campbell, Thousand Oaks,
Escondido CA; Montreal Canada; Derby, East
Isley UK

5. • Why refresh Primary Storage?
• What you know you need from Primary Storage
• What you might not know you need from
Primary Storage
• Questions and Answers
Agenda

6. Polling Question
What is Your Biggest Motivation to Upgrade?

7. • More Performance/More Capacity
• System coming off Maintenance
• Drive down costs
• Improve Data Protection
Why Refresh Primary Storage?

8. • Most performance issues are solved via flash
• Many vendors becoming all-flash
• It’s how you implement flash that makes a
difference
• Capacity being solved by high capacity drives
and technology
The Big Asks -
More Performance and More Capacity

9. • Users are not in the same building anymore
• Many don’t have a building
• Users will access data from a variety of devices
• Users will want to share data with other
organizations
Beyond Flash: Collaboration

10. • Public Cloud
• Risk and lack of IT control
• Make more sense to integrate into the Storage
System
• Integrated Collaboration means
• Existing data location is sharable
• IT control over what is shared and for how long
Collaboration Workaround

11. • Most organizations have multiple
locations
• Data between these centers needs
to be shared
• Most organizations get around the
sharing need by making multiple
copies ad-hoc
Beyond Flash: Data Distribution

12. • Integrated Distribution
• Replicate all data to all locations
based on policy
• Make all data available to any
location from any location
• Version control to insure that
changes are not lost
Data Distribution Solution

13. • Most data does not change after the
initial week
• 90% of a data center’s data falls in
that category
• But some, an increasing amount, of
this data needs to be preserved
Beyond Flash: Archive and Compliance

14. • Data Centers just keep expanding their primary
storage capacity
• Expensive and slows things down
• Really need two storage stacks - Primary and
Archive
• Trying to copy old data to the cloud
• Hard to identify
• Gets expensive over time
Workaround

15. • Two Separate Storage Systems -
right use case, right system
• Intelligent Movement
• Integrated, not add-on
Solution

16. • Nail Performance and Capacity (but do
so intelligently)
• Face the realities of the modern worker
• Embrace Archive as the only way to
stay ahead of the data growth curve
Summary

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INTRODUCING NEXSAN UNITY

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UNITY: A BETTER WAY
▪ Store 10’s of TB to 10’s of PB the economically along with
multi GB/s speeds and sub millisecond latency
▪ Keep your data synchronized between sites, without costly
and complex MFT or WAN optimization appliances
▪ Empower remote, mobile, and offline users without VPN
hassles
▪ Provide self-serve data sharing and mobility to your users
▪ Protect and preserve critical data for years or decades

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UNIFIED STORAGE – NEXSAN STYLE
DRAM
NVRAM
Flash Read Cache
CIFS, NFS iSCSI, Fibre Channel
Flash
SSDs
FASTier®
Mix and Match
Up to 5 PB
NAS / SAN
STORAGE
HYBRID
UNIFIED
Hard Drives: 7200 RPM NL-SAS
Performance – SAS: 10K, 15K RPM

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▪ Desktop Access on Mac or PC
▪ Web Access to manage and view
▪ Apps include sharing of folders
▶ Sharing makes Unity a serious alternative to Box / Dropbox / etc.
▶ Sharing can be enabled / disabled by Org Admin
DESKTOP APPS AND SYNC & SHARE
▪ Send links to files – no need to
e-mail large files
▪ Synchronize files to the
devices to work offline
Central Service
(Connection Broker)
Desktop Apps
Initial Connection
Initial
Connection ONLY
Mobile Apps
Data

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▪ Multi-site collaboration
▪ Store the data where it’s accessed – LAN-speed access
▪ Business Continuity
▪ Secure and private
▪ Eliminate the need for other transfer or WAN optimization tools
▪ Easily transfer large files
▶ Moves data with one “hop” not two or more “hops”
▶ Predictable time line for data movement
▶ Pre-staging for large files
WHAT IS ENTERPRISE N-WAY SYNC?

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OPTIONAL UNITY ACTIVE ARCHIVE APPLIANCE
▪Unity Active Archive built on the
foundation of Assureon
➢ Assureon archiving
➢ Assureon shortcutting
➢ Offload primary storage
➢ Meet corporate governance requirements
▪File Integrity
➢ Unique serial number and timestamp on each
file
➢ Automatic file serialization audits to check files
for availability
➢ Fingerprints to guarantee file has never been
altered
▪Retention
▪Long-term archiving solution

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NEXSAN UNITY: UNIFED STORAGE PLUS
▪ Unified Storage
▶ Enterprise NAS (NFS, CIFS/SMB) and high
performance Block (FC, iSCSI)
▶ FASTier™ accelerated RAM and Flash Caching
▶ All the traditional storage functionality
▪ PLUS Private Cloud Enterprise File Sync &
Share
▶ Mobile access (Win, Mac, iOS, Android)
▪ PLUS Enterprise n-Way Sync (site-to-site sync)
▶ Deliver large files where they are needed so they
can be accessed at LAN-speeds
▪ PLUS Integrated Secure Archive (as an option)
▶ Offload primary storage into secure, long-term
archive

24. Thank you!
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25. Capabilities Primary Storage Must Have
(but probably doesn't)
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