Everyone understands disk has become the primary target for backups in the last several years. It’s also safe to say that the main type of disk storage used as a target for backups would be a purpose-built backup appliance that presents itself to the backup application as an NFS or SMB server and then deduplicates any backups stored on it. But what about object storage? Object storage vendors tout that their systems are less expensive to buy and less expensive to operate than traditional disk arrays and NAS appliances. So, does it make sense to use them for backups? How much is deduplication a factor and is deduplication even available with object storage? What else can object storage bring to the table that traditional disk backup appliances can’t?

1. In this webinar you will learn:
● Pro-backup features of object storage
● How object storage can simplify backup
● Why object storage is less expensive
Does Object Storage Make Sense for Backups?
On Demand Webinar
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/ObjectBackup

2. ● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud
and virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets is gained
through product testing and interaction
with end users and suppliers
● The results of this research can be
found in the articles, videos, webinars,
product analysis and case studies on
our web site:
http://storageswiss.com
Who Is Storage Switzerland?

3. Our Speakers
W. Curtis Preston is a Senior Analyst at Storage
Switzerland. He has been specializing in data
protection for over 20 years, having designed and
implemented backup, DR, and archive systems for
some of the largest companies in the world. He is
the author of O’Reilly’s Backup & Recovery and
Using SANs and NAS.

4. Our Speakers
Douglas Soltesz, Director Product Solutions, is responsible for
guiding the development and integration of software applications
that support the S3 API at Cloudian. Doug‘s passion for storage
technologies comes from his 15+ years of total experience working
both as an IT vendor and consumer. His positions range from CIO
of Budd Van Line to time working in the consulting, storage, and
backup industries as a Systems Integrator, Director of Engineering
and Product Manager. He has spoken at numerous events most
notably VMworld, OpenStack Summit, & Citrix Synergy as an
advocate for solving today’s legacy problems with next generation
software defined solutions. Today his focus is directed at the pain
points associated with massive data growth in the fields of Backup,
IoT, Life Sciences, Media, and Big Data/Analytics.

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About Cloudian
Big Data Background
• Founded 2001 as Gemini Mobile, a
pioneer in high-volume wireless
messaging
• Long-term stability: Multiple telcos today
still supported on Gemini technology
• Cloudian launched 2011 to develop S3
object storage
Well-Funded
• $79 million in venture funding
Investors
Partners

6. Polling Question
As A Service
What are you currently using for backup
today?

7. • Tape has two
speeds: stop & very
fast
• Tape can only go one
speed at a time
• Techniques to
increase backup slow
down restore
First, Why Not Tape?

8. • Disk can go any
speed
• Disk can go several
speeds
simultaneously
• Slow backup doesn’t
= slow restores
• FC/iSCSI-connected
ATA/SATA disk
Why Disk?

9. • Backup software made a lot of duplicate data
• Disk without dedupe was very expensive
• Random access disk allows deletion of dupes
• Dedupe made disk possible (for all backups)
• Disk made dedupe possible (random access)
• Dedupe made replication of all backups
possible
Why Deduped Disk (AKA
Target Dedupe)?

10. • Expensive process, financially &
technically
• Dedupe tax to CFO
• Dedupe tax paid twice if
replicating
• Dedupe tax to restores
• Still quite expensive
Why NOT Dedupe Disk?

11. • Maybe not
• Backup has come a long way
• A lot of the duplications have been
eliminated
• Block-level incremental backups
• Forever incremental backups
• Object storage is much cheaper than regular disk
But Don’t We Need Dedupe?

12. • Target dedupe helpful but expensive
• Target dedupe not as important as before
• The point was cost, there is now another
way
• Less redundant data in today’s backups
• Object storage on commodity hardware is
cheaper
• Built-in multi-site data protection
Source Dedupe Backups

13. • Disk is a great target for backup
• Target dedupe was a stopgap
• Deduping at source offers more options
• Object storage offers a very compelling
choice to a dedupe appliance
• Best for products that are reducing dupes at
the source
Summary

14. Meet Cloudian
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•On-premises S3-compatible object storage
•Ideal for hybrid cloud
•Start small, scale to 100s of petabytes

15. On-Premises Storage is Still Essential
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Why:
• Performance
• Security
• Compliance
• Cost of access
APPLICATIONS
ON PREM
STORAGE
DATA CENTER
New Challenge:
Manage multiple storage
pools
Challenge: Multiple Storage Environments to Manage
CLOUD
STORAGE

16. Cloud Storage in Your Data Center
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PUBLIC CLOUD CLOUDIAN
Transparently scalable
Always available
Automatic data protection
Security built in
Access from anywhere
Pay as you grow
Resides in your data center

17. Industry’s Most Complete Feature Set
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100% Native
Amazon S3 API
Multi Tenancy, QoS,
Billing
Policy-based
data protection
Integrated
Search & Data
Analytics
One System for
Files & Objects
Policy-based
Tiering

18. Summary
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Only Cloudian combines:
Richest feature set
• Guaranteed Amazon S3 interoperability
• Hybrid cloud automated tiering
Most deployment options
• Appliances
• Software
• Metered by use
Industry’s most flexible scaling model
• Start small and grow

19. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
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https://twitter.com/CloudianStorage
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20. Does Object Storage Make Sense for Backups?
For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at:
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