The key to ending NAS Sprawl is to fix the file system so it can offer cost effective, scalable, high performance storage. In this webinar Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump, Quantum VP of Global Marketing Molly Rector, and the Quantum StorNext Solution Marketing Senior Director Dave Frederick discuss the challenges facing the typical scale-out storage environment and what IT professionals should be looking for in solutions to eliminate NAS Sprawl once and for all.

1. In this webinar you will learn:
● What's Causing NAS Sprawl
● How Vendors are putting bandaids on the problem
● What to look for in a unifying file system
End NAS Sprawl
Gain Control Over Unstructured Data
On Demand Webinar
DATA
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http://bit.ly/NASSprawl

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
George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading
storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state
storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection.
He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on
such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs,
software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage
networking. He has over 25 years of experience designing storage
solutions for data centers across the US.

4. Our Speakers
Molly Rector joined Quantum as Vice President, Global Marketing in September
2016. She has more than 15 years of enterprise storage experience, including 12
years as a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). From January 2014 to September 2016,
she served as CMO and Executive Vice President of Global Marketing and Product
Management at DataDirect Networks, a high performance computing (HPC) and data
intensive enterprise storage provider. Prior to that, Rector spent ten years as CMO
and Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Product Management at
Spectra Logic, an archive storage vendor. She also founded the Active Archive
Alliance, an industry coalition formed to educate end users on the evolving new
technologies that enable reliable, online and efficient access to archived data.

5. Our Speakers
Dave Frederick is the Senior Director of Media and Entertainment for Quantum
Corp. For the last 30 years, Dave has focused on leveraging technology to
improve media production and delivery. Since joining Quantum in 2014, he has
been working to bring the benefits of multi-tiered, high-performance shared
storage to use cases ranging from entertainment, corporate video, imaging,
video surveillance and more. Dave’s approach: Infrastructure is important, but
it must never come between the user and their applications.

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Depth and Breadth of Data Management Experience
Northampton,
UK
EMEA Service HQ
Paris, FR
EMEA HQ
Kuala Lumpur,
MY
APAC Service HQ
Beijing, PRC
North Asia Service HQ
Singapore
APAC HQ
Sydney &
Adelaide, AU
Dedupe R&D
BELLEVUE,
WA
WW Sales, Mktg,
& Finance
San Jose, CA
WW HQ
DXi and VM R&D
Irvine, CA
Devices R&D
Denver, CO
Systems R&D / Test
WW Service
Mendota Hts.,
MN
Scale-out Storage R&D
36
100K
year storage specialist
deployments in 100+ countries,
serviced by world-class
support
500
patents – strong IP in file
systems & data lifecycle
management
2015
HDD devices
(Sold business
in 2001)
Tape-based
data protection
Disk-based
data protection
systems
High-performance
storage & data
mgmt. software
(origins from 2000)
Cloud-based
storage
services
Multi-tier
storage
solutions
for demanding
workflows
1994
2002
2006
2012
1980

7. Polling Question
What is your primary source of unstructured data?

8. • Most IT Professionals know that Unstructured Data
is Growing
• What’s New - Unprecedented
• The rate of growth
• The variety of data types
• The quantity of files / objects
• The need to use / re-use this data
• Data analytics to build new business and research opportunities
The Unstructured Data Problem -
It’s More Than Just Data Growth

9. As A Service
• Storing it WAS the big Challenge
• Storing it “relatively” easy today but difficult to do within budget
• Today Unstructured Data needs to be:
• Streamed and accessed rapidly
• Seamlessly accessible by a variety of users across a variety of
storage devices and location
• Securely shared beyond the boundaries of the firewall
• Preserved (not just stored) for decades
Unstructured Data Then And Now

10. Impact Of Modern Unstructured Data
• A Storage System for every occasion
• High Performance Block and NAS Access
• High Capacity NAS and S3
• Compliance / Regulatory
• Private Cloud (Object Storage)
• Public Cloud
• Most Cloud Providers have 4 classes of storage service
• The Result - NAS Sprawl

11. As A Service
• Data centers have dozens of systems storing
Unstructured Data
• A new type of NAS is purchased for each use
case
• And the new number of use cases are expanding
• Within each use case additional NAS are
bought as the first NAS reaches limitations
Understanding NAS Sprawl

12. The Impact Of NAS Sprawl
• Capital Expensive
• Operationally Expensive
• Technologically Limiting
• Data can’t be accessed and identified across
storage types

13. The Cause Of NAS Sprawl
• It’s not the Hardware
• The hardware is all
(basically) the same
• It’s the Software
• Specifically, it’s the file
system

14. The Problems The File Systems Cause
• They are too myopic
• Most file systems are focused on one
use case
• Some only preserve, some only perform
• May reach file count and object limits
rapidly in today’s large unstructured data
environments

15. The Problems The File Systems Cause
• They are too silo’ed
• Work within the confines of one storage system
(even scale out)
• Work with only one hardware type
• They do not incorporate multiple geographic
locations and data in the cloud
• They don’t enable mobility
• May tier (flash to HDD) within a single system
• But not flash to HDD to Object to Cloud to Tape

16. • A Single File System that Delivers
• High Performance access and streaming performance
• A true Global File System
• Presents a single namespace across NAS, Object, Tape, Cloud
• Delivers High Performance metadata for analytics and fast
streaming
• Delivers performance for both standard file data as well as rich
media images and video
• And...a system that can preserve data for decades
The Modern Data Center
Needs A Modern File System

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StorNext’s Rich Media, Unstructured Data Growth Markets
Media &
Entertainment
Post Production
Animation
Sports Video
Corp Video
Ad Agencies
Surveillance &
Security
Law Enforcement
Critical Infrastructure
Retail
Higher Education
Unstructured
Data Tiering &
Archive
Manufacturing
Automotive
Life Sciences
Technical
Computing
Artificial
Intelligence
Satellite &
Telescope Imagery
Energy Research

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Value
Scale
Reuse
Analysis
Simultaneous
View and
Share
Global
Work in
Process
Size
Speed
Criticality
Real-time
TECHNICAL
APPLICATIONS
Scale-out File &
Workflow Storage
Demanding Use Cases,
Common
Requirements

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StorNext Refresher
1. Scale-out, Parallel, File System
– Shared, high-performance, highly scalable file system
– Allows applications, layered above a StorNext client to access a shared pool of storage
– Clients can attach to StorNext using SAN (FC) or network protocols (IP, CIFS, NFS)
2. Storage Manager
– Policy-driven data management of vast storage archives
– Allows users to oversubscribe the capacity of their StorNext file system storage
– Storage destinations range from tape and disk, to object storage and cloud services
– Administrators can easily create and customize data management policies

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Xcellis Scale-out Workflow Storage
StorNext Metadata
Appliance
DLC
Gateway
User Storage
NAS Gateway
Dedicated Metadata
Storage
Metadata Appliance
High Availability Pair
Xcellis Workflow
DirectorXcellis Workflow
Director High Availability
Pair
Metadata + User Storage
Optional Dedicated
Metadata Storage
• Xcellis Workflow Director includes
SAN, DLC & NAS client connectivity
• Xcellis metadata storage resides in
user storage or optionally separated

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Artico Archive NAS Gateway Appliance
• Tiering policies deliver the best TCO for sharing, storing, and protecting data
– The right data in the right place at the right time
– Intelligently moves data from active disk to archive storage
• Unified namespace for comprehensive choice of archive targets
• Copy management and capacity reporting
• Scales from small environments to petabytes
• Powered by StorNext
OBJECT
STORAGETAPE
LIBRARY
CLOUD
PRIMARY STORAGE
Add intelligent data
movement from
existing primary
storage
NAS
ARTICO ARCHIVE NAS GATEWAY

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Sources and assumptions: Includes product price, 3 year support, $1,000 per month hosting fees, and storage admin costs for non-cloud items.
For S3 and Glacier, assumes 10% of data accessed each month out of the cloud.
Why Tier?
Cost to Store 1PB Over 3 Years

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The Quantum Advantage
Store. Access. Preserve.
✓ Fastest Streaming Data
✓ Unified Tiered Namespace
✓ Preservation & Sharing
Optimize Use of Instruments & Cameras
Leverage Lowest-Cost Storage
Enable Other People & Future Generations

24. Thank you!
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https://twitter.com/QuantumCorp
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25. End NAS Sprawl
Gain Control Over Unstructured Data
DATA
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