The document discusses the design of self-protecting production storage systems that ensure backup independence for audio playback. It emphasizes the distinction between protection (short-term, high capacity consumption, and quick recovery) and backup (long-term, cost-neutral, and air-gapped). The proposed solution includes leveraging cloud resources, unlimited snapshots, and disaster recovery capabilities to optimize data management and accessibility.

1. How to Design Self-Protecting Production
Storage and Gain Backup Independence
For audio playback and Q&A go to: bit.ly/BackupIndep

2. OurSpeakers
Darren Miller,
Director, Performance
and Test Engineering
George Crump,
Founder and
Lead Analyst

3. The State of
Production Storage
Protection
● Media Protection
● System Protection
● Data Protection
○ Snapshots
○ Replication
● But lack Backup

4. The Difference Between Protection and Backup
● Protection:
○ Rapid Recovery
○ Limited “air-gap”
○ Short-term retention
○ Increases primary storage
capacity consumption
○ No data management / cost
reduction
● Backup:
○ Rapid Recovery
○ Air-gapped
○ Long-term retention
○ Primary storage capacity
neutral - or decreases

5. Why Most Production
Systems Can’t
Replace Backup
● Not designed for long-term
retention
● Not air-gapped
● Does not reduce its own costs
● DR requires second system
and second site

6. How to Design a Production System that can
Protect Itself
● Cloud focused but address latency
● On-premises cache not enough
● Needs middle tier
● Unlimited snapshots on low cost storage
● Replication to other cloud regions

7. Addressing Latency
● Flash on-premises but as a
cache not as storage
● Middle tier to address cache
misses without round trip to
cloud

8. What About Disaster Recovery?
● Snapshots are unlimited and don’t
impact performance
● Data is accessible from all tiers
● Performance of middle tier is production
class
● Disaster Recoveries can occur in public
cloud and leverage cloud compute

9. CONFIDENTIAL 8
Company background and momentum
M I S S I O N
To build and deliver a storage
service that manages the entire data
lifecycle, combining the performance
and availability of local enterprise
storage with the scalability and
economics of the cloud.
E N T E R P R I S E C U S T O M E R S
Ellen Rubin
CloudSwitch/Verizon
Netezza/IBM
Laz Vekiarides
EqualLogic/Dell-EMC
I N V E S T O R S
L E A D E R S H I P
S T R A T E G I C A L L I A N C E S
F O U N D E D
2014
M E T R O S
New York, Boston, DC, Chicago,
Dallas, San Francisco
H E A D Q U A R T E R S
Boston, MA

10. CONFIDENTIAL 9
One network, one copy of data: Fully-protected, accessed anywhere
PRIVATE CLOUD
DATA CENTERS
SPECIALTY
CLOUDS
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11. CONFIDENTIAL 10

12. CONFIDENTIAL 11
Customer DC
2
ClearSky
Edge Cache
VPN
Customer DC 1
ClearSky
Edge Cache
ClearSky architecture for DR and data center consolidation
Benefits:
• RPO 0 in-metro, 5-15 min out of metro; RTO <1min, instant restores
• Instantly access data from the cloud or secondary site
• Perform DR tests on-demand
• Achieve compliance
• Eliminate secondary data center(s)
• Rapid data ingest +20TB/day
Service
Primary Metro PoP
Secondary Metro PoP Backing Cloud
Customer
Environment
(End Users)
VPN
Customer DC 2
(Physical or Virtual)
ClearSky
Edge Cache
Home Dir
Home Dir
Home Dir

13. CONFIDENTIAL 12
ClearSky’s automatic data protection and DR
● Use native VMware tools to manage
data access
● No requirement for secondary data
centers or infrastructure to manage
● Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) to
match your application SLA’s
● vSphere protection providing VM-
centric DR failover
● Monitoring and Error Remediation
● Failover RPO SLA Success or Failure
Notifications
● 24x7 support from our NOC support
center

14. CONFIDENTIAL 13

15. CONFIDENTIAL 14
Why customers choose ClearSky Data
Decrease costs and
complexity of
storage
infrastructure
Storage cost
reduction
Consolidate and
minimize data
center footprints
Data center
consolidation
Manage data growth
while optimizing access,
security and data
protection
Harness the cloud
without latency and cost
variability
Cloud
adoption
Data access
and
management

16. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
www.storageswiss.com
georgeacrump@storageswiss.com
StorageSwiss on Twitter:
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ClearSky
www.clearskydata.com
ClearSky on Twitter:
twitter.com/ClearSkyData
ClearSky on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/c/clearskydata

17. How to Design Self-Protecting Production
Storage and Gain Backup Independence
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