Acopias Intelligent File Virtualization

Stefan Pickert
Sales Director Europe spickert@acopia.com +49-171-3171500

About Acopia
Founded in January 2002
Founder/Chairman: Cheng Wu, Founder/CEO of ArrowPoint (Cisco), Founder of Arris (Cascade) President/CEO: Christopher Lynch, VP of Sales & Marketing at ArrowPoint (Cisco), Sales VP at Prominet (Lucent), Bay Networks

HQ in Lowell, MA; ~ 140 employees Locations in US, Asia and Europe Acopia is changing the way enterprises manage their unstructured data by delivering file virtualization in the network Partnerships with leading NAS providers:

Acopia Fills The Gap A Fundamental Information Mgmt Challenge

Information Producers and Consumers (Requesters)
Simple, Reliable, Trustworthy Global Information Access Independent of Physical Resources

Acopias Adaptive Resource Networking GAP IP Networking

Scale, Availability, ILM, Heterogeneous Transparent to Requesters

Physical Information Servers (Resources)

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Trusted by Leading Companies

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The Constraints of Todays Infrastructure

Applications and Users

Complex
Mixed vendors, platforms, file systems

Inflexible
IP Network

Access is tightly coupled to file location Disruptive to move data

Inefficient
5% 90%

Resources are under and over utilized

File Servers and NAS

Growing rapidly
70% annually (80% are files)
(Gartner, IDC)

The cost of managing storage is 5 to 10 times the acquisition cost

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Virtualization Breaks the Constraints

Applications and Users

Simplified access
Consolidated, persistent access points

Flexibility
Intelligent File Virtualization

Data location not bound to physical resources

Optimized utilization
Balances load across shared resources

Leverages technology
File Servers and NAS

Freedom to choose most appropriate file storage

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Acopias Intelligent File Virtualization

Applications and Users

Works with existing infrastructure

Uses industry standard NFS / CIFS No forklift upgrades, new file systems or software agents

IP Network Intelligent File Virtualization

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Purpose-built for real-time policy enforcement

Leverages IP / Ethernet network to monitor and adapt dynamically

Highest performance and scale

GBytes/sec vs. Mbits/sec throughput Billions vs. millions of files

NAS and File Servers Storage Pool

Enterprise-class availability
Maintains service in the event of failures

Acopias platform has the scalability to be deployed in large-scale data centers. Forrester
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Data Migration with Acopia

Applications & Users

Solution:
Transparent to users and applications File-level granularity NFS & CIFS support across multiple vendors Scheduled policies to automate data migration

Acopia

Intelligent File Virtualization

Benefits:
Reduce outages and business disruption Lower operational overhead
No client reconfiguration Decommissioning without disruption Automation

NAS and File Servers

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Data Migration Case Study

Clients ARX1000 Compute Nodes

Challenges
Need to seamlessly migrate data from old filers to new Upgrade to NetApp ONTAP 7G without impacting the business

NetApp 800 Series R200 FAS960 FAS980c

Solution
ARX1000 cluster

Benefits
Multi-terabyte data migration without disruption NAS software upgrade, system de-commissioning without downtime OPEX savings by eliminating downtime & automating migration

Acopias products allowed us to perform a multi-terabyte data migration without disrupting our users
Leon Roberge, Director of IS, Toshiba America

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Storage Tiering with Acopia

Applications & Users

Solution:
Automated & non-disruptive data placement of flexibly defined filesets Multi-vendor, multi-platform Clean (no stubs or links) File movement can be scheduled

Acopia

Intelligent File Virtualization Create

Benefits:
Reduced CAPEX
Leverage cost effective storage

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

Reduced OPEX Reduced backup windows and infrastructure costs

NAS and File Servers

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File Based Placement

Age Based Placement

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Tier 2

Tier 3

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Storage Tiering Case Study

Clients & Applications

International trade-show company

Over 600 employees worldwide; revenues >$380M

ARX1000 HA Cluster

Challenges
Move less business critical data to less expensive storage, nondisruptively to users

NetApp 940c

NetApp 3020

Tier 1 Tier 2

Solution
ARX1000 cluster

Benefits
50% reduction in disk spend Dramatic reduction in backup windows (from ~14 hours to ~3 hours) and backup infrastructure costs

Based upon these savings, we estimate that we will enjoy a return on our Acopia investment in well under a year.
Reinhard Frumm, Director Distributed IS, Messe Dusseldorf
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Data Replication with Acopia

Applications and Users

Solution:
Fileset based replication NFS & CIFS across multiple vendors Replicas may be viewed Supports multiple targets Change-based updates only (file deltas)

Intelligent File Virtualization

Replication

Benefits:
Freedom to use heterogeneous storage Cost effective disaster recovery

Primary Site

Secondary Site

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Data Replication Case Study

WAN

Worlds largest equipment rental company Challenges

Upgrade NAS platform Introduce lower cost ATA disk File-based Disaster Recovery solution

Tier 1 Tier 2
Replica

Solution
ARX1000 cluster at HQ & ARX1000 at remote DR facility

Disaster Recovery Site

Benefits
NAS upgrade with no impact to users 50% savings through use of ATA disk Cost effective disaster recovery solution Dramatic reduction in backup and replication times

Primary Site

Acopia has reduced our total backup and replication times by about 70%.
Bonnie Stiewing, Senior Systems Administrator, United Rentals

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Load Balancing with Acopia

Compute Nodes

Solution:
Automatically balances new file placement across file servers Flexible dynamic load balancing algorithms Uses existing file storage devices

200MB/s
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Intelligent File Virtualization

50MB/s

50MB/s

50MB/s

50MB/s

Aggregate Throughput Aggregate CPU Aggregate Capacity

Benefits:
Increased application performance Improved capacity utilization Reduced outages associated with data management

20% 20% 20% 20% Utilized Utilized Utilized Utilized

NAS / File Servers

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Balance Capacity

Load Balancing Case Study

Compute Nodes

Challenges
Infrastructure was a bottleneck to production of digital content Difficult to provision new storage

ARX6000

Solution
ARX6000 cluster

Benefits
Ability to digitize >500% more music 20% reduction OPEX costs associated with managing storage Reduction in disk spend due to more efficient utilization of existing NAS

NetApp 3050

Acopias products increased our business workflow by 560%

Mike Streb, VP Infrastructure, WMG
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Business Benefits of Acopia

Fixed Cost Savings
Acopia allowed us to automatically move our older design projects to more cost effective storagethe disk and tape cost savings alone will more than pay for our investment in the Acopia switches."
Iain Godwin, ICT Director, Foster and Partners

Variable Cost Savings

"As a result of the Acopia virtualization implementation, we have reduced the operational overhead associated with storage management by 40%.
Yury Gutgarts, CIO Archive Systems

Freedom of Choice
"In the past it's been complicated to introduce new vendorsnow I feel comfortable opening up the door to additional storage vendors and letting them compete more.
Mike Streb, VP IT Services Warner Music Group

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Acopias Intelligent File Virtualization Delivery Platform

Scalable product family
ARX6000 Data Center Device
>2B files

ARX1000 Mid Tier Device

375M files

ARX500 Departmental Device

125M files

Common software across all platforms Enterprise-class management and serviceability

CLI, GUI, SNMP Logging, reporting, scripting Diagnostics, phone home

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Summary
Acopias solutions uniquely address the growing challenges associated with managing file data
Operations that were disruptive are now transparent Operations that were manual are now automated Drives dramatic capital and operational expense reductions

Acopia offers the only enterprise-class, intelligent file virtualization solution

Unique performance, scale, data integrity and accessibility Multi-protocol, multi-vendor, multi-location

Proven in Fortune 500 environments

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Simplifying File Storage with Acopia

Before Acopia After Acopia

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Complex Inflexible Inefficient Growing rapidly

Simplified access Flexibility Optimized utilization Leverage heterogeneous technology

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