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Solution Key Features Intelligent Storage Management – A flexible architecture blended with intelligent policy creation automates storage management and supports efficient HSM, backup, archive, disaster recovery, and device migration. Lowest TCO – Affordable, reliable, and energy-efficient hardware and storage management significantly lower administrative costs by automating tasks, reducing down-time associated with restore processes, and increasing productivity. Data Assurance – A best practices approach guarantees data accuracy and integrity through extensive hash verification, active restoration of corrupted data, and proactive monitoring of storage media health, which includes alerting administrators about potential problems. Scalability – Combining Spectra’s scalable T-Series library architecture and nTier Verde Archive Grade RAID with StorHouse’s ability to manage zettabytes of data/billions of files meets the most demanding storage requirements. Ease of Use –StorHouse software comes loaded on the nTier device and configured based on included hardware. Moreover, StorHouse/Trusted Edge provides a click-through, easy-to-use administration GUI console for analysis and policy creation.
The Challenge – Limitations of Standard NAS
Joint Solution Outperforms Standard NAS for Long-Term Data Management
Successful organizations now view data as an increasingly important asset that maintains business value over longer periods of time, and, in many instances, forever. While some of this thought evolution is a result of increased regulatory/legal requirements, much is being driven by new uses for data in analysis models, new data types being created by diverse applications, and the general realization that organizations utilizing long-term data assets more effectively are out-performing their competition. In short, organizations want to store more data throughout a longer lifecycle. While standard NAS technology meets many of the requirements for Tier 1 short-term storage, it is not well suited for long-term storage. For example, standard NAS is a deviceoriented technology with a relatively short lifespan, its file system cannot scale sufficiently to manage long-term growth, and it provides no real data assurance protection or advanced storage management capabilities. Moreover, standard NAS is a relatively expensive long-term storage option with no ILM/tiered storage support. In contrast, the FileTek/Spectra joint solution supports long-term automated data management, eliminates time-consuming restore processes, provides an internal storage cloud with efficient tape/disk options, ensures data integrity, seamlessly integrates new technologies as they evolve, migrates data to new devices transparently, and scales to zettabytes of storage and billions of files with no performance degradation.
About the FileTek/Spectra Joint Solution The FileTek/Spectra joint solution overcomes the challenges associated with long-term data management. Unlike standard NAS approaches, the joint solution provides all hardware/software components needed for a complete, end-to-end, active archive strategy appropriate for SMB-to-large-scale enterprise deployments. Solution integration with primary storage is simple. First, administrators analyze information on primary storage to decide which data to migrate. Then they define policies that automatically migrate selected information from typically expensive primary storage to less expensive disk and/or tape, where it is automatically managed, protected, and secured. Solution components consist of FileTek StorHouse software modules Trusted Edge, RFS, and SM and Spectra nTier Verde Disk and T-series tape libraries. Figure 1 illustrates the solution architecture.
FileTek StorHouse Software Components StorHouse/Trusted Edge is a simple-to-use agent that can reside on the primary storage device or remotely to access data via a network connection. Using the Trusted Edge administration console, administrators can run profile scans against information on primary storage to gain a clear understanding of data activity, the applications driving data creation, the required storage capacity, and critical information about file size. Using the analysis results, administrators can subsequently define automated migration policies that move appropriate data from primary storage to a more cost-effective StorHouse-managed media layer. In the process, Trusted Edge provides dual hashing verification, automated migration/synchronization/copying functionality, stubbing, and robust audit trail features.
StorHouse/RFS provides a NAS interface that allows access through standard CIFS/NFS protocols (or FTP for high-speed retrieval of large files). Using patented technology, RFS provides a global name space that can scale to billions of files on a single system with no performance degradation. StorHouse/RFS also recognizes file level permissions, including cross OS platform (Linux, Windows) permissions, to reduce administrative overhead for large file migration projects. Solution Benefits Manages long-term data more efficiently/effectively than standard NAS solutions Simplifies system management by eliminating standard backup/restore problems Uses software defined storage (SDS) to create an internal cloud with more efficient tape and disk options while maintaining standard NAS connectivity (CIFS, NFS)
StorHouse/SM supports over 100 different storage management functions, including storage virtualization and policy creation that automate key data management functions such as ILM tiering, backup (no restore), and disaster recovery; data loss protection due to bit rot/silent corruption; simple device migration without taking the system offline; and point-in-time recovery for creating multiple historical views of the system at a specific point in time while the main (current) system stays online and accessible.
NAS1
Primary Storage
NAS2 NAS3
Users/ Applications StorHouse RFS
Creates a platform that can easily integrate with all forms of storage, including the next big thing (NBT), thereby positioning organizations now for future growth
Unlike standard NAS, uses a global name space that can scale to billions of files without performance degradation
StorHouse/Trusted Edge
NAS4
Ensures the accuracy and integrity of data now and forever
Supports seamless device migration so that administrators can upgrade at any time while all data remains accessible
STORAGE MANAGEMENT
StorHouse SM
Other Options
STORAGE nTier Verde
T-Series Library
Solid State Disk
Cloud
SAN
Next Big Thing
Figure 1: Joint Solution Architecture
Spectra Hardware Components
FileTek, Inc.
nTier Verde Disk, a fourth generation nTier product, is a highly reliable storage platform designed to offer the highest levels of data integrity, ease of management, and scalability required for long-term data storage. It provides ingest staging cache for input data, a retrieval performance buffer for certain types of data access requests, and a tiered storage node for data requiring higher performance than tape. nTier Verde is the disk tier within the joint solution, and provides a cost-correct storage option that meets performance needs necessary for most active archive applications.
Spectra Logic
T-Series Tape Libraries assume an important role in the overall storage strategy. Because the joint solution intelligently manages data storage, organizations can use tape for appropriate information, given that streaming large files from tape using multiple drives outperforms disk, especially when using the FTP retrieval feature. In addition, because the solution provides a holistic approach to storage management, tape can be used for the full range of functions (HSM, backup, archive, disaster recovery, and device migration).
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