Transcript Dimension Data Credentials

Archiving – Designing from
Top to Bottom
Global
Capabilities
Gary Brown
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Background – Who is this guy?
Archiving – What is it?
What’s driving archiving?
Benefits of archiving
Holistic approach to archiving
Additional benefits to archiving
Case study
Questions & Comments
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Background
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Dimension Data
▲ Founded in 1983, we are a $2.5 Billion company with
9,000 employees operating in 30 countries
▲ We plan, build and manage technology
infrastructures for organization to support their
business
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Gary Brown
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21 Years in IT
Architect and Consultant
Provides Storage Roadmaps for many companies
Quoted and soon to be published in Storage
Magazine
▲ NC Resident
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Archiving Definition
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Function: noun
A place in which public records or
historical documents are preserved; also
the material preserved
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Function: transitive verb
To file or collect (as records or
documents) in or as if in an archive
Source: Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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What is driving archiving?
Growth
Regulations
Business
Policies
Performance
Recover
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Total Cost of Ownership
TCO
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What is driving archiving?
(Growth)
The Data Rule
For Every Byte of online storage that
is added considerations must be
made for:
• Backup
• Recovery
• Replication (Local and Remote)
• Disaster Recovery
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What is driving archiving?
(Growth)
Assignments
Email
Images
Unstructured
Data
Growth
Paper
Medical Docs
Forms
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80%
of enterprise and
government content
is unstructured today
(Enterprise Storage Group)
What is driving archiving?
(Regulations)
Factoids
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More than 10,000 Regulation in the US alone
Depth Narrow – Certain Records
Depth Broad – Every Application
Trend
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More records created
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More records retained
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More risk
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Benefits of archiving
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Compliance - Audit
Business policies
Specific data retention
Protection needs
Disaster Recovery
Performance – Offload
Systems
Cost/staffing levels
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Information Lifecycle
Management (ILM)
Archive
Migrate /
Optimize
Access
Protect /
Replicate
Create and
Catalogue
Business Requirements
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Disposal
Holistic Approach
Growth
Legal /
Compliance
Business
Policies
Archiving Requirements
Student
Admission
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Finance
E-Mail /
Groupware
Medical
Blackboard
Holistic Approach-Rules
Growth
• Data Must Move to Archive without
manual
intervention
Legal /
•Compliance
End-User must not have to access
archived data with additional steps
• Archive Rules:
Store, Index, Search, Retrieve,
Audit, DisposeArchiving Requirements
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Finance
E-Mail /
Groupware
Medical
Business
Policies
Blackboard
Holistic Approach-Products
Growth
Legal /
Compliance
Business
Policies
Archiving Requirements
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Finance
E-Mail /
Groupware
Medical
Blackboard
Example Conceptual Diagram
Medicat
Blackboard
Peoplesoft
Peoplesoft
email
email
EMC Centera
Archive Store
Archive
Server
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Additional Benefits
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Reduction in online storage
▲Files (75%)
▲Email (80%)
▲Databases (30%)
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Pipes, Pump and Tanks
▲Pipes = Network (IP and SAN)
▲Pumps = (Servers)
▲Tanks = (Disk, Tape, Optical, NAS, CAS)
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Additional Benefits
▲Reduction in most expensive storage
▲Reduction in networking required (backup)
▲Reduction in processing power required
▲Faster Recovery for DR, BC and local
▲Enables Replication
▲Reduction in backup window
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Case Study – email only
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Background
▲15,000 user email environment
▲4 large Servers supporting
▲8 TB of email
▲80% not accessed in last 30 days
▲Mostly attachments
▲Backups 10 drives (LTO) took 40 hours
▲Restores…don’t even think about it
▲DR…virtually impossible
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Solution
▲Email archiving package (server, software and CAS)
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Case Study – Results
80%
Reduction
Network
80%
Reduction
Backup Time
After
Before
50%
Reduction
Tape Drives
50%
Reduction
Servers
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Recovery
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Disaster
Recovery
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Audit
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Questions & Comments?
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