make a move to the azure cloud with softnas

Webinar: Now is the Time to Move to the Azure Cloud Moving On Prem Storage for Existing Apps is Easier Than Ever

Kevin BrownSolutions Architect

© 2017 SoftNAS, Inc.

Malkit HayunBusiness Development

Agenda

• Before We Start

• About your presenter

• SoftNAS Introduction

• Key Challenges you may be asking yourself

• SoftNAS solution

• Q &A

• Resources


About Your Presenter

Kevin Brown, Solutions Architect

• Kevin has over 15 years experience in cloud computing and storage

• He has a passion for customer success, and goes out of his way to “get things done right”

• He currently lives in the Boston area and enjoys spending time as a Competitive Team soccer coach


Malkit Hayun, Business Development Director

• Malkit has over 15 years experience in driving partnerships and collaboration.

• She has additional expertise in the areas of storage and acquisitions and integration.

• She currently lives in the Boston area and enjoys spending time with her family at the local hockey rinks

SoftNAS – Who, Why, How …

Who is SoftNAS Cloud

– SoftNAS - the #1 best-selling NAS in the cloud, trusted by Fortune 500 to SMB’s

– SoftNAS Cloud for Azure delivers enterprise-class NAS features with NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, and AFP unified file services and Azure-backed storage connectivity.

Why SoftNAS - Accelerating Move to Azure

– SoftNAS helps Microsoft customers move their compute workloads to Azure by eliminating the need to re-architect on-premises applications using file-based storage.

– The SoftNAS Cloud virtual storage appliance provides enterprise-class NAS functionality while extending native Azure file storage capacities, helping customers move more workloads to Azure faster.


SoftNAS Cloud is the #1 Best-selling NAS in the Cloud


$ 4 Billion

$ 12 Billion

NetApp

Dell / EMC

Others $ 10 Billion

Estimated legacy NAS/SANmaintenance spend, per year

Why Customers Prefer SoftNAS Cloud- Most mature cloud NAS- Deploys in minutes- Easy to learn and use- No training required- Full-featured NAS filer- Unique cloud integrations- Secure, reliable, high-performance- No downtime guarantee SLA- Monthly/annual subscriptions

From CapExmodel

To OpExmodel

MARKETDISRUPTION

We expand and accelerateworkload shifts to the cloud

Brands You Know Trust SoftNAS


Top 5 Challenges

1. How do I move away from On-premise storage?

2. What if I have file storage that exceeds the native Azure VM capacity?

3. Do I have to re-engineer my applications?

4. What will my performance look like?

5. How will I secure and protect my data in the cloud

I want to migrate to the Azure cloud BUT ….


• “I don’t want to buy another piece of storage

hardware “• “I don’t want to pay another maintenance

bill”

• ”Why do we call it a Data Center if my data

isn't centered?”

– Storage sprawl

– Upside down Tiering

• “How do I close my Data Center in the next

12 to 18 months?”

Challenge #1 – Where Do I Start?


How do I move away from On-premise storage

• Capacity Limitations

• Azure storage account size limits

• Directory size limitation

• File size limitation

• Protocol Support

• Support for CIFS, NFS, AFP and iSCSI

• Tiered Storage support and migration

– Block storage

– Object storage

Do you need file storage that exceeds the native Azure capacity?

Challenge #2: File Storage Capacity

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Challenge #3: Application Re-engineering


Do I have to re-engineer my application?

Strategy Tradeoffs

Application

Modernization

Pros

● Build new applications or modify/update existing applications

to take advantage of “cloud native” services.

Cons

● Slower time to production implementation: months to years

● Cost

Lift and Shift

(Application

Migration)

Pros

● Faster time to cloud production: days to weeks

● Cost

Cons

● Not cloud API optimized

• Dedicated vs. Shared Infrastructure– Dedicated instances provide the ability to tune

performance – Shared infrastructure can be cost effective but

multi-tenancy means tuning is programmatic• Bursting and Burst Limitations

– Design with the ability to burst beyond peak load • Predictable Performance Levels

– Use benchmark programs to validate baseline performance• Storage Throughput and IOPS

– Determine storage tier suited for your use-case

What will my performance look like?

Challenge #4: Performance


• Firewall– Stateful protection – Network access protection

• Cloud Native Security– Access to infrastructure– Security groups– IAM roles

• Encryption– Encryption options for data security in-flight and at-rest

• Extension of enterprise authentication schemes – Active Directory– LDAP

Challenge #5 – Secure your Data


How will I secure and protect my data in the cloud?

• Effective Backup Strategy • AV / Malware protection • Snapshots and Rollbacks

– Protecting against user error or compromise• Replication

– Data redundancy is key in every enterprise solution

• Protection from Data Corruption– Design for data integrity while reducing or

eliminating the possibility of data corruption • Data Efficiency

– Minimize the amount of data while designing for cost savings.

Challenge #5 – Protect Your Data


How will I secure and protect my data in the cloud?

Business Challenge: Reduce cost of On-Premises Disaster Recovery Data Center

Customer Quote:“SoftNAS Cloud NAS is very easy to use and the product is highly intuitive. We were looking for a system that my engineer would be able to manage easily and SoftNASCloud NAS fits the bill quite nicely. Being user-friendly is one of the greatest things about it.”

Dana Wildes, Senior Systems Engineer, Brianshark

Benefits

– Freed Brainshark from the expense of adding 100 TB’s of on-premises storage

– Moved to a PaaS environment allowing the cloud to perform executables rather than internal infrastructure

– There was no need to re-engineer applications. Brainshark is able to lift and shift on premises workloads to the cloud with ease.

– With the SoftNAS 5- 9’s of uptime guarantee, Brainshark is able to meet their customer SLA’s consistently

Brainshark Migrates Disaster Recovery to Azure Cloud with SoftNAS Cloud NAS


What are they saying about us?

“Quickly and easily built a new Disaster

Recovery platform and attached 100 TB

of Azure blob storage, uploading data to this

storage array ever since with no

issues. Performance has been excellent and

the overall cost saves money.”

Dana Wildes

Senior Systems Engineer

“SoftNAS lets users display multiple volumes, addressing Azure’s storage limitations, and the backup topology allows for quick and secure recovery.”

Chris Covert

“SoftNAS Cloud makes my life easier

because I can create large object based

disks for storing 10’s of terabytes of imagery

data with a few clicks. It has greatly

simplified my data management tasks.”

Tisham Dhar

Research Engineer


Migrate Existing Applications to Azure

End-userdesktops, devices

Applicationsand servers

Volumes

AFP iSCSI

Storage pools

CIFS NFSSite A

Site B Public Cloud


NFS

CIFS/SMB

iSCSI

AFP

Use existing unchanged

applications…

Connect to Azure using standard

NAS protocols…

Through Azure VM hosted instances…

Using Azure storage services for flexible capacity.

Hybrid or Cloud hosted for flexible deployment options

Full Spectrum Flexibility


Cool Blob Storage

Hot Blob Storage

Standard Disk Storage

Premium Disk Storage

$

$$$$

Compute Flexibility for VSA Performance

Adaptability

Data Store Flexibility for Cost/Capacity

Adaptability

Azure Options

Cloud

Enterprise NAS Features for Azure

• Scales from gigabytes to petabytes – pay as you grow!

• Simple administration designed for non-storage experts

SoftNAS Cloud Storage Enables…

• Adjustable virtual hardware configurations

• Tuneable performance levels remain elastic throughout the customer lifecycle

• Elastically switch to “new” storage options over the entire lifecycle (e.g., higher speed SSDs, lower cost HDD).

• Use what’s needed and pay for what’s used

• Upgrade and grow as needs change!

SoftNAS Cloud for Enterprise Cloud NAS Storage

FLEXIBLE DATA SERVICES

• Azure Disk and Blob

• CIFS w/ Active Directory

• NFS w/LDAP

• iSCSI

• Performance adaptable

• Disk

• SSD

• Networking

• Caching

• Block replication

• Encryption

• Cloud disks

• Compression

• Inline deduplication

• Instant snapshots

• Multi-level caching

• Storage pools

• Thin provisioning

• Writable SnapClones™


High Availability is a key feature with SoftNAS

• Non-Disruptive failover

• Maintain existing connections

• Consistent RPO

• HA infrastructure not per App

How to plan for failure or Disruption of Service?


Summary

Helping Customers Embrace the Changes– Accelerating hybrid cloud adoption– Reduce costs of corporate data storage systems

How?– Bridging incompatible technologies, systems and architectures– Simplifying the journey to the cloud– Making backups run faster and leverage fast cloud storage– Replace DR datacenters with cost-effective cloud DR– Keep the 100,000’s of business applications as-is– only rewrite when truly required

Key Benefits– Hardware-independent, flexible, multi-cloud that’s software-defined– Global offices on remote networks limit data transfer speeds– IT administrators can drag & drop to create solutions, little to no development required

• SoftNAS makes it fast, easy and safe to move to the Azure cloud

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