Capacity - Ransomware - Protection - Three Windows File Server Upgrades to Avoid
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The document discusses solutions to challenges faced by Windows file servers, such as capacity issues, ransomware risks, and backup complexities. It advocates for moving inactive data to secondary storage to alleviate server bloat and improve performance while maintaining data protection. The proposed solution is cost-effective, scalable, and seamlessly integrates with existing Windows environments.
Capacity - Ransomware - Protection - Three Windows File Server Upgrades to Avoid
- 1. Learn how to: 1. Eliminate file server and capacity upgrades 2. Protect against ransomware 3. Reduce the need for file server backup Capacity – Ransomware – Protection Three Windows File Server Upgrades to Avoid Webinar For audio playback and Q&A go to: http://bit.ly/UpgradesAvoid
- 2. Our Speakers George Crump, Lead Analyst Tony Barbagallo, VP of Product
- 3. Who Is Caringo? Object Storage Experts 10+ Years Swarm 9 The Cloud and Object Storage Platform 500+ Deployments
- 4. Polling Question What’s Your Biggest Windows File Server Challenge?
- 5. • Very cost effective • Easy to stand up • Plugs into existing environment (it’s Windows) Why Are Windows File Servers So Popular?
- 6. • Eventually runs out of capacity or performance slows • The number of files makes it difficult to backup and recover • Number of files also makes it a target of ransomware The Challenge with Windows File Servers
- 7. • Leads to adding another Windows File Server • Windows file server sprawl • Adds expense and complexity The Challenge with Windows File Servers
- 8. • Buy a bigger server with more capacity and performance • Upgrade to a NAS • Implement DFS or some other Global File System Typical Workarounds
- 9. • The first two options raise the cost SIGNIFICANTLY • NAS requires learning a new operating environment • DFS or a GFS add complexity • May be overkill for many enterprises • All three just put a bandage on the real problem Typical Workarounds
- 10. • The problem is not capacity, nor performance • It’s too many files! • And most (90%) of those files are in-active • But instead of managing this data we ignore • For good reason – it’s been hard, and you’ve been busy! Curing the Windows File Server Disease
- 11. • Move in-active data (95%) to secondary storage • But... Solution
- 12. • No hacks! Windows has to know what’s happening • Secondary Storage must do its job • Cost effective • Able to retain and preserve • More resilient to failure • Seamless to users and IT • Data just moves • Data just responds to access requests Solution
- 13. • Data can be copied to secondary storage upon creation • Eliminates backups • Secondary storage more resilient to ransomware attacks (read-only) • Windows File Servers have 95% of capacity freed up • Rate of growth is slowed • Future ready • Next wave of unstructured data will be machine generated • Ideal for object storage Impact
- 14. Identify inactive data and automatically migrate Extract more value from existing storage and resources Stay online and productive, meet RTOs Enable consolidation and collaboration $ Secondary Storage Platform Reduces TCO 75% zzz…
- 15. Bloated Windows File Server 24 hours for full recovery 2 hours for incremental backup 90% utilization 500 TB server with 50 TB active & 400 TB inactive content
- 16. Identifies inactive data on bloated servers for automatic migration to secondary storage
- 17. Windows Server System Windows Server Services Physical or Virtualized Deployments Windows Virtualized Storage Physical Storage Secondary Storage Caringo FileFly Agent Hardware appliance or software-defined Pointer remains in Windows File Server Data migrates back on access Seamlessly Integrate with Windows Server
- 18. 40 minutes for incremental backup Un-bloated Windows File Server 6 hours for full recovery 20% utilization 500 TB server with 50 TB active & 50 TB inactive content
- 19. Protects against ransomware attacks Faster backup and recovery Automated, scalable, self-healing, data Transparent to apps and workflows Secondary Storage Platform
- 20. University Reduces Windows File Server Bloat, Improves TCO Challenges: • 50,000 users distributed across 200 departments • Half petabyte initially with vastly different use cases • Looking to modernize complex file virtualization infrastructure utilizing multiple arrays from different vendors Solution: • FileFly for intelligent tiering to and from Windows • Real-time protection, continuously replicating to 2nd site Benefits: • Ability to tier data off Windows File Server • Cost-effective, scalable secondary storage • Meet data backup and RTO requirements • No additional third-party backup software • End of forklift upgrades “Maintaining backups and archives is very expensive. With erasure coding, replication and other data protection features, we can move away from traditional backup…Resiliency and flexibility is the real benefit for us.” Ryan Curry Assistant Managing Director, Texas Tech
- 21. Thank you! Storage Switzerland http://www.storageswiss.com georgeacrump@storageswiss.com StorageSwiss on Twitter: http://twitter.com/storageswiss StorageSwiss on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss Caringo https://www.caringo.com Caringo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CaringoStorage Caringo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CaringoStorage
- 22. Capacity – Ransomware – Protection Three Windows File Server Upgrades to Avoid For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at: http://bit.ly/UpgradesAvoid