Spectra Logic
- 1. Genetic Diversity in Digital Preservation David Feller VP Product Management Spectra Logic
- 3. Society’s Genome • Organizations are like Organisms—they must preserve their DNA—which is their most important asset • There’s no permanent storage medium available at this point • Digital Preservation, Maintaining and moving this information forward, may be our most important mission
- 4. The Digital Universe: Risks and Threats • New Forms of Cyber Attack The New Nation-State Attack… Sony - Sony was thrown into the Dark Ages of compute - Large quantities of Sony’s data was destroyed The New Criminal Approach: Ransomware The New Nation-State Attack… Saudi Aramco - 30,000 hard drives were scrapped and replaced - Shift from cyber spying to destruction of operations and data Malware infecting hard disk firmware - Remained hidden for 15 years
- 5. Genetic Diversity serves as a way for populations to adapt to changing environments
- 6. Evolution of a New Approach: Nature & Technology • Multiple Media Types • Multiple Copies • Geographically Dispersed
- 7. Thinking through your Archive Standards Costs Availability
- 8. Traditional Archive Model Traditional Archive Model Challenges • Complex – Difficult to deploy • Proprietary in Nature • High Cost • Difficult to Support – Multi-vendor – Partner dependent upgrades • Not Future Proof – Application level dependency – Migration issues – Future medium adoption – Long term content integrity
- 9. A Quick Object Storage Review • Object Storage is like Valet Parking – Bucket based • Scalable • Migrate-able (no vendor lock-in) • Self-sustaining • Geographically diverse • Mix private and public cloud
- 10. Archive Best practices: 1: Create Multiple copies of your content BlackPearl now handles this automatically • As many copies as you need for safety • Automatic persistence • Local, Remote, Eject-able • Each Bucket has its own policy Traditionally, that meant 2 tape copies…
- 11. Archive Best practices: 2: Use Genetically Diverse Media Strong recommendation for 2-3 types • LTO6/7, enterprise tape drives • Disk (Online or Nearline) SAS, SMR • Cloud for Disaster Recovery Protect against hackers, system, people errors
- 12. Archive Best practices: 3: Geographic dispersion – “Air Gap” Minimum 2 locations separated by 150mi Protect against natural disaster
- 13. Archive Best practices: 4: Use Standards-based Object Storage In & Out are both important • S3 in – simple integration • LTFS – read anywhere • Objects – simple migration • Flexible cloud integration Prevent vendor lock-in
- 14. Archive Best practices: 5: Choose an Archive that is BOTH Active and Cost Effective Cost and Speed are both critical • Offload Tier 1 to 9¢ disk or 4¢ tape • Short term Archive is now available • Ready access Archive Single system for multiple parts of workflow As low as 9¢/GB
- 15. A Modern Storage Model • Wouldn’t it be great… – Simple • All parts of the workflow have direct access – Open Standards • No Vendor Lock In – Guaranteed independent retrieval – Low cost • No special software needed ($$) – Easily Upgradeable – Shareable – Multi-Tennent
- 16. Spectra® BlackPearl® Converged Storage System • Solves the problem of costly and complex approaches to digital preservation • Combines NAS and S3-based interfaces with multiple storage targets • Designed for numerous concurrent workflows • Reduces the need for expensive third-party data movers What is BlackPearl?
- 17. BlackPearl Storage Targets Leveraging BlackPearl’s multiple storage targets organizations are able to balance the speed of access with the cost of storage to design an archive perfect for any organization. Archive Multi-Site
- 18. Local Storage Targets - Disk, Tape • Balance speed of access with cost of storage • Disk for faster access, tape for lower cost ArcticBlue Nearline Archive Disk Power-down archive drives for increased savings and greater life Online Archive Disk Fast access to data at a fraction of the cost of primary storage Spectra Tape Libraries The reliability and affordability needed to store data forever Spectra Tape
- 19. Remote Storage Targets - Cloud, Replication • Extra copies of data in a separate location • Increase reliability and uptime Remote Replication Multiple copies of data in multiple locations Public Cloud Add a copy in the cloud for a hybrid storage approach Public Cloud
- 20. Connectivity
- 21. BlackPearl Converged Storage System Features
- 22. Environment Snapshot • Spectra T950 with LTO-5 tape drives and media • Spectra T950 with IBM® TS1150 tape drives and media • Spectra BlackPearl • Spectra ArcticBlue • BlackPearl® Eon Browser and JAVA CLI Complete, installed systems starting at around 50K€
- 23. Thank You!
Editor's Notes
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- #23: $1m – gift that keeps on giving Phase 1: Nativ Mio, Vidispine Phase 2: Avid Interplay PAM, EVS, Blue Lucy, Cinegy, Dalet, Cantemo The Challenge Issues of reliability, insufficient capacity and longevity of support Archiving data to standalone disk storage. 550TB of data growing at 10TB per month. Needed scalability and affordability Why Spectra? • Reliability & Product Longevity • Scalability • Genetic Diversity • Exceptional Support • Ease of Use