Webinar: Cloud Archiving – Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure or Something Else?
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The document discusses the essentials of cloud archiving, focusing on comparing Amazon Glacier and Microsoft Azure Archive Blob Storage in meeting specific archiving requirements, including recovery, management, integration, and cost optimization. It highlights the benefits of cloud storage as an efficient and compliant solution for archiving data. Additionally, it emphasizes that effective archiving should leverage cloud infrastructure and be delivered as a Software as a Service model.
Webinar: Cloud Archiving – Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure or Something Else?
- 1. Cloud Archiving - Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure or Something Else? Join us to Learn: 1. What are the Requirements of Cloud Archiving? 2. How do Amazon Glacier and Azure Blob Storage Meet Those Requirements? 3. What Needs to be Added to Complete the Archiving Picture? For audio playback and Q&A go to: http://bit.ly/HubCloud
- 2. Our Speakers George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has over 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US. Geoff Bourgeois is the CEO at HubStor, the leading cloud archive service on Microsoft Azure. Geoff co- founded HubStor with his long-time friend and colleague, Greg Campbell. Geoff has 18 years of experience delivering enterprise software to assist with the management, search, protection, and compliance of unstructured data. His focus in recent years has been centered on reinventing enterprise archiving for the cloud era through Azure-based storage and data management.
- 3. Level Set - What/Why Archive ● Archive is an intentional and final copy of data made typically to meet a compliance / regulatory reason or to free-up primary storage capacity ● An Archive keeps organizations out of trouble ● An Archive can reduce the organization’s storage speen ● Most ROI models claim payback in months ● Plus the cost and reputation damage avoidance of having data required by regulations
- 4. ● Used to be the software ○ But Archiving software and operating system integration is quite good now ● Used to be the hardware ○ Tape was too slow for access and generally untrusted ○ Disk fixed access but delta savings was not great enough when disk was primary storage or when all cloud storage pricing was the same Archive is the Most “Undone” Thing Everyone Should Do
- 5. But Now ● Primary storage is mostly flash, or in production cloud ● Archive storage is very inexpensive, especially... ● Cloud Archive Storage ○ Started with Amazon Glacier… ○ Then Google Nearline and now… ○ Microsoft Azure Archive Blob Storage (AABS) and Blob-level Tiering
- 6. Cloud Storage is the Ultimate Fix ● It can be bought as needed ● It is off-premises ● It is automatically replicated (disaster protection) and has automated data integrity checking ● And it is very inexpensive. $0.0018* + activity prices * - Azure Archive tier public preview prices
- 7. But The Cloud isn’t Perfect Comparing Amazon Glacier with Microsoft Azure Archive Blob Storage
- 8. Comparing Amazon Glacier with Microsoft Azure Archive Blob Storage ● By default these are great tape replacements and compete well vs. sending tape media to Iron Mountain ● But for Archiving? o The Importance of Granularity o Common API across Tiers o Better Retrieval Experience
- 9. The 7 Requirements for Cloud Archiving
- 10. Requirement # 1 - Fast and Easy Recovery ● Again these are intentional copies with a high likelihood of recovery - They’re not backups ● Recovery should be fast o Ability to tier even the archive ● Recovery should be easy o Self-Service o GUI and Application interface
- 11. Requirement # 2 - Fully Managed ● Single Solution the provides: o Gateway from legacy storage to cloud storage o Search - Metadata and optional context o Access Management / Chain of Custody o WORM/Compliance Storage o Data Efficiency (Deduplication/Compression)
- 12. Requirement # 3 - Extend Existing Storage ● Many products add another on- premises mount point. Copy from A to B then to the cloud ● Ideally solution should extend existing storage no additional mount point
- 13. Requirement # 4 - Data Awareness ● The Cloud is more than a Giant Data Dumpster (especially archive) ● Data Aware Shows: o What data is in the archive o Policy status/health o Data that is sensitive/legal hold o User Interaction o Custom queries
- 14. Requirement # 5 - Integrated Data Search ● If you can’t find it, archive is an exercise in frustration ● Integration is key, an add-on requiring data movement and external processes increasing complexity ● Control over search detail based on data type / ownership (content search is expensive)
- 15. Requirement # 6 - Streamlined Access ● Easy to identify and egress content ● Individual file and bulk egress scenarios ● Option to allow end-users with self- service access
- 16. Requirement # 7 - Storage Cost Optimization ● Dedupe and compression ● Policy-based tiering for Windows/CIFS/NFS with seamless recall ● In-cloud storage tiering: Hot ←→ Cool ←→ Archive ● Containerization for small file workloads (email, IoT)
- 17. Summary ● The Cloud is the Right Place to Archive Data ○ But the Cloud by itself is merely an infrastructure ● Archive has deeper requirements than tape vaulting ● Ideally archiving is delivered as a Software as a Service model leveraging cloud infrastructure
- 18. About HubStor · Founded March 2015. · Customer funded. · Experienced team: · Archiving · eDiscovery · Search · Data Protection
- 19. What is HubStor? SEARCHABLE COLD ARCHIVE Deep archive Blob-level tiering Smart indexing STORAGE TIERING Seamless for Windows Link-based for CIFS/NFS OFFICE 365 BACKUP SharePoint OneDrive for Business Mailboxes Groups Team Sites Event History WORM COMPLIANCE Immutability Redundancy Auditing Export EMAIL ARCHIVE PST files Mailboxes Public folders Journaling Legacy archive migrations
- 20. How it Works
- 21. Cloud-enable Windows/CIFS/NFS Tier to Azure Storage Policy driven Syncs ACLs, folders No disruption to users or apps Offload aging data Shrink backups Reduce costs for low-touch data Eliminate data gravity Use for fast RTO Streamline h/w refreshes, migrations
- 22. In-cloud Storage Tiering · Build rules for Blob-level Tiering with criteria such as: · Folders · Access rights · Data ownership · DLP/PII tags · Last accessed · Last modified · Item types · Custom fields Hot Cool Archive Optimize future use of Azure Storage with in-cloud tiering policies.
- 23. 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 HubStor http://www.hubstor.net HubStor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hubstor HubStor on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/hubstor
- 24. Cloud Archiving - Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure or Something Else? For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at: http://bit.ly/HubCloud