Get the Keys to Cost-effective, Long-term Data Retention

Helping you manage explosive data growth

• Why is storage so inefficient?

• How did we get here?

• What can we do differently?

• Customer examples

• Economic Transparency

Agenda

Storage Budget Trends

Storage All other IT

Storage is 10% of IT Spend

Storage is 20% of IT Spend

Industry Investment• Thin Provisioning• Deduplication• Cost / GB Declines• Virtualization• Unified Storage• Compression• SAS + SATA Drives

In general…

20% Structured

80% Unstructured

95% is opened fewer than 5 times

What’s inside your storage array?

How much does your data cost you?

Replicated Copy ~ $3 - $8 /GB

Deduplicated Copy ~ $2 - $5 / GB

Tape Library Copy ~ $1 - $2 / GB

Off-site Copy ~ Storage + Retrieval + Delivery + Pickup + Destruction

Primary Copy ~ $3 - $8 /GB

Disk

Tape

Performance Cost

Where Does Your Data Live?

Balancing diverse needs

Cost

Multi-Tiered Storage System

Online Retrieval

Retention Recovery

Virtual pool of online disk

Virtual pool of RDX disk

Removable or replicated

Data

Multi-Tiered Storage System

Online retrieval

Retention Recovery

Add ODU Add RDU Add System

Common management (r/w, WORM, retention, encryption, ADV, number of copies,

placement, time-based attributes)

Multi-Tiered Storage in Practice

Online retrieval

Retention Recovery

Common Management

Add ODU Add RDUAdd

System

Vault

#1

Vault

#2

Vault

#3

Vault

#4

Simplicity

Flexibility

Marin County Example

Online retrieval

Retention Recovery

Common management

Vault #1

R / W

Home shares

10% CAGR

Vault #2

Police Dept

HD video5 year

retention

50% CAGR

Vault #3

Council email

2 year retention

20% CAGR

Vault #4

DA office

Current case evidence

online

40% CAGR

Penn Foster Example

Online Retrieval

Retention Recovery

Common management

Vault #1

R / W

Student networked

drives

25% CAGR

Vault #2

Research data by

department

25 year retention

30% CAGR

Vault #3

Staff email

5 year retention

20% CAGR

Vault #4

Student records

30 year retention

10% CAGR

Stratosphere Casino Example

Online Retrieval

Retention Recovery

Common management

Vault #1

Financial data

7 year retention

20% CAGR

Vault #2

Compliant email

3 year retention

25% CAGR

Vault #3

Winning transactions

5 year retention

20% CAGR

Vault #4

Surveillance video

1 year retention

30% CAGR

Price Comparison

Before

$9-$23 /GB

Capacity + Licensing + Support + Offsite•Primary Copy•Replicated Copy•Deduplicated Copy•Tape Library Copy

After

$2.50-$9.25 / GB

Capacity + Licensing + Support + Offsite•Retrieval Tier •Retention Tier •Recovery Tier Offline •Recovery Tier Offsite

DocumentManagementRepository

Compliant Storage

Digital AssetRetention

Tiered Archive

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Solving Customer Problems

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RDX Technology

Removable

Portable

Rugged

Long Archive Life

Low Cost

RetainedTraditional Advantages

Added New

Advantages

Performance

High reliability

Capacity roadmap

Data interchange

500GB 640GB 750GB1TB

1 Million Drives Shipped

Product Portfolio

Model 5 Model 35 Model 70

Retention Tier 5 TB Up to 100 TB Up to 100 TB

Backup throughput 360 GB/hr 720 GB/hr 720 GB/hr

Archive throughput 60 GB/hr 250 GB/hr 400 GB/hr

Online Disk Area 1.8 TB 5.7 TB18.6 TB Base

Up to 120 TB

File Management 250M 750M 1B