Can you Get Rid of Your On-Premises NAS and Migrate to Microsoft Azure?

November 17, 2016

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Agenda

• On-Premises vs. Hyperconverged vs. Azure

• Demo: Move On-Premises Storage to Azure without the need to Modify Applications

• Why Choose Azure• Azure Pricing, TCO and Use Cases• SoftNAS Cloud® Overview• Q&A© 2016 SoftNAS, Inc.

On-Premises NAS/SAN vs.

Hyperconverged vs.

Azure Cloud

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The Storage Dilemma

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Renew maintenance contract or forklift upgrade to new

NAS/SAN?

On-Premises NAS/SAN

Hyperconverged Hardware

Azure Cloud

Forklift upgrade to hyperconverged infrastructure?

“Lift and Shift” to the Azure public

cloud?

Does This Sound Familiar?

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• Increasing maintenance costs?• Are you able to forecast capacity needs?• Never-ending pressure from business to add more storage

capacity?• Pressure by CxO and senior management to move to the cloud?• Pressure by business unit owners for agile infrastructure?• Lack of low cost, high-performance object storage option?• High pricing for SSD?• Shadow IT competing with DevOps and Cloud?• No IT budget relief – unrealistic expectations to “do more with

less or same” resources and budget each year?

Comparing On-Premises, Hyperconverged and Azure

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On-PremisesConverged/

Hyperconverged

Security Customer controls their data

Customer controls their data

Customer controls their data

Infrastructure Management

Customer handles infrastructure

Customer handles infrastructure

Azure handles infrastructure

Agility LimitedAdd more nodes; still

requires more hardware

Scale up or down to meet your business

needsDisaster Recovery and High Availability (HA) Setup

Days Days Minutes

Time to Procure More Storage Weeks to Months Weeks to Months Minutes

Pricing Most expensive option

Cheaper than NAS/SAN; more

expensive than AzurePay as you go

On-Premises Management vs. Azure Management

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Applications

Data

RuntimeMiddlewar

eO/S

Virtualization

Servers

StorageNetworkin

g

On-Premises /

Hyperconverged

Azure Cloud

Self-Managed

Applications

Data

RuntimeMiddlewar

eO/S

Virtualization

Servers

StorageNetworkin

g

Managed by Azure

Self-Managed

• Using Microsoft Azure reduces:– Infrastructure-related administration– Costs– Time requirements to dynamically

change• Customer still manages user

accounts; but, tasks like: maintenance, disk swapping and monitoring the health of your data are now managed by Microsoft

• Wave goodbye to hardware maintenance fees and forklift upgrades!

8 Reasons to Choose Azure for Your Storage Infrastructure

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Pay as you go; pay only for what

you use

End maintenance renewals; no longer

pay the “maintenance ransom”

Replace CapEx with OpEx

Best in class security protects

your data

Easy to setup, use and manage

Backups, Disaster recovery, Business

Continuity and High Availability

Easily scalable to meet your

business needs

Reliable infrastructure

Microsoft Azure Overview

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Azure Scale30 Regions ONLINE (38 announced)…huge datacenter capacity around the world

1+ million serversOne of the top 3 networks in the world (coverage, speed, connections)More regions than AWS and Google combined

Market Leadership in Compliance Coverage

HIPAA/HITECH

FedRAMPJAB P-ATO

FIPS 140-2 FERPA DISA Level 2 ITAR-readyCJIS21 CFRPart 11

IRS 1075 Section 508 VPAT

ISO 27001 PCI DSS Level 1SOC 1 Type 2 SOC 2 Type 2 ISO 27018Cloud ControlsMatrix

Content Delivery andSecurity Association

SharedAssessments

European Union Model

Clauses

United Kingdom G-Cloud

SingaporeMTCS Level 3

Australia Signals

Directorate

JapanFinancial Services

China MultiLayer

ProtectionScheme

ChinaCCCPPF

New Zealand

GCIO

ChinaGB 18030

EU Safe Harbor

ENISAIAF

SLAs Published Online• All Azure SLAs are

published on-line at Azure.com

• Includes– Maximum

processing time– Availability

Azure Storage Services

FilesFully Managed File Shares in the Cloud

SMB and REST access

“Lift and shift” legacy apps

DisksPersistent disks for Azure IaaS VMs

Premium Storage Disks option: SSD based, high IOPS, low latency

Built on a unified Distributed Storage SystemDurability, Encryption at Rest, Strongly Consistent Replication, Fault Tolerance, Auto Load-Balancing

IaaSVirtual

machinesStorage

Networking

ObjectsHighly scalable, REST based cloud object store

Block Blobs: Sequential file I/OCool Tier AvailablePage Blobs: Random-write pattern dataAppend Blobs

QueuesReliable queues at scale for cloud services

Decouple and scale componentsMessage visibility timeout and update message to protect against unreliable dequeuers

TablesMassive auto-scaling NoSQL store

Dynamic scaling based on load

Scale to PBs of table data

Fast key/value lookups

PaaSExisting frameworks

Web and mobile

Serverless ComputeMicroservices

Enterprise Primary StorageUnified access on-premises and in the cloudEdge systems (on-prem servers with a copy or cache of data) can be used to optimize for access latency and bandwidth

Edge

Edge

Edge

Enterprise Hybrid Storage and Global Data Access

Full Spectrum Flexibility

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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

AFP iSCSI

CIFS NFS

Volumes

Migrate Existing Applications to Azure

End-userdesktops, devices

Applicationsand servers

Volumes

AFP iSCSI

Storage pools

CIFS NFSSite A

Site B Public Cloud

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NFS

CIFS/SMB

iSCSI

AFP

Use existing

unchanged application

s…

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… using a

POSIX compliant file

system

Azure Pricing, TCO and Use Cases

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Using the Azure Pricing Calculator

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• Use the pricing calculator to configure Azure features for your use case

• Web Link: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

On-Premises Hyperconverged Azure $-

$50,000

$100,000

$150,000

$200,000

$250,000

$300,000

$350,000

$400,000

On-Premises vs. Hyperconverged vs. Azure Pricing

Storage Network IT Labor

3 Year Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Azure (40 TB)

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$758,303

$492,897

$270,400

64% Cost Reduction

• On-premises to Azure migrations result in cost savings of 64%

Sources: Azure Pricing Calculator, The Cloud Calculator

On-Premises Hyperconverged Azure

Server 306,023$ 198,915$ 113,229$

Storage 156,200$ 101,530$ 57,794$

Network 160,480$ 104,312$ 59,378$

Maintenance 55,000$ 35,750$ -$

Migration 23,000$ 14,950$ 10,000$

IT Labor 57,600$ 37,440$ 30,000$

Total 758,303$ 492,897$ 270,400$

Use Case: Multi-Data Store on Azure Cloud

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SoftNAS Cloud provides a single point of interface, that leverages concurrent, backend data stores• High Performance: Uses block-backed

premium SSD with high IOPS• Mid-Range Performance: Uses block-

backed standard storage options• Capacity-Oriented: Uses object-backed

storage

Example:NFS Shares for…

SoftNAS Uses…

Web Server Image

Block PremiumData Store

Website Images Block StandardData Store

Older user submitted files

ObjectData Store

Customers often need a combination of performance-sensitive workloads and capacity-oriented storage options

Use Case: NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, AFP Storage on Azure

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Challenge:• Company needs to quickly SaaS-

enable a customer-facing application on Azure but app does not support Azure Blob

• Needs Active Directory (AD) or LDAP integration

Solution:• Re-write app to support Azure

Blob (unlikely / expensive / time)• Do not change application: Use

SoftNAS Cloud on Azure for NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI and AFP support - all presenting as a POSIX compliant file system Azure

or On-prem hosted

VMs

Cloud

Challenge:• Major publishing company

needs reliable offsite data protection

• Large hardware capital investment

• Need metered usage• Simple and integrated

solution

Solution:• Branch office backup to

cloud• Core data center backup to

cloud• Cloud backup to cloud• Hybrid cloud backup

Use Case: Disaster Recovery on Azure Cloud

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Lift and Shift while Keeping Enterprise NAS Features

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On-Premises Data

What key features does SoftNAS Cloud provide on Azure?- NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, AFP

support- POSIX compliant file

system- No need to rewrite

Applications- Deploys in minutes- Storage Snapshots- Easy to learn and use- No training required- Thin and Thick Provisioning - Compression, deduplication- Disaster recovery and HA- No downtime guarantee SLA- Monthly/annual subscriptions

From CapExmodel

To OpExmodel

We expand and accelerate workload shifts to the cloud, while keeping enterprise NAS features…

“Lift and Shift” to the Azure public cloud

SoftNAS Cloud Overview

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Flexible, Adaptable Architecture

Linux Virtual Appliance

ARCHITECTURE INTEGRATION DATA SERVICES

• API and CLI• Cross data center• Cross-zone VPC• Easy

administration• File gateway• HTML5 Admin UI• Software filer• ZFS on Linux

• Azure• AWS• CenturyLink Cloud• CIFS w/ Active

directory• FC SAN• iSCSI LUN• iSCSI SAN• NFS• AFP• S3 Objects• SSD• VMware vSphere

• Block replication• Cloud disks• Compression• Inline deduplication• Instant snapshots• Multi-level caching• Storage pools• Thin provisioning• Writable

SnapClones™• 360-Degree

Encryption

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