On-Premises NAS: Upgrade, Pay Maintenance or Public Cloud?

August 30, 2016

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Agenda• On-Premises vs. Hyperconverged

vs. AWS• Demo: Move On-Premises Storage

to AWS without Modifying Applications

• Why Choose AWS• AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)• SoftNAS Cloud Overview• Q&A

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On-Premises NAS/SAN vs.

Hyperconverged vs.

AWS 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

AWS Cloud

Forklift upgrade to hyperconverged infrastructure?

“Lift and Shift” to the AWS public

cloud?

Does This Sound Familiar?

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• Increasing maintenance costs?• Exorbitant pricing for SSD?• Never-ending pressure from business to add more storage

capacity?• Lack of low cost, high-performance object storage option?• Pressure by CxO and senior management to move to the

cloud?• Pressure by business unit owners for agile infrastructure?• 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 AWS

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On-Premises Hyperconverged

Security Customer controls their data

Customer controls their data

Customer controls their data

Infrastructure Management

Customer handles infrastructure

Customer handles infrastructure

AWS handles infrastructure

Scalability Limited LimitedScale up or down to meet your business

needsDisaster Recovery & HA Setup Days Days Minutes

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

Pricing Most expensive optionCheaper than

NAS/SAN, but more expensive than AWS

Pay as you go; cheapest option

On-Premises Management vs. AWS Management

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Applications

Data

RuntimeMiddlewar

eO/S

Virtualization

Servers

StorageNetworkin

g

On-Premises /

Hyperconverged

AWS Cloud

Self-Managed

Applications

Data

RuntimeMiddlewar

eO/S

Virtualization

Servers

StorageNetworkin

g

Managed by AW

S

Self-Managed

• Using AWS reduces infrastructure-related administration

• You still manage user accounts, but jobs like maintenance, disk swapping and monitoring the health of your data are now managed by Amazon

• Wave goodbye to hardware maintenance fees and forklift upgrades!

8 Reasons to Choose AWS 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

Disaster recovery and HA

Easily scalable to meet your

business needs

Reliable infrastructure

Using the AWS TCO Calculator

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• Use the TCO calculator to compare the cost of running your applications on-premises vs AWS

• Describe your on-premises configuration to produce a detailed cost comparison with AWS

• URL: https://awstcocalculator.com/

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

10On-Premises Hyperconverged AWS

$-

$100,000

$200,000

$300,000

$400,000

$500,000

$600,000

$700,000

$800,000 Server Storage Network

On-Premises Hyperconverged AWS

Server 306,023$ 205,035$ 113,229$

Storage 156,200$ 104,654$ 57,794$

Network 160,480$ 107,522$ 59,378$

IT Labor 57,600$ 38,592$ 36,000$

Total 680,303$ 455,803$ 266,400$

$680,303

$455,803

$266,400

61% Cost Savings

• On-premises to AWS migrations result in cost savings of 61%

• Hyperconverged to AWS migrations result in cost savings of 42%

Source: AWS TCO

How to Pay for Your Storage Migration to the Cloud?

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Allocate existing maintenance renewal budget$450,000 (50 TB) on-premises >>> $265,000 (70 TB) on AWS Cloud

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Pick a tier 2 application to migrate and test the waters2

Once the app is migrated successfully, create a workplan to migrate the remaining apps, workloads and data

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When all the migration is done, unplug your on-premises hardware!

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Lift and Shift while Keeping Enterprise NAS Features

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On-Premises Data

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

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

From CapExOwnership

model

To OpExRentalmodel

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

“Lift and Shift” to the AWS public cloud

End-userdesktops, devices

Applicationsand servers

Volumes

AFP iSCSI

Storage pools

CIFS NFSSite A

Site B Public Cloud

NFS

CIFS/SMB

iSCSI

AFP

Use existing

unchanged application

s…

Connect to AWS using

standard NAS protocols…

Through AWS hosted

instances…

Leveraging AWS storage services for

flexible capacity

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Easily Migrate Existing Applications to AWS

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

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

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

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

SnapClones™• Encryption

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