Strongbox Data Solutions - IT Press Tour June 2020

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1. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential Autonomous Data Management
2. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential Topics to cover: • StrongLink Overview • What is StrongLink and what problems does it solve? • What’s new? • 2nd Generation Platform, extreme scalability • Pre-announcement of new StrongLink LTFS capability • Live Demo • Example Use Cases
3. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential The world’s largest enterprises across 17 industries have chosen StrongBox Data to reduce storage costs, and to protect and simplify their data management across any storage environment. For 4 years, a leader in intelligent data management and archiving across multi-vendor platforms, on premises and in the cloud. Who Are We? Floyd Christofferson CEO Erik Murrey CTO Lisa Hart Dir. Sales and Alliances North America Simon Marrion Sales Director EMEA
4. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential The Past: StrongBox LTFS NAS Appliance • Single purpose: Virtualize tape to look like a NAS. • Since 2008 in major archive environments worldwide.
5. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential There is No One-size Fits-All Storage Why StrongLink? What Problems Does it Solve? The Inevitable Result is: • Storage/vendor silos • Increased manual processes • Increased costs • Reduced efficiency • Difficult collaboration • Painful data migrations…
6. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential • What Do I have? • Where Is It? • How Can Users Access It? • Is It Protected? • Where Should it be Now? Is this a Storage Management Problem? Or a Data Management Problem? Data & Storage Questions:
7. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential Focus Needs to Shift from Allocation to Utilization efficiency… DATA MANAGEMENT BY STORAGE PLATFORM FOCUS: Balance workload efficiently across storage types and avoid capacity availability problems. Capacity Allocation Efficiency DATA MANAGEMENT BY BUSINESS POLICY FOCUS: Ensure data is hosted efficiently across storage resources based upon business criteria, access frequency, and media cost Capacity Utilization Efficiency
8. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential Each Side Addresses a Portion of the Problem Issues are made worse in multi-vendor storage environments Data Management Storage Resource Management
9. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential • Each metadata type has different value. • Information about the data gets siloed. • Aggregating multiple sources of information gives a complete picture. Aggregated Metadata is the Rosetta Stone
10. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential StrongLink aggregates: • File system metadata • Selected rich file headers • User-created metadata These power the policy engines to: • Automate routine IT operations • Quickly recognize and take action of serious issues • Streamline collaboration between groups and teams • Maximize ROI of IT resources • Horizontal-Scalability © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential How StrongLink Leverages Metadata
11. Metadata Drives Automated Data Services and Policy-Based Workflows Multi-Protocol Access to a Cross-Platform Global Namespace Only StrongLink Connects to Storage Both In and Out of the Data Path
12. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential Autonomous Data Management © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential StrongLink Bridges Storage Silos and Automates Cross-Platform Data Management
13. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential Multiple Ways to Access & Manage Files • Users may access files in the global namespace through SMB/CIFS, NFS, S3 and other standard protocols. • All file actions are the same as if directly accessing storage. • Policy-based data movement is transparent to users. Via standard file shares: Users have multi-protocol access to files on any storage type
14. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential Multiple Ways to Access & Manage Files Via standard file shares (SMB, NFS): Via the StrongLink Control Panel Rich & Custom Metadata Query Builder Storage Locations for Data Copies
15. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential • Data Migration & Cross-Platform Tiering • Technology Refresh • Active Archive Data Movement Protection & Optimization Workflow Automation • Storage Optimization/Consolidation • Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery • Data Classification & Metadata Management • Automated Data Placement & File Copy Management One Solution to Control Multi-Vendor, Multi-Platform Storage Environments for:
16. Automated File Copy Management Versioning, Self-service Recovery, Cross-Platform Protection
17. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential The number of StrongLink nodes may be increased at any time according to I/O requirements. StrongLink software may be installed on any qualified hardware or VM StrongLink Reference Architecture Multi-node for a self-healing HA
18. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential StrongLink Provides Data Protection Choices DR between StrongLink Systems, Cloud & Vaulted Copies
19. Cross-Platform Control of Data And Storage • Start small, scale to extremes • Multi-site DR replication • Not priced by capacity • No stubs, symlinks, or agents • Delivered as software ISO, deployed on bare metal servers or VMs • Compatible with any storage type • Policy-based Automation • Reduce Storage Costs by 80% • Reduce Operational Costs over 50%
20. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential © 2018 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential ◦ Life Sciences ◦ Higher Ed & Research ◦ Government ◦ Manufacturing ◦ Archives & Curation ◦ Oil & Gas ◦ National Labs & HPC ◦ Media & Entertainment ◦ Earth Sciences StrongLink Vertical Markets
21. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential Examples
22. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential First Generation Platform Example No. 1: The Problem of Disruptive Data Migration/Tech Refresh
23. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential The Problem of Disruptive Data Migration/Tech Refresh Migration to 2nd Generation - Disruptive - Expensive - Manual
24. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential Migration to 3nd Generation How to avoid the problems of the first time… Data Has Grown, and So Do the Problems
25. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential Migration to 3nd Generation - Metadata driven migration - Tapes didn’t need to be read - Automated access Metadata-driven Seamless Data Migration
26. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential Metadata-Enabled Migration Solved the Problem Third Generation in Production
27. Example No. 2: Any-to-Any Across Multiple Systems • Three legacy libraries from different vendors. • Needed hybrid in-band and out-of-band workloads • Need high-performance • Wanted to keep primary storage small • Wanted direct user Policy-based Automation
28. © 2020 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential © 2018 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential StrongLink Value Proposition Remove Complexity • Easily add & remove any storage • Global view of all files • Enable collaboration Reduce Storage Costs • Automate archiving & tiering to cut storage cost by 80% • Less human intervention, more automation reduces OpEX by 50% Enforce Data Protection • Automate data lifecycle management • Meet privacy, curation, audit, and governance requirements © 2019 StrongBox Data Solutions, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential
29. Automation for Heterogeneous Storage & Data Management