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Acopia’s Intelligent File VirtualizationAcopia’s Intelligent File Virtualization

Stefan PickertSales Director

Europe

[email protected]

+49-171-3171500

Stefan PickertSales Director

Europe

[email protected]

+49-171-3171500

About Acopia• Founded in January 2002

– Founder/Chairman: Cheng Wu, Founder/CEO of ArrowPoint (Cisco), Founder of Arris (Cascade)

– President/CEO: Christopher Lynch, VP of Sales & Marketing at ArrowPoint (Cisco), Sales VP at Prominet (Lucent), Bay Networks

• HQ in Lowell, MA; ~ 140 employees– Locations in US, Asia and Europe

• Acopia is changing the way enterprises manage their unstructured data by delivering file virtualization in the network

• Partnerships with leading NAS providers:

© Acopia Networks, Inc.

“GAP”

A Fundamental Information Mgmt Challenge

Information Producers and Consumers(Requesters)

Physical Information Servers(Resources)

IP Networking

Acopia Fills The Gap

Scale, Availability, ILM, Heterogeneous Transparent to Requesters

Acopia’s Adaptive Resource Networking

Simple, Reliable, Trustworthy Global Information AccessIndependent of Physical Resources


Trusted by Leading Companies


• Complex– Mixed vendors, platforms, file

systems

• Inflexible – Access is tightly coupled to file

location– Disruptive to move data

• Inefficient– Resources are under and over

utilized

• Growing rapidly– 70% annually (80% are files)

Applications and Users

IP Network

File Servers and NAS

90%5%

The cost of managing storage is 5 to 10 times the acquisition cost (Gartner, IDC)The cost of managing storage is 5 to 10 times the acquisition cost (Gartner, IDC)

The Constraints of Today’s Infrastructure


• Simplified access– Consolidated, persistent

access points

• Flexibility– Data location not bound to

physical resources

• Optimized utilization– Balances load across shared

resources

• Leverages technology– Freedom to choose most

appropriate file storage


File Servers and NAS

Virtualization Breaks the Constraints

Intelligent File Virtualization


NAS and File Servers

Acopia’s Intelligent File Virtualization• Works with existing infrastructure

– Uses industry standard NFS / CIFS– No forklift upgrades, new file systems

or software agents• Purpose-built for real-time policy

enforcement– Leverages IP / Ethernet network to

monitor and adapt dynamically• Highest performance and scale

– GBytes/sec vs. Mbits/sec throughput– Billions vs. millions of files

• Enterprise-class availability– Maintains service in the event of

failures


IP Network Acopia

Storage Pool


“Acopia’s platform has the scalability to be deployed in large-scale data centers.” – Forrester“Acopia’s platform has the scalability to be deployed in large-scale data centers.” – Forrester


Acopia’s Intelligent File Virtualization


Data Migration with Acopia• Solution:

– Transparent to users and applications

– File-level granularity– NFS & CIFS support across

multiple vendors– Scheduled policies to automate

data migration

• Benefits:– Reduce outages and business

disruption– Lower operational overhead

• No client reconfiguration• Decommissioning without disruption• Automation

Applications & Users



Acopia


• Challenges– Need to seamlessly migrate

data from old filers to new– Upgrade to NetApp ONTAP

7G without impacting the business

• Solution– ARX1000 cluster

• Benefits– Multi-terabyte data migration

without disruption – NAS software upgrade,

system de-commissioning without downtime

– OPEX savings by eliminating downtime & automating migration

NetApp 800 SeriesR200 FAS960 FAS980c

Compute NodesClients

ARX1000

Data Migration Case Study

“Acopia’s products allowed us to perform a multi-terabyte data migration

without disrupting our users”Leon Roberge, Director of IS,

Toshiba America

“Acopia’s products allowed us to perform a multi-terabyte data migration

without disrupting our users”Leon Roberge, Director of IS,

Toshiba America


Tier 3

Storage Tiering with Acopia

• Solution:– Automated & non-disruptive data

placement of flexibly defined filesets

– Multi-vendor, multi-platform– Clean (no stubs or links)– File movement can be

scheduled

• Benefits:– Reduced CAPEX

• Leverage cost effective storage

– Reduced OPEX– Reduced backup windows and

infrastructure costsTier 1 Tier 2

Create

Applications & Users



Acopia


File Based Placement

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IP Network

Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 4

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IP Network

Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3

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Age Based Placement

Tier 3

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• International trade-show company – Over 600 employees worldwide;

revenues >$380M• Challenges

– Move less business critical data to less expensive storage, non-disruptively to users

• Solution– ARX1000 cluster

• Benefits– 50% reduction in disk spend – Dramatic reduction in backup

windows (from ~14 hours to ~3 hours) and backup infrastructure costs

ARX1000HA Cluster

Tier 1 Tier 2

Clients & Applications

“Based upon these savings, we estimate that we will enjoy a return on our Acopia investment in well under a

year.”Reinhard Frumm, Director Distributed IS,

Messe Dusseldorf

“Based upon these savings, we estimate that we will enjoy a return on our Acopia investment in well under a

year.”Reinhard Frumm, Director Distributed IS,

Messe Dusseldorf

NetApp3020

NetApp940c

Storage Tiering Case Study


Data Replication with Acopia• Solution:

– Fileset based replication – NFS & CIFS across multiple

vendors– Replicas may be viewed– Supports multiple targets– Change-based updates only

(file deltas)

• Benefits:– Freedom to use

heterogeneous storage– Cost effective disaster

recovery Secondary SitePrimary Site


Replication



• World’s largest equipment rental company

• Challenges– Upgrade NAS platform – Introduce lower cost ATA disk – File-based Disaster Recovery solution

• Solution– ARX1000 cluster at HQ & ARX1000 at

remote DR facility• Benefits

– NAS upgrade with no impact to users– 50% savings through use of ATA disk– Cost effective disaster recovery

solution– Dramatic reduction in backup and

replication times

Primary Site

WAN

Disaster RecoverySite

Tier 1

Tier 2

Replica

“Acopia has reduced our total backup and replication times by about 70%.”Bonnie Stiewing, Senior Systems Administrator,

United Rentals

“Acopia has reduced our total backup and replication times by about 70%.”Bonnie Stiewing, Senior Systems Administrator,

United Rentals

Data Replication Case Study


Load Balancing with Acopia

200MB/s

50MB/s 50MB/s 50MB/s 50MB/s

20%Utilized

20%Utilized

20%Utilized

20%Utilized

Balance Capacity

Aggregate Capacity

Aggregate Throughput

NAS / File Servers

Compute Nodes

Aggregate CPU

• Solution:– Automatically balances new

file placement across file servers

– Flexible dynamic load balancing algorithms

– Uses existing file storage devices

• Benefits:– Increased application

performance– Improved capacity utilization– Reduced outages associated

with data management


Acopia


Load Balancing Case Study• Challenges

– Infrastructure was a bottleneck to production of digital content

– Difficult to provision new storage• Solution

– ARX6000 cluster• Benefits

– Ability to digitize >500% more music

– 20% reduction OPEX costs associated with managing storage

– Reduction in disk spend due to more efficient utilization of existing NAS

NetApp 3050

“Acopia’s products increased our business workflow

by 560%”Mike Streb, VP Infrastructure, WMG

“Acopia’s products increased our business workflow

by 560%”Mike Streb, VP Infrastructure, WMG

ARX6000

Compute Nodes


Business Benefits of Acopia

“Acopia allowed us to automatically move our older design projects to more cost

effective storage…the disk and tape cost savings alone will more than pay for our

investment in the Acopia switches."Iain Godwin, ICT Director, Foster and Partners

"In the past it's been complicated to introduce new vendors…now I feel comfortable opening up the door to additional storage vendors and letting

them compete more.”Mike Streb, VP IT Services Warner Music Group

Variable Cost SavingsVariable Cost SavingsFixed Cost SavingsFixed Cost Savings

Freedom of ChoiceFreedom of Choice

"As a result of the Acopia virtualization implementation, we have reduced the operational overhead associated with

storage management by 40%.”Yury Gutgarts, CIO Archive Systems


• Scalable product family– ARX6000 Data Center Device

• >2B files

– ARX1000 Mid Tier Device• 375M files

– ARX500 Departmental Device• 125M files

• Common software across all platforms

• Enterprise-class management and serviceability – CLI, GUI, SNMP– Logging, reporting, scripting– Diagnostics, “phone home”

Acopia’s Intelligent File Virtualization Delivery Platform


Summary• Acopia’s solutions uniquely address the growing

challenges associated with managing file data – Operations that were disruptive are now transparent– Operations that were manual are now automated– Drives dramatic capital and operational expense reductions

• Acopia offers the only enterprise-class, intelligent file virtualization solution– Unique performance, scale, data integrity and accessibility – Multi-protocol, multi-vendor, multi-location

• Proven in Fortune 500 environments


Simplifying File Storage with Acopia

• Simplified access• Flexibility• Optimized utilization• Leverage heterogeneous

technology

• Complex• Inflexible • Inefficient• Growing rapidly

Before Acopia After Acopia

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