how to migrate your saas apps to aws for increased agility and availability

© 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.

Mike Ruiz, Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

John-Marc Clark, Vice President of Marketing, SoftNAS

John Crites, Chief Information Officer, Modus eDiscovery, Inc.

January 17, 2018 | 10:00 AM PT

How to Move Your SaaS Apps to

Amazon Web Services (AWS) for

Increased Agility and Availability

© 2018, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.


• Challenge: Transitioning large amounts of data to AWS

• Foundation: An overview of primary storage and AWS

• Solution: Simplifying data migrations to AWS with SoftNAS Cloud

• Use Case: Moving Modus eDiscovery to AWS

• Q&A

Today's Agenda



• Transition 1.2 Petabytes of storage to AWS

• Establish a high-availability environment

• Build scalable storage cost into operating model

• Migrate customers from CoLo environment to AWS without down time

• Sustain high performance in a big data environment


The Modus Challenge


The Foundation:

AWS and Primary Storage



Why Choose AWS for Storage?

Compelling Economics

Pay as you go

No upfront investment

No commitment

No risky capacity planning

No need to provision for

redundancy or overhead

Reduce risk

Durable and Secure

Avoid risks of physical

media handling

Easy to Use

Self service administration

SDKs for simple integration

Speed, Agility, Scale

Reduce time to market

Focus on your business, not

your infrastructure


Amazon EFS

File

Amazon EBSAmazon EC2

Instance Store

Block

Amazon

S3/SIAAmazon Glacier

Object

Data Transfer

AWS Direct

Connect

AWS

Snowball

ISV

Connectors

Amazon Kinesis

Firehose

S3 Transfer

Acceleration

Storage

Gateway

Storage is a Platform: AWS Storage Maturity


Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

• Highly scalable object storage

• Store and retrieve data from anywhere on the web

• Automatically replicated across multiple AZs

• Highly durable (11 9’s of durability)

• Bucket policies and ACLs

• Server and Client side encryption


Choice of Storage Classes on Amazon S3

Active data Archive dataInfrequently accessed data

Standard Standard - Infrequent

Access

Amazon Glacier


Getting Started with Amazon S3

Physical Migration

Appliances

APN Storage

Competency Partners

Hybrid Cloud

Storage


AWS Hybrid Architecture Capabilities


Global Infrastructure

Region & Number of Availability Zones New Region (coming soon)


Benefits of APN Storage Partners

Easy

Configuration

Incremental Backup and

Block Level Backup

Asynchronous

Replication

Highly

Available

Cost-Effective Policy

Based Backups


AWS Shared Responsibility ModelAPN Partners help customers meet their part of their shared responsibility

model


Key AWS Certifications and Assurance Programs

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SoftNAS Cloud Data Platform

John-Marc Clark, VP of Marketing

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SoftNAS Guiding Beliefs – Data & Cloud

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Solutions Driven Cloud Data Control Platform

Tape to cloud data archiving

Lift and shift apps to

the cloud

Global bulkdata movementand integration

Highly-availablebackups and

fast data transfer

SaaS enable

apps

File server

consolidation

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SoftNAS Cloud Virtual NAS Overview

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• Software-only NAS virtual appliance built for the cloud• Full protocol support: CIFS, NFS, AFP, iSCSI• High Availability • Snapshots / Rollbacks• Replication• Deduplication• Compression• Price and Performance Tunable• Active Directory / LDAP integration• Scales from Gigabytes to Petabytes

SoftNAS Cloud Virtual NAS Overview

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SoftNAS Cloud Architecture

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SoftNAS Cloud Supports AWS Storage Services


John Crites,

Chief Information Officer

Modus eDiscovery, Inc.

www.discovermodus.com


Background

• Electronic Discovery (eDiscovery)

• Customer Base (Law Firms / Enterprises)

• Services Include: eDiscovery Reporting

Data Collection & Forensics

eDiscovery Processing

Early Case Assessment

Hosting

• SaaS and PaaS Options for clients


The Project

Assess and move 1.2 Petabytes

No lost data acceptable

No downtime for customers

ISO 27001 Compliance for: Cloud Provider (AWS)

Modus

Manage high performance storage in NFS exceeding 100 Terabytes

Provide High Availability environment

Provide at lower cost than on-premises environment


Challenges

Security

Scalability

Performance


Why AWS and SoftNAS?

Scalability

Stability

Security

Access to Next-Gen technology

Stability

Technical support

Full featured administration

Full and natural integration with AWS

Consumption-based licensing

Long-term partnership


How did SoftNAS address Modus' challenges?

Phase I – Migration to AWS

• Technical support for framing solution (without trying to upsell)

• Expedited implementation of SoftNAS

• Flexibility on terms to permit changes during implementation

• Hands-on technical assistance where needed for success


How did SoftNAS address Modus' challenges?

Phase II – Optimization for Cost-Effective Storage

• Senior Technical Support to frame transition plan

• Licensing necessary to accommodate project

• Hands-on support as needed


Specific Benefits to Modus

AWS and SoftNAS are enabling Modus to be a disruptor in our industry by

providing massive storage with:

Performance: Parallel distribution across volumes allowed us to transition to less

expensive storage medium.

High Availability: Enabled us to transition our storage environment with essentially zero

downtime.

Cost Performance: Scalability paired with a stable environment could not be attained

on-premises without unreasonable capital investments.


Summary: SoftNAS on AWS

Consumption Based Cost

Scalable Storage

High Performance

Partnership

Consistency across availability zones, regions and countries

Detailed administration

The Bottom Line……

“Engage a storage technology that will contribute to your company’s

competitive edge”


Q & A



Try SoftNAS in AWS Marketplace

• https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace

• Search for “SoftNAS Cloud Enterprise 20TB”

Learn more about SoftNAS

• https://www.softnas.com

Learn more about Primary Storage on AWS

• https://aws.amazon.com/backup-recovery/partner-solutions/#storage

Try AWS for free

• https://aws.amazon.com/

Next steps and further information



Thank you!


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