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Acopia’s Intelligent File VirtualizationAcopia’s Intelligent File Virtualization
Stefan PickertSales Director
Europe
+49-171-3171500
Stefan PickertSales Director
Europe
+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:
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“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
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Trusted by Leading Companies
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• 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
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• 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
Applications and Users
File Servers and NAS
Virtualization Breaks the Constraints
Intelligent File Virtualization
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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
Intelligent File Virtualization
IP Network Acopia
Storage Pool
Applications and Users
“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
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Acopia’s Intelligent File Virtualization
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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
NAS and File Servers
Intelligent File Virtualization
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• 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
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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
NAS and File Servers
Intelligent File Virtualization
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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
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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
Applications and Users
Replication
Intelligent File Virtualization
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• 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
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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
Intelligent File Virtualization
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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
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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
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• 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
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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
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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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