Recovering Storage with Azure and StorSimpleStorage, backup and recovery capacity has always been a financial versus operational dilemma. Organisations’ storage strategies are often to continue buying additional capacity as and when the need arises, however this results in using CapEx as a capacity management tool.

By investing in Microsoft Windows Azure, specific tiered data can be moved to the cloud, allowing the business to recapture the primary storage space it was occupying. Cloud Integrated Storage (CiS) combines on-premise SAN with the ability to store, access and manage data in the cloud. Windows Azure CiS offers the following key benefits and features.

a Consolidation - Provides scalable, durable cloud storage, backup and recovery solutions for any volume of data. It works with the infrastructure you already have to cost effectively enhance your business continuity strategy, as well as provide the storage required by your cloud applications including unstructured text or binary data such as video, audio and images.

a Backup and Recovery - Cloud-based snapshots provide ground-breaking speed, simplicity and reliability, so customers can achieve up to 100x faster data recovery vs. traditional methods.

a Storage Costs - By integrating cloud services with local enterprise storage, companies can reduce their total storage costs by between 60 and 80%.

To assist with the integration of data into the Azure cloud, Microsoft have introduced an appliance called StorSimple that combines primary, backup, archive and DR storage with cloud integration.

The technology seamlessly integrates advanced SAN technologies such as SSDs, SAS, automated storage tiering, de-duplication, compression and AES-256 encryption with cloud storage to help significantly reduce your storage footprint. StorSimple together with Windows Azure has the potential to reduce capital and operational expenditure, alongside the challenges of daily storage management.

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StorSimple’s local and cloud snapshot technology enables instant or scheduled backup and restores, as well as volume or item-level recovery. In addition it provides pre-configured, optimized volumes for Windows file shares, SharePoint, as well as VMware libraries and VSS application snapshots.

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With over forty SharePoint databases, users were experiencing a poor return and IT was finding it difficult to maintain a cap on Tier 1 storage, backup and disaster recovery costs as well as meet expected RPO / RTO metrics.

Implementing StorSimple with SharePoint Optimizer and Azure, provided an integrated solution for primary, backup and DR, as well as improved performance and scalability with faster backup capabilities.

SemiconductorVendor

The customer had a large data footprint and continual growth of 1.8TB per month. They wanted to optimize on premise storage and reduce cost while providing live repositories for engineering and design documents.

By installing StorSimple in their primary and secondary data centres, enabling automated snapshot backups, archiving and moving DR to the cloud, they were able to make savings with no change to applications.

GlobalFoodCompany

Due to the presence of Tier 2/3 data (circa 200TB) sitting on VM’s within high-end EMC arrays costing in the region of $2m, the customer was facing complex management issues and inflated total cost of ownership.

With the introduction of StorSimple and Azure, they we able to identify and migrate archived files, presented via iSCSI instead of Fibre Channel, reducing OpEx costs and simplifying management.

InsuranceCompany

File shares with integrated data protection were being archived with no capacity management. In addition, storage in remote offices was unmanaged and needed to be brought under control.

Through the use of Microsoft StorSimple and Azure, they were provided with a single solution for both primary, backup, live archive data and DR, as well as remote office Tier-1 primary storage.

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