Active ArchiveOnline Access to all Your Data

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Adam Rix Senior Systems Engineer EMEASpectra Logic

Disk

RAM

Tape

Flash

Tier 1 Disk

Tier 2 Disk

Backup Copy

Additional Backup Copies

Long Term Storage

StoragePyramid

Disk

RAM

Tape

Active Archive Approach:

Extended File System

Active Archive Result:

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DATA PROTECTIONAPPLICATION

ARCHIVE

The Evolution of Active Archive

BackupOnsite/Offsite Disaster Recovery

Offsite

Copy of DataActive Archive of Primary Data Set

Host

Data Creation

ACTIVE ARCHIVEAPPLICATION

2000 2004 2008 2010 SCSI/FC

SATA

• Up to 70% of capacity of every disk drive installed today is misused– 40% of data inert– 15% allocated but unused– 10% orphan data– 5% contraband data

• Disk storage accounts for between 33 and 70 cents of every dollar spent on IT hardware: trend accelerating

Source: Making IT Matter (Chalfant/Toigo, 2009)

Ineffective Storage Management

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Explosive Data Growth

Sources: *International Data Corporation 2010

• Where does all the data go?

• 11 Exabytes of digital data created in all of human history through 1999

• By 2001, that doubles

• By 2011, 1610 EB! *

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Compliance Information Week 2009 Storage Analytics Report• 50% of the top 100 companies consolidated data

centers in 2009

• 70% are affected by regulatory requirements for storage

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Active Archive

Active Archive provides affordable, online solution to access and store all this newly created data!

An archive that contains production data, no matter how old or infrequently accessed, that can still be retrieved online.

Achieving Efficiency with Active ArchiveNASA Ames Case Study

Achieving Efficiency with Active Archive

NASA Ames Case Study• Pain Points

– Downtime due to media issues– Maxed out data center floor space utilization

• Goals– Ensure media and data integrity– Better manage media within the library– Improve storage density and footprint– Have all data online, searchable and accessible

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Achieving Efficiency with Active Archive

Results—NASA benefits greatly migrating to an Active Archive:

IBM’s High Performance Storage System (HPSS) and Spectra’s T950 (8 Frame)

– Extended file system capacity on tape

– Reclaimed 1400 sq. ft. of data center space

– Increased online archive capacity 12 PB to 32 PB

– Increased data storage reliability

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Achieving Efficiency with Active Archive

Results

New Storage Footprint

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What is new in the application space?

1. Open Systems Applications released– Lower entry cost point– Targeted to reach broad IT market.

No longer just in:• Proprietary environments• Focused vertical marketing

2. Tape Technology has evolved

New Application Functionality

General IT

Sample Active Archive Apps that extend File System storage to Tape

HPC

Requirements for Active Archive

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Why Now?

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Tape technologies are reliable…Reliability has increased 700% over the technology available a decade earlier

• Advances in the coating of tape film

• Read-after-write data verification

• Error correction codes

• Drive technology features simplified tape paths and servo tracking systems

Beech, Debbie. “Best Practices for backup and long-term data retention” Sylvatica Whitepaper. The evolving role of disk and tape in the data center. June 2009

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• Spectra libraries today have the intelligence to proactively alert if a media, drive or hardware issues are developing

• Gone are the days of not knowing if…– A tape has been used beyond any manufacturer

thresholds– There has been environmental damage to media– Failures are drive or media related– Data is on the tape media

Spectra BlueScale11TM

…and even more reliable in Spectra libraries

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Spectra storage offers high energy efficiency

Tape Library Disk System

Clipper Group Study, “Tape and Disk Costs” - Starting with 125 TB of data - Assuming 14.5 cents per kW/Hr increasing by 10% per year

Spectra’s libraries offer the greatest density

Reclaim space: 44 – 218%Low density disk array

Same capacity, smaller footprint

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Spectra’s Tape Libraries are Fast…

* Based on benchmarked data; assumes 2:1 data compression* Based on 120 LTO-5 Drives* *Times vary based on library and tape drive in use

…really fast!

Write to tape: 121 TB/hr*

Access from tape: 65-75 seconds avg**

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• Drive Technology: LTO 6 – 8 & TS1130

• Availability: Dual Master Frames, LCM Failover, dual communication paths

• Manageability: CLI support & API sharing

• Security: Centralized Key Mgt, Access Control

• Continued ISV support for new active archive apps

Spectra has a committed long-term roadmap

Tape Automation – Departmental to Enterprise

Basic Specifications: • 10 to 10,050 Slot Capacity• 1 to 120 LTO Tape Drive Capacity• Scalability through “Transcale”

Basic Specifications: • 1 to 25 Frames • 100 to 30,520 Slot Capacity• 2 to 120 Tape Drive Capacity• Dual Robots, Massive Scalability

Tape Automation – Large Enterprise, HPC, Media

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Questions?