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Backup to the Cloud For Dummies®, 2nd NetApp
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raditional data backup technologies, such as tape,
are slow, expensive, risky, and complex. Lost or
damaged tapes, long restore times, and painfully
slow management are driving organizations to look for
better data protection solutions.
Foolish Assumptions
Because you’re interested in this book, I assume you
have at least a basic understanding of data-protection
concepts — specifically, backup and recovery — and
cloud technologies.
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Finally, I assume that you’re involved in the evaluation
and selection of backup solutions and/or cloud services
for your organization.
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IN THIS CHAPTER
»» Understanding backup
challenges
»» Integrating with cloud services
»» Realizing the benefits of backup
to the cloud
Chapter 1
Moving to a New
Backup Strategy
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n this chapter, I discuss the challenges and limitations
of traditional backup strategies, explain how to inte-
grate your existing backup infrastructure with the cloud,
and examine some of the benefits of backup to the cloud.
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top business goals driving investments for cloud initia-
tives were:
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that data. The widespread adoption of mobile
devices and the data generated by the Internet of
Things is expected to further accelerate data growth.
Cloud-Integrated Data
Protection
For IT organizations struggling with backup and recov-
ery, the sheer number of data protection options can be
overwhelming. Disk, tape, backup-as-a-service (BaaS),
and backup to the cloud are all viable technologies for
data protection.
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implementations in spite of their well-documented
problems, including the following:
Chapter 2
Choosing an
Appliance
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n this chapter, you learn about the different types of
cloud-integrated backup appliances— physical, vir-
tual, and cloud-based. The NetApp AltaVault is used to
provide examples.
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a lower cost compared with on-premises solutions. This
approach gives organizations the power to tap into cloud
economics and scale while preserving investments in
existing backup infrastructure.
Source: NetApp
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built on scalable hardware platforms that can rapidly
stream data to the cloud.
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AltaVault enables the deployment of virtual appliances
onto general purpose x86 servers, while still providing
the features and functionality of physical appliances
(discussed in the previous section). AltaVault virtual
appliances can be deployed onto KVM, VMware, or
Hyper-V hypervisors, giving you flexibility to choose the
approach that works best for your organization.
Understanding Cloud-Based
Appliances
For organizations that need additional offsite protection,
cloud-based appliances running on Amazon Web Ser-
vices (AWS) or Microsoft Azure offer a low-cost way to
recover backup data. In a typical use case, data is initially
backed up at the primary site using an on-premises
physical or virtual appliance. If the primary site becomes
unavailable for any reason, you can quickly recover your
data directly from a software appliance deployed in the
AWS or Azure cloud.
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An AltaVault cloud-based appliance will deduplicate,
encrypt, and rapidly back up cloud-based applications to
long-term, low-cost cloud storage.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
FIRM OPTIMIZES BACKUP
A technology-focused proprietary trading firm
deployed NetApp AltaVault with AWS Glacier to
optimize its inefficient backup processes.
Challenges
Results
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IN THIS CHAPTER
»» Performing backups efficiently
»» Architecting for flexibility
»» Keeping backup data secure
»» Simplifying your backup strategy
Chapter 3
The Benefits of
AltaVault Cloud
Backup Solutions
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Efficient
Efficiency is an essential AltaVault benefit. AltaVault uses
inline deduplication and compression, resulting in data
reduction ratios of up to 30:1 — which means you can
store less data in the cloud and get it there faster.
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• Intelligent prefetching enables AltaVault to
restore data from the cloud within minutes.
Open
Another key benefit of an AltaVault solution is an open
architecture that enables seamless integration with the
cloud.
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leading backup and archive solutions, including
CommVault, IBM, Veeam, and Veritas.
Secure
AltaVault protects your backup data with security fea-
tures that enable you to do the following:
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• Protect data in-flight with industry-standard SSL
(Secure Sockets Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer
Security) encryption with keys managed locally
by your IT security department.
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The amount of data that you store in the
cloud is reduced by the deduplication ratio
you achieve with your data. At 30:1, you
would only need 100TB of cloud storage to
house 3 petabytes of data!
Simple
AltaVault simplifies the deployment and management of
cloud-integrated backups. The simplicity of design
enables organizations to do the following:
»» Deploy faster.
• Get up and running with AltaVault in less than
30 minutes. In three simple steps, you can start
sending data to the cloud.
»» Manage smarter.
• Reduce tape management overhead and manual
tasks that are error prone and time consuming.
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IN THIS CHAPTER
»» Leveraging your existing backup
software
»» Replicating to a public cloud
»» Backing up to private clouds
Chapter 4
Freedom to Choose
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n this chapter, you learn more about how a cloud
backup appliance can be used with leading backup
software applications and both public and private
clouds.
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that want to leverage their existing backup applications
as part of a cloud-integrated backup strategy.
Public Clouds
Reliably offloading backup data to a public cloud is criti-
cal to the success of any cloud backup appliance. AltaVault
solutions optimize replication to public clouds, while
providing users with options to throttle bandwidth use,
and for scheduling when replication can run.
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state transfer) based protocols. These proto-
cols are designed for multisession ingests of
small data segments. The data segments are
then stored collectively in a single target
location (commonly referred to as a cloud
bucket).
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data is in sync with cloud storage and pro-
tected in the event of a disaster.
Private Clouds
For organizations that don’t use the public cloud (either
because they can’t or don’t want to), AltaVault integrates
with many private cloud object storage solutions, includ-
ing NetApp StorageGRID Webscale. Private or hybrid
cloud infrastructures can provide efficiency and security
for your data protection strategy.
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You can connect the AltaVault appliance and StorageGRID
Webscale over a WAN or LAN. Either way, the built-in
network optimization and deduplication of AltaVault sig-
nificantly reduce the amount of data transported and can
speed up transfer rates.
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IN THIS CHAPTER
»» Nine things to consider for your
backup strategy
Chapter 5
Nine Ways to
Get Started
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is designed to meet increasingly stringent SLA
requirements.
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Verify Regulatory
Requirements
Be familiar with any applicable regulatory requirements
for your organization’s data and ensure that your backup
strategy adequately addresses those requirements.
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Assess Your Existing
Backup Strategy
Perform a gap analysis to determine any shortcom-
ings that need to be addressed between your exist-
ing backup strategy/infrastructure and your business/
technical requirements.
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