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November 2013
Common IT business Challenges Protecting information given exploding data growth Delivering a powerful and highly available infrastructure Balancing desired data protection P! and "! with costs and budgets #nderstanding and preparing for all types of disasters and outages "esting and assuring disaster recovery plans
!f the companies experiencing disasters' (3 percent never reopen' and 2$ percent close within two years
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"he average cost of downtime as a function of labor )for large organi2ations0 is 31'010'435 per hour
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6 service interruption could cost a company )Ban&0 between 350'000 and 3240'000 a minute
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7igh 6vailability
8ault9tolerant' failure9resistant streamlined infrastructure with affordable cost foundation
:ontinuous !perations
Non9disruptive bac&ups and system maintenance coupled with continuous availability of applications
Disaster ecovery
Protection against unplanned outages such as disasters through reliable' predictable recovery
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*napshots on source have eBuivalent snapshot on target "arget file system is not mountable unless promoted ,ultiple node clusters can replicate to a single node cluster or one cluster can replicate to multiple clusters
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8ull replication of (0'000 large files )100 ,iB0 8ull replication of a large number )@'000'0000 of small files )( CiB0 Delta replication )15%0 of a large number )@ million0 small files )( CiB0
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Concept :ontinuous availability solution in a local or remote site Configuration ,irrored internal and external data and controller #enefit =liminate business impact associated with applications downtime 6pplications can run continuously despite unplanned outage of storage )and<or controller0 *implified and non9disruptive migrations to next9generation controllers
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G"o become the 4th pillar of the 6ustralian ban&ing system and compete with bigger players in the industry' our organi2ation is going through a ma>or transformation1 "he platform upgrade was business9 changing1H
David ee, Chie& 'n&ormation (&&icer, Credit #nion Australia
challenges
Data center reBuired an upgrade to enable sustainable growth Need for big9ban& platform Buality and power on a scalable and flexible model' to effectively compete with the Gbig (H ban&s
Hds solution
7itachi Firtual *torage Platform 7itachi #nified *torage 7itachi :ontent Platform 7itachi N6* Platform
results
6bility to replicate all its data securely and safeguard against disaster situations 8lexibility of replication service with responsiveness that could maintain availability at $$1$@% 6bility to scale and react to business demand
G6 big reason weIve stayed with 7itachi all these years is its people+ "he willingness and expertise from 7itachi engineers' sales' field and support &eep us coming bac&1 "hey have earned our complete trust and loyalty1H
)o*ard )olton, Director o& '+ ,recision Discover"
challenges
"o provide high caliber service while offering innovative technology . expert consulting 6bility to alleviate the typical challenges of e9 discovery
Hds solution
7itachi N6* Platform 30$0 . 30@0 7itachi #nified *torage 7itachi :ompute Blades 320' 400 . 2000 7itachi :ontent Platform
results
6bility to manage 2PB of storage eclaim storage in the environment' . reduced operational expenses 6bility to handle data reduction' deduplication' replication . compression
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ate 7D* replication software as effective or very effective in meeting reBuirementsJ
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#sers indicate positive ease9of9use experience
HNAS Replication value proposition 7itachi N6* provides three powerful methods of replication to meet different data protection' high availability and<or disaster recovery needs Benefits+
educes data loss ris&s via proven enterprise9class replication technologies
Delivers */6s that are better aligned with business ob>ectives :ost savings through+
/ower networ& bandwidth reBuirements educed energy' cooling and space *impler management and maintenance ?ncreased uptime of mission critical systems
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