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1 s t o r s i m p l e D a t a s h e e t Data Protection I/T organizations struggle with the complexity associated with defining an end-to-end architecture and processes for data protection and disaster recovery. In most cases, such architectures involve varying technologies and retention periods based on the age and value of the data. Snapshots are created as consistent point-in-time copies of application volumes, using existing primary storage array capacity, to provide fast on-line restores of data with a short retention period. In order to support longer periods of retention, speed of restore must be compromised, and storage outside of the array itself must be used, typically disk-to-disk technologies, virtual tape libraries (VTL), and data deduplication. To support disaster recovery and for compliance purposes, tapes are written and shipped off-site for archival. In essence, organizations struggle with: - Different mechanisms, products for backup and restore based on retention and age of the data - Complex and cumbersome implementation of multi-tier data protection strategies - Erosion of primary storage capacity through snapshots, with limited applicability due to short retention - Risky, costly off-site tape vaulting, which extends the recovery time objective (RTO) in the event of a disaster

2 2 s t o r s i m p l e D A t a s h e e t D a t a P r o t e c t i o n Diag_7a Datasheet: Data Protection 1 Application Servers StorSimple s Data Protection solution includes the StorSimple appliance, deployed in the data center, and an easy-to-use web-based management interface, and a snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), deployed on Microsoft Windows servers that are using volumes provided by the appliance: - Provides a comprehensive protection, disaster recovery solution for Microsoft, Linux, VMware, and Mac - Enables a simplified yet complete data protection architecture centered around snapshots - Eliminates many costly and risky components while streamlining policies and procedures - Provides fast, efficient, always-on restores without requiring shuffling of media - Leverages elastic pay-as-you-go model of the cloud for long-term savings and lower initial capital costs. StorSimple Appliance Public or Private Cloud Storage Service StorSimple Data Protection MMC Snap-in iscsi Volume Access Cloud Storage Protocols Automated Tiering Cloud Backup Cloud Disaster Recovery Figure 1. StorSimple Deployment for Data Protection C o m p a r i s o n o f S t o r S i m p l e a n d T r a d i t i o n a l D a t a P r o t e c t i o n A r c h i t e c t u r e s StorSimple radically reduces complexity and cost compared to traditional data protection architectures. Whereas traditional data protection architectures involve a meandering path from array snapshot to deduplication appliances and virtual tape libraries (VTL) to physical tape and off-site vaulting, StorSimple provides an integrated system covering on-premises backups, off-site backups, and disaster tolerant off-site backups. StorSimple uniquely provides an integrated management framework that reduces backup and disaster recovery workflows to simple local and cloud snapshot management, thereby removing numerous capacity planning challenges, ongoing management and maintenance costs, and eliminating unnecessary components and risky physical media.

3 Datasheet: Data Protection 2 Traditional Data Protection Architecture Disk Array Media Server Server Primary Volume Snapshot Deduplication Virtual Tape Data Protection with StorSimple WAN Server Primary Volume Snapshot 3 s t o r s i m p l e D A t a s h e e t D a t a P r o t e c t i o n Off-site Vault Cloud Storage Encryption Appliance Physical Tape Primary Cloud Tiered primary data, archival data, and Cloud Snapshot backups Secondary Cloud Truly independent backups in a different cloud using Cloud Clones Datasheet: Data Protection 3 Figure 2. comparison contrast of data protection architectures Application Recovery Times from Off-site Backups In a Disaster 90 days Regular Cloud Backup With 100 Mbps WAN Link Recovery Time 30 days 7 days 1 day Tape StorSimple Cloud Snapshots With 50 Mbps WAN Link 1 hour 15 min 01 TB 05 TB 20 TB 50 TB 100 TB Primary Data Figure 3. Application Recovery Times from Off-site Backups In a Disaster

4 4 s t o r s i m p l e D A t a s h e e t D a t a P r o t e c t i o n Key Features and Benefits The following are the key features and benefits of StorSimple s Data Protection solution leveraging the appliance management GUI and StorSimple Data Protection MMC snap-in. Feature Space-Efficient Snapshots Microsoft VSS Integration and Support Cloud Snapshot Benefit StorSimple stores all snapshots in a space-efficient manner using techniques such as Copy Reference on Write (CROW) of deduplicated fingerprints and primary storage deduplication. Together, these provide the following benefits: - Minimize the amount of space consumed by snapshots, Cloud Snapshots, and Cloud Clones, which increases usable local capacity and reduces cloud storage costs - Increase the longevity of and number of snapshots that can be retained - Eliminate the need for additional data protection hardware including tape With the StorSimple Data Protection MMC snap-in for Windows Server, StorSimple leverages Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) to ensure that VSS-compliant applications are in a quiesced state when a snapshot of one or many applicationrelated volumes is taken. StorSimple s VSS integration supports Microsoft SharePoint, SQL, and Exchange, and generic NTFS volumes. StorSimple s VSS integration provides the following benefits: - Crash-consistent backup and restore to facility disaster recovery of virtual machines - Application-consistent backup and restores to minimize application restore times - Leverages existing Microsoft frameworks, proven by thousands of customers - Enables both coarse and granular recovery as described below Cloud Snapshots provides automatic protection of StorSimple appliance volumes by keeping point-in-time copies of volume data and metadata in your primary cloud storage service, providing the following benefits: - Simplified device failure and replacement use cases, back online in minutes - Automated protection of volumes used by your backup applications - Space-efficiency through deduplication, compression to minimize incremental cost - Enables simplified disaster recovery to a secondary data center and appliance Cloud Clone Cloud Clones enable truly independent copies of data from volumes or groups of volumes, stored in a different cloud region or different cloud provider, which act as a truly-independent, cloud disaster-tolerant off-site backup copy. Cloud Clones provide the following benefits: - Independent, off-site backup, analogous to tape with vaulting, but with lower cost - Disaster-tolerant backup copies to different cloud regions or different cloud providers - Enables simplified disaster recovery to a secondary data center and appliance Protection from Data Center and Cloud Disasters Using a combination of StorSimple s snapshots, Cloud Snapshots, and Cloud Clones, organizations can position themselves for recovery from a failure of any kind: - Snapshots serve as local backup copies and can survive failure of any appliance component - Cloud Snapshots serve as cloud backup copies and survive failures of an entire customer device or data center - Cloud Clones can be stored in a different cloud provider than Cloud Snapshots (or a different region from the same cloud provider) and thus can survive disasters impacting a cloud region (by using same provider but a different region) or an entire cloud provider failure (by using a different provider) Simple Configuration and Flexible Scheduling Both the appliance management GUI and StorSimple s Data Protection MMC snap-in provide a single interface by which schedules can be managed, and flexible scheduling including one-time, recurring, daily, weekly, and monthly schedules, producing the following benefits: - Create independent protection schedules based on retention requirements - Single console to manage on-site backup copies (snapshots), off-site backup copies (Cloud Snaps), and off-site vault copies (Cloud Clones) Extensive Operating System Support StorSimple s data protection architecture and appliance family is the only hybrid cloud storage solution to be certified by both Microsoft and VMware. Additionally, StorSimple supports data protection for Linux and Mac environments. Coarse and Granular Recovery StorSimple s data protection products (appliance management GUI and Data Protection MMC snap-in) both provide the ability to perform point-in-time volume restores and the ability to clone and mount backup copies, supporting a wide range of use cases including: - Local and cloud backup and restore - Local and remote disaster recovery - Duplication of production data sets for test, lab, and development environments - Migration of data sets and workloads from server to server StorSimple s Data Restore Console (DRC) provides granular object-level restore for Exchange (2010) and SharePoint (2007, 2010) environments. Please refer to the StorSimple Data Restore Console datasheet for more information. Optimized Backups StorSimple appliances utilize single-instance storage through deduplication and compression to mitigate capacity consumption within the appliance and in the cloud, which helps to lower costs and improve performance. Additionally, backups leverage this single-instance storage. Even though every backup is a full backup, performance is optimized through use of the singleinstance storage pool such that the data transfer to the cloud (or for a local snapshot) is effectively an incremental backup of deduplicated, compressed data, resulting in faster backup times. Optimized Restores StorSimple appliances provide optimized restores by leveraging local snapshot data and metadata whenever possible, helping to reduce the number of requests and amount of data transferred from the cloud on restore. Further, performing a restore from a Cloud Snapshot or a Cloud Clone requires retrieval of only the volumes metadata from the cloud, meaning backup copies can be brought online quickly in the event of a restore or disaster.

5 Related Products In addition to StorSimple data protection, StorSimple provides other products that enable an integrated, end-to-end solution for data management and data protection, including: StorSimple Product StorSimple Appliance StorSimple Management Console SharePoint Database Optimizer StorSimple Data Restore Console Function and Value Proposition StorSimple s appliance is an on-premises storage system that overcomes security, performance, integration, and data protection issues associated with cloud storage, allowing you to take advantage of cloud storage as though it were traditional storage in your data center. StorSimple s management console provides a streamlined experience for configuring, deploying, managing, and monitoring StorSimple appliances and storage resources. StorSimple s EBS and RBS plug-ins for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and 2010 enable externalization of SharePoint Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) to improve performance consistency at scale and simplify data protection and disaster recovery. StorSimple s Data Restore Console (DRC) provides fine-grained restore functions for snapshot, Cloud Snap, or Cloud Clone backups of Microsoft Exchange (2010) or Microsoft SharePoint (2007, 2010). This is in addition to the in-place point-in-time restore and cloning functions provided by the Data Protection MMC snap-in and appliance web GUI. Please refer to the datasheet for these products on the StorSimple website for more information. 5 s t o r s i m p l e D A t a s h e e t D a t a P r o t e c t i o n Software Specifications The following are the specifications for StorSimple s BLOB management tool for SharePoint. Specification Supported Operating Systems details StorSimple s Data Protection MMC plug-in is supported on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit or 64-bit) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit). Data protection from the StorSimple appliance management GUI supports: - Microsoft Windows Server (2003, 2008, 2008R2) - Microsoft desktop operating systems (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7) - VMware ESX/ESXi (4.0, 4.1) - Linux (2.4, 2.6) - Mac OSX 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7 Server Requirements Servers must meet the hardware requirements provided by Microsoft for the appropriate operating system. StorSimple does not introduce or change server hardware requirements. Data protection from the StorSimple appliance management GUI imposes no restrictions on the server hardware or operating system. Data Protection MMC Snap-In Available Hard Disk Space 50MB StorSimple Appliance Version 2.0 or greater.

6 A b o u t S t o r S i m p l e StorSimple is a leading provider of applicationaware, cloud-enabled primary and secondary storage solutions. StorSimple s vision is to help I/T organizations solve business-impacting application-specific storage challenges for high-growth applications while enabling seamless integration of cloud storage technologies to leverage simplified, streamlined, lower cost, and lower complexity data management and data protection architectures. C o r p o r a t e H e a d q u a r t e r s StorSimple, Inc Mission College Blvd, Suite 1250 Santa Clara, CA On the Internet Sales: Support: P r i c i n g a n d O r d e r i n g I n f o r m a t i o n For pricing and ordering information, please contact your StorSimple sales representative. If you do not know who your StorSimple sales representative is, please contact StorSimple via at or by calling