STORAGE AS A SERVICE

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1 STORAGE AS A SERVICE CSC Utility-Based Solution Puts You in the Pilot s Seat

2 ARE YOU... Tying up a rapidly increasing share of capital in underutilized storage equipment? Overwhelmed by regulations that require virtually all organizational information to be stored and accessible? Consuming too much data center power, space and staff support with legacy storage systems? Spending a fortune having high-value staff members track down e-discovery records? Unsure if all your businesscritical data is being properly backed up? Needed: A Transformed, Modernized Storage Estate Would you purchase and maintain a fleet of private jets if you had instant access to all the executive travel services you need, as you need them, for significantly less cost without tying up precious capital? Likewise, why purchase and maintain your own data storage equipment? CSC can provide you with industry-leading innovations and utility services that give you access to all the storage power you need, as you need it and free up capital to support more strategic business initiatives. TRADITIONAL VS. UTILITY MODEL WHAT IF YOU COULD Instantly unlock 12 to 48 percent of your storage costs by moving to a usage-based utility model and rapidly scale your storage capacity up or down free of penalties? Further reduce costs by assigning less important data to low-cost service tiers and business-critical data to high-performance service tiers? Organizations have to purchase data in blocks Opportunity cost savings gap Traditional Savings Utility Actual usage Enjoy a price-per-gigabyte storage reduction every year of the life of your contract? Refocus your IT staff away from administrative tasks, such as provisioning storage, to efforts that better advance your organization s strategic business goals? The red line in the figure above represents traditional storage purchases it shows the high-stepping cost factor when you buy storage capacity in big blocks. The green line represents our usage-based utility storage model it is much more affordable because you only pay for the storage space you use. The area with the gold stripes shows your savings capital which you no longer need to tie up in underutilized storage capacity. Enjoy instant access to backedup data via high-speed, disk-based data archives and search records electronically in minutes?

3 Consider the storage challenges most organizations now face: As more products, tools and systems become digitized, your storage systems are being strained by an explosion of enterprise data. To compound the challenge, government regulations require organizations to store more business data and do so for long periods of time. Result: Runaway data growth is predicted to be greater than 30 percent year over year. Many organizations are still backing up data on magnetic tape, because it is too expensive to replicate their entire data environment on disk. But what if backup tapes, located in offsite disaster-recovery facilities, are inaccessible in the event of a flood or hurricane? Can you wait a week or more to restore your business-critical processes? How does that factor into your true storage costs? In the event of a disaster, there is a significant risk that you will not be able to recover all your data. Some of the servers in your environment are not getting backed up fully. Magnetic tapes can be lost or stolen. The odds are uncomfortably high of losing important data stored on magnetic tapes. Many organizations are overbuying storage capacity. Since one out of every 20 magnetic tapes is prone to failure, many organizations back up their data twice they use two tape drives for each tape capacity. Storage unit costs are getting less expensive every year. But traditional storage capacity takes months to provision and install. That means you need to purchase large blocks of storage capacity to support storage needs later in the year tying up capital in a rapidly depreciating asset and spending significantly more than you need to. Many organizations are challenged with providing adequately performing data protection services at a time when budgets are not growing nearly as fast as data is growing a time when traditional, self-hosted storage methods are bursting at the seams. How do you painlessly transform and modernize your storage estate so that you pay only for the storage you use? How do you unlock and repurpose unused space and reduce costs by 12 to 48 percent without making major capital investments? With CSC Storage as a Service. One out of every 20 magnetic backup tapes is prone to failure. After replacing its traditional magnetic-tape backup and recovery methods with our diskbased backup and recover solution, a standardized testing firm can restore its 320 gigabyte database in fewer than 20 minutes rather than days.

4 CSC Storage as a Service: The Only Way to Fly CSC Storage as a Service offerings provide innovative technologies and by-the-gigabyte, usage-based pricing to modernize and transform your storage estate and deliver instant savings of typically 12 to 48 percent. With CSC Storage as a Service, you pay only for the data storage you use, when you use it. Setup is fast. Adding or removing capacity is even faster, and backups are efficient and quick. CSC Storage as a Service offerings will allow you to: Lower Storage Costs You pay only for the data storage you actually need as you need it. Our clients have enjoyed operating cost reductions of 12 to 48 percent. Free Up Capital You will store and manage rapidly growing data without endless investment in storage infrastructure and technology refreshes. Enjoy Industry Savings Since data storage costs continue to drop, why shouldn t this be reflected in your costs? With CSC Storage as a Service, the cost-per-gigabyte reduces each year. Rapidly Deploy Storage Your initial setup can be completed in as little as 6 weeks. Thanks to our standard 10 percent capacity buffer, most incremental changes can be made within 24 hours or less. Scale Up or Down Scale your storage capacity up or down, as needed, to respond to growth/ decline, seasonal variations and temporary fluctuations in storage demand. Back Up and Restore Efficiently and Completely Say goodbye to slow, costly, magnetic tape drives. CSC Storage as a Service backs up all your data on high-speed disks using multiplesite replication to ensure that your data is protected. You no longer need to worry about theft or damage to tapes. Some of our clients have reduced their backup times by as much as 60 percent. Benefit from Global Support As one of the world s largest IT providers, we have the capacity to secure all of your data at all of your sites and locations across the globe. Nearly 90 percent of all data that currently exists was produced in the past two years. Source: Sciencedaily.com. A global technology company saved more than 30 percent on its storage costs and has positioned itself to meet future storage needs in a convenient and highly agile manner.

5 Our Storage as a Service offerings include: Storage as a Service Store Unlike traditional storage models by which you purchase storage in incremental blocks or steps, and typically, to be safe, buy more storage than you need our as-a-service utility model allows you to pay for only the storage you need, as you need it. Consider this: Using traditional methods, organizations are lucky to achieve utilization levels beyond 65 percent which means up to 35 percent of their capital investment is tied up in unused assets. The switch from traditional storage to our utility model produces typical savings of 12 to 48 percent unlocking capital assets to be used for more strategic initiatives that benefit your business and bottom line. CSC Storage as a Service Store converts your existing file- and block-level data storage systems into a fully-managed utility service. It provides data storage for your business and applications, in our data center or yours, with your choice of shared or dedicated environments. We offer multiple storage service levels or tiers allowing you to assign business-critical data in the highestperformance storage and less critical data in the lower-cost tiers. When you need additional storage space, simply requisition and configure it via our easy-to-use service catalog. We carry out the necessary provisioning, using our extensive experience and automated policy-based tools, to ensure fast, consistent fulfillment you keep control of the policies governing your data. Thanks to our standard 10 percent capacity buffer, we can accommodate most incremental changes within 24 hours. Storage as a Service Recover The risk of data loss is not something you can afford to ignore. You need to know that backups are up to date and can be restored quickly and reliably. CSC Storage as a Service Recover is a next-generation data protection service that replaces the need for traditional magnetic tape backup with modern, disk-based technologies. It will protect your data, whether it is in local file shares, mission-critical applications or resident on a CSC cloud. CSC Storage as a Service Recover uses your WAN efficiently to bring all the data across your enterprise into the data center, where it is backed up onto disks. It allows you to purchase backup space you need when you need it at per-gigabyte costs that are significantly lower than magnetic tape costs. These cost savings are made possible by highly efficient deduplication technologies that have been perfected within the past 3 years. Imagine if you could suddenly unlock 12 to 48 percent of your storage costs to spend on your strategic business initiatives. Storage as a Service Archive CSC Storage as a Service Archive is an intelligent, fully managed, pay-asyou-go service that can cut the cost of storing infrequently accessed files. It automatically captures, categorizes, indexes and stores and files so that they can be easily located and retrieved when needed. Archiving also enables the long-term retention of data and enables compliance and regulatory requirements to be met around the handling of data and information, while reducing the pressure of over-utilized storage arrays and backup solutions. CSC Storage as a Service Archive uses a proven architecture and intelligent ingest engine to enforce retention policies, make better use of storage resources, improve storage management, reduce costs and control information risk. Policies can be defined centrally and applied across the organization. Items meeting the archival criteria are gathered from multiple file and/or servers, indexed, de-duplicated, compressed and archived onto a secure and dependable storage service. When a file or is archived, a shortcut is created in its place, allowing end users to continue to work as usual. When they need a document that s been archived, they simply click the shortcut and the item is found, decompressed and streamed back to them almost instantly.

6 Shape, Transform, Manage Our approach to shape, transform and manage your data-storage estate will provide: A clearer understanding of the business case for change and expected ROI Greater organizational capability to sustain change Faster implementation and embedding of changes Improved control of change through appropriate planning and governance activities Lower cost and risk of business transformation CSC Storage Assessment CSC Storage Assessment thoroughly examines your storage environment and develops a roadmap that aligns capability and delivery to your actual business needs. It includes three phases: 1. Advisory (one-day meetings with stakeholders) 2. Assessment and Discovery (2 to 4 weeks of detailed assessment) 3. Implementation Planning (4 to 6 weeks to develop a strategic roadmap to optimize your storage estate) Based on client experiences, recommendations from a CSC Storage Assessment can typically reduce the total cost of storage of most organizations by up to 48 percent over 5 years. A global security and defense products company reduced IT spend on unstructured storage by 52 percent over a 5-year period. Managed Storage Services In addition to our Storage as a Service offerings, we provide a wide range of Managed Storage Services to help you reduce operational costs, improve quality of service, manage data growth, address facilities, audit and close business continuity gaps, and ensure the integrity and quick availability of business data. Our Managed Storage Services include: Storage Operational Support Primary storage management, data archive and backup management, as well as agile IT data transformation. Storage Consultancy Our global storage experts will help you achieve the optimum storage solution to advance your strategic business goals most cost- effectively. Storage Build Engineering Expertise Our engineers have designed and implemented industryleading storage solutions across every industry vertical. Storage Infrastructure Services Our infrastructure outsourcing solutions for managing your backup and archive needs will free you to focus on core business goals. CSC STORAGE AS A SERVICE Information Lifecycle Management Store Provides primary storage to host clients active data Includes: Block storage File enterprise storage Content addressable storage File object storage Recover Provides operational and disaster recovery for data sources inside and outside the data center Includes: Backup/edge protection Archive Provides archive storage with de-duplication and compliance for and file servers Includes: File archive archive Fully managed, secure service, enterprise service levels CSC Storage as a Service offers a comprehensive range of products and services to help you take a step-by-step approach to information lifecycle management.

7 Data is growing at a rate of over 30 percent per year. How We ll Shape, Transform and Manage Your Storage Estate With a long, successful track record of delivering large outsourcing contracts and complex business and technical programs, we are one of the few companies that can both design and implement transformational change projects that deploy cost-saving technology innovations. Our comprehensive data storage solution will simplify your storage transformation projects, rapidly unlock their business benefit, and improve your ability to continue to transform as your storage needs grow. A Painless Way to Transform Your Storage Estate Our CSC Storage as a Service offerings make it easy and affordable to move away from ad hoc, technology-led storage management at your own pace and frees your IT teams from storage fire-fighting, so that they can address your storage needs strategically. Using our consultancy expertise, we ll help you assess where your organization sits on the information maturity curve and seamlessly guide your transformation to a modern, on-demand solution. You don t have to rip and replace any existing storage investments or commit any more capital to storage infrastructure. This makes CSC Storage as a Service a low-risk way to explore more sophisticated approaches to storage management. CSC Storage as a Service will work alongside your existing storage setup and can even be used as an overflow service to meet additional storage demands quickly and cost effectively. It will release your organization from the never-ending cycle of investment in storage infrastructure and will deliver significant savings in data management costs. Begin Your Transformation Now To begin your storage transformation, and embrace the full capabilities of our Next-Generation Storage Services, we recommend a comprehensive CSC assessment that will: Deliver a clear and detailed view of your entire environment Identify areas in which optimization and cost savings can be gained Recommend a strategic roadmap to specific actions and solutions that will drive measurable improvements in storage performance, costeffectiveness and flexibility. Why CSC? For more than 50 years, we have developed smart, technologyenabled solutions to solve our clients toughest challenges. Our data centers are ISO certified, and our processes comply with ISO-9001 and ITIL, assuring you consistently high service levels and information security. We re storage management experts: We manage more than 190 petabytes that s 190 million gigabytes of storage for our clients. We offer global resources to support a turnkey managed service solution. We deliver significant asset and service cost reductions through our agile utility models. Through our Centers of Excellence we develop and implement industry-best technology innovations to drive continuous performance improvements and cost reductions. We are recognized by Gartner as an industry leader in storage services. FIND OUT MORE To find out more about CSC Storage as a Service, visit or contact your account manager.

8 Worldwide CSC Headquarters The Americas 3170 Fairview Park Drive Falls Church, Virginia United States Asia, Middle East, Africa 20 Anson Road #11-01 Twenty Anson Singapore Republic of Singapore Australia 26 Talavera Road Macquarie Park, NSW 2113 Australia +61(2) Central and Eastern Europe Abraham-Lincoln-Park Wiesbaden Germany Nordic and Baltic Region Retortvej 8 DK-2500 Valby Denmark South and West Europe Immeuble Balzac 10 place des Vosges Paris la Défense Cedex France UK and Ireland Region Royal Pavilion Wellesley Road Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 1PZ United Kingdom +44(0) About CSC CSC is a global leader in next-generation IT services and solutions. The company s mission is to enable superior returns on our clients technology investments through best-in-class industry solutions, domain expertise and global scale. For more information, visit us at Computer Sciences Corporation. All rights reserved