5 Ways to Ensure Data Availability

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1 5 Ways to Ensure Data Availability Practical advice to make sure your data stays available no matter what Data availability is the lifeblood of your organization. It is critical for the business and customer interactions that lead to revenue. Your business information only has value if it is available. The complex high availability and storage management of data is difficult. In this fifth of a series of informative e-books from Exablox, we take a look at the challenges of storage availability, and offer simple, practical ways that you can make sure you can always access your data.

2 #1: Make your data available as you scale As your organization grows, you don t want to have to worry about your important data being protected and available. Traditional storage technologies such as RAID make it difficult to ensure data remains available as you scale. These outdated and highly complex approaches can be overly demanding on the your resources and budget during periods of growth. Make your data available on a granular and macro level. Exablox doesn t rely on these outdated technologies. With our distributed object-based file system, your data remains protected and available, whether on an individual OneBlox appliance or scaled across multiple OneBlox rings at multiple locations. Plus, with our OneSystem cloud-based management, you retain global visibility and management of stored data.

3 #2: Make your data continuously available Your data assets and resources are only as current as the last write to disk. However, for productivity, compliance and contingency reasons, you also need to be able to recover versions of information from specific points in time. Traditional batch storage solutions do not provide continuous point-in-time availability. The value of your information changes with every save. The Exablox OneBlox appliance gives you advanced continuous data protection. OneBlox takes automatic and continuous snapshots of files as they re written. These snapshots are made easily accessible to recover a file from the last few seconds or last year. Ensuring continuous data availability even further, data is automatically replicated in triplicate, in real time. What s more, to help minimize your storage requirements, Exablox delivers inline deduplication across your entire ring or global namespace.

4 #3: Make data easily available for end users With traditional solutions, end users who need to recover information from snapshots typically have to request assistance from the IT department, attempt to communicate which version(s) of files need recovery, and then wait for an IT admin to restore the closest match. This creates a bottleneck for business productivity. Why force end users to burden your help desk when you can help them to help themselves? Empower end-users while relieving the recovery burden from IT. With Exablox, you can empower your users to easily access and recover files for themselves, navigating with Mac Finder or Windows Explorer to access their own dedicated snapshots folders. Users can easily browse and recover the exact file needed over any point in time. To ensure version integrity, these snapshots cannot be modified.

5 #4: Make your virtual data available Virtual servers, applications, and data have become a mainstay of today s IT infrastructure. However, without specialized expertise in-house, it can be easy to be overwhelmed by the complexity and expense of keeping virtual server environments available, protected and easily recoverable. Why manage a separate storagesolution for recovering virtual environments? You can easily and affordably preserve and archive your virtual environments with OneBlox as a diskbased target to nearly any backup/recovery software. Our scale-out architecture means your storage can grow with your business over time, and you don t have to reconfigure your backup and recovery application as you add storage. At the same time, our inline deduplication increases utilization, and enables you to efficiently replicate data offsite.

6 #5: Make your data available under any circumstances In an emergency, mission-critical data can get lost due to accidental overwrite or deletion, disk corruption, controller failure or even an onsite disaster. You need to be certain your business data and applications are available from anywhere. Keep your data available when you need it most no matter what Exablox protects against failure of an entire ring at on location by offering cost-efficient and realtime off-site replication for disaster recovery. We efficiently utilize the WAN by only replicating the deduplicated information from the primary to secondary location. Plus, you can recover your storage environment in a third of the time it would take with traditional techniques. With OneSystem, you can easily make the offsite storage available to users and applications.

7 The Exablox Approach The Exablox OneBlox appliance is a powerful, re-imagined scale-out storage solution that any organization can afford. Exablox s cloud managed, scale-out, object-based storage appliance solves businesses common storage pain points: complicated installation, cumbersome storage management, lack of data security and forklift upgrades. Without the shackles of legacy storage architecture, Exablox s clean sheet approach combines the CIFS/SMB accessible OneBlox appliance with OneSystem, an elegant multi-tenant cloud-based management service. Re-imagine what your storage can offer to your organization. Learn More Find out more about how Exablox can help you overcome the challenges of data storage today. Visit our web site at call us at 855.EXABLOX, or us at [email protected].

8 About Exablox Exablox is the company re-imagining storage. Exablox solves businesses runaway storage costs and information management nightmares by providing a scale-out cloud-based management solution that is both affordable and easy to use. OneBlox is an inclusive storage offering that combines an elegant hardware architecture and integrated, enterprise-grade software, including continuous data protection, inline deduplication and disaster recovery. Founded in 2010, Exablox is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and backed by leading Silicon Valley venture firms. Visit Exablox online at and join the conversation at Sonora Court, Sunnyvale, CA EXABLOX ( ) [email protected] Exablox and the Exablox logo are trademarks of Exablox, Inc. 02/14 EX007