Symantec's appliance strategy provides customers with a flexible and easy to deploy delivery model for its data protection, storage management and security solutions. This new approach empowers organizations to choose between appliances, software or cloud solutions according to what best suits their IT requirements, needs and environment. With the release of the NetBackup 5020 deduplication appliance, NetBackup 5200 series and FileStore N8300 appliances, Symantec delivers on the company’s strategy.

1. Symantec Appliances Launch
January 2011
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2. What are we announcing on Jan. 17?
Appliance Strategy:
•Deliver choice
1 •Meet customer needs
•Reduce complexity
•Drive down total cost of ownership
NEW FileStore N8300 Appliance:
•Scale-out NAS with industry leading performance
2 •Saves storage cost with integrated archiving (Enterprise Vault)
•Enables scalable storage for cloud and on-premise environments
NEW NetBackup 5200 Appliance:
•Backup, storage and deduplication appliance
3 •Seamless integration with existing NetBackup environment
•Rapid deployment
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3. Why Appliances?
• Deliver end users with choice of software, cloud and appliances for leading
solutions
Deliver Choice • The innovation continues to be in the software – the appliance is just another
delivery model to give our customers flexibility in deployment
• Customers seek complete solutions: hardware + software + support
Meet Customer Needs • Customers are looking for easy to use, turnkey solution
• Streamline test and buying process
Reduce Complexity • Faster set-up and installation
• Easily expand/scale up with additional appliances or raw hardware
• Integrated software and hardware reduces installation and management costs
Drive Down Total Cost • Front end TB licensing model for deduplication allows customers to save costs
as there is no additional charge for replicating data
of Ownership • Symantec provides end to end technical support, reducing operational
overhead on IT teams
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4. Symantec FileStore N8300
Yogesh Agrawal
VP of Symantec’s FileStore Product Group
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5. FileStore N8300
• Scale-out NAS from Symantec for cloud and on-premise storage
• NAS appliance combines high-performance and enterprise-
class features for new workloads
• End-to-end archiving solution with Symantec’s Enterprise Vault
• Built on Symantec’s industry leadership in cluster file system
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6. Data Center in Transition
Unstructured Data
Virtualization Cloud Computing
Growth
???
“Unstructured data ……will make up “…server virtualization solutions “In 2009, storage spending for the
the bulk of data growth in the data and projects often reduced cloud was $2.9B….cloud service
center in 2010, driving IT to take a storage visibility, management, providers must address …
long hard look at unified storage utilization and subsequently scalability, efficient storage,
platforms, scale-out NAS….” increased storage costs.” leverage of metadata”
- Terri McClure: ESG Briefs: Unstructured Data - Villars, Dubois, Nisbet: IDC 2009
2010: Trends to Watch
- Filks, Passamore: Gartner, 2009
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7. Promise and Shortcomings of Traditional NAS
Network Attached Storage The Promise
Servers Clients • Simple to deploy
• Lower storage cost
• Manageability
Ethernet The Shortcomings
LAN
Ethernet Switch
• 2 head architecture doesn’t scale!
• Data fragmentation across filers
• Slow backup and AV services
NAS Device NAS Device
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8. Introducing FileStore N8300
Performance & Scale Data Management
• Built on the industry’s highest
• Integrated data management
performance file system
capabilities including archiving,
• Independently scale performance backup, storage tiering and anti-
and capacity virus
• Scale storage resources in the cloud • Supports NFS and CIFS
with 1.4PB per system
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9. Exceptional Performance Scaling
• Adapt to the demands of Top SPECsfs Rankings
your workloads #1 – HP (VxFS) – 334K ops/sec
#3 – FileStore (VxFS) – 177K
• Linear performance scaling Linear Scaling
– Up to 6 nodes serving a common
set of data
– Excellent small and large file
performance
• Availability
– Active-Active
– Fast failover
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10. FileStore - Integrated Solution for Data Management
Archiving Storage Tiering
Intelligently move
files to lower cost
Simplify archiving with disk and back
Enterprise Vault on FileStore
Backup Anti-Virus
Improve performance with reduced Secure storage with
backup window Symantec Anti-Virus
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11. FileStore N8300 Key Takeaways
• Scale out NAS to manage data growth and build cloud storage
• Scalability and high performance at the right price
• An integrated solution
– Archiving
– Data protection
– Storage tiering
– Security
• Available in United States, United Kingdom, Middle East and
Italy
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12. NetBackup 5200 Appliance
Simplifying Backup Operations
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13. Symantec Information Management
Protect Dedupe Delete Discover
Completely Everywhere Confidently Efficiently
Backup, archive and Eliminate redundancy Delete by default Proactive archive,
prevent data loss close to the source index and search
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14. Deduplication Evaluation and Purchase Criteria for
Adopters and Planned Adopters
Which of the following considerations would you say were most important in
your organization’s evaluation and selection of data deduplication technology?
(Percent of respondents, five responses accepted)
Planned Adopters (N=145) Current Adopters (N=140)
Cost of solution 64%
45%
Ease of implementation/use 46%
37%
Impact on backup/recovery performance 35%
33%
Integration with existing backup processes 33%
28%
Scalability of solution 31%
25%
Vendor service and support 24%
24%
Ability to replicate deduplicated data off-site 21%
23%
Existing relationship with vendor 17%
18%
Deduplication ratio 12%
17%
Ability to deduplicate across systems/data sets as opposed to just… 23%
17%
Experience of vendor in backup implementation 10%
16%
Where deduplication occurs 17%
16%
Granularity of deduplication 14%
11%
When deduplication occurs 9%
9%
Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, 2010 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
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15. NEW: NetBackup 5200
NetBackup 5200 provides the market leading data protection
solution, NetBackup, in an easy to use appliance form factor
Comprehensive Easy Flexible Reliable
• Complete backup • Symantec provides • Use in primary, • Highest in class
solution with built-in software, hardware, secondary and throughput of up to
dedupe service and support remote sites as a 10.5 TB/hr
• 32 TB usable dedupe • Easy buying and backup and dedupe • Disk based solution,
capacity with the implementation with solution Raid 6 configuration
option to dedupe at pre-installed software • DR options: • Hardware monitoring
source or target and replication or tape
inline or post-process • Redundant fans,
• Expand existing power supply
dedupe NetBackup
environment with • System availability >
easy drop-in 99.95%
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16. NetBackup 5200 Overview
1. Remote
office
backups
Integrated
tape out
Integrated
2. Data Center backups
replication
NBU 5200 NBU 5200
ESX
3. VM backups
NetBackup 5200 Capabilities
• Integrated backup appliance
• Built in source and media server deduplication
• Award-winning virtual machine protection
• 32 TB of deduplicated capacity per node
• Tape out capability
• Hardware monitoring
Dedupe engine
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17. NetBackup 5200 Offers Choice of Deduplication
“Closer to the Source” Recovers More Resources
Example: Moving 1TB of Data w/ 90% Dedupe Potential
Approach NetBackup Target Target Deduplication
Media Server Deduplication Appliance Storage
used by Transfer 1TB Transfer 1TB Transfer 0.1TB
Appliance
most 126 Minutes 126 Minutes 12 Minutes
dedupe
OST
vendors
Media Transfer 1TB
Server 126 Minutes
Deduplication Engine
Dedupe
100% Data in Motion
10% Dedupe Data
in Motion
BEST Transfer 0.1TB
12 Minutes
NBU Client Lower Resource
Dedupe Consumption
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18. Catalog Aware WAN Efficient Replication
Replicate only dedupe data, reduce DR costs, improve DR
Up to 99% Bandwidth Reduction
Primary Site DR Site
WAN
Dedupe engine
Dedupe data
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19. Eliminate Traditional Full Backups Without Sacrifice
Optimized Virtual Synthetics
Problem: Traditional cycle of full backups
Server requires backup server cycles (I/O) and
bandwidth
Incremental backups Solution: Optimized Virtual Synthetics
• Leverage appliance CPU power
• No data movement requires less infrastructure
• Reduce the number of full backups
• Improve disaster recovery
Optimized
Synthetic Full Incr. Incr.
Optimized
Backup Backup Backup Synthetic
Lightening fast backups!
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20. Build Next Generation Data Centers More Quickly With
NetBackup Appliances
►Integrate new/additional media servers,
Save Time storage and deduplication without juggling
or
+ Minimize Costs multiple vendors
►Rapid deployment with minimal effort
HW Refresh/Expand
►Seamless integration with existing
Simplify NetBackup environment - one appliance
Operations for both media server and storage
Remote Offices
►Built-in replication and deduplication
A A
Minimize
D D D
►Deduplication directly on the virtual
D D D
ESX Server ESX Server
D
A
D D
Resource machine minimizes impact to VM
ESX Server
Consumption resources to maximize performance
Virtual Infrastructure
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21. NetBackup 5200 Key Takeaways
Creates and captures new demand for backup,
 deduplication and storage from a single offering
 Brings deduplication differentiation with choice
Delivers same valuable benefits as NetBackup in
 software form
Demonstrates commitment by Symantec to
 provide deployment choice for customers with
growing appliance options
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22. Thank you!
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