Learn about the top challenges before moving to the Azure public cloud and how SoftNAS provides solutions.

1. Webinar: Now is the Time to Move to
the Azure Cloud
Moving On Prem Storage for Existing Apps is Easier Than Ever
Kevin Brown
Solutions Architect
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Malkit Hayun
Business Development

2. Agenda
• Before We Start
• About your presenter
• SoftNAS Introduction
• Key Challenges you may be asking yourself
• SoftNAS solution
• Q &A
• Resources
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3. About Your Presenter
Kevin Brown, Solutions Architect
• Kevin has over 15 years experience in cloud
computing and storage
• He has a passion for customer success, and goes
out of his way to “get things done right”
• He currently lives in the Boston area and enjoys
spending time as a Competitive Team soccer coach
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Malkit Hayun, Business Development Director
• Malkit has over 15 years experience in driving
partnerships and collaboration.
• She has additional expertise in the areas of storage and
acquisitions and integration.
• She currently lives in the Boston area and enjoys
spending time with her family at the local hockey rinks

4. SoftNAS –Who,Why, How …
Who is SoftNAS Cloud
– SoftNAS - the #1 best-selling NAS in the cloud, trusted by Fortune 500 to SMB’s
– SoftNAS Cloud for Azure delivers enterprise-class NAS features with NFS, CIFS/SMB,
iSCSI, and AFP unified file services and Azure-backed storage connectivity.
Why SoftNAS - Accelerating Move to Azure
– SoftNAS helps Microsoft customers move their compute workloads to Azure by
eliminating the need to re-architect on-premises applications using file-based storage.
– The SoftNAS Cloud virtual storage appliance provides enterprise-class NAS
functionality while extending native Azure file storage capacities, helping customers
move more workloads to Azure faster.
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5. SoftNAS Cloud is the #1 Best-selling NAS in the Cloud
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$ 4 Billion
$ 12 Billion
NetApp
Dell /
EMC
Others $ 10 Billion
Estimated legacy NAS/SAN
maintenance spend, per year
Why Customers Prefer SoftNAS Cloud
- Most mature cloud NAS
- Deploys in minutes
- Easy to learn and use
- No training required
- Full-featured NAS filer
- Unique cloud integrations
- Secure, reliable, high-performance
- No downtime guarantee SLA
- Monthly/annual subscriptions
From CapEx
model
To OpEx
model
MARKET
DISRUPTION
We expand and accelerate
workload shifts to the cloud

6. Brands You Know Trust SoftNAS
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7. Top 5 Challenges
1. How do I move away from On-premise storage?
2. What if I have file storage that exceeds the native Azure VM capacity?
3. Do I have to re-engineer my applications?
4. What will my performance look like?
5. How will I secure and protect my data in the cloud
I want to migrate to the Azure cloud BUT ….
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8. • “I don’t want to buy another piece of storage
hardware “
• “I don’t want to pay another maintenance
bill”
• ”Why do we call it a Data Center if my data
isn't centered?”
– Storage sprawl
– Upside down Tiering
• “How do I close my Data Center in the next
12 to 18 months?”
Challenge #1 – Where Do I Start?
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How do I move away from On-premise storage

9. • Capacity Limitations
• Azure storage account size limits
• Directory size limitation
• File size limitation
• Protocol Support
• Support for CIFS, NFS, AFP and iSCSI
• Tiered Storage support and migration
– Block storage
– Object storage
Do you need file storage that exceeds the native Azure capacity?
Challenge #2: File Storage Capacity
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10. Challenge #3: Application Re-engineering
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Do I have to re-engineer my application?
Strategy Tradeoffs
Application
Modernization
Pros
● Build new applications or modify/update existing applications
to take advantage of “cloud native” services.
Cons
● Slower time to production implementation: months to years
● Cost
Lift and Shift
(Application
Migration)
Pros
● Faster time to cloud production: days to weeks
● Cost
Cons
● Not cloud API optimized

11. • Dedicated vs. Shared Infrastructure
– Dedicated instances provide the ability to tune
performance
– Shared infrastructure can be cost effective but
multi-tenancy means tuning is programmatic
• Bursting and Burst Limitations
– Design with the ability to burst beyond peak load
• Predictable Performance Levels
– Use benchmark programs to validate baseline performance
• Storage Throughput and IOPS
– Determine storage tier suited for your use-case
What will my performance look like?
Challenge #4: Performance
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12. • Firewall
– Stateful protection
– Network access protection
• Cloud Native Security
– Access to infrastructure
– Security groups
– IAM roles
• Encryption
– Encryption options for data security in-flight and at-rest
• Extension of enterprise authentication schemes
– Active Directory
– LDAP
Challenge #5 – Secure your Data
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How will I secure and protect my data in the cloud?

13. • Effective Backup Strategy
• AV / Malware protection
• Snapshots and Rollbacks
– Protecting against user error or compromise
• Replication
– Data redundancy is key in every enterprise
solution
• Protection from Data Corruption
– Design for data integrity while reducing or
eliminating the possibility of data corruption
• Data Efficiency
– Minimize the amount of data while
designing for cost savings.
Challenge #5 – Protect Your Data
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How will I secure and protect my data in the cloud?

14. Business Challenge: Reduce cost of On-Premises Disaster Recovery Data Center
Customer Quote:
“SoftNASCloud NAS is very easy to
use and the product is highly
intuitive.We were looking for a
system that my engineer would be
able to manage easily and SoftNAS
Cloud NAS fits the bill quite nicely.
Being user-friendly is one of the
greatest things about it.”
DanaWildes, Senior Systems
Engineer, Brianshark
Benefits
– Freed Brainshark from the expense of adding
100TB’s of on-premises storage
– Moved to a PaaS environment allowing the
cloud to perform executables rather than
internal infrastructure
– There was no need to re-engineer applications.
Brainshark is able to lift and shift on premises
workloads to the cloud with ease.
– With the SoftNAS 5- 9’s of uptime guarantee,
Brainshark is able to meet their customer SLA’s
consistently
Brainshark Migrates Disaster Recovery to Azure Cloud
with SoftNAS Cloud NAS
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15. What are they saying about us?
“Quickly and easily built a new Disaster
Recovery platform and attached 100 TB
of Azure blob storage, uploading data to this
storage array ever since with no
issues. Performance has been excellent and
the overall cost saves money.”
Dana Wildes
Senior Systems Engineer
“SoftNAS lets users display multiple
volumes, addressing Azure’s storage
limitations, and the backup topology
allows for quick and secure recovery.”
Chris Covert
“SoftNAS Cloud makes my life easier
because I can create large object based
disks for storing 10’s of terabytes of imagery
data with a few clicks. It has greatly
simplified my data management tasks.”
Tisham Dhar
Research Engineer
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16. Migrate Existing Applications to Azure
End-user
desktops, devices
Applications
and servers
Volumes
AFP iSCSI
Storage pools
CIFS NFS
Site A
Site B Public
Cloud
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NFS
CIFS/SMB
iSCSI
AFP
Use existing
unchanged
applications…
Connect to Azure
using standard
NAS protocols…
Through Azure VM
hosted instances…
Using Azure storage services
for flexible capacity.
Hybrid or Cloud hosted for
flexible deployment options

17. Full Spectrum Flexibility
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Cool Blob Storage
Hot Blob Storage
Standard Disk Storage
Premium Disk Storage
$
$$$$
Compute Flexibility
for VSA Performance
Adaptability
Data Store Flexibility
for Cost/Capacity
Adaptability
Azure Options
Cloud

18. Enterprise NAS Features for Azure
• Scales from gigabytes to petabytes – pay as you grow!
• Simple administration designed for non-storage
experts
SoftNAS Cloud Storage Enables…
• Adjustable virtual hardware
configurations
• Tuneable performance levels remain
elastic throughout the customer lifecycle
• Elastically switch to “new” storage
options over the entire lifecycle (e.g.,
higher speed SSDs, lower cost HDD).
• Use what’s needed and pay for
what’s used
• Upgrade and grow as needs change!
SoftNAS Cloud for Enterprise Cloud NAS Storage
FLEXIBLE DATA SERVICES
• Azure Disk and Blob
• CIFS w/ Active Directory
• NFS w/LDAP
• iSCSI
• Performance adaptable
• Disk
• SSD
• Networking
• Caching
• Block replication
• Encryption
• Cloud disks
• Compression
• Inline deduplication
• Instant snapshots
• Multi-level caching
• Storage pools
• Thin provisioning
• Writable SnapClones™
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19. High Availability is a key feature with SoftNAS
• Non-Disruptive failover
• Maintain existing connections
• Consistent RPO
• HA infrastructure not per App
How to plan for failure or Disruption of Service?
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20. Summary
Helping Customers Embrace the Changes
– Accelerating hybrid cloud adoption
– Reduce costs of corporate data storage systems
How?
– Bridging incompatible technologies, systems and architectures
– Simplifying the journey to the cloud
– Making backups run faster and leverage fast cloud storage
– Replace DR datacenters with cost-effective cloud DR
– Keep the 100,000’s of business applications as-is– only rewrite when truly required
Key Benefits
– Hardware-independent, flexible, multi-cloud that’s software-defined
– Global offices on remote networks limit data transfer speeds
– IT administrators can drag & drop to create solutions, little to no development required
• SoftNAS makes it fast, easy and safe to move to the Azure cloud

21. Try it!
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22. • Come visit us at booth #2155 for Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, FL
• We'll be there doing demos and giving away some awesome swag!
• Speak to our experts and get their insights first hand
• Register to win in daily drawings. We’ll be raffling 4 Cheerwing Drones
and 1 Go Pro each day
Visit SoftNAS at Microsoft Ignite, Sept 25-28
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23. Thank you
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