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1. Nephos
Technologies
–
Storage-­‐
as-­‐a-­‐Service
Solution
Overview
The
Ongoing
Storage
Challenge
The
Nephos
Solution
Regardless
of
size,
most
organisations
have
a
common
issue:
the
By
leveraging
our
position
as
an
independent
Cloud
Services
volume
of
data
created
and
thus
needing
to
be
stored
is
growing
Broker,
Nephos
Technologies
has
developed
a
new
Storage
as
a
exponentially
and
this
will
only
continue
as
businesses
seek
to
Service
(StaaS)
solution
that
ensures
its
users
are
provided
with
convert
raw
data
into
meaningful
information
and
everything
LAN
like
performance
in
terms
of
data
access,
but
at
the
low
cost
becomes
digital.
that
can
be
recognised
through
the
use
of
public
Cloud
storage
providers.
Until
now
businesses
have
had
a
limited
ability
to
do
anything
other
than
buy
more
hardware
and
more
physical
storage
The
solution
itself
is
comprised
of
three
main
components:
capacity.
For
many
this
is
no
longer
a
sustainable
model
for
a
1) On-­‐site
Storage
Gateway
number
of
reasons:
2) Cloud
Storage
• Capital
expenditure
is
limited
3) Pro-­‐active
Monitoring
• Physical
and
environmental
conditions
are
restricted
• Branch
office
hardware
footprint
is
a
target
for
consolidation
On-­‐site
Storage
Gateway
• The
rate
of
change
(and
cost
of
change)
cannot
be
The
Service
includes
a
local
(on-­‐site)
iSCSI
device
that
can
be
run
accurately
forecasted
as
a
physical
or
virtual
appliance.
This
appliance
can
be
used
as
the
With
the
invention
of
Cloud
storage
this
is
no
longer
the
case,
as
it
local
target
for
all
storage;
file,
backup,
archiving,
application
etc.
provides
a
method
to
cost
effectively
store
large
volumes
of
data
and
can
cache
up-­‐to
24TB
of
data
on
a
local
appliance.
at
low
cost
with
free
and
simple
access.

2. The
Cloud
storage
gateway
is
used
to
provide
the
link
between
your
data
and
the
Cloud
storage
environment
being
used.
As
your
storage
requirements
grow
your
local
appliance
doesn’t
need
to
as
it
automatically
archives
your
least
accessed
data
to
the
cloud,
thus
providing
an
almost
limitless
pool
of
storage
so
no
need
to
regularly
refresh
hardware.
The
use
of
an
on-­‐premise
storage
gateway
enables
our
customers
to
realise
the
following
benefits:
1) Local
File
Availability:
In
the
event
of
connectivity
failure
organsiations
still
need
to
gain
access
to
their
data.
The
use
of
a
local
Cloud
Storage
Gateway
means
that
your
business
has
an
extra
layer
of
resilience/availability
in
terms
of
data
storage.
2) LAN
-­‐Like
Performance:
a
common
concern
for
the
use
of
Cloud
storage
is
the
speed
of
access
to
your
data.
The
Cloud
storage
gateway
provides
a
local
store
of
your
most
used
data
so
that
it
is
served
with
the
same
performance
you’d
expect
from
a
traditional
deployment
method
3) Predictable
Growth:
Nephos
Technologies’
solution
provides
your
business
with
a
simple
and
predictable
per
GB
per
month
cost
model
–
any
potential
business
or
data
growth
can
be
easily
forecasted
and
consumed
by
the
business
with
a
virtually
limitless
pool
of
storage
volume
Cloud
Storage
To
continue
Nephos
Technologies’
pedigree
in
the
cloud
brokerage
space
this
solution
can
be
connected
to
a
long
list
of
cloud
storage
providers
including
the
following:
• MS
Azure
• Amazon
S3
• Nirvanix
• Rackspace
• HP
• Peer1
Technology,
Process
In
addition
to
those
providers
mentioned,
Nephos
Technologies
understands
that
you
may
have
a
preferred
provider.
Our
open
and
People
–
The
Key
to
platform
enables
us
to
add
providers
should
it
be
required.
Nephos
Technologies
are
able
to
ensure
that
your
data
is
only
Your
Cloud
Strategy
stored
within
the
region(s)
that
your
business
are
comfortable
with
and
all
data
is
encrypted
“at
rest”
at
the
cloud
storage
providers
giving
customers
peace
of
mind
that
not
only
is
their
data
stored
in-­‐region,
but
also
secure.

3. 2
1
Features
of
the
Service
• Least
used
• Encryption
–
Military
Grade
AES-­‐256
encryption
from
• Least
access
appliance
to
the
cloud
and
data
at
rest.
This
encryption
• 30/60/90
days
of
no
activity
is
provided
by
local
keys
controlled
by
the
customer
• Data
Reduction
–
This
is
provided
at
byte
level
and
Backup
generally
provides
between
30-­‐50%
reduction
of
data
• Support
for
100’s
of
versions
of
servers,
applications,
• In-­‐Cloud
Snapshots
–
Unlimited
snapshots
can
be
taken
hypervisors
and
databases
including;
NAS,
SAN,
at
second
based
intervals
Windows,
Linux,
MAC,
Oracle,
Exchange,
VMware,
Hyper-­‐V
• Bandwidth
Controls
–
Protect
important
corporate
bandwidth
and
set
time
of
day
uploads
to
cloud
• Agent
and
Agentless
deployment
methodology
as
well
as
file-­‐
and
image-­‐level
protection
• Auto
Software
Updates
–
Updates
pushed
to
appliances,
• Flexible
recovery
strategies
but
not
applied
• Incremental
forever
with
synthetics
for
VMware
and
• Instant
Recovery
–
Recover
to
virtual
machine
(in-­‐cloud
Hyper-­‐V
if
required)
to
provide
instant
recovery
• Fully
customisable
options
of
backup
–
full/full,
full/differential,
full/incremental
and
a
completely
“create
it
yourself”
offering
as
well
Service
Model
• World
Class
RPO
(backups
can
be
taken
up
to
every
As
part
of
our
service
model,
Nephos
Technologies
provides
a
pro-­‐ 60seconds)
active
device
monitoring
service
for
Cloud
Storage
Gateway
• Disk,
NAS
and
SAN
rotational
and
fixed
archiving
of
devices,
alerting
our
support
teams
of
any
hardware
failures.
tertiary
back-­‐ups
is
built
in
Potential
future
hardware
issues
can
also
be
identified
through
our
monitoring
platform
and
the
use
of
trending
information.
Summary
Nephos
Technologies
provides
a
single
point
of
support
for
the
entire
service
and
offers
either
an
8
x
5
or
24
x
7
Telephone
and
For
most
organisations
the
cost
of
on-­‐premise
storage
continues
email
support
with
next
business
day
hardware
replacement
of
to
grow
and
continues
to
take
budget
and
resource
from
other
the
local
device.
areas
of
IT.
Nephos
Technologies
StaaS
solution
allows
you
to:
• Reduce
the
upfront
and
on-­‐going
cost
of
storage
Additional
Options
• Reduce
the
physical
footprint
and
environment
costs
of
on-­‐premise
solutions
In
addition
to
the
core
features
that
have
been
identified,
Nephos
• Gain
additional
data
availability
through
unlimited
Technologies
are
also
able
to
add
the
following
should
it
be
storage
pools
required:
File
Archiving
If
you’d
like
to
understand
more
about
our
solution
then
please
do
• Ability
to
setup
and
support
file
based
archiving
to
cloud
contact
us
on
sales@nephostechnologies.com
and
we’ll
be
happy
on
any
policy
that
you
set:
to
help.
Nephos
Technologies
Suite
18250,
Lower
Ground
Floor,
145-­‐157
St
John
Street,
London,
EC1V
4PW
www.nephostechnologies.com