SoftNAS Cloud helped Modus easily move its app to AWS without application re-engineering. This frictionless experience helped increase agility and gave time back to operations teams, while enabling Modus to drive business value, add new customers and streamline company acquisitions. Join us for this special webinar to learn more about how your organization can benefit from SoftNAS Cloud on AWS.

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Mike Ruiz, Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
John-Marc Clark, Vice President of Marketing, SoftNAS
John Crites, Chief Information Officer, Modus eDiscovery, Inc.
January 17, 2018 | 10:00 AM PT
How to Move Your SaaS Apps to
Amazon Web Services (AWS) for
Increased Agility and Availability
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• Challenge: Transitioning large amounts of data to AWS
• Foundation: An overview of primary storage and AWS
• Solution: Simplifying data migrations to AWS with SoftNAS Cloud
• Use Case: Moving Modus eDiscovery to AWS
• Q&A
Today's Agenda
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• Transition 1.2 Petabytes of storage to AWS
• Establish a high-availability environment
• Build scalable storage cost into operating model
• Migrate customers from CoLo environment to AWS without down time
• Sustain high performance in a big data environment
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The Modus Challenge

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The Foundation:
AWS and Primary Storage
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Why Choose AWS for Storage?
Compelling Economics
Pay as you go
No upfront investment
No commitment
No risky capacity planning
No need to provision for
redundancy or overhead
Reduce risk
Durable and Secure
Avoid risks of physical
media handling
Easy to Use
Self service administration
SDKs for simple integration
Speed, Agility, Scale
Reduce time to market
Focus on your business, not
your infrastructure

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Amazon EFS
File
Amazon EBS
Amazon EC2
Instance Store
Block
Amazon
S3/SIA
Amazon Glacier
Object
Data Transfer
AWS Direct
Connect
AWS
Snowball
ISV
Connectors
Amazon Kinesis
Firehose
S3 Transfer
Acceleration
Storage
Gateway
Storage is a Platform: AWS Storage Maturity

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
• Highly scalable object storage
• Store and retrieve data from anywhere on the web
• Automatically replicated across multiple AZs
• Highly durable (11 9’s of durability)
• Bucket policies and ACLs
• Server and Client side encryption

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Choice of Storage Classes on Amazon S3
Active data Archive dataInfrequently accessed data
Standard Standard - Infrequent
Access
Amazon Glacier

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Getting Started with Amazon S3
Physical Migration
Appliances
APN Storage
Competency Partners
Hybrid Cloud
Storage

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AWS Hybrid Architecture Capabilities

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Global Infrastructure
Region & Number of Availability Zones New Region (coming soon)

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Benefits of APN Storage Partners
Easy
Configuration
Incremental Backup and
Block Level Backup
Asynchronous
Replication
Highly
Available
Cost-Effective Policy
Based Backups

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AWS Shared Responsibility Model
APN Partners help customers meet their part of their shared responsibility
model

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Key AWS Certifications and Assurance Programs

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SoftNAS Cloud Data Platform
John-Marc Clark, VP of Marketing

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SoftNAS Guiding Beliefs – Data & Cloud

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Solutions Driven Cloud Data Control Platform
Tape to
cloud data
archiving
Lift and shift
apps to
the cloud
Global bulk
data movement
and integration
Highly-available
backups and
fast data
transfer
SaaS
enable
apps
File
server
consolidation

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SoftNAS Cloud Virtual NAS Overview

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• Software-only NAS virtual appliance built for the cloud
• Full protocol support: CIFS, NFS, AFP, iSCSI
• High Availability
• Snapshots / Rollbacks
• Replication
• Deduplication
• Compression
• Price and Performance Tunable
• Active Directory / LDAP integration
• Scales from Gigabytes to Petabytes
SoftNAS Cloud Virtual NAS Overview

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SoftNAS Cloud Architecture

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SoftNAS Cloud Supports AWS Storage Services

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John Crites,
Chief Information Officer
Modus eDiscovery, Inc.
www.discovermodus.com

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Background
• Electronic Discovery (eDiscovery)
• Customer Base (Law Firms / Enterprises)
• Services Include:
 eDiscovery Reporting
 Data Collection & Forensics
 eDiscovery Processing
 Early Case Assessment
 Hosting
• SaaS and PaaS Options for clients

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The Project
 Assess and move 1.2 Petabytes
 No lost data acceptable
 No downtime for customers
 ISO 27001 Compliance for:
 Cloud Provider (AWS)
 Modus
 Manage high performance storage in NFS exceeding 100 Terabytes
 Provide High Availability environment
 Provide at lower cost than on-premises environment

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Challenges
Security
Scalability
Performance

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Why AWS and SoftNAS?
 Scalability
 Stability
 Security
 Access to Next-Gen technology
 Stability
 Technical support
 Full featured administration
 Full and natural integration with AWS
 Consumption-based licensing
 Long-term partnership

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How did SoftNAS address Modus' challenges?
Phase I – Migration to AWS
• Technical support for framing solution (without trying to upsell)
• Expedited implementation of SoftNAS
• Flexibility on terms to permit changes during implementation
• Hands-on technical assistance where needed for success

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How did SoftNAS address Modus' challenges?
Phase II – Optimization for Cost-Effective Storage
• Senior Technical Support to frame transition plan
• Licensing necessary to accommodate project
• Hands-on support as needed

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Specific Benefits to Modus
AWS and SoftNAS are enabling Modus to be a disruptor in our industry by
providing massive storage with:
Performance: Parallel distribution across volumes allowed us to transition to less
expensive storage medium.
High Availability: Enabled us to transition our storage environment with essentially zero
downtime.
Cost Performance: Scalability paired with a stable environment could not be attained
on-premises without unreasonable capital investments.

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Summary: SoftNAS on AWS
 Consumption Based Cost
 Scalable Storage
 High Performance
 Partnership
 Consistency across availability zones, regions and countries
 Detailed administration
The Bottom Line……
“Engage a storage technology that will contribute to your company’s
competitive edge”

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Q & A
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Try SoftNAS in AWS Marketplace
• https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace
• Search for “SoftNAS Cloud Enterprise 20TB”
Learn more about SoftNAS
• https://www.softnas.com
Learn more about Primary Storage on AWS
• https://aws.amazon.com/backup-recovery/partner-solutions/#storage
Try AWS for free
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Next steps and further information
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Thank you!
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