Your on-premises storage maintenance bill is due. It's hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, and you know you will always need to purchase more storage capacity. -Do you pay your maintenance bill and commit to another 3-5 years? -Do you move to a hyperconverged architecture? -Do you migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud storage? In this webinar, join SoftNAS and Microsoft Azure as we cover: -Pros/Cons: on-premises NAS/SAN vs. hyperconverged vs. Microsoft Azure cloud storage -Demo: “Lift and shift” on-premises file storage to Azure without re-architecting applications -How to fund a data migration to Azure with your existing budget -TCO analysis Try SoftNAS Cloud on Azure: https://ter.li/n6oaz5 Watch the Webinar: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/14841/232413 Learn about SoftNAS Cloud on Azure: https://ter.li/4tr4a0 Test Drive SoftNAS Cloud on Azure: https://ter.li/u52kq0

1. Can you Get Rid ofYour On-Premises
NAS and Migrate to Microsoft Azure?
November 17, 2016
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2. Agenda
• On-Premises vs. Hyperconverged vs. Azure
• Demo: Move On-Premises Storage to Azure
without the need to Modify Applications
• Why Choose Azure
• Azure Pricing,TCO and Use Cases
• SoftNAS Cloud® Overview
• Q&A
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3. On-Premises NAS/SAN
vs.
Hyperconverged
vs.
Azure Cloud
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4. The Storage Dilemma
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Renew maintenance
contract or forklift
upgrade to new
NAS/SAN?
On-Premises
NAS/SAN
Hyperconverged
Hardware
Azure Cloud
Forklift upgrade to
hyperconverged
infrastructure?
“Lift and Shift” to the
Azure public cloud?

5. DoesThis Sound Familiar?
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• Increasing maintenance costs?
• Are you able to forecast capacity needs?
• Never-ending pressure from business to add more storage capacity?
• Pressure by CxO and senior management to move to the cloud?
• Pressure by business unit owners for agile infrastructure?
• Lack of low cost, high-performance object storage option?
• High pricing for SSD?
• Shadow IT competing with DevOps and Cloud?
• No IT budget relief – unrealistic expectations to “do more with less or
same” resources and budget each year?

6. Comparing On-Premises, Hyperconverged and Azure
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On-Premises Converged/Hyperconverged
Security
Customer controls their
data
Customer controls their
data
Customer controls their
data
Infrastructure Management
Customer handles
infrastructure
Customer handles
infrastructure
Azure handles
infrastructure
Agility Limited
Add more nodes; still
requires more hardware
Scale up or down to meet
your business needs
Disaster Recovery and High
Availability (HA) Setup
Days Days Minutes
Time to Procure More
Storage
Weeks to Months Weeks to Months Minutes
Pricing Most expensive option
Cheaper than NAS/SAN;
more expensive than Azure
Pay as you go

7. On-Premises Management vs. Azure Management
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Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
O/S
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking
On-Premises /
Hyperconverged
AzureCloud
Self-Managed
Applications
Data
Runtime
Middleware
O/S
Virtualization
Servers
Storage
Networking
ManagedbyAzure
Self-Managed
• Using Microsoft Azure reduces:
– Infrastructure-related administration
– Costs
– Time requirements to dynamically change
• Customer still manages user accounts; but,
tasks like: maintenance, disk swapping and
monitoring the health of your data are now
managed by Microsoft
• Wave goodbye to hardware maintenance
fees and forklift upgrades!

8. 8 Reasons to ChooseAzure forYour Storage Infrastructure
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Pay as you go; pay
only for what you use
End maintenance renewals;
no longer pay the
“maintenance ransom”
Replace CapEx with
OpEx
Best in class security
protects your data
Easy to setup, use
and manage
Backups, Disaster
recovery, Business
Continuity and High
Availability
Easily scalable to
meet your
business needs
Reliable
infrastructure

9. Microsoft Azure Overview
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AzureScale
30 Regions ONLINE (38 announced)…huge datacenter capacity around the world
 1+ million servers
 One of the top 3 networks in the world (coverage, speed, connections)
 More regions than AWS and Google combined

12. SLAs Published Online
• All Azure SLAs are
published on-line at
Azure.com
• Includes
– Maximum processing
time
– Availability

13. Azure Storage Services
Queues
Reliable queues at
scale for cloud
services

14. Enterprise Primary Storage
Unified access on-premises and in the cloud
Edge systems (on-prem servers with a copy or cache of
data) can be used to optimize for access latency and
bandwidth
EnterpriseHybridStorageandGlobalDataAccess

15. Full Spectrum Flexibility
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Cool Blob Storage
Hot Blob Storage
Standard Disk Storage
Premium Disk Storage
$
$$$$
Compute Flexibility
forVSA Performance
Adaptability
Data Store Flexibility
for Cost/Capacity
Adaptability
Azure Options
Cloud
AFP iSCSI
CIFS NFS
Volumes

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
… using a POSIX
compliant file
system

17. Azure Pricing, TCO and Use Cases
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18. Using theAzure Pricing Calculator
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• Use the pricing calculator to
configureAzure features for
your use case
• Web Link:
https://azure.microsoft.com
/en-us/pricing/calculator/

19. $-
$50,000
$100,000
$150,000
$200,000
$250,000
$300,000
$350,000
$400,000
On-Premises Hyperconverged Azure
On-Premises vs. Hyperconverged vs. Azure Pricing
Storage Network IT Labor
3YearTotal Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Azure (40TB)
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$758,303
$492,897
$270,400
64% Cost
Reduction
• On-premises to Azure migrations result
in cost savings of 64%
Sources: Azure Pricing Calculator, The Cloud Calculator
On-Premises Hyperconverged Azure
Server 306,023$ 198,915$ 113,229$
Storage 156,200$ 101,530$ 57,794$
Network 160,480$ 104,312$ 59,378$
Maintenance 55,000$ 35,750$ -$
Migration 23,000$ 14,950$ 10,000$
IT Labor 57,600$ 37,440$ 30,000$
Total 758,303$ 492,897$ 270,400$

20. Use Case: Multi-Data Store onAzureCloud
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SoftNAS Cloud provides a single point of
interface, that leverages concurrent, backend
data stores
• High Performance: Uses block-backed
premium SSD with high IOPS
• Mid-Range Performance: Uses block-backed
standard storage options
• Capacity-Oriented: Uses object-backed
storage
Example:
NFS Shares for…
SoftNAS
Uses…
Web Server Image Block Premium
Data Store
Website Images Block Standard
Data Store
Older user submitted
files
Object
Data Store
Customers often need a combination of performance-sensitive workloads and
capacity-oriented storage options

21. Use Case: NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, AFP Storage on Azure
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Challenge:
• Company needs to quickly SaaS-
enable a customer-facing
application on Azure but app does
not supportAzure Blob
• Needs Active Directory (AD) or
LDAP integration
Solution:
• Re-write app to supportAzure
Blob (unlikely / expensive / time)
• Do not change application: Use
SoftNAS Cloud on Azure for NFS,
CIFS/SMB, iSCSI and AFP support
- all presenting as a POSIX
compliant file system Azure
or
On-prem hostedVMs
Cloud

22. Challenge:
• Major publishing company needs
reliable offsite data protection
• Large hardware capital
investment
• Need metered usage
• Simple and integrated solution
Solution:
• Branch office backup to cloud
• Core data center backup to cloud
• Cloud backup to cloud
• Hybrid cloud backup
Use Case: Disaster Recovery on Azure Cloud
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23. Lift and Shift while Keeping Enterprise NAS Features
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On-Premises Data
What key features does SoftNAS Cloud
provide on Azure?
- NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, AFP support
- POSIX compliant file system
- No need to rewriteApplications
- Deploys in minutes
- Storage Snapshots
- Easy to learn and use
- No training required
- Thin andThick Provisioning
- Compression, deduplication
- Disaster recovery and HA
- No downtime guarantee SLA
- Monthly/annual subscriptions
From CapEx
model
To OpEx
model
We expand and accelerate workload shifts to the
cloud, while keeping enterprise NAS features…
“Lift and Shift”
to the Azure
public cloud

24. SoftNAS Cloud Overview
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25. Flexible, AdaptableArchitecture
LinuxVirtual
Appliance
ARCHITECTURE INTEGRATION DATA SERVICES
• API and CLI
• Cross data center
• Cross-zone VPC
• Easy administration
• File gateway
• HTML5Admin UI
• Software filer
• ZFS on Linux
• Azure
• AWS
• CenturyLink Cloud
• CIFS w/ Active directory
• FC SAN
• iSCSI LUN
• iSCSI SAN
• NFS
• AFP
• S3 Objects
• SSD
• VMware vSphere
• Block replication
• Cloud disks
• Compression
• Inline deduplication
• Instant snapshots
• Multi-level caching
• Storage pools
• Thin provisioning
• Writable SnapClones™
• 360-Degree Encryption
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26. Technology Partners
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