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Archive System Looking Ahead at Storage. Spectra Logic overview. Celebrating over 32 years of innovative technology Founded in 1979, Fully self-funded Debt-free growth, Profitable, Year over year Well established >30,000 installations
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Spectra Logic overview • Celebrating over 32 years of innovative technology • Founded in 1979, Fully self-funded • Debt-free growth, Profitable, Year over year • Well established >30,000 installations • Culture of Innovation, Average R&D expenditure up to 15% of top line revenue • All manufacturing in Boulder, Colorado, USA
HPC Media & Entertainment Government Enterprise Areas of Focus
Storage ConsiderationsLooking Ahead • High Performance Online Applications • Long Term Retention Policies • Environment and Energy Savings • Optimize Storage Performance and Cost
Controlling Costs in a Exploding Digital Universe? • 107 trillion emails in 2010 - 89% of which was spam • 144 billion emails sent in 2012….per day • 100 + hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute • US IP traffic predicted to be 10^24 Exabytes/month by 2015 Source: The Radicati Group, Inc April 2012 YouTube Statistics
The Global File Data Dilemma“File Data Growth” 57% 3% File data will grow by 67x between 2009 and 2020 and will constitute over 85% of all data Last year Digital information grew 57% while IT spending grew a meager 3%. Data growth is quickly outpacing the resources needed to store it properly Source: IDC Digital Universe / IDC Worldwide Black Book / Lewan & Associates
Available Options Tape Disk Flash & Cloud
Flash • Electronic non-volatile storage • Transactional & Computational • High Margin • Capacities • Cost coming down • Looking forward
Disk • Considerations for Disk… • Random access, fast access, reliability and relative ease • Have been enjoying volume & margin • Margin under pressure from flash • Volume under pressure from tape side…why? • Density/Capacity ? • Reliability • Cost ?
Cloud • Idea not new - remember storage service providers • Perceived as Simple, Easy • no equipment, procurement, management, etc. • Especially when budgets are tight • Public, Private, Private shared (hybrid)…. • Investigate….. • Cost details? • Bulk recall? • Control, and search? • Access time vs cost • Performance vs cost • Vendor lock, Switching cost • Asset Location? • Network cost
Spectra’s view What Are We Aiming For? Choose Storage Wisely The right balance of relevant storage technologies Comprehensive archival solutions that deliver: • Performance • Ongoing Access • Affordability and Protection • On going data integrity
Questions? Southeast – Mike Blake mikebl@spectralogic.com (615) 556-8489 Federal Markets Account Manager Washington DC - Andrew Kumler andrewk@spectralogic.com (240) 429-4288