Archive Without Compromise

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Archive Without Compromise

• At Ease Computing, Inc.
• 508-870-0081
• quotes_at_at-ease-inc.com

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Archive Overview
• Archiving Alternatives
• Solutions
• Technology
• Questions

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Archiving A Business Imperative
Protect vital information over long time periods
Support discovery requirementsdriven by
increasing regulations
Reduce IT cost and complexity
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Archiving Positioning
Transactional data
Disk-based Systems Non-permanent Fast data
access Highest cost
High
Active Data
Cost
Back-up is for Recovery
Archive is for Discovery
UDO Permanent Low cost Access at the file level
Tape Non-permanent Low Cost No direct file access
Backup Data
Reference Data
Low
3-50 years
Months
0 - 90 days
Expected Data Longevity
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Why Organizations Archive Today

• E-Mail
• Improve compliance with regulatory record
  retention mandate
• Improve litigation support capabilities
• Reduce storage management complexity
• Database
• Increase speed of database backups
• Improve database performance
• Reduce primary storage capacity
• Unstructured (Files)
• Reduce time and cost associated with recovering
  data in event of disaster / outage
• Reduce time required to search and locate
  archived content
• Improve management of and access to corporate
  intellectual property
• Improve compliance with record retention mandates
• New and Updated Regulations (Federal Rules of
  Civil Procedure-FRCP)
• Data Privacy Regulations Spreading

Source ESG Report Digital Archiving End-User
Survey Market Forecast 2006-2010 / Contoural,
Inc.
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Over 80 of Data on Primary Storage Is Rarely
Accessed
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Data Lifecycle Management
Business data
Back-up
Archive
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Archiving Requirements Create IT Challenges
Other Considerations TCO Analysis should be 7
years Proprietary Options
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Best Practice Archiving Principle
I recently heard a best practice for the storage
of critical data from Gartner that made quite a
bit of sense to me. The principle is to maintain
three copies of your critical data and have it
stored on at least two different types of media.
Mike Frakes, FAA
Dual Write to Both Local Storage Platforms
Replicated to a Remote DR Site
Disk
Disk
Plasmon
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UDO Technology

• Next Generation enterprise class archival storage
• 5.25 ISO-standard format
• Developed specifically for the archival market by
  Plasmon
• Multiple sources of the technology
• Media by Verbatim and Plasmon
• OEMs include IBM, GEHC and co-branding with
  Konica-Minolta
• New Blue Laser technology
• Provides greater aerial density
• UDO roadmap 30GB-60GB-120GB-240GB
• All backward compatible
• Phase Change technology
• The most secure archival storage recording
  technology
• Permanent Media life gt 50 years/100 Shelf
• Enables true Write Once, Compliant Write Once,
  Rewritable media

Amorphous Phase Atoms frozen in random
positions, dull appearance
Crystalline Phase Atoms in ordered positions,
shiny appearance
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Not all WORM is created equal
Vulnerabilities
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Southeast Louisiana Veterans Hospital
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UDO Industry Acceptance

• Extensive Global Industry Support .
• OEMs Platform Providers
• Medical SystemIntegrators
• Third Party Technology Providers
• Compliance

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Plasmon UDO Software Partners

• Data life cycle management
• Direct access archival storage
• Automated data migration applications
• Vertical market solutions Email, Banking,
  Document Management, Insurance, Legal, etc.

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UDO Roadmap
Investment Protection

• UDO2 Released May 1, 2007
• Max data read rate increased 50 to 12MB/s
• Drive Key Security
• Will be backward read compatible with UDO1 disks
• Will use same software drivers as UDO1

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Migrations are a non-Event

• Open standards based access to data
• No forklift upgrades
• No tight coupling of HW to SW
• Not subject to Intels constant churn of HW
• Data not resident on disks which have 3-5 year
  average lifespan
• Data remains in-place
• UDO media has 50 year life
• Support mixing of multiple generations of UDO
  drive technology
• UDO technology provides backward media read/shred
  capability
• No issues or outside cost associated with proving
  chain-of-control
• Policy based data movement
• No media handling required
• Compact data from multiple older media on to
  newer higher capacity UDO media

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Technology Choices
UDO Archive Without Compromise
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Library Family
Enterprise
Entry Level
Midrange
SCSIconnect
Gx24 / Gx32 24 / 32 1 or 2 1.44TB /
1.92TB 8,285 / 10,000
Gx80 72 / 80 2 or 4 4.4TB / 4.8TB 20,600
Gx134 / 174 134 / 174 2 or 4 8.0TB /
10.4TB 31,600 / 36,600
G164 / G238 164 / 238 2 to 12 9.8TB /
14.2TB 52,400 / 66,250
G438 438 2 to 12 26.2TB 87,300
G638 638 2 to 12 38.2TB 111,400
Stand Alone N/A N/A 60GB 2,995
Model Slot Counts of Drives UDO (60GB) List
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UDO Archive Appliance
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Archive Appliance Family Portrait
AA32 32 2 1.92TB 21,600
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Archive Appliance Consolidate Multiple Apps

• Up to 12 Archive Pools per appliance
• Capacities range from 60GB to 76TB per system
• Independent Security Profile
• Different Policies
• Dedicated Resources
• No extra cost

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Why use the Plasmon UDO Archive Appliance?

• Gold Standard for Data Authenticity
• True WORM means assured data authenticity
• We guarantee that nobody including Plasmon
  engineers can change the data on our WORM media
  or reset the system to undo it
• Best of ALL Worlds
• Simplicity of NAS with disk-like performance
• Authenticity and longevity of optical
• Start small and scale as your needs grow
• 15K entry price point
• Up to 38TBs of UDO1 capacity, 76TBs with UDO2
• Makes migrations a non-event
• Green
• Lowest TCO

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Customer Testimonials
The customer specifically requested that we use
UDO technology for their
disaster recovery strategy, stating tape does
not provide the media life they need and
disk-based archive systems are too expensive.
UDO was the obvious choice.
Ulrich Uetz, GE Project
Manager
Medical University of Hannover


Germany
The UDO Archive Appliance was the only solution
that met all of our requirements - HIPAA
compliance, security, fast access, longevity and
cost. Sanjay Shah, CIO Cabell Huntington
Hospital West Virginia
We looked at disk based systems, but the
reliability was in question - you're not getting
that copy to take off-site for DR to store in a
vault at Iron Mountain. It's volatile, and
regardless of how much redundancy or how many
copies it makes, if something's corrupt then it's
corrupted. Scot La Clair, Systems
Administrator Newport Imaging California
The UDO Archive Appliance is the perfect
complement to our GE Centricity PACS. Not only
does it provide a scalable, cost-effective way to
archive our images, it also doubles as our
disaster recovery solution. Ron Hagan Radiology
Supervisor / PACS Administrator Lourdes Medical
Pavilion Kentucky
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UDO TCO Analysis
As a matter of fact, our analysis indicates that
12 TB of parity protected Centera capacity is 81
more expensive than a comparably configured
automated UDO appliance, and a Centera Mirrored
configuration is three times more expensive. A
closer look at the results reveals that the cost
of a Centera solution is inflated significantly
due to the price of software acquisition and
maintenance. A more careful examination uncovers
noticeable power consumption costs for the
disk-based Centera system. Brian
Garrett Analyst, Enterprise Strategy
Group November 2006
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Green Analysis 40TB over 10 YearsElectricity
to power and cool
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Plasmon UDO Archive SolutionsDont Make You
Compromise

• Authenticity - True WORM media ensures compliance
• Access - Random access with 35 ms average seek
  times
• Longevity - 50 year media life
• Portability - Secure, removable, durable media
  provides a cost effective disaster recovery
  solution
• Recovery Data is there when needed. AA System
  is recoverable from media
• Low TCO - A cost effective solution to procure,
  operate, and maintain
• Investment Protection
• Roadmap to 240 GB drives
• Backward read shred compatibility
• Scalability to 38TB and growing
• Confidence Over 20 Years of Archiving Experience

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Success Stories

• New Orleans VA Hospital Full Recovery from
  Katrina
• All RAID and Tape technologies were lost during
  Hurricane Katrina, but all patient images were
  able to be recovered from UDO.
• Dallas Morning News 2 Industry Awards
• UDO Digital Asset Management Solution takes
  Industry Regulation Compliance and Corporate
  Governance Award at SNW 2005 Dallas Morning
  News also Best Practices Storage Award
• Awarded to solutions that meet or exceed
  regulations specified by the SEC, Patriot Act,
  HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley, DOD, and CFR
• CitiStreet
• SEC, SOX, HIPPA
• Symantec Enterprise Vault, Netbackup, UDO Library
  managed by Pegasus
• US Navy
• Trident Submarine Division
• US Army
• Personnel Records Archiving 60 Years after
  discharge
• FAA
• UDO provides data protection combined with
  spinning disk systems such as Centera
• NASA
• Satellite Imaging / Research Data
• British Government Ordnance Survey
• UDO protects High definition digital aerial
  photography

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Plasmons History in Permanent Optical Archiving
Solutions

• 1985 - Plasmon incorporates to develop optical
  media
• 1988 Introduction of worlds first optical
  technology
• 1994 - Acquires IDE moves global library
  manufacturing to USA
• 1996 IBM announces global distribution of
  Plasmon MO technology
• 1996 - IPO on London Stock Exchange
• 1999 - Acquires Philips LMS 12 optical drive
  manufacturer
• 2000 - Announces UDO standard jointly with HP and
  Sony
• 2003 - Launches UDO (Ultra Density Optical)
• 2004 - HP announces OEM support for UDO products
• 2004 - GE Healthcare announces support for UDO
  products
• 2005 IBM and XEROX announce OEM support of UDO
  products

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Plasmon Corporate Locations
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Thank you