Data Growth Challenge at WSP USA 9/13/2018 10:06 PM BRK2288 Data Growth Challenge at WSP USA Andrew Saunders Lucy I.T. Manager – Servers and Storage © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

A little about WSP USA One of the world’s leading engineering and professional services consultancies WSP USA, formerly WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, is the U.S. operating company of WSP Partnering with clients to help communities prosper nationwide More than 7,000 engineers and planners in 100 offices across the U.S. Designing resilient buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment solutions

Typical Engineering Company Infrastructure WSP USA has Close to 100 WAN Connected Offices 2 Data Centers Traditional File Server setups Some NetApps Some Windows Some VMWare Pushing around 1PB Data across the 100 Locations Unstructured Data

Data Types General MS Office Files CADD Designs 3D Models Documents Engineering/Financial Spreadsheets CADD Designs 3D Models Animations / 4D Models

The Problem Simply put “The data won’t stop growing!” Complicates Backups Completing full backups within maintenance Windows Achieving retention policies without massive backup devices Complicates Migrations Just moving the data becomes a time issue Disaster Recovery can take days (or longer) Data is old and stale 70% of all File Server data has not been accessed within the last 3 years Users create, use, abandon

The Solution - HubStor No on-prem infrastructure investment Azure based Deployed in our existing tenancy (by HubStor) Simple installs for agents with flexible design options 3 Phase approach to ingestion Copy Stub Delete (optional) Management Console gives total control and valuable insight into your data archives

The Solution - HubStor Seamless Stubbing allows fast and easy access to archived data Integrated with Azure AD allows retention of permissions End User Portal allows flexible access to data Disaster Recovery options

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