What Would Cloud Storage Optimized for Preservation Look Like What Would Cloud Storage Optimized for Preservation Look Like? Amar Kapadia, Sr. Director Strategy Long-term Storage Service, EVault May 22, 2013

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Storage Options for Preservation Traditional cloud storage e.g. S3, Azure, Rackspace, HP etc. Tape style cloud storage e.g. Permivault, Glacier etc. Cloud Disk/ LTFS/ Vaulting (dark archive) On-prem Hot Hot Warm Cold Frozen

If you buy into Cloud Storage playing a role then… What would Preservation Optimized Cloud Storage look like? And how would we grade current cloud storage providers in the aggregate*? *Compares IaaS providers; excludes cloud value add layers e.g. Duracloud, Tessella etc.

Categories Scalable reliable storage Preservation features Economics SLAs

Scalable, reliable, on-demand storage Scalable Storage Scalable, reliable, on-demand storage Grade: +

Scalable Storage Geo-replication Grade: +/-

Preservations Features Fixity (Data Integrity) Checking Grade: 

Preservations Features Auditable Event Tracking Grade: 

Preservations Features Assured Delete Grade: 

Preservations Features Immutability Grade: 

Preservations Features Retention Management Grade: +/-

Preservations Features Format Conversions Grade: +/-

Preservations Features Store Native Metadata Grade: +/-

Preservations Features Metadata Indexing & Search Grade: 

Storage Economics Storage Costs  (warm), + (frozen)

Access Economics Access Costs + (small),  (large)

Storage/ Access Economics Calculators Current grade: 

SLAs Availability Current grade: +

SLAs Durability + (Design),  (SLA)

SLAs Security + (Design),  (SLA)

Portability (No-vendor lock-in) SLAs Portability (No-vendor lock-in) Current grade: 

Business Continuity Plan (BCP) SLAs Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Current grade: 

Summary Category Feature Maturity Scalability IaaS Scalability, reliability, on-demand + Geo-replication +/- Preservation Fixity checking - Auditable event tracking Assured delete Immutability Retention management Format conversion Native metadata Metadata indexing & seach Economics Storage costs Access costs Calculators SLAs Availability Durability Security Portability (no vendor lock-in) Business Continuity Plan

Summary Current level of maturity amongst cloud providers around Preservation is low So EVault believes that there is need for a cloud storage offering optimized for Preservation and is therefore building one

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Preservation Goals Vary by Organization/ Data Type of Data Preservation Budget Scale of Data Retention Timelines Availability Goals