1. Data Growth Challenge at WSP USA
9/13/ :06 PM
BRK2288
Data Growth Challenge at WSP USA
Andrew Saunders Lucy
I.T. Manager – Servers and Storage
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2. 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

3. 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

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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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