Enterprise Data Protection with Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Object Storage Reduce data center cost and complexity while securing, protecting, and managing explosive data growth Build the Future-Defined Data Center Data center modernization is no longer optional for most businesses. The ability to quickly adapt and manage rapid data growth can be an expensive and time-consuming endeavor with legacy infrastructure. In addition, internal and external data regulations are requiring instant data accessibility, data retention, and data governance compliance. These issues are challenging organizations to evolve their infrastructure strategy to one that enables a flexible, highly scalable and more cost-efficient approach that meets both current as well as future needs.
The Data Protection Challenge Managing data growth while also ensuring data protection has become increasingly complex. Data centers built on legacy infrastructure are difficult and costly to manage, scale and adapt. Resulting issues include excessive backup times, especially when backups fail, and the challenge of meeting RTO and RPO SLAs. To address this rapid data growth, a simple, affordable and scalable approach to data lifecycle and storage management has become an imperative.
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Hyperconverged economics
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High-performance server foundation
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Streamlined deployment
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Next-Gen Data Protection
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Customizable Protection Levels
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Native S3 Compliant Storage
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Simplified Management
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Non-disruptive extensibility with additional nodes
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Smaller footprint
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Petabyte scalability
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Flexible backup & recovery options
Data Protection Re-imagined Lenovo’s portfolio of hyperconverged and software-defined storage can help organizations start the journey to a modern data center. Leveraging this portfolio, Lenovo has collaborated with industry-leading partners, Nutanix and Cloudian to create a bestin-class data protection solution. Starting with a rock-solid foundation using ThinkSystem servers, #1 in reliability and customer satisfaction, Lenovo reduces data center complexity by combining Nutanix software with Lenovo servers and storage to form ThinkAgile HX Series hyperconverged appliances. To address current and future data management storage and archive needs, Lenovo and Cloudian created a solution with the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 server and Cloudian HyperStore object storage software. Completing the solution is your choice of data protection software from industry leading companies such as Commvault, Veritas, Veeam among others, deployed on ThinkSystem servers. Together, Lenovo provides the fundamental building blocks for a modern flexible, scalable, and secure infrastructure.
Built for Confidence Built on a rock solid Lenovo server foundation, Lenovo provides the fundamental building blocks for a modern, flexible and secure infrastructure that reduces complexity, increases agility, provides limitless scalability to deliver new levels of reliable data protection
Lenovo Solution for Enterprise Data Protection
Figure 1. Lenovo Solution for Enterprise Data Protection
Lenovo SR650 powered by Cloudian The solution includes the SR650 server powered by Cloudian, providing affordable, highly efficient, high-capacity storage to meet the growth of unstructured data – media images, video, web content, and file shares. Highly scalable with enterpriseclass reliability. Lenovo SR650 servers and Cloudian HyperStore® object-storage software make it easy to build fully featured, on-premise S3compliant storage at a cost of only pennies per GB per month. The pre-validated turnkey system is easy to deploy and provides petabyte-level scalability, high resiliency and data durability, with geographic independence, and multi-tenancy.
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series powered by Nutanix The Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series is designed to help simplify IT infrastructure, reduce costs, accelerate time-to-value, and deliver greater reliability. These hyperconverged appliances from Lenovo combine industry-leading hyperconvergence software from Nutanix with Lenovo ThinkSystem servers. The HX series consolidates servers, storage, and virtualization into one virtual structure, and easily managed as clusters through a single interface. Storage and compute are pooled across each node in the cluster as a single shared virtual resource for increased and efficient utilization. HX Series simplifies the data center, reduces costs, accelerates time-to-value, and delivers greater reliability
Reliable. Flexible. Scalable.
Lenovo World-Class Leadership Lenovo’s global leadership and innovation in servers includes industry-leading reliability and world-class performance for business-critical applications and deployments. You can directly obtain a single point of contact for 24/7 technical assistance from Lenovo’s world-class support organization, which is rated #1 for overall x86 Server Customer Satisfaction.
Solution Advantages With full cloud-compatibility, the cost-efficient solution deploys on premise while also tiering to the public cloud. It is simply to setup, manage and delivers highly reliable data protection This solution has been tested and verified in Lenovo’s Innovation Lab.
Drop-in integration The solution elements easily integrate together. Lenovo SR650 nodes with Cloudian HyperStore are viewed by the data protection backup & recover software exactly as it views Amazon or Google cloud storage. Backups complete quickly due to fast local access, and recovery is similarly fast.
Performance to handle even the largest environments The Lenovo solution scales to petabytes with a scaling model that seamlessly grows in both capacity and bandwidth. Predictable backup windows result from the solution’s streaming bandwidth with data write bandwidth achievable in excess of 5,000MB/s (or 18TB per hour, with 16 nodes).
Petabyte-scalable You can start small with just a single Lenovo HX Series appliance (or two or more for high availability), three Lenovo SR650 nodes, and three backup & recover servers – scaling to hundreds of petabytes simply by adding nodes. Scaling is seamless and nondisruptive and does not require downtime.
Manage one data pool Cloudian Hyperstore software maintains data in a single pool across all Lenovo SR650 nodes with a single global name-space. Nodes can be in a single data center or multiple data centers, enhancing data durability. No need to juggle what’s “active” or “passive,” create complex policies and snapshot management techniques, or track which sites are replicating to where.
Distributed architecture for global data protection Enterprises struggle to manage backup at remote offices. With this solution, clustered nodes can be deployed globally and interconnected, thus allowing data to be automatically replicated across sites. Because nodes form a single namespace, you can implement policy-based data migration to the cloud for DR purposes. You get global data protection with fast local recovery, all managed from a single location.
About Cloudian Cloudian is a Silicon Valley-based software company specializing in enterprise-grade storage. Its flagship product, Cloudian HyperStore, is an S3 compatible storage platform that enables service providers and enterprise to build reliable, affordable and scalable hybrid cloud storage solutions.
Why Lenovo Lenovo is a $46 billion global Fortune 500 company and a leader in providing innovative consumer, commercial and enterprise technology. Lenovo enterprise systems deliver industry leading performance, reliability and security in virtualized and cloud environments for analytics, database, virtual desktop, infrastructure and web workloads. Lenovo also offers simplified and extensible systems management tools so you can manage your infrastructure on your own terms. Consistently ranked #1 in reliability and customer satisfaction, the Lenovo enterprise server, storage and networking portfolio provides the hardware for businesses that never stand still.
For more information, visit: www.cloudian.com
About Nutanix Nutanix makes infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform blends web-scale engineering and consumer-grade design to natively converge server, storage, virtualization and networking into a resilient, software-defined solution with rich machine intelligence. For more information, visit: www.nutanix.com