IDA based Virtual Appliance for Secondary Storage Solutions

IDA based Virtual Appliance for Secondary Storage Solutions Typical secondary storage involves multiple storage products or solutions like Backup & Restore, Archival, Disaster Recovery and Replication to achieve data protection, and data availability. But, this approach results in high cost, large amount of storage space (typically 3 to 5 times the size of data to be stored & protected) and high complexity. This presentation focuses on an approach of using an IDA (Information Dispersal Algorithm) based Virtual Appliance (VA) to achieve an effective secondary storage solution that is - cost and space efficient, highly reliable & scalable. This approach also eliminates the need for RAID enabled storage boxes for backup storage as IDA has an inherent advantage of withstanding multiple failures. The lDA appliance approach also handles replication. This appliance approach can be seamlessly integrated into the existing storage infrastructure by SMBs, enterprises to achieve an effective secondary storage solution.

Learning Objectives

Challenges of the traditional secondary storage solutions
IDA based virtual appliance (IDA VA) approach for secondary storage solutions and challenges addressed by IDA VA, and the benefits
Practical environments, and use cases across digital word where IDA VA approach could be leveraged
Comparison of traditional secondary storage solution with IDA VA based secondary storage solution
Future or Roadmap for IDA based storage solution approaches, and what could be the likely paradigm shifts