object storage: how can it work for you

Put Object Storage to

Work for Your Enterprise

BrightTalkTM Cloud Summit

Agenda

• Why Now?

• Unique Benefits

• When Not to Use

• Putting Object Storage to Work

• Ways to Benefit

• What to Look for in an Enterprise Solution

• Cloudian Solution

• Customer Success

1 October 9th, 2013

Why Now? • Growing storage challenges:

• Video, big data, file sharing, mobile…

• Massive scale – petabytes, billions of

objects…

• HDD capacities growing slower

• Escalating costs

• Technology

• File systems, SANs reaching performance

and capacity limits

• Emergence of object storage architectures

2 October 9th, 2013

Options

• Public

• Private

• Hybrid

Today: Private object storage for the

enterprise

3 October 9th, 2013

Unique Benefits

• Low cost

• Reliable

• Scalable

• QoS

4 October 9th, 2013

• Distributed

• Accessible

• Metadata

• Efficient

When Not to Use

• As a complete replace for other storage

forms

• Structured data such as SQL databases

• Rapidly changing data such as

transactions

• Data that requires “single source of truth”

5 October 9th, 2013

Putting Object

Storage to Work • Who?

• Cloud and storage service providers…

• Financials, pharma, oil & gas…

• Media, content providers…

• Surveillance, government intelligence…

• You! Let’s look at 10 important use

cases…

6 October 9th, 2013

• Distributed users

• Essentially unlimited users with same

performance

• Viewing same / similar contents

• Files, images, video

• Huge objects

• Original content

Basic Sharing

7 October 9th, 2013

• Tape replacement

• Far greater reliability than tape

• Automated offsite, multi-site storage

• Restore from anywhere

• Faster restores

• Integration with continuous data

replication

Backup Store

8 October 9th, 2013

Long-Term Archival • More cost effective than typical disk

solution

• Far greater reliability than tape (again)

• Overcome corruption risks

• Greater reliability and far lower costs

than duplicating on enterprise-grade disk

storage

9 October 9th, 2013

• Direct control

• Compliance

• Cost reduction (data access, bandwidth

– not just per GB costs)

• Alternative to pay-as-you-go

• Protect against provider business failure

Public Object Store

Replacement

10 October 9th, 2013

• Storage that provides web-scale capacity

• Thousands to millions of users and more

• Geographic distribution and local access

Web-Scale App

Support


Storage Consolidation

• File aggregation

• Increased efficiency through elimination

of unused disk capacity

• Centralized management

• Lower operating cost


Static Websites

• Full statics websites, static pages

• HTML files, images, videos, client-side

scripts such as JavaScript

• Support huge traffic demands


Mobile Access • File access, backup, synchronization

• Take advantage of simple interfaces

such as HTTP access

• Support massive numbers of users on

any type of mobile devices

• Mobile employees and customers


Media Replays • Podcasts, including iTunes integration

via HTTP

• Webcasts

• Business videos

• Security footage


Content Delivery

Networks • Similar to website hosting use case

• Place object storage nodes in locations

you would have a CDN node

• Gain local access to objects


You Dream it up


What to Look For

• SW solution with heterogeneous HW

support

• Control over service levels and costs

• Policy support for security, geography

• Support via a real product, not a build-it-

yourself science experiment

• AWS S3 API compatibility and extended

integration for OpenStack, CloudStack, etc.

• Ability to start small, as appropriate


Cloudian

Giorgio Propersi

General Manager, Americas & EMEA

Cloudian

• A lead developer of Object Storage for the Enterprises and

the Service Providers

• Headquarter in Silicon Valley, Offices and Customers

across the Americas, Asia and Europe

• Cloudian flagship product is also called Cloudian®

• 100% S3 Compatible

• Scales from few Terabytes to hundreds of Petabytes

• Runs on Commodity Hardware

• Integrates with Cloud Compute (Citrix Cloud Platform,

CloudStack, OpenStack)


Object Storage for the Private,

Public and Hybrid Cloud

• Cloudian + Commodity Hardware = S3 Object Storage

• Cloudian includes Backend Storage, Replication, Erasure

Coding, Consistency, Provisioning, Billing, Management

GUI & API, etc.

• Cloudian includes Full Frontend: 100% S3 compatibility for

virtually every storage application

• More than 1000 S3 ready Applications, Hundred of Partners in the

S3 developer Community


Private or Public Storage Cloud

• You choose what to store on premises,

and what to store in the cloud

Case Study: NTT

Why NTT Chose Cloudian:

• Full S3 API and Semantics

compatibility

• Infinite Scalability in

DCs/Regions, Buckets

• Excellent performance for any

data mix

• Tunable Replication

• CloudStack Integration

• Production Proven Reliability


#1 Telecom company WW

Japan, US, APAC, India, Europe

“Cloudian has a proven track record in

global markets to provide highly

resilient and robust object storage with

an Amazon S3-compatible API, which

we believe is an optimal fit with our

idea of object storage service."

Susumu Okuhira, NTT

Communications Director of

Hosting & Platform Service

Multi-PB, Global DCs,

Eleven 9s Availability

Trial to Contract in 3 weeks


Part of Claranet, top European

MSP for 2,500 Enterprises in

11 Countries

Chose Cloudian because:

• - S3 API

- Scalability in DCs/Regions

• - Ease of use – Fully Turnkey

• - Cost Efficient

• - Innovation

• - High Quality

Spain, Portugal, France,

UK, Italy…

“Not only does Cloudian share our

same goal of bringing affordable,

reliable and scalable cloud solutions

to companies of all sizes, it also

shares our commitment to innovation

and customer satisfaction."

Antonio Miguel Ferreira

CEO, Lunacloud

European Cloudian

Reference Deployment

Transition to Object Storage:

Cloudian can help

• What is triggering the decision to move to Object

Storage in my Enterprise?

• What about ROI? How much money will I save?

• What about the cost of the migration?

• Which applications have to be moved first?

• Technical Migration Issues

• Choice of Hardware


Q&A
