Cloud Storage: 5 Reasons IT Can Do it Better

You Can Do Cloud Storage Better1. The What and Why of Public Cloud Storage Architectures

2. The Problem With Traditional Data Center File Solutions

3. Bringing Cloud Lessons to Traditional IT

4. The Five Reasons IT can Do It Better

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Our SpeakersGeorge Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection.

He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud and virtualization

● Knowledge of these markets is gained through product testing and interaction with end users and suppliers

● The results of this research can be found in the articles, videos, webinars, product analysis and case studies on our web site:http://storageswiss.com

Who Is Storage Switzerland?

Our SpeakersPaul Turner leads marketing, product planning and strategy at Cloudian. A storage industry expert, he joined Cloudian from NetApp where he ran the Product Strategy Office, guiding their investments into FlashRay, longrid and CacheIQ. Paul has more than 23 years of development and management leadership, including 15 years at Oracle.

Polling Question

As A Service

What top attribute of cloud storage would you like in your Private Cloud Storage?

A. Scale-out - grows with your demand

B. Self Service provisioning of storage (with IT control)

C. Multi-tenanted storage with many different use cases/applications supported

D. API/devops control of all storage resources

E. Low cost, software defined using standard commodity servers

Polling Question

As A Service

What top attribute of cloud storage would you like in your Private Cloud Storage?

What Is Public Cloud Storage

• Storage at the end of an Internet connection

• Scales incrementally and automatically

• Storage becomes a budgetable monthly cost

• Essentially storage is delivered as a service

The Challenge With Delivering Storage As A Service• Have to be competitive with what the data

center could do by itself

• Have to keep hard costs at a minimum

• Use commodity servers, commodity storage

• Have to keep soft costs to a minimum

• One storage administrator for hundreds of TBs

• Architecture has to scale

• Can’t afford storage refreshes

What Do Public Cloud Storage Systems Look Like• Scale-out storage system based on commodity

servers and internal storage

• Those servers are clustered

• Their internal storage is aggregated into virtual pools

• Capacity is then granularly delivered to subscribers

• Single point of management for entire storage system

• Often designed internally, by Computer Scientist PHDs

Data Centers Are Reaching Cloud Scale

• File or object counts on the rise

• Sensors and even user productivity apps

• Capacity requirements on the rise

• Digital Surveillance

• And the increased need to retain that video

• Increase demand to retain all data forever

• Sensor data though small, adds up

Can Legacy NAS Keep Pace With Cloud Scale?

• File count limitations

• Capacity (while maintaining performance) limitations

• Migration/Refresh is increasingly painful

• Vendor provided hardware still priced at a premium

The Enterprise Needs Cloud Storage But On-Premises

• Drive down hard and soft costs

• Eliminate storage refreshes

• Scale infinitely

• Support workload variety

• Without computer Sci PHDs

Five Reasons IT Can Do It Better• Off-the-Shelf cloud storage software

• No PHDs required

• Large enterprises have similar buying economies• Most have contracts with major hardware vendors in place already

• Reduces regulatory and security concerns• Data is safest behind your firewalls

• IT is in complete control of the architecture• No sharing with 1,000s of other subscribers

• The periodic cost of forever is expensive• While upfront, purchases are still incremental

Scale-out - Cloudian HyperStore®

|SMB Complements Public Clouds

Any S3Cloud

Hybrid

Small Start, Unlimited Scale

Multi TenantCassandra

Hybrid Cloud Smart Support

P2P Architecture

Programmable

Natively S3

Intelligence in Software

Scale-out - What’s the secret

Lower soft costs @scale

• Instant 360 View• Check Health• View Sys Info

Lower soft costs @scale

• One screen for hundreds of nodes• Instantly view health of nodes• Add nodes with one click• Cluster dynamically rebalances

Lower soft costs @scale

• Analyze your data uses across globe• Plan for future based on your demand

On-demand Cloud Experience

Archive R&DContent Depot

Cloud Storage AdminCloud Storage User

HyperStore Software Defined Storage

Storage Policies

Benefits

All your data - HyperStore Connect

One Platform for Files & Objects

Freedom from Gateway Lock

in

Run Multiple Workloads

Built in Data Distribution

Built in Resiliency

Scale capacity with Demand

Ease of Use

Cost Savings

Secure Cloud StorageHIPAA Compliance – related featuresSecured certificate based user accessSecure protection of dataLocality control to datacenter and regions

PCI-DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security StandardSecured certificate based user accessEncryption at-rest, in-flightSecure networks – https/TLS (next gen SSL)Restrict access on need-to-know - RBAC and ACLsComprehensive Audit logging for all activity

Secure DataAES256bit data encryptionAutomatic verify with hash-based checksums of all dataVersioning to maintain all versions of recordsOpen APIs to access data and records and download as needed

HyperStore: Software Defined Storage

Secure Data(AES256 encrypted)

CPU Disks

Network

Access Controls(User/Group ACLs)

Network Security(TLS or SSL support)

RBAC User Security

Data Validation(Checksum on read)

Audit logging(activity logs)

Versioning(Optional versioning)

Just like Amazon - S3 Compatibility

Ceph s3test Validation

No of test

Status Details

388 PASS

26 PASS* Illegal character case that’s handled at Jetty

2 OPEN 2 bugs open

416

Low Hard Costs - 1c/GB/Month

65% LOWER $/GB

25% LESS Power Cooling

Rackspace Monolithic Array Cloudian

HyperStore Appliance

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Cloud Storage: 5 Reasons IT Can Do it Better

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