webinar: sizing up object storage for the enterprise
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In this webinar you will learn:❏ Why Object Storage should be ideal for the enterprise
❏ Why Object Storage has not been a good fit for the enterprise
❏ How Object Storage vendors are failing at making the fit better
❏ How to make Object Storage a perfect fit for the enterprise
Sizing Up Object Storage for the Enterprise
On Demand WebinarObject StorageFor audio playback and Q&A go
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● 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 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 over 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.
Our SpeakersJeff Tabor is the Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing at Avere Systems. Jeff leads product definition, marketing, and communication for Avere’s Hybrid Cloud NAS product family. Prior to Avere, Jeff managed clustered NAS solutions at NetApp and Spinnaker Networks. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
● File systems company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
● Mission to free where data is stored in the enterprise
● Founded by industry veterans Ron Bianchini, CEO & Michael Kazar, CTO
● Build FXT Edge filer hardware and software that separates performance from capacity and enabled hybrid IT that includes the cloud
● Media & Entertainment, Finance, Life Sciences, Government and Enterprise R&D
Who is Avere Systems?
Polling Question
What Are Your Object Storage Plans?
What Is Different About Object Storage?
● Object Storage is different in how data is accessed
● Data is assigned a Unique ID and is accessed by that ID
● The ID is used to:• Confirm Protection Level• Confirm Data Integrity• Eliminate Unnecessary Copies
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Attributes Of Object Storage
● Extremely High File (object) Count
● Systems are in the thousands of TBs scaling to hundreds of PBs
● Designed to be inexpensive, long-term, easy to manage• Scale-Out• Built on Commodity Servers and
Storage
● Search-able
Why Object Storage is a Good Fit for the Enterprise
● Enterprises are flooded with Unstructured Data
● Makes an ideal primary store for this data
• User Data
• IoT, Sensor Data
• Machine Data (Logs)
Why Object Storage is a Good Fit for the Enterprise
● Archive● Cost effective destination for old data
● Retrieval times are still excellent
● But costs are lower
Why Object Storage In The Enterprise
● Modern Apps are Object ready• Cassandra, Hadoop, Splunk, Spark, etc…
are Object Aware
Why Object Storage is a Good Fit for the Enterprise
● One System - Multiple Use Cases
Object Storage
Archive User DataNew Apps
Backups
The Challenges with Object Storage in the Enterprise
● Moving Data to Object Storage
• Manual Movement
• Migration
• Caching
Where To Start
REST API NFS/SMB
iSCSI
● Accessing Data on Object Storage
• Legacy Protocols
• Native Protocols
Why Object Storage Has Not Been A Good Fit For The Enterprise
Access Issues● Access requires something other
than NFS, SMB, or iSCSI
● Typically S3
● Applications have to be re-written
Migration Issues● Lack of traditional protocol makes data
movement more complicated
● Even if legacy protocol support is available…• Identifying the right data to move is difficult• Especially on an ongoing seamless basis• Then you have the challenge of how users will
find and access that data
NAS Still Has A Place● Enterprises don’t want to dump
their NAS
● Still offers higher performance, ideal for some IoT projects
● They just want to slow NAS capacity growth
“Buy” Issues● Initial System is too Big for initial
need
● Complexity in configuring - software and hardware purchased separately
How Object Storage Vendors Are Missing The Mark
● Providing Legacy Protocol Support
• NFS/SMB support but typically low performance
• Object storage is still a separate silo of storage
● Integrated System
• Faster implementation at expense of flexibility
• Initial system configured too large
How To Make Object Storage A Perfect Fit For The Enterprise
● Holistic approach• Unify current NAS systems with object
with global name space
● Accelerate NAS tier with Flash front end• Improve the analytics performance
● Allow seamless connectivity to the cloud
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Avere Hybrid Cloud NAS
CloudCompute
On-PremCompute
CloudStorage
On-PremStorage
NAS
Object
Bucket 1
Bucket 2
Bucket n
Virtual Compute Farm
Virtual FXT
File Storage forPrivate Object
NAS Optimization
Cloud NAS
Cloud Bursting
Cloud
Stor
age
Gate
way
Physical FXT
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Avere C2N – Cloud-Core NAS System
• C2N overview- Avere’s first integrated Edge+Core
system - Combines NAS with object storage- Easy integration with public cloud
• Customer benefits- NAS simplicity for easy fit with existing
applications- Object efficiency for better scaling and
economics- Cloud awareness for simple integration
in public/private cloud and NAS infrastructures
Typical C2N configuration with 640TB usable
capacity
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Integrated CX200 Core Filer
• Hardware configuration- CX200 storage node (120TB raw
capacity)• Space-efficient 1U server• Qty=12 hot-swappable 10TB drives
- Min. TR config: CX200 (3), 120TB usable- Min. EC config: CX200 (6), 480TB usable
• Integrated object storage software
- Based on OpenStack Swift from SwiftStack
- Erasure coding (EC)- Triple replication (TR)- Geo-dispersal for disaster recovery (DR)
Min. TR config: 3 CX200 nodes, 120TB usable
capacity
Min. EC config: 6 CX200 nodes, 480TB usable
capacity
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Object Storage Efficiency
• Capacity scaling- 120TB entry point- Expand in 80TB increments- Scales to more than 5PB
• Erasure coding (EC)- N+4 availability- Over 60% usable capacity
• Triple replication (TR)- Enables 120TB usable capacity entry point
• Geo-dispersal- Implement disaster recovery (DR) solutions across three sites- Simpler and more efficient than NAS replication/mirroring
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Scale-out NAS Functionality
• Integrated, all-Flash FXT performance tier
- Clustering for performance scaling and HA
- Scales from 14 to 480TB SSD- File system built for object storage
• Complete NAS feature set- Powerful GUI and storage analytics- NFS, SMB, multi-protocol support- Snapshots- Global namespace- Data migration- Mirroring- Compression- Encryption
Avere GUI showing client-side NFS access to object storage
Integrated FXT 5000 performance tier
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C2N vs. Competitive Solutions for Active Archive
Old Way: Traditional NAS
Future Way: Cloud
Public & Private Object
Storage
NAS Challenges• Inefficient silos of
data• Management is
difficult• DR is complex and
expensive
Simple Path to Cloud: C2N
Cloud Challenges• Public: data migration,
security• Private (BIG vendor):
entry point is 1PB+ and $1M+
• Private (DIY): open source software + 3rd-party hardware is complex
C2N Benefits• NAS protocols, no
application changes• Object storage for high
efficiency• 120TB entry point• Turnkey solution with Avere
support• GNS for existing NAS and
future cloud
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Sizing Up Object Storage for the Enterprise
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