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Reducing Storage TCO With Private Cloud Storage

Why Storage today is failing to deliver

What are the 7 Ways to lower Storage TCO

How new Storage approaches can help

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Our Speakers

Paul 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,Iongrid and CacheIQ. Prior to that role, he was the General Manager of the OnCommand Insight Business (which included Onaro and Akorri). Paul has more than 23 years of development and management leadership, including 15 years at Oracle.

George 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

Storage Switzerland Background

About Cloudian

• Leader in Hybrid cloud storage– Strong venture backing: Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, INCJ, Fidelity– Recently completed $24M funding round– Offices in Foster City, Japan and China

• Shipping Cloudian HyperStore since February 2011• Leading customers run Cloudian…

Polling Question

“What Is Your Biggest Storage Management Challenge?"

A) Waste – too much storage goes unutilized

B) High costs – escalating with data growth

C) Complex to provision, manage and protect

D) All Of The Above

Polling Question

“What Is Your Biggest Storage Management Challenge?"

Unstructured Data Deluge

• Up to 90% Of New Data• User files, PDFs, Email, Machine

Sensor Data, Large Multimedia Files

• Requires Efficient Storage Protection

• Data is doubling every two years but businesses need to retain this information – compliance, data analytics, monetization opportunities, etc.

Too Much Data

Conventional Storage Is Breaking

Traditional NAS Can’t Scale

• Islands of Storage• Costly to implement, manage and

upgrade

• Large Initial Investment• Have to purchase all the CPU,

memory and controller resources “up-front”

• Forklift Upgrade To Scale Cost, complexity and risk conducting data migrations Disruptive to applications Asset may not be fully depreciated

Scale-Out NAS Is An Interim Solution

• Improvement over traditional NAS

• Ability to start small and scale to large, multi-PB configurations

• Can add resources on-the-fly, non-disruptively

BUT….

• High Total Cost of Ownership

• Most are proprietary – high vendor product margins

• CPU, memory and disk have to be deployed in tandem – not granular

• Can lead to resource sprawl

How To Lower Storage TCO

7 Keys To Success

Key #1 – Lower Cost of Entry And Lower Ongoing Costs

• Leverage Commodity Hardware

• Off-the-shelf Intel CPU’s and commodity disk

• Facebook, Google And Amazon-like

• Architecture which enables massive scale-out capabilities utilizing commodity infrastructure

Key #2 – Just-in-Time Deployment

• Start Small – Scale Large

• Start from a single node (TBs) but have the ability to scale to multiple independent nodes (PBs)

• RAIN Architecture

• Granular Resource Scaling Add CPUs and storage independently as needed

• Take advantage of decreasing storage costs and increased storage densities

Key #3 – Run At Full Capacity Without Performance Bottlenecks

• Automated Load Balancing RAIN architecture enables all storage and CPU resources to work in tandem Automated load-balancing as nodes are added to the ring

• Non-Disruptive, No Application Downtime

Less administrative overhead

• Higher Utilization = Less Waste

Eliminates need to overprovision disk

Key #4 – Flexible Refresh Cycles

• Leverage Commodity Upgrade Cycle

Intel CPU refreshed every 6 Mos. Flash prices continuing to drop Disk storage densities increasing – 10TB Cheaper, faster, better

• Integrate New Technology More Frequently at Less Cost

No data migrations No forklift upgrades Enhanced performance, better SLAs

Key #5 – Reduce Data Protection Costs

• Offload Unstructured Data From The Backup Environment

Eliminate 80-90% of new data growth from the backup infrastructure Reduce snap/replicate hw/sw Reduce operational overhead

• Extend Life Of Backup Assets

Cost avoidance – postpone backup disk/tape purchases Reduce backup software licensing costs

• Reduced Risk Missed backup windows Less overhead on production applications

Key #6 – PBs Managed By A Single Administrator

• Private Cloud Storage Operational Efficiencies

Built-in multi-tenancy and self-service storage capabilities Enable IT to focus on business revenue generating activities

Key #7 – Public Cloud Integration

• Leverage Cloud Data Centers

Eliminate need to build-out dedicated DR facilities for data protection/DR Potentially eliminate expensive DR service provider contracts

• Public Cloud For Low Cost Archival

Selectively replicate individual files into the cloud based on data policies

Innovating in Storage

19

2011 2012 2013 2014

HyperStore Software 1.5•Peer-to-peer scale-out

storage software•Multi-tenant storage •Quality of Service (QoS)

HyperStore Software 2.3•S3 Compatible API•Multi-region storage

HyperStore Software 2.4•Server-side encryption•Billing/chargeback by region/tenant•Citrix CloudPlatform connector

HyperStore Software 3.0•Compression•Virtual appliance

HyperStore Software 4.0•Erasure coding•OpenStack connector•NFS support•Cloud archive – any S3 cloud

HyperStore Software 5.0•Extreme scale with vNodes•RAID free data storage•Enterprise Monitoring & Alerting •Appliances or Software

Cloudian HyperStore

S3

NFS

Scalable &Reliable

Flexible &Mobile

S3 API and NFS interface Hybrid Cloud Ready (any S3 Cloud) 100s of Supported Applications Optimized for any Workload Unlimited Flexibility

Multi-Tenancy (Chargeback) and QoS Multi Data Center Replication and

Erasure Coding Scalable Peer-to-Peer Architecture Storage for OpenStack & CloudStack

Hybrid Cloud Storage

• Cloudian deployed as On-Premises S3 cloud behind the firewall• Bucket Lifecycle policies to migrate data to

– Amazon S3 or Glacier– Other Cloudian HyperStore Clouds– Other S3 compatible service providers

• Global namespace with Metadata kept on premises for all objects• Archiving option to move metadata and data to the Public Cloud

S3

GlacierS3 S3Tiering

GlacierTiering

CloudianTiering

S3 Client / Application

NoTiering

S3Compatible

Build your Cloud at ~1C/GB/Month

HSA1020 HSA1040 HSA2060Entry-level High-capacity Enterprise-performance

Storage Capacity 20 Terabytes 40 Terabytes 60 Terabytes

Use Case Low-throughput workloads and entry-level clouds

Large content libraries, medical records, data center backups

For extreme IO bandwidth requirements, like media and entertainment, energy, finance

Price ~1C/GB/Month ~1C/GB/Month ~1C/GB/Month

Flash Optimized No No Yes

Redundancy and High Availability

Hot pluggable drivesDual Hot pluggable power supplies

Hot pluggable drivesDual Hot pluggable power supplies

Hot pluggable drivesDual Hot pluggable power supplies

* Assumptions : Based on expected street price, 20% Compression typical gain, Erasure Coding, Over 5 year term

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Seven Ways to Lower Storage TCO

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Reducing Storage TCO With Private Cloud Storage

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