PAY PER USE
STORAGE
Commercial GSP
SS Lim – PTC System
Agenda
• Is Storage as a Service (SaaS) a working model for businesses?
• Should enterprise invest in capital budget and/or technical personnel?
• Complexity of today's backup, replication, and disaster recovery.
• What is the future of Cloud Storage?
• What client software should be use?
• What type of data to be outsourced out?
• What happens to lost data?
Definitions
• Cloud Service
– Cloud computing
– Cloud Storage
– Attempt to use Internet / Grid to delivery virtualised service
Cloud Computing
Applications
Compute Servers
Web 2.0 / Internet
Users
Storage
High Speed Interconnect
Working model for business
Software as a Service
• www.Salesforce.com• www.Justlogin.com• www.Solentris.com/ASP
• Proven solution• Costing
SaaS Usage TODAY
Gartner Report
Saas Usage TODAY
Cloud Storage
Internet
Consumer Environment
StorageProtocol: Http/Https.
Cloud Storage Players
• Box.net
• Amazon S3
• Nirvanix
• iForem
• Verio
– Low cost at 25cents/Gb + bandwidth usage
– Consumer oriented data
– Still Maturing with some growing pains
Type of data for Cloud
• Personal data
• Family video and picture
• Shared data
• Backup data
• Smaller size data
• Enterprise Data ??
Cloud Storage
Internet
Enterprise Environment
Storage
Working model for business
Storage as a Service (Enterprise)
• As primary storage it will fails• Sensitivity data• Security Issues• Connection / Bandwidth Issues
• Archive storage• Secondary storage
Type of data for Cloud
• Purchase capital equipment
• Growth Issues / Utilization
• Technical Manpower
• Complexity
Free up unstructured, old‐dated email, secondary data to free up space.
Future of Cloud Storage
• Consumer Data– Excellent Choice
• Enterprise Data– Selected data for a start
– Non‐critical but huge
– Critical data for backup or Disaster Recovery
Challenges for Cloud Storage
• PUBLIC GRID is still a distance
Electrical Grid is realWater Grid is real
Air‐condition Grid ?
Financial, Government, Large Enterprise sharing storage Gird ?
Challenges for Cloud Storage
• ENTERPRISE GRID is real
– San Francisco, New York, London, Singapore
– Branch Offices– Remote Offices
– Internal IT resources– Full control of resources
Challenges for Cloud Storage
• Type of Protocols
– HTTP, HTTPS (REST,SOAP, XML‐RPC)
– NFS, CIFS
– FTP
Understand your data
Space Consumption
Age of File
STORAGE AUDIT
• Storage Audit for your heterogeneous storage of different platforms, vendors and storage topologies.
• Report on your storage utilization and data storage pattern.
Servers @BII
Storage ServiceDedicated Network -SINGAREN
Storage as a Service –Current Offering
Servers
Public Network
Servers @NUS
Servers @IHPC
Storage ServiceDedicated Network -SINGAREN
SingAren User
Grid Service Provider
500Gigabytes
Subscribe to Storage ‐Workflow
1. Subscribe to SaaS
2. Process subscription
3. Provide info on
setting up storage
4. Connect and utilize storage
350GBFiles
400GBFile
Case Study: Archiving
300GBFiles
Servers @NUS
Servers @IHPC
Servers @BII
Data are stored on:
Expensive Primary Storage
With High Available Capability
Storage Service
Dedicated Network -SINGAREN
Case Study: Archiving
Free up primary storage space
350GBFiles
400GBFile
300GBFiles
Servers @NUS
Servers @IHPC
Servers @BII
Storing Data on Lower cost storage
Storage ServiceDedicated Network -SINGAREN
Files
Files
Files
Case Study: Archiving
Files
Files
Files
Easy to scale for growth
As more users are added
500GBFiles
500GBFiles
500GBFiles
Copy
Copy
Copy
To access files in USA3 Copies required1500GB storage space
Case Study – Shared storage
Eg: Data Files Store in the USA
Storage SolutionDedicated Network -SINGAREN
500GBFiles
500GBFiles
500GBFiles
Case Study – Shared storage
500GBFiles
Copy
Access
Access
COPY
To access files in USA
1 Copy Only
500GB Storage space
Pricing (Pay Per Use)
S$1,500 Encryption of Data
Set Up Fee S$150 Monthly Fee S$1.20 (compressed)
Backup Data
S$1.00/Gb
(24 months contract)
No Volume transfer cost
File Size: Tb range
Archive Storage
Monthly Fee
Consideration
• Offsite storage gives you protection from having something happen to your local data.
• Local onsite data should be faster and avoids the cost of accessing data over a network.
• A hybrid approach combines local onsite data storage with offsite to store backups for data protection, support disaster recovery and business continuance.
Decision for your organization
• Keep in mind the availability and type of network bandwidth.
• The recurring cost of network bandwidth, the offsite storage provider and what changes are needed for your infrastructure to support offsite storage.
• Data security requirements to counter any and all applicable threat risks when moving and storing data offsite as well as onsite.
• In addition to network bandwidth, pay attention to network latency which is how responsive the network is.
Summary
Storage as a Service deliver:
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership
• Easy Data Management
• “Green” Environment =
Less Power Consumption, Less Rack Space