The Four Requirements of A Cloud Era File System

● Not ready for the Distributed Office and Mobile

Worker

● Limited cloud integration

● Unable to scale capacity and performance

independently

● Can’t keep up with new demands of data

protection and DR

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Our Speakers

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 over 25 years of experience

designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

Fred Pinkett brings to Nasuni extensive Product Management experience in the storage and information

security spaces. Prior to joining Nasuni, Fred was VP of Product Management for Security Innovation, leading

their application security e-Learning product line. Previously he was VP of Product Management at Core

Security Technologies, and before that ExaGrid, during the early rapid growth of the company. He has also

held senior positions at Pedestal Software, Network Associates, RSA Security, and Banyan. Mr. Pinkett holds

an MBA from Boston College and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A Quick History of File

Systems

● Purpose

● Phase 1 - Home Directories /

Unstructured Data

● Phase 2 - Business-Critical

Unstructured Data

● Phase 3 - Applications and Virtualization

● Phase 4 - The Cloud

Understanding

the Cloud Era

Changing Use Cases

● Collaboration on files

● Distributed offices

● More mobile users

● Massive increase in capacity

and quantity

More Data Sources and Higher Resolutions

● Video (Surveillance, Aerial Imaging-Drones,

High Res 4K to 8K - and much more of it)

● Medical Scans – 2D to 3D and more of them

● IoT

● Log Data

● Rich Media / Design Files (Adobe)

● File Infrastructure is Ripe for Cloud

Transformation

● Reduces On-Premises Storage

Current File Systems Fall Short

● Struggling to meet capacity and file count

demands

● Struggling to meet distributed use case of

offices and users

● Struggling to meet backup and DR

requirements

● Little to no understanding of the cloud

○ Use it as an archive and maybe a backup

Cloud Becomes

the Backbone for

Global File

Access

● Minimizes need for (and costs of)

MPLS, WAN acceleration

● Changes unstructured data to an

operational expense

● Automatically creates DR Copies

● Eliminates the need for backup

The Requirements for a Cloud Era File System

Global Access● Multi-site enterprises

● Mobile workers

Global Access● Multi-site enterprises

● Mobile workers

Independent

Scaling of

Capacity and

Performance

● Scale performance at the edge

● Scale capacity in the cloud

Low Latency Cloud Integration

● Overcome speed of light issue

● Secure, local access to files

Low Latency Cloud Integration

Near-Zero RPO and RTOs

● Overcome speed of light issue

● Secure, local access to files

● Continuous versions as data changes

● Off-site - stored in the cloud

● Immutable - safe from Ransomware

○ And anything else that could potentially

corrupt files

● Rapid and simple recoveries

Summary

● Enterprises are already in the Cloud Era

● The Cloud is the obvious place to solve

the problem

● Requires a new take on file systems

● Distributed, Global, Cloud-Native

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Legacy file infrastructure

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Costly, complex, and difficult to scale

File Servers Backup Software Disk / Tape

Remote Site(s)

File ServersNAS Disk Backup

DR Site

WANAcceleration

MPLS

Tape Archive & DR

Offsite

File Servers NAS Backup Software Tape LibraryDisk Backup

Data Center (File Storage)

Email Database App ServersVirtual Machines

Data Center (Block Storage)

File Sync & Share

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Modern file infrastructure with Nasuni

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Cost-effective, simple and infinitely scalable

Remote Site(s) DR and Archive Anywhere

Data Center (File Storage)

Email Database App ServersVirtual Machines

Data Center (Block Storage)

Thank you!

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The Four Requirements of A Cloud Era File System

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