In this webinar, leading storage analyst firm Storage Strategies NOW, will discuss the findings from their comprehensive outlook report on the state of the cloud storage market and storage services that are layered on top of it. We will review: the definition of cloud storage, requirements, deployment, the market and its trends, API’s, cloud computing initiatives, best practices and infrastructure providers. Tom Trainer, Director of Product Marketing at Gluster, will provide an overview of Gluster’s storage products along with case studies demonstrating the strategic deployment of Gluster storage in both the public and private cloud.

1. Cloud Storage:
Adoption, Practice and Deployment

2. Today’s Speakers
John Kreisa Tom Trainer Deni Connor James Bagley
Vice President Director Founding Analyst Senior Analyst
Marketing Product Marketing Storage Strategies NOW &
Gluster, Inc. Gluster, Inc. Business Development Consultant
Storage Strategies NOW
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3. Poll Question
Are you using cloud storage today?
– Yes, in a test environment
– Yes, it’s deployed in a production environment
– No, however we are considering it
– Just researching
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4. Cloud Storage: Adoption, Practice and Deployment
SSN Report Co-sponsored by
– The Storage Networking Industry Association
– Gluster
– Storage Strategies NOW
133 Respondents
Q1 2011
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5. What is Cloud Storage and Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on
demand network access to a shared pool of configurable
computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage
applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and
released with minimal management effort or service provider
interaction.
www.nist.org
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6. Cloud Storage Attributes
Resource pooling and multi-tenancy
Scalable and elastic
Accessible via standard Internet APIs and communications protocols
Service-based
Pricing is normally based on usage
Shared and collaborative
On-demand self-service
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7. How is Cloud Storage Being Deployed?
Public cloud
Private cloud
Hybrid cloud
Community cloud
Cooperative Cloud
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8. Cloud Storage Requirements
Multi-tenancy
Security and secure transmission channel
Data verification and audit trails
Performance and Quality of Service
Data protection and Availability
Retention, compliance, eDiscovery
Manageability
Data and Metadata Portability
Metering and Billing
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9. Cloud Storage Deployment
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10. C-Level vs. IT adoption Plans
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11. Applications to be Deployed in the Cloud
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12. Survey Demographic
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13. Survey Demographic
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14. Survey Demographic
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15. Reasons for Storing Data in the Cloud
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16. “Apps” in The Cloud
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17. Cloud Takeaways
Adoption of cloud storage
– Flowing down from C-level to IT operations
– 75% of CIO/CTO’s expect to deploy
– 54% of IT Operations expect to deploy
Most likely data to store in the cloud
1. E-mail
2. Backup data
BC/DR driving cloud storage
– Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Modifications to existing applications
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18. GlusterFS
Storage for Any Cloud Any Where
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19. What is the Gluster File System?
A scale-out file system for
– Network Attached Storage (NAS)
– Object storage – In Beta Now: GlusterFS 3.3
– Highly available storage
– Predictable, linearly scalable performance
GlusterFS provides
– Unified file and object storage
– Flexibility to deploy in ANY environment
– Scalability to Petabytes & beyond
– Superior storage economics
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20. Gluster 3.3 Unified Access to Files & Objects
Window Access
– Improves Widows performance
– Uses HTTP, not slower CIFS
Object Storage
– API
– Internet Protocol (IP)
– ResTFul
– Get/Put
– Buckets
– Objects seen as files
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
– NFS / CIFS / GlusterFS
– POSIX compliant
– Access files within objects
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21. Key Differentiators
Filesystem runs in user space
Software only
Unified file and object storage
Open source
Modular, stackable storage OS architecture
Data stored in native formats
No metadata – Elastic hashing
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22. Open Source
200,000+ downloads
Global Adoption – ~12,000 /month
500+ registered deployments
– 45 countries
2,500+ registered users
– Mailing lists, Forums, etc.
Active community
– Diverse testing environments
– Bugs identification and fixes
– Code contributions
Member of broader ecosystem
– OpenStack, Linux Foundation, Open
Virtualization Alliance
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23. A Standard Gluster Deployment
Clients/Apps Clients/Apps Clients/Apps Standard clients
running standard apps
IP Network Over any standard IP
network
Access application
data, as files & folders,
Gluster Global Namespace (NFS, CIFS, Gluster Native)
in a global namespace,
Application data VMs VMDK VMDK using a variety of
standard protocols
Stored in a
commoditized,
virtual storage pool virtualized, scale-out,
centrally managed pool
DAS, SAN, NAS, Object
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24. Unifying Public and Private Cloud Storage
Client/Apps Client/Apps Client/Apps
Client/Apps
Client/Apps Client/Apps
Client/Apps Client/Apps
Client/Apps
IP Network
Gluster Global Namespace
Private Cloud Public Cloud
Replication
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25. 4 Supported Ways to Consume GlusterFS
Virtual Machines
– GlusterFS deployable on the leading virtual machines
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
– GlusterFS deployed within Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
RightScale Cloud Management
– GlusterFS is available within a RightScale ServerTemplate
– Deployable via the RightScale Cloud Management Dashboard
Storage software appliance
– Deployable on bare metal and supports any hardware on the Red Hat Hardware
Compatibility List (HCL) of certified servers and storage
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26. Pandora Internet Radio
Problem
• Explosive user & title growth
• As many as 12 file formats for each song
• ‘Hot’ content and long tail
Solution
• Three data centers, each with a six-node
GlusterFS cluster
• 1.2 PB of audio served • Replication for high availability
per week • 250+ TB total capacity
• 13 million files Benefits
• Over 50 GB/sec peak • Easily scale capacity
traffic • Centralized management; one administrator
to manage day-to-day operations
• No changes to application
• Higher reliability
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27. Brightcove
Problem
• Cloud-based online video platform
• Explosive customer & title growth
• Massive video in multiple locations
• Costs rising, esp. with HD formats
Solution
• Complete scale-out based on commodity
DAS/JBOD
• Replication for high availability
• Over 1 PB currently in
• 1PB total capacity
Gluster
• Separate 4 PB project Benefits
in the works • Easily scale capacity
• Centralized management; one administrator
to manage day-to-day operations
• Higher reliability
• Path to multi-site
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28. Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions
Problem
• Host a dedicated enterprise cloud solution
• Large scale VMware environment
• Need high availability
Solution
• Large scale VM
• Gluster for VM storage, NFS to clients
storage
• SAS drives on back-end
• Low cost service • Replication for high availability
delivery for enterprise
customer Benefits
• Drastic reduction in • Storage provisioning from 6 wks to 15 min.
provisioning time • Vendor agnostic storage
• Low cost of service delivery
• Elastic growth
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29. Many Enterprises Rely on Gluster Now
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30. Summary
Cloud Storage: Adoption, Practice and Deployment
GlusterFS – A scale-out NAS and Object file system
Flexible, scalable storage for any cloud environment
Innovative architecture provides a better way to do
storage
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31. Questions and Answers
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