IBM's cloud storage solution allows organizations to transform their information infrastructure by providing dynamic storage management, scalable capacity and performance, and centralized management. It implements a storage cloud using proven IBM technologies like GPFS and Tivoli Storage Manager. Administrators can dynamically allocate storage space, migrate data between storage tiers automatically using policies, and manage billions of files across multiple petabytes of storage from a single interface.
The document discusses elastic data warehousing in the cloud. It begins with an introduction to data warehousing and cloud computing. Cloud computing offers benefits like reduced costs, expertise, and elasticity. However, challenges include data import/export performance, low-end cloud nodes, latency, and loss of control. The goal is an elastic data warehousing system that can automatically scale resources based on usage, saving money. It will provide overviews of traditional data warehousing and current cloud offerings to analyze the potential for elastic data warehousing in the cloud.
The Next Evolution in Storage Virtualization Management White PaperHitachi Vantara
Hitachi's global storage virtualization solution combines advanced storage virtualization technology with integrated management software. This allows enterprises to pool, abstract, and mobilize storage resources across physical storage platforms, enabling more efficient management of large, complex storage environments. Hitachi Command Suite provides centralized management of Hitachi and third-party storage systems. When used with Hitachi's Virtual Storage Platform and Storage Virtualization Operating System, it can manage global storage virtualization environments at enterprise scale with lower costs.
Insider's Guide- Building a Virtualized Storage ServiceDataCore Software
This document discusses how storage virtualization can enable storage to be delivered as a dependable service through a software layer called a storage hypervisor. A storage hypervisor translates complex storage hardware into a centrally managed resource that can be dynamically allocated. It addresses issues like inefficient storage management, high product costs, and lack of flexibility. It allows organizations to manage more storage capacity with fewer administrators, keep hardware in service longer, and purchase less expensive gear. It also contributes to data protection and provides predictability in the face of changing technologies like server virtualization, desktop virtualization, and cloud computing.
The document discusses Software-Defined Storage (SDS), which virtualizes storage such that users can access and control it through a software interface independent of the physical storage devices. SDS has advantages over traditional network storage systems like SAN and NAS in that it has lower costs, greater flexibility and agility, better resource utilization, and higher storage capacity. It divides storage functionality into a control plane that manages virtualized resources through policies, and a data plane that processes and stores data.
Cloud architectures can be thought of in layers, with each layer providing services to the next. There are three main layers: virtualization of resources, services layer, and server management processes. Virtualization abstracts hardware and provides flexibility. The services layer provides OS and application services. Management processes support service delivery through image management, deployment, scheduling, reporting, etc. When providing compute and storage services, considerations include hardware selection, virtualization, failover/redundancy, and reporting. Network services require capacity planning, redundancy, and reporting.
CloudByte's ElastiStor storage controller uses a patented TSM architecture that fully isolates each application at all storage stack levels, allowing resources to be intelligently provisioned based on an application's performance needs. This enables shared storage to deliver guaranteed quality of service to thousands of applications. ElastiStor controllers can scale linearly and use standard servers with no proprietary hardware, reducing costs by 80-90% over 3-5 years compared to dedicated storage islands.
White Paper: Rethink Storage: Transform the Data Center with EMC ViPR Softwar...EMC
This white paper discusses the software-defined data center (SDCC) and challenges of heterogeneous storage silos in making SDDC a reality. It introduces EMC ViPR software-defined storage, which enables enterprise IT departments and service providers to transform physical storage arrays into simple, extensible, open virtual storage platform.
Rethink Storage: Transform the Data Center with EMC ViPR Software-Defined Sto...EMC
This white paper discusses the evolution of the Software-Defined Data Center and the challenges of heterogeneous storage silos in making the SDDC a reality.
The document discusses elastic data warehousing in the cloud. It begins with an introduction to data warehousing and cloud computing. Cloud computing offers benefits like reduced costs, expertise, and elasticity. However, challenges include data import/export performance, low-end cloud nodes, latency, and loss of control. The goal is an elastic data warehousing system that can automatically scale resources based on usage, saving money. It will provide overviews of traditional data warehousing and current cloud offerings to analyze the potential for elastic data warehousing in the cloud.
The Next Evolution in Storage Virtualization Management White PaperHitachi Vantara
Hitachi's global storage virtualization solution combines advanced storage virtualization technology with integrated management software. This allows enterprises to pool, abstract, and mobilize storage resources across physical storage platforms, enabling more efficient management of large, complex storage environments. Hitachi Command Suite provides centralized management of Hitachi and third-party storage systems. When used with Hitachi's Virtual Storage Platform and Storage Virtualization Operating System, it can manage global storage virtualization environments at enterprise scale with lower costs.
Insider's Guide- Building a Virtualized Storage ServiceDataCore Software
This document discusses how storage virtualization can enable storage to be delivered as a dependable service through a software layer called a storage hypervisor. A storage hypervisor translates complex storage hardware into a centrally managed resource that can be dynamically allocated. It addresses issues like inefficient storage management, high product costs, and lack of flexibility. It allows organizations to manage more storage capacity with fewer administrators, keep hardware in service longer, and purchase less expensive gear. It also contributes to data protection and provides predictability in the face of changing technologies like server virtualization, desktop virtualization, and cloud computing.
The document discusses Software-Defined Storage (SDS), which virtualizes storage such that users can access and control it through a software interface independent of the physical storage devices. SDS has advantages over traditional network storage systems like SAN and NAS in that it has lower costs, greater flexibility and agility, better resource utilization, and higher storage capacity. It divides storage functionality into a control plane that manages virtualized resources through policies, and a data plane that processes and stores data.
Cloud architectures can be thought of in layers, with each layer providing services to the next. There are three main layers: virtualization of resources, services layer, and server management processes. Virtualization abstracts hardware and provides flexibility. The services layer provides OS and application services. Management processes support service delivery through image management, deployment, scheduling, reporting, etc. When providing compute and storage services, considerations include hardware selection, virtualization, failover/redundancy, and reporting. Network services require capacity planning, redundancy, and reporting.
CloudByte's ElastiStor storage controller uses a patented TSM architecture that fully isolates each application at all storage stack levels, allowing resources to be intelligently provisioned based on an application's performance needs. This enables shared storage to deliver guaranteed quality of service to thousands of applications. ElastiStor controllers can scale linearly and use standard servers with no proprietary hardware, reducing costs by 80-90% over 3-5 years compared to dedicated storage islands.
White Paper: Rethink Storage: Transform the Data Center with EMC ViPR Softwar...EMC
This white paper discusses the software-defined data center (SDCC) and challenges of heterogeneous storage silos in making SDDC a reality. It introduces EMC ViPR software-defined storage, which enables enterprise IT departments and service providers to transform physical storage arrays into simple, extensible, open virtual storage platform.
Rethink Storage: Transform the Data Center with EMC ViPR Software-Defined Sto...EMC
This white paper discusses the evolution of the Software-Defined Data Center and the challenges of heterogeneous storage silos in making the SDDC a reality.
Organizations today face massive data growth and must choose between dedicated storage systems or cloud-based storage. There are pros and cons to each. Dedicated storage offers more control over data but requires infrastructure investment, while cloud storage provides scalability and flexibility at a lower cost but with less control. The best choice depends on an organization's unique needs, such as data security, compliance requirements, workload performance needs, and cost factors. The document provides details on how different data types and importance levels may be best suited for different storage technologies.
The document summarizes the findings of a proof of concept (POC) that tested adding compute resources to storage arrays and solutions in order to create more efficient and cost-effective storage. Key findings include:
1) Adding CPU cores and RAM to storage controllers and solutions through virtualization can reduce storage consumption by up to two-thirds and improve performance and resiliency.
2) Compute-intensive solutions that leverage data deduplication and compression in software delivered significant space savings and faster rebuild times compared to hardware-based solutions.
3) The POC validated that adding compute to storage follows the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider's business model of self-service and delivers efficient primary
Learn about IBM zEnterprise Strategy for the Private Cloud.The white paper defines the strategy for implementing the zEnterprise System as an integrated, heterogeneous, and virtualized infrastructure, ideal for supporting Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in cloud computing deployments.To know more about System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Why is Virtualization Creating Storage Sprawl? By Storage SwitzerlandINFINIDAT
Desktop and server virtualization have brought many benefits to the data center. These two initiatives have allowed IT to respond quickly to the needs of the organization while driving down IT costs, physical footprint requirements and energy demands. But there is one area of the data center that has actually increased in cost since virtualization started to make its way into production… storage. Because of virtualization, more data centers need "ash to meet the random I/O nature of the virtualized environment, which of course is more expensive, on a dollar per GB basis, than hard disk drives. The single biggest problem however is the signi!cant increase in the number of discrete storage systems that service the environment. This “storage sprawl” threatens the return on investment (ROI) of virtualization projects and makes storage more complex to manage.
Learn more at www.infinidat.com.
This document discusses improving latency in distributed cloud data centers through virtualization and automation. It begins by introducing the benefits of distributed data centers over centralized ones, such as lower latency and reduced costs. It then discusses how virtualizing data centers allows more dynamic resource sharing and improves flexibility. Automating operations further reduces costs and complexity. The document proposes building virtual distributed data centers connected by networks optimized for low latency. Automating configuration management helps adapt rapidly to dynamic cloud environments. Overall, virtualizing distributed data centers and automating operations can improve latency and reduce costs in cloud computing.
Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphereHitachi Vantara
Relentless trends of increasing data center complexity
and massive data growth have companies seeking new,
reliable ways to deliver IT services in an on-demand,
rapid, flexible and scalable fashion. Many data centers
now face growing demands for faster delivery of
business services, serious resource contentions and
trade-offs between IT agility and vendor lock-in. They
also have mounting complications and rising costs in
managing disparate islands of technology resources.
Today Cloud computing is used in a wide range of domains. By using cloud computing a user
can utilize services and pool of resources through internet. The cloud computing platform
guarantees subscribers that it will live up to the service level agreement (SLA) in providing
resources as service and as per needs. However, it is essential that the provider be able to
effectively manage the resources. One of the important roles of the cloud computing platform is
to balance the load amongst different servers in order to avoid overloading in any host and
improve resource utilization.
It is defined as a distributed system containing a collection of computing and communication
resources located in distributed data enters which are shared by several end users. It has widely
been adopted by the industry, though there are many existing issues like Load Balancing, Virtual
Machine Migration, Server Consolidation, Energy Management, etc.
This document discusses how CommVault Simpana data protection software and Red Hat Storage scale-out software-defined storage work together to provide an improved architecture for data backup, protection, and archival. By running the CommVault Media Agent directly on the Red Hat Storage servers, the combined solution consolidates the storage tier and eliminates network latency, providing significantly faster backup and restore performance compared to traditional NAS solutions.
Storage Virtualization: Towards an Efficient and Scalable FrameworkCSCJournals
Enterprises in the corporate world demand high speed data protection for all kinds of data. Issues such as complex server environments with high administrative costs and low data protection have to be resolved. In addition to data protection, enterprises demand the ability to recover/restore critical information in various situations. Traditional storage management solutions such as direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) have been devised to address such problems. Storage virtualization is the emerging technology that amends the underlying complications of physical storage by introducing the concept of cloud storage environments. This paper covers the DAS, NAS and SAN solutions of storage management and emphasizes the benefits of storage virtualization. The paper discusses a potential cloud storage structure based on which storage virtualization architecture will be proposed.
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 is the preferred choice over any other blade or rack server platform on the market today, presenting a unique combination of built-in virtualization, massive I/O bandwidth, large memory capacity, browser-based point-and-click management, and unprecedented configuration flexibility for companies of all types and sizes.
This document discusses various techniques for resource provisioning in cloud computing. It describes techniques like using a microeconomic-inspired approach to determine the optimal number of virtual machines (VMs) to allocate to each user based on their financial capacity and workload. It also discusses using a genetic algorithm to compute the optimized mapping of VMs to physical nodes while adjusting VM resource capacities. Additionally, it proposes a reconfiguration algorithm to transition the cloud system from its current state to the optimized state computed by the genetic algorithm. The document provides an overview of these and other techniques like cost-aware provisioning and virtual server provisioning algorithms.
DELL EMC XTREMIO X2 CSI PLUGIN INTEGRATION WITH PIVOTAL PKS A Detailed ReviewItzik Reich
This document evaluates integrating Dell EMC XtremIO X2 storage with Pivotal PKS to provide persistent storage for containerized applications. It discusses how XtremIO X2 provides high performance and scalability for database and stateful workloads on PKS. The document then provides steps to install and configure the XtremIO CSI plugin to enable dynamic provisioning of storage volumes in PKS managed Kubernetes clusters. It also demonstrates deploying a PostgreSQL database as an example use case.
Storage virtualization: deliver storage as a utility for the cloud webinarHitachi Vantara
What are the requirements for cloud storage? You need agile systems and management solutions to meet changing business requirements over time. You need to segregate or compartmentalize storage for multitenancy. And you need to be able to flexibly deliver specified service levels to individual departments and applications. When you virtualize storage with Hitachi block virtualization, you can use any of your storage for any system or application. Plus you can move data throughout the Hitachi Dynamic Storage infrastructure without disrupting operations. Attend this informative session to learn how Hitachi Command Suite can help you meet the demanding storage requirements of private cloud computing.
The document describes the DXi4700 Deduplication Appliance from Quantum, which can dramatically reduce redundant backup data and associated costs. It achieves high deduplication rates of up to 90% to make disk backup more cost-effective than tape. The appliance offers scalability from 5TB to 135TB usable capacity and a pay-as-you-grow model through license-based capacity upgrades. It provides an efficient deduplication solution for entry to mid-sized organizations to reduce backup times and storage costs.
Infosys Deploys Private Cloud Solution Featuring Combined Hitachi and Microsoft® Technologies. For more information on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/hitachi-unified-compute-platform/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_ucp
The benefits of having a “Virtual Infrastructure” – utilization, flexibility, hardware independence – and the savings that these benefits provide, are broadly understood and accepted in the server market. VMware claims millions of users worldwide. Citrix, Oracle and Microsoft have come out with their own virtual server offerings to join the fray, and a sub-industry of complementary vendors, resellers and service providers has grown up around the major server virtualization products. It is within this market that storage virtualization has quickly reemerged as a vital infrastructure for most enterprises. There are some very practical reasons why this is so.
White paper whitewater-datastorageinthecloudAccenture
The document discusses the advantages of using cloud storage over traditional tape or disk storage methods. It outlines how Riverbed's Whitewater cloud storage gateway addresses key concerns with cloud storage like security, transmission speeds, and data availability. Customers that have implemented Whitewater report significant cost savings from eliminating tape infrastructure costs and storage array purchases and being able to back up more frequently due to increased speeds.
- In last few years, rapidly increasing businesses
and their capabilities & capacities in terms of computing has
grown in very large scale. To manage business requirements
High performance computing with very large scale resources is
required. Businesses do not want to invest & concentrate on
managing these computing issues rather than their core business.
Thus, they move to service providers. Service providers such as
data centers serve their clients by sharing resources for
computing, storage etc. and maintaining all those.
The document is a report on cloud computing written by Abdul-Rehman Aslam for his course instructor Mr. Safee. It discusses key topics such as what cloud computing is, the cloud service model of Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service. It also covers the different types of clouds including public, private, hybrid and community clouds. The report highlights the key characteristics of cloud computing such as cost, device and location independence, multi-tenancy, reliability, scalability and security. It concludes that cloud computing brings many possibilities and is a technology that has taken the software and business world by storm.
ACIC Rome & Veritas: High-Availability and Disaster Recovery ScenariosAccenture Italia
A white paper to illustrate High-Availability and Disaster Recovery Scenarios and use-cases developed by Accenture and Veritas in the Accenture Cloud Innovation Center of Rome.
In a globally dispersed enterprise with private cloud environment, where unstructured data is exponentially growing, there is a need to provide 24x7 accesses to business-critical data and be able to restore in case of loss of data. IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (IBM SONAS) with its integrated IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client enables enterprises to back up and restore data seamlessly and the IBM Active Cloud Engine offers the capability to replicate data to remote sites.
Organizations today face massive data growth and must choose between dedicated storage systems or cloud-based storage. There are pros and cons to each. Dedicated storage offers more control over data but requires infrastructure investment, while cloud storage provides scalability and flexibility at a lower cost but with less control. The best choice depends on an organization's unique needs, such as data security, compliance requirements, workload performance needs, and cost factors. The document provides details on how different data types and importance levels may be best suited for different storage technologies.
The document summarizes the findings of a proof of concept (POC) that tested adding compute resources to storage arrays and solutions in order to create more efficient and cost-effective storage. Key findings include:
1) Adding CPU cores and RAM to storage controllers and solutions through virtualization can reduce storage consumption by up to two-thirds and improve performance and resiliency.
2) Compute-intensive solutions that leverage data deduplication and compression in software delivered significant space savings and faster rebuild times compared to hardware-based solutions.
3) The POC validated that adding compute to storage follows the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider's business model of self-service and delivers efficient primary
Learn about IBM zEnterprise Strategy for the Private Cloud.The white paper defines the strategy for implementing the zEnterprise System as an integrated, heterogeneous, and virtualized infrastructure, ideal for supporting Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in cloud computing deployments.To know more about System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Why is Virtualization Creating Storage Sprawl? By Storage SwitzerlandINFINIDAT
Desktop and server virtualization have brought many benefits to the data center. These two initiatives have allowed IT to respond quickly to the needs of the organization while driving down IT costs, physical footprint requirements and energy demands. But there is one area of the data center that has actually increased in cost since virtualization started to make its way into production… storage. Because of virtualization, more data centers need "ash to meet the random I/O nature of the virtualized environment, which of course is more expensive, on a dollar per GB basis, than hard disk drives. The single biggest problem however is the signi!cant increase in the number of discrete storage systems that service the environment. This “storage sprawl” threatens the return on investment (ROI) of virtualization projects and makes storage more complex to manage.
Learn more at www.infinidat.com.
This document discusses improving latency in distributed cloud data centers through virtualization and automation. It begins by introducing the benefits of distributed data centers over centralized ones, such as lower latency and reduced costs. It then discusses how virtualizing data centers allows more dynamic resource sharing and improves flexibility. Automating operations further reduces costs and complexity. The document proposes building virtual distributed data centers connected by networks optimized for low latency. Automating configuration management helps adapt rapidly to dynamic cloud environments. Overall, virtualizing distributed data centers and automating operations can improve latency and reduce costs in cloud computing.
Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphereHitachi Vantara
Relentless trends of increasing data center complexity
and massive data growth have companies seeking new,
reliable ways to deliver IT services in an on-demand,
rapid, flexible and scalable fashion. Many data centers
now face growing demands for faster delivery of
business services, serious resource contentions and
trade-offs between IT agility and vendor lock-in. They
also have mounting complications and rising costs in
managing disparate islands of technology resources.
Today Cloud computing is used in a wide range of domains. By using cloud computing a user
can utilize services and pool of resources through internet. The cloud computing platform
guarantees subscribers that it will live up to the service level agreement (SLA) in providing
resources as service and as per needs. However, it is essential that the provider be able to
effectively manage the resources. One of the important roles of the cloud computing platform is
to balance the load amongst different servers in order to avoid overloading in any host and
improve resource utilization.
It is defined as a distributed system containing a collection of computing and communication
resources located in distributed data enters which are shared by several end users. It has widely
been adopted by the industry, though there are many existing issues like Load Balancing, Virtual
Machine Migration, Server Consolidation, Energy Management, etc.
This document discusses how CommVault Simpana data protection software and Red Hat Storage scale-out software-defined storage work together to provide an improved architecture for data backup, protection, and archival. By running the CommVault Media Agent directly on the Red Hat Storage servers, the combined solution consolidates the storage tier and eliminates network latency, providing significantly faster backup and restore performance compared to traditional NAS solutions.
Storage Virtualization: Towards an Efficient and Scalable FrameworkCSCJournals
Enterprises in the corporate world demand high speed data protection for all kinds of data. Issues such as complex server environments with high administrative costs and low data protection have to be resolved. In addition to data protection, enterprises demand the ability to recover/restore critical information in various situations. Traditional storage management solutions such as direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) have been devised to address such problems. Storage virtualization is the emerging technology that amends the underlying complications of physical storage by introducing the concept of cloud storage environments. This paper covers the DAS, NAS and SAN solutions of storage management and emphasizes the benefits of storage virtualization. The paper discusses a potential cloud storage structure based on which storage virtualization architecture will be proposed.
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 is the preferred choice over any other blade or rack server platform on the market today, presenting a unique combination of built-in virtualization, massive I/O bandwidth, large memory capacity, browser-based point-and-click management, and unprecedented configuration flexibility for companies of all types and sizes.
This document discusses various techniques for resource provisioning in cloud computing. It describes techniques like using a microeconomic-inspired approach to determine the optimal number of virtual machines (VMs) to allocate to each user based on their financial capacity and workload. It also discusses using a genetic algorithm to compute the optimized mapping of VMs to physical nodes while adjusting VM resource capacities. Additionally, it proposes a reconfiguration algorithm to transition the cloud system from its current state to the optimized state computed by the genetic algorithm. The document provides an overview of these and other techniques like cost-aware provisioning and virtual server provisioning algorithms.
DELL EMC XTREMIO X2 CSI PLUGIN INTEGRATION WITH PIVOTAL PKS A Detailed ReviewItzik Reich
This document evaluates integrating Dell EMC XtremIO X2 storage with Pivotal PKS to provide persistent storage for containerized applications. It discusses how XtremIO X2 provides high performance and scalability for database and stateful workloads on PKS. The document then provides steps to install and configure the XtremIO CSI plugin to enable dynamic provisioning of storage volumes in PKS managed Kubernetes clusters. It also demonstrates deploying a PostgreSQL database as an example use case.
Storage virtualization: deliver storage as a utility for the cloud webinarHitachi Vantara
What are the requirements for cloud storage? You need agile systems and management solutions to meet changing business requirements over time. You need to segregate or compartmentalize storage for multitenancy. And you need to be able to flexibly deliver specified service levels to individual departments and applications. When you virtualize storage with Hitachi block virtualization, you can use any of your storage for any system or application. Plus you can move data throughout the Hitachi Dynamic Storage infrastructure without disrupting operations. Attend this informative session to learn how Hitachi Command Suite can help you meet the demanding storage requirements of private cloud computing.
The document describes the DXi4700 Deduplication Appliance from Quantum, which can dramatically reduce redundant backup data and associated costs. It achieves high deduplication rates of up to 90% to make disk backup more cost-effective than tape. The appliance offers scalability from 5TB to 135TB usable capacity and a pay-as-you-grow model through license-based capacity upgrades. It provides an efficient deduplication solution for entry to mid-sized organizations to reduce backup times and storage costs.
Infosys Deploys Private Cloud Solution Featuring Combined Hitachi and Microsoft® Technologies. For more information on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Solutions please visit: http://www.hds.com/products/hitachi-unified-compute-platform/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_ucp
The benefits of having a “Virtual Infrastructure” – utilization, flexibility, hardware independence – and the savings that these benefits provide, are broadly understood and accepted in the server market. VMware claims millions of users worldwide. Citrix, Oracle and Microsoft have come out with their own virtual server offerings to join the fray, and a sub-industry of complementary vendors, resellers and service providers has grown up around the major server virtualization products. It is within this market that storage virtualization has quickly reemerged as a vital infrastructure for most enterprises. There are some very practical reasons why this is so.
White paper whitewater-datastorageinthecloudAccenture
The document discusses the advantages of using cloud storage over traditional tape or disk storage methods. It outlines how Riverbed's Whitewater cloud storage gateway addresses key concerns with cloud storage like security, transmission speeds, and data availability. Customers that have implemented Whitewater report significant cost savings from eliminating tape infrastructure costs and storage array purchases and being able to back up more frequently due to increased speeds.
- In last few years, rapidly increasing businesses
and their capabilities & capacities in terms of computing has
grown in very large scale. To manage business requirements
High performance computing with very large scale resources is
required. Businesses do not want to invest & concentrate on
managing these computing issues rather than their core business.
Thus, they move to service providers. Service providers such as
data centers serve their clients by sharing resources for
computing, storage etc. and maintaining all those.
The document is a report on cloud computing written by Abdul-Rehman Aslam for his course instructor Mr. Safee. It discusses key topics such as what cloud computing is, the cloud service model of Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service. It also covers the different types of clouds including public, private, hybrid and community clouds. The report highlights the key characteristics of cloud computing such as cost, device and location independence, multi-tenancy, reliability, scalability and security. It concludes that cloud computing brings many possibilities and is a technology that has taken the software and business world by storm.
ACIC Rome & Veritas: High-Availability and Disaster Recovery ScenariosAccenture Italia
A white paper to illustrate High-Availability and Disaster Recovery Scenarios and use-cases developed by Accenture and Veritas in the Accenture Cloud Innovation Center of Rome.
In a globally dispersed enterprise with private cloud environment, where unstructured data is exponentially growing, there is a need to provide 24x7 accesses to business-critical data and be able to restore in case of loss of data. IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (IBM SONAS) with its integrated IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client enables enterprises to back up and restore data seamlessly and the IBM Active Cloud Engine offers the capability to replicate data to remote sites.
This document provides an overview of using IBM SONAS with Active Cloud Engine to enable backup, replication, and caching of file data across geographically distributed sites in a private cloud environment. It describes how SONAS integrates with Tivoli Storage Manager for backup and with Active Cloud Engine for replication and caching. The document outlines the overall architecture and components. It then provides steps to set up Apple Final Cut Pro on a Mac client to read and write to a SONAS storage system over NFS, including connecting to the NFS export and mounting it. The remaining sections will describe how the solution enables backup of data on the home SONAS cluster, initial migration of data to the cache cluster using Active Cloud Engine,
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This document provides an overview of cloud computing, including its key benefits and challenges. It discusses the basics of cloud computing models like SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Public and private cloud options are described, as well as hybrid cloud. The main benefits of cloud computing are reduced costs, increased storage, and flexibility. However, key challenges include data security, availability, management capabilities, and regulatory compliance restrictions.
The paper aims to provide a means of understanding the model and exploring options available for complementing your technology and infrastructure needs.
This document summarizes a Forrester Consulting study on private clouds. The study found that while enterprises want the cost benefits of private clouds, many are not realizing these benefits due to a lack of understanding of true cloud models and an underestimation of critical components like storage. Specifically, the study found that decision-makers were confused about private clouds versus virtualization; storage was being treated as "business as usual" without considering cloud implications; and storage was not a key consideration in decision-making processes. The document provides best practices for private cloud storage architectures to maximize efficiencies.
The Adoption of Cloud Technology by Enterprises - A Whitepaper by RapidValueRapidValue
If we go back in time, people were dependent on the physical computer storage or servers in order to run their programs. Now, with the introduction of cloud computing, people, organizations and enterprises are able to access their programs through the Internet. Cloud computing is gaining prominence, rapidly, and the popularity is growing, each day. Cloud computing is big business, today.According to PC Magazine, it was, already, generating around $100 billion a year in 2012. It is forecasted to increase up to $270 billion by the year 2020.
Enterprises and organizations, these days, are relying heavily on the cloud services and cloud platforms to obtain resources on-demand and that too, in an automated manner.
Organizations can, now, only pay for the resources that they use. Enterprises, also,
relinquish unnecessary resources with the help of using a self-service portal. This serves as a big cost-effective solution, as you can eliminate the need for investing a huge sum of money as capital investment.
This paper addresses the primary reasons for the enterprises migrating to the cloud infrastructure, various types of cloud deployment (technology & services) models IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud, feature comparison of three popular cloud platforms - AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and some examples of how enterprises and consumers are using the cloud technology.
Hybrid Hosting: Evolving the Cloud in 2011Rackspace
This whitepaper discusses hybrid hosting, which combines dedicated hosting and cloud hosting. Hybrid hosting allows businesses to seamlessly switch between dedicated servers and cloud services as needed. It provides the stability and security of dedicated hosting for critical applications alongside the scalability of cloud computing. The paper outlines the elements of hybrid hosting and how it provides flexibility, scalability, and cost savings through the ability to move workloads between dedicated servers and cloud servers. It also discusses Rackspace's hybrid hosting capabilities and AMD server platforms that support hybrid hosting.
This document discusses where returns on investment from cloud computing come from. It identifies the five key areas of cloud computing cost savings as: hardware, software, automated provisioning, productivity improvements, and system administration. For each area, it explains how cost savings are achieved and provides metrics to measure savings. The document is intended to help organizations understand how cloud computing can lower IT expenses and calculate the payback period of a cloud investment. Sample ROI projections from an IBM study show payback periods ranging from 4 to 18 months depending on the size of the environment and savings achieved across the five cost areas.
This document discusses where returns on investment from cloud computing come from. It identifies the five key areas of cloud computing cost savings as hardware, software, automated provisioning, productivity improvements, and system administration. For each area, it explains how savings are achieved and provides metrics to measure savings. The document is intended to help organizations understand how cloud computing can lower IT expenses and calculate the payback period of a cloud investment. It provides examples from an IBM study showing some clients achieved payback within 6-12 months after moving to a private cloud infrastructure.
This document discusses cloud computing and its various service models. It begins by describing how cloud computing represents a fundamental change to IT implementation by allowing services to be deployed, developed, scaled and maintained in a pay-per-use model. It then defines cloud computing and discusses its key characteristics of on-demand self-service, ubiquitous network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and pay-per-use billing. The document goes on to describe the various cloud deployment models and then discusses the main cloud computing services including storage, database, information, process, application, platform, integration and security as services.
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Zimory white paper: End-to-end Enterprise-Grade Cloud InfrastructureZimory
Infrastructure cloud computing substantially has impacted the data center services market in recent years. Many large-scale web applications are enabled by the use of infrastructure cloud services. Early infrastructure cloud market participants like Amazon, with its Amazon Web Services (AWS) portfolio, targeted such consumer web applications. These cloud services have allowed application developers to reach new levels of agility and cost efficiency, as the applications could scale automatically with demand on the user side.
Naturally, enterprise IT departments are seeking to improve their agility and cost structures and thus seek to exploit cloud computing technologies and principles for their internal systems. But introducing cloud principles in the enterprise IT environment runs into a number of obstacles, including complex legacy application architectures, particular legal requirements governing various IT operational considerations, and strategic supplier dependency realities. To align with these requirements more complex cloud delivery models have been developed, such as distributed hybrid clouds and community clouds. These models introduce further levels of technical complexity and constraints that restrict the span of service utility from an application or ‘use case’ perspective, and reduce the net benefit of cloud to the enterprise.
In this paper we present a solution that shows how the integration of dynamic networking and dynamic computing can extend the utility and feasibility of cloud to include and encompass enterprise-grade distributed data center environments.
This paper is organized as follows. In the next section we discuss in more detail the challenges enterprises face when introducing cloud services into their IT environments. In section III we present the alternative setup scenarios for the solution, and in section IV we explain the solution in detail, describing an example application. We conclude the paper with a consideration of the market outlook for the solution.
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This document provides an overview of cloud computing, including its benefits and challenges. It discusses the different cloud computing models of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Public clouds offer economies of scale but limited customization, while private clouds have more control but require companies to manage their own infrastructure. Hybrid clouds combine public and private models. The main benefits are reduced costs, increased storage, and flexibility. However, key challenges include concerns around data security, availability, management capabilities, and regulatory compliance restrictions.
This document discusses key infrastructure elements for cloud computing. It describes the evolution of cloud computing from earlier technologies like grid computing. The document outlines an architecture framework for a dynamic data center that leverages virtualization and infrastructure management technologies. It provides examples of how cloud infrastructures have been used for innovation, software development, and data-intensive workloads.
This document discusses moving legacy systems to cloud computing. It addresses common concerns about cloud security, flexibility, service levels, and managing cloud infrastructure. It outlines different cloud service models like Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It also describes cloud deployment models such as private, public, hybrid and community clouds. The document provides strategies for incrementally deploying cloud services or migrating legacy applications. It highlights Tata Communications' experience in managing global networks and cloud services.
The document discusses how to maximize storage performance through exploiting Tier 0 storage and virtualization. It recommends a three-step approach: 1) Identifying business-critical applications, 2) Aligning application importance with the appropriate storage tier, and 3) Combining technologies like solid-state drives and storage virtualization. This can reduce Tier 0 storage costs while improving application performance by eliminating disk I/O bottlenecks. Monitoring software is needed to identify where to optimize storage at an application level.
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Transforming your Information Infrastructure with IBM's Storage Cloud Solution - 652
1. August 2009
Transforming your Information
Infrastructure with IBM’s Storage
Cloud Solution
2. Page 2
Table of Contents
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................. 3
Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................. 4
A Story or three for inspiration ................................................................................................................... 6
Oops, Out of Disk Space ................................................................................................................................. 6
Goodbye to Old Storage .................................................................................................................................. 6
Disaster Recovery Cloud Style ...................................................................................................................... 7
Is Cloud Storage Right for You?................................................................................................................. 7
Storage Cloud Service ...................................................................................................................................... 8
Implementing a Cloud Storage Solution............................................................................................... 9
Dynamic Storage Management ..................................................................................................................... 9
Concurrent, Multiprotocol Data Access...................................................................................................... 11
New Levels of Manageability .......................................................................................................................... 12
Conclusions .............................................................................................................................................................. 14
3. Page 3
Executive Summary
Reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data storage is on the top of the list for IT managers today.
Purchasing storage hardware is only the beginning and often not the most expensive part of the solution.
It is not likely that an organization will be able to reduce the amount of data stored so to reduce the TCO
for your storage infrastructure requires improving overall efficiently by reducing the daily maintenance
costs, streamlining upgrades, and the ability to dynamically introduce new technologies to your existing
infrastructure to continue to improve efficiency. Achieving storage operational efficiencies requires that you
have the ability to mix server and storage technologies. To non-disruptively add and remove storage and
move data as requirements fluctuate over time without downtime or weekend work for your IT staff. In
addition to a mixed hardware and storage environment you need to provide multiple levels of service to
meet various business needs for availability, efficiency or regulatory compliance requirements across your
organization. To achieve these goals requires a storage technology that is flexible, scalable and easy to
manage. This is where Cloud Storage comes into the picture. Cloud storage provides these features for the
storage environment by presenting storage as a service. Storage cloud service means decoupling the node
running the application from the application data residing on the storage.
Cloud storage today is provided by an evolving set of technologies and has many definitions across the
industry. For example, a public implementation of cloud storage is a service that allows you to access
the storage over the public internet. It can provide services like home PC backup-up over the internet.
When you “sign up” for this type of service you agree to a service level that defines that the file will always
be available and protected against disasters. In addition when signing up for such a service you don’t ask
questions like “Is my data stored on SATA drives?” The Cloud storage approach allows the customer to
focus on what is really important which is “will my data be there when I need it?” This is storage as a
service. Today’s cloud storage solutions supply this type of service to more applications than just backing
up a home PC. Cloud storage can provide data management services for mission critical applications
including relational databases, web applications and scalable analytics.
4. Page 4
This paper defines what is meant by the term “storage cloud service”, it provides insight as to what tools
are available today to implement a storage solution and a glimpse of what you can look forward to in the
not so distant future.
Introduction
Cloud storage is an emerging technology and an integral part of the future of data storage. IBM has
introduced a cloud storage technology built on proven infrastructure components and offered as a solution.
This cloud storage solution is called IBM Scale out File Services. IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution is a second
generation cloud storage technology. The first generation was developed for internal use at IBM and is
currently in use by thousands of IBM employees around the world storing millions of files. Lessons learned
from this initial internal implementation were applied to IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution resulting in a
solution that is quickly helping customers realize the benefits of cloud storage.
There are many vendors promising cloud storage solutions in the market that are built on brand
new unproven software and hardware combinations. Many of these solutions are promising levels of
scalability and performance that has never been tested. On the other hand, the IBM cloud storage
solution is built on proven IBM technologies. This includes the proven reliability of IBM System x®
Servers and TotalStorage® disk technologies paired with industry leading software including the
IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS™) and Tivoli® Storage Manager. These technologies have been
integrated into a solution developed based on years of internal use providing file services to IBM’s more
than 300,000 employees provides an enterprise ready cloud storage solution.
5. Page 5
Public Cloud vs. Private Cloud
There are two main scenarios for storage clouds that IBM customers can choose to pursue based on their
business drivers and technical strategy. The two scenarios are defined as Public Storage Cloud and Private
Storage Cloud, the key differentiators of these scenarios is that the public storage cloud is designed for
customers who do not want to own, manage, or maintain the storage environment thus reducing their
capital and operational expenditures cost around storage. The public storage cloud provides for variable
billing options and shared tenancy of the storage cloud, giving customers the flexibility to manage the
usage and growth of their storage needs. This is the industry standard view of a storage cloud offering and
comparable to storage cloud offering by other vendors. The private cloud has fixed charges and dedicated
tenancy, so it is designed for enterprise customers who want flexibility around ownership, management, and
maintenance of the storage cloud.
Public Cloud:
Similar to a rent model, IBM dictates the choice of technology and cloud location, shared infrastructure
with variable monthly charges, dynamic physical capacity at customer level and security measures to isolate
customer data. In a public cloud IBM owns the physical assets, facilities, and standard contracts with
multiple service level agreements (SLA) to meet specific needs. Public cloud solutions work well for cross
industry solutions that storing from tens of Terabytes (TB) to multiple Petabytes PB of data.
Private Cloud:
Similar to a purchase or lease model, with a private cloud customers have the choice of technology and
location on dedicated infrastructure with fixed monthly charges and physical capacity at the customer level.
Each application can utilize dynamic capacity by sharing the cloud storage among multiple applications.
Further the Private Cloud provides built-in security thru platform dedication, choice of asset ownership,
and custom service level agreements (SLA) to meet specific needs. Private clouds work well for cross
industry solutions storing tens of Terabytes (TB) to multiple Petabytes PB of data.
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A Story or Three for Inspiration
To introduce the idea of cloud storage let’s take a look at a few situations organizations face each day and
how a cloud storage environment can help.
Oops, Out of Disk Space
It’s Friday evening at 4:59 PM and the VP of Marketing is informed that the marketing campaign that is
supposed to release Monday morning is on hold because the designers ran out of storage space for the
artwork. The Marketing VP calls the IT support department to report the incident and inform them of the
urgency of the issue. He is informed by the IT support department that the Marketing department has fully
utilized their pool of storage. The IT representative quickly finds additional space on an existing storage
pool that was just added the other day. The IT representative uses the cloud storage management interface
to dynamically expand the storage allocation for the marketing department to include space in this new
storage pool. The marketing VP is informed that the additional space has been added and they will have
enough storage capacity to finish their work. At 5:02PM the situation is resolved.
Goodbye to Old Storage
It is Tuesday afternoon and your IT staff has just finished the plugging in a brand new storage server
and it has been added to your storage cloud. With the addition of the new higher density storage it is now
time to retire the older less efficient storage. With a few clicks existing data is being redistributed to the
new storage and the old storage disks are being emptied. On Thursday afternoon, after running the data
migration process “behind the scenes” for a couple days, your existing data and new data (added during
the migration process) is now evenly distributed over the newly added storage and the old storage is empty
and ready for removal. This was all done while the application data remained online.
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Disaster Recovery Cloud Style
You have told your storage cloud that you need to maintain three copies of each file across three separate
sites at all times. Good thing you did. One afternoon there is a flood at one of your sites destroying all of
the IT equipment and quickly taking the entire site offline. This is when your cloud polices take effect.
When the site goes down client requests for file data are automatically redirected to a secondary site. This
secondary site now becomes the primary site. With a few clicks you tell the grid that the original primary
site is permanently offline. At this point the cloud quickly identifies space for the new “Third copy” of the
data and goes to work populating that site with the data from the newly selected primary site automatically
restoring the original configuration. Now that the applications are satisfied and running you can focus your
energy on drying out the flooded data center.
Is Cloud Storage Right for You?
Imagine that your data is always available, always accessible at the required performance and you never
run out of space. If this sounds good than a cloud storage solution may be a good fit in your organization.
Although not all of these technologies exist today for the system administrator there are solutions that are
well along the path to making them a reality. When reviewing possible cloud storage solutions you need to
determine whether it provides:
● Dynamic Storage Management
● Scalable Capacity and Performance
● Concurrent, Multi-protocol Data Access
● Centralized Management
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Storage Cloud Service
Storage Area Network (SAN) technology introduced storage connected using a network topology which was
a great improvement to disks attached using SCSI or another type of direct connection. For the first time
the SAN allowed storage administrators to more easily, and with far less wiring, attach multiple hosts to
shared storage or multiple storage servers. Although SAN was a great improvement over locally attached
devices within the SAN there is still a direct relationship between a host and the associated storage. For
example, if you need more space the administrator could add a LUN, zone it to the host, and expand the
file system. This works well in cases where there is extra capacity on the SAN and the host OS supports
dynamically growing a file system. A cloud storage architecture takes this idea further by decoupling the
server and the storage. In a cloud storage infrastructure when a host needs more space, the administrator
clicks to assign more space to that host from a pool of available storage, and the application continues. The
additional space is not just whatever you had available in the local storage server attached to the host. It is
the proper storage type for the application based on performance and availability with quality of service
guarantees. When more of a particular type of storage is required it is added to the “cloud”, assigned
characteristics like level of performance and reliability and made available for use.
Tiered storage is a great idea that many organizations have not implemented because they lack a tightly
integrated infrastructure to manage data movement between the tiers and the high performance tools to
effectively manage large amounts of data. It was not always practical, due to SAN complexity and tool
limitations, to provide three different classes of storage to each host or application. An effective cloud
storage solution makes managing tiers of storage a practical reality. By providing access to pools of storage
to a variety of applications you can more efficiently utilize the storage available instead of fragmenting
across hosts.
To the host, the storage cloud is accessed in a common manner regardless of the use of the storage.
Access is through standard network file access protocols and the data is available concurrently through
multiple protocols as required.
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Implementing a Cloud Storage Solution
Storage cloud service describes the end user or host view into the storage cloud. Storage administrators
that are tasked with implementing a Cloud Storage solution require a set of tools that allow them to
provide this end user experience. For the storage administrator storage clouds contain a mix of servers
and storage types grouped together into pools. Each pool can contain disk, tape or other data storage
technology. Each storage pool can be designed to provide predefined levels of performance and availability.
There are multiple areas of functionality a solution must provide to successfully implement a cloud
storage infrastructure. IBM Scale out File Services (IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution) provides multiple key
features that enable the storage administrator to effectively manage a cloud storage infrastructure.
Dynamic Storage Management
IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution provides storage pooling with a tightly integrated policy based storage
management system. Cloud storage needs to support multiple types of storage and storage connection
mechanisms. With IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution you have the ability to mix storage technologies like Fibre
Channel disks, SAS and SATA disk technologies.
The ability to contain multiple pools of storage in a single namespace is just the first step to
implementing a storage pooling strategy. To make the use of storage pools effective requires a mechanism
to efficiently and dynamically migrate data from pool to pool with minimal overhead or impact to data
access.
In IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution file data can be migrated from pool to pool automatically based on
policies. There are two main features of this solution that makes IBM‘s Cloud Storage Solution uniquely
capable of high performance storage management: Disk to disk migrations over the SAN and extremely fast
scanning of file metadata.
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Disk to disk migrations in IBM‘s Cloud Storage Solution are direct disk to disk data copies with no
change to the file in the user namespace. These disk to disk copies can take place over a SAN, InfiniBand
or a TCP/IP connection providing high performance with great flexibility. These migrations can be done
online without interruption in data access. The data movement can be done slowly by a single node or very
quickly by running migration operations in parallel by all nodes in the IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution.
Before any data is moved the policies must be evaluated and candidate files identified for migration,
deletion or change in replication status. With the ability to process more than 1 million files per second
IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution processes rules and starts moving data very quickly. This allows you to apply
a set of policies on a set of 1 billion files in about 15 minutes.
To be flexible a Cloud storage solution needs to scale beyond the SAN. There are limits with a SAN
infrastructure as to how many hosts can share a single disk array and concurrently access a single LUN,
for example. Growing beyond a SAN requires the ability to tie the namespace together using standard
networking technologies including TCP/IP and InfiniBand. The IBM Cloud Storage Solution allows you to
grow a single namespace beyond the SAN. To achieve this it utilizes a block level network based protocol.
This block level network protocol (similar in concept to iSCSI) allows you to tie multiple building blocks of
nodes and storage together in a single file system over a TCP/IP or InfiniBand connection. This allows for
great flexibility by enabling growth beyond a SAN and the ability to easily adopt new storage technologies
as they become available and integrate them directly into your existing Cloud Storage Solution.
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Extremely scalable capacity and performance keeps you from getting stuck. Successfully implementing a
cloud storage architecture requires the ability to provide the required level of performance for the most
demanding applications and scalability so that you are not forced into managing islands of data. There are
some cloud storage offerings that were introduced with some interesting technologies but had limited
applicability because of their inability to scale at a single “entry point” into the cloud. Effective scalability
of a cloud storage solution requires that you can efficiently match front end processing power with the data
storage to supply the right balance for the application. Cloud storage scalability does not mean simply
having the ability to place 1 PB of storage behind a pair of processing nodes or to spread data across
separate appliances, creating islands of data in an attempt to achieve the required level of performance. To
be effective, a cloud storage solution must be able to support billions of files, multiple petabytes of data
while dynamically providing room to grow and support for future technologies.
IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution provides the capacity and performance scalability and the flexibility
required to effectively support a very large namespace and a high performance cloud “entry point”. The
IBM Cloud Storage Solution today can support up to 512 Billion files and hundreds of petabytes of data.
With the ability to store billions files in a single managed namespace the IBM Cloud Storage Solution
allows the infrastructure to grow as needed. This growth can be within a single data center or across
geographically distributed processing centers.
Being able to create large global namespace is one issue, managing it is another. IBM’s Cloud Storage
Solution provides many tools that make managing a large file system practical.
Concurrent, Multiprotocol Data Access
So how is storage provided as a service today? A cloud storage solution provides storage services through
multi-protocol access to a common set of data using multiple standard interfaces. This includes a mix of
hosts accessing a set of data over network protocols including NFS and CIFS while concurrently providing
data access to SAN attached hosts.
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IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution provides standards based network access to data using multiple protocols
including CIFS and NFS to a common set of data. A single set of data can be shared concurrently using
multiple network protocols over 3 to 25 nodes or more. This provides the extreme scalability and reliability
required to support a Cloud storage solution.
In addition to the standard network protocols IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution provides the ability to add
Linux®, AIX® or Windows® nodes running your own applications. These nodes can access a common set
of data directly over the SAN, if required along with the standard network file protocols. This allows high
performance access to the data concurrently with client network access to the same data. This allows you to
have high performance access to the data for file management, backup or application integration. This level
of integration provides a key component to implementing a successful cloud infrastructure.
New Levels of Manageability
Successfully implementing a cloud storage solution requires new levels of manageability. A large cloud
storage solution needs to be manageable by a small team of system administrators.
To fulfill the administration requirement IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution provides a single point of
administration through a web based tool. All of your IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution clusters can be
administered from a single interface.
Using this management interface you can monitor events across the entire solution. All of the events are
collected in a central event log. The administrator can define what event types are emailed, for example, to
a set of administrators. The web based management tool can be used to collect and view information on
multiple aspects of the solution and graph the results over time. For example you can collect CPU
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utilization or file system utilization and look at it over the last month to determine whether you need to
add more nodes or storage. For integration with other monitoring solutions IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution
provides an SNMP interface that allows for browsing of cluster information and a set of traps that can be
monitored from many standard tools.
To enable a large global namespace, IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution allows you to dynamically grow the
environment by allowing you to add and remove nodes and storage while the data remains available to
the end users. Nodes can be added that are the same as current nodes or upgraded nodes. The solution
supports a mix of node and connection types for maximum flexibility and future protection.
A new paradigm of storage management is possible with IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution provides. Today,
administrators typically create dozens of small file systems and assign these spaces to the application and
end users as space is requested. With other solutions this is typically done because the file system size is
limited or there are insufficient tools to manage a large namespace for backup and policy based tiered
storage operations. With IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution each storage pool can be multiple petabytes in size
and these pools can contain billions of files. This allows the system administrator to more effectively utilize
available storage using features including over-provisioning, quota management and high performance
reporting tools. In addition you can free up system administrators time by delegating some space
management tasks to other people for project creation and share definition.
Security is essential in a Cloud storage environment. IBM’s Cloud Storage Solution provides multiple
methods of securing the data and integrating with existing environments. For example IBM’s Cloud
Storage Solution can participate in a Microsoft® Active Directory domain.
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Conclusions
Implementing a cloud storage solution can optimize your storage infrastructure providing improved
availability, flexibility and increased efficiency which can greatly reduce your storage total cost of
ownership (TCO). To optimize your investment when planning your cloud storage implementation you
should start with a thorough assessment of your environment. A recent Gartner publication titled Invest in
Storage Professional Services, Not More Hardware concluded that “By improving storage utilization, IT
departments can delay incremental storage acquisitions.” IBM is a leading provider of storage related
services that can help customers streamline their storage environment and reduce unnecessary overhead.
The IBM Cloud Storage Solution along with the experience of IBM IT services makes an unbeatable
combination and helps to ensure a successful implementation of your next generation cloud storage
infrastructure. With IBM IT services and the IBM Scale out File Services Cloud Storage Solution you can
start implementing the future of storage today.
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For More Information
To learn more about the IBM Storage Systems and Cloud Computing, please contact your IBM marketing
representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit the following Web site: http://www.ibm.com/ibm/cloud/
About the Author
Scott Fadden
GPFS/SoFS Technical marketing
Scott has more than 15 years experience in developing, designing and implementing complex
IT solutions.