For most federal agencies dealing with increased security threats, limiting machine-data collection is not an option. But faced with finite IT budgets, few agencies can continue to absorb the high costs of scaling high-end network attached storage (NAS) or moving to and expanding a block-based storage footprint. During this webcast, you’ll learn about more cost-effective solutions to support large-scale machine-data ingestion and fast data access for security analytics.
You’ll learn about:
- The common challenges organizations face when scaling security workflows
- Why a high-performance cache works to solve these issues
- How to integrate cloud into processing and storage for additional scalability and efficiencies
First Cloud based enterprise Backup & Recovery in IndiaBlaze Arizanov
Learn the benefits of the new generation of Cloud based backup that harnesses the power of the Cloud and gives you the Peace of Mind you were longing for
Snapshots have been a key feature of primary storage infrastructures that IT professionals have relied on for years. But storage systems have traditionally been able to support only a limited number of active snapshots. And snapshots, being pointers and not actual data, are also susceptible to a primary storage system failure. As a result, most IT professionals use snapshots sparingly for protecting data. In this webinar Storage Switzerland and Nexenta show you how primary storage can be architected so that snapshots are able to meet almost all of the data protection requirements an organization has.
[NetApp] Simplified HA:DR Using Storage SolutionsPerforce
Perforce administrators have several choices for HA/DR solutions depending on RTO/RPO objectives. Using an effective storage solution such as NetApp filers simplifies HA/DR planning in several ways. In this session we'll look at using a NetApp filer for more reliable HA in the event of storage or application failure and simpler DR replication. In the latter case, deduplication and SnapMirror technology can significantly reduce the amount of data replicated to a remote site.
In this slidecast, Jim Gutowski and Scott Fadden from IBM describe the advantages IBM Spectrum Scale Storage brings to the enterprise.
IBM Spectrum Scale is a proven, scalable, high-performance data and file management solution (based upon IBM General Parallel File System or GPFS, also formerly known as code name Elastic Storage). IBM Spectrum Scale provides world-class storage management with extreme scalability, flash accelerated performance, and automatic policy-based storage tiering from flash through disk to tape. IBM Spectrum Scale reduces storage costs up to 90% while improving security and management efficiency in cloud, big data & analytics environments."
Watch the video presentation starting 4/8/2015: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-e0a
Learn more: http://ibm.co/1y1QIrj
Use Case Development and CIM Profiling. This presentation walks the user through typical diagrams used to complement use case development in standard UML.
First Cloud based enterprise Backup & Recovery in IndiaBlaze Arizanov
Learn the benefits of the new generation of Cloud based backup that harnesses the power of the Cloud and gives you the Peace of Mind you were longing for
Snapshots have been a key feature of primary storage infrastructures that IT professionals have relied on for years. But storage systems have traditionally been able to support only a limited number of active snapshots. And snapshots, being pointers and not actual data, are also susceptible to a primary storage system failure. As a result, most IT professionals use snapshots sparingly for protecting data. In this webinar Storage Switzerland and Nexenta show you how primary storage can be architected so that snapshots are able to meet almost all of the data protection requirements an organization has.
[NetApp] Simplified HA:DR Using Storage SolutionsPerforce
Perforce administrators have several choices for HA/DR solutions depending on RTO/RPO objectives. Using an effective storage solution such as NetApp filers simplifies HA/DR planning in several ways. In this session we'll look at using a NetApp filer for more reliable HA in the event of storage or application failure and simpler DR replication. In the latter case, deduplication and SnapMirror technology can significantly reduce the amount of data replicated to a remote site.
In this slidecast, Jim Gutowski and Scott Fadden from IBM describe the advantages IBM Spectrum Scale Storage brings to the enterprise.
IBM Spectrum Scale is a proven, scalable, high-performance data and file management solution (based upon IBM General Parallel File System or GPFS, also formerly known as code name Elastic Storage). IBM Spectrum Scale provides world-class storage management with extreme scalability, flash accelerated performance, and automatic policy-based storage tiering from flash through disk to tape. IBM Spectrum Scale reduces storage costs up to 90% while improving security and management efficiency in cloud, big data & analytics environments."
Watch the video presentation starting 4/8/2015: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-e0a
Learn more: http://ibm.co/1y1QIrj
Use Case Development and CIM Profiling. This presentation walks the user through typical diagrams used to complement use case development in standard UML.
The rapid growth of in-memory compute applications is not surprising given the tremendous performance gains they can offer. Jobs that used to take hours can now take minutes or seconds as they are no longer subject to the rotational and seek latencies of spinning media. While Flash memory provide some relief, it is still a hundred times slower than the DRAM that in-memory compute applications utilize as their primary storage.
One drawback to in-memory compute applications is the high cost associated with DRAM. Not only are the acquisition costs an order of magnitude more expensive than Flash, DRAM consumes far more power. Power can be a significant issue in data centers besides contributing a major part to the operational costs. In addition, a single server has limited capacity for DRAM and datasets that are larger, need to find an alternate solution or cope with the nuisance of sharding. Furthermore, in order to utilize the maximum capacity of DRAM in a server, higher cost DRAM needs to be installed further escalating the cost of compute.
We discuss a paradigm to allow in-memory computing applications to extend their capacity by utilizing Flash memory; often with minimal performance loss. We give examples of applications that have been modified to utilize the paradigm and show performance comparisons. We also discuss TCO and the relative cost per transaction of the different solutions.
Veritas NetBackup benchmark comparison: Data protection in a large-scale virt...Principled Technologies
In an enterprise environment, a data center VM footprint can grow quickly; large-scale deployments of thousands of virtual machines are becoming increasingly common. Risk of failure grows proportionally to the number of systems deployed and critical failures are unavoidable. Your ability to offer data protection from a backup solution is critical to business continuity. Elongated, inefficient protection windows can create resource contention with production environments, therefore, it is critical to execute system backup in a finite window of time.
The Veritas NetBackup Integrated Appliance running NetBackup 7.6 offered application protection to 1,000 VMs in 80.3 percent less time in SAN testing and used NetApp array-based snapshots to create recovery points in 93.8 percent less time than Competitor “C.” In addition, the Veritas NetBackup Integrated Appliance with NetBackup 7.6 created backup images that offered granular recovery without additional steps and in a backup window 69.0 percent shorter than the backup window needed for Competitor “C.” These time savings can scale as your VM footprint grows, allowing you to execute both system protection and user-friendly, simplified recovery.
S ss0885 spectrum-scale-elastic-edge2015-v5Tony Pearson
IBM Spectrum Scale offerings include the Spectrum Scale software that you can deploy on your own choice of hardware, Elastic Storage Server and Storwize V7000 Unified pre-built systems.
Inter connect2016 yss1841-cloud-storage-options-v4Tony Pearson
This session will cover private and public cloud storage options, including flash, disk and tape, to address the different types of cloud storage requirements. It will also explain the use of Active File Management for local space management and global access to files, and support for file-and-sync.
Optimal Azure Database Development by Karel CoenyeITProceed
In traditional on-premises SQL Server, the process of doing initial capacity planning is often separated from the process of running an application in production. When using Azure SQL Database, it is generally recommended to interleave the process of running and tuning an application. The model of paying for capacity on-demand allows you to tune your application to use the minimum resources needed and will give you an immediate return on invest In this session we will show you techniques to optimize your database design so that you achive optimal cost/performance figures from the beginning.
Storage Switzerland’s founder and lead analyst, George Crump and Cloudian’s Chief Marketing Officer, Paul Turner, describe the benefits of object and cloud storage but also describe how they can work together to solve your data problem once and for all. In addition, they cover specific next steps to begin implementing a hybrid cloud storage solution in your data center.
S de0882 new-generation-tiering-edge2015-v3Tony Pearson
IBM offers a variety of storage optimization technologies that balance performance and cost. This session covers Easy Tier, Storage Analytics, and Spectrum Scale.
One word that you often see associated with any data center is its “tier,” or its level of service. Virtually every data center has a tier ranking of I, II, III, or IV, and this ranking serves as a symbol for everything it has to offer: its physical infrastructure, its cooling, power infrastructure, redundancy levels, and promised uptime.
This presentation takes a look at each of the 4 data center tiers, examining the key components for each tier, as well the total expected uptime level for each tier. If you are in the process of evaluating data centers, this is no doubt a term you will come across in your search, so we hope this presentation helps provide some solid background in to how you can better choose a data center for your specific needs.
For more insights into the data center world, and to learn more about Data Cave, check out our website at www.thedatacave.com.
12 Architectural Requirements for Protecting Business Data in the CloudBuurst
Designing a cloud data system architecture that protects your precious data when operating business-critical applications and workloads in the cloud is of paramount importance to cloud architects today. Ensuring the high-availability for your company’s applications and protecting business data is challenging and somewhat different than in traditional on-premise data centers.
For most companies with hundreds to thousands of applications, it’s impractical to build all of these important capabilities into every application’s design architecture. The cloud storage infrastructure typically only provides a subset of what’s required to properly protect business data and applications.
So how do you ensure your business data and applications are architected correctly and protected in the cloud?
In this webinar, we covered:
-Best Practices for protecting business data in the cloud
-How To design a protected and highly-available cloud system architecture
-Lessons Learned from architecting thousands of cloud system architectures
S cv3179 spectrum-integration-openstack-edge2015-v5Tony Pearson
IBM is a platinum sponsor of OpenStack, and is the #1 ranked vendor of Software Defined Storage. This session explains how its Spectrum Storage family of products support Glance, Cinder, Manila, Swift and Keystone interfaces of OpenStack.
Maybe your business has outgrown its file server and you’re thinking of replacing it. Or perhaps your server is dated and not supporting your business like it should, so you’re considering moving to the cloud. It might be that you’re starting a new business and wondering if an in-house server is adequate or if you should adopt cloud technology from the start.
Regardless of why you’re debating an in-house server versus a cloud-based server, it’s a tough decision that will impact your business on a daily basis. We know there’s a lot to think about, and we’re here to help show why you should consolidate your file servers and move your data to the cloud.
In this webinar with Talon Storage Solutions, we covered:
-Challenges of using a physical file server
-Benefits of using a cloud file server
-Current State of the File Server market
-Reference Architecture examples for cloud file servers
-Demo: how to architect a cloud file server with highly-available storage
Learn more at https://www.softnas.com
Migrate Existing Applications to AWS without Re-engineeringBuurst
Migrating existing applications to the cloud can take weeks, if not months to complete. By moving your existing applications to AWS, you can take immediate advantage of: security, reliability, instant scalability and elasticity, isolated processes, reduced operational effort, on-demand provisioning and automation. But how do you migrate your existing applications to AWS without re-architecting?
In this webinar, we covered:
-Best Practices for migrating applications to AWS
-Design & Architectural considerations for cloud storage - including security and data protection
-How to design cloud storage for applications on AWS
-Lessons Learned from thousands of application migrations to AWS
-Demo: how to migrate an existing application to AWS without re-architecting
Acroknight the Caribbean Data Backup solution presentation October 2013Steven Williams
Acroknight is an automated online backup service which has been designed to be extremely easy to use, and with extensive management and reporting features for technology re-sellers or business customers.
With support for PC and Server backups, in-built support for common applications like Outlook, Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint & MySQL, and the ability to interoperate between various operating systems, Acroknight can effectively power your Online Backup Services, however large…or small!
Webinar: Cloud Storage: The 5 Reasons IT Can Do it BetterStorage Switzerland
In this webinar learn the five reasons why a private cloud storage system may be more cost effective and deliver a higher quality of service than public cloud storage providers.
In this webinar you will learn:
1. What Public Cloud Storage Architectures Look Like
2. Why Public Providers Chose These Architectures
3. The Problem With Traditional Data Center File Solutions
4. Bringing Cloud Lessons to Traditional IT
5. The Five Reasons IT can Do it Better
Object Storage promises many things - unlimited scalability, both in terms of capacity and file count, low cost but highly redundant capacity and excellent connectivity to legacy NAS. But, despite these promises object storage has not caught on in the enterprise like it has in the cloud. It seems like, for the enterprise object storage just isn’t a good fit. The problem is that most object storage system’s starting capacity is too large. And while connectivity to legacy NAS systems is available, seamless integration is not. Can object storage be sized so that it is a better fit for the enterprise?
The rapid growth of in-memory compute applications is not surprising given the tremendous performance gains they can offer. Jobs that used to take hours can now take minutes or seconds as they are no longer subject to the rotational and seek latencies of spinning media. While Flash memory provide some relief, it is still a hundred times slower than the DRAM that in-memory compute applications utilize as their primary storage.
One drawback to in-memory compute applications is the high cost associated with DRAM. Not only are the acquisition costs an order of magnitude more expensive than Flash, DRAM consumes far more power. Power can be a significant issue in data centers besides contributing a major part to the operational costs. In addition, a single server has limited capacity for DRAM and datasets that are larger, need to find an alternate solution or cope with the nuisance of sharding. Furthermore, in order to utilize the maximum capacity of DRAM in a server, higher cost DRAM needs to be installed further escalating the cost of compute.
We discuss a paradigm to allow in-memory computing applications to extend their capacity by utilizing Flash memory; often with minimal performance loss. We give examples of applications that have been modified to utilize the paradigm and show performance comparisons. We also discuss TCO and the relative cost per transaction of the different solutions.
Veritas NetBackup benchmark comparison: Data protection in a large-scale virt...Principled Technologies
In an enterprise environment, a data center VM footprint can grow quickly; large-scale deployments of thousands of virtual machines are becoming increasingly common. Risk of failure grows proportionally to the number of systems deployed and critical failures are unavoidable. Your ability to offer data protection from a backup solution is critical to business continuity. Elongated, inefficient protection windows can create resource contention with production environments, therefore, it is critical to execute system backup in a finite window of time.
The Veritas NetBackup Integrated Appliance running NetBackup 7.6 offered application protection to 1,000 VMs in 80.3 percent less time in SAN testing and used NetApp array-based snapshots to create recovery points in 93.8 percent less time than Competitor “C.” In addition, the Veritas NetBackup Integrated Appliance with NetBackup 7.6 created backup images that offered granular recovery without additional steps and in a backup window 69.0 percent shorter than the backup window needed for Competitor “C.” These time savings can scale as your VM footprint grows, allowing you to execute both system protection and user-friendly, simplified recovery.
S ss0885 spectrum-scale-elastic-edge2015-v5Tony Pearson
IBM Spectrum Scale offerings include the Spectrum Scale software that you can deploy on your own choice of hardware, Elastic Storage Server and Storwize V7000 Unified pre-built systems.
Inter connect2016 yss1841-cloud-storage-options-v4Tony Pearson
This session will cover private and public cloud storage options, including flash, disk and tape, to address the different types of cloud storage requirements. It will also explain the use of Active File Management for local space management and global access to files, and support for file-and-sync.
Optimal Azure Database Development by Karel CoenyeITProceed
In traditional on-premises SQL Server, the process of doing initial capacity planning is often separated from the process of running an application in production. When using Azure SQL Database, it is generally recommended to interleave the process of running and tuning an application. The model of paying for capacity on-demand allows you to tune your application to use the minimum resources needed and will give you an immediate return on invest In this session we will show you techniques to optimize your database design so that you achive optimal cost/performance figures from the beginning.
Storage Switzerland’s founder and lead analyst, George Crump and Cloudian’s Chief Marketing Officer, Paul Turner, describe the benefits of object and cloud storage but also describe how they can work together to solve your data problem once and for all. In addition, they cover specific next steps to begin implementing a hybrid cloud storage solution in your data center.
S de0882 new-generation-tiering-edge2015-v3Tony Pearson
IBM offers a variety of storage optimization technologies that balance performance and cost. This session covers Easy Tier, Storage Analytics, and Spectrum Scale.
One word that you often see associated with any data center is its “tier,” or its level of service. Virtually every data center has a tier ranking of I, II, III, or IV, and this ranking serves as a symbol for everything it has to offer: its physical infrastructure, its cooling, power infrastructure, redundancy levels, and promised uptime.
This presentation takes a look at each of the 4 data center tiers, examining the key components for each tier, as well the total expected uptime level for each tier. If you are in the process of evaluating data centers, this is no doubt a term you will come across in your search, so we hope this presentation helps provide some solid background in to how you can better choose a data center for your specific needs.
For more insights into the data center world, and to learn more about Data Cave, check out our website at www.thedatacave.com.
12 Architectural Requirements for Protecting Business Data in the CloudBuurst
Designing a cloud data system architecture that protects your precious data when operating business-critical applications and workloads in the cloud is of paramount importance to cloud architects today. Ensuring the high-availability for your company’s applications and protecting business data is challenging and somewhat different than in traditional on-premise data centers.
For most companies with hundreds to thousands of applications, it’s impractical to build all of these important capabilities into every application’s design architecture. The cloud storage infrastructure typically only provides a subset of what’s required to properly protect business data and applications.
So how do you ensure your business data and applications are architected correctly and protected in the cloud?
In this webinar, we covered:
-Best Practices for protecting business data in the cloud
-How To design a protected and highly-available cloud system architecture
-Lessons Learned from architecting thousands of cloud system architectures
S cv3179 spectrum-integration-openstack-edge2015-v5Tony Pearson
IBM is a platinum sponsor of OpenStack, and is the #1 ranked vendor of Software Defined Storage. This session explains how its Spectrum Storage family of products support Glance, Cinder, Manila, Swift and Keystone interfaces of OpenStack.
Maybe your business has outgrown its file server and you’re thinking of replacing it. Or perhaps your server is dated and not supporting your business like it should, so you’re considering moving to the cloud. It might be that you’re starting a new business and wondering if an in-house server is adequate or if you should adopt cloud technology from the start.
Regardless of why you’re debating an in-house server versus a cloud-based server, it’s a tough decision that will impact your business on a daily basis. We know there’s a lot to think about, and we’re here to help show why you should consolidate your file servers and move your data to the cloud.
In this webinar with Talon Storage Solutions, we covered:
-Challenges of using a physical file server
-Benefits of using a cloud file server
-Current State of the File Server market
-Reference Architecture examples for cloud file servers
-Demo: how to architect a cloud file server with highly-available storage
Learn more at https://www.softnas.com
Migrate Existing Applications to AWS without Re-engineeringBuurst
Migrating existing applications to the cloud can take weeks, if not months to complete. By moving your existing applications to AWS, you can take immediate advantage of: security, reliability, instant scalability and elasticity, isolated processes, reduced operational effort, on-demand provisioning and automation. But how do you migrate your existing applications to AWS without re-architecting?
In this webinar, we covered:
-Best Practices for migrating applications to AWS
-Design & Architectural considerations for cloud storage - including security and data protection
-How to design cloud storage for applications on AWS
-Lessons Learned from thousands of application migrations to AWS
-Demo: how to migrate an existing application to AWS without re-architecting
Acroknight the Caribbean Data Backup solution presentation October 2013Steven Williams
Acroknight is an automated online backup service which has been designed to be extremely easy to use, and with extensive management and reporting features for technology re-sellers or business customers.
With support for PC and Server backups, in-built support for common applications like Outlook, Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint & MySQL, and the ability to interoperate between various operating systems, Acroknight can effectively power your Online Backup Services, however large…or small!
Webinar: Cloud Storage: The 5 Reasons IT Can Do it BetterStorage Switzerland
In this webinar learn the five reasons why a private cloud storage system may be more cost effective and deliver a higher quality of service than public cloud storage providers.
In this webinar you will learn:
1. What Public Cloud Storage Architectures Look Like
2. Why Public Providers Chose These Architectures
3. The Problem With Traditional Data Center File Solutions
4. Bringing Cloud Lessons to Traditional IT
5. The Five Reasons IT can Do it Better
Object Storage promises many things - unlimited scalability, both in terms of capacity and file count, low cost but highly redundant capacity and excellent connectivity to legacy NAS. But, despite these promises object storage has not caught on in the enterprise like it has in the cloud. It seems like, for the enterprise object storage just isn’t a good fit. The problem is that most object storage system’s starting capacity is too large. And while connectivity to legacy NAS systems is available, seamless integration is not. Can object storage be sized so that it is a better fit for the enterprise?
Unstructured data is growing at a staggering rate. It is breaking traditional storage and IT budgets and burying IT professionals under a mountain of operational challenges. Listen as Cloudian and Storage Switzerland discuss panel-style discussion the seven key reasons why organizations can dramatically lower storage infrastructure costs by deploying a hardware-agnostic object storage solution instead of sticking with legacy NAS.
ADV Slides: Platforming Your Data for Success – Databases, Hadoop, Managed Ha...DATAVERSITY
Thirty years is a long time for a technology foundation to be as active as relational databases. Are their replacements here? In this webinar, we say no.
Databases have not sat around while Hadoop emerged. The Hadoop era generated a ton of interest and confusion, but is it still relevant as organizations are deploying cloud storage like a kid in a candy store? We’ll discuss what platforms to use for what data. This is a critical decision that can dictate two to five times additional work effort if it’s a bad fit.
Drop the herd mentality. In reality, there is no “one size fits all” right now. We need to make our platform decisions amidst this backdrop.
This webinar will distinguish these analytic deployment options and help you platform 2020 and beyond for success.
Share on LinkedIn Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share b...Avere Systems
For years vendors have been trying to drive down the cost of flash so that the all-flash data center can become reality. The problem is that even the rapidly declining price of flash storage can’t keep pace with the rapidly declining price of hard disk. As a result data that does not need to be on flash storage has to be stored on something less expensive. But does that less expensive storage need to be another hard disk array or could it be stored in the cloud?
In this webinar join Storage Switzerland’s founder George Crump and Avere Systems CEO, Ron Bianchini for an interactive webinar Using the Cloud to Create an All-Flash Data Center.
Taking Splunk to the Next Level – ArchitectureSplunk
Are you outgrowing your initial Splunk deployment? Is Splunk becoming mission critical and you need to make sure it's Enterprise ready? Attend this session led by Splunk experts to learn about taking your Splunk deployment to the next level. Learn about Splunk high availability architectures with Splunk Search Head Clustering and Index Replication. Additionally, learn how to manage your deployment with Splunk’s operational and management controls to manage Splunk capacity and end user experience.
Some of the most common questions we hear from users relate to capacity planning and hardware choices. How many replicas do I need? Should I consider sharding right away? How much RAM will I need for my working set? SSD or HDD? No one likes spending a lot of cash on hardware and cloud bills can just be as painful. MongoDB is different from traditional RDBMSs in its resource management, so you need to be mindful when deciding on the cluster layout and hardware. In this talk we will review the factors that drive the capacity requirements: volume of queries, access patterns, indexing, working set size, among others. Attendees will gain additional insight as we go through a few real-world scenarios, as experienced with MongoDB Inc customers, and come up with their ideal cluster layout and hardware.
Data Virtualization Reference Architectures: Correctly Architecting your Solu...Denodo
Correctly Architecting your Solutions for Analytical & Operational Uses reviews the two main types of use cases that can be solved with the Denodo Platform. Both high concurrency scenarios and big reporting use cases are discussed in this presentation in a comparative way, explaining the different approaches that you must take to be successful in any situation.
This presentation is part of the Fast Data Strategy Conference, and you can watch the video here goo.gl/wdZgpo.
From cache to in-memory data grid. Introduction to Hazelcast.Taras Matyashovsky
This presentation:
* covers basics of caching and popular cache types
* explains evolution from simple cache to distributed, and from distributed to IMDG
* not describes usage of NoSQL solutions for caching
* is not intended for products comparison or for promotion of Hazelcast as the best solution
VMworld 2013: Low-Cost, High-Performance Storage for VMware Horizon Desktops VMworld
VMworld 2013
Courtney Burry, VMware
Donal Geary, VMware
Tristan Todd, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
#MFSummit2016 Operate: The race for spaceMicro Focus
The Race for Space: File Storage Challenges and Solutions Facing escalating storage requirements? Being held to ransom by your vendors? Would secure, scalable, highly-available and cost-effective file storage that works with your current infrastructure help? Micro Focus and SUSE could help. Presenters: David Shepherd, Solutions Consultant, Micro Focus and Stephen Mogg, Solutions Consultant SUSE
Elastic storage in the cloud session 5224 final v2BradDesAulniers2
Learn about the IBM Spectrum Scale offering (formerly GPFS) and how it can create an elastic storage solution in the cloud. Whether you're storing gigabytes or petabytes, Spectrum Scale can provide you with a high-performance storage solution.
Presented at IBM InterConnect 2015
Symantec's appliance strategy provides customers with a flexible and easy to deploy delivery model for its data protection, storage management and security solutions. This new approach empowers organizations to choose between appliances, software or cloud solutions according to what best suits their IT requirements, needs and environment. With the release of the NetBackup 5020 deduplication appliance, NetBackup 5200 series and FileStore N8300 appliances, Symantec delivers on the company’s strategy.
Development of concurrent services using In-Memory Data Gridsjlorenzocima
As part of OTN Tour 2014 believes this presentation which is intented for covers the basic explanation of a solution of IMDG, explains how it works and how it can be used within an architecture and shows some use cases. Enjoy
SpringPeople - Introduction to Cloud ComputingSpringPeople
Cloud computing is no longer a fad that is going around. It is for real and is perhaps the most talked about subject. Various players in the cloud eco-system have provided a definition that is closely aligned to their sweet spot –let it be infrastructure, platforms or applications.
This presentation will provide an exposure of a variety of cloud computing techniques, architecture, technology options to the participants and in general will familiarize cloud fundamentals in a holistic manner spanning all dimensions such as cost, operations, technology etc
Similar to Scaling Security Workflows in Government Agencies (20)
Hedge Fund IT Challenges Financial SurveyAvere Systems
This survey highlights results of a recent Avere Systems Survey capturing challenges that hedge fund IT managers are experiencing in an era of constant and rapid change.
Cloud Bursting 101: What to do When Cloud Computing Demand Exceeds CapacityAvere Systems
Slides from live webinar hosted on February 16, 2017.
Deploying applications locally and bursting them to the cloud for compute may seem difficult, especially when working with high-performance, critical information. However, using cloudbursts to offset peaks in demand can bring big benefits and kudos from organizational leaders always looking to do more with less.
After this short webinar, you’ll be ready to:
- Explain what cloud bursting is and what workloads it is best for
- Identify efficiencies in applying cloud bursting to high-performance applications
- Understand how cloud computing services access your data and consume it during burst cycles
- Share three real-world use cases of companies leveraging cloud bursting for measurable efficiencies
- Have seen a demonstration of how it works
Presenters will build an actionable framework in just thirty minutes and then take questions.
Solving enterprise challenges through scale out storage & big compute finalAvere Systems
Google Cloud Platform, Avere Systems, and Cycle Computing experts will share best practices for advancing solutions to big challenges faced by enterprises with growing compute and storage needs. In this “best practices” webinar, you’ll hear how these companies are working to improve results that drive businesses forward through scalability, performance, and ease of management.
The slides were from a webinar presented January 24, 2017. The audience learned:
- How enterprises are using Google Cloud Platform to gain compute and storage capacity on-demand
- Best practices for efficient use of cloud compute and storage resources
- Overcoming the need for file systems within a hybrid cloud environment
- Understand how to eliminate latency between cloud and data center architectures
- Learn how to best manage simulation, analytics, and big data workloads in dynamic environments
- Look at market dynamics drawing companies to new storage models over the next several years
Presenters communicated a foundation to build infrastructure to support ongoing demand growth.
Deliver Best-in-Class HPC Cloud Solutions Without Losing Your MindAvere Systems
While cloud computing offers virtually unlimited capacity, harnessing that capacity in an efficient, cost effective fashion can be cumbersome and difficult at the workload level. At the organizational level, it can quickly become chaos.
You must make choices around cloud deployment, and these choices could have a long-lasting impact on your organization. It is important to understand your options and avoid incomplete, complicated, locked-in scenarios. Data management and placement challenges make having the ability to automate workflows and processes across multiple clouds a requirement.
In this webinar, you will:
• Learn how to leverage cloud services as part of an overall computation approach
• Understand data management in a cloud-based world
• Hear what options you have to orchestrate HPC in the cloud
• Learn how cloud orchestration works to automate and align computing with specific goals and objectives
• See an example of an orchestrated HPC workload using on-premises data
From computational research to financial back testing, and research simulations to IoT processing frameworks, decisions made now will not only impact future manageability, but also your sanity.
Moonbot Studios took flight to the cloud when resources didn't match deadlines. To offset workload peaks and overcome other operational challenges, Moonbot deployed the Avere vFXT to gain flexibility and affordability without making large capital investments.
Building a Just-in-Time Application Stack for AnalystsAvere Systems
Slide presentation from Webinar on February 17, 2016.
People in analytical roles are demanding more and more compute and storage to get their jobs done. Instead of building out infrastructure for a few employees or a department, systems engineers and IT managers can find value in creating a compute stack in the cloud to meet the fluctuating demand of their clients.
In this 45-minute webinar, you’ll learn:
- How to identify the right analytical workloads
- How to create a scalable compute environment using the cloud for analysts in under 10 minutes
- How to best manage costs associated with the cloud compute stack
- How to create dedicated client stacks with their own scratch space as well as general access to reference data
Health systems departments, research & development departments, and business analyst groups all face silos of these challenging, compute-intensive use cases. By learning how to quickly build this flexible workflow that can be scaled up and down (or off) instantly, you can support business objectives while efficiently managing costs.
Moonbot Studios Shoots for the Cloud to Meet Deadlines and Manage Costs
Threatened by deadlines for Academy award submissions, Moonbot Studios faced a shortage of rendering capacity while working on Taking Flight, its newest animated short film, and other important projects. As a small studio with a matching budget, the team did what it does best—it got creative and solved the problem with what they first called “magic.”
In this webinar, the Moonbot team will tell its tale of sending its rendering capacity to Google Compute Engine and how they defied networking odds by caching data close to the animators with an Avere vFXT. Hear Moonbot’s pipeline supervisor tell how they turned cloud data center distance into a non-issue, met deadlines, and gained quantitative benefits that sparked energy in this small team of creative aviators.
In this session, you will learn:
•What drove the Moonbot Studios to move to the cloud
•How they moved complex renders to Google Compute Engine, overcoming data access roadblocks
•Measurable results including speed, economics, flexibility, and creative freedom
The Moonbot Studios flight to the cloud will be supported by Google Cloud Platform and Avere Systems for a complete overview of how the technologies help bring new ideas to life.
Three Steps to Modern Media Asset Management with Active ArchiveAvere Systems
From Dec. 3 2015 Webinar
Digital media assets are extremely valuable, providing organizations a collection of tools to reach and engage. Making this growing collection of large files manageable over time can challenge even the most seasoned IT professionals.
In this webinar, we'll look at the workflow in place at large global broadcasters, then discuss the best practices identified while building a modern media asset management system with active archive support. Operations directors, program managers, systems architects, and media technology professionals will learn:
- How the right tools can help bring order to "big data" assets and methodologies for implementation and savings of media professionals valuable time.
- How private cloud archive reduces cost while improving accessibility and security
- How to create a high performance active archive that masks network latency between media asset management software and cloud archives
Slides for October 15 webinar with ESG Analyst Scott Sinclair and Avere Systems Engineer Bernie Behn reviewing ESG lab results that tested the Avere vFXT Edge filer on Google Cloud Platform.
Scientific Computing in the Cloud: Speeding Access for Drug DiscoveryAvere Systems
Scientific computing on the cloud lured scientists at H3 Biomedicine in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the promise of near-limitless compute capacity potential of Amazon EC2. Today, scientists run a wide array of applications in the cloud that contribute to the integration of human cancer genomics with chemistry and biology to discover a library of specialty cancer treatment drugs.
In this webinar, you'll hear how this organization has built cloud infrastructure in a way that reduces latency and gives them storage flexibility, and does so in a way that helps them save money and support their business strategy. The H3 Biomedicine story will be supported by a look at the cloud technology and AWS services that have enabled application migration to the cloud in a hybrid IT environment.
Build a Cloud Render-Ready InfrastructureAvere Systems
Webinar presented September 8, 2015
Rendering applications place high-demands on both compute and storage in visual effects infrastructures. With peaks and valleys in the workflow being the norm, leading VFX creators look to the cloud to build infrastructures that provide flexibility to meet ongoing IT management challenges. In this webinar, you’ll hear from industry innovators about the advantages of cloud rendering and how VFX IT leaders are designing this on-demand solution with Avere Systems and Google Cloud Platform. Designed for CTOs, information systems directors, systems engineers and administrators, the content will discuss the initial steps and technical insights of a render-ready hybrid cloud IT architecture.
4 C’s for Using Cloud to Support Scientific ResearchAvere Systems
While cost is a primary "c" driving the adoption of object-based cloud solutions in the life sciences, compute, capacity, and collaboration may all be bigger incentives. In this webinar, we'll examine how to use an Avere Hybrid Cloud NAS infrastructure to gain big benefits in areas like genomics research, personalized medicine, drug discovery, imaging, and other data analysis applications.
• Compute - Building production environments in the compute cloud without rewriting existing applications
• Capacity - Modernizing storage archives and disaster recovery by adding object storage for durability while leveraging existing on-premises NAS
• Collaboration - Using the cloud t o safely and securely share data globally
• Cost - Using cloud to lower overall costs to keep pace with fast-growing demands of research initiatives
Avere & AWS Enterprise Solution with Special Bundle Pricing OfferAvere Systems
In this webinar, Sabina Joseph, AWS, and Mark Eastman, Avere, discuss the enterprise cloud NAS solution available using Avere FXT Edge Filers and Amazon Cloud Services. Special limited-time bundle pricing is available and will be reviewed at the end.
While organizations understand that cloud gives them benefits like cost savings, ability to keep up with exponential data growth, and enhanced productivity etc, it is equally difficult for them to ignore its integration challenges like an unfamiliar interface, performance degradation and user disruption.
Take a look at this info graphic to understand how Avere’s Enterprise Hybrid Cloud NAS provides the technology for a simple, flexible and cost-effective infrastructure that combines the best of NAS and Cloud.
This infographic demonstrates how the growth of data in the enterprise will require network-attached storage to integrate cloud provider services. Avere Systems' Cloud NAS solution allows data to easily use cloud storage as part of the NAS environment.
Infographic showing the benefits of adding Avere Cloud NAS to enterprise architecture to take advantage of AWS S3 or Glacier cloud services for storage.
Optimizing the Upstreaming Workflow: Flexibly Scale Storage for Seismic Proce...Avere Systems
Of all the applications in the oil and gas industry's upstream workflow, those involved in seismic processing place the greatest demand on storage. Pre-stack and post-stack migration, velocity modeling, and other processing steps are challenging even the highest performance NAS systems. In this Webinar, we discuss meeting these demands with accelerated performance, reduced cost, and a streamlined workflow.
Webinar: Untethering Compute from StorageAvere Systems
Enterprise storage infrastructures are gradually sprawling across the globe and consumers of data increasingly require access to remote storage resources. Solutions for mitigating the pain associated with this growth are out there, but performance varies. This Webinar will take a look at these challenges, review available solutions, and compare tests of performance.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
Many ways to support street children.pptxSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
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A process server is a authorized person for delivering legal documents, such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, and other court papers, to peoples involved in legal proceedings.
Presentation by Jared Jageler, David Adler, Noelia Duchovny, and Evan Herrnstadt, analysts in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies and Health Analysis Divisions, at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference.
ZGB - The Role of Generative AI in Government transformation.pdfSaeed Al Dhaheri
This keynote was presented during the the 7th edition of the UAE Hackathon 2024. It highlights the role of AI and Generative AI in addressing government transformation to achieve zero government bureaucracy
6. Security Analysis Workflow
• Acquire and Aggregate Inputs
• Normalize Data
• Archive Raw / Archive Normalized Data
• Analyze for Patterns
• Alert or Remediate
7. Types of Inputs
• Network Equipment: routers, switches, firewalls, VPN appliances, etc.
• IT: physical servers, VM infrastructure, virtual machines, directory services,
end user desktops/laptops
• Application Layer: log files, access logs for applications, web servers
• Miscellaneous: sensor data
9. Typical Ingest Workflow
Ingest Node(s)
Normalize/Filter
Storage
I/O at scale can slow
down storage, backing up
entire workflow
10. Typical Ingest Workflow
Ingest Node(s)
Normalize/Filter
Storage
Analyze data
Report/Alert
If analysis is not co-located,
latency can impede
analysis
11. Typical Analysis Workflow
Ingest Node(s)
Normalize/Filter
Storage
Analyze data
Report/Alert
If analysis is not co-located,
latency can impede
analysis
12. The meta-problem: Log File Ingest and Processing
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All router1 log files from the beginning
of time...well, from when we started
gathering them...
All log files from firewall 1 All log files from server 1Time
and
Volume
NET: A lot of historical data over time, applying pressure
both in terms of storage and processing
15. 5 challenges when engineering security workflows
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1. Ingest Latency and Throughput
2. Vendor Lock-In
3. Life Cycle Management
4. Data Availability and Redundancy
5. Cloud Integration
16. Challenge 1: Ingest Latency and Throughput
Ingest Node
Normalize/Filter
Storage
I/O at scale can slow down
storage, backing up entire
workflow
17. Ingest Latency Scales Too
Storage
The scale forces multiple storage sites,
and on some products requires a
replication mechanism, introducing more
cost, overhead and latency.
Ingest Node(s)
Normalize/Filter
Storage
Storage
Storage
Storage
Volume of inputs will
drive the number of
ingest nodes required.
IOT devices are increasing the amount of
log data being generated and ingested.
18. Challenge 2: Vendor Lock-In
Storage
Ingest Node(s)
Normalize/Filter
Storage
Storage
Storage
Storage
As solution scales:
1. Additional demand for storage increases costs, and
lowers performance.
2. Deficiencies in current storage solution amplifies as
deployment grows, longer upgrade outages.
3. Vendors often limit interoperability with other products
when it comes to replication and tiering.
19. Vendor Lock-In
Ability to transfer data to new solution is difficult:
• Business Continuity -- How do you stop ingesting and processing logs?
• Interoperability -- How do you ensure that your new/proposed storage solution will
work well in a high-performance environment
: Ingest performance
: Read performance
: Scale
20. Challenge 3: Data Lifecycle Management
Storage
Ingest Node(s)
Normalize/Filter
Storage
Storage
StorageMore Expensive
Storage
Value of the data
1. Lowering the cost to store means you can store
more and derive greater value.
2. New analytic methods/tools bring a fresh round of
analysis and burst workloads.
3. How can we begin to build AI based workloads?
Cheaper
Storage
Warm Data
Cold Data
21. Lifecycle Management
Storage Performance
• Ingest & analysis requires higher performance storage = More expensive
storage
• Over time simply too much data to store in performance tier
• Deletion of older data possible?
22. Challenge 4: Data Availability and Redundancy
Ingest Node
Normalize/Filter
Storage
Ingest Node
Normalize/Filter
Ingest Node
Normalize/Filter
Storage
Storage
Reporting and
Processing
Node
Reporting and
Processing
Node
Reporting and
Processing
Node
23. Data Availability and Redundancy
• Performance at scale requires distributing the reporting/analysis
• Geographical location of ingest may also be distributed
• Critical data: can’t lose it so avoid single point of failure
• Large data sets with streaming data are extremely difficult to backup with
traditional methods and are cost prohibitive
24. Challenge 5: Cloud Integration: Storage
Storage
Ingest Node(s)
Normalize/Filter
Storage
Storage
Storage
Storage
1. How to start archiving data to Cloud Storage, in
order to lower cost?
2. How can businesses leverage cloud-based AI
workloads against the same data they have
today?
25. Cloud Integration: Storage
Cloud Storage Pros
• Cloud Storage can be very
inexpensive
• Reduces the need to own and
maintain additional IT assets
• Public clouds have built-in
redundancy
Cloud Storage Cons
• Cloud storage is eventually
consistent...a query immediately
after a write may not succeed
• Lowest-cost storage is object, and
requires S3-compliant application
access
27. How can Avere address those challenges?
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Challenges Avere Solution
Ingest Latency and Throughput Avere write caching
Avere FXT NVRAM
10GB+ Bandwidth
Vendor Lock-In Global Namespace
Flash Move & Mirror
Life Cycle Management
Data Availability and Redundancy HA, Clustering
Flash Move & Mirror
Cloud Integration Avere vFXT compute-based appliance
Avere FlashCloud for AWS S3 and GCS
28. Speed Ingest via write-behind caching
• Gather writes (ack’ing clients immediately) and flushing in parallel
• Hardware: NVRAM for write protection and caching
• Clustered caching solution distributes writes across multiple nodes
Accelerate read performance with distributed, read-ahead caching
• Read-ahead a request (read a bit more than what was requested)
• Cache requests for other readers (typical in analytic workloads)
• Writes cached as written, speeding analysis workloads
The Power of High-Performance Caching
29. Caching Basic Architecture
Ingest Node
Normalize/Filter
Storage
● Ingest nodes write to NFS
mount points distributed across
a caching layer
Ingest Node
Normalize/Filter
Ingest Node
Normalize/Filter
● Writes are flushed to storage over time,
smoothing the ingest
● Writes are protected within the cluster via
HA mirror
Reporting /
Analysis
Node(s)
● Reporting / Analysis nodes access
data via the cluster.
● Reads are cached, eventually aged
● Written data in the near term is cached
and available
Avere FXT Cluster
30. Data Placement
Ingest Node
Normalize/Filter
Storage
Ingest Node
Normalize/Filter
Ingest Node
Normalize/Filter
Avere can Mirror data to
cloud storage for longer-
term archiving
Data is accessible
through the cluster, as
though it were on the
primary storage
Reporting
Analysis
Node(s)
32. Avere Security Workflow
FXT Cluster
DMZ Network
Central Control
Container based
applications to Normalize
data
DATA
Syslog/NetFlow/…
DATA
Streaming data to Avere
with no direct access
Core Filers
Splunk
Configure Splunk to eat data from
separate vServer (isolating traffic)
Splunk Data Consumers
Web access to visualize data ingested
and analyzed by Splunk
Mirror/Migrate/Cloud
Core Filers
34. Contact Us!
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Keith Ober
Systems Engineer
Avere Systems
kober@averesystems.com
Bernie Behn
Principal Product Engineer
Avere Systems
bbehn@averesystems.com
AvereSystems.com
888.88 AVERE
askavere@averesystems.com
Twitter: @AvereSystems