This document discusses implementing a private storage cloud to help reduce data storage costs. A private storage cloud allows sharing of storage resources across an organization on a dedicated private network. It provides flexibility, scalability and efficient management of rapidly growing data storage needs. The document outlines how a private storage cloud can help in situations like running out of storage space, upgrading old storage, and facilitating disaster recovery in the event of site failures. It also provides an overview of private storage cloud architecture.
Cloud archiving is presented as a good application for cloud storage. Archiving keeps long-term data stored on cloud disks or tapes, reducing the need to store it locally. While cloud storage is getting more affordable and flexible due to competition, concerns remain around vendor lock-in and a small number of major providers controlling the market. Strategic planning is needed to manage the exponential growth in data and associated storage and energy costs.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing models including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It defines each model and discusses their key characteristics and when each makes sense to use versus when alternatives may be better. Case studies are provided of companies using SaaS and PaaS solutions. The document aims to help readers understand the different cloud computing options and how to determine the best solution for their needs.
* Explore the similar histories of the cloud and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
* Discover the future relationship between CDNs and emerging cloud platforms as the lines of distinction continue to blur
* Learn from real world use cases in which these technologies interact together
Presidio's Data Center Practice focuses on delivering advanced data center solutions to customers by implementing virtual data center architectures using VMware, Cisco, and EMC technologies. Presidio has extensive expertise in server virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, converged networks, unified computing, storage solutions, and backup/recovery, allowing it to rapidly deploy virtual data centers. It operates the first EMC Velocity Solution Center to demonstrate these technologies and help customers.
cloud computing alcances e implementacionJorge Guerra
This document provides an overview of cloud computing implementation and technology. It begins with definitions of cloud computing and discusses taxonomy, costs, and examples of implementations. It then covers topics such as virtualization technology, different types of cloud computing including SaaS, and examples of cloud computing platforms like Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, and Google AppEngine. Overall, the document provides a high-level introduction to key concepts and trends in cloud computing.
The document is a presentation about scaling clouds for startups. It discusses the speaker's experience using various cloud providers and platforms. It provides an overview of cloud computing models and components. It also covers best practices like automating operations, architecting for failure and elasticity, and controlling cloud costs through metrics like utilization and reserved instances. The presentation emphasizes that choosing the right cloud stack and provider depends on the application needs and that planning for failures is essential given the cloud's dynamic nature.
Cloud archiving is presented as a good application for cloud storage. Archiving keeps long-term data stored on cloud disks or tapes, reducing the need to store it locally. While cloud storage is getting more affordable and flexible due to competition, concerns remain around vendor lock-in and a small number of major providers controlling the market. Strategic planning is needed to manage the exponential growth in data and associated storage and energy costs.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing models including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It defines each model and discusses their key characteristics and when each makes sense to use versus when alternatives may be better. Case studies are provided of companies using SaaS and PaaS solutions. The document aims to help readers understand the different cloud computing options and how to determine the best solution for their needs.
* Explore the similar histories of the cloud and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
* Discover the future relationship between CDNs and emerging cloud platforms as the lines of distinction continue to blur
* Learn from real world use cases in which these technologies interact together
Presidio's Data Center Practice focuses on delivering advanced data center solutions to customers by implementing virtual data center architectures using VMware, Cisco, and EMC technologies. Presidio has extensive expertise in server virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, converged networks, unified computing, storage solutions, and backup/recovery, allowing it to rapidly deploy virtual data centers. It operates the first EMC Velocity Solution Center to demonstrate these technologies and help customers.
cloud computing alcances e implementacionJorge Guerra
This document provides an overview of cloud computing implementation and technology. It begins with definitions of cloud computing and discusses taxonomy, costs, and examples of implementations. It then covers topics such as virtualization technology, different types of cloud computing including SaaS, and examples of cloud computing platforms like Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, and Google AppEngine. Overall, the document provides a high-level introduction to key concepts and trends in cloud computing.
The document is a presentation about scaling clouds for startups. It discusses the speaker's experience using various cloud providers and platforms. It provides an overview of cloud computing models and components. It also covers best practices like automating operations, architecting for failure and elasticity, and controlling cloud costs through metrics like utilization and reserved instances. The presentation emphasizes that choosing the right cloud stack and provider depends on the application needs and that planning for failures is essential given the cloud's dynamic nature.
This document discusses cloud computing and compares it to building and maintaining infrastructure on-premises. It notes that cloud computing allows companies to avoid the large upfront costs and complexity of managing their own infrastructure by paying only for the computing resources they use. It also discusses the benefits of scaling resources easily in the cloud without having to purchase and set up new hardware. Finally, it addresses common concerns about security, privacy, and control when using cloud services and outlines steps cloud providers take to isolate customer data and ensure its security.
Como a computação em nuvem e tecnologias de brokering podem auxiliar os prove...senaimais
Como a computação em nuvem e tecnologias de brokering podem auxiliar os provedores de serviços de telecomunicações e empresas a otimizar de forma econômica e eficiente seus ambientes de TI, plataformas de serviços e modelos de prestação de serviços - How cloud computing and cloud brokering technologies help telecommunication service providers and enterprises to efficiently and economically optimize their IT and service platforms and service delivery models
Palestrante: M.Sc. Florian Schreiner - Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems - FhG FOKUS / Alemanha
4 Ways To Save Big Money in Your Data Center and Private Cloudtervela
The thirst for real-time access to rich content and big data is turning enterprise datacenters into private computing clouds. However, making exabyte-scale data available and responsive to a global application network gets expensive. Fortunately there are things you can do to save big money in these sophisticated new environments. In this presentation you will learn how to save money, avoid costs, and create significant efficiencies in your private cloud by: Consolidating databases and data warehouses, Slashing big data storage and storage-based data replication , Replacing expensive middleware, and Eliminating cold disaster recovery
The document discusses Data Domain, a data deduplication storage system that can reduce data moved by up to 95%, CPU usage by 80%, backup windows by 90%, data stored by up to 30 times, and replication bandwidth by 99%. Data Domain offers various software options like DD Boost to distribute deduplication processing and DD Replicator for network-efficient encrypted replication. It provides benefits like using less disk and resources, simple and flexible integration, resilience and fast disaster recovery.
Cloud Computing is a growing research topic in recent years. The key concept of Cloud Computing is to provide a resource sharing model based on virtualization, distributed file system, parallel algorithm and web services. But how can we provide a testbed for cloud computing related training courses? In this talk we will share our experience to build cloud computing testbed for virtualization, high throughput computing and bioinformatics applications. It covers lots of open source projects, such as DRBL, Xen, Hadoop and bioinformatics related applications.
In short, Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL) provides a diskless or systemless environment for client machines. It works on Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS and SuSE. DRBL uses distributed hardware resources and makes it possible for clients to fully access local hardware.
Xen is one of open source hypervisor for linux kernel. It had been used in Amazon EC2 production environment to provide cloud service model (1) — "Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)". In this talk, we will show you how DRBL can help on fast deployment of Xen playground in classroom.
Hadoop is becoming the well-known open source cloud computing technology developed by Apache community. It is very power tool for data mining. It had been used in Yahoo and Facebook production environment to provide cloud service model (2) — "Platform as a Service (PaaS)". It’s easy to setup single hadoop node but difficult to manage a hadoop cluster. In this talk, we will show you how DRBL can help on fast deployment and management.
Most bioinformatics applications are open source, such as R, Bioconductor, BLAST, Clustal, PipMaker, Phylip, etc. But it also require traditional cluster job submission. In this talk we will show you how DRBL can help to build a testbed of bioinformatics research and provide cloud service model (3) — "Software as a Service (SaaS)". In this talk, we will cover how to:
- 1. Use DRBL to deploy Xen virtual cluster (drbl-xen)
- 2. Use DRBL to deploy Hadoop cluster (drbl-hadoop)
- 3. Use DRBL to deploy bioinformatics cluster (drbl-biocluster)
A live demonstration about drbl-hadoop and drbl-biocluster will be done in the talk, too.
Back that *aa s up – bridging multiple clouds for bursting and redundancyRightScale
Back that *aaS up – Bridging Multiple Clouds for Bursting and Redundancy
Peder Ulander, VP of Product Marketing, Cloud Platform Group, Citrix Systems
Bridging multiple cloud computing environments allows enterprises to plan for peak usage even while only building capacity for today’s needs. Using CloudStack, CloudBridge and RightScale can enable Enterprise IT to extend resource pools beyond physical datacenter boundaries and leverage additional private clouds or public clouds to meet peak usage requirements and smoothly manage planned or unplanned capacity spikes.
Future of the Cloud: Cloud Platform APIs are the Business of ComputingReadWrite
This document discusses how cloud platforms are the future of computing and outlines several types of clouds including infrastructure clouds, app store clouds, enterprise clouds, and identity clouds. It also explores how VMware and Intel technologies provide the foundation for virtualization that allows managed service providers like Opus Interactive to offer flexible, on-demand hosting services and better value to clients.
From IaaS to PaaS to Docker Networking to … Cloud Networking ScalabilityDaoliCloud Ltd
This document discusses the scalability challenges of cloud networking and proposes a solution using Network Virtualization Infrastructure (NVI) technology. It reasons that NVI can provide scalable cloud networking by connecting independently orchestrated clouds, each with a modest physical scale, using network patching. This is presented as a solution to the lack of scalability in today's cloud networking practices, which are discussed and shown to involve non-virtualization and scale-up approaches that limit overall size.
Serving Media From The Edge - Miles Ward - AWS Summit 2012 AustraliaAmazon Web Services
The document discusses how media and entertainment companies can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to address common needs around media storage, processing, and distribution by leveraging AWS services like S3, EC2, EMR, CloudFront, and Route 53 to build scalable, cost-effective infrastructure for tasks like content ingestion, encoding, storage, streaming, and content delivery. Examples are provided of how media companies have used AWS services to reduce costs, improve performance and scalability, and focus on their core business rather than infrastructure management.
CloudOpt's introduction presentation. This presentation gives a general overview of the problems with cloud adoption and addresses the problem of how to handle data movement and the encryption of data in transit. CloudOpt's solution shows how to accelerate data movement and application access in the cloud.
The document discusses current issues in data storage management including rapid data growth, the impact of server virtualization on storage, the increasing importance of disaster recovery and data protection capabilities, and the need for more dynamic and cloud-like infrastructure provisioning. It also outlines Fujitsu's ETERNUS storage systems which address these issues through a seamless product family design, scalability, unified management software, thin provisioning capabilities, and data replication features for disaster recovery and business continuity.
Our data services are based on the importance of the data (its category) and not just on its volume. This way we can build cost effective data
management
solutions with you.
Savings of up to 35% typically achievable against in-house options.
This document summarizes Intechnology's multi-tier data management services. It offers managed replication for mission-critical tier 1 data, managed backup for critical tier 2 data, and managed archiving for legacy tier 3 data. By automatically matching different types of data to the appropriate storage tier and service, Intechnology helps customers reduce costs, improve data access and retention, and scale storage capacity as needed. The multi-tier approach provides business benefits like lower expenses, improved performance and security, and reduced infrastructure management burdens and carbon footprint.
Genetic Engineering - Teamworking Infrastructure For Post And DIQuantel
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The document introduces Quantum Lattus, a wide area storage solution for managing large volumes of data across multiple sites. It uses fountain coding algorithms to distribute encoded data across object storage nodes, providing self-healing capabilities and 15 nines of durability. Lattus can scale from 500TB to hundreds of petabytes, offers both file system and REST access, and provides lower costs than other solutions through reduced maintenance needs, power/cooling, and high redundancy.
Cloud computing allows software applications to be accessed over the internet using various devices. Clouds can be public, private, or hybrid depending on who has access to the infrastructure. Cloud computing maximizes the effectiveness of shared computing resources by dynamically allocating them based on demand across users and locations. This approach aims to improve efficiency and reduce environmental costs compared to each user having their own dedicated resources.
Cloud storage allows users to store digital data on remote servers owned and managed by a hosting company rather than on local hard drives. It offers various benefits like lower costs compared to physical storage, universal accessibility of files from any internet-connected device, automatic updates and synchronization of data across devices, and use of redundancy to protect against data loss from hardware failures. While cloud storage is cheaper than local storage for businesses due to eliminating hardware purchases and maintenance, it also has some disadvantages like reliance on internet access and issues with data privacy and security control.
This document discusses IBM's cloud storage solution for transforming information infrastructure. It provides three examples of how cloud storage could help organizations by allowing dynamic storage management: 1) A company running out of disk space on a Friday could non-disruptively add storage in the cloud. 2) Old storage systems can be replaced by migrating data to the cloud without downtime. 3) Cloud storage provides disaster recovery by replicating and accessing data in the cloud when primary storage fails.
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.
This presentation provides an overview of cloud storage. It defines cloud storage as storing digital data in logical pools across multiple servers, often in multiple locations, managed by a hosting company. The presentation discusses how cloud storage works using redundancy and replication across data servers and equipment. It outlines business benefits like automatic data backup, scalability, and lower costs compared to physical storage. Personal cloud storage services like iCloud are mentioned. The presentation also covers the types of cloud storage, advantages like low cost and accessibility, disadvantages like internet reliance, and concludes that cloud computing adoption could cause problems for users.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing, including its benefits of reduced costs and increased storage capabilities. It describes the three cloud computing models of Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Public clouds are owned by third parties and offer economies of scale, while private clouds are built exclusively for a single enterprise and offer greater security and control. Hybrid clouds combine public and private models. The document also outlines some challenges of cloud computing around data security, availability, management capabilities, and regulatory compliance.
This document discusses cloud computing and compares it to building and maintaining infrastructure on-premises. It notes that cloud computing allows companies to avoid the large upfront costs and complexity of managing their own infrastructure by paying only for the computing resources they use. It also discusses the benefits of scaling resources easily in the cloud without having to purchase and set up new hardware. Finally, it addresses common concerns about security, privacy, and control when using cloud services and outlines steps cloud providers take to isolate customer data and ensure its security.
Como a computação em nuvem e tecnologias de brokering podem auxiliar os prove...senaimais
Como a computação em nuvem e tecnologias de brokering podem auxiliar os provedores de serviços de telecomunicações e empresas a otimizar de forma econômica e eficiente seus ambientes de TI, plataformas de serviços e modelos de prestação de serviços - How cloud computing and cloud brokering technologies help telecommunication service providers and enterprises to efficiently and economically optimize their IT and service platforms and service delivery models
Palestrante: M.Sc. Florian Schreiner - Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems - FhG FOKUS / Alemanha
4 Ways To Save Big Money in Your Data Center and Private Cloudtervela
The thirst for real-time access to rich content and big data is turning enterprise datacenters into private computing clouds. However, making exabyte-scale data available and responsive to a global application network gets expensive. Fortunately there are things you can do to save big money in these sophisticated new environments. In this presentation you will learn how to save money, avoid costs, and create significant efficiencies in your private cloud by: Consolidating databases and data warehouses, Slashing big data storage and storage-based data replication , Replacing expensive middleware, and Eliminating cold disaster recovery
The document discusses Data Domain, a data deduplication storage system that can reduce data moved by up to 95%, CPU usage by 80%, backup windows by 90%, data stored by up to 30 times, and replication bandwidth by 99%. Data Domain offers various software options like DD Boost to distribute deduplication processing and DD Replicator for network-efficient encrypted replication. It provides benefits like using less disk and resources, simple and flexible integration, resilience and fast disaster recovery.
Cloud Computing is a growing research topic in recent years. The key concept of Cloud Computing is to provide a resource sharing model based on virtualization, distributed file system, parallel algorithm and web services. But how can we provide a testbed for cloud computing related training courses? In this talk we will share our experience to build cloud computing testbed for virtualization, high throughput computing and bioinformatics applications. It covers lots of open source projects, such as DRBL, Xen, Hadoop and bioinformatics related applications.
In short, Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL) provides a diskless or systemless environment for client machines. It works on Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS and SuSE. DRBL uses distributed hardware resources and makes it possible for clients to fully access local hardware.
Xen is one of open source hypervisor for linux kernel. It had been used in Amazon EC2 production environment to provide cloud service model (1) — "Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)". In this talk, we will show you how DRBL can help on fast deployment of Xen playground in classroom.
Hadoop is becoming the well-known open source cloud computing technology developed by Apache community. It is very power tool for data mining. It had been used in Yahoo and Facebook production environment to provide cloud service model (2) — "Platform as a Service (PaaS)". It’s easy to setup single hadoop node but difficult to manage a hadoop cluster. In this talk, we will show you how DRBL can help on fast deployment and management.
Most bioinformatics applications are open source, such as R, Bioconductor, BLAST, Clustal, PipMaker, Phylip, etc. But it also require traditional cluster job submission. In this talk we will show you how DRBL can help to build a testbed of bioinformatics research and provide cloud service model (3) — "Software as a Service (SaaS)". In this talk, we will cover how to:
- 1. Use DRBL to deploy Xen virtual cluster (drbl-xen)
- 2. Use DRBL to deploy Hadoop cluster (drbl-hadoop)
- 3. Use DRBL to deploy bioinformatics cluster (drbl-biocluster)
A live demonstration about drbl-hadoop and drbl-biocluster will be done in the talk, too.
Back that *aa s up – bridging multiple clouds for bursting and redundancyRightScale
Back that *aaS up – Bridging Multiple Clouds for Bursting and Redundancy
Peder Ulander, VP of Product Marketing, Cloud Platform Group, Citrix Systems
Bridging multiple cloud computing environments allows enterprises to plan for peak usage even while only building capacity for today’s needs. Using CloudStack, CloudBridge and RightScale can enable Enterprise IT to extend resource pools beyond physical datacenter boundaries and leverage additional private clouds or public clouds to meet peak usage requirements and smoothly manage planned or unplanned capacity spikes.
Future of the Cloud: Cloud Platform APIs are the Business of ComputingReadWrite
This document discusses how cloud platforms are the future of computing and outlines several types of clouds including infrastructure clouds, app store clouds, enterprise clouds, and identity clouds. It also explores how VMware and Intel technologies provide the foundation for virtualization that allows managed service providers like Opus Interactive to offer flexible, on-demand hosting services and better value to clients.
From IaaS to PaaS to Docker Networking to … Cloud Networking ScalabilityDaoliCloud Ltd
This document discusses the scalability challenges of cloud networking and proposes a solution using Network Virtualization Infrastructure (NVI) technology. It reasons that NVI can provide scalable cloud networking by connecting independently orchestrated clouds, each with a modest physical scale, using network patching. This is presented as a solution to the lack of scalability in today's cloud networking practices, which are discussed and shown to involve non-virtualization and scale-up approaches that limit overall size.
Serving Media From The Edge - Miles Ward - AWS Summit 2012 AustraliaAmazon Web Services
The document discusses how media and entertainment companies can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to address common needs around media storage, processing, and distribution by leveraging AWS services like S3, EC2, EMR, CloudFront, and Route 53 to build scalable, cost-effective infrastructure for tasks like content ingestion, encoding, storage, streaming, and content delivery. Examples are provided of how media companies have used AWS services to reduce costs, improve performance and scalability, and focus on their core business rather than infrastructure management.
CloudOpt's introduction presentation. This presentation gives a general overview of the problems with cloud adoption and addresses the problem of how to handle data movement and the encryption of data in transit. CloudOpt's solution shows how to accelerate data movement and application access in the cloud.
The document discusses current issues in data storage management including rapid data growth, the impact of server virtualization on storage, the increasing importance of disaster recovery and data protection capabilities, and the need for more dynamic and cloud-like infrastructure provisioning. It also outlines Fujitsu's ETERNUS storage systems which address these issues through a seamless product family design, scalability, unified management software, thin provisioning capabilities, and data replication features for disaster recovery and business continuity.
Our data services are based on the importance of the data (its category) and not just on its volume. This way we can build cost effective data
management
solutions with you.
Savings of up to 35% typically achievable against in-house options.
This document summarizes Intechnology's multi-tier data management services. It offers managed replication for mission-critical tier 1 data, managed backup for critical tier 2 data, and managed archiving for legacy tier 3 data. By automatically matching different types of data to the appropriate storage tier and service, Intechnology helps customers reduce costs, improve data access and retention, and scale storage capacity as needed. The multi-tier approach provides business benefits like lower expenses, improved performance and security, and reduced infrastructure management burdens and carbon footprint.
Genetic Engineering - Teamworking Infrastructure For Post And DIQuantel
This white paper discusses a new teamworking infrastructure called Genetic Engineering from Quantel that aims to improve collaboration in post-production and digital intermediate workflows. It addresses limitations of current file-based and shared storage approaches, such as inefficient use of disk space and lack of support for different formats across applications. Genetic Engineering builds on Quantel's direct-attach storage technology to provide high-performance, fault-tolerant access to media without copying for editing. It also includes media management that tracks relationships at the frame-level to enable more efficient storage usage and collaborative workflows across multiple systems.
The document introduces Quantum Lattus, a wide area storage solution for managing large volumes of data across multiple sites. It uses fountain coding algorithms to distribute encoded data across object storage nodes, providing self-healing capabilities and 15 nines of durability. Lattus can scale from 500TB to hundreds of petabytes, offers both file system and REST access, and provides lower costs than other solutions through reduced maintenance needs, power/cooling, and high redundancy.
Cloud computing allows software applications to be accessed over the internet using various devices. Clouds can be public, private, or hybrid depending on who has access to the infrastructure. Cloud computing maximizes the effectiveness of shared computing resources by dynamically allocating them based on demand across users and locations. This approach aims to improve efficiency and reduce environmental costs compared to each user having their own dedicated resources.
Cloud storage allows users to store digital data on remote servers owned and managed by a hosting company rather than on local hard drives. It offers various benefits like lower costs compared to physical storage, universal accessibility of files from any internet-connected device, automatic updates and synchronization of data across devices, and use of redundancy to protect against data loss from hardware failures. While cloud storage is cheaper than local storage for businesses due to eliminating hardware purchases and maintenance, it also has some disadvantages like reliance on internet access and issues with data privacy and security control.
This document discusses IBM's cloud storage solution for transforming information infrastructure. It provides three examples of how cloud storage could help organizations by allowing dynamic storage management: 1) A company running out of disk space on a Friday could non-disruptively add storage in the cloud. 2) Old storage systems can be replaced by migrating data to the cloud without downtime. 3) Cloud storage provides disaster recovery by replicating and accessing data in the cloud when primary storage fails.
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.
This presentation provides an overview of cloud storage. It defines cloud storage as storing digital data in logical pools across multiple servers, often in multiple locations, managed by a hosting company. The presentation discusses how cloud storage works using redundancy and replication across data servers and equipment. It outlines business benefits like automatic data backup, scalability, and lower costs compared to physical storage. Personal cloud storage services like iCloud are mentioned. The presentation also covers the types of cloud storage, advantages like low cost and accessibility, disadvantages like internet reliance, and concludes that cloud computing adoption could cause problems for users.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing, including its benefits of reduced costs and increased storage capabilities. It describes the three cloud computing models of Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Public clouds are owned by third parties and offer economies of scale, while private clouds are built exclusively for a single enterprise and offer greater security and control. Hybrid clouds combine public and private models. The document also outlines some challenges of cloud computing around data security, availability, management capabilities, and regulatory compliance.
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.
The document discusses how IBM XIV storage is well-suited for cloud computing environments due to its massively parallel architecture, ability to scale performance with capacity, and provide elasticity. It delivers consistent high performance at lower costs than traditional storage. Key features that make it suitable include powerful virtualization, predictable performance even with mixed workloads, ease of management, and ability to meet service level agreements for tenants. Case studies show how XIV storage helps accelerate cloud implementations and lower costs.
The document provides an overview of cloud computing and advice for managed service providers and value-added resellers on adopting and recommending cloud solutions to clients. It summarizes that cloud adoption will be gradual as businesses will maintain some on-site solutions and hybrid models. It advises providers to [1] become experts on cloud solutions, [2] understand service level agreements of cloud providers, [3] build customized solutions that meet client needs and budgets, and [4] avoid rushing clients into full cloud adoption and allow a phased approach.
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In today's digital landscape, data protection and disaster recovery are critical components of any robust IT strategy. This article delves into various solutions designed to safeguard your data against loss, corruption, and cyber threats. Explore the latest technologies and best practices for effective data protection, from backup strategies to comprehensive disaster recovery plans. To know more: https://stonefly.com/white-papers/data-protection-disaster-recovery-solution/
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Cloud storage is a model where digital data is stored in logical pools across multiple servers, often in multiple locations, managed by a hosting company. It allows data access from anywhere at any time. Data is maintained, backed up, and made available to users over a network like the Internet. Benefits include low costs, automatic data updates across devices, remote data recovery in disasters, and scalability. Types include public, private, hybrid, and community cloud storage. Considerations for choosing a provider include storage needs, budget, performance, support, data protection, and security.
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Virtual private cloud gives the users a private environment suitable for cloud computing that is contained within a public cloud. A virtual private cloud can be used for storing data, running codes, hosting websites, and everything else that you intend to do in any usual private cloud. As the public cloud computing environment is highly crowded, you will still get that private space within it to carry out your operations.
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The document discusses private clouds and their benefits for government organizations. A private cloud provides dedicated cloud resources either on-premises or hosted remotely, allowing more control over security, customization, and governance than a public cloud. A private cloud can help optimize existing server capacity, increase data center efficiency, and provide consistent services. When comparing private cloud providers, an organization should consider attributes like security, management capabilities, storage options, supported services, and customer support. A private cloud can help agencies lower costs while supporting initiatives like data center consolidation, telework support, and greener computing.
The document provides an overview of Oracle Database Backup Service (ODBS), which enables customers to securely store database backups in Oracle's cloud storage. It describes how the Oracle Database Cloud Backup Module (ODCBM) installs on the database server and uses familiar RMAN commands to transparently backup databases to ODBS and restore from ODBS. The document also outlines the steps to set up ODBS, including purchasing storage, installing ODCBM, configuring RMAN and encryption settings, performing backups, and restoring from backups.
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. It provides users the ability to store and access their data and programs from any computer or mobile device with internet access. The key benefits of cloud computing are lower costs, universal data access, and scalability. However, it also poses security and reliability risks due to dependence on a third-party provider and constant internet connection.
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Successfully Implementing a private storage cloud to help reduce total cost of ownership - 391
1. IBM Global Technology Services
November 2009
Successfully implementing a private storage
cloud to help reduce total cost of ownership
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Executive summary
Contents Reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data storage is a top priority
for most IT managers today. The initial storage hardware purchase is only
2 Executive summary the beginning, and often not the most expensive part of the solution. With data
3 What is a storage cloud? continuing to increase exponentially, it is not likely that you will be able to
3 A story—or three—for inspiration reduce the amount of data stored. Therefore, reducing your TCO for your storage
3 Out of disk space infrastructure requires you to improve your overall efficiency—including daily
4 Goodbye to old storage maintenance, upgrades and the dynamic introduction of new technologies to
4 Disaster recovery, cloud-style an existing infrastructure to improve scalability. This includes the ability to mix
4 Private storage cloud architecture: server and storage technologies, nondisruptively add and remove storage, and
An overview move data as requirements fluctuate over time without incurring downtime.
6 IBM and storage cloud technology You also need to be able to provide multiple levels of business service to meet
6 Dynamic storage management availability or regulatory compliance requirements across your organization.
8 Scalable capacity and performance
8 Concurrent, multiprotocol data access Achieving these goals requires a storage technology that is flexible, scalable and
9 New levels of manageability easy to manage. For many organizations, private storage cloud is the answer. By
10 Getting up and running decoupling the node running the application and the storage of data, a private
11 Conclusion storage cloud solution can provide the flexibility, scalability and manageability
needed to support explosive data growth while reining in costs.
This paper defines what is meant today by the term private storage cloud and
provides insight as to the types of technologies you can look forward to in
the not-so-distant future. We will examine how IBM Smart Business Storage
Cloud can facilitate a successful implementation of your next-generation storage
cloud infrastructure—one that can offer improved availability, flexibility and
efficiency to help reduce your overall TCO.
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What is a storage cloud?
A storage cloud is an emerging technology and an integral part of the future of
data storage. Designed for affordability and efficiency, a flexible storage cloud
solution can optimize your available storage capacity, enabling fast, easy access
to storage where and when you need it.
There are two types of scenarios available for a storage cloud: public or private.
An example of a public implementation of a storage cloud would be a service
that allows you to back up your video files to the Internet so that end users will
be able to access them on demand. An example of a private implementation of
a storage cloud would be enabling hospitals and facilities within a network to
access stored images from a medical imaging provider.
While the public storage cloud provides for variable billing options and shared
tenancy, the private cloud offers fixed charges and dedicated tenancy for enterprises
looking for flexibility around ownership, management and maintenance of the
storage cloud.
A story—or three—for inspiration
To better illustrate the concept of storage cloud technology, let’s take a look at
a few situations storage administrators face each day and how a storage cloud
environment can help.
Out of disk space
It’s Friday evening at 4:59 p.m. and the phone rings. It is the vice president of
marketing, and he sounds concerned. He explains 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. You look and see that the marketing
department has fully utilized its pool of storage. You quickly identify that there
is still plenty of space on a storage pool you added the other day. Using the
management interface, you can dynamically expand the storage allocation
for the marketing department to include space in this new storage pool. You
tell the marketing vice president that the additional space has been added,
and they will have enough to finish their work. At 5:02 p.m. you head home.
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Goodbye to old storage
It is Tuesday afternoon and you have just finished plugging in a new storage
server. You add it to your storage cloud. With the addition of the new higher
density storage, it is now time to retire the older, less dense storage. With a few
clicks, your existing data is redistributed to the new storage and the old storage
disks are emptied. On Thursday afternoon, after running the data migration
process behind the scenes for a couple of days, your existing data and new data
are now evenly distributed over the newly added storage, and the old storage
is empty and ready for removal. Throughout the entire redistribution and
removal, the application data remained online and available—keeping your
employees productive and your customers happy.
Disaster recovery, cloud-style
You set up your storage cloud to maintain three copies of each file across three
separate sites at all times. Good thing you did, because one afternoon a flood
at the site that runs all of the IT equipment takes the entire site offline. This is
when your cloud polices take effect. When the site goes down, client requests
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 starts to populate that site with the
data from the newly selected primary site, automatically restoring the original
configuration. With your applications taken care of, you can focus your energy
on drying out the flooded data center.
Private storage cloud architecture: An overview
Storage area network (SAN) technology introduced the ability to connect
storage through a network, which was a great improvement to disks attached
using small computer system interface (SCSI) or another type of direct con-
nection. 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
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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 logical unit number (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 operating system supports dynamically growing a file system.
A private storage cloud architecture takes this idea further by decoupling
the server and the storage. When a host needs more space in a storage cloud
infrastructure, 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 simply whatever is available in the storage server attached to the host.
Instead, it is the proper storage type for the application based on performance,
availability and quality of service levels. When more of a particular type of
storage is required, it is added to the cloud, assigned characteristics such as
level of performance and reliability, and made available for use.
Many organizations have not implemented tiered storage yet because they lack
a tightly integrated infrastructure between the tiers and high-performance
tools to effectively manage the data. It was not always practical to provide
three different classes of storage to each host or application due to SAN
complexity and tool limitations. An effective private storage cloud solution
makes managing tiers of storage a practical reality. To the host, the private
storage cloud is accessed in a common manner through standard network
file access protocols, regardless of the use of the storage. The data is available
concurrently through multiple protocols. 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.
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IBM and storage cloud technology
While many vendors offer storage cloud solutions in the market with promising
levels of scalability and performance, often these solutions can be built on
relatively new software and hardware combinations. In 2007, IBM introduced
a second-generation storage cloud technology called IBM Storage Optimization
and Integration Services – scale out file services (SOFS). Like SOFS, IBM
Smart Business Storage Cloud, the next generation of storage cloud solutions
from IBM are built on the proven reliability of IBM System x® servers and IBM
TotalStorage® disk technologies paired with industry-leading software, such
as the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) and IBM Tivoli® Storage
Manager. These technologies have been integrated into a storage cloud solution
based on years of internal use providing file services to IBM’s more than
300,000 employees. The result is a flexible, standards-based and enterprise-
ready storage cloud solution that can support advanced virtualization. Private
storage cloud solution technology and services from IBM address multiple
areas of functionality, including:
• Dynamic storage management
• Scalable capacity and performance
• Concurrent, multiprotocol data access
• New levels of manageability
The next few sections discuss these capabilities in greater detail.
Dynamic storage management
With support for multiple types of storage and storage connection mechanisms,
the storage cloud solution from IBM enables you to mix storage technologies
like Fibre Channel disks, serial attached SCSI expanders (SAS) and serial ATA
(SATA) disk technologies. The ability to contain multiple pools of storage in
a single namespace, however, is just the first step to implementing a storage
pooling strategy. Making storage pools effective requires a mechanism to
efficiently and dynamically migrate data from pool to pool with no additional
overhead or impact to data access. File data in the storage cloud solution from IBM
can be migrated from pool to pool automatically based on predefined policies.
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Two main features make this storage solution uniquely capable of high-
performance storage management: disk-to-disk migrations over the SAN,
and extremely fast scanning of file metadata. Disk-to-disk migrations in
the storage cloud solution from IBM are direct disk-to-disk data copies
with virtually 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
to provide high performance with great flexibility. Migrations can be done
online without interrupting data access. And data movement can be done
slowly by a single node or very quickly by running migration operations in
parallel by all nodes in the solution system.
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, the storage cloud
solution from IBM processes rules and starts moving data very quickly,
allowing you to apply a set of policies on a set of 1 billion files in about
15 minutes.
In addition, the private storage cloud solution from IBM allows you to grow a
single namespace beyond the SAN to facilitate optimal flexibility. Typically
there are limits with a SAN infrastructure to how many hosts can share a
single disk array, and how many hosts can 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 technologies. The private storage cloud solution from IBM utilizes
a block-level network-based protocol (similar in concept to iSCSI), which 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 approach allows for great
flexibility by enabling growth beyond a SAN. It also enables you to easily adopt
new storage technologies as they become available and integrate them directly
into your existing storage cloud solution.
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Scalable capacity and performance
Successfully implementing a storage cloud 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. Effec-
tive scalability of a storage cloud solution requires that you can efficiently mix
front-end processing power with the data storage to supply the right balance
for the application. Storage cloud scalability does not mean simply having the
ability to place 1 petabyte 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 storage cloud
solution must be able to support billions of files and multiple petabytes of data
while dynamically providing room to grow and support future technologies.
The private storage cloud solution from IBM provides the capacity, perfor-
mance scalability and flexibility required to effectively support a very large
namespace and a high performance cloud entry point. A storage cloud solution
from IBM 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
storage cloud solution from IBM allows the infrastructure to grow as needed.
This growth can be in a single data center or across geographically distributed
processing centers.
Concurrent, multiprotocol data access
So how is storage as a service actually provided today? A storage cloud solution
provides multiprotocol access to a common set of data using multiple standard
interfaces. This includes access from a mix of hosts to a set of data over network
protocols including network file system (NFS) and common Internet file system
(CIFS) while concurrently providing data access to SAN-attached hosts.
The private storage cloud solution from IBM provides standards-based network
access to data by protocols, including CIFS and NFS access 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 storage cloud solution.
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In addition to the standard network protocols, the private storage cloud solution
from IBM provides the ability to add Linux® nodes that are running your own
applications. These nodes can access a common set of data directly over the
SAN, if required. This allows high performance access to the data concurrently
with client network access to the same data and 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
The private storage cloud solution from IBM provides a single point of manage-
ment through a Web-based administration tool. Through this management
interface, you can administer clusters and monitor events across the entire
solution, which are collected in a central event log. The administrator can
define what event types are e-mailed, for example, to a set of administrators.
You can also use the management tool to collect and view information on many
solution dimensions and graph the results over time. For example, you can
collect CPU or file system utilization and review it over the last month to
determine whether to add more nodes or storage. The storage cloud solution
from IBM provides an SNMP interface that integrates with other monitoring
solutions to enable you to browse cluster information that can be monitored
from many standard tools.
The private storage cloud solution from IBM provides for growing environ-
ments 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.
The private storage cloud solution from IBM also provides a new mode of space
management. Typically administrators create dozens of small files system and
apply these spaces to the users as space is requested—either because file system
size is limited or there are insufficient tools to manage a large namespace for
backup and hardware security module (HSM) operations. With the storage cloud
solution from IBM, each storage pool can be multiple petabytes in size, and these
pools can contain billions of files. This allows the system administrator to more
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effectively use available storage through features such as over-provisioning,
quota management and high performance reporting tools. In addition, you
can free system administrators’ time by delegating some space management
operations to other people for project creation and share definition.
Getting up and running
Deciding to implement a private storage cloud solution is one thing. The actual
implementation is another, particularly if you’d prefer not to divert IT staff from
other activities. If you’d like help getting started—or just need help maintaining
your solution—IBM offers a number of storage services designed to help you
quickly and reliably implement, manage and maintain a scalable storage cloud
system. Delivered by highly experienced professionals located at your site or
through a network of global and regional delivery centers, IBM provides best
practices and a single point of contact for asset, configuration, performance
and problem call management.
The services support model from IBM uses a layered approach that
can include:
• Consulting— evaluating criteria, information lifecycle management
and archiving
• Performance tuning – troubleshooting and fixing performance issues
related to existing environment or new application or user group deployments
• Design and implementation — solution design and sizing, deployment
and provisioning
• Ongoing cloud services — a single point of contact and assistance during
the operational phase as well as 24x7 monitoring and full maintenance,
including daily housekeeping, upgrades and policy management
• Optional cloud management services — hosting, real-time hardware and
software monitoring and management, Web portal interface for ticketing
and cloud report presentment, and management of other hosted components
such as tape libraries, servers and applications
• Expert technical support — access to extensive technology expertise
and consultation for advanced support assistance on demand
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Conclusion
Private storage cloud technology is rapidly advancing to the point where data is
continually accessible at the required performance, with never-ending space
to store it. As we edge closer to that reality, increasing numbers of organizations
have recognized that a private storage cloud is the right fit for their organization.
Implementing a storage cloud solution can greatly optimize your storage
infrastructure and increase efficiency to help reduce your storage TCO. As
you plan your storage cloud implementation, you will want to start with a
thorough assessment of your environment to make sure you fully optimize
your investment. IBM is a leading provider of storage-related services that can
help customers streamline their storage environments and reduce unnecessary
overhead. IBM Smart Business Storage Cloud, along with IBM Storage Optimi-
zation and Integration Services – scale out file services, make an unbeatable
combination to facilitate a successful implementation of your next-generation
storage cloud infrastructure.