This document discusses private cloud storage solutions as an alternative to public cloud services like Dropbox. It introduces ownCloud, an open source file sync and sharing solution that can be deployed on a company's private cloud infrastructure using OpenShift and Red Hat Storage. This provides secure access to files while giving users the same easy experience as consumer file sync services. The document provides an overview of the key components and demonstrates how ownCloud could be deployed on OpenShift along with MySQL and PHP to provide a private, self-hosted file sharing and sync solution.
Webinar: Cloud Archiving – Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure or Something Else?Storage Switzerland
Amazon Glacier seems like the ultimate archive; capacity costs are impressively cheap, it never has to be upgraded or replaced and all the data is off-site. The problem is at some point the organization is going to need to recover some specific set of data from that archive. At that point, the allure of Glacier wears off quickly because it is slow and recovery has to be done either through the command line or within software code. There is no self-service web-portal access to identify and retrieve specific content easily.
Join Storage Switzerland and Cloudian in this on demand webinar where we discuss the advantages of object storage over NAS, the problems with converting from NAS to object storage and how to overcome those problems.
This document discusses how Backup Exec can be used to backup data to AWS cloud storage. Some key points:
- Backup Exec integrates with AWS S3 storage and allows backups to be transferred to AWS cloud as an offsite storage option. This expands hybrid cloud capabilities.
- Backup Exec provides unified data protection for applications, files, servers, and EC2 instances across on-premises and AWS cloud environments.
- Data is encrypted during transfer and at rest in AWS cloud storage. Backup Exec ensures security, compliance, and cost optimization when backing up to the cloud.
- Pre-configured Backup Exec images are available on AWS Marketplace to simplify deployment and backup of AWS workloads to the cloud
SPONSORED WORKSHOP by Cleversafe from Structure:Data 2012Gigaom
The document discusses the challenges of storing and analyzing big data. It notes that the amount of data, especially unstructured data, is growing exponentially and will require new storage methods. It then describes how dispersed storage technology works by using information dispersal algorithms to distribute and retrieve data across multiple sites with high availability and reliability.
Open Source Data Orchestration for AI, Big Data, and CloudAlluxio, Inc.
- Alluxio is an open source data orchestration platform that allows data to be accessed closer to compute across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments.
- It provides a unified namespace and API to access data located in various storage systems like HDFS, S3, and more.
- Alluxio intelligently manages data placement across memory, SSDs, and HDDs for fast data access and supports popular frameworks like Spark, Presto, and Hive.
Webinar: Cloud Archiving – Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure or Something Else?Storage Switzerland
Amazon Glacier seems like the ultimate archive; capacity costs are impressively cheap, it never has to be upgraded or replaced and all the data is off-site. The problem is at some point the organization is going to need to recover some specific set of data from that archive. At that point, the allure of Glacier wears off quickly because it is slow and recovery has to be done either through the command line or within software code. There is no self-service web-portal access to identify and retrieve specific content easily.
Join Storage Switzerland and Cloudian in this on demand webinar where we discuss the advantages of object storage over NAS, the problems with converting from NAS to object storage and how to overcome those problems.
This document discusses how Backup Exec can be used to backup data to AWS cloud storage. Some key points:
- Backup Exec integrates with AWS S3 storage and allows backups to be transferred to AWS cloud as an offsite storage option. This expands hybrid cloud capabilities.
- Backup Exec provides unified data protection for applications, files, servers, and EC2 instances across on-premises and AWS cloud environments.
- Data is encrypted during transfer and at rest in AWS cloud storage. Backup Exec ensures security, compliance, and cost optimization when backing up to the cloud.
- Pre-configured Backup Exec images are available on AWS Marketplace to simplify deployment and backup of AWS workloads to the cloud
SPONSORED WORKSHOP by Cleversafe from Structure:Data 2012Gigaom
The document discusses the challenges of storing and analyzing big data. It notes that the amount of data, especially unstructured data, is growing exponentially and will require new storage methods. It then describes how dispersed storage technology works by using information dispersal algorithms to distribute and retrieve data across multiple sites with high availability and reliability.
Open Source Data Orchestration for AI, Big Data, and CloudAlluxio, Inc.
- Alluxio is an open source data orchestration platform that allows data to be accessed closer to compute across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments.
- It provides a unified namespace and API to access data located in various storage systems like HDFS, S3, and more.
- Alluxio intelligently manages data placement across memory, SSDs, and HDDs for fast data access and supports popular frameworks like Spark, Presto, and Hive.
Design - Building Cloud Object Storage InfastructureLaurenWendler
This document discusses IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) and its capabilities. It summarizes that COS provides scalable, efficient storage for large multimedia files, sensor data, backups and more. It also discusses how COS was implemented by Shutterfly to provide unlimited, permanent storage for over 50 billion images while reducing costs, ensuring security and allowing agility. The document encourages learning more about COS and continuing the discussion.
Eliminate the need for additional media servers and reduce your data footprint. NetBackup is truly the “King of Scale,” with the ability to protect 1000s of VMs. Direct integration with Veritas Data Insight and Availability Solutions solves challenges around copy sprawl and information insight.
Alluxio 2.0 Deep Dive – Simplifying data access for cloud workloadsAlluxio, Inc.
Alluxio provides a data orchestration platform that allows applications to access data closer to compute across different storage systems through a unified namespace. Key features include intelligent multi-tier caching that provides local performance for remote data, API translation that enables popular frameworks to access different storages without changes, and data elasticity through a global namespace. Alluxio powers analytics and AI workloads in hybrid cloud environments.
Citrix VDI on FlexPod with Microsoft Private CloudNetApp
FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud is prevalidated, best-in-class private cloud reference implementation from Microsoft’s partners. Joint collaboration between NetApp, Cisco, and Microsoft to accelerate private cloud adoption, resulting in a single orderable part and unified support.
OpenStack and Containers have rapidly emerged as the default technologies for developing and delivering new scale out architectures. Initially, these workloads were deployed in test and development environments. But now that they're reaching the production phase, it's time to rethink and update your approach to data protection. Attend this session to examine the best models, mindsets, and approaches for providing complete, effective data protection for today's new scale-out workloads.
Test Drive: Experience Single-Click Command with the Veritas Access User Inte...Veritas Technologies LLC
To deal with relentless data growth over the past few years, most organizations have evolved to incorporate a wide variety of different storage solutions, including SAN, NAS, tape, cloud, file, block, and object. With increasingly complex combinations of these different storage types being used for primary, secondary, and archived data, understanding and managing your overall storage environment can start to feel like an impossible task. In this session, you will see first-hand how Veritas Access, a new software-defined storage solution, makes it possible to finally manage all of your storage from a single console--and allows you to migrate data from one storage tier to another with a single mouse click.
Webinar: What Your Object Storage Vendor Isn’t Telling You About NFS SupportStorage Switzerland
NFS has been the “go to” file system for large data stores but there is a new offering on the horizon…Object Storage. To help ease the transition, many Object Storage vendors have provided a gateway that allows their systems to look like NFS servers. The problem is that most of these implementations are very limiting and often create more problems than they fix. In this webinar Storage Switzerland and Caringo discuss why object storage systems are the heir apparent to NFS servers and how to make that transition without the typical roadblocks that NFS gateways create.
Attend this webinar to learn:
* What is Object Storage
* Object Storage vs. NFS
* Challenges of Object Storage without NFS
* How NFS makes Object Storage more useful
* Architecture of a typical NFS gateway
* The Challenges of Hosting NFS on an Object Store
Accelerating analytics in the cloud with the Starburst Presto + Alluxio stackAlluxio, Inc.
Alluxio Tech Talk
January 21, 2020
Speakers:
Matt Fuller, Starburst
Dipti Borkar, Alluxio
With the advent of the public clouds and data increasingly siloed across many locations -- on premises and in the public cloud -- enterprises are looking for more flexibility and higher performance approaches to analyze their structured data.
Join us for this tech talk where we’ll introduce the Starburst Presto, Alluxio, and cloud object store stack for building a highly-concurrent and low-latency analytics platform. This stack provides a strong solution to run fast SQL across multiple storage systems including HDFS, S3, and others in public cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments. You’ll learn more about:
- The architecture of Presto, an open source distributed SQL engine
- How the Presto + Alluxio stack queries data from cloud object storage like S3 for faster and more cost-effective analytics
- Achieving data locality and cross-job caching with Alluxio regardless of where data is persisted
Deep Dive: a technical insider's view of NetBackup 8.1 and NetBackup AppliancesVeritas Technologies LLC
Together, NetBackup 8.0 and 8.1 are perhaps the two most significant consecutive releases in NetBackup history. Attend this session to learn how the newly released NetBackup 8.1 builds on version 8.0 to deliver the promise of modern data protection and advanced information management like never before. This session will feature a detailed technical overview of the new security architecture in NetBackup 8.1 that keeps data secure across any network, new dedupe to the cloud capabilities that deliver industry-leading performance, instant recovery for Oracle, added support for virtual and next-gen workloads, faster and easier deployments, and many other new features and capabilities.
This document provides an overview of Veritas NetBackup 8.1, which offers improved data protection capabilities for multi-cloud environments, modern workloads, and resilient infrastructure. Key features highlighted include leveraging multiple cloud platforms for long-term storage, faster backup to the cloud, protection for scale-out workloads and hyperconverged environments, simplified deployment and maintenance, and enhanced data security across networks. NetBackup 8.1 also features integrated support for popular databases and big data platforms through its use of flexible policies and frameworks.
Cloud Expo NYC 2017: Running Databases in Containers Ocean9, Inc.
Hardware Virtualization and cloud computing allowed us to increase resource utilization and increase our flexibility to respond to business demand. Docker Containers are the next quantum leap - Are they?! Databases always represented an additional set of challenges unique to running workloads requiring a maximum of I/O, network, CPU resources combined with data locality. In this session we will walk you through characteristics, performance, value, architecture and operations of heavy containers. Additionally, a short live demo to prove the concepts and results will feature a database of 1.2 billion rows of data.
Examining Technical Best Practices for Veritas and AWS Using a Detailed Refer...Veritas Technologies LLC
This document provides an overview and best practices for using Veritas solutions with AWS. It discusses common use cases and challenges with workload protection and data management in multi-cloud environments. It then outlines best practices for data movement and long-term retention in AWS using Veritas Access, as well as best practices for workload resiliency and migration to AWS using Veritas Resiliency Platform and CloudMobility. The presentation concludes with a discussion of advisory, training, and managed services available from Veritas to help with cloud adoption and migration.
Denodo in the Age of Containers: How to Simplify Operation of your Virtual LayerDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/2ZDzkta
Traditional operational tasks like installation, version upgrades, infrastructure scaling and cluster management has been radically transformed with the advent of cloud platforms, containers and orchestration systems. Denodo can take advantage of these environments to create an environment where infrastructure management is a thing of the past, with the goal of reducing operating costs and operating in a much more elastic fashion.
Attend this session to learn:
- What are the new capabilities of Denodo 8 to manage your entire deployment.
- Infrastructure management in AWS and Azure.
- How to use Denodo in a Docker + Kubernetes environment.
Better Together: The New Data Management OrchestraCloudera, Inc.
To ingest, store, process and leverage big data for maximum business impact requires integrating systems, processing frameworks, and analytic deployment options. Learn how Cloudera’s enterprise data hub framework, MongoDB, and Teradata Data Warehouse working in concert can enable companies to explore data in new ways and solve problems that not long ago might have seemed impossible.
Gone are the days of NoSQL and SQL competing for center stage. Visionary companies are driving data subsystems to operate in harmony. So what’s changed?
In this webinar, you will hear from executives at Cloudera, Teradata and MongoDB about the following:
How to deploy the right mix of tools and technology to become a data-driven organization
Examples of three major data management systems working together
Real world examples of how business and IT are benefiting from the sum of the parts
Join industry leaders Charles Zedlewski, Chris Twogood and Kelly Stirman for this unique panel discussion, moderated by BI Research analyst, Colin White.
Alluxio provides a virtual unified file system that allows for unified access and accelerated performance of data across multiple storage systems and tiers. It addresses challenges of separating compute and storage in modern data architectures by providing a global namespace, server-side API translation between storage systems, and intelligent multi-tiering of data across RAM, SSDs and HDDs. Alluxio has been deployed in over 100 production environments across financial services, retail, telecom and other industries to accelerate analytics, machine learning and other workloads.
NetApp Se training storage grid webscale technical overviewsolarisyougood
The document provides an overview of StorageGRID Webscale, an object storage platform from NetApp. It discusses key concepts such as object storage, metadata management, and StorageGRID's dynamic policy engine. The policy engine uses metadata and user-defined rules to intelligently place and manage objects across multiple sites, storage tiers, and protocols (e.g. S3) over their lifecycle. This allows building complex data management policies without impacting performance or capacity.
This document discusses challenges with multi-cloud data management and myths around cloud data protection responsibilities. It introduces Veritas' unified data protection platform called NetBackup 8.1, which provides 3x better data transfer speeds to the cloud. It also announces a new cloud-native data protection product called CloudPoint and an object storage solution called Cloud Storage to help customers better manage rapidly growing data in multi-cloud environments.
Webinar: Don't believe the hype, you don't need dedicated storage for VDI NetApp
This webinar covers how the combination of SolidFire and Citrix XenDesktop enables customers to confidently support the storage demands of a virtual desktop environment in a multi-tenant or multi-application environment.
Liberate Your Files with a Private Cloud Storage Solution powered by Open SourceIsaac Christoffersen
Many of today's enterprises are working under a false assumption that there is a trade-off between consumer-centric file sharing and corporate IT policy compliance. This is because most market-leading SaaS solutions for file sync and share are not designed around enterprise IT's needs. They represent growing risks with vendor lock-in, data security, compliance and data ownership.
With a track record in delivering innovative Open Source solutions, Vizuri has an answer to help enterprises overcome these hurdles. By leveraging innovative Red Hat and ownCloud open source solutions, this solution help corporate IT provide a simple to use file sync and share solution for employees. As a result, organizations are able to retain a greater control over valuable intellectual property.
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
Design - Building Cloud Object Storage InfastructureLaurenWendler
This document discusses IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) and its capabilities. It summarizes that COS provides scalable, efficient storage for large multimedia files, sensor data, backups and more. It also discusses how COS was implemented by Shutterfly to provide unlimited, permanent storage for over 50 billion images while reducing costs, ensuring security and allowing agility. The document encourages learning more about COS and continuing the discussion.
Eliminate the need for additional media servers and reduce your data footprint. NetBackup is truly the “King of Scale,” with the ability to protect 1000s of VMs. Direct integration with Veritas Data Insight and Availability Solutions solves challenges around copy sprawl and information insight.
Alluxio 2.0 Deep Dive – Simplifying data access for cloud workloadsAlluxio, Inc.
Alluxio provides a data orchestration platform that allows applications to access data closer to compute across different storage systems through a unified namespace. Key features include intelligent multi-tier caching that provides local performance for remote data, API translation that enables popular frameworks to access different storages without changes, and data elasticity through a global namespace. Alluxio powers analytics and AI workloads in hybrid cloud environments.
Citrix VDI on FlexPod with Microsoft Private CloudNetApp
FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud is prevalidated, best-in-class private cloud reference implementation from Microsoft’s partners. Joint collaboration between NetApp, Cisco, and Microsoft to accelerate private cloud adoption, resulting in a single orderable part and unified support.
OpenStack and Containers have rapidly emerged as the default technologies for developing and delivering new scale out architectures. Initially, these workloads were deployed in test and development environments. But now that they're reaching the production phase, it's time to rethink and update your approach to data protection. Attend this session to examine the best models, mindsets, and approaches for providing complete, effective data protection for today's new scale-out workloads.
Test Drive: Experience Single-Click Command with the Veritas Access User Inte...Veritas Technologies LLC
To deal with relentless data growth over the past few years, most organizations have evolved to incorporate a wide variety of different storage solutions, including SAN, NAS, tape, cloud, file, block, and object. With increasingly complex combinations of these different storage types being used for primary, secondary, and archived data, understanding and managing your overall storage environment can start to feel like an impossible task. In this session, you will see first-hand how Veritas Access, a new software-defined storage solution, makes it possible to finally manage all of your storage from a single console--and allows you to migrate data from one storage tier to another with a single mouse click.
Webinar: What Your Object Storage Vendor Isn’t Telling You About NFS SupportStorage Switzerland
NFS has been the “go to” file system for large data stores but there is a new offering on the horizon…Object Storage. To help ease the transition, many Object Storage vendors have provided a gateway that allows their systems to look like NFS servers. The problem is that most of these implementations are very limiting and often create more problems than they fix. In this webinar Storage Switzerland and Caringo discuss why object storage systems are the heir apparent to NFS servers and how to make that transition without the typical roadblocks that NFS gateways create.
Attend this webinar to learn:
* What is Object Storage
* Object Storage vs. NFS
* Challenges of Object Storage without NFS
* How NFS makes Object Storage more useful
* Architecture of a typical NFS gateway
* The Challenges of Hosting NFS on an Object Store
Accelerating analytics in the cloud with the Starburst Presto + Alluxio stackAlluxio, Inc.
Alluxio Tech Talk
January 21, 2020
Speakers:
Matt Fuller, Starburst
Dipti Borkar, Alluxio
With the advent of the public clouds and data increasingly siloed across many locations -- on premises and in the public cloud -- enterprises are looking for more flexibility and higher performance approaches to analyze their structured data.
Join us for this tech talk where we’ll introduce the Starburst Presto, Alluxio, and cloud object store stack for building a highly-concurrent and low-latency analytics platform. This stack provides a strong solution to run fast SQL across multiple storage systems including HDFS, S3, and others in public cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments. You’ll learn more about:
- The architecture of Presto, an open source distributed SQL engine
- How the Presto + Alluxio stack queries data from cloud object storage like S3 for faster and more cost-effective analytics
- Achieving data locality and cross-job caching with Alluxio regardless of where data is persisted
Deep Dive: a technical insider's view of NetBackup 8.1 and NetBackup AppliancesVeritas Technologies LLC
Together, NetBackup 8.0 and 8.1 are perhaps the two most significant consecutive releases in NetBackup history. Attend this session to learn how the newly released NetBackup 8.1 builds on version 8.0 to deliver the promise of modern data protection and advanced information management like never before. This session will feature a detailed technical overview of the new security architecture in NetBackup 8.1 that keeps data secure across any network, new dedupe to the cloud capabilities that deliver industry-leading performance, instant recovery for Oracle, added support for virtual and next-gen workloads, faster and easier deployments, and many other new features and capabilities.
This document provides an overview of Veritas NetBackup 8.1, which offers improved data protection capabilities for multi-cloud environments, modern workloads, and resilient infrastructure. Key features highlighted include leveraging multiple cloud platforms for long-term storage, faster backup to the cloud, protection for scale-out workloads and hyperconverged environments, simplified deployment and maintenance, and enhanced data security across networks. NetBackup 8.1 also features integrated support for popular databases and big data platforms through its use of flexible policies and frameworks.
Cloud Expo NYC 2017: Running Databases in Containers Ocean9, Inc.
Hardware Virtualization and cloud computing allowed us to increase resource utilization and increase our flexibility to respond to business demand. Docker Containers are the next quantum leap - Are they?! Databases always represented an additional set of challenges unique to running workloads requiring a maximum of I/O, network, CPU resources combined with data locality. In this session we will walk you through characteristics, performance, value, architecture and operations of heavy containers. Additionally, a short live demo to prove the concepts and results will feature a database of 1.2 billion rows of data.
Examining Technical Best Practices for Veritas and AWS Using a Detailed Refer...Veritas Technologies LLC
This document provides an overview and best practices for using Veritas solutions with AWS. It discusses common use cases and challenges with workload protection and data management in multi-cloud environments. It then outlines best practices for data movement and long-term retention in AWS using Veritas Access, as well as best practices for workload resiliency and migration to AWS using Veritas Resiliency Platform and CloudMobility. The presentation concludes with a discussion of advisory, training, and managed services available from Veritas to help with cloud adoption and migration.
Denodo in the Age of Containers: How to Simplify Operation of your Virtual LayerDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/2ZDzkta
Traditional operational tasks like installation, version upgrades, infrastructure scaling and cluster management has been radically transformed with the advent of cloud platforms, containers and orchestration systems. Denodo can take advantage of these environments to create an environment where infrastructure management is a thing of the past, with the goal of reducing operating costs and operating in a much more elastic fashion.
Attend this session to learn:
- What are the new capabilities of Denodo 8 to manage your entire deployment.
- Infrastructure management in AWS and Azure.
- How to use Denodo in a Docker + Kubernetes environment.
Better Together: The New Data Management OrchestraCloudera, Inc.
To ingest, store, process and leverage big data for maximum business impact requires integrating systems, processing frameworks, and analytic deployment options. Learn how Cloudera’s enterprise data hub framework, MongoDB, and Teradata Data Warehouse working in concert can enable companies to explore data in new ways and solve problems that not long ago might have seemed impossible.
Gone are the days of NoSQL and SQL competing for center stage. Visionary companies are driving data subsystems to operate in harmony. So what’s changed?
In this webinar, you will hear from executives at Cloudera, Teradata and MongoDB about the following:
How to deploy the right mix of tools and technology to become a data-driven organization
Examples of three major data management systems working together
Real world examples of how business and IT are benefiting from the sum of the parts
Join industry leaders Charles Zedlewski, Chris Twogood and Kelly Stirman for this unique panel discussion, moderated by BI Research analyst, Colin White.
Alluxio provides a virtual unified file system that allows for unified access and accelerated performance of data across multiple storage systems and tiers. It addresses challenges of separating compute and storage in modern data architectures by providing a global namespace, server-side API translation between storage systems, and intelligent multi-tiering of data across RAM, SSDs and HDDs. Alluxio has been deployed in over 100 production environments across financial services, retail, telecom and other industries to accelerate analytics, machine learning and other workloads.
NetApp Se training storage grid webscale technical overviewsolarisyougood
The document provides an overview of StorageGRID Webscale, an object storage platform from NetApp. It discusses key concepts such as object storage, metadata management, and StorageGRID's dynamic policy engine. The policy engine uses metadata and user-defined rules to intelligently place and manage objects across multiple sites, storage tiers, and protocols (e.g. S3) over their lifecycle. This allows building complex data management policies without impacting performance or capacity.
This document discusses challenges with multi-cloud data management and myths around cloud data protection responsibilities. It introduces Veritas' unified data protection platform called NetBackup 8.1, which provides 3x better data transfer speeds to the cloud. It also announces a new cloud-native data protection product called CloudPoint and an object storage solution called Cloud Storage to help customers better manage rapidly growing data in multi-cloud environments.
Webinar: Don't believe the hype, you don't need dedicated storage for VDI NetApp
This webinar covers how the combination of SolidFire and Citrix XenDesktop enables customers to confidently support the storage demands of a virtual desktop environment in a multi-tenant or multi-application environment.
Liberate Your Files with a Private Cloud Storage Solution powered by Open SourceIsaac Christoffersen
Many of today's enterprises are working under a false assumption that there is a trade-off between consumer-centric file sharing and corporate IT policy compliance. This is because most market-leading SaaS solutions for file sync and share are not designed around enterprise IT's needs. They represent growing risks with vendor lock-in, data security, compliance and data ownership.
With a track record in delivering innovative Open Source solutions, Vizuri has an answer to help enterprises overcome these hurdles. By leveraging innovative Red Hat and ownCloud open source solutions, this solution help corporate IT provide a simple to use file sync and share solution for employees. As a result, organizations are able to retain a greater control over valuable intellectual property.
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
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.
At the Public Sector Red Hat Storage Days on 1/20/16 and 1/21/16, Jason Calloway walked attendees through the basics of scalable POSIX file systems in the cloud.
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.
Gluster Webinar May 25: Whats New in GlusterFS 3.2GlusterFS
This webinar provides an overview of the latest features introduced in GlusterFS 3.2 including Asynchronous Geo-Replication, Usage Quotas, and Advanced Monitoring Tools.
Presentation architecting virtualized infrastructure for big datasolarisyourep
The document discusses how virtualization can help simplify big data infrastructure and analytics. Key points include:
1) Virtualization can help simplify big data infrastructure by providing a unified analytics cloud platform that allows different data frameworks and workloads to easily share resources.
2) Hadoop performance on virtualization has been proven with studies showing little performance overhead from virtualization.
3) A unified analytics cloud platform using virtualization can provide benefits like better utilization, faster provisioning of elastic resources, and multi-tenancy for secure isolation of analytics workloads.
IBM Cloud Object Storage System, presented Oct 16, 2017 at IBM Systems Technical University in New Orleans, LA. This covers the object storage from IBM from the acquisition of Cleversafe, formerly known as DSnet product.
Meetup at AI NextCon 2019: In-Stream data process, Data Orchestration & MoreAlluxio, Inc.
Alluxio - Data Orchestration for Analytics and AI in the Cloud
Oct 8, 2019
Speakers:
Haoyuan Li & Bin Fan, Alluxio
Visit https://www.alluxio.io/events/ for more Alluxio events.
Architecting virtualized infrastructure for big data presentationVlad Ponomarev
This document discusses architecting virtualized infrastructure for big data. It summarizes that big data is growing exponentially and new frameworks like Hadoop are enabling analysis of large, diverse data sets. Virtualization can simplify and optimize big data platforms by providing a unified analytics cloud that elastically provisions various data systems like Hadoop and SQL clusters on shared hardware infrastructure. This improves utilization and makes big data platforms faster and easier to deploy and manage.
The document discusses using Oracle Storage Cloud Service to back up file systems to the cloud. It introduces the Oracle Storage Cloud Software Appliance, which provides a cloud storage gateway and POSIX-compliant NFS access to Oracle Storage Cloud containers. This allows easy integration of on-premises applications and workflows with Oracle Storage Cloud without requiring major changes. The appliance provides benefits like high performance, security, and the ability to ingest large volumes of data seamlessly. It allows backing up file systems to the cloud for disaster recovery and restoring them on-demand to any worldwide location.
Webinar: Overcoming the Top 3 Challenges of the Storage Status QuoStorage Switzerland
Between 2010 and 2020, IDC predicts that the amount of data created by humans and enterprises will increase 50x. Legacy network attached storage (NAS) systems can't meet the unstructured data demands of the mobile workforce or distributed organizations. In this webinar, George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Brian Wink, Director of Solutions Engineering at Panzura expose the hidden gotcha's of the storage status quo and explore how to manage unstructured data in the cloud.
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.
Building a Resilient, Scalable, Storage System with OpenStackCloudian
Cloudian has been working closely with Red Hat on their OpenStack offerings and certified its integration into OpenStack Horizon, Nova, Glance and Keystone . We provide a scalable capacity storage layer for OpenStack and are the leader in Open Hybrid Cloud – acting as the storage fabric between on-premise data and cloud data. Cloudian is the preferred storage solution for large scale environments, multi datacenter storage, and hybrid cloud tiering.
OpenStack in Action! 5 - Dell - OpenStack powered solutions - Patrick HamoneNovance
This document discusses Dell/Intel OpenStack-powered solutions and provides the following key points:
1) OpenStack is an open-source cloud operating system that is growing rapidly in adoption with over 10,000 individual members and contributors from over 70 countries.
2) Dell offers OpenStack reference architectures, hardware, software, services, and support to help customers accelerate their adoption of private and hybrid cloud solutions based on OpenStack.
3) Case studies show how Dell OpenStack solutions have helped customers like a research university and web hosting provider build scalable, cost-effective private clouds to meet their infrastructure and data storage needs.
Unique Ways Veritas can Supercharge your AWS Investment - Session Sponsored b...Amazon Web Services
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Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
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- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
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5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
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12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
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3. Where your data right now?
• More than 75 percent of
businesses have shared or
stored sensitive company
information on public clouds
services – Symantec.
40% experienced the
exposure of confidential
information
40% reported that they had
lost data in the cloud and
had to restore it from
backups
• Average cost of a data breach
equaled $5.5 Million in 2011
(Infosecisland.com)
5. The Problem “Dropbox” Created
The Problem:
“Dropbox” created huge demand for
file sync and share...
• Simple
• Free
• Fast to obtain
• It just works
...at the risk of user and IT security.
6. The Problem “Dropbox” Created
The Problem:
“Dropbox” created huge demand for
file sync and share...
• Simple
• Free
• Fast to obtain
• It just works
...at the risk of user and IT security.44%
*
44%
*
* Use Dropbox in the enterprise without permission, Osterman Research
11. What is ownCloud
ownCloud helps enterprises concerned about sensitive data
leakage via Dropbox deliver a secure file sync and share solution
on their storage inside their data center.
•Protect and Manage sensitive data by storing it on-site, on their
servers, managed to their policies
•Integrate seamlessly into existing infrastructure
•Extend functionality through extensive APIs
AND STILL provide the seamless, easy-to-use access to sensitive
data that end users have come to expect from consumer-grade
services.
12. • Host in your data center
• Store on your storage
• Integrate via Plug-ins
• Extend with Plug-ins
• Sync files and folders
• Share files and folders
ownCloud Server – the brains
iOS and Android
– mobile access
apps
Windows, Mac and
Linux – desktop file sync
clients
ownCloud is a distributed application with
mobile, web, and desktop clients
14. OpenShift PaaS…
Cloud-Class AgilityCloud-Class Agility
• Designed for No Lock-In
• Polyglot with Java, Ruby,
PHP, Perl, Python
• Mobile and Responsive Web
• REST and Javascript
Enterprise-ClassEnterprise-Class
StrengthStrength
• Enterprise Java EE6 via
JBoss
• Multi-tenancy and Security
via Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
• Jenkins, Maven, Git
• Auto-Scaling
• On-Premise, Hosted, or
Hybrid
Established New
OpenShift = Open Hybrid PaaSOpenShift = Open Hybrid PaaS
15. Security and multi-tenancy via SELinux
RHEL RHEL
SELinux Policies securely
subdivide
the Node instances.
Broker Node Node Node
RHEL
AWS / CloudForms / OpenStack (IaaS) / RHEV (Virt) / Bare Metal
16. Multi-tenancy through OpenShift Gears
RHEL RHEL
OpenShift GEARS represent
secure containers in RHEL
Broker Node Node Node
RHEL
AWS / CloudForms / OpenStack (IaaS) / RHEV (Virt) / Bare Metal
17. OpenShift automates application scaling
Broker Node Node Node
RHEL
HA-Proxy MySQLJava
Co
de
Java
Co
de
Php
Code
AWS / CloudForms / OpenStack (IaaS) / RHEV (Virt) / Bare Metal
18. CONSOLIDATED INFRASTRUCTURE
RESOURCE POOLS
BIG DATA
RUNS ON THE CLOUD
INFRASTRUCTURE
FOCUS
LINUX ADJACENCY
STABILITY
RELIABILITY
UPGRADEABILITY
RED HAT
STORAGE
SERVICES FOR
UNSTRUCTURED
DATA
ENTERPRISE
CLASS
FILE-CENTRIC
STORAGE
(NAS Alternative)
Gluster provides the storage foundation
19. ADMINISTRATOR
RED HAT
STORAGE CLI
USERS
SSH
NFS
CIFS
Fuse
OpenStack Swift
Cloud Volume
Manager
(glusterd)
Cloud Volume
Manager
(glusterd)
Cloud Volume
Manager
(glusterd)
Brick
(glusterfsd)
Brick
(glusterfsd)
Brick
(glusterfsd)
RED HAT STORAGE POOL
VIRTUAL PHYSICAL
GLUSTER STORAGE—50,000 FOOT OVERVIEW
Brick
(glusterfsd)
Brick
(glusterfsd)
Brick
(glusterfsd)
Brick
(glusterfsd)
Brick
(glusterfsd)
Brick
(glusterfsd)
20. SITE A
CLOUD A
OR
SITE B
CLOUD B
Cloud instances, on-site, data centers, or all of the above
21. Highly Scalable Storage
Multiple peta-byte clusters
Geo-replication to disperse
data
Highly Cost-Effective
Leverages commodity x86
servers
Leverages existing capacity
within virtual Machine
environment
Highly Flexible
Physical, virtual, cloud and
hybrid deployment models
File and object access
protocols
Deployment Agnostic
Deploy on-premise, in the
public cloud or a hybrid
setup.
Open & Standards Based
NFS, CIFS, HTTP
GlusterFS - the foundation for private Cloud Storage
22. Next-generation cloud storage on your
terms
Example text
Secure multi-tenant
environment with built-in
autoscaling and
encryption
Geo-replication support
with massive redundancy
and pro-active self-
healing
Example text
Mobile, desktop, and web
clients let you work from
anywhere
Integrates with existing
infrastructure and
corporate audit &
compliance policies
Example text
Free of lock-in and
extensible through open
APIs
Built on top of enterprise-
class, professional open
source software
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23. Demonstration
Key Components in Action
•OpenShift Enterprise
– 1 Broker with 2 Nodes
•Red Hat Storage
– 2 Nodes with 1 Brick per Node in a distributed configuration
•ownCloud
– Deployed as an OpenShift Gear
• MySQL
• Php 5.3
24. Thank you
Links
•ownCloud OpenShift Quickstart
– https://www.openshift.com/quickstarts/owncloud
•OpenShift Origin Puppet Scripts
– http://openshift.github.io/origin/file.install_origin_using_puppet.html
•Red Hat Summit – Liberate Your Files
– http://www.redhat.com/summit/sessions/index.html#73
•ownCloud
– http://www.owncloud.org
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Editor's Notes
For main parts to the solution Control – you server Physical, virtual, private cloud Where everything is integrated and admins control access and administer the system Storage – Your storage – AGNOSTIC NAS, SAN, direct attached – whatever you have or want Hybrid too if you choose Access – web clients, mobile devices, desktop clients, and a standard WebDAV connection Extensibility – the secret sauce of ownCloud, this extensible framework for creating plug-ins ALL Runs inside your firewall, managed by your admins, to your security and access polocies
So what is the problem? Dropbox created something amazing Simeple Easy to get Easy to use It just works Drop a file in the folder, it show up on server, and then to all other devices or users The problem is it is not secure – lots of news to this affect
However, in an attempt to be more productive, users use it anyway In a recent survey, 44% of enterprise users (>1000+) use dropbox without Its permission Not all that secure, Lots of people using it anyway Opens you to risk of lost sensitive data The little dropbox can be a big source of leaks – why it is upside down over here
And one more layer down, you see the server The APIs are part of why we are so flexible, as is the standard n-tier architecture We are PHP, support Oracle, MySQL, Postgres as databases We have a management panel and logging apps to provide insight and control External provisioning api for use with automation Sharing Capability Storage abstraction layer: whatever you have plus cloud storage, all abstracted by ownCloud to make it simple to use the storage you have
OpenShift provides a Cloud Application Platform that bridges today’s two diverging application development worlds. OpenShift brings Enterprise-class strength and maturity to the Cloud and also enables both proven enterprise application stacks like Java EE as well as newer rapid-development oriented application stacks like LAMP, Ruby and Node.JS. OpenShift includes the tools needed for rigorous application development like Maven and Jenkins, as well as support for NoSQL databases and Mobile application development. Soon to be available in either public, private, or hybrid cloud implementations, OpenShift delivers the Control and Security that IT Operations demands and the Velocity and Agility that Application Developers desire. OpenShift is the industry’s first Open Hybrid PaaS. <next slide>
One of the unique features of OpenShift is that within the Nodes, OpenShift provides secure, fine-grained, multi-tenancy by leveraging powerful Red Hat Enterprise Linux subsystems such as SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux), CGroups (Control Groups), and NameSpaces to divide up the RHEL instances into slices that can be dedicated to each user application firewalled off from each other. <next slide>
These slices of RHEL are called OpenShift Gears. OpenShift Gears are super-secure and highly efficient containers that host user applications in OpenShift. To the user, the Gear appears like an instance of RHEL. They can even SSH in to the gear. They can see their processes, their memory, and their filesystem, but they are prevented from seeing or impacting anyone else’s environment or the system as a whole. SELinux was built by Red Hat in conjunction with the National Security Agency in order to support some of their strict requirements. It is a “Deny everything, and allow by exception” policy subsystem that allows very strict control of what processes and users can do. In OpenShift, SELinux policies are used to enable hi security in a container based multitenant environment. Likewise, Control Groups are used to carefully control what resources an OpenShift Gear is able to consume. Cgroups allow Gears to consume CPU and RAM but also limits that consumption based on configurable policies. And finally NameSpaces are used to allow each Gear to have it’s own file system complete with the system directories that it may need including /tmp, /var, and others. Red Hat has been able to leverage these technologies to build a secure and yet efficient multi-tenant PaaS because Red Hat has incredible knowledge with respect to the Operating System underneath, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With some of the best linux kernel coders in the world, Red Hat has used these smarts to build a cloud Platform-as-a-Service on top of the industry leading enterprise Linux operating system. OpenShift Gears represent the resulting benefit of leveraging this wealth of knowledge in the Operating System Platform to build a Cloud Application Platform that is both super-secure and highly efficient. <Optional statements> The OpenShift Gear-based architecture provides two other key benefits: Deploying multi-tenancy inside of RHEL Nodes allows many, many applications to be maintained by deploying maintenance to a much smaller set of RHEL Operating System instances. The Sys Admins job becomes much easier when they only need to patch and perform maintenance on a small number of nodes instead of 1000s of Virtual Machine instances (as would be the case with VM-based multi-tenancy). OpenShift also has the ability to “Idle” Gears that are not actively being used. In this situation the Broker will take a snapshot of an application Gear and write it to disk to take it out of RAM. Network connections are maintained so when an application URL is requested, the Gear will be “un-idled” and able to service the request quickly. This Idling technology allows many more Gears to be supported within one instance of RHEL because not all Gears will be active at the same time. Implemented for the OpenShift hosted service, this Idling capability is also beneficial to the enterprise that wants to optimize resource consumption as much as possible. <next slide>
And, once the application is launched within the OpenShift PaaS, OpenShift provides the elasticity expected in a Cloud Application Platform by automatically scaling the application as needed to meet demand. When created, applications can be flagged as “Scalable” (some apps may not want to be scaled). When OpenShift sees this flag, it creates an additional Gear and places an HA-Proxy software load-balancer in front of the application. The HA-Proxy then monitors the incoming traffic to the application. When the number of connections to the application crosses a certain pre-defined threshold, OpenShift will then horizontally scale the application by replicating the application code tier of the application across multiple Gears. For JBoss applications, OpenShift will scale the application using JBoss Clustering which allows stateful or stateless applications to be scaled gracefully. For Ruby, PHP, Python, and other script-oriented languages, the application will need to be designed for stateless scaling where the application container is replicated across multiple gears. The Database tier is not scaled in OpenShift today. Automatic application scaling is a feature that is unique to OpenShift among the popular PaaS offerings that are out there. Automatic scaling of production applications is another example of how OpenShift applies automation technologies and a cloud architecture to make life better for both IT Operations and Development. <next slide>