This was the sixth year of Amazon RE:Invent. In this webinar join Storage Switzerland, Avere Systems and SwiftStack for a storage professional’s guide to the event. Learn about: - The different tiers of the Amazon storage offering - How to create hybrid cloud storage combining private and public offerings - Learn how to interconnect multiple cloud providers

1. Amazon RE:Invent for Storage Professionals
Three Capabilities to Look For
Learn:
1. The different tiers of the Amazon storage offering
2. How to create hybrid cloud storage combining
private and public offerings
3. Learn how to interconnect multiple cloud providers
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/AmazonInvent

2. Our Speakers
Mark Eastman is the Worldwide Sr. Director of Business Development driving Avere’s strategic development
and go-to-market initiatives with their worldwide technology partners AWS, Google, Microsoft, IBM, EMC,
HGST, and SwiftStack, Mark brings more than 20 years of technology sales and marketing experience to
Avere.
Erik Pounds is the Head of Product Marketing at SwiftStack. Along with leading the team’s marketing efforts,
he is an avid technology geek and attacks opportunities by building things. Prior to SwiftStack, he led the
Sync team at BitTorrent, ran product management at Drobo, and held various product and marketing roles at
Brocade and EMC. He proudly graduated from the University of San Francisco, where he captained their
Division 1 Golf Team.
George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big
data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is widely recognized for his
articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs,
software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has over 25 years of experience
designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

3. The State of Amazon AWS

4. ● 41% Increase Year on Year in Q3
● $4.6 Billion in Revenue
● $1.2 Billion in Profit
The Business

5. ● Spot Capacity Pricing / Elastic
consumption
● Database Migration Service
○ 40,000 databases converted
● Expanding the number of availability
zones (17)
Technology

6. What do Storage Pros Need to Know

7. Rule #1 - This is infrastructure,
generally needs something else to
create a solution
Understanding the
Amazon Storage
Architectures

8. ● For temporary / containerized
workflows
● Once app is shut down, data is
deleted
● Use cases
Amazon EC2

9. ● For high performance cloud
hosted applications
● Persistent
● Use cases
Amazon EBS

10. ● NAS in the Cloud
● Runs on EBS
● Basic when compared to alternatives
● Uses cases
Amazon EFS

11. ● Ideal for Apps that need to create
and access large amounts of
unstructured data
● Use cases
● S3-IA (infrequent access)
Amazon S3

12. ● A data vault
○ Very inexpensive but restrictive
○ Essentially a data vault
● Use cases
● How to choose between S3-IA and
Glacier
Amazon Glacier

13. Avere Hybrid Cloud
EC2
Cloud
Compute
On-Prem
Compute
S3
Cloud
Storage
On-Prem
Storage
NAS
Object
Bucket 1 Bucket 2
Bucket n
Virtual Compute Farm
Virtual FXT
File Storage for
Private Object
NAS Optimization
Cloud NAS
Physical
FXT

14. SwiftStack Cloud Sync

15. Cancer Research Center Compute Challenges
● Workloads are bursty
○ Grants, publication cycles
● 200+ programs operating in
parallel, sharing CPUs
● 60% CPU core utilization on
average
● Target: Do NOT cross pink line
(80% util.)
● Pending: Shown in yellow
Yellow jobs are waiting
→ should go to cloud

16. Cancer Research Center Storage Challenges
● Elasticity in storage required
○ Needed for “ad hoc” growth (~50TB)
● Legacy apps require POSIX file system
○ Fast consistency checking
○ NFS for compute farm and servers
○ SMB for scientist workstations
● Cloud built for global scale and provides
eventual consistency
● POSIX needed until next-gen cloud apps
(and scientists) take over

17. Phase Approach – Primary Need
● Phase 1 – Lower cost NAS on-premises
with SwiftStack
● Phase 2 – Amazon EC2 compute CPUs
added when needed
● Phase 3 – Amazon S3 storage for POSIX
file system
● Phase 4 – Compute and storage 100% in
the cloud

18. “Focus on Science...not IT”
● Move to the AWS in 5 years:
○ When POSIX file system required, use Avere
○ In cloud, security and compliance come for free
○ Job market - competition for IT talent is high
● Use phased approach:
○ Budgets are limited
○ Need to get value out of existing capital
○ CAPEX is more complex than OPEX
Case Study
https://www.averesystems.com/
case-studies
“How a Leading Cancer Research
Center is Building a World Class
Hybrid Infrastructure”

19. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
georgeacrump@storageswiss.com
StorageSwiss on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/storageswiss
StorageSwiss on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss
Avere
http://www.averesystems.com
Avere on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/averesystems
Avere on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/AvereSystems
SwiftStack
https://www.swiftstack.com
SwiftStack on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/SwiftStack
SwiftStack on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/SwiftStackVideos

20. Amazon RE:Invent for Storage Professionals
Three Capabilities to Look For
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