The document discusses the advantages of public cloud storage compared to traditional data center file solutions, highlighting its scalability, budget-friendly costs, and diminished need for specialized expertise. It emphasizes the importance of reducing hard and soft costs while maintaining performance and offers insights into the architecture and management of storage systems. Key speakers, George Crump and Paul Turner, bring years of expertise in storage technologies and strategy, contributing to the overall understanding of cloud storage benefits.

1. Cloud Storage:
5 Reasons IT Can Do it Better
You Can Do Cloud Storage Better
1. The What and Why of Public Cloud Storage Architectures
2. The Problem With Traditional Data Center File Solutions
3. Bringing Cloud Lessons to Traditional IT
4. The Five Reasons IT can Do It Better
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2. Our Speakers
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 25 years of experience designing storage
solutions for data centers across the US.

3. ● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud
and virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets is gained
through product testing and interaction
with end users and suppliers
● The results of this research can be
found in the articles, videos, webinars,
product analysis and case studies on
our web site:
http://storageswiss.com
Who Is Storage Switzerland?

4. Our Speakers
Paul Turner leads marketing, product planning and strategy
at Cloudian. A storage industry expert, he joined Cloudian
from NetApp where he ran the Product Strategy Office,
guiding their investments into FlashRay, longrid and
CacheIQ. Paul has more than 23 years of development and
management leadership, including 15 years at Oracle.

5. Polling Question
As A Service
What top attribute of cloud storage would you
like in your Private Cloud Storage?
A. Scale-out - grows with your demand
B. Self Service provisioning of storage (with IT
control)
C. Multi-tenanted storage with many different
use cases/applications supported
D. API/devops control of all storage resources
E. Low cost, software defined using standard
commodity servers

6. Polling Question
As A Service
What top attribute of cloud storage would you
like in your Private Cloud Storage?

7. What Is Public Cloud Storage
• Storage at the end of an
Internet connection
• Scales incrementally and
automatically
• Storage becomes a
budgetable monthly cost
• Essentially storage is
delivered as a service

8. The Challenge With Delivering
Storage As A Service
• Have to be competitive with what the data
center could do by itself
• Have to keep hard costs at a minimum
• Use commodity servers, commodity storage
• Have to keep soft costs to a minimum
• One storage administrator for hundreds of TBs
• Architecture has to scale
• Can’t afford storage refreshes

9. What Do Public Cloud Storage
Systems Look Like
• Scale-out storage system based on commodity
servers and internal storage
• Those servers are clustered
• Their internal storage is aggregated into virtual
pools
• Capacity is then granularly delivered to subscribers
• Single point of management for entire storage system
• Often designed internally, by Computer Scientist PHDs

10. Data Centers Are Reaching Cloud
Scale
• File or object counts on the rise
• Sensors and even user productivity apps
• Capacity requirements on the rise
• Digital Surveillance
• And the increased need to retain that video
• Increase demand to retain all data forever
• Sensor data though small, adds up

11. Can Legacy NAS Keep Pace With
Cloud Scale?
• File count limitations
• Capacity (while maintaining
performance) limitations
• Migration/Refresh is
increasingly painful
• Vendor provided hardware
still priced at a premium

12. The Enterprise Needs Cloud Storage
But On-Premises
• Drive down hard and soft costs
• Eliminate storage refreshes
• Scale infinitely
• Support workload variety
• Without computer Sci PHDs

13. Five Reasons IT Can Do It Better
• Off-the-Shelf cloud storage software
• No PHDs required
• Large enterprises have similar buying economies
• Most have contracts with major hardware vendors in place already
• Reduces regulatory and security concerns
• Data is safest behind your firewalls
• IT is in complete control of the architecture
• No sharing with 1,000s of other subscribers
• The periodic cost of forever is expensive
• While upfront, purchases are still incremental

14. Scale-out - Cloudian HyperStore®
|SMB
Complements Public Clouds
Any S3
Cloud
Hybrid
Small Start, Unlimited Scale

15. Multi TenantCassandra
Hybrid Cloud Smart Support
P2P Architecture
Programmable
Natively S3
Intelligence in
Software
Scale-out - What’s the secret

16. Lower soft costs @scale
• Instant 360 View
• Check Health
• View Sys Info

17. Lower soft costs @scale
• One screen for hundreds of nodes
• Instantly view health of nodes
• Add nodes with one click
• Cluster dynamically rebalances

18. Lower soft costs @scale
• Analyze your data uses across globe
• Plan for future based on your demand

19. On-demand Cloud Experience
Archive R&DContent Depot
Cloud Storage Admin
Cloud Storage User
HyperStore Software Defined
Storage
Storage
Policies

20. Benefits
All your data - HyperStore Connect
One Platform
for Files &
Objects
Freedom from
Gateway Lock
in
Run Multiple
Workloads
Built in Data
Distribution
Built in
Resiliency
Scale capacity
with Demand
Ease of
Use
Cost
Savings

21. Secure Cloud Storage
HIPAA Compliance – related features
Secured certificate based user access
Secure protection of data
Locality control to datacenter and regions
PCI-DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security
Standard
Secured certificate based user access
Encryption at-rest, in-flight
Secure networks – https/TLS (next gen SSL)
Restrict access on need-to-know - RBAC and ACLs
Comprehensive Audit logging for all activity
Secure Data
AES256bit data encryption
Automatic verify with hash-based checksums of all data
Versioning to maintain all versions of records
Open APIs to access data and records and download as
needed
HyperStore: Software Defined Storage
Secure Data
(AES256 encrypted)
CPU Disks Network
Access Controls
(User/Group ACLs)
Network Security
(TLS or SSL support)
RBAC User
Security
Data Validation
(Checksum on read)
Audit logging
(activity logs)
Versioning
(Optional versioning)

22. Just like Amazon - S3 Compatibility
Ceph s3test Validation
No of
test
Status Details
388 PASS
26 PASS* Illegal character case that’s handled at Jetty
2 OPEN 2 bugs open
416

23. Low Hard Costs - 1c/GB/Month
65%
LOWER $/GB
25% LESS
Power Cooling
Rackspace
Monolithic Array Cloudian
HyperStore Appliance

24. Recording of this and other webinars available
on our website (no need to re-register)
Before we get to your questions ...
Select the Attachments
button for Papers and
Data Sheets

25. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
georgeacrump@storageswiss.com
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http://twitter.com/storageswiss
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Cloudian on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/CloudianStorage
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http://www.youtube.com/user/CloudianVideos

26. Cloud Storage:
5 Reasons IT Can Do it Better
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