File systems are the heart of most organizations. They’re how critical unstructured data assets are stored, organized, and shared. But with files exploding in size and quantity as well as the cloud offering potentially cheaper and more scalable storage than traditional NAS, a new set of requirements is needed. Is your file system ready?

1. The Four Requirements of A Cloud Era File System
● Not ready for the Distributed Office and Mobile
Worker
● Limited cloud integration
● Unable to scale capacity and performance
independently
● Can’t keep up with new demands of data
protection and DR
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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 over 25 years of experience
designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.
Fred Pinkett brings to Nasuni extensive Product Management experience in the storage and information
security spaces. Prior to joining Nasuni, Fred was VP of Product Management for Security Innovation, leading
their application security e-Learning product line. Previously he was VP of Product Management at Core
Security Technologies, and before that ExaGrid, during the early rapid growth of the company. He has also
held senior positions at Pedestal Software, Network Associates, RSA Security, and Banyan. Mr. Pinkett holds
an MBA from Boston College and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

3. A Quick History of File
Systems
● Purpose
● Phase 1 - Home Directories /
Unstructured Data
● Phase 2 - Business-Critical
Unstructured Data
● Phase 3 - Applications and Virtualization
● Phase 4 - The Cloud

4. Understanding
the Cloud Era

5. Changing Use Cases
● Collaboration on files
● Distributed offices
● More mobile users
● Massive increase in capacity
and quantity

6. More Data Sources and Higher Resolutions
● Video (Surveillance, Aerial Imaging-Drones,
High Res 4K to 8K - and much more of it)
● Medical Scans – 2D to 3D and more of them
● IoT
● Log Data
● Rich Media / Design Files (Adobe)
● File Infrastructure is Ripe for Cloud
Transformation
● Reduces On-Premises Storage

7. Current File Systems Fall Short
● Struggling to meet capacity and file count
demands
● Struggling to meet distributed use case of
offices and users
● Struggling to meet backup and DR
requirements
● Little to no understanding of the cloud
○ Use it as an archive and maybe a backup

8. Cloud Becomes
the Backbone for
Global File
Access
● Minimizes need for (and costs of)
MPLS, WAN acceleration
● Changes unstructured data to an
operational expense
● Automatically creates DR Copies
● Eliminates the need for backup

9. The Requirements for a Cloud Era File System

10. Global Access
● Multi-site enterprises
● Mobile workers

11. Global Access
● Multi-site enterprises
● Mobile workers
Independent
Scaling of
Capacity and
Performance
● Scale performance at the edge
● Scale capacity in the cloud

12. Low Latency Cloud Integration
● Overcome speed of light issue
● Secure, local access to files

13. Low Latency Cloud Integration
Near-Zero RPO and RTOs
● Overcome speed of light issue
● Secure, local access to files
● Continuous versions as data changes
● Off-site - stored in the cloud
● Immutable - safe from Ransomware
○ And anything else that could potentially
corrupt files
● Rapid and simple recoveries

14. Summary
● Enterprises are already in the Cloud Era
● The Cloud is the obvious place to solve
the problem
● Requires a new take on file systems
● Distributed, Global, Cloud-Native

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Legacy file infrastructure
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Costly, complex, and difficult to scale
File Servers Backup Software Disk / Tape
Remote Site(s)
File ServersNAS Disk Backup
DR Site
WAN
Acceleration
MPLS
Tape Archive & DR
Offsite
File Servers NAS Backup Software Tape LibraryDisk Backup
Data Center (File Storage)
Email Database App ServersVirtual Machines
Data Center (Block Storage)
File Sync & Share

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Modern file infrastructure with Nasuni
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Cost-effective, simple and infinitely scalable
Remote Site(s) DR and Archive Anywhere
Data Center (File Storage)
Email Database App ServersVirtual Machines
Data Center (Block Storage)

21. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
georgeacrump@storageswiss.com
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22. The Four Requirements of A Cloud Era File System
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