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.

1. In this webinar you will learn:
● Why Object Storage is an ideal NAS replacement
● Why NAS to Object Gateways fall short
● How NAS to Object Integration Solves the Problem
● Solve Legacy Problems, Prepare for Modernization
Solving the NAS to Object Storage Challenge
Object
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Q&A go to:
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2. Our Speakers
Jon Toor is CMO of Cloudian. Prior to Cloudian, Toor served as vice president of marketing at
Brocade. He also served as the vice president of marketing at Xsigo Systems where he led
the outbound marketing team from company launch until the company acquisition by Oracle.
Prior to Xsigo, he served at ONStor as vice president of marketing. Toor holds an MBA, BS in
mechanical engineering, and a BA in economics all from Stanford University.
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. Quick Refresh

4. What is Object
Storage?
A Data Storage /
Organizational Method
● Traditional file systems
use folders and
directories
● Object Storage uses
unique IDs

5. Value of Unique IDs

6. Object Offers
Greater Scale
● Capacity
● File Count

7. Object Offers
Better Data
Protection
● Replication
● Erasure coding
● Erasure coding
and Replication

8. Better Geo
Control
● Data placement can be
controlled to the:
○ Node
○ Rack
○ Data Center
○ Location
○ Region

9. Why Replace NAS with Object Storage?

10. What Are the
NAS Use
Cases?
● High performance
processing of unstructured
data (relatively small
market)
● Storage area for vast
amounts of unstructured
data

11. What Are the NAS
Use Cases?
● High performance
processing of unstructured
data (relatively small market)
● Storage area for vast
amounts of unstructured
data
Modern NAS
Systems
● Great at high
performance, not so
great at long term data
retention

12. Why NAS as the
Unstructured Data
Vault Falls Short

13. NAS Too Expensive for
Unstructured Data
Vault
● Proprietary hardware
● Complex software
● Unnecessary features

14. Doesn’t Scale for
Unstructured Data
Vault
● Capacity limitations
● File count limitations
● Controller limitations

15. Wrong Features for
Unstructured Data
Vault
● Limited, if any, search
○ If you can’t find it you can’t store it
● Can’t perform Integrity Checks
● Can’t insure X number of preserved
copies
● Can’t purge excess copies based on
age

16. But… Object Storage
Has Also Fallen Short

17. Object Storage is
Object Based (duh)
● Object Storage requires a
translation layer
● The implementation of that
translation layer causes
problems

18. The NAS Gateway to
Object Storage
Problem
● NAS Gateway causes bottleneck
● NAS Gateway is a separate layer
from another vendor
○ finger pointing
○ additional cost
● Creates a separate silo within the
Object Store

19. Solution
● Object Storage with
NAS integration
● One stop shop for
Object and NAS
● Keeps prices down
● Simplifies deployment
● Assures quality support

20. © 2017, Cloudian, Inc. Confidential. Do Not Distribute
About Cloudian
HyperStore scale-out
object storage
• Limitless capacity
• 100% native S3-API
• Proven in hundreds of
deployments
840TB
in 4U
Cost effective solution for capacity storage
Cloudian HyperStore
100TB to 100PBs, and beyond

21. What is Cloudian HyperFile
• SMB/NFS file solution
• Files and objects in shared
storage pool
• Scale-out file access
• Fully modular architecture
© 2017, Cloudian, Inc.
Limitlessly Scalable Enterprise File Services
HyperFile
HyperStore
SMB/NFS
Enterprise NAS on Object Storage
IDEAL FOR:
Medical imaging
Engineering
Legal
Financial
M&E
Video
Surveillance
Home Directory
Collaboration

22. Why HyperFile is Different
Capabilities far beyond traditional NAS
Enterprise NAS
True high availability
Snapshot and WORM
File and object
convergence
Cloud Enablement
Converged data access:
directly read/write files via
S3 enabled applications
Multi-cloud support:
Amazon, Google, Microsoft
Tiering and/or replication
to public cloud
Migration Engine
Non-disruptive data
migration from existing
NAS
Select specific shares
No service interruption,
start to finish
321 ONLY CLOUDIAN! ONLY CLOUDIAN! ONLY CLOUDIAN!

23. Enterprise NAS Functionality
Highly available
• Active/Passive HA in each node
• Non-disruptive failover
Multi-protocol access
• SMB/NFS/FTP
Snapshots & WORM
Client level security & authentication
• AES-256 bit encryption
• LDAP and Active Directory support
Multi-Tenancy
Global Namespace
Geo Distribution
Full Enterprise NAS Feature Set
Auto
Failover
CLOUDIAN CLUSTER
ACTIVE PASSIVE ACTIVE PASSIVE
• Files accessible via any node
• No single point of failure
© 2017, Cloudian, Inc.

24. Use Cases
WORM Compliance
• WORM Storage for
existing/new data
• Audit Log, data
integrity check, access
tracking
• Data immutability
File and Object
Consolidation
• Converged data
access: Directly
read/write files via S3-
enabled apps
• Up to 64 namespaces
per controller
Global Distributed
File Serving
• Single namespace
across geo
• File locking/versioning
• Integrated DR
Scalable File
Serving for Large
User Community
• 1000s of users
• LDAP/AD
authentication
• Snapshot
Specific
markets:
Video surveillance Multi-cloud Engineering Govt / SLED
M&E Healthcare Legal Oil and Gas
IoT / Data lake Lifesciences Finance Retail
© 2017, Cloudian, Inc.

25. Summary
HyperFile
HyperStore
S3 SMB/NFS
CLOUDIAN CLUSTER
• Scale out NAS
• Limitless capacity
• Scalable performance
• Enterprise NAS features
• Non-disruptive migration
• Policy based: migrate specific
data types
• Background task
• Cloud enablement
• Converged data access
• Multi-cloud support
• Integrated migration / replication

26. 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
Cloudian
https://cloudian.com
Cloudian on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/CloudianStorage
Cloudian on LinkedIN:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudian-inc

27. Solving the NAS to Object Storage Challenge
Object
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