Service Provider Opportunities in Virtualized Storage and Software Defined Storage

Service Provider Opportunities in Virtualized Storage and Software

Defined Storage John Lawler, VP Marketing and Product Development

VirtuozzoIntroduction to our new organisation Founded in 2001, “spun out” in 2015 Headquartered in Seattle, with offices in Moscow, London and Munich Over 170 employees, including 100+ engineers + 15 kernel developers 120+ patents in container, virtualization and storage technology A network of 700+ worldwide partners powering 5,000,000+ virtualized environments

Key Open Source sponsor and/or contributor of OpenVZ, CRIU, Linux, and P.Haul Founding members of Open Container Initiative, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and OpenStack Foundation

Strong Technology Alliances

Industry Trends in Storage• 70x increase in average data consumption

(survey of European hosting companies)

•Data-driven applications• Big Data analytics• Internet of Things (IoT)• Learning/AI based systems

• Storage as a Service

Hosters’ Requirements• Find ways to extract greatest

efficiency from existing storage infrastructure

• Avoid or minimize capex• Enormous quantities of unused disk space locked to servers

• Average of 63% unused/wasted

• Work with/supplement other storage technologies like SAN, NAS, and SSDs

• Storage purpose-built for hosting

• Everything in scale

Purpose-Built Storage• Container awareness

• Must get faster and more robust as is scales

• Designed and optimized for the random I/O, read/writes of hosters

Sequential load Random load

Cluster: 5 nodes, 1 GbitVirtuozzo StorageCEPH

• Hot data auto-balancing• Maximize performance by distributing

IOPS and minimizing network traffic

• High availability and fast storage recovery speeds

SDS for the Service Provider- Reuses existing hardware -- no need for dedicated,

expensive hardware or vendor lock-in

- Any mix of HDDs in a cluster- Scalable up to hundreds nodes and up to PBs

- Performance and reliability increases as cluster scales- Failure tolerant and redundant - Out-of-the-box SSD caching improves read and write

performance

- Automatic data and load/performance balancing- Server storage capacity and bandwidth no longer limited by

individual node

Use Case: Big Data/BI SaaS Provider

• Solution: Virtuozzo / Virtuozzo Storage

• Details

Virtuozzo Storage gave us unparalleled uptime and better than SAN performance at a fraction of the cost, saving us millions per year in both hardware and avoided outages. The hyper-converged design of Virtuozzo and Virtuozzo storage ensures that in the event of a failure their production environments are moved seamlessly according to the disaster recovery

• Goal: Improve business-critical application performance and capacity

• Problem: Traditional hypervisor solutions were costly both on price and performance. Running the application on bare metal seemed necessary, but was problematic in terms of efficiency while balancing customer needs and availability

• Isolated workloads with secure multi-tenancy, dynamic scaling without rebooting

• Virtuozzo Storage efficiently caches identical files found in multiple containers to reduce I/O and memory bottlenecks, maximizing resource utilization on Apptio’s servers.

• Avoided huge capex

570TB 550 servers 14 major clusters across 3 continents

SummaryStorage purpose-built for hosting providers enables

Consolidation and rationalization of storage resources

Container-aware storage that gets faster and more robust as it scales

Hot and cold data Minimizes capex, maximize margin

Provides the enabling technology and cost model to allow you to pursue new, higher value use cases and business opportunities

Service Provider Opportunities in Virtualized Storage and Software Defined Storage

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