In this webinar you will learn:❏ Why Object Storage should be ideal for the enterprise

❏ Why Object Storage has not been a good fit for the enterprise

❏ How Object Storage vendors are failing at making the fit better

❏ How to make Object Storage a perfect fit for the enterprise

Sizing Up Object Storage for the Enterprise

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● 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?

Our SpeakersGeorge 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.

Our SpeakersJeff Tabor is the Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing at Avere Systems. Jeff leads product definition, marketing, and communication for Avere’s Hybrid Cloud NAS product family. Prior to Avere, Jeff managed clustered NAS solutions at NetApp and Spinnaker Networks. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

● File systems company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

● Mission to free where data is stored in the enterprise

● Founded by industry veterans Ron Bianchini, CEO & Michael Kazar, CTO

● Build FXT Edge filer hardware and software that separates performance from capacity and enabled hybrid IT that includes the cloud

● Media & Entertainment, Finance, Life Sciences, Government and Enterprise R&D

Who is Avere Systems?

Polling Question

What Are Your Object Storage Plans?

What Is Different About Object Storage?

● Object Storage is different in how data is accessed

● Data is assigned a Unique ID and is accessed by that ID

● The ID is used to:• Confirm Protection Level• Confirm Data Integrity• Eliminate Unnecessary Copies

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Attributes Of Object Storage

● Extremely High File (object) Count

● Systems are in the thousands of TBs scaling to hundreds of PBs

● Designed to be inexpensive, long-term, easy to manage• Scale-Out• Built on Commodity Servers and

Storage

● Search-able

Why Object Storage is a Good Fit for the Enterprise

● Enterprises are flooded with Unstructured Data

● Makes an ideal primary store for this data

• User Data

• IoT, Sensor Data

• Machine Data (Logs)

Why Object Storage is a Good Fit for the Enterprise

● Archive● Cost effective destination for old data

● Retrieval times are still excellent

● But costs are lower

Why Object Storage In The Enterprise

● Modern Apps are Object ready• Cassandra, Hadoop, Splunk, Spark, etc…

are Object Aware

Why Object Storage is a Good Fit for the Enterprise

● One System - Multiple Use Cases

Object Storage

Archive User DataNew Apps

Backups

The Challenges with Object Storage in the Enterprise

● Moving Data to Object Storage

• Manual Movement

• Migration

• Caching

Where To Start

REST API NFS/SMB

iSCSI

● Accessing Data on Object Storage

• Legacy Protocols

• Native Protocols

Why Object Storage Has Not Been A Good Fit For The Enterprise

Access Issues● Access requires something other

than NFS, SMB, or iSCSI

● Typically S3

● Applications have to be re-written

Migration Issues● Lack of traditional protocol makes data

movement more complicated

● Even if legacy protocol support is available…• Identifying the right data to move is difficult• Especially on an ongoing seamless basis• Then you have the challenge of how users will

find and access that data

NAS Still Has A Place● Enterprises don’t want to dump

their NAS

● Still offers higher performance, ideal for some IoT projects

● They just want to slow NAS capacity growth

“Buy” Issues● Initial System is too Big for initial

need

● Complexity in configuring - software and hardware purchased separately

How Object Storage Vendors Are Missing The Mark

● Providing Legacy Protocol Support

• NFS/SMB support but typically low performance

• Object storage is still a separate silo of storage

● Integrated System

• Faster implementation at expense of flexibility

• Initial system configured too large

How To Make Object Storage A Perfect Fit For The Enterprise

● Holistic approach• Unify current NAS systems with object

with global name space

● Accelerate NAS tier with Flash front end• Improve the analytics performance

● Allow seamless connectivity to the cloud

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Avere Hybrid Cloud NAS

CloudCompute

On-PremCompute

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On-PremStorage

NAS

Object

Bucket 1

Bucket 2

Bucket n

Virtual Compute Farm

Virtual FXT

File Storage forPrivate Object

NAS Optimization

Cloud NAS

Cloud Bursting

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age

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Physical FXT

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Avere C2N – Cloud-Core NAS System

• C2N overview- Avere’s first integrated Edge+Core

system - Combines NAS with object storage- Easy integration with public cloud

• Customer benefits- NAS simplicity for easy fit with existing

applications- Object efficiency for better scaling and

economics- Cloud awareness for simple integration

in public/private cloud and NAS infrastructures

Typical C2N configuration with 640TB usable

capacity

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Integrated CX200 Core Filer

• Hardware configuration- CX200 storage node (120TB raw

capacity)• Space-efficient 1U server• Qty=12 hot-swappable 10TB drives

- Min. TR config: CX200 (3), 120TB usable- Min. EC config: CX200 (6), 480TB usable

• Integrated object storage software

- Based on OpenStack Swift from SwiftStack

- Erasure coding (EC)- Triple replication (TR)- Geo-dispersal for disaster recovery (DR)

Min. TR config: 3 CX200 nodes, 120TB usable

capacity

Min. EC config: 6 CX200 nodes, 480TB usable

capacity

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Object Storage Efficiency

• Capacity scaling- 120TB entry point- Expand in 80TB increments- Scales to more than 5PB

• Erasure coding (EC)- N+4 availability- Over 60% usable capacity

• Triple replication (TR)- Enables 120TB usable capacity entry point

• Geo-dispersal- Implement disaster recovery (DR) solutions across three sites- Simpler and more efficient than NAS replication/mirroring

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Scale-out NAS Functionality

• Integrated, all-Flash FXT performance tier

- Clustering for performance scaling and HA

- Scales from 14 to 480TB SSD- File system built for object storage

• Complete NAS feature set- Powerful GUI and storage analytics- NFS, SMB, multi-protocol support- Snapshots- Global namespace- Data migration- Mirroring- Compression- Encryption

Avere GUI showing client-side NFS access to object storage

Integrated FXT 5000 performance tier

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C2N vs. Competitive Solutions for Active Archive

Old Way: Traditional NAS

Future Way: Cloud

Public & Private Object

Storage

NAS Challenges• Inefficient silos of

data• Management is

difficult• DR is complex and

expensive

Simple Path to Cloud: C2N

Cloud Challenges• Public: data migration,

security• Private (BIG vendor):

entry point is 1PB+ and $1M+

• Private (DIY): open source software + 3rd-party hardware is complex

C2N Benefits• NAS protocols, no

application changes• Object storage for high

efficiency• 120TB entry point• Turnkey solution with Avere

support• GNS for existing NAS and

future cloud

Thank you!Storage Switzerlandhttp://www.storageswiss.comgcrump@storage-switzerland.com

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Sizing Up Object Storage for the Enterprise

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