Scality Launches Open Source Cloud Program with $100,000 Incentive Fund for Software Developers

2010 Storage Developer Conference. Scality . All Rights Reserved.
Facilitating the Open Source
Community Transition to Cloud
Storage
Giorgio Regni & Brad King
Scality

Who is Scality?
r  Infrastructure Software
r  Experienced Team – ex Bizanga
r  Service Provider and Email Heritage
r  Disruptive Technology (patent awarded)
r  Offices in USA, EMEA, Japan
r  300 TB deployed, 1.5 million users
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Buzz & Jargon
r  Storage is growing fast! 2x worldwide every 2 years
r  Unstructured is going faster than structured
r  HD size/speed ratio is getting worse
r  Amazon S3 is meeting a need (over 100B object)
r  Global Namespaces & Utility storage make sense
r  Most applications were designed for block storage
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The paradigm shift: distributed, cloud, object
based, scale-out, SaaS, RESTful, ...Yeah right.
Jargon, yes! Nevertheless:

Public cloud storage today
r  Amazon dominates the market
r  The model is appealing
r  S3 protocol is becoming a standard
r Ubuntu one cloud
r Google Storage
r Scality software (yes, that’s us)
r  There is a lot of work to be done on existing
applications
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COMMON CHALLENGES?
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Top Concerns Study
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What does a cloud user want?
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Freedom
r  Cloud service provider
r Being able to migrate
r Not being locked-in
r  Application interoperability
r Standard encryption policies?
r Standard compression settings?
r Can I use my files using a different app?
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Metrics
r How much did I upload?
r How many requests?
r How much is this going to cost?
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Performance
r  Clients & apps designed for “far away” cloud
r  Focus on write once read many access
r Web facing content
r Backups
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Security
r  Encryption client size
r Transparent encryption using AES
r Private key scheme
r  SSL connection
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SCALITY DROPLETS
LIBRARY
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Droplets User benefits
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Clouds are made of droplets
r  Portable C API with bindings for PERL, Python,
Ruby & more
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Interoperability
r  File abstraction layer
r  Path encoding
r  Splitting large files
r  Custom domains
r  Address any S3
compatible cloud server
r  Easily migrate data
between clouds
Performance
r  Transparent
compression
r  Local caching
r  Using any local volume
as read and/or write
cache
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Features

SCOP
Part 3
Thursday,
November
25,
2010

What’s SCOP?
r  Promote the object store model & promote a
popular interface model
r  Improve interoperability of applications and
cloud storage services
r  Create a canonical set of API features with the
help of the Opensouce community
r  Jump start existing applications with a Bounty
Program
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Scality Opensource Program – Goals

SCOP Bounty Program
r Propose your talent
r Your proposal is selected…
r Integrate the app using Droplets
r Collect a Bounty!
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The SCOP Bounties
r  Cloud migration tool $XX
r  Web server CDN $YY
r  Zope/Plone integration $AB
r  Your proposed Application
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Participating in SCOP
r  Download Scality Droplets from github.com
r  Download the application form at
http://www.scality.com/scopbounty.pdf
r  Applications due by November 1st 2010
r  Notification by December 1st 2010
r  Code your application
r  Bounties rewarded on functional completion
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