Webinar: Solving the NAS to Object Storage Challenge
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The webinar discusses the advantages of object storage as a replacement for Network Attached Storage (NAS), highlighting the limitations of NAS in managing unstructured data and the challenges faced with NAS to object gateway integration. It introduces Cloudian's HyperStore and HyperFile solutions that offer scalable, high-performance storage with enterprise-level features while simplifying deployment and maintenance. The session emphasizes modernizing storage infrastructures and preparing for future data management needs through the adoption of object storage technology.
Webinar: Solving the NAS to Object Storage Challenge
- 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 For audio playback and Q&A go to: http://bit.ly/NAStoObject
- 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.
- 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 For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at: http://bit.ly/NAStoObject