5 reasons to move your storage to the cloud

5 Reasons to Move Your Storage to the CloudMatt BlanchardSolutions Architect, SoftNAS

March 29, 2016

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Agenda

• On-Premises vs Cloud• 5 Reasons to Move Your Storage

1. Reduced Costs2. Elastic Storage3. Greater Security4. Increased Performance5. Low Maintenance

• Demo: SoftNAS Cloud NAS on AWS• SoftNAS Architecture & Overview• Q&A


Why Move to the Cloud?


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• Provisioning– How much storage will you need in 2-3 years?

• Usable Storage– Formatting, Partitioning, DR Copy

• Utilization– What % of your storage is actually used?

• Administration & Maintenance Costs– Software, Support, Maintenance, Networking

Issues in Storage Today


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Unconstrained Growth: Big Data is Moving Fast


From application server logs, web sites and mobile apps to sensor output, high definition film and satellite imagery, data is growing at an unconstrained and exponential rate.

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Traditional vs Cloud


Traditional Remove Office

• Difficult to Manage

• Expensive

• Unpredictable Costs

• Slow Performance

Cloud-Enabled Offices

• Self-Adminstered• Centrally Governed• Affordable• Predictable RTO

• Centralized Data• Globally Accessible• Predictable RPO

• Low Cost Gateways• Fast Performance• Remotely Manageable

Backups

Disaster Recovery

Branch File Sharing

Poll:How are you planning to reduce NAS hardware costs for new purchases?


1. Reduced Costs


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• Moving to the cloud reduces costs on infrastructure and software

• Provides more investment capital for business growth• Gives your business a strong competitive advantage

in the market

Reduced costs


Only pay for what you use

No capital investment

Pay as you go

No subscriptio

ns

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Pay-As-You-Go


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On-Premises vs Cloud


Raw StorageDisk storage volumes in a box

Usable StorageRAID protection, Formatted ReadyAllocated StoragePre-allocation / Capacity PlanningUtilized StorageDisk storage available to the database, Operating systemApplication StorageActual storage used by the application

1 PB

1,048,576 GB

80%

90%

70%-80%

1,820,133 GB

AllocationOn-Premises Storage


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On-Premises vs Cloud


Raw StorageDisk storage volumes in a box

Usable StorageRAID protection, Formatted ReadyAllocated StoragePre-allocation

Utilized StorageDisk storage available to the database, Operating systemApplication StorageActual storage used by the application

Amazon S3On-Premises Storage

1 PB


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Storage Administration Costs

2. Elastic Storage


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• Ability of a system to grow or shrink its resource consumption according to demand

• Resources can be provisioned and de-provisioned dynamically & automatically

• Gap between demand and capacity kept as small as possible

• Scale out or scale in as demand increases/decreases

Elasticity


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Elastic Scaling


Poll:How much unstructured data do you estimate you have within your company?


3. Greater Security


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SSL Endpoints Security Groups

IAM VPC

Secure Transmission

Establish secure communication

sessions (HTTPS) using SSL

Instance Firewalls

Configure firewallrule for instances

and load balancers

using SecurityGroups

User Accounts

Create individualAWS Identity and

Access Management

(IAM) user accounts

so that each usermanaging AWS

hastheir own security

credentials

Subnet Control

In your VirtualPrivate Cloud,

createlow level

networkingconstraints for

resource access,such as public

andprivate subnets,

internet gateways, and

NATs

AWS Security

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• Security & protection of customer data - #1 priority

• AWS security features– Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)– VPC security groups– Identity and Access Management (IAM)– Data Encryption

Data Protection


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• SoftNAS– CentOS Linux VM– SSL-encrypted administration console– Public/private key access control via SSH – Iptables firewall– SnapReplicate™ (between SoftNAS instances)

Data Protection Cont’d


SnapReplicate™ Block Replication

Patent-pendingtechnology


HA Architecture on AWS

Patent-pendingtechnology


4. Increased Performance



• Most data follows a similar pattern– Write, read, ignore

• “Small” amounts of data follow a much more aggressive pattern– Write, read, write, read, write, read, write, read, write, read, write, read, write,

read, write, read

• The result is that for effective cloud storage you need to have both high capacity and high performance

Storage Performance


• Traditional cloud storage was viewed as a data dumping ground– All about $/GB and performance

• Cloud storage is now becoming a lot more active:– File sync– Big data– Calendars– …

• And performance is needed for cloud storage– If it can’t do it faster and cheaper, it wont win

Changing Requirements

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Backup & Archive


Time reduced from days to hours

5. Low Maintenance



• Once the system is set up there is almost no maintenance on the user end

• You still have to manage user accounts, but jobs like array maintenance and monitoring the health of your data storage simply go away

• Wave goodbye to hardware & database administration costs

Low Maintenance


Automation


Self-Managed AWS-Managed You have full responsibility for upgrades and backup

Upgrades, backup, and failover are provided as a service

You have full responsibility for security

AWS provides high infrastructure security, certifications; gives you tools to ensure DB security

Full control over parameters of server, OS, and database

Database is a managed appliance, so you can easily automate

Replication is expensive, complex and requires a lot of engineering

Failover is a packaged service

Self-Managed vs AWS-Managed

Demo: SoftNAS Cloud NAS on AWS


SoftNAS Architecture & Overview


Flexible, adaptable architecture

Linux virtual appliance

ARCHITECTURE INTEGRATION DATA SERVICES• API and CLI• Cross data center• Cross-zone VPC• Easy

administration• File gateway• HTML5 Admin UI• Software filer• ZFS on Linux

• AWS• Azure• CenturyLink cloud• CIFS w/ Active

directory• FC SAN• iSCSI LUN• iSCSI SAN• NFS• S3 Objects• SSD• VMware vSphere

• Block replication• Cloud disks• Compression• Inline deduplication• Instant snapshots• Multi-level caching• Storage pools• Thin provisioning• Writable

SnapClones™


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SoftNAS Cloud NAS on AWS


• Enterprise-class NAS filer software appliances

Direct-attachedSSD (read cache)

Network-attachedSAN (EBS)SSD / SATA

Network-attachedobject storage

(s3)AWS AWS

NFS CIFS iSCSI

High-availability

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SoftNAS Cloud NAS• Amazon Web Services (AWS)• Microsoft Azure• CenturyLink Cloud• VMware vSphere

SoftNAS for Service Providers• VMware vSphere

Multi-tenant NAS replacement for use with iSCSI and object storage

Public cloud NAS filerOn-premise cloud NAS filer

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