Download - Benefits of Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage as a Global Content Repository for Distributed Workflows
Ingo Fuchs, [email protected]
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Benefits of Cloud Storage
Efficiency– Improve physical asset utilization– Lower CAPEX and OPEX
Flexibility– Near-instantaneous availability of resources
Focus– Focus on core business and creating content– De-emphasize running IT infrastructure
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Issues ?!?
Cloud or just Fog?– Public, Private, Hybrid, Stretched, On/Off-Premise…
Security– Asset protection and retention
– Content security in-flight and at-rest
Standards- Path to standards vs. vendor-specific lock-in
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Meaningful “Cloud”
Tools, Techniques, Standards -> Products
Cloud - is it a “means”, or a “service”?
Don’t lose sight of your goal – what is the desired result?
Hint: It’s not “having cloud storage”
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Goal: More Efficient Content/Post Business
Enable global, distributed workflows– Content Creation, Management, Delivery and Archive
What to expect from your storage infrastructure:– Efficiency and Flexibility on a global scale– Automation – as much as you can get– Metadata – it’s a fundamental change in how we store, manage,
access data– Interoperability and Consolidation
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Storage enables global, distributed Workflows
Production Assets Regional
Tracks & elementsGlobal Content Repository
LibraryAssets
Create, manage, use and/or distribute content from anywhere Metadata driven data management places content at the most logical locations while
remaining visible, accessible, secured and protected for all No silos, offline backups, data wranglers or explicit media movement required
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Migrating to HD production
Global Repository Uses in Media & Entertainment
Implementing collaborative / workgroup MAM/DAM
systems
Migrating to Tapeless File-based Workflows
Implementing VOD, Internet or mobile content delivery
Adding additional channels
Digitizing, (restoring or repurposing) remastering
archived content
Studios Broadcasters
Collaborative Access
Asset Protection
Varying Service Levels
Post Facilities
Challenges: New formats, delivery targets, compressed time to release…..
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Different Content Needs Different Service Levels
Policy-compliant storage mandated retention & geography, secure destruction, WORM, legal holds, forensic audit
Data sharing between organizations, departments, teamsmillisecond latency, 100% availability tier one storage for distributed workflows
Working store offload sub-second latency, high throughput storage for swapping projects out of tier one
Project-driven nearline storage multi-second latency, <100% availability, economy storage for dormant work products
Archival storage guaranteed-accurate preservation across multiple technology generations
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Use Case: Active Archive
Archives that span technology tiers– Caching/SSD, spinning disk and tape
– Manage files, objects, metadata
– Single, unified architecture for different workflowsUnified infrastructure that manages:
– Content files and their metadata
– Relational databases for management, security and access policies, digital rights management, bill-backs
Increased Efficiency and Flexibility – with lower cost
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Key Points
Make storage part of your IT design process– Storage enables new and improved business models– Consider virtualization, drive towards efficiency and flexibility
Leverage cloud-based storage models– Regardless of public/private cloud decision– Consider bottom line vs. emotional decisions
Actively engage with emerging standards– E.g. join SNIA’s CSI (or CDMI TWG) http://www.snia.org/cloud
Push vendors to embrace standardsNetApp is here to help!
Thank You!