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Applications are Fueling Innovation in Storage Infrastructure

Sundara Nagarajan

IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter

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About Me – in short

Technical Director for Partner Solutions Integration at NetApp, based in Bangalore

Senior Member of IEEE; volunteer to IEEE Computer Society activities

Member of IEEE Computing Now Advisory Board

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This talk is based on:

S. Nagarajan, “Is the Application Layer Fueling Innovation in Storage Infrastructure?,” Computing Now, vol. 8, no. 5, May 2015, IEEE Computer Society

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Big Data is the New Paradigm

Source: marry.indhuja.com

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Large-Scale System is an Organism

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• There is repair and upgrade going on all the time, somewhere!

• Transactional continuity; Non-disruptive operation essential

• Contextual optimization of functions

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Application is driving IT Architecture

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Source: http://media.amazonwebservices.com/architecturecenter/AWS_ac_ra_timeseriesprocessing_16.pdf

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Separation of concerns: Data and Storage Management

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Infrastructure Element Management

Openstack, Cloudstack,…Home-grown workflow management

Infrastructure Services

Block, POSIX File, Batch, Relational, Object, Key Value, Document, Columnar, In-memory ….

Data Management

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google, Salesforce, Home-grown Data Services……

Platform-as-a-Service offers variety of data services

Application Platform Services

Unified Infrastructure Orchestration (SLO-based provisioning | SLA monitoring | Trouble-shooting | Security)

Amazon Web Services, Azure, SoftLayer, Google, …

Storage Compute

Networking

Creation Consumption Storage Protection

Semantics Availability Security Mobility

Application-aware, optimized?

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Separation of Performance and Capacity

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Source: Wikipedia.org, bluewhales.org

Peregrine Falcon: 389 Kmph Blue Whale: 30m and 190K Kgs.

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Application-Centric, Application-optimized Storage

Unprecedented choice of media: Persistent In-memory (storage class memory) to Archive class disks to Tape to Cloud Storage

Programmer’s Interface for Management Orchestration, Automated event response

QoS for Data Access Policy-based Management Non-disruptive Data Mobility “shadow IT” to self-service

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For innovation opportunities, look up to the applications!

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Discussion / Questions?

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