Webinar: Cleaning up the SDS Mess - Four Keys to Success

Cleaning up the Software-Defined Storage MessFour Keys To Success

In this Webinar You Will Learn:

1. What Software Defined Storage (SDS) is

2. How SDS is being delivered 3. What the key three features are to look for in

an SDS solution

Register now for a copy of Storage Switzerland's white paper “Can Your Software Defined Solution Deliver ALL the SDS Benefits”

For audio playback and Q&A go to:

http://bit.ly/SDSMess

Our Speakers

Thomas Cornely, Nexenta’s Chief Product Officer, has over 15 years of experience building and running hardware and software product teams in infrastructure companies in the high-speed networking, Big Data and storage industries. At Nexenta, Thomas is responsible for all aspects of product management and product delivery, including portfolio management, technology strategy, product definition and lifecycle management.

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 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud and virtualization

● Knowledge of these markets is gained through product testing and interaction with end users and suppliers

● The results of this research can be found in the articles, videos, webinars, product analysis and case studies on our web site:

http://storageswiss.com

Who Is Storage Switzerland?

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Nexenta: Inventor & Global Leader in Software-Defined Storage

Inventor and global leader in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) Founded in 2008, 200+ employees, HQs in Santa Clara, CA Open source roots delivering enterprise-ready Software-Defined Storage solutions 6,000+ enterprise and community customers worldwide Over 1 Exabyte of capacity deployed to date; largest in SDS market 350+ partners worldwide; outreach to thousands via Nexenta Alliance Network 30+ patents and patent applications in U.S. and Europe Management team with track record of success = revenues, acquisitions, IPOs

Polling Question

What is Your TOP SDS Priority?

A) Reduce Cost

B) Improve Storage Management

C) Improve Storage Performance

D) Understand if SDS is Ready for Production

Polling Question

What is Your TOP SDS Priority?

Agenda

• What is Software Defined Storage (SDS)?

• What Are the Benefits to SDS?

• How is SDS Being Delivered?

• An SDS Example

• Q&A

The Anatomy of a Storage System


Storage Operating System



Core Hardware Services (RAID, LUN)

Advance Data Services Software A) Thin Provisioning

B) Snapshots/Clones

C) Replication

D) Data Tiering/Caching

E) And Vendor Lock-in

The Problem with Hardware-Defined Storage



Advance Data Services Software







A) Management Complexity

B) Inflexible

C) Expensive

The Software-Defined Solution



Advanced Data Services Software





What Are The Benefits to SDS?

The Software-Defined Solution








A) Single point of management

B) Flexible – Mix and match best of breed

C) Drives down hardware acquisition cost

How is SDS Delivered?

Vendor-Defined SDS








Advanced Data Services Software Advanced Data Services

Software

A) Multiple points of management

B) Flexible – for the vendor

C) Drives down the vendor’s hardware acquisition cost

Hyper-Converged

Hypervisor


Hypervisor Hypervisor

A) No need for dedicated storage hardware or network

B) Can further drive down cost

C) Could lead to unpredictable performance

Software Only









Software Only









A) Customer and workload flexibility

B) Simple to manage from a single interface

C) Drives down acquisition cost

Summary

SDS is the Abstraction of Data Services

Its Key Benefits are* Decreasing Complexity * Increasing Flexibility * Driving Down Cost

It can be delivered in three forms* Vendor Defined * Hyper-Converged * Software Defined

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Storage: The Last High Margin Hardware Business in IT

• 8 vendors control over 85% of the storage market - lock-in & artificial high margin

• Avg. Cost per TB across all geos & segments was $3,212 – Gartner

• Storage hardware typically sold at 60% to 70% margin

Source: 2013 – Gartner, IDC and Wall Street Research

Worldwide External Enterprise Storage Systems Market Share, by Revenue

11%

9%

8%

3%2%

13%29%

14%

12%

Others

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100% software defined storage Total freedom, ultimate flexibility, agility and speed to market Fundamentally changing storage market economics

Freedom From Massively Expensive Storage Systems

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Nexenta: #1 Open Software Defined Storage Portfolio

* Future

*

Scale-up , block and fileUnified Storage

Enterprise AppsCloud backend and unstructured data

repositories

Scale-out object, block and file storage

OpenStack SwiftAmazon S3

Next Gen Cloud &Big Data Apps

*

Unified analytics and orchestrationSingle pane of glass for entire storage infrastructure

Storage Services for virtualized infrastructureVMware Virtual SAN, Horizon and Citrix XenDesktop

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ocol

Any

Platf

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Nexenta SDS: Disruptive Economics for All WorkloadsCh

oice

of H

ardw

are

Block - FC

File - NFS

Object – S3

Block - iSCSI

File - SMB

Object – Swift

File – HDFS

…

…

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Simplified Adoption – Strong Partners Delivering Full Solutions

Controllers

R730 / R720R630 / R620

Storage Enclosures

MD14xxMD12xxMD3060e

Unified File and Block Services• 10GbE NFSv3, NFSv4• 10GbE CIFS, SMB 2.1• 10GbE iSCSI• 8Gbps Fibre Channel

Data Availability and Integrity• Active/Active controllers• ZFS 256 bit block level cheksums• RAID 10 and multi-parity software

RAID (n+1, n+2 and N+3)• Asynchronous replication

Data Services and Optimization• Flash and HDD hybrid pools• ZFS Copy on Write• Unlimited writable snapshots• Thin Provisioning• Inline data compression

Scalability and Management• 20TB to 1.5PB raw capacity• CLI and Web UI• SNMP and REST API

Features

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Proven Success with Customers and Partners

Thank you!

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Cleaning up the Software-Defined Storage MessFour Keys To Success

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