Object Storage 2: The Value of Object Storage for IT

THE VALUE OF OBJECT
STORAGE FOR I.T.
PART 2 OF 3
SCOTT NYMAN, SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER,
HITACHI CONTENT PLATFORM
JULY 18, 2012

WEBTECH EDUCATIONAL SERIES
The Value of Object Storage for IT
In part 2 of 3, Scott Nyman, senior product manager for Hitachi Content
Platform, details how a well-designed object storage solution is easy to
deploy and use, can control storage and administrative costs, can save
IT staff time and effort, and can keep IT relevant in the Web 2.0 world.
Attend this WebTech to learn how to
• Save time, money and effort with object storage
• Identify opportunities to use object storage
• Keep IT relevant

UPCOMING WEBTECHS
July: Object Storage Series
 Part 3: How to Use and Develop Applications Designed for Object
Storage, July 24, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
August
 Storage Analytics, August 8, 9 a.m. PT, 12 p.m. ET
Check www.hds.com/webtech for
 Links to the recording, the presentation and Q&A (available next week)
 Schedule and registration for upcoming WebTech sessions

AGENDA
 Saving time, money and effort
 Practical use cases
‒ Across industries
‒ Industry specific
‒ Cloud and big data

STORAGE DATA TRENDS
 Increasing operational cost
‒ Management of growing
numbers of filers and file
systems
‒ Backup effort and cost
increasing and becoming
impractical
‒ Reorganizing data directory
structures and classification
of data
‒ Migration: Lack of
automated data movement
when hardware retires
ISSUES FACING I.T.
2010 2012 2014 2016
$/FTE/GB
$/GB

Object Storage
OBJECT STORAGE
 Intelligent
 Scales out
 Ultra low touch
 Long-term online
data storage
 Optimized for
unstructured data
 Global access-ready
BY DESIGN: SELF-MANAGING, SELF-MONITORING, SELF-HEALING
Traditional Storage
Intelligence
Presentation• Scale
• Organize
• Protect
• Describe
• Define
• Relate
• Monitor
• Care
• Maintain
• Repair
• Move
• Retire
Global Access-Ready
with Convenient Access

OBJECT STORAGE – KEY CAPABILITIES
 Scales from terabytes to petabytes
 Stores billions of objects
 Provides for thousands of “tenants”
 Line speed performance for HTTP/REST
 No backup required
 Multiple protocols  Self-healing
 Replication  Versioning
 Compliance  Authentication
 Compression  Encryption at rest
 Deduplication  Retention and shredding
 Protection levels  Automated tiering
A robust object store will provide:
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OBJECT STORAGE – “BACKUP FREE”
 Use of proven RAID-6 protection
 2 copies of all metadata
 Customer configurable redundant local object copies (2,3, or 4)
 Content validation via hashes and automatic object repair
 Replication – offsite copies with automated repair from replica
 Object versioning – protection from accidental deletes and changes
Why objects need no backup – active data protection designed in
Result: Unparalleled data protection and reduced backup burden

AUTOMATIC TECH REFRESH –
EVOLUTION BY DESIGN
Old Disk
New Objects
New Disk
Auto-Migrated Objects
Object Store
An object store can truly evolve with storage technology
 Seamless addition of new technology at any time
 Storage nodes or backend storage can be selected for tech refresh
– Writes to old storage stop when tech refresh begins
– Objects on old storage auto-migrate to new storage nondisruptively

Optimal Access
NFS WebDAVCIFS/SMBHTTP(S)/REST
ACCESS PROTOCOLS
 REST: Write once, run anywhere (LAN or WAN)
 Bridge legacy and Web2 worlds
‒ Legacy app creates content via NFS or CIFS
‒ Users have worldwide access to content via REST
OPEN AND FLEXIBLE: ULTIMATE INVESTMENT PROTECTION
SMTP
Object Storage

Other
Applications
File Shares
(CIFS/NFS)File Shares
(CIFS/NFS)
Other
ApplicationsOther
Applications
SQL Server
File Shares
(CIFS/NFS)
Rapid multiplication
of platform
licensing and
maintenance costs
Expensive active
data stores
become bloated
Copying data is one of the most expensive data center activities
Exponential backup growth is costly and unsustainable
Reduce the number
of application
servers and
licensing
Offload data
from primary
storage
Remove static data from backups (50%-80% savings)
Scale dynamically from
a few terabytes
to multiple petabytes
Approximately 70% of the data in these systems is “static”
LOWER COST OF STORAGE
Object Storage

REDUCED RISK
 Security, preservation,
search and lifecycle
management for
‒ compliance demands
‒ internal controls
‒ records management
‒ legal needs

IMPROVED EFFICIENCY
 High-density storage
‒ Use less floor space, power and cooling
 Automated tiering
‒ Disk
‒ Spin down disk
‒ Tape
 Compression
 Single instancing

PRACTICAL USE
CASES FOR OBJECT
STORAGE
ACROSS INDUSTRIES

PRACTICAL USE CASES
EMAIL INBOX
Software
A
 Email archiving
‒ Use Exchange add-in software
‒ Remove attachments from inbox
‒ Stubs provide user transparency
‒ No need for manual recalls
 Benefits
‒ Bottomless inbox; no more PST
‒ Reduce inbox growth
‒ Attachment deduplication across stores
‒ Significantly reduce backup time and cost
Object Storage

PRACTICAL USE CASES
HOME SHARES
A
 File archiving
‒ Use policy-based migration software
‒ Policy example
‒ Not changed in last 60 days
‒ Not accessed in the last 30 days
‒ Stubs provide user transparency
‒ No manual recalls from backups
 Benefits
‒ Reduce or eliminate filer expansion
‒ File deduplication across filers
Software
Object Storage

PRACTICAL USE CASES
SHAREPOINT
 Remote blob storage
‒ Don’t store blobs in database
‒ User transparency
 Benefits
‒ Reduce and keep database manageable
‒ Reduce Microsoft licenses
‒ File deduplication
Office SharePoint
Server2007
Office SharePoint
Server2007
Office SharePoint
Server2007
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Server2007
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Software
Object Storage

PRACTICAL USE CASES
 Database archiving and application
retirement
‒ Avoid keeping systems running
‒ Retire and save while keeping record
and document access
‒ Shrink backup window and achieve
application SLAs
‒ Automate archiving and free up DBA
cycles
‒ Mitigate technology sprawl
‒ Optimize performance
‒ Optimize CAPEX and OPEX
Production Historical
Object Storage
STRUCTURED DATA

PRACTICAL USE CASES
COMBINED
 Benefits
‒ Discovery
‒ Preservation
‒ Storage utility
‒ File deduplication
‒ Bridge to big data
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Server2007
Office SharePoint
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Stub
Attachment
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Stub and
Archive
Store
Blobs
Object Storage

PRACTICAL USE
CASES FOR OBJECT
STORAGE
INDUSTRY SPECIFIC

PRACTICAL USE CASES
 Benefits
‒ Sharing across providers (e.g., XDS)
‒ Sharing across modalities
‒ Multiple vendors
‒ Compliance
HEALTHCARE REPOSITORY
MRI
Repository
Registry
CT
XDS
XDS
Multiple
Modalities
Register Doc Set
Register and
Provide Doc Set
Retrieve
Doc Set
Misc.
Retrieval
Object
Storage

PRACTICAL USE CASES
GOVERNMENT
 Digital archive
‒ Digitalization of paper documents
and photo prints or negatives
‒ Digitalization of audio and video from
magnetic media or celluloid
 Benefits
‒ Durability and quality of content
‒ Authenticity insurance
‒ Enable access through new media
‒ Compliance and control legal liability
‒ Forms, permits, tax reports, etc.
‒ Funding through share contracts
Object
Storage
Scan and
Preserve

PRACTICAL USE CASES
TRADING ROOMS
 Call center integration
‒ Compliant archive for audio files
‒ Audio recording authenticity
‒ For audio and custom metadata (record)
 Benefits
‒ No more optical
‒ Long term WORM storage
‒ Admissible evidence in legal cases
Voice
Recording
Archive
Object Storage

PRACTICAL USE CASES
 Government
‒ Leverage electronic processing
‒ Digitalize letters, photo, forms, drawings, etc.
‒ Compliance and legal liability control
 Security
‒ Surveillance, facial recognition, telecom log forensics
 Utility grids
‒ Connect maps to drawings, photos, incident history
‒ Avoid costs by not going on location for every query or call
‒ More effective in case of emergencies and disaster
OTHERS

PRACTICAL USE
CASES FOR OBJECT
STORAGE
CLOUD AND BIG DATA

Enterprise: Privately Use
Popular Cloud Apps
Content Publishing
Local Access
Legacy App
Legacy Protocol
Regional Org. Data Sharing
Hospitals
Storage Service Provider
(Public or Private)
Private Data Areas – Anywhere Access
IDEAL FOR CLOUD, MOBILE
AND DISTRIBUTED I.T.

Remote/Branch Office
OBJECT STORAGE FOR BIG DATA
ENTERPRISE CONTENT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT AND DISCOVERY
Primary Storage Virtualized ContentContent Creation
 Variety and volume to
store, manage,
preserve and share
content with object
storage.
 Capture, manage and
query metadata to
classify and prioritize
analysis sets
 Metadata queries
‒ Identify sets of
related objects based
on system and
custom metadata
‒ Understand the
object store – gather
object or content
metrics on sets of
objects based on
metadata
Cloud
Storage

SUMMARY AND NEXT STEPS
 Learn more about object storage
‒ Attend part 3 of this series
 Assess your environment
‒ What applications could benefit from object storage?
 Assess your future
‒ What applications and IT models do you plan to use?
 Try it for yourself
‒ Should be easy to deploy, integrate and manage
 Start soon to save more and leapfrog competitors

RESOURCES
 Object storage
‒ http://www.hds.com/products/file-and-content/content-
platform/?WT.ac=us_mg_pro_hcp
 Object storage white paper
‒ http://www.hds.com/assets/pdf/distributed-object-store-principles-of-operation.pdf
 Object storage overview
‒ http://www.hds.com/assets/pdf/hitachi-solution-profile-object-based-storage.pdf
 Object storage in action
‒ http://www.techvalidate.com/product-research/hds-content-archive-platform

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