Hybrid Cloud Storage with Cloudian HyperStore® and Amazon S3 Solution Brief1. Hybrid Cloud Storage with Cloudian HyperStore® and Amazon S3
NEW DATA STORAGE CHALLENGES
With the popularity of rich media, the digitization of content, and the proliferation of mobile devices, there has been
exponential growth in the amount of unstructured data that IT is tasked with managing—and the rate of this growth is
only accelerating. Traditional networked storage approaches, such as SAN and NAS, fail to meet the performance and
throughput demands of this new generation of IT as they lack the scalability, flexibility and agility which modern
business requires. In fact, whole legacy storage systems are breaking down. Backups and restores take longer.
Migration to new storage systems is labor intensive. And the list goes on and on. As a result, many enterprise
organizations are moving to hybrid IT environments, combining the flexibility and scale of the cloud with the security
and control of their on-premises IT capabilities. In this respect, Cloudian and Amazon are changing the game.
HYBRID CLOUD SOLUTION
Cloudian HyperStore software provides cost-effective
private cloud storage which deploys on commodity
hardware housed within enterprise IT data centers and
seamlessly integrates with the off-premises Amazon
cloud infrastructure. IT managers can dynamically
control bi-directional data tiering to and from Amazon
S3 and Glacier at the bucket level, via bucket lifecycle
rules. Bucket rules can also be set up to automatically
expire objects after a predetermined amount of time or
specific date.
Cloudian HyperStore’s fully compatible S3 API support
allows enterprise IT organizations to protect their
application investments by only coding once for both
on-premises and off-premises deployments.
BENEFITS
Object storage has changed the lives of enterprise
customers, saving them time and money while
increasing performance and peace of mind. Key
benefits of using Cloudian and Amazon to build hybrid
clouds include:
• Improved security and performance by using on-
premises cloud storage for critical business content
and the most cost effective and highly reliable off-
premises cloud storage for long term data archival.
• Reduced storage management cost by eliminating
backups, volume/LUN management, costly data
migrations, etc.
• A wide choice of Amazon S3-compatible
applications, ranging from backup and recovery to
file sync and share, and archiving.
• Improved business elasticity, as storage capacity
grows along with data growth as organizations start
small (terabytes) and expand (petabytes).
• Balanced cost and service level agreements (SLAs)
using the flexible S3 bucket lifecycle policies.
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ENTERPRISE USES CASES
• Long term archiving
• Data backup
• Disaster recovery
• Multi-tier cloud storage
SERVICE PROVIDERS USES CASES
• Multi-SLA cloud storage services
SOLUTION BRIEF
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2. HYBRID STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ENTERPRISE IT
JOINT SOLUTION HIGHLIGHTS
• Near infinite on-demand storage scaling
• Security and control for critical business content
• NFS support for easy integration with enterprises applications
• Complete S3 API coverage with full support for all S3 ecosystem apps
• Low-cost offsite long term data archiving
• Built-in multi-tenancy with advanced Quality of Service and performance monitoring
• Cloudian and Amazon integrated usage reporting and billing
• Easy out-of-the-box installation and configuration wizards
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S3
NFS
ON-PREMISES S3 AMAZON S3
CLOUD
ON PREMISES CLOUDIAN HYPERSTORE INTEGRATES SEAMLESSLY WITH AMAZON CLOUD FOR
SCALABLE AND COST-EFFECTIVE HYBRID CLOUD DEPLOYMENTS
ABOUT CLOUDIAN HYPERSTORE
HyperStore is hybrid cloud storage software that is fully Amazon S3-compliant for enterprises and service providers. It
ensures seamless S3 integration, data migration, and application compatibility with the the vast ecosystem of Amazon
Web Services (AWS) applications. HyperStore is a plug-and-play software platform that is ready to go right out of the
box. It allows users to deploy cloud storage without integration hassles or lengthy install times. HyperStore is highly
scalable, extremely secure, cost-effective, and backed by a proven, carrier-grade support team. Built on a robust object
storage platform for effortless data sharing, cloud services providers around the world use HyperStore to deploy and
manage both public and private clouds, while enterprise rely on it to maintain their private and hybrid clouds.
HyperStore leverages a fully distributed peer-to-peer architecture with no single point of failure. It cost-effectively
scales via commodity hardware so initial deployments can be comprised of only a few servers in a single datacenter. As
demand grows, these installations can easily expand to thousands of servers that process hundreds of petabytes of
data, distributed across multiple datacenters.
ABOUT AMAZON WEB SERVICES
Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers
hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and startup customers businesses in 190 countries around the world.
Amazon Web Services offers over 30 different services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2),
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). AWS Cloud
services are available to customers from data center locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan, Singapore, Australia
and China.
THE POWER OF CLOUDIAN AND AMAZON
Cloudian HyperStore® software together with the Amazon cloud provides next-generation infrastructure for Hybrid IT.
The Cloudian/Amazon combination provides a unique 100% S3-compliant hybrid cloud storage platform, that enables IT
to achieve any level of SLA at the right cost. Dynamic migration from on-premises storage to off-premises cloud storage
allows near infinite capacity scaling to meet the needs of enterprise environments to adapt their storage cost to the
value and security constrains of their data, as well as service providers targeting to market multi-SLA storage services
for their customers.
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