1. Cloud Storage Standard
Walter Moriconi – Oracle
Snia Europe Director
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3. Topics for this presentation
SNIA At-A-Glance
What Is Cloud Storage Used For?
Where Can a Cloud Storage Standard
help?
Cloud Data Management Interface
How to get involved

4. Why Industry Associations
Standards bodies (e.g., IEEE, IETF, ISO)
– Create and maintain standards
– Strongly process oriented
– Structured to accomplish technical work
Industry Associations (e.g., FCIA, Ethernet Alliance)
– Set industry agenda around a technology
– Promote technology and provide education
– Structured to accomplish marketing programs
Combination bodies (e.g., SNIA, OGF)
– Create and maintain standards (with other organizations)
– Set industry agenda around a technology
– Promote technology and provide education
– Structured to accomplish marketing programs and technical work 4

5. SNIA At-A-Glance
Voice of the storage industry representing approximately
$50-60 Billion in worldwide revenue for hardware and software
Founded in 1997 as a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade
association
Worldwide headquarters in San Francisco and Global Presence
Focus on education, certification, conferences,
specifications/standards, industry alliances, best practices,
plugfests, and conformance testing for SNIA specifications
Approximately 4,100 Active Members, Some 400 Organizations
Comprising Vendors, End Users, Channel and Services
45,000 IT Users and Vendors Educated, 1,500 Certified Professionals
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Achieving , 3,200 Certifications

6. 2011 Key Focus Areas
Storage in Virtualised Storage in Cloud Environments
Environments – Cloud Storage
– Managing Storage – Security in the Cloud
– High Availability Networking
Storage – Ethernet Storage
 iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, NAS
– Data Deduplication – Fibre Channel SAN
– Data Protection – Network Convergence
 Data Archiving  Multi-hop FCoE
 Data Centre Bridging & Converged
– Green Storage Enhanced Ethernet
– Security – Security
– Solid State
– Storage Management (SMI-S)
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7. Cloud Storage Defined
451 Group on cloud:
– “Cloud is a way of using technology, not a technology in itself – it's a
self-service, on-demand pay-per-use model. Consolidation,
virtualization and automation strategies will be the catalysts behind
cloud adoption.”
Forrester Research on cloud:
– “A pool of abstracted, highly scalable, and managed compute
infrastructure capable of hosting end-customer applications and billed
by consumption”
SNIA: Data Storage as a Service (DaaS)
– [Services] Delivery over a network of appropriately configured virtual
storage and related data services, based on a request for a given
service level. Typically, DaaS hides limits to scalability, is either self-
provisioned or provisionless and is billed based on consumption.
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8. Typical Cloud User
Scenarios
A Storage Cloud can be created as public, private or
hybrid
– Public – secure multi-tenant externally hosted
– Private – secure single or multi-tenant usually hosted inside the
firewall or by a 3rd party
– Hybrid – combination of public and private cloud infrastructures
and services
Storage Cloud may be mixed with other Cloud services
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9. What Is Cloud Storage Used
For?
Elastic demand for web based media (video,
eBooks, audio)
Backup to the cloud
– Restore, Recovery, “Seed” the backup with hard
drive
Sync of files to the cloud and multiple devices
– Internet “Drive” secondary storage
Archive to the cloud
– Including Compliance, Retention and eDiscovery
Storage for Cloud Computing
9 – Support for legacy storage interfaces is a key feature

10. Where Can a Cloud Storage
Standard help?
Common method to instantiate and manage data
storage resource
– Easier development, faster deployment
Common Cloud Storage metadata management
– Storage, System, Network, Application, Security, Privacy
Cloud-to-Cloud data portability
– Migrate not only data but also management requirements
Easier SLA/SLO management
– Requirements pushed down object-level
Easier integration in greater Cloud environments:
– Cloud Storage for Cloud Computing, Federated Services
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11. SNIA CSI Members
12 Original Founding Members New Since October 2009
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12. Cloud Data Management Interface
Applicable to three types of Cloud Storage:
– Cloud Storage for Cloud Computing
 Whitepaper at snia.org/cloud – the management interface for the lifecycle of
storage in a compute cloud
– Public Storage Cloud
 Whitepaper at snia.org/cloud – both a Data Path for the Cloud and a Management
Path for the Cloud Data
– Private Cloud Storage
 As well as hybrid clouds
 An API for Storage Vendors selling into Cloud based solutions
Semantics
– Simple Containers and Data Objects with tagged Metadata
– Data System Metadata expresses the data requirements
Protocol
– RESTful HTTP as “core” interface style
– JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)– format of the representations are
extensible
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13. How to get involved
SNIA Europe
– Become a member of SNIA Europe
– Visit www.snia-europe.org
Developer
– Subscribe to the SNIA Cloud Google Group
– Provide feedback on the CDMI specification
– Become a SNIA USA member and join the Cloud Storage TWG
Service Provider
– Become a SNIA USA member and join the Cloud Storage Initiative
– Become a SNIA Europe member and keep informed about the CSI
User / Analyst / Media / Blogger
– Follow SNIA cloud storage activities on Twitter
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14. Membership Benefits
Visibility
– Author vendor-neutral storage-related articles and best practices for
placement in Tier 1 and Tier 2 publications throughout EMEA.
– Complement your company’s marketing and PR objectives by
participating in industry PR and marketing programs
– Position you and your company as industry experts
– Tap into your local end-user community at SNIA Europe events.
Credibility
– Stay up-to-date on the latest
– Influence SNIA Europe strategic direction.
– Participate in country and regional.
– Demonstrate your company’s commitment as an industry thought
leader by displaying the “Member of SNIA Europe” logo.
– Arrange for SNIA Europe speakers to present at your local
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15. THANK YOU
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