This is the full presentation I did with Ranajit Nevatia from Panzura (@ranajitN) at Cloud Computing Expo NY in June 2012. It introduces and explains the concepts of Structured and Unstructured data and why Object Storage will prevail when it comes to the latter.

1. Cloud Storage Made Seamless
Marc Villemade Ranajit Nevatia
Technology Evangelist VP, Marketing
Scality Panzura
Slide 1

2. There are two types of data
(roughly)
! Structured
! We (sort of) know how to manage this
! Unstructured
! This is the new beast we have issues with
Slide 2

3. How to define Structured Data?
! Structured data is a set of organized pieces of data
! Relational databases are a perfect example
! Atomic pieces are, on their own, meaningless
Slide 3

4. What about Unstructured Data?
! Unstructured data is self-contained pieces of data
! Self-descriptive
! Meaningful in and of itself
! Typically has metadata attached to it
! Email, Videos, Presentations, Spreadsheets,
satellite images…
! An easy way to think about it is anything that can
be stored in one file is unstructured data
Slide 4

5. Some numbers…
! In 2012, Humanity will generate 2.7 ZB of data 1
! It is estimated that we permanently store ~ 1 ZB of it 2 (~40%)
! 80% of it is unstructured 1
! 500 Quadrillion files (500,000 million million files)
! Next year and so on, it will grow by 50% y-o-y 1
! It will double every 2 years in the next 10 years
Kind of unfathomable, ain’t it?
(1) IDC numbers – (2) University of Southern California (2007)
Slide 5

6. Humans like organized things
Well, some of them at least…
! Structured storage systems have been used for Unstructured Data
! Organized in file systems, hierarchies, directories
! Easier for us
! And then new data creation patterns emerged early 2000s
! The model doesn’t fit anymore
! And here’s why
Slide 6

7. Typical SAN / NAS issues at Scale
! Technology refresh and migration necessary to
benefit from larger disks
! Scheduled maintenance window nuisance
! Limitations on # of files
! Volume management is complex
! Serial architecture compromises performance
! RAID is less efficient for large drives
! FC networks are expensive & point-to-point
! Cost is prohibitive for large capacity
Slide 7

8. Humans like organized things
Well, some of them at least…
! Structured data storage systems are used for Unstructured.
! Organized in file systems, hierarchies, directories
! Easier for us
! And then new data creation patterns emerged early 2000s
! The model doesn’t fit anymore
! SANs and NASes were not made to handle this
Slide 8

9. So what’s the solution?
! We believe it’s Object Storage
! Yahoo!, Amazon, Google.. were the pioneers
! Main Characteristics
! Flat Namespace
! Infinite Scalability
! Elasticity
! Cost-efficiency
! Data availability and durability
Slide 9

10. Scality’s Storage Vision
Their DC Their DC YOUR DC
Their App. YOUR App. YOUR App.
YOUR Data YOUR Data YOUR Data
Slide 10

11. What is the Secret Sauce?
Scality has developed a distributed (scale–out) object-based
storage software to turn x86 servers into Petabyte scale
storage for unstructured data (files).
(Scality is NOT designed for VM, VDI, Relational Database)
• Distributed System
• Distributed metadata
• No Single point of failure
• Self healing
• Organic upgrades
Slide 11

12. What’s unique about Scality RING
• Performance
• ESG Lab report: we’re 10x faster than any other object store
• Hardware-agnostic
• Software Vendor
• Mixed hardware (disks, nodes)
• Erasure-Coding with No penalty on read
• With only 60% overhead
• Tiering
• Policy driven
• Automatic, Transparent
Slide 12

13. Tiers&of&Storage&and&Evolu3on&
Storage 90’s
$$$$ + Very Fast $ + Slow speed
Primary (FC) Secondary (Tape)
Structured and Unstructured Data Backup and Archive Data
Storage 2000
$$$$ + Very Fast $$$ + Medium $$ + Medium $$ + Medium $ + Slow speed
Primary(SAN) Primary (NAS) Secondary (NAS) Secondary
Structured Data Unstructured Files, Active Archives Snapshots, D2D BU and DR Tape BU
Storage tomorrow
$$$$ + Very Fast $$ + fast $ + Medium $ + Medium
Primary(SSD) Enterprise Object Storage
Structured Data Cloud NAS Cloud Archive Cloud Backup/DR
Higher performance Higher capacity
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14. Enterprise&Today&
London New York Tokyo
Replicated DR Storage
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15. Centralized&Storage&using&Scality&
G.NS Global
G. CIFS/NFS G. Locking R/W Perf Local
ACL AD Efficient Mgmt
G. Dedup G.
Panzura Global File System (App Intelligence)
London New York Tokyo
Virt/Phy SSD Performance
Cache 10Gbps IOPS Protection
RAID-DP Snapshots Replication Encryption
Panzura Cloud Storage Controller (Unlimited Capacity)
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16. Fully&Seamless,&Scalable&Storage&
Application Panzura Cloud Storage Business
Servers File System Infrastructure Continuity
Controller & DR
Public
Private
Cloud
or
Performance
Capacity File System
Needs
Needs Controllers
Cloud
Increase
Increase Added
Capacity
Increased
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17. Panzura Use Cases
Archive Global NAS Backup
New York London
CIFS and NFS
Symantec
Medical Images NetBackup
Market Data Tivoli TSM
Seismic Data
Deduplication
Shanghai Hong Kong
Deduplication Encryption
Encryption Multiple Gbps
Multiple Gbps • Lower cost of management, reduce complexity
• Manage one copy - Authoritative copy lives centrally
• Share globally - Access from anywhere
20:1 save factor
Random Access • Secure & Minimize Capacity Unlimited cloud store
Random Access
Cloud Storage • Encryption/Compression/Deduplication -
NO TAPES
• Elastic Provisioning – Increase/Decrease usage as needed
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18. The&Panzura&Advantage&
! Key'Solu$on'IP'&'Features'
• Panzura&global&locking&manager&and&global&file&system&
• Leverage&Public&&Enterprise&Cloud&(Object)&Storage&
• Panzura&opera3ng&system,&1U,&2U,&or&virtual&appliance&
! Mul$ple'Use'Cases'
• Primary&Consolidated&NAS&with&decentralized&Local&File&Service&
• Mul3Dsite&collabora3on&with&a&single&files&system&
• Automa3c&CloudDbased&data&protec3on:&archive,&backup,&
disaster&recovery&
! Momentum'in'Market'
• Expanding&channel&
• Major&Global2000&firms&as&customers&
• Red Herring finalist
• Best of Interop Winner
Panzura: Cloud Storage Made Seamless
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