Scality's Giorgio Regni and Bradley King launched Scality's Opensource Program (SCOP) at SNIA's SDC in Santa Clara in september 2010. This slideshow explains the concept of the first library released and the bounty program attached to it. http://scop.scality.com

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Facilitating the Open Source
Community Transition to Cloud
Storage
Giorgio Regni & Brad King
Scality

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Who is Scality?
r Infrastructure Software
r Experienced Team – ex Bizanga
r Service Provider and Email Heritage
r Disruptive Technology (patent awarded)
r Offices in USA, EMEA, Japan
r 300 TB deployed, 1.5 million users
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Buzz & Jargon
r Storage is growing fast! 2x worldwide every 2 years
r Unstructured is going faster than structured
r HD size/speed ratio is getting worse
r Amazon S3 is meeting a need (over 100B object)
r Global Namespaces & Utility storage make sense
r Most applications were designed for block storage
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The paradigm shift: distributed, cloud, object
based, scale-out, SaaS, RESTful, ...Yeah right.
Jargon, yes! Nevertheless:

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Public cloud storage today
r Amazon dominates the market
r The model is appealing
r S3 protocol is becoming a standard
r Ubuntu one cloud
r Google Storage
r Scality software (yes, that’s us)
r There is a lot of work to be done on existing
applications
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COMMON CHALLENGES?
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Top Concerns Study
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What does a cloud user want?
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Freedom
r Cloud service provider
r Being able to migrate
r Not being locked-in
r Application interoperability
r Standard encryption policies?
r Standard compression settings?
r Can I use my files using a different app?
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Metrics
r How much did I upload?
r How many requests?
r How much is this going to cost?
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Performance
r Clients & apps designed for “far away” cloud
r Focus on write once read many access
r Web facing content
r Backups
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Security
r Encryption client size
r Transparent encryption using AES
r Private key scheme
r SSL connection
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SCALITY DROPLETS
LIBRARY
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Droplets User benefits
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Clouds are made of droplets
r Portable C API with bindings for PERL, Python,
Ruby & more
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Interoperability
r File abstraction layer
r Path encoding
r Splitting large files
r Custom domains
r Address any S3
compatible cloud server
r Easily migrate data
between clouds
Performance
r Transparent
compression
r Local caching
r Using any local volume
as read and/or write
cache
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Features

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SCOP
Part 3
Thursday,
November
25,
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What’s SCOP?
r Promote the object store model & promote a
popular interface model
r Improve interoperability of applications and
cloud storage services
r Create a canonical set of API features with the
help of the Opensouce community
r Jump start existing applications with a Bounty
Program
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Scality Opensource Program – Goals

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SCOP Bounty Program
r Propose your talent
r Your proposal is selected…
r Integrate the app using Droplets
r Collect a Bounty!
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The SCOP Bounties
r Cloud migration tool $XX
r Web server CDN $YY
r Zope/Plone integration $AB
r Your proposed Application
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Participating in SCOP
r Download Scality Droplets from github.com
r Download the application form at
http://www.scality.com/scopbounty.pdf
r Applications due by November 1st 2010
r Notification by December 1st 2010
r Code your application
r Bounties rewarded on functional completion
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