Object Storage promises many things - unlimited scalability, both in terms of capacity and file count, low cost but highly redundant capacity and excellent connectivity to legacy NAS. But, despite these promises object storage has not caught on in the enterprise like it has in the cloud. It seems like, for the enterprise object storage just isn’t a good fit. The problem is that most object storage system’s starting capacity is too large. And while connectivity to legacy NAS systems is available, seamless integration is not. Can object storage be sized so that it is a better fit for the enterprise?

1. In this webinar you will learn:
❏ Why Object Storage should be ideal for the enterprise
❏ Why Object Storage has not been a good fit for the enterprise
❏ How Object Storage vendors are failing at making the fit better
❏ How to make Object Storage a perfect fit for the enterprise
Sizing Up Object Storage for the Enterprise
On Demand Webinar
ObjectStorage
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/SizeObject

2. ● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud
and virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets is gained
through product testing and interaction
with end users and suppliers
● The results of this research can be
found in the articles, videos, webinars,
product analysis and case studies on
our web site:
http://storageswiss.com
Who Is Storage Switzerland?

3. Our Speakers
George Crump is the founder of Storage
Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on
the subjects of big data, solid state storage,
virtualization, cloud computing and data protection.
He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers,
and videos on such current approaches as all-flash
arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined
storage, backup appliances, and storage networking.
He has over 25 years of experience designing
storage solutions for data centers across the US.

4. Our Speakers
Jeff Tabor is the Senior Director of Product
Management and Marketing at Avere Systems.
Jeff leads product definition, marketing, and
communication for Avere’s Hybrid Cloud NAS
product family. Prior to Avere, Jeff managed
clustered NAS solutions at NetApp and Spinnaker
Networks. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s
degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.

5. ● File systems company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
● Mission to free where data is stored in the enterprise
● Founded by industry veterans Ron Bianchini, CEO &
Michael Kazar, CTO
● Build FXT Edge filer hardware and software that separates
performance from capacity and enabled hybrid IT that
includes the cloud
● Media & Entertainment, Finance, Life Sciences,
Government and Enterprise R&D
Who is
Avere
Systems?

6. Polling Question
What Are Your Object Storage Plans?

7. What Is Different About Object
Storage?
● Object Storage is different in how
data is accessed
● Data is assigned a Unique ID and
is accessed by that ID
● The ID is used to:
• Confirm Protection Level
• Confirm Data Integrity
• Eliminate Unnecessary Copies
Object
Storage

8. Attributes Of Object Storage
● Extremely High File (object) Count
● Systems are in the thousands of TBs
scaling to hundreds of PBs
● Designed to be inexpensive, long-
term, easy to manage
• Scale-Out
• Built on Commodity Servers and
Storage
● Search-able

9. Why Object Storage is a
Good Fit for the Enterprise
● Enterprises are flooded with Unstructured Data
● Makes an ideal primary store for this data
• User Data
• IoT, Sensor Data
• Machine Data (Logs)

10. Why Object Storage is a
Good Fit for the Enterprise
● Archive
● Cost effective destination for old data
● Retrieval times are still excellent
● But costs are lower

11. Why Object Storage In The
Enterprise
● Modern Apps are Object ready
• Cassandra, Hadoop, Splunk, Spark, etc…
are Object Aware

12. Why Object Storage is a
Good Fit for the Enterprise
● One System -
Multiple Use
Cases
Object Storage
Archive User Data
New Apps
Backups

13. The Challenges with Object
Storage in the Enterprise
● Moving Data to Object Storage
• Manual Movement
• Migration
• Caching

14. Where To Start
REST API NFS/SMB
iSCSI
● Accessing Data on Object Storage
• Legacy Protocols
• Native Protocols

15. Why Object Storage Has Not Been
A Good Fit For The Enterprise

16. Access Issues
● Access requires something other
than NFS, SMB, or iSCSI
● Typically S3
● Applications have to be re-written

17. Migration Issues
● Lack of traditional protocol makes data
movement more complicated
● Even if legacy protocol support is
available…
• Identifying the right data to move is difficult
• Especially on an ongoing seamless basis
• Then you have the challenge of how users will
find and access that data

18. NAS Still Has A Place
● Enterprises don’t want to dump
their NAS
● Still offers higher performance,
ideal for some IoT projects
● They just want to slow NAS
capacity growth

19. “Buy” Issues
● Initial System is too Big for initial
need
● Complexity in configuring -
software and hardware purchased
separately

20. How Object Storage Vendors Are
Missing The Mark
● Providing Legacy Protocol Support
• NFS/SMB support but typically low
performance
• Object storage is still a separate silo of
storage
● Integrated System
• Faster implementation at expense of
flexibility
• Initial system configured too large

21. How To Make Object Storage A
Perfect Fit For The Enterprise
● Holistic approach
• Unify current NAS systems with object
with global name space
● Accelerate NAS tier with Flash front
end
• Improve the analytics performance
● Allow seamless connectivity to the
cloud

22. 22Proprietary & Confidential
Avere Hybrid Cloud NAS
Cloud
Compute
On-Prem
Compute
Cloud
Storage
On-Prem
Storage
NAS
Object
Bucket 1 Bucket 2
Bucket n
Virtual Compute Farm
Virtual FXT
File Storage for
Private Object
NAS Optimization
Cloud NAS
Physical
FXT

23. 23Proprietary & Confidential
Avere C2N – Cloud-Core NAS System
• C2N overview
- Avere’s first integrated Edge+Core system
- Combines NAS with object storage
- Easy integration with public cloud
• Customer benefits
- NAS simplicity for easy fit with existing
applications
- Object efficiency for better scaling and
economics
- Cloud awareness for simple integration in
public/private cloud and NAS infrastructures
Typical C2N configuration
with 640TB usable capacity

24. 24Proprietary & Confidential
Integrated CX200 Core Filer
• Hardware configuration
- CX200 storage node (120TB raw capacity)
• Space-efficient 1U server
• Qty=12 hot-swappable 10TB drives
- Min. TR config: CX200 (3), 120TB usable
- Min. EC config: CX200 (6), 480TB usable
• Integrated object storage
software
- Based on OpenStack Swift from SwiftStack
- Erasure coding (EC)
- Triple replication (TR)
- Geo-dispersal for disaster recovery (DR)
Min. TR config: 3 CX200
nodes, 120TB usable capacity
Min. EC config: 6 CX200
nodes, 480TB usable capacity

25. 25Proprietary & Confidential
Object Storage Efficiency
• Capacity scaling
- 120TB entry point
- Expand in 80TB increments
- Scales to more than 5PB
• Erasure coding (EC)
- N+4 availability
- Over 60% usable capacity
• Triple replication (TR)
- Enables 120TB usable capacity entry point
• Geo-dispersal
- Implement disaster recovery (DR) solutions across three sites
- Simpler and more efficient than NAS replication/mirroring

26. 26Proprietary & Confidential
Scale-out NAS Functionality
• Integrated, all-Flash FXT
performance tier
- Clustering for performance scaling and HA
- Scales from 14 to 480TB SSD
- File system built for object storage
• Complete NAS feature set
- Powerful GUI and storage analytics
- NFS, SMB, multi-protocol support
- Snapshots
- Global namespace
- Data migration
- Mirroring
- Compression
- Encryption
Avere GUI showing client-side NFS access to object storage
Integrated FXT 5000 performance tier

27. 27Proprietary & Confidential
C2N vs. Competitive Solutions for Active Archive
Old Way: Traditional NAS Future Way: Cloud
Public &
Private
Object
Storage
NAS Challenges
• Inefficient silos of data
• Management is difficult
• DR is complex and
expensive
Simple Path to Cloud: C2N
Cloud Challenges
• Public: data migration,
security
• Private (BIG vendor): entry
point is 1PB+ and $1M+
• Private (DIY): open source
software + 3rd-party hardware
is complex
C2N Benefits
• NAS protocols, no application
changes
• Object storage for high
efficiency
• 120TB entry point
• Turnkey solution with Avere
support
• GNS for existing NAS and
future cloud

28. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
gcrump@storage-switzerland.com
StorageSwiss on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/storageswiss
StorageSwiss on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss
Avere Systems
http://www.averesystems.com
Avere Systems on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/averesystems
Avere Systems on YouTube:
http://www.facebook.com/AvereSystems

29. Sizing Up Object Storage for the Enterprise
ObjectStorage
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