New pathways for data storage come our way all the time. In this webinar, you will learn about software-defined storage and how it can help your company maintain data effectively, securely, and cost effectively.
Discover how software-defined storage (SDS) allows organizations and IT staff to control how information from the data center is deployed, provisioned, and managed through software, enabling industry standard hardware to be used, and allowing for a broader range of cloud-computing services at a much lower cost.
Also discover why VMware spent $1.26 billion on acquiring Nicera and what this tells us about the possibilities and advantages of software-defined storage.
And then learn how Nexenta is changing the storage landscape with its flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, which delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage solutions.
Presenter: Evan Powell
Big Data revolution has started over an year ago and storage is considered one of the key catalyst of this revolution. Ganesh Harinath from Zynga will give a quick overview about the big data revolution and his perspective of how reduction in storage cost with improved IOPS could accelerate the Big data revolution.
Presenter: Ganesh Harinath
Getting involved in open source software is a significant commitment of time and energy, but involvement affords a range of opportunities to match and grow your abilities. This talk considers the particular issues in getting involved in illumos and the reasons for doing so, from the perspective of someone who was an outsider eighteen months ago now working on the project professionally but previously active in the voluntary community side via the OpenIndiana project.
At Zynga Operational Analytics is a key service of the backbone for play that supports the Zynga game platform, enabled by tapping into the operational big data platform we built. Operational Analytics is around near realtime data. I would like to take this opportunity to explain the need for high performance and high density storage on Operational Analytics. I will touch upon some of the important use cases at Zynga which would clearly emphasize the need for such storage.
OpenStack Cloud open source software provides a powerful, versatile platform for building Infrastructure as a Service. With components that automate deployment and integration lifecycle for compute, networking, object storage, image management, and identity/authentication, OpenStack gives cloud operators a rich set of interfaces for controlling and automating a massively scalable fabric of virtualized IaaS resources. Building on a brief introduction of the problems OpenStack was designed to solve, this session explores how the components of the Nova compute infrastructure work together with platform services such as mysql and rabbitmq. We'll illustrate key components of the OpenStack Cloud architecture by traversing the request flow of provisioning a VM.
As a manufacturer of some of the world's most powerful computing platforms, SGI knows about generating big data. But such massive data creation also requires some place to store it, repurpose it and protect it. Fulfilling that need resulted in SGI sales of over 1/2 an Exabyte of storage in FY12. In this session Floyd Christofferson will look at the best practices SGI sees among its large customers, and how an Open Storage approach is integral to managing the explosion of file-based data.
Morphlabs will speak to how Nexenta’s storage functions with OpenStack to create an enterprise-ready product today. High level benefits of a solution are shifting the market towards open storage, driving vendors towards a solution such as mCloud, and simplifying the building of mCloud. This is what drives OpenStorage.
The last bastion of proprietary technology top to bottom in the datacenter today is legacy storage. If we look back in time, virtually every solution from every technology vendor had its own proprietary stack. There were distinct advantages associated with tightly coupling the hardware, software and database into a single platform, but the cost associated with those solutions forced customers to look for more open solutions, where the software, hardware and database were decoupled and could be deployed on multiple hardware platforms. Customers now had a choice when it came to hardware vendors, which helped drive cost down. The applications were now the driving force behind business decisions as opposed to technology driving the business.
This talk will look at the evolution of storage to that very same model. A software only ZFS solution provides significant deployment advantages over legacy storage. By decoupling the hardware and software, integrators and customers now have many different ways to deploy storage in a very cost effective manner. From clustering, to Virtual Storage Appliances, to high performance VDI appliances, the future of storage is open and the future has never looked brighter.
In this presentation, attendees will learn how multi-port Ethernet adapters can be used in the OpenStorage ecosystem. Storage systems designed with OpenStorage technology allow system designers a whole new level of ability to move data in and out of their media of choice. However, data needs to move through a network to be truly useful in a dynamic environment. Advances in Ethernet have greatly increased available bandwidth from 1Gbps to 40Gbps and beyond; but, while the speed of the network has improved, most systems are generally configured with one or two native Ethernet ports limiting the ways that a system can connect to the network. Multi-port Ethernet adapters eliminate these bottlenecks by maximizing the number of ports available and giving network engineers the flexibility they need to create robust and reliable networks that satisfy their most demanding customers.
Nexenta Object Storage for OpenStack (NOST) product will add Object Storage services to NexentaStor 4th gen (4.x) servers. NOST is built upon Nexenta's Cloud Copy-on-Write (CCOW) technology that relies on ZFS data integrity while bringing ZFS design philosophy to object storage.
Unlimited scalability is easily, and frequently, claimed but rarely substantiated. This presentation will explain how CCOW basics and architecture, including: manifest (metadata) and chunk (payload) tracking subsystems that enable scaling without limits by mostly ignoring each other; cryptographic hashing that enables global deduplication; unlimited versioning which works even when during the worst possible network partitions. This presentation will further say how CCOW both relies on ZFS and extends the "copy on write" design strategy to the Cloud.
Splunk is a powerful tool for analyzing machine data in real time. The value and success of a Splunk implementation is heavily dependent upon the architecture and performance of the underlying systems. Discover the foundational components of building a highly available and scalable Splunk architecture. Walk away with a blue print for implementing your own Splunk infrastructure optimized for scalability, performance, and value.
As open source software that helps process and manage large unstructured data sets across clusters of servers, Hadoop carries out data processing across a number of machines that sit in a cluster, speeding up large computations and hiding I/O latency through increased concurrency. Assigning key value pairs to all of the data, Hadoop is based on MapReduce and HDFS and it is changing the dynamics of large scale computing or Big Data.
Hadoop can scale from one single server to thousands of machines, with a very high degree of fault tolerance. Rather than relying on high-end hardware, the resiliency of these clusters comes from the software’s ability to detect and handle failures at the application layer. It is used by Yahoo, eBay, LinkedIn,Facebook, and many more.
Hadoop especially is well-suited to large data processing tasks (like searching and indexing) because it can leverage its distributed file system to cheaply and reliably replicated chunks of data to nodes in the cluster, making data available locally on the machine that is processing it.
This session will be a pragmatic tour of the process for Building Hadoop on top of NexentaStor
The integration of VSA4View with View and Mirage. The combo allows VSA4View to handle persistent desktop case well.
VDI Deployments are bringing improvements in end user response time and quality of service. This has become possible by using SSDs in the storage and servers deployed for VDI Deployments. The current presentation will highlight the different configurations using STEC SSDs that provide the best deployments for the best bang for buck.
OpenStack's flexibility and extendability allows provider to build powerful applications and offer highly scalable services using OpenStack. Compute, storage and network related OpenStack services can be extended to deliver flexible block and file storage services to both cloud and non cloud based enterprise tenants. Nexenta's ability to deliver cost effective, high performance storage solutions can used be as an essential foundation block behind these scalable Storage as a Service infrastructures. This presentation will provide an overview of the existing OpenStack storage architecture, how OpenStack can be turned into a scalable storage as a service platform and the key role that Nexenta's offerings can play in delivering these services.
To meet the increasing demand for scaling storage capacity and I/O performance, Nexenta’s VDI offering — NexentaVSA for View — uses ZFS, an open storage file system that effectively counters the high cost, poor performance, and high management complexity of traditional VDI storage. In addition, VDI implementations, as with all Nexenta solutions, are hardware agnostic, eliminating costly vendor lock-in. Join this session to learn more.
FreeNAS 8.2.0 brought the much anticipated Plugins Framework. This new feature enables the community to step forward and extend their NAS with custom features that have no real place in a traditional storage product. Using the all-in-one PBI format borrowed from PC-BSD, users will be able to create stand-alone packages that integrate with and extend the current GUI for even easier usability. The FreeNAS plugin PBIs are built around the FreeBSD ports system, giving users some 20,000+ potential packages to take their storage system and create their own dream machine.
The requirements for Cloud, Virtualization and Big Data I/O are driving research, architectural deliberation, technology selection and product evolution throughout. Enterprise/Cloud/Web computing, networking and storage systems. Analysis of the leading edge data centers during the past decade reveals that it has been an era when standard commodity I/O technologies have come to dominate, almost completely. Speeds have gone from 1 Gigabit to over 50 Gigabits, latencies have decreased 10X to below a microsecond and software has evolved towards open source software stacks. Both Private and Public Cloud are now adopting these capabilities at a rapid rate...
No one disputes cloud computing as a viable resource delivery model. Now the challenge? Deliver the best solution in a world where processor power follows Moore’s law, storage is bound by the physics of spinning media, and cloud providers need to deliver optimized system level performance at a reasonable cost.
Solid State Storage combined with dynamic, intelligent caching software to “learn” data “hot spots” and move them transparently onto flash memory fills the gap. LSI’s Scott Cleland will describe three flash based application acceleration alternatives for providers looking to move ahead of the crowd.
Many approaches to processing and storing petabyte-sized data are in use today, with the focus suitably at the 'Top' of each technology 'stack'. Popular examples include Hadoop, Lustre, and OpenStack. What is often overlooked is the need for a trustworthy layer at the *base* to provide a reliable and scalable foundation for the top layers.
In this talk we will cover the base-layer options available for the most common massive-scale storage solutions, and discuss real-world results of production deployments.
