carrenza advantages-high-performance-cloud-storage

The advantages of high performance cloud storage

Matthew McGroryManaging Director, Carrenza

Agenda

About Carrenza

CommuniGator – Chris Royall – Head of Infrastructure

NetApp / Solidfire – Andy Roberts – Principal Architect

Examples in Action

Q&A

High Performance Clouds

2015

About Carrenza

2004 2011 2013 20162008

2006 2009 2012

High Performance Clouds

SCALABILITY COSTREDUCTION

The Cloud

TOTALFLEXIBILITY

Why do businesses need performance?

Cope withhigh demand

ReduceLicensing Costs

Business CritcialApplications

E-CommerceEnvironments

High PerformanceDatabases

Examples in Action

Story 1

Story 2

Story 3

Story 4

Communigator

GatorMail GatorLeads

GatorSocial

GatorDocs GatorEvents

GatorExpress GatorData GatorSurveys

Who are we?

Marketing Automation and Lead Generation

Marketing Automation and Lead Generation

• SAAS Provider• 8+ Applications• 2 Data Centres• 1,000+ SQL Databases• 25+ physical and virtual servers

Challenges:

• 3000+ own IP addresses• Performance at its limit• Legacy application limitations

Database Layer

Application Layer BApplication Layer A

Web Layer

SAN5 Physical Servers

20+ Virtual Servers incl DB Servers

SAN 2SAN 1Physical SQL Cluster

Virtual Servers

Data Centre 1

Data Centre 2

Carrenza

Before After

Database Layer

Application Layer BApplication Layer A

Web Layer

SAN 2SAN 1Physical SQL Cluster

Virtual ServersData Centre 2

CarrenzaSAN

5 Physical Servers20+ Virtual Servers incl DB Servers

Data Centre 1

Before After

Benefits of working with Carrenza:

• Can focus on Application (core business) • Growth on Demand• Great technical support where we’ve needed it• “Always responsive” technically and in person

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SolidFire & Carrenza

Andy RobertsPrincipal Architect & Office of CTODate


Builtfor dynamic

infrastructure

Bornout of the cloud

Designedfor consolidation

of mixed workloads

Enablesa next generation

datacenter


Self-healing, shared-nothing data protection

Deep automation integration with

management and orchestration platforms

Always-on global deduplication,

compression and thin provisioning

Granular, non-disruptive scale

Predictable, guaranteed storage performance

The All-Flash Array for the Next Generation Data Center


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Scale-Out Agility

Linear and non-linear scaleof performance and capacity through mixed node supportExpand / contract without disruption or reconfigurationAutomatic load balancing across nodesGuaranteed compatibility between all SolidFire storage nodes

Performance

Capa

city

58TB 200,000 IOPS

78TB 250,000 IOPS

98TB 300,000 IOPS

138TB 400,000 IOPS

Future-proof your storage investment

Eliminate storage migrations and forklift upgrades

Never wait 3 years for an upgrade


4805

9605

Storage Platform Resources

Capacity

Performance with QoS

Scale-Out Agility

PERFORMANCE CAPACITY


Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)

SolidFireQoSEliminatesoftraditionalperformancerelatedstorageproblems–ESG2015

DynamicallyAllocate, Manage andGuaranteestorageperformanceindependentofcapacity

Define/enforceMin, Max andBurstsettingsforeachapplication/volume


QoS in Practice

B E F O R E Q o S A F T E R Q o S

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1

2

BOOT STORM

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2

BOOT STORM

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Boot Storm

SolidFireQoSEliminates

oftraditionalperformancerelatedstorageproblems– ESG 2015

93%

Eliminating Noisy Neighbor Applications


Complete System Automation

A fully automated next gen datacenter is critical to delivering greater strategic value to the businessNative REST-based API

Deep integration with management and orchestration platforms

Support development of user-facing storage controls

Reduce risk of human error and associated with complex administrative tasks

Enables rapid deployment of applications and services

“SolidFire Automation helps lower operating expenses by up to – ESG 2015

67%


Complete System Automation

SDK

Self-Service PortalLeverage SolidFire’s upstream OpenStack integration for day

one operational efficiency

Simple Push Button Management

Allow clients to create volumes & accounts, set up new host

configurations, boot from SAN or image with

APIs through PowerShell

Completely Programmable Storage

Deep API integration builds upon the programmatic

nature of the Software Defined Data Center

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Next Generation Data Center

Private Cloud

Accelerate self-service and private cloud infrastructure

deployment

Web Infrastructure

Rapidly respond to what customers need from your

IT

Workload Consolidation

Consolidate all workloads within a single-all-flash

array

Managed Hosting

Develop and monetize new

servicesDev/Ops

Speed up application development and test cycles

Use Cases


ProvenintheMostDemandingServiceProvider&EnterpriseDataCentersGlobally

The All-Flash Array for the Next Generation Data Center

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