tierracloud hc2 customer presentation

HC2 Enterprise-Class Private Cloud Storage Overview

TierraCloudFeb, 2011v5.4

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Executive Summary

TierraCloud Proprietary 2

•Uses commodity hardware (low CAPEX)

•HTTP programmatic APIs (low OPEX)

•Is very easy to manage (low OPEX)

•And is Elastic

If you like Amazon S3

•Security/ SLA concerns or

•Lack of control/ visibility or

•Compliance reasons

•Bandwidth or other cost

But don’t use it

Want a Private S3 like Cloud Storage Instead

Then try TierraCloud HC2 at http://www.tierracloud.com

Commodity servers

S3 APIsSelf managingMassively scalableFully distributed Flat name space

Meta-data with query

Open-source

Tsunami of Data Growth

We are in the exponential growth phase of unstructured data

Once initial use of data is over, what’s next? Initial use could be just days Choices are:

▪ Delete it▪ Keep it online on secondary

storage▪ Move it offline to tape


What is the Unsolved Problem?

Current mainstream solutions (SAN, NAS, CAS or clustered file-systems) are unable to address the following three requirements at the same time: 10x lower TCO ~4.5¢/ GB/ month fully

burdened Scalable to billions of objects, PB of

capacity, large objects, linear performance gain

ReliableTierraCloud Proprietary 4

Introducing Private Cloud Storage

Web2.0s have revolutionized storage Standard x86 servers with sophisticated

software to build extremely large, reliable storage

Architecture may be called private cloud storage

TCO (total-cost-of-ownership) reductions of 10x makes this so compelling that enterprises will adopt Sea-change coming to storage architectures

that have been fairly stable since mid 80’sTierraCloud Proprietary 5

Introducing HC2 Open-Source Project

TierraCloud HC2 open-source project aims to enable enterprise class private cloud storage Software only project running on x86

servers Source Code licensed under GPLv2,

contains BSD licensed code from Sun’s Project Honeycomb*


*There is no affiliation between TierraCloud and Oracle at this time.

HC2 Open-Source Technology


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Unique Differentiators 10x TCO reduction Automated data

management Extreme data mobility Ability to run 3rd party

storage apps

Uses source code from Sun’s project Honeycomb

State-of-the-art award winning object-store

Productized over two releases

Why Does HC2 Solve the Problem?


Architectural Element

Benefit

Advanced open-source object-store runs on x86 servers

Dramatically reduce acquisition cost; extremely reliable & scalable object-store with meta-data

Automated data management

Load balancing, self-healing, programmatic APIs, meta-data, data integrity guarantees, immutability, flat name-space, single management entity and deferred maintenance automate or simplify storage management operations around since the 80s

Extreme data mobility

Two-level hierarchy (nodes make up cells, cells make up a hive) allows for unique data mobility applications such as cloud-bursting, ILM, replication, dispersal (community clouds)

Ability to run 3rd party storage apps

Allows 3rd party storage-centric apps e.g. long-term data integrity checking (inbuilt “Data Doctor”), transcoding, virus scans, search, format conversions, equivalency check, meta-data extraction etc. to run on the same hardware platform as HC2. This allows the system to gain functionality proprietary architectures cannot.

Beta Release “Replevin”

Minimum Hardware Requirements 8 or 16 servers (server specifications on web-site)

Features Object store & retrieve: full featured; load balancing,

self-healing, hardware migration etc. supported Other

S3 or native HTTP APIs Meta-data store & retrieve Meta-data index & query via embedded MongoDB

columnar database (database is replaceable) Background data integrity checker

Currently at beta qualityTierraCloud Proprietary 9

Buzz Around HC2


"TierraCloud’s software-only, hardware-agnostic HC2 open source project extends the philosophy of the OpenSolaris Honeycomb project that was launched in 2007. HC2 continues to fulfill the particular requirements of archives, such as integrity checking and immutability, and is congruent with the OAIS archival model. However, in this incarnation, the underlying media can be heterogeneous and the cells of HC2 can be geographically dispersed. Rampantly expanded ambitions for very large scale data repositories can be expected.” -- Anne MacFarland, Senior Contributing Analyst, The Clipper Group, Inc.

"It has become clear that data curation will require distributed storage and application frameworks. No single institution can develop the comprehensive, necessary infrastructure to preserve and provide access to the large amount of data being generated by all disciplines ranging from the sciences to the humanities. HC2's emphasis on hardware choices, geographically distributed data and open-source software is compelling. Most institutions will be eager to experiment with private cloud storage and HC2 represents a useful option in this regard.“ -- Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean of University Libraries, Johns Hopkins University

“The rise of the Web and, more recently, the Semantic Web, has driven the rapid growth of digital libraries and archives to preserve and share the vast volumes of research and governmental data that is now being generated. The Bodleian Library already holds millions of digital objects running into hundreds of terabytes and anticipates increasing growth into the future. To effectively meet these requirements, storage needs to become smarter and more abstracted, combining scalability, resilience and low latency with a level of content-awareness. HC2 is poised to become exemplar of this approach.” -- Neil Jefferies, R&D Project, Manager, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University

“The HC2 project brings about clever cloud concepts, which open up new perspectives in data management whenever distributed processing and OAIS-compliant archiving of multi-component objects are both desired. -- Pierre-Yves Burgi, Head of ICT Unit, University of Geneva

“The paradigm of cloud computing is now beginning to make its way into standard organisational practice. Here an organisation uses commodity hardware to build a single cloud of services, expandable on demand. HC2's vision represents a leap forward in storage technology in the cloud, a RAID on steroids, where your data is not just safe from disk failure but can also be geographically located providing disaster recovery. Along with load balancing, no single point of failure and storage apps services, HC2 is a technology worth watching.” -- David Tarrant, Research Fellow, University of Southampton

Who is TierraCloud?

Private Cloud Storage Startup Primary contributor to HC2 Will offer support, value-add tools and

services Started by serial entrepreneur in

2010 Sriram Rupanagunta, ex-VP Technology

Emulex, co-founder Aarohi Communications

Currently seeking beta customers Customers with large amount of

preservation/ archival data


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