webinar: 5 reasons primary cloud storage is broken and how to fix them
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5 Reasons Primary Cloud Storage is Broken and How to Fix them
Join us as we explain:● Why The Cloud is Ideal for Primary Storage● What The Challenges to Primary Cloud Storage Are● Why Current Solutions Are Broken and How to Fix Them
On Demand WebinarFor audio playback and Q&A
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Our SpeakersGeorge 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 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.
● 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?
Our SpeakersLazarus Vekiarides, CTO and Co-founder, ClearSky DataFor over 20 years Laz Vekiarides has served in key technical and leadership roles delivering breakthrough technologies to market. Most recently, he served as the Executive Director of Software Engineering for Dell’s EqualLogic Storage Engineering group, where he led the development of numerous storage innovations and established the EqualLogic product line as a leader in host OS and hypervisor integration. Laz joined Dell from EqualLogic, which was acquired in early 2008, where he was a member of the core leadership team – playing a key role in the company’s early success as a Senior Engineering Manager and Architect for the PS Series SAN arrays and host tools. Prior to EqualLogic, Laz held senior engineering and management positions at several companies.
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The Future of Enterprise Storage
Laz Vekiarides, CTO and Co-founder ClearSky Data
Why Would You Want The Cloud For Primary Storage?
• Primary Storage needs Cloud Flexibility
• Better ROI than archive / backup cloud storage
• Business critical workloads are the most dynamic
• The single biggest cloud challenge is latency
• The time it takes for an I/O to get from the data center to the cloud is measured in milliseconds
• Comparatively a local I/O to even a hard disk based system is measured in milliseconds
• Bandwidth is not the issue
• It is the limitation on the Speed of Light
• We need Speed of Light 2.0
• But it’s not coming
Waiting On Speed Of Light 2.0
The Impact Of Speed Of Light 1.0 On The Cloud
• The Cloud is used in situations where latency does not matter
• Backup
• Archive
• Collaboration (to an extent)
• Leaving Primary storage in the dust
• There’s much more opportunity for the cloud that can’t be tapped into today because of latency challenges
Primary Storage Work Arounds• Caching appliances
• Appear as a NFS/SMB or iSCSI target
• Local storage performance but cache misses are deadly
• Limited use cases
• Storage Replicators (100% of storage local and in the cloud)• Valuable for content distribution
• No cache miss
• Expensive, on-site management
• Band aids for the real problem
What IT Wants
• Cloud based storage economics that respond like local primary
• Unlimited scale
• Agility to scale up or down on demand
• Stop paying forward for storage you don’t use
Five Reasons Why Cloud Based Primary Storage Is Broken• Speed of Light is a constant
• Long haul connections are unreliable
• Guaranteeing specific performance in a massively shared environment is almost impossible
• No verification of where primary data actually is
• Work arounds create data protection and on-site product management problems
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ClearSky's global storage network delivers enterprise storage, spanning the entire data lifecycle, as a fully-managed service.
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The Data Is the Problem
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…you could have theperformance and
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What If…
…with the scalability and economics of this?
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ManagedCloud
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The ClearSky Network
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The ClearSky Solution:A Global Storage Network
Metro-based fully managed
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SLA-guaranteed for enterprise workloads
Complete lifecycle management
Backup Recovery
Primary
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The ClearSky Solution: Smart Tiered Caching™
Primary
Storage
Warm
Cold
Hot
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Next to Your Apps In Your Metro Area Regional
The ClearSky Solution: Solving the Latency Barrier
Enterprise Data Center
ClearSky Edge ApplianceEnterpriseApps
Storage Cloud 1
Storage Cloud 2ClearSky POPs
Distributed & Optimized Storage
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The ClearSky Advantage
✓ High Performance✓ Low Latency✓ Resilient✓ Secure
✓ Simple✓ Better Economics✓ On-demand Scaling✓ Minimal Footprint
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5 Reasons Primary Cloud Storage is Broken and How to Fix them
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