Managing Your Data Growth with Cloud Storage

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Managing your data growth with

Cloud Storage


Our presenters

Scott Good has over 18 years of experience in product

development/management and operations roles driving IP

products including hosting, e-Commerce, Internet access, VoIP

and fixed wireless initiatives with start-up divisions within larger

Service Provider organizations.

Mr. Good is Senior Product Manager for Cloud Infrastructure at

savvisdirect with a focus on designing and delivering cloud

storage products that meet customer use cases and IT budgets.

He serves on the board of the Mid-Atlantic Disaster Recovery

Association and holds CDCP accreditation from ICOR and

ABCP certification from DRII.

Andy Maier has 15 years of experience as a leader in

business and technology, including IT management, product

management, e-Commerce, marketing and enterprise

architecture. His areas of experience include cloud

computing, ERP, social networking, collaboration, marketing

technology, user experience, security infrastructure and

portals.

After leading many major enterprise initiatives for a Fortune

100 financial services institution, he led the social

networking and collaboration initiatives for Oracle Fusion

applications and middleware.


Agenda

• How do we store all of this data?

• What makes cloud storage so different?

• Prepare to migrate data

• Use cases – examples of cloud storage applications

• How cloud storage authentication works and some best practices

• Evaluating potential providers

• Summary

• Questions


?

Digital media of all types continues to grow

exponentially


How do we store all of this data?

Cloud System Infrastructure Services (IaaS)

Cloud Application Infrastructure Services (PaaS)

Cloud Management and Security Services

Cloud Application Services (SaaS)

Cloud Advertising

Cloud Business Process Services (BPaaS)

Public Cloud Services Total

0 10 20 30 40 50

41.3%

27.7%

26.7%

19.5%

17.0%

10.7%

17.7%

5-year CAGR (2011-2016) (%)

Source: Gartner (February 2013)

Forecasted growth of the IaaS market

$6.1B 2012

$24.2B 2016

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What makes cloud storage

different?

Benefits • Reduce expenses associated with physical data centers • Deploy in minutes, not weeks or months • Pay no upfront expenses • Gain peace of mind and security • Reduce the scope of your traditional planning routine • Access and manage from any Internet connection

Web Access

Elasticity Price

APIs Fast

Provisioning

Scale-out


How do you prepare to

migrate?

1 Create a migration plan with diagrams of current data storage locations

2 Plan a data upload schedule to minimize impact on other services

3 Procure necessary file upload apps

4 Web application software developers use target storage RESTful APIs in their code


USE CASE:

Images and other static content stored by Web-hosting customers leverage APIs to access cloud infrastructure


USE CASE:

Long-term, low-cost data retention Users requiring storage of legal documents, graphics/pictures, video,

architectural documents, imaging, archiving, scientific research can turn

to cloud computing.


USE CASE:

Medical imagery Users requiring storage of legal documents, graphics/pictures, video,

Medical picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) archive

medical imagery. At-home medical devices send data to the cloud for

access by medical professionals.


How authentication works and some best practices

Host URL: https://api-dc.savvisdirectstorage.net

Below is a sample Token / structure detail & Host URL


For software developers, using a RESTful API may be the preferred way to target storage

in the cloud. The following is an example of an API request to create an object.



Configure a letter drive to act as

cloud storage.


Use bindings and libraries with a

RESTful API

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Deciding on a cloud storage

vendor Consider:

• Price

• Accessibility

• Live tech support

• Security

• On-demand scalability

• Future-proof

• Provider viability

• Supported technology


Although prices are fairly low and comparable across vendors, it still pays to learn how you’ll be charged. Pricing flexibility is a great feature with a vendor. Benefit: Offers predictable pricing models for usage and fixed terms.

Price

Be sure you’ll have access to your data when you need it, as well as the ability to run reports 24/7. Benefit: Universal availability spanning domestic and international locations helps ensure that you can get business done anytime and anywhere, which translates into higher productivity.

Accessibility

From the start of the project and ongoing, research which vendors offer for written documentation, demos, online tutorials, FAQs, white papers, blogs and other online support. Benefit: Makes efficient use of your IT staff’s time when they get customized, on-demand help.

Live Tech Support

Deciding on a cloud storage vendor


Cloud vendors should provide: • Object credentials encryption at rest • SSL for secure data transfer • RSA encrypted nodes and a multifunction perimeter

firewall

Cloud storage is generally more secure than on-premise storage because it located in a secure data center. Benefit: Peace of mind that your data is secure.

Security


• Order to provision—upload data immediately • Increases or decreases in storage space can

happen effortlessly online— no need to call support • Real-time online experience for education,

purchase, configuration and support Benefit: Immediate fulfillment and responsiveness improves your experience, resulting in long-term efficiency and productivity. On-demand configuration, capacity and modifications maximize investment through automated, flexible provisioning of network VLAN, servers, operating systems, CPU, memory, local storage and locations.

On-demand scalability


Since the software and hardware resides with the cloud provider, there’s no need for your company to to keep the latest versions. Benefit: Saves you money in hardware and software upgrades.

Future proof

Make certain the provider has the financial and IT resources to be around for the long haul and can upgrade their infrastructure and software to keep up with current trends. Benefit: Increases peace of mind.

Viable Provider

Be sure the vendor’s environment is compatible with your technology requirements including operating systems, programming languages, adherence to industry standards, etc. Benefits:

Enablement of web services

and other common API resource

functions so you can leverage

your existing infrastructure and

languages, reduces re-work for

immediate efficiency.

Supported Technology



Summary

Decrease the need to:

• Configure servers and VMs with attached local storage

• Manage file security and the number of configurations in your server operating systems

• Spend time on basic tasks like adding storage

Manage everything from anywhere:

• Developers can use their own code, simplifying deployment and ongoing

management

• Applications can run anywhere with Internet connectivity, and have access

to all files without configuring storage connections to the OS or

worrying about replicating files across multiple storage arrays

Consider the benefits of having more than one provider:

• Estimate costs, test code integration, test usability and

performance

• Weigh the provider’s level of partnership and support


Questions?

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