Scaling File Sharing and Storage infrastructures for Globally Distributed Cloud Deployments

Scaling File Sharing and Storage Infrastructuresfor Globally Distributed Cloud Deployments

Ewan Johnston IP Expo 2010

2 Corporate – P00321

Quantum at a Glance

A leading global storage company and largest independent provider of backup, recovery, and archive solutions– Pioneer in disk-based protection, including deduplication and replication– Worldwide market share leader in open systems tape automation– Proven provider of data management software with industry-leading file

system technology

Nearly 30 years of storage experience– Transformation from hard disk drive vendor to storage systems company

Global scale and presence– 2000 employees, nearly 900 in customer-facing roles– Service in 100+ countries– Annual revenue of over $800M (NYSE: QTM)

© 2010 Quantum Corporation. Company Confidential. Forward-looking information is based upon multiple assumptions and uncertainties, does not necessarily represent the company’s outlook and is for planning purposes only.

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Trends Driving Cloud Interest and Adoption

Excessive Data Growth

Limited Time for Application Deployment

Requirements for Infrastructure

Flexibility

Enables convenient, on-demand access to shared pool of resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released

with minimal administration

On-demand scalability

Data that’s always available, on, and secure

Ubiquitous access with location Independence

Ability to leverage technology price curve

Need for Data Access and

SecurityCOST


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The Problem with Scale

Scale needed to provide a platform for Cloud

If you take what you have and ‘scale it’, what does it

do – Disk on its own becomes prohibitively expensive

– Data islands can no longer be managed

– Traditional backup scenarios fail

Different architectures are required to globally share

and manage data

© 2010 Quantum Corporation. Forward-looking information is based upon multiple assumptions and uncertainties, does not necessarily represent the company’s outlook and is for planning purposes only.

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Quantum’s StorNext Solutions

Globally Distributed File Share with Virtualized Storage

High Performance File Share

Enterprise Archive

Replication Across Sites

Continuous Data Protection

Disaster Recovery

Virtualised Storage

Cloud Enabled

Worldwide Locations

High performance file sharing increases productivity

Data management across storage tiers and sites reduces costs

From single location to enterprise wide management of business critical data assets

Data Centers

Virtual

Files

Archive & Protect Share

StorNext

Scalar Library

© 2010 Quantum Corporation. Company Confidential. Forward-looking information is based upon multiple assumptions and uncertainties, does not necessarily

represent the company’s outlook and is for planning purposes only.

StorNextSAN Clients

CIFS/NFS

GigE TCP/IPInfiniband IP

Stor

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t DLC

GatewayServers

PRIMARY TIER

TAPE LIBRARY ARCHIVE

VAULT

HA Metadata

Controllers

StorNext Replication

StorNext Deduplication

SECONDARY TIER

StorNext Storage Manager

Inside StorNextEnd-to-end Data Management Solution: Data Sharing, Tiered Storage and Archiving

• High-performance data sharing with on-demand access and provisioning

• Massive scalability for seamless growth• Distributed network-centric architecture with policy-based

management and data protection• More than 5000 customer installations

Natural extension to the hybrid cloud

StorNext Customer Example: International News BroadcasterPrivate Cloud Implementation

Business ChallengeNeed for more rapid recovery of any data asset – even from

archive

Five global satellite offices and one primary site operate like

silos causing duplication and mismanagement of news assets

No formal archive system and process to manage core news

(more than 5 PB of content)

No process to manage, authenticate, and control data assets as

they are created, modified, and accessed

News Bureau 1 News Bureau 2 News Bureau 3

StorNext Customer Example: International News BroadcasterSilos of Storage Pools


StorNext Customer Example: International News Broadcaster

Multiple File Copies Consuming Storage



Multiple File Copies Consuming Storage

NO FILE SHARING ACROSS BUREAUS


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mismatch

FILE VERSION MISMATCHNO FILE MASTER CONTROL OR AUTHENTIC OWNER

no sharing


Burden-Sharing, Authenticating, Controlling

News Bureau 1 News Bureau 3News Bureau 2


News Bureau 1

News Bureau 2

News Bureau 3 CU

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AUTHENTICATE USER ACCESS

INDEXES FILES FOR SEARCH

PUBLISH VIDEO NEWS ASSETS

FRONT-END PORTAL

HETEROGENEOUS OS SUPPORT

CONCURRENT SHARED FILE ACCESS

TRANSPARENT VIDEO ARCHIVING

VIRTUALIZED STORAGE POOLS

HA MetadataController

VIRTUALIZED SHARED STORAGE

FC / iSCSI

SECONDARY TIER

TAPE LIBRARY ARCHIVE

VAULT

StorNextUnified Data Management

StorNextStorage Manager


Private Cloud Solution

News Bureau 1

News Bureau 2

News Bureau 3


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Summary

Cloud solutions require– On-demand scalability

– Data availability and security

– Ubiquitous access with location independence

– Ability to leverage technology price curve

StorNext provides a platform for cloud through – Globally distributed file share

– Storage virtualisation with data protection

– Use of open systems hardware

Technology

Scaling File Sharing and Storage infrastructures for Globally Distributed Cloud Deployments