ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. The Future of Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Scale Storage Jean-Luc Chatelain EVP, Strategy and Technology DataDirect Networks

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. The Future of Cloud Infrastructure 2 Datacenter Storage & Compute Storage & Compute Storage & Compute Storage & Compute Storage & Compute

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. What We Expect Of A Cloud 3 Pay as You Go Green Always On Cloud Scale Storage Infrastructure Everywhere Autonomous 100% Reliable Easy to Use Synchronized Backup

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. Cloud Scale Requires a Storage Paradigm Shift Vs. File Storage Traditional File Systems Can’t Scale ✖ Too much overhead (up to 40%) ✖ Not designed for small I/O ✖ Limited scalability ✖ Management complexity ✖ Scaling efforts balloon TCO Object Storage Designed for Web2.0+ Scalability ✔ Virtually NO Overhead ✔ Highly Optimized for Small I/O, SSD ✔ Linear, Efficient Scalability ✔ Autonomous, Self-Healing ✔ Optimized for Data Center, CAPEX

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. Object Storage ► Object storage stores information in containers, called objects ► Each object has both data, user defined & system defined metadata (a set of attributes describing the object) File Systems Objects Objects are stored in an infinitely large flat address space that can contain billions of files without file system complexity Data Metadata Data Metadata Data Metadata Flat Namespace File Systems were designed to run individual computers, then limited shared concurrent access, not to store billions of files globally

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. Technical Requirements ► Hyper-scale ► Performance ► Resilience ► Distribution (GEO) ► Security

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. Hyper-scale 7 Storing over 100PB of content 1 33x Sensor Data Growth Over Just Two Years 2 35x Growth In 10 Years Source: IDC Zettabytes 1 Facebook: 2012 Form S-1 Registration Statement 2 Defense Industry Daily: Too Much Information 48fps, 3D PBs per film

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. Performance 8 Atomic Aggregate

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. Smart Resilience ► Replication Synchronous Asynchronous ► Erasure Coding Distributed Local ► Self-Healing 9 The Cloud Becomes Your Corporate Memory. You’d better not lose it ! The Cloud Becomes Your Corporate Memory. You’d better not lose it !

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. Geo-distribution 10

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. Security ► Encryption ► Governance, Regulation and Compliance ► E-discovery ► Data Citizenship Location (files and customers) and law ► Legal concerns Right to privacy (ex. 4th Amendment in US) Copying rules

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. Breadth of Access Protocols 12 If object storage is so great, why haven’t more people implemented it yet? ► One should not forget legacy application ► Your cloud solution should start with legacy options and allow your applications to evolve ► Richness of access is key to success CIFS, NFS…

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. Build, Buy or Rent ► All possibly good solutions based on your needs ► Build can be a daunting task. Make sure you understand what you are signing up for. ► Buy and Rent - are both easier solutions and usually more cost effective ► If you get successful and your volume increase Buy becomes more economical than Rent 13 VS

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. Should your business be in the cloud? 14 Should your business be in the cloud? We absolutely can operate in the cloud, as long as we choose the right instruments. “IFR flight depends upon flying by reference to instruments only” - FAA

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ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. The Future of Cloud Infrastructure 18 Another way to think of it

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. Why Not Run Your Business from the Public Cloud? 19 Latency Security Quality of Service Performance Resilience Global Access Legacy Access Geo-redundancy Cost Scale

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. Performance, but How? ► Features: Geo-distribution Replication Erasure coding Data locality Single name space Hundreds of billions of objects ► Object storage features lend to increased performance and reduction of costs from other architecture components as well. 20 Linear scale-out Object size agnostic Self-healing Complete drive utilization Multiple access options 1 Seek/Operation High performance, cost effective object storage is the foundation of cloud-scale architecture.

ddn.com ©2012 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. Global Access vs. Security 21 Marble Mountain Security Access Content Origin Parent Cache Edge Cache Los Angeles Edge Cache London Sao Paulo VS Global Caching Network