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This is Not your Parent’s Storage���Transitioning to Cloud Object Storage

Ian Hamilton

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☐ Why is Cloud Transition Inevitable���☐ How is Cloud Object Storage Different ���☐ Why are Some People Still on the Fence���☐ How can Remaining Obstacles be Addressed���☐ Use Case

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Elasticity Test and Dev

Time  

Capacity  

Required  

Provisioned  

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No Elasticity Production

Time  

Cash  

In  

Out  

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Elasticity Production

Time  

Cash  

In  

Out  

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Middlemen

Distribution

Server

Chip

Integrator

Software SaaS

IaaS

Chip

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Scale & Simplification

Non Core Functionality

Core Switching Moore’s

Law

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*James Hamilton AWS re:Invent 2014

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Block I/O (SAN, iSCSI, …)

Non-Core Functionality

NFS CIFS Web Server

HTTP  

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HTTP  

PUT

GET

Cloud Storage

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Indexing Resource Storage

Web Servers

Load Balancers

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Write Read

Delete Read

Replace Read

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Multi-Tenancy

Security Performance

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C = 299,792,458 m/s (983,571,088 ft/s)

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134 ms

238 ms

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10 ms

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HTTP

TCP

IP

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B A

Flow

Congestion

Reliability

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Data

Ack

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HTTP

HTTP

HTTP

HTTP

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Accelerated Transport

HTTP

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LA Metro 1:28 0:32 1:28 0:06 1:28 0:03 LA to NY 5:35 0:32 5:35 0:06 5:35 0:03 LA to London 10:59 0:32 10:59 0:06 10:59 0:03 LA to Singapore 21:05 0:32 21:05 0:06 21:05 0:03

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Signiant Transport

HTTP

SaaS Signiant Flight

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•  Secure •  High Performance •  Elastic and Agile

amazon web services

Microsoft Azure

Google

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Internet

IaaS Provider

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SaaS Ops   Enterprise IT  

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Use Case

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Content Supplier  

S3  

Linear Program

Origination  

Application X  

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Cloud Processing  

Non-Linear Delivery  

Project X  

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þ Why is Cloud Transition Inevitable���þ How is Cloud Object Storage Different ���þ Why are Some People Still on the Fence���þ How can Remaining Obstacles be Addressed���þ Use Case

Wrap Up

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