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STORAGE

Commercial GSP

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Agenda

• Is Storage as a Service (SaaS) a working model for businesses? 

• Should enterprise invest in capital budget and/or technical personnel? 

• Complexity of today's backup, replication, and disaster recovery. 

• What is the future of Cloud Storage? 

• What client software should be use?

• What type of data to be outsourced out? 

• What happens to lost data? 

Definitions

• Cloud Service

– Cloud computing

– Cloud Storage

– Attempt to use Internet / Grid to delivery virtualised service

Cloud Computing

Applications

Compute Servers

Web 2.0 / Internet

Users

Storage

High Speed Interconnect

Working model for business

Software as a Service

• www.Salesforce.com• www.Justlogin.com• www.Solentris.com/ASP

• Proven solution• Costing

SaaS Usage TODAY

Gartner Report

Saas Usage TODAY

Cloud Storage

Internet

Consumer Environment

StorageProtocol: Http/Https.

Cloud Storage Players

• Box.net

• Amazon S3

• Nirvanix

• iForem

• Verio

– Low cost at 25cents/Gb + bandwidth usage

– Consumer oriented data

– Still Maturing with some growing pains

Type of data for Cloud

• Personal data

• Family video and picture

• Shared data

• Backup data

• Smaller size data

• Enterprise Data ??

Cloud Storage

Internet

Enterprise Environment

Storage

Working model for business

Storage as a Service (Enterprise)

• As primary storage it will fails• Sensitivity data• Security Issues• Connection / Bandwidth Issues 

• Archive storage• Secondary storage

Type of data for Cloud

• Purchase capital equipment

• Growth Issues / Utilization

• Technical Manpower 

• Complexity

Free up unstructured, old‐dated email, secondary data to free up space.

Future of Cloud Storage

• Consumer Data– Excellent Choice

• Enterprise Data– Selected data for a start

– Non‐critical but huge 

– Critical data for backup or Disaster Recovery

Challenges for Cloud Storage

• PUBLIC GRID is still a distance 

Electrical Grid is realWater Grid is real

Air‐condition Grid ?

Financial, Government, Large Enterprise sharing storage Gird ?

Challenges for Cloud Storage

• ENTERPRISE GRID is real

– San Francisco, New York, London, Singapore

– Branch Offices– Remote Offices 

– Internal IT resources– Full control of resources

Challenges for Cloud Storage

• Type of Protocols

– HTTP, HTTPS (REST,SOAP, XML‐RPC)

– NFS, CIFS 

– FTP

Understand your data

Space Consumption

Age of File

STORAGE AUDIT

• Storage Audit for your heterogeneous storage of different platforms, vendors and storage topologies.

• Report on your storage utilization and data storage pattern.

Servers @BII

Storage ServiceDedicated Network -SINGAREN

Storage as a Service –Current Offering

Servers

Public Network

Servers @NUS

Servers @IHPC

Storage ServiceDedicated Network -SINGAREN

SingAren User

Grid Service Provider

500Gigabytes

Subscribe to Storage ‐Workflow

1. Subscribe to SaaS

2. Process subscription

3. Provide info on

setting up storage

4. Connect and utilize storage

350GBFiles

400GBFile

Case Study: Archiving

300GBFiles

Servers @NUS

Servers @IHPC

Servers @BII

Data are stored on:

Expensive Primary Storage

With High Available Capability

Storage Service

Dedicated Network -SINGAREN

Case Study: Archiving

Free up primary storage space

350GBFiles

400GBFile

300GBFiles

Servers @NUS

Servers @IHPC

Servers @BII

Storing Data on Lower cost storage

Storage ServiceDedicated Network -SINGAREN

Files

Files

Files

Case Study: Archiving

Files

Files

Files

Easy to scale for growth

As more users are added

500GBFiles

500GBFiles

500GBFiles

Copy

Copy

Copy

To access files in USA3 Copies required1500GB storage space

Case Study – Shared storage

Eg: Data Files Store in the USA

Storage SolutionDedicated Network -SINGAREN

500GBFiles

500GBFiles

500GBFiles

Case Study – Shared storage

500GBFiles

Copy

Access

Access

COPY

To access files in USA

1 Copy Only

500GB Storage space

Pricing (Pay Per Use)

S$1,500 Encryption of Data

Set Up Fee S$150 Monthly Fee S$1.20 (compressed)

Backup Data

S$1.00/Gb      

(24 months contract)

No Volume transfer cost

File Size: Tb range

Archive Storage

Monthly Fee

Consideration

• Offsite storage gives you protection from having something happen to your local data. 

• Local onsite data should be faster and avoids the cost of accessing data over a network. 

• A hybrid approach combines local onsite data storage with offsite to store backups for data protection, support disaster recovery and business continuance. 

Decision for your organization

• Keep in mind the availability and type of network bandwidth.

• The recurring cost of network bandwidth, the offsite storage provider and what changes are needed for your infrastructure to support offsite storage. 

• Data security requirements to counter any and all applicable threat risks when moving and storing data offsite as well as onsite. 

• In addition to network bandwidth, pay attention to network latency which is how responsive the network is.

Summary

Storage as a Service deliver:

• Lower Total Cost of Ownership

• Easy Data Management

• “Green” Environment =

Less Power Consumption, Less Rack Space