SoftLayer Object Storage Overview
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Introduction to both Object Storage generically and SoftLayer's specific Object Storage capabilities. Starts with comparison of Object to Block and File and what it is and is not, moves on to common use cases (Social / Mobile App Storage, Analytic Data Store, Offsite Backup / Archive, and NAS Filer Consolidation), and then to enabling technologies (Storage Gateways, Aspera). Finally, finishes with the Locations, Features, and Pricing, of SoftLayer Object Storage.
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SoftLayer Object Storage Overview
- 1. © 2015 IBM Corporation SoftLayer Object Storage Overview Ann Corrao, Distinguished Engineer Michael Fork, SoftLayer Storage Product Manager
- 2. Agenda • What is Object Storage? • Demand Drivers • Comparison of Block, File, and Object • What it is … and is not • What are common use cases? • Social / Mobile App Storage • Analytics Data Store • Offsite Backup / Archive • NAS Filer Consolidation • What are some enabling technologies? • Storage Gateways • Aspera • What does SoftLayer offer for Object Storage? • Locations • Features • Pricing 1
- 3. Agenda • What is Object Storage? • Demand Drivers • Comparison of Block, File, and Object • What it is … and is not • What are common use cases? • Social / Mobile App Storage • Analytics Data Store • Offsite Backup / Archive • NAS Filer Consolidation • Enabling Technologies • Storage Gateways • Aspera • What does SoftLayer offer for Object Storage? • Features • Locations • Pricing 2
- 4. Why? Unstructured data growth is exploding! 3 Source: Internet Trends 2014 – Code Conference
- 5. Where does Object Storage fit?
- 6. Object Storage Defined 5 Inexpensive, scalable, self-healing storage for massive amounts of unstructured data.
- 7. What Object Storage is…and is not 6 Is Is NOT Eventually Consistent Strongly Consistent Optimized for storing entire file For inline file edits or hypervisor storage API-based Directly accessible by traditional iSCSI / NFS For semi-structured / unstructured For structured data Massively scalable POSIX-compliant file system Highly durable
- 8. Logical Model 7 Object is { Data + Metadata + GUID }
- 10. Agenda • What is Object Storage? • Demand Drivers • Comparison of Block, File, and Object • What it is … and is not • What are common use cases? • Social / Mobile App Storage • Analytics Data Store • Offsite Backup / Archive • NAS Filer Consolidation • What are some enabling technologies? • Storage Gateways • Aspera • What does SoftLayer offer for Object Storage? • Features • Locations • Pricing 9
- 11. Use Case: Social / Mobile App Storage Challenge Solution Social / mobile apps produce large amounts of user-generated content that needs to be durably stored, readily accessible, and scale “virally” Social / mobile applications directly code to REST-based Object Storage APIs Why Object Storage? Object Storage offers extremely high durability, exposes each object via URL for easy access, and scales immediately without need for volume management.
- 12. Challenge Solution Analytic data sets are rapidly expanding and moving them around has become impractical. Store data sets in object storage and directly access them for processing. Why Object Storage? Durably and inexpensively store large amounts of data with read/write capacity that scales linearly as capacity expands. Use Case: Analytics Data Store 11
- 13. Challenge Solution Need to inexpensively and durably store / archive data off-site for business continuity or disaster recovery purposes. Leverage “Storage Gateway” for iSCSI / NFS interface on object store or use backup solution with direct integration. Why Object Storage? Object Storage offers high durability at low price point. Public service provider alleviates need for a second data center. Use Case: Offsite Backup / Archive
- 14. Use Case: NAS Filer Consolidation Challenge Solution Many small storage “islands” across remote / branch offices that are expensive, difficult to manage, and difficult to backup. Object Storage-enabled software solution offering centralized management and local caching to improve access times. Why Object Storage? Object Storage eliminates islands by enabling centralized data management at high durability and a low price point.
- 15. Agenda • What is Object Storage? • Demand Drivers • Comparison of Block, File, and Object • What it is … and is not • What are common use cases? • Social / Mobile App Storage • Analytics Data Store • Offsite Backup / Archive • NAS Filer Consolidation • What are some enabling technologies? • Storage Gateways • Aspera • What does SoftLayer offer for Object Storage? • Features • Locations • Pricing 14
- 16. Storage Gateways: Legacy Connectivity 15 GATEWAYS…. • Adopt new-era storage platforms typically characterized by HTTP-based access to legacy systems • Come in multiple form factors – physical appliance, virtual appliance, operating system driver • Expose traditional block / file protocols – e.g. iSCSI, NFS / CIFS, VTL (Virtual Tape Library) App Server Backup Server File Server Storage Gateway Block Storage Object Storage USE CASES Backup store primary backups Archive tape replacement Storage Expansion reduce on-premise footprint Disaster Recovery off-site mirror File Sync & Share easily accessible storage Data / Workload Migration temp landing spot COMMON FUNCTIONS Access iSCSI, NFS / CIFS, VTL Caching configurable, expandable size Encryption transfer and at-rest Dedup / Compression optimize consumption & transfer Global Namespace same view across devices
- 17. Aspera: High-Speed File Transfer Aspera On Demand “Direct to object storage” capability, which tightly integrates FASP transfers with the native object storage APIs, enables users to securely move their data directly into cloud-based object storage at line-speed from any Aspera Client over wide area networks. 16 Aspera's software moves the world’s data at maximum speed, regardless of file size, transfer distance or network conditions.
- 18. Agenda • What is Object Storage? • Demand Drivers • Comparison of Block, File, and Object • What it is … and is not • What are common use cases? • Social / Mobile App Storage • Analytics Data Store • Offsite Backup / Archive • NAS Filer Consolidation • What are some enabling technologies? • Storage Gateways • Aspera • What does SoftLayer offer for Object Storage? • Features • Locations • Pricing 17
- 19. SoftLayer Object Storage Features • Built on open standards – OpenStack Swift • CDN Integration • API, Web Portal, and Mobile Application control • Metadata indexing and search • Built-in SFTP access • Free inbound transfer, private network access, and API operations 18
- 20. SoftLayer Data Centers 19 India China Tokyo Hong Kong Singapore Melbourne Seattle San Jose Los Angeles Mexico City Denver Chicago Dallas Houston Toronto Montreal Brazil New York City Washington D.C. Miami Frankfurt Amsterdam Paris Sydney Atlanta London …more object storage clusters than any other cloud provider!
- 21. SoftLayer Object Storage Pricing Pay-as-You-Go Pricing Control costs with pay-as-you-go pricing for storage and outbound bandwidth, and no additional charges for bandwidth within and between SoftLayer data centers, inbound traffic, or requests. 20 Starting at $0.04 per GB GB of Storage 400GB GB of Outgoing Storage 100GB Estimated Monthly Total $20.00
- 22. Agenda • What is Object Storage? • What it is … and is not • Comparison of Block, File, and Object • Demand Drivers • What are common use cases? • Social / Mobile App Storage • Analytics Data Store • Offsite Backup / Archive • NAS Filer Consolidation • What are some enabling technologies? • Storage Gateways • Aspera • What does SoftLayer offer for Object Storage? • Locations • Features • Pricing 21
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