Object storage technologies have already changed the scale, economics and reliability of data storage in public cloud environments. Now these benefits are also available on-premises, within enterprise data centers. This presentation is intended to discuss: o The unique benefits of object storage o Why enterprises are choosing on-premises object storage o The most popular use cases among enterprise users o How real companies are putting object storage to work o What to look for in an on-premises object storage solution

1. Put Object Storage to
Work for Your Enterprise
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2. Agenda
• Why Now?
• Unique Benefits
• When Not to Use
• Putting Object Storage to Work
• Ways to Benefit
• What to Look for in an Enterprise Solution
• Cloudian Solution
• Customer Success
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3. Why Now?
• Growing storage challenges:
• Video, big data, file sharing, mobile…
• Massive scale – petabytes, billions of
objects…
• HDD capacities growing slower
• Escalating costs
• Technology
• File systems, SANs reaching performance
and capacity limits
• Emergence of object storage architectures
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4. Options
• Public
• Private
• Hybrid
Today: Private object storage for the
enterprise
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5. Unique Benefits
• Low cost
• Reliable
• Scalable
• QoS
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• Distributed
• Accessible
• Metadata
• Efficient

6. When Not to Use
• As a complete replace for other storage
forms
• Structured data such as SQL databases
• Rapidly changing data such as
transactions
• Data that requires “single source of truth”
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7. Putting Object
Storage to Work
• Who?
• Cloud and storage service providers…
• Financials, pharma, oil & gas…
• Media, content providers…
• Surveillance, government intelligence…
• You! Let’s look at 10 important use
cases…
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8. • Distributed users
• Essentially unlimited users with same
performance
• Viewing same / similar contents
• Files, images, video
• Huge objects
• Original content
Basic Sharing
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9. • Tape replacement
• Far greater reliability than tape
• Automated offsite, multi-site storage
• Restore from anywhere
• Faster restores
• Integration with continuous data
replication
Backup Store
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10. Long-Term Archival
• More cost effective than typical disk
solution
• Far greater reliability than tape (again)
• Overcome corruption risks
• Greater reliability and far lower costs
than duplicating on enterprise-grade disk
storage
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11. • Direct control
• Compliance
• Cost reduction (data access, bandwidth
– not just per GB costs)
• Alternative to pay-as-you-go
• Protect against provider business failure
Public Object Store
Replacement
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12. • Storage that provides web-scale capacity
• Thousands to millions of users and more
• Geographic distribution and local access
Web-Scale App
Support
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13. Storage Consolidation
• File aggregation
• Increased efficiency through elimination
of unused disk capacity
• Centralized management
• Lower operating cost
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14. Static Websites
• Full statics websites, static pages
• HTML files, images, videos, client-side
scripts such as JavaScript
• Support huge traffic demands
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15. Mobile Access
• File access, backup, synchronization
• Take advantage of simple interfaces
such as HTTP access
• Support massive numbers of users on
any type of mobile devices
• Mobile employees and customers
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16. Media Replays
• Podcasts, including iTunes integration
via HTTP
• Webcasts
• Business videos
• Security footage
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17. Content Delivery
Networks
• Similar to website hosting use case
• Place object storage nodes in locations
you would have a CDN node
• Gain local access to objects
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18. You Dream it up
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19. What to Look For
• SW solution with heterogeneous HW
support
• Control over service levels and costs
• Policy support for security, geography
• Support via a real product, not a build-it-
yourself science experiment
• AWS S3 API compatibility and extended
integration for OpenStack, CloudStack, etc.
• Ability to start small, as appropriate
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20. Cloudian
Giorgio Propersi
General Manager, Americas & EMEA

21. Cloudian
• A lead developer of Object Storage for the Enterprises and
the Service Providers
• Headquarter in Silicon Valley, Offices and Customers
across the Americas, Asia and Europe
• Cloudian flagship product is also called Cloudian®
• 100% S3 Compatible
• Scales from few Terabytes to hundreds of Petabytes
• Runs on Commodity Hardware
• Integrates with Cloud Compute (Citrix Cloud Platform,
CloudStack, OpenStack)
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22. Object Storage for the Private,
Public and Hybrid Cloud
• Cloudian + Commodity Hardware = S3 Object Storage
• Cloudian includes Backend Storage, Replication, Erasure
Coding, Consistency, Provisioning, Billing, Management
GUI & API, etc.
• Cloudian includes Full Frontend: 100% S3 compatibility for
virtually every storage application
• More than 1000 S3 ready Applications, Hundred of Partners in the
S3 developer Community
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Private or Public Storage Cloud
• You choose what to store on premises,
and what to store in the cloud

23. Case Study: NTT
Why NTT Chose Cloudian:
• Full S3 API and Semantics
compatibility
• Infinite Scalability in
DCs/Regions, Buckets
• Excellent performance for any
data mix
• Tunable Replication
• CloudStack Integration
• Production Proven Reliability
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#1 Telecom company WW
Japan, US, APAC, India, Europe
“Cloudian has a proven track record in
global markets to provide highly
resilient and robust object storage with
an Amazon S3-compatible API, which
we believe is an optimal fit with our
idea of object storage service."
Susumu Okuhira, NTT
Communications Director of
Hosting & Platform Service
Multi-PB, Global DCs,
Eleven 9s Availability

24. Trial to Contract in 3 weeks
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Part of Claranet, top European
MSP for 2,500 Enterprises in
11 Countries
Chose Cloudian because:
• - S3 API
- Scalability in DCs/Regions
• - Ease of use – Fully Turnkey
• - Cost Efficient
• - Innovation
• - High Quality
Spain, Portugal, France,
UK, Italy…
“Not only does Cloudian share our
same goal of bringing affordable,
reliable and scalable cloud solutions
to companies of all sizes, it also
shares our commitment to innovation
and customer satisfaction."
Antonio Miguel Ferreira
CEO, Lunacloud
European Cloudian
Reference Deployment

25. Transition to Object Storage:
Cloudian can help
• What is triggering the decision to move to Object
Storage in my Enterprise?
• What about ROI? How much money will I save?
• What about the cost of the migration?
• Which applications have to be moved first?
• Technical Migration Issues
• Choice of Hardware
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26. Q&A
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