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cloud nas provider nasuni corp. this week revamped its nasuni filer nf hardware line, which is now based exclusively ...
nasuni storage is managed through a management console that provides consolidated management for the enterprise’s storage across all offices and geographies. the nasuni management console integrates with nasuni operations center to provide support with direct ties to the customer’s storage infrastructure for telemetry and proactive monitoring .
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in a demonstration of “my scale - out filer is bigger than yours” storage swaggery, nasuni has loaded up a billion - plus object volume into its nasuni service file system .
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“customers only pay for usable storage and pricing is by the terabyte on a tiered, fixed scale that lowers customers’ costs as the volume of data stored by the nasuni service increases, ” said andres rodriguez, president and ceo of nasuni .
the product refresh includes a new all - flash nf - 600 nasuni cloud gateway, designed on dell' s poweredge r630 rack server. customers can order nf - 600 from nasuni resellers and get up to 35 tb of flash cache .
storage bits still prefer microsoft over amazon' s cloud. so says a report by storage gateway start - up nasuni .
nasuni said the all - flash nf - 600 is performance storage associated with data - intensive design, engineering and media workloads .
in this techtalk video, andres rodriguez, founder and cto of nasuni discusses the differences between dfsr and a global file system .
nasuni president rob mason bigged up the service :
across our customer base we have well more than 1 billion objects under management and several of our customers each have more than 200, 000 versions of their entire file system saved in the nasuni service .
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rob mason, the founder, cto and evp for engineering at nasuni, has left the company he started up with ceo andres rodriguez .
nasuni is a storage vendor built around its core cloud - based nas technology, local filer appliances, and the company' s proprietary unifs global file system. in the time since nasuni requested a patent on unifs in november 2013, the company has expanded its access to cloud storage infrastructure as well as its on - premises filer appliance offerings, which provide local access for content stored in nasuni - managed cloud storage .
esg lab tested nasuni with a focus on evaluating file data access and control, unlimited scalability, and built - in data protection and security .
the message from nasuni is that you can have a file storage array - free data centre: just use nasuni' s thin filer caching gateways, as it were, and stuff all your files up into the cloud. but do ask for comparative costs – pumping a billion objects into s3 isn' t cheap .
, an austin based architecture firm, was looking for a way to collaborate on files across their multiple locations. nasuni' s collaboration service fit their needs .
needed more storage capacity for their growing files. nasuni offered a solution with unlimited scalability, simplified management and built - in protection that met ara’s compliance standards .
like its chief rival panzura, nasuni' s cloud strategy is not primarily to sell hardware. the natick, mass. - based vendor said it sells nf boxes slightly above its cost. nasuni generates the lion' s share of revenue from annual subscription fees that start at $ 4, 000 per usable tb per year .
in founding nasuni, andres rodriguez, president and ceo of nasuni, brought together a management team that incorporates several collaborators from rodriguez’s previous ventures including archivas, hitachi data systems, and abuzz. andres also previously served as the cto of the new york times with responsibility for digital strategy at urltoken and urltoken including digital content archiving and preservation .
the nf - 600 edge filer for solid - state drives highlights a refresh across nasuni' s cloud hardware gateways. nf appliances are now standardized on dell poweredge servers .
everything we' ve been doing is designed to solve issues with protecting, managing, accessing and analyzing files. john capello vice president of product strategy, nasuni corp .
john capello, vice president of product strategy at nasuni, said dell standardization makes it easier to serve fast - growing markets in europe, the middle east and africa .
without proper testing, it is impossible to differentiate between an industrial - strength csp and a lesser operation ,
nasuni said .
in fact, some providers have asked nasuni to cease testing at this stage because they said it was negatively impacting their customers, which is a truly frightening statement. true cloud storage should be able to accommodate billions of files without any visible strain. those csps that faced performance issues under nasuni’s test are simply not equipped to deliver an appropriate level of service to customers .
nasuni also sells a base nf - 600 all - flash model, which comes with 10 commercially available 800 gb solid - state drives and a maximum of 6 tb of cache .
the nf physical gateways bundle nasuni unifs enterprise file services software and sit at the edge of corporate networks. nf acts as a protocol converter between local storage and public cloud storage .
now benefits from enterprise grade performance in every office. for this engineering and consulting firm, nasuni was able to solve all their storage issues— and do it at a reasonable cost .
curious about how much your enterprise can save with nasuni? we are too. that' s why we developed a tool for you to easily calculate how much you can save .
it seems quite a coincidence that nasuni experiences an exec - level upset at the same time as fellow cloud storage gateway startup panzura. must be springtime and all that new growth. ®
it had planned to include hp’s cloud object storage and ibm’s softlayer this year, and they were tested in a limited capacity. but hp' s cloud strategy change left nasuni unsure of how the service would evolve over the coming year. also, nasuni’s experience with ibm was checkered with scheduled outages that made testing problematic, meaning softlayer does not appear in the report .
can cloud storage really cut costs? it does, and here' s the proof. in this blog post, two of our customers compare how they' ve saved with nasuni .
tbwa is a unit of omnicom group, one of the world’s largest advertising agency holding companies. storage problems were hindering their ability to collaborate on creative projects, so nasuni offered a solution .
sound united had 62 different offices with 62 different storage solutions. they needed a company that could consolidate their data centers. watch this short video, to see how nasuni fits modern growing enterprises .
while these six are, apparently, ready for real - world use, nasuni politely declined to say which ten services failed its test, so we can' t warn you away from those vendors. but nasuni does say the difference between the ones who passed the tests and those that didn' t is in some cases quite large. when nasuni tested the providers for scalability by continuously writing small files of 1kb for weeks on end to determine error rates and performance, two of the eight providers that made it through this stage of testing failed, and others couldn' t complete the test .
grew exponentially, their storage needs did too. archiving and accessing large files became incredibly important to them, and doing it inexpensively was crucial. for this project development and consulting firm, nasuni fit .
amazon customers suffered a severe outage during april in the separate elastic block store service, which provides mountable disk volumes to virtual machines hosted in amazon' s elastic compute cloud. however, the s3 storage service tested by nasuni posted excellent uptime. amazon had the fewest outages at 1. 4 per month, but they were so small that s3' s availability was essentially 100 percent, according to nasuni .
ceo andres rodriguez said nasuni is
taking the burden out of the data centre and putting it into the cloud, where it is free from the management and capacity constraints that come with traditional storage gear .
nasuni has been gradually moving its appliances to dell. new models also were rolled out for nf - 200, nf - 400 and nf - 440 nasuni cloud filers, all of which use spinning disk housed in dell racks. the nf - 440 provides 36 tb of cache, compared to nf - 400, which comes with 8 tb, nf - 200 (6 tb) and nf - 60 (2 tb) .
the cooley group, an industrial manufacturer of high performance fabrics, needed a way to report results, policies, and procedures across offices. since deploying nasuni, their productivity and efficiency has increased. read their story .
filers provide access to nasuni storage via cifs / smb, nfs or ftp as well as iscsi block storage. the model and quantity of filers that are used for a particular deployment can be scaled based on the workload in order to provide processing power and caching space appropriate for the situation. filers are leased from nasuni as part of the company’s model for handling periodic hardware refreshes as well as changes to the customer’s geographic and performance requirements .
nasuni provides a consolidated storage solution for the distributed enterprise that offers build - in backup, replication and offsite protection using an on - site appliance connected to the cloud to help company’s reduce their storage costs. the company offers large companies a service that gives everyone fast access to secure and centrally managed storage, no matter where they are located. the boston - based nasuni has about 65 employees and has raised $ 42 million in venture capital since its founding in 2009 from flybridge capital partners of boston, north bridge venture partners of waltham and sigma partners of boston. nasuni posted strong financial results in 2013, and engineered several key innovations to its product. in november, the company’s founder and ceo, andres rodriguez, received a patent for nasuni’s core technology, unifs - the ability to create a versioned file system from the object - based storage infrastructure of public cloud storage providers .
nasuni bods say this is
an unprecedented technical achievement ,
and demonstrates
essentially unlimited scalability .
they used four nasuni filers, both hardware - based and virtual (software running in a vm) uploading data for 15 months ,
writing to the volume as rapidly as possible from different physical locations, while maintaining access to all of the files from any of the individual filers .
they say the volume continues to grow each day .
nasuni offers storage in the cloud to its customers, with its nf - series filers acting as the gateway devices. it offers service - level agreements and so has a strong interest in csp performance, rating cloud storage suppliers .
in conclusion, the nasuni report states ,
it is not difficult to create something that looks like cloud storage. it is very difficult, however, to create a cloud that is truly scalable, reliable and always available .
nasuni unifs moves entire data sets to cloud storage, caching only the most active data on the local appliance. deltas are synced in the background to a gold copy stored securely in amazon web services or microsoft azure public cloud storage .
the field museum, a leading exhibitor and an active scientific research institution, is in the process of digitalizing 30 million items. watch this short costumer video, to learn why they' re choosing nasuni for their data storage needs .
nasuni is a cloud storage gateway supplier and was founded in 2008. it has had a total of $ 53m in funding: $ 8m in 2009; $ 15m in 2010; $ 20m in 2012; and $ 10m in 2014 .
amazon' s s3 was top in nasuni' s 2011 report, with second - placed azure claiming the top spot in 2013. azure retained the top spot this year, with amazon a close second and google trailing some way behind .
nasuni tried to make the tests fair, for example by testing stability from numerous locations. in the case of stability testing, providers
had to perform with no data loss and have no significant unplanned outages
in order to pass .
two csps emerged as top performers in the nasuni study: amazon s3 and microsoft windows azure, with amazon s3 being the standout across all evaluation areas ,
nasuni said. other vendors performed well in specific areas .
though nirvanix was 17 percent faster than amazon s3 for reading large files, and microsoft azure was 12 percent faster when it comes to writing files, no other vendor posted the kind of consistently fast service across all file types as did amazon s3 .
nasuni combines on - premises storage hardware with cloud - based primary storage infrastructure by using unifs and centralized management. unifs separates files from the underlying storage resources like a hypervisor does with virtual machines, while unifs' caching algorithm keeps frequently - accessed data available on the local network via a filer appliance. nasuni filers can be deployed as hardware appliances or virtual appliances. nasuni also provides mobile applications for transparent mobile access to files and a desktop synchronization application. unifs also provides two key services: global file sharing, enabling users to access data on the fileshare anywhere in the world at local speeds, and a global file lock that allow collaboration anywhere while keeping a “locked” copy of the most up to date file in the cloud .
nasuni' s business grows as enterprises transfer storage to public clouds such as those available from amazon, google and microsoft. its cloud nas offering is available in microsoft' s azure marketplace, providing an on - premises filer with azure back - end .
nasuni stores files in the cloud, with on - premises nf - series filers acting as caches and gateways, pumping files up to the cloud, azure or amazon for example, and retrieving them, and providing fast local response to file access requests .
we' re now in the cloud - era. it' s time for file systems to evolve. in this blog post, anne blanchard, nasuni' s senior director of product marketing, summarizes the 4 requirements of a cloud - era file system .
rodriguez said :
we are doubling the business yoy every single quarter. in april we had a joint $ 2m win with pure storage where we beat emc for a large medical insurance company in florida. pure takes the high performance blocks (applications). nasuni takes all the files (documents and images) with vms running directly on pure in their two core data centers and our hardware appliances running lighter workloads at 5 additional branches. everything synchronized with nasuni through microsoft azure. that’s the future of the data centre .
all - in - all, google was a distant third with azure better than aws except for large file writes. nasuni sees aws and azure as
two mature, robust csps, whose platforms will eventually replace the spinning disk within the enterprise data centre
.
nasuni, which sells data protection services that work across any type of cloud storage, says it has been testing the 16 largest cloud storage providers (csps) since april 2009 to determine the best services for its customers. ultimately, only six of the 16 providers passed nasuni' s testing—in addition to amazon and microsoft, the other winners were nirvanix, rackspace, at & t synaptic, and peer1 hosting. both at & t and peer1 use emc' s atmos platform on the back end, although emc itself discontinued its own public cloud based on atmos .
because cloud services are publicly available, they provide a good opportunity for organizations interested in benchmarking. the nasuni test does appear to be among the most comprehensive on the subject, enterprise strategy group founder and senior analyst steve duplessie tells ars .
we happen to know that nasuni has been collecting a lot of data on all these guys for a long time, so we' re confident with the results being accurate ,
duplessie says .
the cloud is a fuzzy thing, no pun intended. it' s good that someone has been tracking reality .
at the end of march nasuni promoted david shaw to chief science officer ,
complementing the efforts of the office of the cto ,
while russell neufeld was promoted to chief technology officer to replace mason. matt mcdonald was promoted to vp engineering. thus all of mason' s areas of responsibility are now covered .
nasuni delivers a complete cloud nas solution that enables it to address files of any kind, including written communications, video, architectural designs (such as revit) and medical imaging. provided as a service, it combines local controllers, cloud storage, encryption, file sync and share, data protection, automatic backup and recovery, and archiving .
esg founder and senior analyst steve duplessie lent credibility to this :
most traditional nas implementations will fall on their face long before reaching a billion objects and 27, 000 snapshots. the fact that nasuni not only does this, but also can do it while providing data anywhere on the globe from a single file system, is pretty much remarkable. ”
the full nasuni benchmark report is here if you want to dive into it a bit more. coincidentally, microsoft today released an update to azure that may be interesting to developers, which is detailed on the azure blog. we also noted a couple months ago that in a more limited test conducted by the vendor compuware, azure came out ahead of amazon in terms of speed .
the nasuni 2015 state of cloud storage report noted that 2013 and 2014 were record - setting years for cloud service adoption in the enterprise. more than 50% of large enterprises reported using cloud services as an integral part of their infrastructure, with cloud storage being one of the most popular services, predicted to grow at a rate of 33% per year for the next five years .
barry isett & associates, an engineering and consulting firm, was looking for a way to improve file access across its organization and simplify its storage ecosystem. with nasuni’s cloud - integrated storage solution, the firm now benefits from enterprise - grade performance in every office, enhanced collaboration, automatic protection, mobile access, and simplified it management, all at a reasonable cost. watch their story .
nasuni’s approach differs from gartner in that it relies on testing as opposed to user survey and revenue numbers. in its evaluation of microsoft azure blob storage, amazon simple storage service (s3) and google cloud storage, microsoft won out as the highest performer for reading and writing of file - based data. amazon came second, but was faster when it came to files larger than 1 mb .
amazon s3 had the fewest outages and best uptime, and was the only csp to post a 0. 0 percent error rate in both writing and reading objects during scalability testing ,
nasuni continued .
and though microsoft azure had a slightly faster average ping time than amazon s3 (likely because amazon s3 is much more heavily used than microsoft azure), amazon nevertheless had the lowest variability .
in that way, the cloud storage gateway doubles as a backup solution, and allowed the company to save 63 per cent on its old backup system, which was tape - based. a conduit for backup and disaster recovery isn’t the only use case for a cloud storage gateway. some vendors, like nasuni, focus on scalability, offering what looks like a nas but with infinite capacity thanks to cloud - based infrastructure .
rodriguez says his customers tell him they don’t want to own any of their infrastructure any more. “ownership is overrated. ownership means that i buy something from you, and when we have to downsize, i can’t get rid of it. and when we expand all of the sudden, i have your old box that i can’t operate. what customers really want is something that breathes in and out with their business cycles. so can you take that asset, which is the single most mission critical layer of infrastructure and transform it to this model where there’s no ownership of anything. and that’s nasuni’s mission. the company name comes from the combination of nas, which stands for network attached storage, which is the workhorse of storage technology and unifying the storage model. so you put nas and uni together and you get nasuni, ” says rodriguez .
what does the future hold for nasuni? “we’re on track to do about $ 10 million in recurrent revenue and have customers now that pay the company half a million dollars a year to run their storage systems. we grew revenue two and a half times from last year. and i anticipate that we’ll do probably about a little less than that this year. we are probably in the last round of funding before we’re headed to the public markets three years from now, ” concludes rodriguez .
the tests were divided into five categories. nasuni began by looking at api integration ,
to ensure that it is possible to test the service at all .
more categories included unit testing to determine whether each csp can handle basic functions like writing and reading different file sizes; performance testing to measure response time across multiple simultaneous threads and a range of object sizes and workload types; stability testing to determine long - term reliability by continuously writing and reading files to ensure all data is preserved; and the scalability testing we mentioned earlier in this article .
gartner predicts that infrastructure - as - a - service (iaas) will achieve a compound annual growth rate (cagr) of 41. 3% through 2016, the fastest growing area of public cloud computing the research firm tracks. global spending on public cloud services is expected to grow 18. 6% in 2012 to $ 110. 3b, achieving a cagr of 17. 7% from 2011 through 2016. the total market is expected to grow from $ 76. 9b in 2010 to $ 210b in 2016. these two trends converge with the concept of storage infrastructure as a service (siaas), a place where innovative company nasuni plays .
i decided to split his role into three roles which has helped tons to increase... our internal technical bandwidth. matt took over as vp engineering and heads development / customer issues, russ took over as cto and is more of the public face (especially with our cloud providers) and he also leads all of our back - end operations, including the nasuni operations center. david shaw became cso and leads the unifs architecture (stability) and security. all three of them have been working with the company since its inception and with me for the last 15 years. rob became a technical advisor to the team and remains engaged on an as - needed basis .
hitachi bought the company for $ 130 million in 2007 as a product portfolio for their storage business. however, rodriguez saw the model changing again. “i tried to convince hitachi that what you need to do is to build gigantic data centers, host archivas clusters in it, and then connect those data centers to every single storage device that we ever sell the customer. that way, every device will just be an access point to these giant repositories of storage, ” says rodriguez. at that time, the big cloud services from amazon and others were starting to take shape. hitachi wasn' t ready to move that fast and was more concerned about cannibalizing its existing storage hardware business. so rodriguez, mason and shaw set off on their own again and founded what eventually become nasuni .
“the idea behind nasuni is that we are taking these traditional storage systems that are making changes, lots of reads and writes and lots of things happening, and we’re going to freeze time. we’re going to take a picture in time, and we’re going to save that picture perfectly, immutable, stabilize it forever in the back end system. and so our systems technically look like this infinite stream in time where it’s an infinite set of frames, and you can always roll back to any point in time. we’re doing this at the level of the storage controller, but we’re not storing it in any box. we’re storing it in this infinite cloud or clouds that are in the back end, ” says rodriguez. the company focuses on verticals like architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and legal .
andres then started his second company called archivas, which is essentially a giant storage system for very big media archives or any type of file data that companies need to keep forever. archivas then partnered with hitachi data systems, which is a big storage system provider. “during this time i met two people that would be at the center of my career. one was a storage engineer from emc, and the other one was a storage engineer from akamai. these were the two top guys from the two top companies and i moved earth heaven and earth to get them to join this tiny little company in boston, archivas, with this crazy guy that didn' t really know the storage business and just thought that we could really disrupt it with this new system. and so the three of us built the company, that’s rob mason, a legend from his days at emc, on one side who is my co - founder for nasuni today and david shaw on the other side who is our chief architect for the company, ” says rodriguez .
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why did mason walk? andres rodriguez said :
the strategy [ is to ] target every possible file workload in the enterprise [ with ] a unified file system for all the files. it is the size of the organization and the client base that has changed. rob' s style is more of a platoon leader, with every decision having to go through him .
that was invaluable in the early days but with more clients and more demands around engineering, he was not happy with the job and his style was becoming a bottleneck. rob and i had been discussing a transition for the better part of a year. he is so incredibly good at what he does but ultimately he wanted to go back to do core development .
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the company looks at the cloud storage performance, availability and scalability of aws, azure and google, the three main public csps recognised by gartner, checking out large and small file read / write io and delete speed .
it has just released one of its biennial reports rating public cloud service suppliers, looking at microsoft azure’s blob storage, amazon simple storage service (s3) and google cloud storage .
azure bested amazon in every io area except large file (> 1mb) write speed .
it delivered the best write / read / delete speeds across small and medium - sized files and, in some cases, beat amazon by nearly 2x ,
the report said .
amazon' s average response time of 0. 1 secs was better than azure' s 0. 14 secs, with google about five times slower .
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a recent infostor article called cloud storage comparison covered gartner’s view of the public marketplace and gave a rundown of the top three players, google, microsoft and amazon. gartner – surprising no one – places amazon in top the spot .
amazon led in availability with an average response time of. 1 of a second, compared to. 14 of a second for microsoft and. 5 of a second for google. amazon was the preferred choice for the ability to scale quickly. overall, the report states that microsoft consistently performed better than amazon, with google a more distant third .
frank gens, an analyst at idc, says amazon’s dominant market share (47% of overall cloud services) will come under attack from the likes of google, microsoft, ibm, alibaba, and china telecom. but gens expects amazon to pick up more market share in storage and other services despite greater pressure from rivals .
“aws is resetting the bar for infrastructure as a service provisioning and consumption, bringing the minimum time to deploy compute down to tens or hundreds of milliseconds, ” he said .
but despite amazon itself growing even larger, there is still plenty of room in the market for many more players. idc says that the total spending on cloud it infrastructure (which includes server, storage and ethernet switch hardware and software) will reach $ 32. 6 billion, with about one third of the overall end user spending on enterprise it infrastructure. the public cloud accounts for the bulk of the cash: $ 20. 5 billion for 2015, rising to $ 33. 6 billion by 2019 .
that’s a lot of money and it’s luring many companies into the cloud storage space. beyond the big three, then, let’s do a cloud storage comparison of some of the other players .
dropbox business offers sharing features, as much space as you need, and is priced at $ 15 per user a month, starting with a minimum of 5 users. it includes integration with microsoft office and adobe. dropbox enterprise includes domain management, collaboration and premium support. according to robert baesman, head of product, dropbox business, it has over 400 million users, 150, 000 paying business customers and a presence in over 8 million businesses .
rackspace provides two options. cloud files provides online object storage for files and media, delivering them globally over a worldwide content delivery network (cdn). cloud block storage offers high - performance, on - demand storage for applications hosted on cloud servers .
“even the most resource - hungry workloads run seamlessly, so users can always count on your application to perform consistently, ” said scott whitright, senior product marketing manager, public cloud at rackspace. cloud block storage pricing starts at $. 12 / gb / month .
ibm offers a huge number of cloud services, including even the famous ibm watson, which offers analytics capabilities. on the storage front, ibm provides dr and backup. ibm cloud managed backup includes plenty of built - in security, deduplication, a redundant infrastructure and rapid restore .
this one might not be so prevalent in north america – at least for now. but the big three can expect plenty of competition in the asian market, especially. backed by internet powerhouse alibaba, it offers various pricing plans. for cloud - based solid state storage, for example, it charges $ 3. 126 / gb / year with plans available per month and pay as you go .
another asian giant that is investing big in cloud storage, china telecom’s worldwide secure network includes over 300 nodes in china another 40 globally. this includes dedicated cloud centers that provide iaas, dr, backup, elastic storage and more .
zadara storage virtual private storage array (vpsa) is a software - defined storage solution for which customers pay based on usage, and can scale to petabytes. it includes storage management features typical to a san .
urltoken doesn’t try to compete with the big three on bulk storage. instead it focuses on backup and dr - as - a - service. it scores high on performance benchmarks that show it to be many times faster than backing up via an appliance or regular cloud backup services. this challenges of backing up a lot of data to the cloud rapidly (or restore a lot of data from it) is so thorny that amazon has even released a service whereby it ships a physical box back and forth – in some instances this is is quicker than sending everything over the wire. so zetta is gaining ground for those with the need for speed .
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amazon' s s3 simple storage service has outperformed microsoft' s windows azure storage and all other major providers in an extensive study testing the feasibility of businesses using cloud services for primary storage, data protection, and disaster recovery .
as in most cases, amazon s3 and microsoft' s azure were the top two performers in the scalability test, with amazon' s error rate at
effectively zero
and microsoft close to it .
azure had 11. 1 outages per month, with availability at 99. 9 percent, while rackspace and peer1 achieved almost identical numbers. nirvanix had 332 outages per month, but the outages must have been small ones as nirvanix' s overall availability was still 99. 8 percent. at & t, with 10. 4 outages per month, posted the worst uptime because of their duration. at & t' s availability was 99. 5 percent .
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they say they didn' t use a clustered file system, its unifs global file system being up to the job, virtualising the file data and making
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doing this might still be less expensive than hosting them locally and providing global access, though. ®
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for decades, we’ve survived quite nicely using on - premise storage. according to industry research, though, that may be changing as cloud - based storage emerges. a tata communications survey last year found that within ten years enterprises will store 58 per cent of their data in the cloud, compared with 28 per cent today .
whether or not the shift ends up being that drastic in practice, it does seem clear that companies are getting more interested in cloud storage. google launched a cloud storage alternative to amazon’s glacier and microsoft’s azure backup in march, for example. clearly, it sees an opportunity to substitute cloud storage for tape .
whether you’re treating the cloud as an alternative to tape - based backup, or doing something more sophisticated with cloud storage, moving your data from an on - site array to the cloud isn’t always that simple .
“cloud storage works differently than your average network - storage array, in that it is object - oriented, ” points out john sloan, research director for infrastructure at analyst firm info - tech research group .
object - oriented storage is great for scaling out storage infrastructure, but it isn’t interoperable with the block storage typically seen on an on - site san. another problem is that cloud - based storage is stateless, and typically accessed over web - friendly rest apis. this is not the way that your legacy apps normally work .
“also, sending and retrieving data from the cloud introduces performance hurdles (latency and bandwidth limits), ” said sloan .
cloud storage gateways are designed to solve some of these issues. they’re typically devices, whether appliances or virtual machines, that sit on the local network and pretend to be a local storage array, while interfacing with cloud - based storage .
“it is presented on the network as block or file storage, but the device is translating to objects and sending them to the cloud service, ” sloan said .
a cloud storage gateway can present cloud - based storage to a local infrastructure in an acceptable form, making it look like a filer, a block storage array, or a backup drive. in some cases, it can even present the cloud - based storage as a storage source for a local application .
“most people are considering these gateway devices in a larger context, of solving a particular problem, so it’s part of a bigger solution, ” said randy kerns, senior strategist and analyst at tech advisory firm evaluator group. “that doesn’t change the product at all, but it does change the way that it’s approached and thought of. ”
“the biggest thing that an it manager needs to understand is that there are around 17 different use cases that you can solve with gateways, and you need to be clear on how you deploy this stuff before you start asking the questions, ” said jeff denworth, senior vp of marketing at ctera, which makes cloud storage gateways targeting enterprise branch and remote offices .
in ctera’s case, the cloud storage gateway doubles as a network - attached storage appliance. customers use it as a local fileserver that interfaces into cloud environments for storage replication. it supports a variety of back - end cloud providers, having just launched a service with deutsche telecom .
a typical use case for a ctera device would be to provide fast access to data locally, as you would with any local nas device, while replicating data to the cloud in the background .
one ctera customer, jwt, has a large presence in the middle east, where in some regions the internet can be slow and unreliable. during the arab spring uprisings, the firm had to move staff from several offices. it used a cloud storage gateway with a connection to amazon web services, which enabled it to access data from the offices that were shut down .
gateways can also be used for archiving in the cloud. this dovetails with automated storage tiering, in which data can be replicated between fast, local disk and cheaper cloud storage to balance space, cost, and data availability requirements .
as companies have grown to trust the cloud more, and as the logic in these devices matures, other use cases are emerging. one is collaboration, where data is replicated via a cloud storage gateway to a cloud - based storage location for incorporation into a team’s online workflow. panzura, with its global file system and associated controllers, is a good example of this kind of approach to cloud storage integration .
cloud storage gateways are also useful for private or hybrid cloud scenarios. with more companies wanting the elasticity and cost benefits of cloud storage while retaining control of their data, the devices can provide a useful way to integrate legacy applications with cloud - based storage accessed over local networks, say experts. “that’s a developing area, ” said kern. other use cases include providing an interface with cloud - based data as a primary storage mechanism, retaining little or no data on - site. that can be a dangerous approach unless you have a well - defined quality of service in your infrastructure .
“if you' re using a cloud gateway and you' re depending on particular performance, you have a lot of variables in there that you don' t have control over, ” said kern. “latency is a factor of environment and the risk. if you' re saying ‘i need the data in a certain window’, then you have to architect the network connectivity based on that. ”
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the nf - 60 disk appliances complete the consolidation on dell. new nf - 60 models are based on dell' s t130 tower server, a shift from supermicro servers .
cloud gateway hardware emerged with the rise of enterprise cloud storage, but the appliance model has become heavily commoditized. customers instead prefer a virtual controller that runs on industry - standard server racks .
we' ve started to reposition about 18 months ago. for us, it' s all about files, not block storage. everything we' ve been doing is designed to solve issues with protecting, managing, accessing and analyzing files ,
capello said .
it' s for times when you need to keep a lot of data resident in cache, but the full data set is stored in the cloud. we are starting to see a lot of workloads using lidar and other sophisticated 3d imaging files. those type of applications work best if you have a lot of flexibility on what is stored in cache ,
capello said .
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“we’re going to do storage, data protection, and all the synchronization of data worldwide. that is a better storage system than anything that exists today. today to be able to accomplish that, i need to have storage, a backup application, a replication application, which is all hugely costly and very complex because the center of the universe for storage has been the box and how to protect the box; and how to get data from this box to that box. for us, the storage is all in the cloud, ” continues rodriguez .
storage and scaling large data systems is something andres knows well and has been working on for the past twenty years in one form or another. “i was actually lucky to be a physicist in the era when the internet was just being born. although i wasn' t a great physicist, i was a very good computer programmer. and at that time science needed great people in computers because the experiments were getting bigger. data was getting bigger and you needed people that knew how to crunch it, and so my expertise in grad school at boston university was building very large distributed systems, ” says rodriguez of his early days in academia. he and his colleagues lashed workstations together and put them on a network, which was a cost effective way to run these huge simulations on condensed matter and particle physics. these problems were similar to the challenges the internet was facing at the very beginning. scientists could transition well into business because everyone was hungry for good programmers at the time. he worked with a series of media companies in new york that wanted to have an internet presence and found it very challenging to build their own.
nasuni is a privately held cloud storage company . the company has its headquarters in boston , massachusetts and was founded in 2008 . the firm 's storage product uses cloud-based nas technology , local filer appliances , and the company 's proprietary unifs global file system . the primary storage infrastructure uses public cloud storage platforms , such as amazon web services and microsoft azure . such public cloud storage platforms provide an object-based storage infrastructure , on top of which unifs creates a complete versioned file system . the service stores customer data as a sequence of snapshots that include every version of every file . the firm has demonstrated the ability to store more than one billion objects in a single storage volume . nasuni filers run in virtual environments ( including vmware and microsoft hyper-v ) , on hardware appliances , and as a microsoft azure and amazon ec2 virtual appliance . hardware appliance choices include systems with solid-state drives . nasuni publishes an annual report on the performance , availability , and scalability of the major cloud storage providers . 
nasuni is a privately held cloud storage company. the company has its headquarters in boston, massachusetts and was founded in 2008. the firm's storage product uses cloud-based nas technology, local filer appliances, and the company's proprietary unifs global file system. the primary storage infrastructure uses public cloud storage platforms, such as amazon web services and microsoft azure. such public cloud storage platforms provide an object-based storage infrastructure, on top of which unifs creates a complete versioned file system. the service stores customer data as a sequence of snapshots that include every version of every file. the firm has demonstrated the ability to store more than one billion objects in a single storage volume. nasuni filers run in virtual environments (including vmware and microsoft hyper-v), on hardware appliances, and as a microsoft azure and amazon ec2 virtual appliance. hardware appliance choices include systems with solid-state drives. nasuni publishes an annual report on the performance, availability, and scalability of the major cloud storage providers.
nasuni is a privately held cloud storage company. the company has its headquarters in boston, massachusetts and was founded in 2008. the firm's storage product uses cloud-based nas technology, local filer appliances, and the company's proprietary unifs global file system. the primary storage infrastructure uses public cloud storage platforms, such as amazon web services and microsoft azure. such public cloud storage platforms provide an object-based storage infrastructure, on top of which unifs creates a complete versioned file system. the service stores customer data as a sequence of snapshots that include every version of every file. the firm has demonstrated the ability to store more than one billion objects in a single storage volume. nasuni filers run in virtual environments (including vmware and microsoft hyper-v), on hardware appliances, and as a microsoft azure and amazon ec2 virtual appliance. hardware appliance choices include systems with solid-state drives. nasuni publishes an annual report on the performance, availability, and scalability of the major cloud storage providers.