OpenStack & Storage Made Easy

‘Enterprise DropBox’ Use Case

Jim Liddle

Market Category: Private / Hybrid Cloud

Market Segment:Enterprise File Share and Sync (AKA Enterprise DropBox)

Delivery: SaaS, IaaS, On-Site

Vision:#1 EFSS joining up data silos for 'cloud control'

Target Market: Mid Market to Enterprise companies

Go to Market: Direct, Channel (ISP), White Label

USP's:Storage Agnostic, Protocol Gateway, Unification, Encryption, Audit/Governance

About SME

‣ Supported OpenStack since March 2011

‣ Joined OpenStack Community May 2011

‣ Currently a supporting organization

‣ Support OpenStack Swift Storage

‣ SME Appliance can be deployed on OpenStack Compute

‣ Currently have a number of customers using SME with OpenStack

‣ Examples: Lush (direct Corporate), WebHosting.net (ISP)

SME and OpenStack

‣ Lush using Storage Made Easy with OpenStack for 2 years

‣ Since June 2012

‣ Deployed SME Cloud Appliance on IaaS Hosting (using XEN)

‣ Following trend of data center outsourcing

‣ Initially Deployed 150 users

‣ Now up to 1,000 users in over 50 countries

‣ Enables Management of multiple data sources

‣ OpenStack and any others that are used by the business

‣ Branded as ‘Lush Cloud’

‣ Entire product stack is brandable and Lush has in-house capacity

SME and Lush

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Lush Cloud Screenshots

‣ Storage now a commodity

‣ Data kept in UK important (by UK company) important

‣ Price per user important

‣ OpenStack provides scalable fault tolerant storage on low cost hardware

‣ Enterprise DropBox type use case

‣ SME was able to provide the EFSS piece

‣ Rich Web UI with Cloud Drive / Sync integration into Mac, Windows, Linux

‣ Support all mobile devices that may be used in business (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry)

‣ Provided full audit for files used ‘on cloud’

‣ Provided governance controls around file sharing

‣ SME storage agnostic - no perceived lock-in if want to swap providers

Why OpenStack / SME

‣ Lots of interest by large companies

‣ More than ‘tyre kickers”

SME currently working on over 10 concurrent Enterprise POC’s involving Swift

‣ Largest is 250K user base

‣ Continued interest from ISP’s

‣ Partly driven by ‘open source’, partly driven by ROI, partly driven by privacy fall out

‣ Companies looking for ‘missing pieces to be able to deploy

‣ Enterprise File Share and Sync – private Dropbox use case

‣ Desktop integration, mobile integration, apps integration

‣ Cloud Gateway functionality

‣ Integration with “what we have” i.e Active Directory, LDAP, SAML, Kerberos etc

‣ Auditability / Governance

OpenStack Swift ‘takeaways’

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Business Architecture

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Logical Architecture

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Appliance Packaging

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Horizontal Scaling

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Demo

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Thanks!

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