WHY SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE MATTERS

Irshad RaihanRed Hat

February 2017

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THE INDUSTRY IS RETHINKING STORAGE

38% of IT decision

makers report

inadequate storage

capabilities as one

of their top three

weekly pain points

70% of IT decision

makers admit that

their organization’s

current storage can’t

cope with emerging

workloads

98% of IT decision

makers believe a

more agile storage

solution could

benefit their

organization

Vanson Bourne Ltd: Storage limitations, frustrations, and coping with future needs, Red Hat Storage research results, June 2016

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DISRUPTION IN THE STORAGE INDUSTRY

PUBLIC CLOUD

STORAGE

TRADITIONAL

APPLIANCES

SOFTWARE-

DEFINED

STORAGE

better

faster

more

less

weaker

limited

better

faster

less

more

stronger

broad

COST EFFICIENCY

PROVISIONING

VENDOR LOCK-IN

SKILL REQUIRED

GOVERNANCE

DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS

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APPLIANCES AREN’T ENOUGH

Complexity hidden from end

users, along with flexibility

Vendor lock-in leads to pricing

premium

Price premium over constituent

components is difficult to sustain

THE TRADITIONAL APPROACH TO STORAGE

ADMIN

S

MANAGEMENT INTERFACE

DATA

NFS/SMB/ISCSI ENDPOINTS

STANDARD SERVERS AND MEDIA

PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE

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PUBLIC CLOUD STORAGE ISN’T ENOUGH

Complexity still hidden from end

users, pay-as-you-go pricing

Fastest-growing segment of IT

storage budgets

Mostly built with proprietary software

CONVENIENT BUT LIMITED

ADMIN

S

MANAGEMENT INTERFACE

DATA

CLOUD STORAGE APIS

STANDARD SERVERS AND MEDIA

LINUX + PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE

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STORAGE IS EVOLVING

OPEN, SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE

Standardized, unified, open platforms

Standard Computers

and Disks

Ceph Gluster +++

Control Plane (API, GUI)

Custom GUI

Proprietary Hardware

Proprietary Software

Custom GUI

Proprietary Hardware

Proprietary Software

USER USER USER

ADMIN ADMIN ADMIN

Custom GUI

Proprietary Hardware

Proprietary Software

USER ADMIN

Sta

ndard

Hard

ware

Open S

ourc

eS

oft

ware

TRADITIONAL STORAGE

Complex proprietary silos

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THE RED HAT STORAGE PORTFOLIO

Gluster

management

Ceph data service Gluster data service

Ceph

management

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Share-nothing, scale-out architecture provides

durability and adapts to changing demands

Self-managing and self-healing features

reduce operational overhead

Standards-based interfaces and full APIs

ease integration with applications and

systems

Supported by the experts at Red Hat

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RED HAT GLUSTER STORAGE

• Purpose-built as a scale-out file store with a straightforward

architecture suitable for public, private, and hybrid cloud

• Simple to install and configure, with a minimal hardware

footprint

• Offers mature NFS, SMB and HDFS interfaces for enterprise

use

Intuit uses Red Hat Gluster Storage to provide flexible, cost-

effective storage for its industry-leading financial offerings

Nimble file storage for petabyte-scale workloads

Container-Native Storage

• Persistent storage

• Containerized storage

Enterprise File Sharing

• Media streaming

• Active Archives

Enterprise Virtualization

Rich Media and Archival

CUSTOMER

HIGHLIGHT: INTUIT

TA

RG

ET

US

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AS

ES

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RED HAT CEPH STORAGE

• Built from the ground up as a next-generation storage system, based

on years of research and suitable for powering infrastructure platforms

• Highly tunable, extensible, and configurable, with policy-based control

and no single point of failure

• Offers mature interfaces for block and object storage for the enterprise

Cisco uses Red Hat Ceph Storage to deliver storage for

next-generation cloud services

Powerful distributed storage for the cloud

and beyond

Cloud Infrastructure

• VM storage with

OpenStack® Cinder,

Glance Keystone, Manila,

and Nova

• Object storage for

tenant apps

Rich Media and Archival

S3-compatible object storage

CUSTOMER

HIGHLIGHT: CISCO

TA

RG

ET

US

E C

AS

ES

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