Growth of Unstructured Data & Object Storage Marcel Laforce Sr. Director, Object Storage
Agenda Unstructured Data Growth Contrasting approaches: Objects, Files & Blocks The Emerging Object Storage Market (Market Sizing and Growth) Object Storage Use-Cases Components of an Object Storage Solution 2 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved.
The World Has Gone Digital 7 Exabytes Data traffic by mobile users worldwide in 2011 24 Petabytes Data processed by Google* every day in 2011 4 billion Pieces of content shared on Facebook* every day by July 2011 5.5 million Legitimate emails sent every second in 2011 Managing petabytes is commonplace 3 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved.
Unstructured Data Growth driven by macro trends Unstructured data continues to grow New sources of unstructured data growth media, mobile, IoT Data continues to be retained for long periods (archival, compliance, etc.) Highly cost sensitive PB scale repositories Driving tradeoffs between $/GB, latency, throughput, and data protection Data access is changing Geographically dispersed access Simultaneous access rarely required New data accessed initially than rarely Storage managed in a cloud ecosystem Unified management & orchestration Growth in cloud hosted applications that leverage object storage 4 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved.
What is Object Storage? Block File Object SAN Interface Block granularity Modifiable data Specific location on disk No metadata NFS/CIFS File granularity Modifiable data Fixed logical hierarchy Very limited metadata HTTP Interface Object granularity Immutable data Location independent Rich metadata 5 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved.
Object Storage Example: File vs. Object File Based Object Based Parking Garage Valet Daily Garage 1 Floor 4 Row N Space 53 /users/jsmith/car/garage1/floor4/rown/space53.file C:\Users\jsmith\Garage1\Floor4\RowN\Space53.file Object UID 317 6 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved.
Exabytes Why Object Storage Matters IDC Predicts accelerating adoption of Object-based software and appliances over the next 5 years, with a compounded annual growth rate of 55.3% * 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 object-based software and appliances File-based software and appliance and gateways *July 2013, IDC Market Analysis: Worldwide File and Object-Based Storage 2013-2017 Forecast 7 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved.
Evolving Use Cases Data archives Larger objects, low transaction loads Long retention periods, latency tolerant Criteria: lowest cost, durable, automated tiering as value of data changes Media repositories Large objects, globally distributed Streaming data access, large throughput rates Criteria: multi-site, multi-app, scalability, automated distribution Web data repositories Small objects, extremely high transaction loads Billions of objects Criteria: scalability, performance, native web interfaces 8 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. NetApp Confidential Internal Use Only
Challenges driving the adoption of Object Durability Scalability Manageability Scalability Accommodate boundless growth Durability Tolerate hard drive, system, and datacenter failures Manageability Accommodate seamless expansion and migration 9 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved.
Object Store Characteristics Key table stakes Global namespace RESTful protocol support File protocol support Rich metadata support Multiple data protection schemes: Replication Erasure coding Multiple deployment options: Software only Appliance Hyperscale capacity: Billions of objects 10s of PB Multiple data centres 10 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. NetApp Confidential Internal Use Only
StorageGRID Webscale MULTIPLE: APPLICATIONS + SITES + PROTOCOLS Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site N APPLICATIONS APPLICATIONS APPLICATIONS APPLICATION CDMI S3 CDMI S3 CDMI S3 CDMI S3 MULTIPLE: TENANTS + POLICIES + ADMINISTRATORS StorageGRID Webscale Hyperscalers Performance Tier Capacity Tier Archive Tier Tape Off-Prem MULTIPLE: TARGETS + TIERS 11 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. NetApp Confidential Internal Use Only
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