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In this short video we again help with the struggle of managing unstructured data and leveraging the S3 API for cloud-to-cloud management (whether public or on-prem). Join Jon Toor, CMO from Cloudian in this short video.
hi Dave Littman with Truth in IT joined
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again by Jon Toor CMO of Cloudian Jon
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let's talk about enterprise object
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storage as it pertains to file lifecycle
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management now thanks a lot Dave and let
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me just start with slide number 20 just
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to kind of put this in perspective
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you know one thing people are really
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interested in with object storage as I
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said is how do you how do you use it
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what's the you know what's the value of
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this and I wanted to just give a little
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snapshot of some of the range of
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solutions that are possible with
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enterprise object storage and we talked
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about enterprise backup we talked about
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media asset management there's also you
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know desktop back up there's file sync
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and share today in this video we're
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gonna talk about nas nas offload but
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what all these things are enabled by and
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what makes object storage so exciting
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right now is the s3 API so reason why
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you're hearing so much about object
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storage right now is object storage is
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of course you know there's the storage
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of the cloud if you look at what you
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know Amazon and Google and Microsoft all
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build their stores so this is on that's
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object storage and in the course of that
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build-out happening there's been a an
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emerging standard with s3 so the s3 API
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not to be confused with the s3 storage
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service
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the s3 API is the common language across
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cloud platforms and across all these
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different applications that support
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object storage so the beauty is all
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these things now work on prem in your
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data center using the same api that's
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compatible across all these different
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environments and this file management
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piece we're going to talk about today is
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it's just a great example of that so
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let's move on to slide number 21 and
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what is the challenge we're addressing
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here well of course the challenge is you
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know the 50 percent annual growth and
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unstructured data and you know where is
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that information primarily going right
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now we'll judge
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of it is going onto nanosystems now
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Enterprise nanosystems and really that
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the challenge with that is the
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proliferation of NAS devices and the
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complexity that comes with it the cost
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that comes with it it's very difficult
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and expensive to manage a large pool of
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NAS devices and there are simpler ways
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and there's an easier way to get this
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job done but we need to do that without
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causing disruption if we can't solve one
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problem and create another one we've
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gotta solve the problem absolutely and
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that's exactly what this solution does
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so what is this solution that's slide
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number 22 and this is you know file
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lifecycle management with the
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combination of Cloudian object storage
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and comprise comprise is a software
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company that it's specifically dedicated
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to file lifecycle management that's all
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they do and they do it really really
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well and what this does is that migrates
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inactive or dormant files from you know
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your net app or your Isilon or your
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Windows servers to Cloudian but it does
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it in a way which is completely non
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disruptive so if you look at your dead
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app device and people we offer people
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this service for free will come in and
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do a scan on your net up and tell you
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exactly how your files are being used
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what people find is about 60% of those
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files have been untouched in the last
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year so that's 60 percent of your
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capacity that could be recovered
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instantaneously by taking those files
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and putting them on to another device
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similarly with your backup job all that
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all that data is currently sitting in
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your backup license it's can be sitting
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in your backup time time window we can
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again remove that from the backup job
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and the beauty is this all happens with
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no change to user access so when a user
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goes to get us file back from the net
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after the Isilon or the Windows Server
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it's still there or at least so it
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appears and it just read gets recovered
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from the Cloudian device
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instantaneously and with zero delay
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so it's a very clean way of clearing out
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data from your overburdened nas devices
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recovering capacity on those devices
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recovering performance on those devices
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because by the way that capacity is also
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slowing you down and doing it in a way
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which is non disruptive if you look at
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the economics of this on slide number 23
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it saves about 50 percent on cost and
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that's including the cost of the Cloudian device the cost of the software
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itself simply by taking that device off
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of the mass and by taking it out of your
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backup environment it provides
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substantial savings and also given
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shortens a backup job and as I said also
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recovers performance on your NAS device
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so low cost continuous scalability and
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it's simple to use it's simple to use on
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the on the Cloudian side because you're
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managing all that capacity within a
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single limitlessly scalable environment
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and this is part it's really critical
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because you think about your pool of NAS
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devices you may have multiple nez
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devices for different users and groups
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all of them can be hooked up to the
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cloud Ian for a single pool of second to
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your data that Cloudian environment as
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luminously scalable so you don't have to
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have multiple pools or you can have one
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pool that is serving all your different
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nas environments and because it has
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non-disruptive capacity expansion you
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can expand that pool at any time and in
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your managing all of that from a single
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pane of glass so it's a very very simple
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environment to provide that that backup
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target this from a comp rise standpoint
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it's also very easy you're you're you're
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seeing all of your data and selecting
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the policy based on whatever rules you
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pick so it can be frequency of access
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you know the take a less frequently
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accessed files and move them off or you
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can move off specific file types or
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sizes file owner you can say you know
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certain owners never get migrated off
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certain owners you know immediately get
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migrated off
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at all it's all up to you how how that
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migration occurs but whatever is chosen
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you know it's it's zero impact to the
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end-user and the beauty is we can come
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in and in the space of an hour we can
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show you the potential savings using
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this in a free assessment so it's a very
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quick way to have a look get your hands
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on the software try it out for yourself
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and decide if it's right for you and
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learn something at the same time for
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free so we're happy to and perform that
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service for folks so I think this is an
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environment that clears up one real
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problem in the unstructured data world
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is how do I manage capacity growth
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here's a way to do it in a way that's
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not interrupted low cost and frankly
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really easy to use yeah fantastic Jon
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that was a great walk through you know
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with the explosion of growth of
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unstructured data the ability to sort of
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see what you have and understand what
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you can do with it to cut your costs is
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really a very compelling argument to
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make so thanks very much for taking the
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time to speak with us today thank you
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okay thanks for watching and come back
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