Cloud Technologies

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Interoperable Cloud Storage with the CDMI Standard
Mark Carlson, Marty Stogsdill
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The Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) is an industry standard on its way to ANSI and ISO ratification. There is now an open source reference implementation available from SNIA as well. Storage vendors and Cloud providers have started their implementations of the CDMI standard, demonstrating the reality of interoperable cloud storage. This talk will help you understand how to keep from getting locked into any given vendor by using the standard. Real world examples will help you understand how to apply this to your own situation.

Learning Objectives

Walk away with an understanding of the specific CDMI features, such as a standard cloud interchange format, that enable interoperable cloud storage.
Gain a deeper understanding of the outstanding issues of cloud storage interoperability and how the standard helps ease this pain.
Now that the standard is being implemented, understand what to put in an RFP for cloud storage that prevents vendor lock-in.

The Role of WAN Optimization in Cloud Infrastructures
Josh Tseng
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Cloud computing promises to deliver potential gains in efficiency and cost savings by consolidating IT assets into public and private data centers. Virtualization technologies allow migration of virtual machines and data into and out of Cloud infrastructures. However, cloud-hosted information assets must still be accessed by users over existing WAN infrastructures, where there are performance issues due to bandwidth and latency constraints.

Learning Objectives

Learn how WAN optimization is one of the key--and often overlooked--technology component necessary for the adoption of cloud computing.
Understand the WAN-related performance problems and how they impact adoption of Cloud Computing technologies.
Learn how WAN optimization can facilitate the deployment and operation of Public and Private Clouds.

Cloud Backup Recovery and Restore Requirements
Ashar Baig
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Enterprises and vendors alike often focus so much on data backup that sometimes they forget about the reason that they backup the data. Customer's focus should be on data Recovery not data backup. Most data protection and data backup solutions in the marketplace today can adequately backup customer data but it requires real data stewardship to ensure that the data can be restored when needed. Additionally, access to metadata is not sufficient because a bad sector on a disc can render metadata unreadable. Data integrity and consistency checks are essential to ensure data restorability.

Learning Objectives

This talk will help you understand popular use cases, best practices, and evaluation criteria for Cloud Backup and Recovery solutions in the market.
Walk away with an understanding of the popular use cases for cloud backup and recovery solutions today.
What criteria to use when you are evaluating Cloud Backup and Recovery alternatives.

The Business Case for Cloud
Alex McDonald
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The fast emerging cloud services business arena is creating numerous new opportunities for both IT users and IT players beyond the traditional Enterprise IT ecosystem. In response, SNIAs Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) has created the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI). Designed to enable interoperable cloud storage and data management, the CDMI specification is addressing a total cloud storage solution helping users avoid the chaos of proprietary advances and partial solution APIs that would erode the integrity of the cloud model. This presentation will cover popular use cases for cloud including storage clouds and enterprise or application specific clouds. Multi-tenancy, private, and hybrid clouds are of interest to IT professionals, and this tutorial explores various cloud options and scenarios, along with options and recommendations for building your business case.

Learning Objectives

Understand your options for cloud and how to create a cloud business case
Gain an understanding of how popular cloud use cases are architected and implemented
Understand what essential elements to include in an RFP/RFI, based on the cloud use case and the business case

Capacity Optimization Technologies for the Cloud
Thomas Rivera
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There are multiple capacity optimization technologies available which can significantly help IT organizations in the following areas: A. For physical storage acquisition: Reduce the needed physical storage for the logical data to be protected B. For Disaster Recovery: Reduce the amount of bandwidth required to replicate data C. For Cloud Storage: all of the above This technical session will address the questions of how capacity optimization technologies enable cost savings, meeting data protection SLAs, etc., and will address the various implementation choices available today.

Learning Objectives

The first learning objective is to understand what capacity optimization is, and the various technologies available.
The second learning objective is to identify the various capacity optimization technologies'respective impact on DR/replication, and storage cost savings.
The third learning objective is to understand how the use of capacity optimization technologies affects Cloud Storage implementations.