Cloud and Emerging Technologies

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Enterprise Architecture and the Cloud
Marty Stogsdill
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This SNIA tutorial will explore the impact public, private, or hybrid Clouds will have on existing enterprise architecture and also show ways that established enterprise architecture processes can help align Cloud deployments to business requirements. Cloud technologies have promise for organizations to adopt pay-as-you-use operating models either from service providers (public Cloud), internal customers (private Cloud), or a combination of the two (hybrid Cloud). Enterprise architecture is a tool organizations leverage to ensure mapping of IT solutions to business or organizational requirements. Deployed too loosely an organization may not receive noticeable value and conversely if enterprise architecture is deployed too rigidly it can be actively avoided.

Learning Objectives

Understand the goals of enterprise architecture, why organizations leverage established frameworks (TOGAF or FEA), and what can go wrong with enterprise architecture in practice
Attendees will walk away seeing the value in leveraging enterprise architecture best practices in any IT project but especially in Cloud deployments
Leverage established enterprise architecture frameworks to translate both the revolutionary and evolut! ionary impacts Cloud technologies can have on an IT organization into realizable business value to their organization

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. Learn how WAN optimization is one of the key--and often overlooked--technology component necessary for the adoption of cloud computing.

Learning Objectives

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.
Discover how WAN optimization is key to continued adoption of Cloud infrastructures in the future.

Interoperable Cloud Storage with the CDMI Standard
Mark Carlson
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The Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) is an industry standard on its way to ISO ratification. There is now an open source reference implementation available from SNIA as well. Storage vendors and Cloud providers have started announcing 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 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, SNIAâ€™s 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 â€“ 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
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Cloud Archive & Long-term Preservation Challenges and Best Practices
Sebastian Zangaro, Chad Thibodeau
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Unstructured data explosion, internal company policies and compliance regulations are redefining the way organizations store and manage their information. As a result, more and more companies are being required to archive data for a decade or longer. The amount of storage space required for the archived data grows each year; increasing the need for investments in storage for data that needs to be retained and preserved to meet the business requirements. Enter Cloud storage, which promises to provide access independence, improved capacity elasticity and lower up-front capital expense in comparison to traditional in-house storage models. SNIA has developed a Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) specification to help both companies and customers take the most advantage of cloud storage. To this end, the Cloud Archive and Preservation Special Interest Group (CA&P SIG) has developed our own definitions and profiles for different Cloud Digital Archive Services that take advantage of the CDMI specification. This session will address the work the CA&P SIG is doing to identify the challenges and best practices of storing data in the Cloud for long term, including how to describe the different levels of archiving and preservation services offered by cloud providers using the SNIA CDMI specification as a reference. Additionally, this session will compare the different services profiles and specifically, the CDMI specification attributes applicable to each profile. Topics will include: • The SNIA definition of Cloud Digital Archive and Long Term Preservation (as opposed to Cloud Backup or Cloud Storage) • The challenges of providing Cloud Archival services including the lack of adoption of industry standards, the issue of cloud data migration, digital auditing of archived data, legal and regulatory frameworks • The business case for a Cloud Digital Archive Service • How CDMI Cloud Service Profiles help cloud archive users and providers identify the level of service needed for Digital Cloud Archive, Digital Preservation Cloud and Backup Cloud Services.

Learning Objectives

How to use important differences between the functional capabilities of a digital archive compared to those of a digital preservation service to differentiate your organization's offerings
How CDMI will enable cloud-based services to support digital archive or digital preservation services
Why these differences are important to your success in protecting information from loss or damage for compliance, litigation, or as important history as authentic over its retention period

Is The Cloud Ready for Dedup?
Jered Floyd
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Most organizations are trying to reduce total storage costs while facing 50% annual data growth rates and an increased demand to store data long term. As cloud storage increasingly becomes a part of IT storage strategies, customers expect a highly cost-effective, secure, and scalable solution that provides seamless access to their data. This session will explore why deduplication is a necessary and effective strategy for data in the cloud.

With a deduplication engine in the cloud architecture, it is possible to determine if data already exists. As a result, cloud implementations save storage costs and enable the enterprise to take advantage of CAPEX and OPEX savings by reducing storage purchases and overhead necessary to manage that storage. When deduplication is implemented into cloud storage solutions, it can effectively reduce the amount of data stored by 5-35X, which is reflected in the costs to implement cloud storage within IT strategy.

Learning Objectives

Attendees will leave the session with a clear understanding of the necessity to implement deduplication in the cloud in order to meet their objective of increasing operational efficiencies and cutting costs.
The presenter will guide attendees through the different forms of deduplication technology that exist and provide tips and suggestions on how they can choose the technology that best helps them meet their objectives.
Attendees will gain a clear understanding of how they can use deduplication technology everywhere across their storage array and receive the same benefits on data stored in the cloud and locally.