ViPR - Scalable Distributed Storage Built on Software Defined Storage Fundamentals

Storage customer needs have evolved from client server applications to more of web scale, mobile first applications. A recent IDC study indicates, Enterprises and hosters alike have billions of users and millions of apps within their environment referred to as 3rd platform in the industry. We need to rethink storage while building for this scale out 3rd platform. In this talk, we'll provide an overview of ViPR - A Scalable Distributed Storage platform built from commodity Hardware with ability to meet web scale application needs. ViPR is a Software Defined Storage platform that fits into the Software Defined Datacenter. The control and data plane abstraction help decouple the key storage engine from both Hardware as well as the Application. This enables ViPR to both manage Arrays + Commodity as a single pane and to store objects on them as a unified pool of resources.

ViPR also has an unique approach to Geo distribution. Most scale out deployments have multiple sites and our platform optimizes for storage efficiency while meeting the scale out needs. Providing multi-protocol access over the storage engine enables multitude of enterprise applications to be supported on the platform. Furthermore, support for standards based REST access like S3 and Swift make it a platform that enables standards based access of data in this environment.

Learning Objectives

Object platform
Software Defined Storage
Geo replication
Commodity storage
Industry trends in storage