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Enterprise Storage moving toward the cloud requires an interoperable interface foundation to avoid vendor lock-in and provide choice. This tutorial will provide an overview of the features of a Enterprise cloud storage standard and explain how interoperability between clouds is achieved.

What should you be requiring from your cloud vendors?
How can you expect standards to roll out in implementations?

Learning Objectives
How this cloud storage standard can achieve interoperability and what this interoperability means to you.
How you can use the cloud storage standard both internally for private clouds as well as for public clouds.

Solid State storage promises to transform the capabilities and economics of the "performance" segment of enterprise storage, and a myriad of different vendor implementations of solid state have arrived on the scene.
Early implementations simply replace some HDDs in enterprise arrays with SSDs, but is one-for-one replacement of disks really the most effective way to utilize SSDs? New approaches for accelerating array performance with Solid State have arrived, ranging from SSD caching, SSD tiering, and/or creating entire Volumes/LUNs from Solid State. This tutorial will compare the performance, reliability, endurance, and cost properties of different SSD approaches, illustrate the impact of SSD properties on typical enterprise I/O workloads, and give users a roadmap for how to think about Solid State influencing their future storage architecture.

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.
•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.

Summarizing over 5 hours of Security content, this BrightTalk session will give attendees a sneak peek into this topic by the actual SPDEcon speakers.

SNIA’s new storage industry event, the Storage Plumbing and Data Engineering Conference (SPDEcon, pronounced “Speedy-con”), is targeted for “hardcore” storage development and data engineering experts whose positions may involve configuring, integrating, and supporting storage and data management solutions – often referred to as the “storage plumbing.”

SPDEcon offers an intimate, tight-knit, industry-unique, vendor-neutral learning experience whether you are a vendor employee, systems engineer, sysadmin, reseller, systems integrator, or technical consultant working in this area. Participate if you are part of that highly specialized “techno-geek” squad for any company, organization or department where these skills are expected of you.

Special SPDEcon Registration Discount for BrightTalk Subscribers:
Get $100 off of the regular registration rate when you go to http://ow.ly/l4kph and register with code SPDE13DISC023.

Summarizing over 10 hours of Solid State content, this BrightTalk session will give attendees a sneak peek into this topic by the actual SPDEcon speakers.

SNIA’s new storage industry event, the Storage Plumbing and Data Engineering Conference (SPDEcon, pronounced “Speedy-con”), is targeted for “hardcore” storage development and data engineering experts whose positions may involve configuring, integrating, and supporting storage and data management solutions – often referred to as the “storage plumbing.”

SPDEcon offers an intimate, tight-knit, industry-unique, vendor-neutral learning experience whether you are a vendor employee, systems engineer, sysadmin, reseller, systems integrator, or technical consultant working in this area. Participate if you are part of that highly specialized “techno-geek” squad for any company, organization or department where these skills are expected of you.

Special SPDEcon Registration Discount for BrightTalk Subscribers:
Get $100 off of the regular registration rate when you go to http://ow.ly/l4kph and register with code SPDE13DISC023.

Summarizing over 8 hours of content on data engineering, this BrightTalk session will give attendees a sneak peek into this topic by the actual SPDEcon speakers.

SNIA’s new storage industry event, the Storage Plumbing and Data Engineering Conference (SPDEcon, pronounced “Speedy-con”), is targeted for “hardcore” storage development and data engineering experts whose positions may involve configuring, integrating, and supporting storage and data management solutions – often referred to as the “storage plumbing.”

SPDEcon offers an intimate, tight-knit, industry-unique, vendor-neutral learning experience whether you are a vendor employee, systems engineer, sysadmin, reseller, systems integrator, or technical consultant working in this area. Participate if you are part of that highly specialized “techno-geek” squad for any company, organization or department where these skills are expected of you.

Special SPDEcon Registration Discount for BrightTalk Subscribers:
Get $100 off of the regular registration rate when you go to http://ow.ly/l4kph and register with code SPDE13DISC023.

Summarizing over 7 hours of content on cloud, this BrightTalk session will give attendees a sneak peak into this topic by the actual SPDEcon speakers.

SNIA’s new storage industry event, the Storage Plumbing and Data Engineering Conference (SPDEcon, pronounced “Speedy-con”), is targeted for “hardcore” storage development and data engineering experts whose positions may involve configuring, integrating, and supporting storage and data management solutions – often referred to as the “storage plumbing.”

The following sessions will be discussed:
- Ceph: A Unified Distributed Storage System
- Hybrid Clouds in the Data Center – The End State
- Combining SNIA Cloud, Tape and Container Format Technologies for the Long Term Retention of Data

Special SPDEcon Registration Discount for BrightTalk Subscribers:
Get $100 off of the regular registration rate when you go to http://ow.ly/l4kph and register with code SPDE13DISC023.

There are lots of SSDs on the market today offering IOPS (I/Os Per Second) performance in the thousands to hundreds of thousands, with indications that future models will offer speeds in the million-IOPS range. Meanwhile HDDs support from tens to hundreds of IOPS, depending on spindle speed and interface. Not every application can use the extreme performance of high-end SSDs, and some may not benefit from high IOPS at all. Since performance is tied to cost, users can save money if they understand how many IOPS the system really needs. This webinar will draw from the recent study by Coughlin Associates and Objective Analysis that examined what makes an application require high IOPS and which profiled applications according to their needs.

Everyone has heard talk of cloud but do you know how to deploy one? This session will be a technical dive into implementations of popular public, private, and hybrid storage cloud use cases and best practices examples of how they can fit into your existing IT operations. SNIA's Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) has created the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) as a de jure standard which can assist you in your cloud deployments utilizing both traditional file systems and new cloud file system formats. This presentation will dive into the details of designing and deploying public, private, and hybrid storage clouds including how CDMI can assist with cloud federation, peering, differentiation, and how CDMI can interact with external systems for event management, configuration management, workflows, auditing, billing, and authorization.

•Understanding how cloud computing and specifically CDMI interact with traditional file systems (CIFS, NFS, FC) and new cloud formats such as Amazon S3.
•Gain an understanding of how cloud can integrate into existing IT Service Management (ITSM) or ITIL best practices for event, configuration, incident, and problem management.
•Presenting in detail reference architectures for cloud and an overview of the reference deployments done to date and how it fits into standard tiered storage enterprise architectures

Join storage experts from Cisco, EMC, and NetApp as they discuss the impact of the ISO standard: Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) on cloud storage. They’ll share real-world, vendor-agnostic use cases that demonstrate innovative ways to leverage cloud storage. Attend this webcast to get fresh insight on cloud storage.