LIVE WEBCAST: NFSv4.1 – Plan for a Smooth Migration

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.

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, SNIA'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 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.

•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

Big data is not only changing the way organizations store data but archive it as well. Attend this webinar to learn:

- how big data is driving requirements for big archives
- how SNIA and CDMI supports a standardized interface for cloud storage
- how to best deploy and implement a big data archive with cloud storage providers
- why using public cloud storage providers can result in tremendous cost savings, while ensuring security and availability

The final in a 4-part series on NFSv4.1 and pNFS looks in more depth at pNFS; how clients and servers co-operate to allow parallel access to files, blocks and object based storage. We’ll discuss layouts, trunking and the impact on performance, and the aspects of software and hardware design needed to gain the benefits of pNFS.

Storage Virtualization is used both on premise and in the public cloud, but what standards come into play? How can customers avoid being locked into proprietary interface? This talk will detail which interfaces are commonly used and what standards are emerging to ensure interoperability and data portability in the cloud.

About the Presenter:
Mark A. Carlson, Principal Cloud Strategist at Oracle, has more than 30 years of experience with Networking and Storage development and more than fifteen year's experience with Java technology. Mark was one of the authors of the CDMI Cloud Storage standard. He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. He is the chair of the SNIA Cloud Storage, NDMP and XAM SDK technical working groups, chairs the DMTF Policy working group, serves on the SNIA Technical Council, and represents Oracle on the DMTF Technical Committee and serves as DMTF VP of Alliances.

Security has been dramatically improved in NFS; and internationalization (I18N) support along with a global namespace means that there are plenty of new features to consider when moving to NFSv4.1. We’ll outline a simple plan for testing, implementing and migrating to NFSv4.1 from NFSv3, and point out resources and NFSv4.1 compliant servers and clients that are available today.

In this session, we’ll discuss specific items of interest around NFSv4.1 and pNFS, and look in more detail at what they offer the NFS user in a modern datacenter environment. Of specific interest and covered in more detail will be compound operations for efficient WAN usage, sessions and the elimination of NFSv3’s NLM (Network Lock Manager), layouts that support file, block and object, and trunking/pNFS for parallelization of IO operations.

What are the driving forces in data management and data protection that require changes in today’s storage landscapes. Which technologies can help?

This presentation covers some key drivers and technologies that should be on the radar screen for future planning.

About your speaker:
Glyn Bowden specialises in data center transformation, shared infrastructure and using IT services to enable business. He has over 15 years experience designing and implementing storage solutions both with vendors and multi-national end user organisations. He also serves on the UK Committee for Storage Networking Industry association and has participated in a number of groups including the CSI and DDSR-TWG.

In this session, we’ll discuss specific items of interest around NFSv4.1 and pNFS, and look in more detail at what they offer the NFS user in a modern datacenter environment. Of specific interest and covered in more detail will be compound operations for efficient WAN usage, sessions and the elimination of NFSv3’s NLM (Network Lock Manager), layouts that support file, block and object, and trunking/pNFS for parallelization of IO operations.

This talk will appeal to Virtual Data Center Managers, Database Server administrators, and those that are seeking a fundamental understanding of NFSv4.1 with pNFS. It will cover the four key reasons to start working with NFSv4.1 today; explain the storage layouts for parallel NFS; NFSv4.1 Files, Blocks and T10 OSD Objects; and improvements in security. We’ll conclude the session with use cases for grid, database access, enterprise and desktop virtualization.

The SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative is rapidly gaining momentum as it promotes the Cloud Storage industry and SNIA's Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standard. A panel, which will feature the co-chairs of CSI, will discuss:

A panel, which will include leaders of CSI, will discuss:
- Recent announcements by vendors to support the CDMI standard
- Plugfest opportunities to test vendor implementations
- Future directions for the CDMI specification,
- Opportunities to learn more about the cloud storage and the CDMI standard..

The presentation focuses on the following questions: What are the driving forces in data management and data protection that require changes in today’s storage landscapes? Which technologies can help? The presentation covers some key drivers and technologies that should be on the radar screen for future planning