Hybrid Cloud NAS Enablement

Enterprises aren't the only organizations that can benefit from big data. Medium and large businesses can too. The challenge is, can these businesses build the same big data infrastructure enterprises do? The short answer is, they can't. But the secret is, they don’t have to.

In this webinar, join Storage Switzerland and Avere Systems as they show you how to shift large workload compute processing into the cloud in just 10 minutes. This quick onramp to unlimited cores can level the playing field and improve your ability to compete with the global giants.

While cloud computing and storage are where IT is going, it is important to get the most value out of your existing data center assets. Seamless integration between these assets and cloud resources is key to optimizing each to match agency needs. But, how difficult is it to build a hybrid cloud architecture? How do you maximize performance while keeping security and cost in check?

Ready to learn more? Please join Avere Systems, Google, and Carahsoft for a webcast as we explore how to approach integration between your existing architecture and Google Cloud Platform.

Attendees of this webcast will learn:
- Why and when to use Hybrid Cloud Architectures
- Advantages of using Google Compute Engine and Google Cloud Storage services to government agencies
- How to provide seamless integration between existing clients, network attached storage resources, and remote Google Cloud Platforms services

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has brought an influx of large-scale data and ever-growing demands for compute, resulting in a challenge for those in science informatics. To overcome these issues, laboratories need to be able to support researchers while managing data and the infrastructure needed to deliver mission-critical results and ultimately, positive patient outcomes.

At the NGS Data Analysis and Informatics Conference in February, attendees spoke about these challenges at length. This webinar, built from content shared at the event, will review potential approaches to cost-effective data growth using cloud compute and storage. Moving genomics workloads to the cloud can provide scale and affordability, while optimizing investments in existing resources. Adding that ability to allow researchers to easily collaborate while reducing latencies to these resources is pertinent to usability.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:
- Increase computation potential
- Optimize your physical infrastructure
- Diagram common use cases to meet specific research goals
- Increase flexibility by limiting data gravity

Google Cloud Platform, Avere Systems, and Cycle Computing experts will share best practices for advancing solutions to big challenges faced by enterprises with growing compute and storage needs. In this “best practices” webinar, you’ll hear how these companies are working to improve results that drive businesses forward through scalability, performance, and ease of management.

In this webinar, you will learn:
- How enterprises are using Google Cloud Platform to gain big compute and storage capacity on-demand
- Best practices for efficient use of cloud compute and storage resources
- Overcoming the need for file systems within a hybrid cloud environment
- Understand how to eliminate latency between cloud and data center architectures
- Learn how to best manage simulation, analytics, and big data workloads in dynamic environments
- Look at market dynamics drawing companies to new storage models over the next several years

In just 60-minutes, you’ll be presented with a foundation to build infrastructure to support ongoing demand growth and have ample opportunity to ask direct questions to presenters.

Deploying applications locally and bursting them to the cloud for compute may seem difficult, especially when working with high-performance, critical information. However, using cloudbursts to offset peaks in demand can bring big benefits and kudos from organizational leaders always looking to do more with less.

After this short webinar, you’ll be ready to:

- Explain what cloud bursting is and what workloads it is best for
- Identify efficiencies in applying cloud bursting to high-performance applications
- Understand how cloud computing services access your data and consume it during burst cycles
- Share three real-world use cases of companies leveraging cloud bursting for measurable efficiencies
- Have seen a demonstration of how it works

Presenters will build an actionable framework in just thirty minutes and then take questions.

Google Cloud Platform, Avere Systems, and Cycle Computing experts will share best practices for advancing solutions to big challenges faced by enterprises with growing compute and storage needs. In this “best practices” webinar, you’ll hear how these companies are working to improve results that drive businesses forward through scalability, performance, and ease of management.

In this webinar, you will learn:
- How enterprises are using Google Cloud Platform to gain big compute and storage capacity on-demand
- Best practices for efficient use of cloud compute and storage resources
- Overcoming the need for file systems within a hybrid cloud environment
- Understand how to eliminate latency between cloud and data center architectures
- Learn how to best manage simulation, analytics, and big data workloads in dynamic environments
- Look at market dynamics drawing companies to new storage models over the next several years

In just 60-minutes, you’ll be presented with a foundation to build infrastructure to support ongoing demand growth and have ample opportunity to ask direct questions to presenters.

In a cluttered digital world, advertising commercials need to captivate and stimulate to deliver results for brands. To do this, visual effects techniques are bringing jaw-dropping experiences to 60-second spots on the biggest screens to the smallest. With fast-changing production pipelines and unpredictable rendering workloads, Eight VFX shopped for alternatives to rental nodes to meet peak demands. After considering a number of caching options, bandwidth optimization, and even in-house scripting, they designed a one-click cloud access solution that lead to measurable, compelling value.

In this webinar, you’ll hear how Eight VFX produces honored, high-end commercials for some of the world’s biggest brands using modern cloud computing resources with instant access to unlimited cores.

Learn what cloud bursting is and when you should use it to run your applications in the cloud using existing NAS protocols. Improve app performance with cloud compute resources while keeping data on-premises.

Get the answer to this question, and learn how tiered file systems can be used in the cloud to increase storage performance.

The Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI) applies genomic and clinical information from individuals to develop personalized healthcare for patients. It is a division of Inova Center for Personalized Health (ICPH), which connects researchers, clinicians and consumers to integrate genomic research for patient care, prevention and wellness.

ITMI’s Informatics team saw the potential risk of rapid data set growth causing slowed research and increased demand for compute and storage resources. In this webinar, Aaron Black, Director of Informatics for ITMI, will share his innovative hybrid cloud solution that uses a high performance caching layer to couple existing on-premises compute and storage with cost-efficient cloud-based resources.

Jeff Tabor, Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing for Avere Systems, and Mark Johnston, Director of Business Development for Amazon Web Services, also discuss how ITMI supports large genomic and clinical data sets within their companies.

Learning Objectives:

- Discover the objectives of ITMI clinical research programs and how they collaborate with other organizations for studies and to leverage predictive analytics that can guide patient care
- Learn how ITMI developed and executed a hybrid cloud infrastructure to manage massive research data growth and improve scalability to optimize cost effectiveness and deliver on its mission
- Discover how ITMI has eliminated redundancies of storing petabyte scale research data between cloud and on-premises storage while managing access to that data for research compute using both cloud and owned resources.
- Gain insight into technologies and services essential to the topology design and delivery with discussion among supporting panelists