Name: How Web-Scale IT Will Change Your Backup and DR Strategy
Start: 2016-01-21T15:00:00Z
End: 2016-01-21T15:32:20.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.25

The Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform brings new agility to your data center. A software-defined approach lowers your storage costs, helps you manage more storage with fewer resources, and provides unparalleled resiliency across private and hybrid clouds. Hedvig combines block, file, and object storage to support any application and the flexibility to run on any x86 or cloud instance. Hedvig will enable you to transform your storage into a fundamental enabler of your digital business strategy.

The inevitable march to the cloud has begun and Hybrid Cloud is a huge milestone in that journey. It’s easy to use on-prem infrastructure and public cloud in parallel for your workloads, but a lot of friction occurs when these two worlds come together. High Availability, security, and interoperability are just a few. Demand for Data Sovereignty and GDPR throws another wrench into the mix. Storage solutions need to keep up with evolving demands and SDS will play a huge part in making Hybrid Cloud a reality.

In this session we'll look at:
- Common pitfalls when building or transitioning to a Hybrid Cloud infrastructure
- The effect of different use cases on Hybrid Cloud implementation
- The future of Hybrid Cloud and how to get there

Hybrid Cloud: Is Software-Defined Storage the Missing Piece of the Puzzle?

Intro webinar and demo featuring Hedvig CEO and  co-founder Avinash Lakshman. Learn how software-defined storage transforms your data center and delivers more agile and lower cost data management for VMware and Docker, spanning on premises and public cloud.

Hedvig Introduction with CEO & Founder Avinash Lakshman

How can enterprise IT operate more like AWS? That is the defining technology question of the decade. Hyperscale computing models pioneered by AWS catapulted “cloud” to the top of the IT agenda. This model fuels digital business, creates tectonic shifts in IT spending, and upends legacy IT infrastructure vendors. But should today’s CIOs build or buy their own cloud? The simple answer: both. We live in a multi-cloud world. A hyperscale strategy balances digital services across private and public clouds. 
 
In this session we'll provide:
-Lessons learned from building two of the world’s largest distributed systems: Amazon Dynamo and Facebook's Cassandra.
-How to develop a multi-cloud strategy for modern data centers that accommodates both virtualized and containerized applications.
-Where software-defined storage fits into this strategy to help data span cloud boundaries and avoid cloud lock-in.

Span Private and Public Clouds: Developing a Multi-Cloud Strategy with SDS

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Enterprises are evolving their vSphere environments from standard DR configurations to high availability (HA) architectures. VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster is a key capability in this evolution. Parallel to this, companies are embracing hybrid cloud and AWS in particular. In many cases enterprises treat AWS as a passive DR site. But what if you could evolve AWS to be part of an HA stretch cluster? That’s where software-defined storage (SDS) comes in.

SDS solutions provide the flexibility to run on commodity servers as well as cloud computing instances. Couple that with advanced multi-site replication, per-VM storage policies, deduplication, snapshotting, cloning, and VMware’s recent announcement with AWS, and SDS is now the ideal enabler for automated failover in a hybrid cloud stretched cluster.

In this session we’ll:
- Provide an architecture for software-defined storage running a stretched cluster between a private vSphere cloud and AWS.
- Discuss how this provides seamless failover, HA, DR, and cloud bursting—all at scale.
- Highlight how data efficiency techniques like deduplication, thin provisioning, auto-tiering, and caching optimize hybrid cloud economics. 

Bio:
Chris is a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) and senior solutions architect at Hedvig. Chris has in-depth experience in cloud, virtualization, storage, data center, and software-defined technologies gained from his work across numerous practices including web development, systems administration, and consulting. His advisory expertise helps customers better adopt and adapt to the technologies that best fit for their business requirements.

Create Hybrid Cloud Stretched Clusters Using VMware, AWS, and SDS

Let's explore SDS as a foundation to rack-scale converged and hyperconverged solutions. Guest speaker Richard Fichera, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester will join Hedvig's Rob Whiteley to provide an overview of current enterprise infrastructure adoption, best practices, tips and recommendations for modernizing storage infrastructure.

Attend this webinar and learn:

-Why enterprises are looking to converged and hyperconverged solutions to provide cloud-like infrastructure.
-How software-defined storage is a critical component of these infrastructures.
-What use cases and scenarios are gaining traction as software-defined storage matures.
-How the Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform provides a foundation for rack-scale infrastructures.

A Closer Look at Software-Defined Storage & Rack-Scale Converged Infrastructure

Many large organizations either can’t or won’t go all-in on the public cloud. Regulatory compliance, legacy infrastructure, and costs drive these organizations to build private clouds. Do you invest in VMs or containers? Do you use OpenStack, Kubernetes, or Mesos to orchestrate your cloud? How will you bridge your private cloud with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Compute Cloud? You need a flexible architecture that not only embraces all the above, but facilitate frictionless movement among them. 

Specifically, you’ll learn how you can use software-defined storage to:
1. Support any hypervisor, container, or cloud platform – simultaneously.
2. Plug into any cloud orchestration tool to automate your private cloud.  
3. Integrate public cloud – and not just bolt it on – when you’re ready.
4. Create self-service storage and sandboxes for DevOps environments.

Future-Proof Your Private Cloud with Software-Defined Storage

The journey to the public cloud is underway. A recent survey found that typical enterprises augment their private data center with six public cloud providers. But how do you enable applications and services to span all of these clouds? The agility and flexibility benefits of the cloud are lost if you simply lift and shift infrastructure silos to multiple clouds. However, advances in software-defined storage provide a "universal data plane" that synchronizes data across private and public clouds. Watch this webinar to learn how you can create a multi-cloud primary storage solution that can span any cloud, including a demo of storage that spans AWS, Azure, and Google.

Multi-Cloud Primary Storage: Building a Single Storage Cluster to Span any Cloud

Software-defiend storage can dramatically improve the economics of your datacenter. The power of commodity hardware with storage software lowers costs by 60% or more. But what if you’re going to the public cloud? Software-defined storage helps there. In fact, for many enterprises, it’s accelerating their journey. Watch this webinar to learn how software-defined storage can synchronize data across private and public clouds, enabling true application portability.

Data Synchronization in the Cloud with SDS

Software-defined Storage Service interruptions wreak havoc on business. Enterprises expend huge budgets to deliver datacenter redundancy and continuous application availability and still it is not easy. Storage is often the biggest limiting factor. The good news is that recent storage innovations combined with the flexibility of VMware vSphere simplify and lower the cost of delivering automated mobility of services between sites to ensure downtime avoidance and fault recovery.
 
Watch this webinar and learn:
•  How to deliver real-time virtual machine migration across a geographically stretched cluster with no data loss or service interruption
•  How software-defined storage streamlines delivery of vSphere Metro Storage Clusters (vMSC)
•  How a multi-site storage system managed as a single logical entity benefits your virtualization deployment

Stretched Clustering for VMware with Hedvig Software-defined Storage

Learn from Docker and Hedvig about Docker Datacenter and the Hedvig Docker volume plugin that simplifies storage integration and management with containers.

A live look at Hedvig and Docker Datacenter

As traditional enterprises look to experiment with emerging Docker use cases, the need to connect containers to persistent data or even just to share data between Docker containers becomes more obvious. However, this expansion has proven to be a challenge for infrastructure that relies on monolithic storage arrays. As a result, enterprises are looking to software-defined storage as a more attractive choice because of its flexibility, programmability and ability to provide well-managed, persistent storage. In this talk, you’ll get:

• What Docker is and is not, as well as container-specific storage challenges
• Why you need container-specific storage policies, SLAs, and classes of service (CoS)               
• How to leverage software-defined storage solutions for Docker and containers
• When to use hyperconverged or hyperscale architectures for your Docker initiatives

Five Benefits to Using SDS for Emerging Docker and Container Initiatives

Mike Rinken, Director of Technology at Mazzetti, describes how he uses Hedvig with Veeam and Amazon as a backup target and active archive.

Case Study Video - Mazzetti

Storage is critical to OpenStack production deployments, along with performance, reliability, scalability and flexibility. Modern software-defined storage (SDS) solutions address the challenges of real-world OpenStack environments.

In this webinar you'll learn:
• Why the move to SDS is key to the success of any OpenStack cloud
• How Hedvig software-defined storage works and integrates with OpenStack Cinder and Swift to deliver seamless, automated storage
• Best practices for efficient deployment with eco-system software tools like Mirantis Fuel

How to Build OpenStack Clouds with Software-Defined Storage

Storage architectures have evolved to meet ever-changing business demands. Today’s enterprises need the flexibility to place workloads where they make the most sense and achieve objectives for resiliency and growth without introducing unnecessary complexity and cost.
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Backup, Archiving and Availability

The world of backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity is being disrupted by new approaches taken from the playbook of web-scale companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook. Enterprises are adopting distributed systems-based, software-defined architectures that simplify management, streamline protection, increase uptime and reduce costs by as much as 60%. 

This session will provide insight on how software-defined storage (SDS) facilitates new ways to protect, manage, replicate, and recover data. Specifically, you’ll learn:

• How a hyperscale architecture built on commodity hardware delivers better and more efficient protection for your data and applications
• How to create a single geo or metro storage cluster that offers high-availability without the management headaches and high cost of traditional approaches
• How to take advantage of a public cloud like AWS as a tier for older, colder data and as a DR site for a truly hybrid approach

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