Great line-up of speakers at Storage Networking World next week in Orlando. Among other highlights, Carter George, VP Products at Ocarina Networks and the lead author here on Online Storage Optimization will give a talk entitled “Building Castles in the Cloud: Leveraging Cloud Storage Architecture to Lower Costs” on Wednesday, April 8 at 3:05 p.m. Anyone who is interested in seeing how cloud storage can solve multiple business problems should attend. Because of Ocarina’s role in the storage marketplace, Carter has a unique perspective on how cloud storage architectures have evolved, and how they are in a position to influence the direction of the entire storage industry.
Here’s the talk in a nutshell:
Cloud storage is one of the fastest-growing segments in the storage industry due to its potential for lowering costs and moving the burden of managing and protecting data to the cloud provider. It has given rise to new innovative storage architectures, and could well be a harbinger of future corporate storage architecture. In this talk, we’ll look at cloud storage architecture across multiple cloud providers, offering a detailed look at the technology trends and innovations in cloud storage platforms, including the use of grid architectures of commodity storage nodes and the use of global namespaces. We will also discuss how cloud grid architectures enable value-add storage software breakthroughs, such as integrated content-aware compression, dedupe, replication instead of backup, replication by file type policies, and the move of value in storage to the software layer, rather than in legacy vendor hardware. Vendor offerings to be discussed include: Amazon, IBM, Nirvanix, and others.
We hope to see you at SNW.
