Download - Scality Launches Open Source Cloud Program with $100,000 Incentive Fund for Software Developers

2010 Storage Developer Conference. Scality . All Rights Reserved.

Facilitating the Open Source Community Transition to Cloud

Storage

Giorgio Regni & Brad King Scality


Who is Scality?

r  Infrastructure Software r  Experienced Team – ex Bizanga r  Service Provider and Email Heritage r  Disruptive Technology (patent awarded) r  Offices in USA, EMEA, Japan r  300 TB deployed, 1.5 million users

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Buzz & Jargon

r  Storage is growing fast! 2x worldwide every 2 years r  Unstructured is going faster than structured r  HD size/speed ratio is getting worse r  Amazon S3 is meeting a need (over 100B object) r  Global Namespaces & Utility storage make sense r  Most applications were designed for block storage

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The paradigm shift: distributed, cloud, object based, scale-out, SaaS, RESTful, ... Yeah right. Jargon, yes! Nevertheless:


Public cloud storage today

r  Amazon dominates the market r  The model is appealing r  S3 protocol is becoming a standard

r Ubuntu one cloud r Google Storage r Scality software (yes, that’s us)

r  There is a lot of work to be done on existing applications

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COMMON CHALLENGES?

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Top Concerns Study

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What does a cloud user want?

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Freedom

r  Cloud service provider r Being able to migrate r Not being locked-in

r  Application interoperability r Standard encryption policies? r Standard compression settings? r Can I use my files using a different app?

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Metrics

r How much did I upload? r How many requests? r How much is this going to cost?

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Performance

r  Clients & apps designed for “far away” cloud r  Focus on write once read many access

r Web facing content r Backups

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Security

r  Encryption client size

r Transparent encryption using AES r Private key scheme

r  SSL connection

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SCALITY DROPLETS LIBRARY

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Droplets User benefits

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Clouds are made of droplets

r  Portable C API with bindings for PERL, Python, Ruby & more

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Interoperability r  File abstraction layer

r  Path encoding r  Splitting large files

r  Custom domains r Address any S3

compatible cloud server r  Easily migrate data

between clouds

Performance r  Transparent

compression r  Local caching

r Using any local volume as read and/or write cache

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Features


SCOP Part 3

Thursday, November 25, 2010


What’s SCOP?

r  Promote the object store model & promote a popular interface model

r  Improve interoperability of applications and cloud storage services

r  Create a canonical set of API features with the help of the Opensouce community

r  Jump start existing applications with a Bounty Program

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Scality Opensource Program – Goals


SCOP Bounty Program

r Propose your talent r Your proposal is selected… r Integrate the app using Droplets r Collect a Bounty!

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The SCOP Bounties

r  Cloud migration tool $XX r  Web server CDN $YY r  Zope/Plone integration $AB r  Your proposed Application

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Participating in SCOP

r  Download Scality Droplets from github.com r  Download the application form at

http://www.scality.com/scopbounty.pdf r  Applications due by November 1st 2010 r  Notification by December 1st 2010 r  Code your application r  Bounties rewarded on functional completion

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Download - Scality Launches Open Source Cloud Program with $100,000 Incentive Fund for Software Developers

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