SLIDE 1 What’s Next For Object Storage
Scott Nyman
- Sr. Director of Product Management/Hitachi Vantara Global Products and Strategy
September 2017
SLIDE 2 “Study the past if you would define the future”
- Confucius (a long time ago)
SLIDE 3 In The Beginning There Was “CAS”
Source: Nicolas, Phillip. “The History Boys: Object storage… from the beginning.” The Register July 15, 2016
SLIDE 4
§ 1) Content Addressed Storage
‒ Focus on archiving “Fixed Content” ‒ Could store system and custom metadata ‒ Retention management features catch lightning in bottle
‒ SEC17a4 ‒ Legitimizes CAS as separate class of storage
3 Phases of Object Storage
SLIDE 5
§ Goal: Build a better mouse trap
‒ Drop CAS! Be Restful ‒ Keep retention management ‒ Dragged by struggling standards
‒ XAM, CDMI
2) First Followers
SLIDE 6
§ Here Comes the Cloud
‒ Focus: SCALE and COST
‒ Erasure coding (larger disks, efficient DR) ‒ New data management features
‒ Versioning & Tiering to Cloud
‒ Amazon’s S3 becoming defacto standard
‒ Application adoption increases
3) Beyond Archive
SLIDE 7
Now The Stage is Set
“And there’s something afoot!”
SLIDE 8
§ Enterprise need for hybrid cloud storage
‒ “Help us dip our toes in the cloud”
§ Software-Only comes first…
‒ “We have “LOTS’ of servers, let us use them”
§ …then Software Defined Storage follows
‒ “Turn any server/disk set we give you into an Object Storage system please”
§ Containers and Microservices will make it happen
Macro Market Pressures Set In
Containers Microservices
SLIDE 9
§ Customers are now asking for value driving features § Discovering, “and using”, custom metadata § Emerging Uses:
FINALLY, The True Form Comes Into Focus
Legal Discovery Analytics
GDPR MiFID 2 PCI DSS PII
Tier 1 Apps
SLIDE 10
§ Key Concepts
‒ Object data awareness ‒ Importance of being “In the data path” ‒ Data management policies driven by metadata
‒ Actions controlled by Lambda-like architectures in the object storage
What Is It Then leading To?
Intelligent Data Management Built Into Object Storage
Move Secure Dispose Enhance Categorize Analyze Transform
SLIDE 11
Example 1 – GDPR Regulation
Right To Be Forgotten Audit Reporting Data Usage Approval Personal Information
SLIDE 12
Example 2 – Data Mobility
Data Fencing Content Delivery
SLIDE 13
Example 3 – Connecting To Analytics
Give Structure to Unstructured Data Results Tagging Seamless Connection to Analytics Environments
SLIDE 14
Thank You
SLIDE 15
