Category: Multicloud

Namespace Management Q&A

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The SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI) recently hosted a live webinar, “Simplified Namespace Management – The Open Standards Way,” where David Slik, Chair of the SNIA Cloud Storage Technical Work Group (TWG) provided a fascinating overview of how to tackle the complexities of dynamic namespaces. If you missed the live webinar, you can view it on-demand and access a copy of the webinar slides at the SNIA Educational Library. Attendees at the live event asked several interesting questions. Here are answers to them all.

Q. How are the queues assigned to individual namespaces? How many queues are assigned for a particular namespace, can we customize it and if so, how? What is the difference between normal namespace and SR-IOV enabled namespace? Can you please explain sets domain and endurance group? Read More

An Open Standard for Namespace Management

Michael Hoard Leave a comment

The days of simple, static, self-contained file systems have long passed. Today, we have complex, dynamic namespaces, mixing block, file, object, key-value, queue, and graph-based resources, accessed via multiple protocols, and distributed across multiple systems and geographic sites. These complexities result in new challenges for simplifying management.

There is good news on addressing this issue, and the  SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI) will explain how in our live webinar “Simplified Namespace Management – The Open Standards Way” on October 18, 2023, where David Slik, Chair of the SNIA Cloud Storage Technical Work Group, will demonstrate how the SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI™), an open ISO standard (ISO/IEC 17826:2022) for managing data objects and containers, already includes extensive capabilities for simplifying the management of complex namespaces.

In this webinar, you’ll learn Read More

Data Fabric Q&A

Michael Hoard Leave a comment

Unification of structured and unstructured data has long been a goal – and challenge for organizations. Data Fabric is an architecture, set of services and platform that standardizes and integrates data across the enterprise regardless of data location (On-Premises, Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Hybrid Cloud), enabling self-service data access to support various applications, analytics, and use cases. The data fabric leaves data where it lives and applies intelligent automation to govern, secure and bring AI to your data.

How a data fabric abstraction layer works and the benefits it delivers was the topic of our recent SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI) webinar, “Data Fabric: Connecting the Dots between Structured and Unstructured Data.” If you missed it, you can watch it on-demand and access the presentations slides at the SNIA Educational Library.

We did not have time to answer audience questions at the live session. Here are answers from our expert, Joseph Dain.

Q. What are some of the biggest challenges you have encountered when building this architecture?

A. The scale of unstructured data makes it challenging to build a catalog of this information. With structured data you may have thousands or hundreds of thousands of table assets, but in unstructured data you can have billions of files and objects that need to be tracked at massive scale.

Another challenge is masking unstructured data. Read More

Survey Says…Here are Data & Cloud Storage Trends Worth Noting

Michael Hoard Leave a comment

With the move to cloud continuing, application modernization, and related challenges such as hybrid and multi-cloud adoption and regulatory compliance requirements, enterprises must ensure they understand the current data and storage landscape. The SODA Foundation’s annual comprehensive global survey on data and storage trends does just that, providing a comprehensive look at the intersection of cloud computing, data and storage management, the configuration of environments that end-user organizations are gravitating to, and priorities of selected capabilities over the next several years

On April 13, 2023, SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI) is pleased to host SODA in a live webcast “Top 12 Trends in Data and Cloud Storage” where SODA members who led this research will share key findings. I hope you will join us for a live discussion and in-depth look at this important research to hear the trends that are driving data and storage decisions, including: Read More

Scaling Storage in Hybrid Cloud and Multicloud Environments

Pekon Gupta Leave a comment

As data growth in enterprises continues to skyrocket, striking balance between cost and scalability becomes a challenge. Businesses face key decision on how to deploy their cloud service, whether on premises, in hybrid cloud or in multicloud deployments. So, what are enterprise IT organizations supposed to do, given that ‘run anything anywhere’ is becoming more important than ever? 

Find out on June 11, 2020, when the SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative will host a live webcast, “Storage Scalability in Hybrid Cloud and Multicloud Environments.” This webcast will help architects and consumers of hybrid cloud and multicloud storage solutions better understand:

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