NetApp Cloud Volumes and Cloud Data Services

my name is a key drop zone I'm Icelandic but I've lived here for a few years I want to talk today about cloud volumes net up cloud volumes and I want to also take you through sort of what we're doing in the newly formed Cloud Data Services business unit here within net up and what I hope to bring to the table here is you know update your understanding of of net up and cloud and hopefully for those who are watching at home also so when we talk about cloud I probably should you know show you my credentials here I came over to net up just about probably eight months ago I'm co-founder of a company called green cloud I might have met some of you through the years last seven or eight years which I've been traveling the u.s. but essentially in green cloud we built a public cloud in multiple data centers and we helped develop some of the core technologies that are used today in private and hybrid clouds and I've been in this for a long time my this is actually my first day job I've never done anything else but my own startups I'm I turned 40 a few weeks ago and I really love to do software and specifically automated software and what we're doing here at net up is really exciting to me and and when I say that I'm a data fabric believer you guys say on there what it really means to me is that I think data management and and just data in general is the key ingredient for us to get to that elusive hybrid cloud multi-cloud applique strategy that that companies and new development teams are trying to get to and some of them are get getting to it quicker than others but we think we can really help everybody get get to that data fabric that they want green claw was acquired last summer it was a seven year old company before that we did some things like participate in the core development of cloud sack from the beginning we've contributed to OpenStack kubernetes we've been we ran a public cloud for four years and which included compute object storage and users from over 80 different countries and about three years ago or so we pivoted the company and started selling the software that we made to build a public cloud and we call that Q stack since we did that we've also been working a lot on application orchestration so that's what we're the kubernetes part comes in but for net up they really they because of their cloud strategy that's the cloud strategy that I have a feeling that we may have influenced a little bit through the years of talking with net up they saw an opportunity in getting the tools that we have or products getting the experience people that we have and build a foundation for the next generation of net up services so that's sort of what they were gaining out of it what what we were getting out of it getting out of it you know not just from the acquisition side but there had to be something keeping us here so what for personally for myself having co-founded the company I was not in a hurry you know to get into a a day job like I'm a startup guy I need to have some degree of uncertainty and chaos because that's kind of where the fun stuff happens and you know settling down in some boring enterprise enterprise-e company was not really what I was looking forward to but to my surprise and I was super happy when we started talking to this new this new business unit off net up I was so happy to see that we actually do have a cloud first leadership here net up all the way up to the top and the things that we are sort of starting to show the world now are really exciting from a cloud perspective because the possibilities that they open up are truly new and the whole industry has been sort of trying to get this get to this point where they have an easy way of or the easy button you know to get to the cloud an easy button to get to performance and all that so we have a vision and I'm talking like in past science we have a vision in green cloud what DevOps should be NetApp has a vision of what data management should be and we figured out that by combining our two we would have these new cloud data services that I'm gonna show you a little bit about little on today so essentially what became of green cloud here is that we are now net of Iceland I actually work out of Seattle but we're kind of distributed but the teams have been have been growing and now the product that we have before q stack its components have become what we call the service delivery engine for future net up cloud services this is a new business unit I can tell you sort of my perspective on it we have a lot of ingredients here to make a lot of new cool stuff and the way I think about it is that you know when AWS web services were starting they started with s3 then they came out with ec2 with s3 and ec2 you can build everything else everything else that Amazon has come out with basically you can build with easy to history we are trying to get to that point in NetApp where we create those basic services and api's that fit into the data fabric view that net up has and will enable us to roll out new and new services and incorporate third-party services and integrate to really make a large solution and ecosystem around these services that we're building it's all the goal of helping companies transform and I'm not talking about like in a fluffy fluffy nice sort of PC way of talking about things I'm talking about like really doing it really presenting solutions figuring out how they need to do it and how we can help and try to automate that and make it available to the masses so this business unit is really leading the the Cloud Data Services strategy the sales and we're working directly and physically with the hyper scalar so the big public cloud providers so we've got our teams inside insight like a juror like AWS we're working working very closely with these providers the ones that we have announced in the ones that we haven't announced yet but we're also relying on the sort of excellence of operations from all of the all of the net up teams all of the net up business units and the solutions that are already there but we here in this business unit we are here to actually support build and maintain these services so we're not just you know going to pump out some products if somebody tries to install we're actually going to run it and support it and lastly all of this all everything we're doing actually towards evolving the concept of data fabric and I know data fabric is something that you know to me when I came into net I was like what is what is this data fabric everybody like it's the second word you hear when you come into net up and to me like it was a bunch of components that were not necessarily orchestrated fully right so right now with the green cloud team net of Iceland as we're as it's called now and this larger business unit I think we've become like the Pirates of net up this is the flag that Steve Jobs put up at the Apple headquarters in 82 we I think we we might become like the Macintosh team of net up and that's that's kind of what I hope for and be that change that net up needs so the data fabric we talked just a little bit about that net up state of fabric isn't today a product or a service however the concept of data fabric is that it's a it's it's really concentrated on your data and the services that help you migrate work with it and effectively make your company more productive informed in terms of you know knowing that your data is safe knowing that it's following compliance rules and effectively making your company more profitable now that's all very nice and dandy but data fabric really has has to be like the guiding light for all the date all the services that we build and that's kind of where we are coming from and I think you'll see and and you the picture might start in your head now that you know with our new multi cloud data services we are really sort of visualizing and making the data fabric tangible for you and this is we're trying to set the stage for for the future services and the future of the company in the cloud so when people talk about data fabric what they really mean is you know all these products here this is this is sort of you know coming into net up being it for eight months I'm still catching up on all the products I mean there's so many products here and there's so many talented people working on these but we've got to start simplifying a little bit and so when you look at our products here and then you look at the services we'll roll out you start seeing that we'll pick and choose features from these we'll make new products but overall we're just trying to get to that goal of making things easier for the companies that trust us with their money so the way to think about it now is that you know net up is a it's not a storage company it's a data management company and without sort of blowing the lid off like all the cool stuff we're working on let me just tell you a little bit about where we will play in the market and and this goes goes towards the it's really what I'm talking about is what we will do in the cloud so if you look at these categories of data management these are the these are the categories that NetApp will either directly or in partnering have solutions for customers first one data volumes data protection data integration and orchestration data and cloud optimization and then data security and compliance and I want to talk about two of these today but just to give you an idea like where our current products fit you'll see that you know data volumes obviously there's the on-prem but I'm specifically going to talk about the cloud so data volumes in the cloud mean clavo liam's the services and Tapp cloud the appliance in public clouds on the data protection side we we've got out of alt and if you don't know what alt of all days basically it's getting your snapshots backed up in public clouds in s3 among other things and SAS backup is a new product or relatively new product from net up that used to be called cloud control for office 365 and there we are sort of making a time machine for your SAS applications so if you think about backing up office 365 because an employee that that it's leaving the company accidentally deleted you know the most important files right since this is a SAS service it might have a feature to find out what version we were working on before and get back to that but since this file has been deleted you might have deleted all the versions of it you can't get that stuff back but that's really just the beginning of SAS back up because SAS backup can reach into any type of application you have as a service so think about Salesforce think about you know with various different services that you would want to get the data from not just for backup but for processing it for doing something with that so this becomes a key in that particular part of the fabric and the third thing that I want to tell you a little bit about is data integration orchestration and this is something that really came about with the acquisition of green cloud here we are going to talk about applications specifically kubernetes based applications api's for orchestration and then a product from NetApp that's been around for not a long time either similar to SAS backup called cloud sync which is a file based sync service that allows you to get data to and from whatever data source if it's file based we can get to it if it's s3 and it has safes whatever all right we're just going to jump into the couple of things I'm going to talk about talk about data volumes I'm going to talk about applications orchestration and integration so you're probably all familiar with on tap Cloud a does anybody here not know on top cloud you probably all read okay great so on top cloud is or became the the softer version of on top you know a while ago so excellent mm-hmm oh I I know how you feel I've just been here for eight months so alright so at the Coronet up you've got I mean obviously not up started as a shared file appliance like solve the problem of file sharing multiple reads multiple rides long time ago the company's 25 years old if I'm not mistaken and having like built having built a public cloud from scratch with you know millions of dollars worth of equipment in multiple data centers and running that for thousands of users I can tell you storage is hard it's very hard you can try clobbering together multiple different solutions and believe me we tried pretty much all of them most of the stuff that we at green cloud when we built our public cloud was like really cutting edge and those companies ended up being bought all of them none of them worked none of them worked and and it's only when we started to use net app that we really saw some real stability and real performance at the same time and it's kind of strange that you would get that from from from an older storage company because they really have followed the differences and the new types of workloads better than people think so we're talking about like cutting at data scientists working here creating storage solutions that are super high performance and at the same time are doing deduplication so you don't actually need as much storage as you would think because they can figure out like oh you already stored that I don't have to store it twice and they do encryption at the same time so you you're already complying with some of the standards like you know gdpr or or Phipps or and things like that so on tap is like the software that's on top of these boxes but we also get a softer version of that so you can run on tap as a controller in public clouds so you know a lot of people including me myself would ask that why would I do that like why don't just I just use use EBS right like why don't we need a storage controller like so the first thing I thought was like well maybe maybe it's just for those NetApp customers because they need to somehow like get to the cloud and there's probably a good route you know there's a read about it there so snapmirror thing you can actually like clone data from from your site to the cloud if you're running onto a cloud but then when I looked into it I saw that that wasn't like the only thing it's actually cheaper and higher performant and more features to use an on tap cluster in AWS than to use EBS actually when you get to a certain scale the on tap stuff is just for free and it's it's way more performant and got a whole lot of more features that then you can ever get from EBS so it's interesting and and this got me excited and this kind of probably was the basis for the belief net up that we could do something like cloud Williams which instead of having a box or an app or we've got this service that's on demand is API driven it doesn't look like that up at all nobody has to know it's not up it just works and it's super fast and you get things like instant snapshots instant restore these things just don't exist in the public cloud today like you can't do these things in a public cloud believe me I have tried most of you probably tried some of this stuff as well so going from those appliances to or the physical appliances to the virtual appliance in the public cloud and now to a fully managed service and that's what NetApp cloud ball yems are so what we're talking about here is file the file storage so shared file storage meaning like you get a multiple servers reading and writing from the same volume so you don't have to clone data all around so that's right away that's a thing that you you save a lot of resources we were offering NFS version 3 NFS version 4 which basically means you add like authentication and stuff on top of that and sips or SMB so I'll go through the aft after I demo it I'll sort of go through the the use cases so you understand better what this applies to but a big part of it is you know performance we're talking about super high performance in the public cloud with shared storage multi read multi write this hasn't been done before so can I ask you a quick question there go ahead obviously there's already NFS ready for Azure which is backed by better yes this seems to be another NFS e and sis are sorry and SMB type service as well so what's the difference between the two in terms of their integration point with the cloud provider themselves you're talking about the same service so Renetta call volumes on Asher is a native service offered by Microsoft but in the background it's us and Microsoft that run the service and we write the code so why that why the name nets are cloud volumes and then a different name for the service in yes old up is that because it's their branding yes is decoupled from that app right it so go buy it from Microsoft is so if you might not want that app storage in your yeah no so so it let me let me explain so there's there's a name for Microsoft Enterprise NFS that's provided by net up there's also cloud volumes for AWS provided by net up top volumes is the overall name for all these and the reason why we have a common name from is because we are going to be multi clout with this so whether the services running on Azure it's running on AWS or somewhere else I'll show you how we will manage pretty much all of them it's about it's not America actually between between two different providers and and yes and cloud environments yep yeah so prominent features here obviously an open API we've got a restful api but we also got fully integrated native cloud api's what that means is that like for example in the microsoft service its arm-based so that's we basically we sit behind microsoft's api gateway or a api proxy which means that you get all the security features you get all the limiting features you get all the billing features these services are billed by the public clouds not by Netta so that's that's a huge difference as well because this just fits right into your cloud spend and you don't think have to think about all I have to go and make a contract with net app or something like that you can just view the as you know super high-performance BBS ef-s you know so so that's that's the question I was about to ask you do you think does that mean EFS is being treated as not not being a success or do you think that's being seen as a very low level product just for a small amount of file sharing I can't you know I don't have an opinion on that yeah I'll talk a little bit about us later but mostly on the usability side of it okay but just on the API piece you mentioned there that that's behind Microsoft's as your API yes but when you're doing this an AWS then it's your own API yeah yeah and actually it's it's it's it's a feel a level above that as well because when we're doing the AWS one and subsequently when we roll out you know more regions and and providers we are talking about you know having an API that can share a milken's so access an authorization between all of net of services not just 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Length: 25min 53sec (1553 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 25 2018