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Ask the Expert: Making the Right Choice for a Scale-Out Object Storage Cloud Platform
Welcome to another EMC Ask the Expert event.
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The value of software-defined storage is being able to deliver cloud-scale storage capabilities in software that can leverage low-cost commodity off the shelf components (COTS). Software-defined means customers have more choices but also more questions:
- Should I use open source software or a commercial vendor offering?
- Should I build my own infrastructure with COTS or buy an integrated software/hardware appliance?
- How do I ensure reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS)?
Join this event to interact with our experts and others to learn the pros and cons of each approach and how to obtain the cost benefits of commodity without sacrificing enterprise-grade manageability, scalability, and service levels.
Meet Your Experts:
| Product Marketing, ViPR, ECS - EMC George is a Senior Manager responsible for EMC ECS Appliance and Centera and Atmos object storage platform product marketing. He has worked in the technology industry for nearly 20 years as a product marketing manager, industry analyst, and research director. As an analyst, George covered cloud computing and services, IT infrastructure, and IT management software. George has worked for small, pre-IPO firms such as LogMeIn, boutique advisory firms like Yankee Group as well as established technology vendors EMC, CA and Sybase. |
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| Distinguished Engineer - EMC Mark is an EMC Distinguished Engineer and currently works within the Emerging Technologies Division at EMC Corporation. Among the products Mark covers is ViPR, a next general object storage system with support for heterogeneous storage and APIs, EMC Atmos, the industry’s leading multi-petabyte information management solution, and EMC Centera, the industry’s leading compliance and archiving offering. Mark has worked within EMC’s object and cloud storage group since 2001. Mark has driven the technology and business of cloud storage by creating numerous talks explaining cloud storage technologies, by architecting new features such as the GeoDrive cloud storage product, by maintaining an active blog about cloud storage trends and technologies, and by serving on numerous internal committees to formulate cloud storage strategy. |
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| Michael Wehle Senior Manager Engineering - EMC Mike has been with EMC for 15 years. During this time he has had various roles, and currently works in EMC ViPR Data Services qualifying customer solutions. Prior to EMC, Mike owned and operated a trio of restaurants in the Washington, DC area with his brother-in-law. |
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Anonymous
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February 3rd, 2015 10:00
If you are planning to run analytics on an object platform you have a number of options. EMC ECS Appliance, for example, uses a shared- storage architecture which enables you to use the storage for Object and HDFS (Hadoop). There are even models that incorporate block storage. All of this storage can be seen as a large elastic pool of data that is easily analyzed via Hadoop analytics and applications like Pivotal. The main benefit is that the data can be analyzed in its native form and does not require extract, transform, and load processes.
Mark_Prahl
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February 4th, 2015 10:00
Good points. Looking more at staff and other resources. How does an organization assess skills and resources when deciding between a vendor-supported platform or building its own in-house?
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February 4th, 2015 13:00
The best choice is a highly individualized decision based on numerous criteria, but I suggest that any organization faced with this decision begin by asking the following questions:
technical expertise need to be available to restore the service?
corey_oconnor
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February 5th, 2015 06:00
Check out the technical Specification Sheet to see the primary features and detailed specs for ECS Appliance.
Mark_Prahl
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February 5th, 2015 10:00
If you've been following this Ask the Expert discussion, and wonder where its all going, please check out this post to the Emerging Technologies Blog by Mark O'Connell who has been one of the experts sharing his time with us the past two weeks. In today's post, Mark talks about how all roads lead to ... hyperconvergence. Good stuff!
Mark_Prahl
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February 6th, 2015 13:00
This Ask the Expert session is now complete. Thank you for joining us over the past two weeks in this interesting discussion. Please feel free to keep up to date on everything software-defined with EMC by subscribing to the Emerging Technologies Blog and by joining and following the ViPR Community!
JamesBabuA
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November 26th, 2017 19:00
Hi, how do we enable this feature? I am exploring option to store small files to ECS to improve the performance. Thanks in advance.