The Business Case For Cloud

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Alex McDonald
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Business Case for the Cloud

2013 Storage Networking Industry Association. All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
Building the Business Case for Clouds
Moving Beyond Vanilla Use Cases
The fast emerging cloud services business arena is creating
numerous new opportunities for both IT users and IT players
beyond the traditional Enterprise IT ecosystem.
This presentation will cover popular use cases for cloud
including storage clouds and enterprise or application specific
clouds including multi-tenancy, private, and hybrid clouds while
exploring why IT professionals are interested in each use case.
SNIAs Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) has created the Cloud Data
Management Interface (CDMI) that can assist in cloud
implementations and incorporation into your business case to
prevent lock-in or solution obsolescence.
Agenda
What is Cloud Storage?
Is it separable from & does it differ from cloud services?
The Killer App

Where are your users putting their data?
Legal Considerations
Why and when you need a lawyer
Deployment Types of Cloud Storage

Private, Public and Hybrid
Example Use Cases

Backup & Archive
Virtualization
CDMI & Cloud Standardization

Final Thoughst

Cloud Storage
451 Group on cloud:
Cloud is a way of using technology, not a technology in itself it's a self-service,
on-demand pay-per-use model. Consolidation, virtualization and automation
strategies will be the catalysts behind cloud adoption.
Forrester Research on cloud:
A pool of abstracted, highly scalable, and managed compute infrastructure
capable of hosting end-customer applications and billed by consumption
SNIA: Data Storage as a Service (DaaS)
[Services] Delivery over a network of appropriately configured virtual storage and
related data services, based on a request for a given service level.
Typically, DaaS hides limits to scalability, is either self-provisioned or
provisionless and is billed based on consumption.
Why Cloud Services:
Agile IT environments across coordinated layers
Reduce capital costs, optimize operational costs
Leverage expertise from all service dimensions
Pay for the IT you use, not just what is needed for peak times
On-going rightsizing

Cloud Storage Supports XaaS
diagram provided by ITU-T (N326)

Where are your users putting their data?

With corporate users
bringing their own
devices (BYOD), where
are they putting files?
Devices have limited
storage capacity
They are saving them in
the storage cloud!
Corporate data is already
in the public cloud and
unmanaged/protected
Source: Amazon
Source: Oxygen Cloud

Data Storage Interface Evolution

New digital data is being generated by an ever diversifying set
of devices
75% of data being generated by individuals (IDC)
Amount of Data doubling every two years
5 Billion Mobile Phones

Tablets on the rise
Storage space on devices will always be limited (although this

continues to grow exponentially)
Device Apps are accessing content/storage via the Internet
Cloud Storage largely driven by device based use cases
Traditional data storage interfaces (filesystems) are not up to

this task!

Distilled Requirements
Need a Global Namespace for data location
FILE handle -> URL + Unique Object ID globally
Need support for Rich Metadata associated with the data

Plus Metadata Query and Index based Search
Need HTTP access browser support

Data Services need to be transparent to the user, but
extensible and powerful
Driven by Metadata
Support for large objects, many small objects

Support for active preservation operations
Driven by preservation Metadata
Legal Considerations
Why and when you need a lawyer
Transborder Data Flow
May generate legal obligations (sometimes conflicting) in multiple jurisdictions
The Right To Be Forgotten; many jurisdictions have such laws
Exporting data may be illegal
EU Data Protection Directive; does NOT permit transferring personal information to countries that do not provide EU
protection levels; the USA is one such country
Expectation of "Reasonable Security"

Security breaches leading to potential liability
Only as strong as weakest link
Electronic evidence & e-discovery

What constitutes evidence?
Multiple copies, digital signing, data fragmentation
Retrieval of data often complicated
Existing non-Cloud contracts insufficient

License agreement vs service agreement
Ownership vs use of content
Mobile Devices
The law applies where you are, and where your data is stored
Get Legal Involved

Early and often; laws change

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Storage Cloud Flavors

A Storage Cloud can be depoyed as public, private or
hybrid
Public secure multi-tenant externally hosted
Private secure single or multi-tenant usually hosted in-side the
firewall or by a 3rd party
Hybrid combination of public and private cloud infrastructures
and services
Storage Cloud may be mixed
with other Cloud services
Software as-a-Service (SaaS)
Platform-as-a-Service (Paas)
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS)
Public Public Public

Hybrid Hybrid Hybrid
Private Private Private
Service Delivery Models
Application Domains
SOURCE:
Cloud Security and
Privacy,
Mather,
Kumaraswamy,
Latif,
2009, OReilly,
ISBN: 978-0-59680276-9.
* Service Provider Interface

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Private, Hybrid & Public Clouds
Private
Cloud
Enterprise Data Center

Hybrid
Automation
Firewall/Security
Virtualized Infrastructure
- Servers
- Networks
- Tiered Storage
External
Trusted
Cloud
Service Provider
DC
Application Hosting
Managed Services
Public
Cloud
Regional
Data
Center 1
Regional
Data
Center 2
Hybrid
Servers
Networks
Storage
Hybrids
Content Distribution
Regional
Data
Center 3

Regional
Data
Center 4
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Multi-Tenancy in Storage Cloud

What is multi-tenancy:
the terms multi-tenant and multi-tenancy are not new; both have
been used to describe application architectures designed to
support multiple users, resource owners or tenants for many
years. With the advent of cloud computing, this terminology has
simply been extended to include any cloud architecture
Secure multi-tenancy:
Application layer
Server layer
Network Layer
Storage Layer
-
Source: Storage Multi-Tenancy for Cloud Computing Whitepaper,

Paul Feresten, SNIA CSI Member

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Private Storage Cloud

Multiple Tenancy Models
Multi-Tenants
Each Enterprise business unit (e.g. Division, Dept.) has its own dedicated cloud
services space
Monitoring, Billing is handled separately for each BU
Single-Tenant
All Enterprise BUs are regrouped under the same cloud services space
Service monitoring and billing is jointly organized and internally processed
Private Cloud Infrastructures are usually deployed behind the

firewall
In line with the Enterprise security guidelines
Geographical dispersion possible
Private Cloud may be hosted by a trusted 3rd party (xSP).

IT resources are dedicated to a single customer with metering and billing
matching requested model.
Its integration behind the firewall will depend on cloud service uses
Segregation of IT resource will be determined by SLA

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Hybrid Storage Cloud

Combination of public and private storage clouds
Different clouds maybe access to different type of services
E.g. Storage Tiering both internal and external services
E.g. B/R to the cloud internal services
E.g. Archiving to the cloud - external services
E.g. cloud storage for computing will depend on compute resource location
Services may be tied to applications layers & services

SaaS/PaaS with storage resource dependencies
E.g. B/R, DR services
Usual misconception about hybrid cloud

Accessing external cloud services from a traditional data center
does not make it a hybrid cloud
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Use Cases
Elastic demand for web based media (video, eBooks,
audio)
Backup to the cloud
Restore, Recovery, Seed the backup with hard drive
Sync of files to the cloud and multiple devices

Internet Drive secondary storage
Archive/Preservation in the cloud

Including Compliance, Retention and eDiscovery
Storage for Cloud Computing

Support for legacy storage interfaces key
Self Service Storage Administration
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Backup & Restore

Business Problem:
Business critical data needs to be point-in-time restorable within
defined operational constraints
Traditional Approach
Backup software/agents on file servers or desktops backing up
to dedicated data systems (disk or tape), usually on premises
Cloud Approach
Backup software/agents backing up to a dedicated dynamic
service platform with high capacity and moderate latency backup
storage to meet backup window and recovery time objectives
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Cloud BUR Requirements

Cost
Lower cost BUR solution than traditional tape or disk based
solutions
Capacity
Adequate capacity to handle your daily, weekly, monthly backup
capacity plus growth
Latency
Latency needs to be low enough to meet backup AND recovery
objectives but not too expensive to make cost prohibitive
Complementary shuttle services may be need especially for
restoring large data sets
Manageability
Management tools of the BUR service platform need to allow to
meet SLA/SLO as well as to fit within Enterprise guidelines
E.g. Asset management, security

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Cloud BUR Advantages

Lower costs
Benefit from the economies of scale from the service provider
Cost of recovery ought to be included
Charge-back to business units

Focus on more granular/specific requirements vs. bulk-park numbers
Option to shift burden of meeting SLAs to a service provider

An important transition when going cloud
Traditional backup environments require your capital investment

scale and efficiencies are experienced by the largest customers
Do you over buy capacity or risk running out of capacity and risk paying a
higher price?
Are you prepared to cover the cost of technology refresh
Cloud BUR service platform can include capacity optimization

Deduplication, compression

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Deployment Style
Public Backup Cloud:
Turn Capital Expenses into Operating Expenses
Simplify BUR solution deployment
Private Backup Cloud:

Re-organize BUR as an internal service
Potential to leverage dedicated backup cloud in an offsite
location(s).
Hybrid Backup Cloud:

3rd party service optimization per application, data type
Manage backups to public or private clouds with varying costs,
availability, latency, or security

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Archive
Business Problem
Business criticality or regulatory compliance require data to be
retained for very long periods of time (up to 100 years).
Data is archived to external storage media and stored offsite in a
managed archives location (internal or external to the Enterprise)
Cloud Approach
Data is sent to an archiving service platform providing (very) low
cost and high capacity archive storage
Check out SNIA Tutorial:
Cloud Archive and Long Term
Preservation Challenges and Best
Practices (Backup & Archiving Track,
????)
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Application Data
Business Problem:
Business critical applications and supporting applications require
temporary and permanent data with various statuses and lifecycles
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
Local disk, DAS, NAS, or SAN(FC/IP)
Network: SAN/LAN/MAN/WAN
Committed data center server pools
No non-company approved devices
Cloud Approach
Storage cloud providing adequate data services capabilities
Size, protection, location, access, distribution
Cloud based virtualized servers

Dropbox type services

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Build Your Own Cloud

Corporations already offer their own email (instant
messaging, etc.) services to their employees
Cloud Storage is the next type of service offering for
employee devices
Enterprise Dropbox implementations
Essentially a private cloud with access over the Internet

from corporate and other applications
Data is retained in house, protected, available, secured
and compliant

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Application Data Implementation

Develop or acquire a Drop Box client for supported
devices (iDevice, Android, etc.)
Connect back to the mother ship (internal enterprise
storage) with a standard protocol (CDMI)
Provide robust, available, protected and compliant
storage services to those clients
Manage the data stored via the enterprise dropbox
usage
Implement data retention and expiration policies on the
data

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Post-Filesystem Data Storage

The SNIA has produced the Cloud Data Management
Interface (CDMI) standard for post-Filesystem Data Storage
i.e. Public and Private/Hybrid Storage Clouds
Specifically designed to meet the requirements (for the

foreseeable future) of contemporary data usage and
management
Superset of features currently being offered, but shrink to fit
Innovative use of Metadata to express Data Requirements

Requirements are then met by the implemented Data Services
CDMI can be (and is being) extended compatibly

To accommodate new types of data requirements, use cases

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CDMI Overview
Data Portability Standard
Move Data (and most importantly Metadata) from cloud to cloud
Advanced Cloud Services

Data System Metadata allows cloud vendors to up-sell!
Specialized storage clouds for specific use cases
Logging, Security, Audit Trails

Extensible to accommodate rapid innovation in cloud market
Proposed Extensions: CIMI/OVF, Versioning, Jobs
Shrink-to-fit
Only implement what makes sense for your cloud
Profiles: Simple Storage (i.e. S3), Simple Storage Management
(NAS)

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Cloud Data Management Interface

Applicable to all three deployment models of Cloud Storage:
Cloud Storage for Cloud Computing
Whitepaper at snia.org/cloud the management interface for the lifecycle of storage in
a compute cloud
Public Storage Cloud

Whitepaper at snia.org/cloud both a Data Path for the Cloud and a Management Path
for the Cloud Data
Private Cloud Storage

As well as hybrid clouds
An API for Storage Vendors selling into Cloud based solutions
Semantics
Simple Containers and Data Objects with tagged Metadata
Data System Metadata expresses the data requirements
Protocol
RESTful HTTP as core interface style
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format of the representations are
extensible

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CDMI Benefits
Adoption
Interoperability
Portability
Compliance
Security
Simplicity
Extensibility
Coordinated
Data Management
International
Commercial implementations, research

infrastructures widely deploy CDMI
Broad participation in plugfests
CDMI standardizes moving the data (and
metadata) between clouds (FedEx or
Network)
CDMI Retention, Hold, Query address
requirements and eDiscovery
Secure TLS, Encrypting Data at Rest,
ACLs, audit logging, media sanitization
all standardized
CDMI Profiles: Simple Storage, Self
Service Storage Management,
Archive/Preservation
CDMI Extensions: published publically
and incorporated upon multiple
implementations
CDMI Cloud Storage for Cloud
Computing working with OGF, DMTF,
many others
Replication, Archiving, Backup,
Encryption, and even Tiering all
standardized by CDMI
CDMI is now ISO/IEC 17826:2012
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Why not just adopt one of the

existing interfaces?
Despite the open licensing of several existing cloud storage
interfaces, they all remain under the change control of a
single vendor
No cloud vendor wants to have a competitor have change
control over their interface
Thus they release their own interface which they do have change
control over
This leads to the propagation of multiple interfaces, each

essentially locking developers/customers into that service
CDMI is under change control of a standards body,
accommodates requirements from multiple vendors and can
be extended for proprietary functions
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The Complete Picture

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Final thoughts
There are significant differences in how cloud services are
delivered to the various categories of users. The integration of
these services with traditional IT operations will remain an
important success factor but also a challenge for IT
managers.
The Cloud industry is still in its infancy. We can expect many
more developments for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions
across business segments and verticals. It will become
increasingly important to understand how such services can
be combined in a secure and cost-efficient fashion.
Mobile & virtualised use of data well suited to cloud.
Embracing it now will prevent data proliferation on unsuitable
services.
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For More information

One Web Site to Remember: http://snia.org/cloud
Large Cloud Storage Community
http://groups.google.com/group/snia-cloud
http://twitter.com/SNIAcloud (@SNIAcloud)
SNIA Cloud Blog Site:

http://sniacloud.com

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Attribution & Feedback

The SNIA Education Committee thanks the following
individuals for their contributions to this Tutorial.
Authorship History
Additional Contributors
Marty Stogsdill, Oracle
Marty Stogsdill
Dean Nuemann
Greg Kleiman
Mark Carlson
Vincent Franceschini
Updates:
Alex McDonald
Mark Carlson
Please send any questions or comments regarding this SNIA

Tutorial to [email protected]
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Business Case for the Cloud

The Killer App

Deployment Types of Cloud Storage

Example Use Cases

CDMI & Cloud Standardization

Business Case for the Cloud

Business Case for the Cloud

Cloud Storage Supports XaaS

diagram provided by ITU-T (N326)

Where are your users putting their data?

Source: Oxygen Cloud

Business Case for the Cloud

Data Storage Interface Evolution

5 Billion Mobile Phones

Storage space on devices will always be limited (although this

Traditional data storage interfaces (filesystems) are not up to

Business Case for the Cloud

Need support for Rich Metadata associated with the data

Need HTTP access browser support

Support for large objects, many small objects

Expectation of "Reasonable Security"

Electronic evidence & e-discovery

Existing non-Cloud contracts insufficient

Get Legal Involved

Business Case for the Cloud

Storage Cloud Flavors

Public Public Public

Service Delivery Models

* Service Provider Interface

Business Case for the Cloud

Private, Hybrid & Public Clouds

Enterprise Data Center

Business Case for the Cloud

Multi-Tenancy in Storage Cloud

Source: Storage Multi-Tenancy for Cloud Computing Whitepaper,

Business Case for the Cloud

Private Storage Cloud

Private Cloud Infrastructures are usually deployed behind the

Private Cloud may be hosted by a trusted 3rd party (xSP).

Business Case for the Cloud

Hybrid Storage Cloud

Services may be tied to applications layers & services

Usual misconception about hybrid cloud

Sync of files to the cloud and multiple devices

Archive/Preservation in the cloud

Storage for Cloud Computing

Backup & Restore

Cloud BUR Requirements

Business Case for the Cloud

Cloud BUR Advantages

Charge-back to business units

Option to shift burden of meeting SLAs to a service provider

Traditional backup environments require your capital investment

Cloud BUR service platform can include capacity optimization

Business Case for the Cloud

Private Backup Cloud: