by Marty Foltyn
SNIA on Storage continues its preview of SNIA Tutorials at the Storage Visions Conference. SNIA is a proud sponsor of the Storage Visions Conference, a partner program of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Storage Visions, held in Las Vegas right before CES on January 3-5, 2016, is the place to explore the latest information on the rapidly evolving technology of digital storage and how it impacts consumer electronics, the internet of things, and storage in the cloud. If you have not registered for Storage Visions, head over to http://www.storagevisions.com for the conference preview. Take $100 off your registration with the link: https://sv2016.eventbrite.com/?discount=onehundredoff_67349921
“SNIA Education Day” is held on the afternoon of the pre-conference day at Storage Visions – January 3, 2016 – and is designed to give
attendees the opportunity to learn about important storage topics on depth with leading industry speakers.
In the SNIA on Storage December 17th blog, we featured a tutorial which examines the conflict between privacy and data protection as illustrated in the European Union, but really applicable worldwide. In the December 18 blog, we previewed the Practical Online Cache Analysis and Optimization tutorial.
Today’s blog highlights a topic of key interest to those building Internet of Things (IoT) applications – Massively Scalable File Storage which will be presented by Philippe Nicholas on SNIA Education Day at Storage Visions.
The Internet has changed the world and continues to revolutionize how people are connected, exchange data, and do business. This radical change is one of the causes of the rapid explosion of data volume that required a new data storage approach and design. One of the common elements is that unstructured data rules the IT world. How can famous Internet services we all use everyday support and scale with thousands of new users added daily and continue to deliver an enterprise-class SLA? What are the various technologies behind a Cloud Storage service to support hundreds of millions of users? This tutorial covers technologies introduced by famous papers about Google File System and BigTable, Amazon Dynamo, and Apache Hadoop. In addition, Parallel, Scale-out, Distributed, and P2P approaches with Lustre, PVFS, and pNFS with several proprietary ones are presented. This tutorial also discusses some key features such as erasure coding which are essential at this large scale to help understand and differentiate industry vendor offerings.
Tutorial presenter Philippe Nicolas is a recognized storage industry expert with more than 20 years of experience. He is currently an advisor for companies including Rozo Systems, Guardtime, and Solix Technologies. Philippe drove the Industry Strategy at Scality after leading the Product Strategy since 2011. He was at Brocade for 2 years as technology evangelist and strategist and spent nearly 10 years at Veritas Software and Symantec in different technology and product roles. Philippe started the SNIA Europe France regional committee in 2001, and served as Chairman for France until February 2010. He served twice on the SNIA Europe Board of Directors and was a founder of the SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative. He is the author of four SNIA Tutorials on Data Sharing, File Storage, Massive Scalability, and Cloud Storage. In 2005, Philippe received the Outstanding Service Award from the SNIA Europe for his industry and association contribution. He holds an engineering degree in computer sciences from ESI.