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UNIGROUP GENERAL MEETING
MEETING INTRODUCTION
For our July 2019 meeting, Unigroup is welcoming back Scality's Candida Valois, who last presented to Unigroup on 20-OCT-2016 on the topic of: Fundamentals of Using Object Storage. This month's presentation will discuss using the Zenko Open-Source Data Controller to access Multi-Cloud data from various cloud storage vendors/systems, where each may be using a variety of back-end cloud storage/data protocols.
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DIRECTIONS
Location:
The Cooper Union (http://www.cooper.edu)
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th Street, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Topic: Zenko Open-Source Multi-Cloud Data Controller
Related Topics/Keywords:
Computer Storage, Object Storage, Cloud Storage, File Storage, Multi-Cloud, Storage Architecture, Microservices, Cloud APIs, Cloud Storage APIs, Kubernetes, Cloud Data Development, Cloud Data Management, Data Replication, Reliable Distributed Storage, CEPH RADOS, AWS S3.
Introduction & Description of Talk:
Today's world is multi-cloud: in a recent 2018 study, 81 percent of enterprises respondent confirmed they had a multi-cloud strategy (Flexera Blog: https://bit.ly/2EGVZwH). One can only assume these multi-cloud strategies come from the fear of vendor lock-in: in July 2017, a study found that vendor lock-in was a concern for 80% of enterprises (Stratoscale Study: https://bit.ly/2J9Ys1j).
For engineers and sysadmins, multi-cloud strategies usually imply complexity: multiple APIs, multiple endpoints, and opaque workflows. Hence why Scality made Zenko (http://www.zenko.io), the free open source Multi-Cloud Data Controller. Zenko is a modular stack of microservices, that leverages Kubernetes for seamless deployment and management.
Zenko gives you the freedom to manage your data across all the main public clouds (currently: AWS S3, MS Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Digital Ocean Spaces, Wasabi; upcoming: Backblaze B2) and private clouds (Scality RING, local (privately hosted) S3 buckets, and soon Ceph RADOS) using a single endpoint (of your choice), and a single API: the S3 API. Zenko also lets you replicate across all these backends, and do metadata search across all of them. Practically, this means you get a single namespace across all of your backends. As if that wasn't enough, Zenko also comes with a web management UI, Orbit, that lets even the least technical of us set up replication across their storage infrastructure(s).
Finally, Zenko writes everything in native format, committing to giving you and your data freedom: Zenko is not a restrictive gateway: once you used it to write your data using the S3 protocol to any cloud, you may access / transform / read / get that data with any tool compatible with the backend you wrote to (including tools native to that backend).
This talk will assess the current state of multi-cloud, the enterprises need for more transparency on how their data is managed, and the solutions brought to them by Zenko, a free open-source stack of microservices that scales up to petabyte-scale for multi-cloud storage. The talk will include a live demo.
Presentation Outline:
Presentation outline:
References & Web Resources:
Zenko Open-Source Multi-Cloud Data Controller:
http://www.zenko.io
Scality:
http://www.scality.com
Scality Technical Resources/Whitepapers/Videos:
http://www.scality.com/resources/
Scality Blog:
http://www.scality.com/blog/
Cloud Computing Trends: 2018 State of the Cloud Survey - Cloud Management
http://blogs.flexera.com/cloud/cloud-industry-insights/cloud-computing-trends-2018-state-of-the-cloud-survey/
Stratoscale Survey: Hybrid Cloud Survey Reveals 8 out of 10 Enterprises Fear Vendor Lock...
http://www.stratoscale.com/press/stratoscale-hybrid-cloud-survey-reveals-8-10-enterprises-fear-vendor-lock-avoid-running-sensitive-data-public-cloud/
Unigroup's Fundamentals of Using Object Storage Meeting:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-201610.html
Wikipedia on Cloud Storage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage
Wikipedia on Object Storage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage
ADMIN Magazine: The RADOS Object Store and Ceph Filesystem:
http://www.admin-magazine.com/HPC/Articles/The-RADOS-Object-Store-and-Ceph-Filesystem
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3):
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/s3/index.html
Amazon S3 REST API Introduction - Amazon Simple Storage Service
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/Welcome.html
Wikipedia on CEPH:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceph_(software)
Ceph RADOS block devices (RBD)
http://ceph.com/ceph-storage/block-storage/
CEPH RADOS (Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store):
http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rados/
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Candida Valois, Senior Sales Engineer, Scality.
Candida Valois is a Senior Sales Engineer with 18+ years of IT experience in architecture and development of software products and solutions for various industries across many countries. Currently helping customers achieve their Cloud Object Storage and Software Defined Storage architecture implementation goals.
COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
Scality is the leader in software-defined storage at petabyte-scale. Founded in 2009, Scality has deployed software storage solutions that delivers billions of files to more than one hundred million users daily with 100% availability. Scality customers include the world's largest enterprises, particularly in media, telecommunications, and cloud. For more information please visit the Scality Web Site: http://www.scality.com.
GIVEAWAYS
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR/Pearson, and O'Reilly have been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.
Unigroup would like to thank both publishing companies for the support provided by their User Group programs.
As always, all of the books will be available for review at the start of the meeting.
Note: Our book supply is currently running low, and we need to restock.
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FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
** However, due to a continuing situation at our caterer, we are planning to have: pizza (cheese+veggy), soda, water, cookies, and brownies at this meeting.
Scality will be sponsoring the food service for this meeting... Thanks Scality!
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
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