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Counterpoint Research estimated the storage capacity requirement for autonomous vehicles to balloon over 2TB in the next decade
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ZONED STORAGE
Addresses data center scale with increased capacity, better QoS with lower TCO
Hybrid Cloud: Leveraging Future Possibilities
HOW HYBRID CLOUD ENABLES POSSIBILITIES
Leveraging Future Possibilities with Hybrid Cloud
Organizations are increasingly adopting cloud storage for their growing data needs as it offers accessibility, scalability, durability, and cost-efficient advantages that exceed traditional capabilities. In today’s digital world, data worth saving for future leverage, analysis, or process training is moved to the cloud for long-term archival, until a future action or analysis is required.
Hybrid cloud models provide fast and flexible data deployment and development options, while retaining the security features, management control, and predictive economics of a private infrastructure in place for specific workloads, applications, or use cases. The ability to flexibly choose the best IT infrastructure for each element and aspect of an application workflow is now a reality.
$68.4 Billion
Cloud compute services are expected to grow from $23.3 billion in 2016 to $68.4 billion in 20201
33% by 2020
At least one-third of all data will pass through the cloud by 20202
94% by 2021
94% of workloads and compute instances will be processed by cloud data centers by 20213
Today’s organizations face choices and tradeoffs for where and how they deploy their applications and IT infrastructure, including the use of traditional IT, private cloud and public cloud models. Many of them are choosing a hybrid approach, combining traditional IT resources with private and public cloud models.
SOURCE: PHIL BULLINGER, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT & GENERAL MANAGER, DATA CENTER SYSTEMS, WESTERN DIGITAL
HOW TO ENSURE DATA IS FLEXIBLE
Hybrid Clouds Enable Edge-to-Core Flexibility
The IoT storage strategy is not to funnel all of the data to the cloud, but instead, use a combination that stores data locally at the machine/equipment-level and employs an edge gateway to aggregate data locally, protect it from the outside world, analyze it at the edge in real time for actionable insights, and translate it into a common cloud format for long-term archival, until further analysis is required.
Hybrid clouds enable enterprises to own and manage the servers that run their cloud applications on-premises while enabling seamless movement of jobs between enterprise data centers and the public cloud.
DEPLOYING A HYBRID CLOUD FOR DATA GROWTH
Western Digital Offers a Proven Portfolio of Devices, Systems, and Platforms Designed for the Evolving Requirements of Hybrid Cloud Applications
Analytics
ANALYTICS
Data Size and Location Matter
Data is the new oil, and companies positioned to gain the greatest insights can establish a sustainable competitive advantage. Businesses are increasingly shifting IT capabilities to the cloud, and analytics workloads are compute-intensive and highly variable making them a good candidate for the cloud.
Two important factors should be taken into account for analytics workloads: data size and the location where the data is created and managed. It would be cost prohibitive and slow to transfer and store large datasets into a public cloud. A hybrid cloud may be the better option offering organizations the best of both worlds – greater efficiency, performance, and operational flexibility.
78%
Of companies
are already using public or private cloud4
62%
Of organizations
expect to deliver over half of their IT capabilities via public, private, hybrid cloud by 20194
CHANGE THE ECONOMICS WITH IN PLACE ANALYTICS
Object storage deployed on Ultrastar platforms changes the economics for big data lake storage with the ability to run in-place analytics from a single shared highly scalable and durable repository.
Hybrid Cloud Solutions: ANALYTICS
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Data Protection
DATA PROTECTION
Eliminating Backup Appliance Sprawl
Data is one of the most valuable assets for a business. Organizations must protect themselves against data loss and downtime because the impact to the business can be catastrophic. It’s not uncommon for organizations to implement data protection using purpose-built backup appliances. Historically, this has been a fast and efficient method for storing short-term backup data. With the volume of backup data growing to a petabyte or more, the number of appliances can multiply rapidly, and this appliance sprawl is not only expensive to scale, it is complex to manage, and valuable data can become isolated. Instead of adding more appliances, a scalable hybrid cloud backup solution can eliminate performance and capacity bottlenecks prevalent in backup appliances, while significantly lowering the total cost of ownership
A PARTNER IN DATA PROTECTION
By combining the unique strengths of Western Digital technologies, IT can get the benefits of cloud in their own datacenter and finally get off of tape. Deploying object storage on Ultrastar platforms enables a highly scalable and durable private or hybrid cloud for data protection and long-term retention at a cost and scale that rivals tape.
Hybrid Cloud Solutions: DATA PROTECTION
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Software Defined Storage
SOFTWARE DEFINED STORAGE
From Public Cloud to Hybrid Cloud
Enterprises are rolling out multi-cloud structures, combining external cloud vendors with internal private clouds. This enables them to avoid vendor lock in and to balance operational versus capital expenditures.
Modern private clouds have evolved beyond SANs; using software-defined storage instead. While this shift reduces cost, it definitely increases complexity, since storage and compute are intermingled, and there is no clear differentiation between the two. Architectures, such as all flash for speed or hybrid for capacity, each require different components for optimal performance.
A TRUSTED PARTNER FOR HYBRID CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS
The private cloud portion of the hybrid cloud requires both speed and capacity. Our complete portfolio of NVMe and SAS SSDs, combined with capacity hard drives and even Ultrastar servers and JBODs makes it easier to build private clouds.
Hybrid Cloud Solutions: Software defined storage
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HYBRID CLOUD EXPERTS AGREE
Having object or cloud storage available, both on-premises and at an external cloud provider, has numerous advantages. For DR, as an example, object storage systems can automatically replicate data between on-prem and cloud site, making DR management simple and cost effective.
SOURCE: OVERCOMING THE HYBRID CLOUD STORAGE PROBLEM BY GEORGE CRUMP (STORAGE SWITZERLAND, 2/27/18)
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Disclosures
1. Source: Cloud Wars 2017: a Guide to Hybrid Cloud by Bill Kleyman (Data Center Knowledge quoted Gartner, 11/28/17) 2. ource: Big Data Facts by Vishal Kumar, Analytics Week, 3/26/17) 3. Source: Cloud traffic projected to represent 95% of global data center traffic by 2021: Study by Staff Writer, ETCIO.com quoted Cisco Global Cloud Index (2016-2021), 2/7/18) 4. IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2018 Predictions by IDC Analysts (made available by SAP, October 2017) it publicly available.
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