Building on the concepts presented in the Introduction to Swordfish sessions, this session will go into more detail on the new Swordfish Scalable Storage Management API specification, including details of the Swordfish Class of Service concepts, structure and usage. It will also cover details of constructing file vs block systems. The deep-dive will also provide a look at the schema, and the ability to support both RESTful and OData clients.

Honeywell has implemented Hyper Converged and Converged Storage Platforms for entire SAP landscape recently. This presentation will outline our journey over the last few years to discuss how we are adopting the industry trends w.r.t to storage platforms and offerings from various vendors.

Performance is very critical for running large scale ERP systems like SAP. Using HCIS and HC storage platforms, we are able to address the performance, HA and DR requirements.

There are many technologies that are hyped. Four thought leaders from across the industry will sit down and have a discussion on persistent memory. Come to this session and hear from DreamWorks Animation, GridGain, AeroSpike, and Oracle about their journey of turning hype into reality.

In the last couple of years, the case for HPC in the cloud is growing stronger. But still, the HPC industry lies far behind enterprise IT in its willingness to outsource computational power. One of its reason being storage - as none of the built-in storage solutions available across the public cloud providers are suitable for applications with high bandwidth requirements. A parallel, clustered file system built on top of block storage (Ex: AWS EBS) forms a good solution.

The advents of big data-sets and high-speed GPUs are fueling the growth in analytics, machine learning and deep learning techniques. In this talk we explore how to run high throughput analytics on data that resides in inexpensive object storage without the need to pre-load or stage the data.

Latest trends in software-defined storage push for hyper-convergence where compute, networking and storage are combined within one device. In this talk, we share an update since our last talk at SDC 2016. We present results from our ongoing R&D work on heterogeneous multi-processing where we combine ARM-processors for control plane functionality and dataflow architectures in FPGAs to handle data processing in networked storage systems at 100 GigE line-rates, and beyond.

Latest trends in software defined storage indicate emergence of hyper-convergence where compute networking and storage are combined within one device. In this talk, we introduce a novel architecture to implement such a node in one device. The unique features include a combination of ARM-processors for control plane functionality and dataflow architectures in FPGAs to handle data processing. We leverage a novel hybrid memory system mixing NVMe drives and DRAM to deliver a multi-terabyte object store with 10Gbps access bandwidth.

Ceph, like many other distributed systems, has traditionally stored data on local file systems like XFS or btrfs. However, the mismatch between Ceph’s requirements and the POSIX interface provided by kernel file systems has a huge performance cost and requires a lot of complexity to provide data safety. BlueStore, an entirely new OSD storage backend, utilizes block devices directly, doubling performance for most workloads.

This presentation focuses on the scalability theme where Gluster storage had some troubles over the past. This isn't a reality any more. With features like brick multiplexing and an enhanced gluster management layer called GlusterD2 once can easily think about carving out more number of glusterfs volumes and expand nodes into the cluster to have scale more storage.

With industry starting journey towards Hybrid Cloud, after On-Prem to Cloud, the importance of storage which gives similar setup in all the type of environments is marked as very critical, more than ever. Gluster, being SDS, and available as application, can run in any of your environment. Be it on-prem hardware, Cloud, Virtualized environment, or even Containers. In this talk, we will see how Gluster can be the choice of your Hybrid Cloud Storage, and why we believe its the natural fit for this role.