Topics in Storage Research Rahul Iyer, Arkady Kanevsky Network Appliance
Basic Company Facts Headquarters in Sunnyvale $2.07 Billion Headquarters in Sunnyvale Other engineering sites in Pittsburgh, RTP, Boston, and Bangalore Fastest growing storage company 4 consecutive years of 30%+ growth 75,000+ systems installed worldwide #1 in NAS Terabytes shipped (68 Petabytes last quarter) #1 market share in NAS space (45%) Unified SW architecture for diverse apps HPC with ONTAP GX Cluster On-line compliant archive with NearStore Simple, appliance-like management $2.0B $1.5B $1B $500M Revenue Growth September 18, 2018
Technology Highlights 2006 Scalable cluster storage (ONTAP GX) 2005 Decru: in-band data encryption 2004 RAID-DP™ disk fault tolerance 2003 iSCSI storage system 2002 Unified SAN/NAS appliance 2001 Near-line storage appliance 1996 Multiprotocol appliance (NFS & CIFS) 1993 NAS appliance: WAFL and Snapshots September 18, 2018
Research and Advanced Development One dedicated AD Group 12 members and growing Dispersed across most engineering sites Works in areas relevant to NetApp’s business Charter Finding solutions to fundamental storage problems Working closely with engineering Making a direct impact on products External collaborations Publications University research September 18, 2018
Advanced Development Group Research Areas Clustering Expanding the ONTAP GX clustered architecture Virtual Machines technology High-performance parallel data access pNFS NFS-RDMA, iSER Metadata and content indexing Exploiting FS information Tracing and workload characterization NFS and CIFS traces Component failure analysis and prediction File Systems Data-centric management September 18, 2018
Areas that need Investigation Data and Information Management Limited admin “neurons per byte” Tiers of system autonomy Manual administration Manual handling of exceptional cases Can we have a fully autonomous system? Datasets Define properties for data Scaling out namespaces Data grows with time Need to stitch namespaces together September 18, 2018
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