 good afternoon everyone my name I am the president of the crevasse John Morris I used to work for IBM in Tokyo but the Japanese is very difficult but I can speak English very easily so and I will now stop confusing the translators in the back for a minute because they were expecting me to speak English but welcome to our session and thank you very much and sorry we're starting a few minutes late with some technical difficulties but I'm here to talk about Cleversafe and give you a quick overview of the company in our offering and then turn the stage to our esteemed customer KDDI Mr. Maihara from KDDI we'll talk a little bit more about the specific implementation of Cleversafe at KDDI we're very proud of our installation there and I want to thank Maihara San very much for his partnership and for joining us here on this stage. We are a Chicago based company in the United States we have all of our research and development and corporate headquarters locations in Chicago I'm very proud that we have a company based on very strong innovation in a brand new area of storage technology and as a result we've been fortunate to be awarded more than 350 patents for our work in storage. As a result of some of the work that we've done over the last number of years with our customers we have secured some recognition by the industry that in this relatively new area of object storage Cleversafe has has been awarded the notification as a leader in this space by both the Forester Group and by IDC and one of the things which is driving us very dramatically and the kind of the beginning point of our company was the fact that there are the content that is being driven in the web in particular the individual objects are each getting much larger so whether it's photographs or video or genomic information these areas are all getting much larger and then the network effect of the internet and the worldwide web is causing these things to expand dramatically in terms of the number so you have both these factors larger objects and more of them driving a huge amount of data requirements such that the dominant data sources today that are driving storage needs actually are this content driven or unstructured data and as you see on the slide it's already the majority of the data that's being driven for storage and it's growing at 60 per cent per year and this IDC chart predicts that by 2017 almost 80 percent of all data being stored will be this unstructured type of data so what's the problem the problem is that legacy storage was all created to optimize storage for structured data not for unstructured data we saw this problem and decided that we would start with a clean sheet of paper for the way to design a storage system optimized for unstructured data the kind of data being driven by content around the world and because of the storage we've created we've been fortunate enough to earn a leadership role number one we lead in scale we're the only storage company that has multiple customers over a hundred petabytes in size we have a shared nothing architecture which actually gets more efficient as it gets larger in addition where the number one in security we encrypt data immediately it's encrypted both in motion and at rest and it's done in a carrier grade manner so that you can really rely upon the security of the data we're number one in manageability according to Gartner the average storage administrator manages around 300 terabytes of storage the average administrator on a clever safe system manages more than five petabytes of data so more than a 15 times improvement in the efficiency with which a customer can manage this data we're number one in availability we can deliver multiple nines of availability at an amazing a level of efficiency which typically saves the average customer 80% compared to legacy storage and can even beat public cloud economics as I'll show you in a few more slides one of the reasons we can do this is our software only based solution runs on almost any industry standard x86 hardware so I'd like to give you just a moment's point of view from sky very large media company located in the United Kingdom and a couple of their customers who talked for just a minute or so about their clever safe implementation we were looking at our internally code named bulk storage and we knew this was growing to hundreds of terabytes petabytes and a lot of manual intervention for things like DR and our business was really wanting a 24 by 7 operation at the heart of sky we're about content right and as a media television company we have a huge amount of unstructured data and we need a storage platform that enables us to support the data that we have today but also scale for us so that we can meet the needs of tomorrow we start looking at object storage lots of a lot of people some enterprise vendors some new companies and we really liked what we saw clearly like the technology so we sort of meeting with them and it was a very close cultural feel very very quick when any technology that we choose security is part of the most paramount decision that we that we kind of look at in evaluation clever safe approach to software engineering has been to make sure that security is a theme for their development life cycle and we can see that in the product today as a customer it's really simple we need to more we buy some commodity hardware and we plug it in expand the clever safe installation it's really really simple stomachs and very agile and accessibility to the storage is all done by restful aviators it's all incredibly fast no need to talk to us half the time just go via a going to face the straight into the clever safe technology they're brilliant cultural fit they've worked with us in a number of initiatives to build the product and extend the product right to get it right for us and it's great to see a young company with that kind of agility and their commitment to work with their customers that's really meant a lot for us so my thanks to sky for that video we'll skip over a couple of slides this is the wrong deck okay so let me share the summary of the of the financial situation the the the data on the right actually came from the sky analysis that they completed themselves and this data will show that that compared to a traditional nas implementation clever safe drives dramatic savings even if in the case of sky you're also purchasing a nas gateway in order to provide a connection to sifts you still get dramatic savings with the clever safe platform and on the left side you see that even compared to the s3 most recent reduction on the s3 side the savings are still very dramatic for a clever safe platform even compared to Amazon web services s3 especially as you get larger and larger size implementations because we're at OpenStack the main reason that we're here we started two or three years ago becoming committed to the OpenStack movement and in fact we the slides there we are okay committed to the OpenStack movement when we announced our swift interface native Swift interface directly into our into our clever safe platform and then later on we added the capability to use Keystone for authentication which I think is an important piece of being able to participate in a full OpenStack environment and we decided earlier this year to join the OpenStack Foundation and begin to work on contributing some capabilities in particular into the Swift interface so that we can help strengthen the Swift interface itself and the way that object storage works in an OpenStack world so we're very thrilled to be part of the OpenStack community these days so it you may have noticed that on October 5th of this year there was an announcement that IBM and clever safe made together and with this announcement we noted that we had signed a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire a clever safe we expect that that transaction will close sometime before the end of the fourth quarter will close within the fourth quarter hopefully within the next few weeks and at that time our customers will begin to have an additional set of options for how they can acquire a clever safe technology today clever safe is sold as an on-premises storage solution a traditional sort of a storage model but once we are part of IBM we'll work to very rapidly be able to provide access to the clever safe benefits via any of the cloud methodologies either the private cloud implementation on a customer's premises managed by IBM or a dedicated hardware on IBM's premises or a pure public cloud implementation or some hybrid between those three cloud models and a traditional on-premises model which many customers many large enterprises want this kind of you know variety or hybrid in their approach and I'm very excited that our partnership with IBM and becoming part of IBM will be able to provide this kind of alternative and option for our customers so I'm happy to take questions on any of that as we get to the end of this this presentation but for now I'd like to bring up my friend our customer Mr. Myhada Myhadasan has been engaged with us from the very beginning he's been challenging he's been supportive and I really appreciate his joining us today he is the department manager in the cloud development organization at KDDI one of the most important companies in the service provider space in Japan please join me in welcoming Myhada Myhadasan. Thank you very much for the kind introduction I'm Marahara from KDDI. KDDI is a telecom company and it has a cloud development division and that's what I'm in charge of and we also provide cloud services to our customers so today I would like to share with you what is happening in the carrier cloud space and cover space is a very high quality object storage and specifically how does a carrier use it that's what I want to share with you today and this is the first example of how we use Cleversafe at KDDI this is AU consumer cloud example AU is the mobile phone business of KDDI now AU cloud service started in 2012 so the idea is you store data within your smart device such as photographs videos and also contact information and instead of storing in the device you can store it in the cloud using our services and approximately one year after the service started around 2013 things changed people traditionally stored photographs in within the device or within the SD card inside the device but around 2013 people started storing the data on the cloud and it became really popular and that led to this dramatic growth and this cloud service now stores 1.1 billion photographs and 30 million this is a video so this is a multi petabyte class cloud now that's what's grown into but behind this fast growth there were many challenges we had to face the capacity had to be increased quickly several tens of terabytes of increase on a day-to-day basis and we were using scale out type storage but it did come with its limitations another challenge was quality according to our calculation traditional rate and storage if we continue to use those technologies we knew that once we have to deal with the many project objects we knew that we would end up with the worst possible scenario so it was imminent for us to find a path to better quality in a different way cost reductions also important storage continuous increase we begin to run out of space so cost reduction was absolutely necessary for KDDI so KDDI made a decision to shift from traditional storage to clever safe and there were three main reasons behind this and the first reason was scalability clever safe provides truly seamless scalability object storage a type storage come in traditionally two ways one is called master type and the other one's called a P2P type and the master model storage has to use a master node within its configuration and master node is in charge of controlling whether data gets stored so you have to ask the master node whether data resides before you can access that piece of data and it's very easy to make sure that there is a variance but a master node can become single port of failure or bottleneck what about the other model P2P model there is no master node in the configuration and depending on the type of the data stored the position is decided uniquely so fast access is possible however this position has to be recalculated every time so it's difficult for capacity expansion so there was limitation with scalability now we decided to use clever safe which takes the best of the two worlds master model and P2P model metadata the location data can also be dispersed as information within the storage so it provides fast access to data and there is no problem with scalability and they can continue to increase the capacity to several petabytes without any problem and in fact after clever safe was introduced we continue to increase the capacity several times and we have never experienced any operational issues now second aspect or reason for choosing clever safe was quality so this is a standard support of multiple regions crossing multiple regions and this kind of storage was not available at the time in 2011 we experienced a major earthquake in Japan and the regional dispersion of data was very important distribution of data was very important as a trend and KDDI has a three different data centers and in order to make sure that there is disaster recovery we used three sites and can you count how many lines are listed here on the slide these actually 14 lines this storage is robust enough to provide 14 lines and for example if site 2 is completely damaged destroyed due to a natural disaster clever safe can still reproduce the data completely without anything missing so that is the second reason why we chose clever safe the third reason we chose clever safe was cost reduction you saw how many lines there were on the slide so you must assume that there's so many copies of the original data must be made to ensure high reliability on the left hand side we have traditional technology such as mirroring and copying and if we do this we basically need four times the capacity of the original data to ensure DR but with erasure coding we only need 1.7 times of the capacity of the original data and still achieve 14 lines at the same time in terms of quality so since we started the AU cloud service the availability has been completely 100% even with conventional storage for example we had to duplicate a controller and also we need to connect a lot of discs and still we cannot achieve 100% after many years of operation but with clever safe it's completely 100% now let me talk about the next example how KDDI uses clever safe for enterprise cloud service we have something called KCPS KDDI cloud cloud platform service which is IS infrastructure as a service so KCPS is the abbreviation this cloud service is quite unique whether you choose public or private both models are available and also this is a carrier grade cloud so HA function is already built in so HA is provided without fail and I want to talk about what's on the underneath this system in other words there is a Taiwanese ODIM vendor such as WeStron and Quanta and what KDDI does is purchase servers directly from these ODIM manufacturers for this KCPS these ODIM vendors became really famous because of Facebook and also larger server vendors but we have been using these servers from ODIM vendors right from the beginning and I know that there are other carriers within Japan that use the ODIM vendor service but in terms of total number of servers purchased from these vendors used in the data center KDDI has the largest set of servers now we are telecom carrier so network is our strength and this is a photograph of an optical network unit you may think it's actually beautiful maybe you get you don't get to see this very often but this is the unit within the data center now what's really unique about what we do is that we can provide truly direct connection between cloud and these circuits this is only possible if you are a carrier and this is what makes a KDDI and KCPS very unique so the customers would use this a service called wide area virtual switch and they'll be able to connect the cloud and the internet so this is a very safe and they give you a huge piece of mind so within Japan we are now one of the largest IAS providers in terms of actual number of servers for example as you can see on the slide and you can see a very dynamic growth there on the right hand side you can see the screen capture of the admin console which is used to manage the IAS and this console was developed in-house using agile method so this admin console was developed in-house now since we're talking about KCPS let me talk about the fact that we have started providing object storage services in September with high-level security and strong peace sense of peace of mind I talked about a cloud high availability basically 100% and we applied the same technology to enterprise cloud so the spec is the same 14 nines and we still use the same model distributed storage in three different physically different data centers but that's not all there is much more we have truly focused on safety and peace of mind so the network network is completely closed so you can use closed network to access object storage it's not internet it's a direct closed network connection and storage houses very important data so idea and password protection is not enough some customers are worried about safety security so we have decided to introduce multifactor authentication so that the network circuit and ID can be somehow linked and every piece of data that comes into the service encrypted and then sliced which provides a very high level of security in terms of data protection now switching gears somewhat let me talk about the future of the carrier cloud what is going to happen to this space I don't mean to preach your preachers you're all experts here today but I need to say this the environment is already changing very fast and will continue to change very fast so we need to be agile we need to accelerate the speed that with which we move forward and also mobile devices by 2015 we already have 1.8 billion units of smart devices being shipped globally and in terms of network traditionally networks were based on hardware boxes but now we're talking about programmable and software defined network for everything we do so these are the environmental changes that we need to face but what we'll do is continue to provide safe and secure cloud to support the customers through these changes now in terms of our faster speed velocity as I mentioned briefly KDI already conduct agile development for KCS portal and you can see the names of tools here JIRA bamboo these are some of the newer tools and we do in-house agile development so we have many scrum teams I can't even count how many because there are so many so KDI has to be more agile in order to help our customers to enjoy an environment that is more agile we need to change ourselves some customers say cloud service is such a black box so in order to provide transparency we provide a cloud blog which shows availability and also all the details of the faults that have happened all this information is open and available and here you can see a snapshot of the portal screen 2015 Q3 we achieved 99.998 percent availability for KCPS so that's all the slides and I shared with you how we run cloud services at KDI which is a telecom carrier and also what kind of piece of technologies support our cloud and most importantly clever safe is the technology thank you very much for your kind attention we'll be happy to entertain your questions now so my question is KDI already has many existing storage right so how do you integrate that with clever safe sorry well integration meaning I'm not really quite sure about this definition of your integration well initially we have been using the traditional stretch we kept them as they are and the newly stored data only being distributed to clever safe so that is our first step in our second step those traditional stretch migration to clever safe the data migration was carried out in the second step that's how we had integrated those two thank you clever safe has this worldwide data centers and you can introduce implement in multiple regions so within clever safe if you pick the furthest two data centers from each other how far are they from each other with example of KDI we distributed within Japan at the global level I'm sure Morris can answer the question we have customers we have one customer who's headquartered in the United Kingdom in the England they're running clever safe across nine data centers which are all around the world and clever safe technology can handle multiple data centers very very easily across you know even a worldwide single DS net or a single name space in the storage most of our customers are more similar to KDI where they're running on three or four data centers within a single country you know across the US but from a latency standpoint it's very easy to handle worldwide latency or even you know cross-continental latency within the within the United States thank you for the question okay thank you very much for your attention