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Comme pour célébrer le premier anniversaire de l’acquisition de Cleversafe, IBM a décidé qu’il fallait désormais monter la technologie de stockage objet dans le Cloud afin de proposer le très recherché continuum de l’environnement hybride.

IBM n’a jamais véritablement caché ses ambitions en la matière. Faciliter les déploiements hybrides de la solution faisait déjà partie de sa feuille de route dès le rachat en octobre 2015. Mais jusqu’à ce mois d’octobre 2016, Big Blue ne proposait qu’une offre Cleversafe sur site ou dans un environnement dédié dans son Cloud.

Comme le précise Russ Kennedy, vice-président en charge de la stratégie produit chez IBM, le groupe a beaucoup travaillé à étendre le multi-tenant jusqu’alors limité de son cloud public. L’idée est de lui faire supporter des millions de tenants concurrents, certes, mais aussi d’y intégrer la technologie cœur de Cleversafe.

Selon lui, les clients disposent de toute la flexibilité nécessaire pour stocker leurs données dans le Cloud et les rapatrier par la suite sur site, ou vice-versa. Et IBM travaille aussi à y intégrer des fonctions plus abouties en matière d’automatisation, « lorsque la prise de décision peut reposer par exemple sur un niveau d’usage ou d’accès aux ressources ou encore à certains paramètres qui détermine le bon emplacement des workloads. »

Les services IBM Cloud Object Storage sont désormais disponibles pour les clients aux Etats-Unis, en Asie et en Europe, et ce en trois modèles :

Standard. Il s’agit de l’offre bâtie su Cleversafe pour répondre aux performances élevées. Elle supporte les APIs de stockage objet comme S3 ou Openstack Swift.

Vault. Cette offre à bas coût est davantage adaptée à l’archivage, à la sauvegarde ou toutes autres workloads où les données ne sont pas sollicitées fréquemment.

Dedicated. Cette offre, single-tenant, d’IBM Objet Storage, est hébergée sur des serveurs dédiés dans les datacenters d’IBM Cloud. Elle est disponible soit sous la forme de service managé, soit auto managé.

Russ Kennedy soutient que la technologie SecureSlice de Cleversafe permet aux entreprises de ne  pas avoir à gérer les clés de chiffrement. SecureSlice chiffre automatiquement chaque segment de données. IBM Cloud Accesser réassemble ensuite les données dans le datacenter du client et SecureSlice les déchiffre enfin.

IBM Cloud Object Storage comporte aussi des options de répartition et de distribution géographiques. Le service multi-région permet par exemple d’envoyer des données segmentées dans au moins 3 régions différentes. La solution permet aussi de stocker des données dans plusieurs datacenters d’une région.

IBM opère pas moins de 50 datacenters dans le monde, dont entre 12 et 15 en Amérique du nord.  IBM Cloud Object Storage devrait être accessible en Asie d’ici à la fin de l’année. D’autres régions suivront en 2017, assure le responsable.

Selon un billet de blog, le service est facturé au Go sur une base mensuelle. Des coûts sont également facturés pour les transactions. De son côté, la solution sur site se vend à partir d’un modèle de licence, facturé à la capacité ou via un abonnement.

Pour Scott Sinclair, analyste au sein du cabinet Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), qui cite un sondage ESG, les clients identifient Microsoft Azure et IBM comme les concurrents les plus sérieux d’AWS.

Selon lui, pouvoir utiliser la solution de stockage objet à la fois sur site et dans le Cloud est un avantage. Car les fournisseurs de technologies de stockage utilisent souvent des implémentations différentes ; disposer de la même technologie dans les deux environnements assure une certaine tranquillité d’esprit aux utilisateurs. De plus, en s’appuyant sur un unique partenaire pour les deux plateformes, les clients savent à quoi s’attendre en termes de services et de support.

« Plus le nombre de fournisseurs est élevés, plus cela demande du travail. Et ce travail nécessite des ressources », explique-t-il.

Pour Russ Kennedy, la croissance exponentielle de l’information pousse les utilisateurs à considérer de près les coûts, les capacités de dimensionnement et les gains en matière de gestion proposés par le stockage objet – surtout comparé aux systèmes de stockage traditionnels.

« Le stockage objet rencontre encore une forme de résistance », affirme-t-il. « Toutes les applications n’ont aujourd’hui pas la capacité de supporter le stockage objet au même titre que le stockage traditionnel, en mode fichier ou bloc. Mais cela commence à changer. Et cela est notamment dû aux migrations vers le Cloud. »

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If you have to work with an “on premise” instance of Cleversafe, chances are there is a firewall that you must go through. If you have your app running on a service such as Bluemix where you don’t have control over which IP the server uses to make the requests, this guide might be useful for you.

You can click here to use this tutorial on how to set up a static IP to your Bluemix app to set up a Statica proxy. Once you have that set up you will have a URL that will contain your credentials.

Now that you have your proxy set up, you will need your IT team to whitelist the static IP’s given to you by Statica. Now lets see some sample code to access Cleversafe through the proxy:

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//We will use the request module to make the calls to Cleversafe //and the fs-extra to read the files from the local storage var request = require('request'); var fs = require('fs-extra'); var statica = "http://<Your Statica URL goes here>" //cleversafe Credentials var username = '<cleversafe username>'; var pass = '<cleversafe password>'; //BASIC authentication method var auth = 'Basic ' + new Buffer(username + ':' + pass).toString('base64'); //Set up proxy and method to deposit files var options = { url: 'http://<Cleversafe address>/<Bucket name>/<filename>', proxy:statica, port: 80, method: 'PUT', headers: { 'Authorization':auth, 'User-Agent': '<User agent of your choice>' } }; function callback(error, response, body) { if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) { console.log(body); } } //Deposit your file to Cleversafe fs.createReadStream('<filename>').pipe(request(options, callback));

Now a bit of explaining.

The Statica proxy settings are being set inside the “options” object, we are setting the proxy for the request by using the url as the value for the field “proxy”, this will tell the request module to send all the requests through Statica and that way we can access Cleversafe even behind the firewall.

The Cleversafe authorization we are using is the BASIC method. This method consists of a string in the form “Basic <username>:<password>” that is then turned into a base64 string, Cleversafe is also compatible with other methods of authentication but in this case, BASIC worked just fine for me. The authorization goes inside the headers object by setting the field “Authorization” to the hashed string that comes from line 15.

In order to retrieve objects from Cleversafe, you just need to change the method from PUT to GET. Here is an example where the server works as an intermediary between the client and Cleversafe to return an image to the client:

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app.get('/cleverget/:filename', function(req,res) { console.log("getting.."+req.params.filename+ ' from CleverSafe'); var options = { url: 'http://<Cleversafe address>/<Bucket name>/<filename>', proxy:statica, port: 80, method: 'GET', headers: { 'Authorization':auth, 'User-Agent': '<User agent of your choice>' } }; function callback(error, response, body) { if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) { console.log(body); } } //in this case the example is an image res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type' : 'image/png'}); //pipe back the image to the client request(options, callback).pipe(res); });

This example requires Express to be properly set up. A very good thing is that we are not storing the image but simply sending it to the client via piping. That way, the client does not get direct access to Cleversafe and there is no need to set up the proxy or client credentials for it.

These are just 2 basic operations of Cleversafe, there are many more to be used. Don’t be afraid to experiment and modify the requests to make it fit your needs. Feel free to comment or send us any questions you might have!

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Cleversafe and Carahsoft Team to Help Government Agencies Tackle Big Data Challenges With Limitless, Cloud-Based Data Storage

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Solutions Now Available on Carahsoft GSA Schedule Chicago, IL / Reston, VA (PRWEB) May 24, 2012

Cleversafe Inc., the solution for limitless data storage, and Carahsoft Technology Corp., the trusted government IT solutions provider, today announced a partnership that will make Cleversafes award-winning software and hardware solutions available to government agencies interested in improving compliance with a myriad of IT mandates. Cleversafes award-winning technology offers government customers a reliable, cost-effective solution capable of scaling to the exabyte level and beyond while securing data both at rest and in transit.

Federal agencies are starting to realize that traditional storage systems dont effectively scale and cannot provide the level of security, multi-site availability and reliability that federal initiatives are demanding, said Chris Gladwin, CEO of Cleversafe Inc. Were very excited to partner with Carahsoft to provide limitless data storage solutions to federal customers to address their needs for cloud-based dispersed storage in the most challenging Big Data environments.

Cleversafes object-based storage solution is 100 million times more reliable than traditional RAID-based systems. Its information dispersal capabilities reduce storage costs up to 90 percent while helping federal agencies meet policies and initiatives for cloud storage, data center consolidation, security and multi-site disaster recovery.

The dsNet solution ensures protection against data loss, whether its latent hardware errors, data corruption or malicious threats. Cleversafe virtualizes, transforms and disperses data using patented Information Dispersal Algorithms and distributes the data in slices to separate disks, storage nodes and across geographic locations. Even with individual servers or entire sites down, data can easily be reconstructed and retrieved in real time, bit perfectly.

Were pleased to add Cleversafe to our portfolio of technologies that address the governments big data challenges and look forward to driving demand for these products throughout the federal market place, said Michael Shrader, Vice President of Innovative Solutions at Carahsoft. Cleversafe delivers highly scalable, secure and reliable data storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions making it a perfect option for our government customers and partners.

Cleversafe solutions are now available on Carahsofts GSA Schedule No. GS-35F-0119Y. For more information, view “Cloud and Big Data: An Efficient and Limitless Approach to Data Storage, an on-demand webcast sponsored by Cleversafe and Carahsoft, or contact Michael Adams at Carahsoft at 703-871-8681.

About Cleversafe Cleversafe has created a breakthrough technology that solves petabyte and beyond big data storage problems. This solution drives up to 90 percent of the storage cost out of the business while enabling secure and reliable global access and collaboration. The world’s largest data repositories rely on Cleversafe. To learn more about Cleversafe and its solutions, please visit http://www.cleversafe.com, call 312-423-6640 or email us at sales(at)cleversafe(dot)com.

About Carahsoft Carahsoft Technology Corp. is the trusted Government IT solutions provider. As a top-ranked GSA Schedule Contract holder, Carahsoft serves as the master government aggregator for many of its best-of-breed vendors, supporting an extensive ecosystem of manufacturers, resellers, and consulting partners committed to helping government agencies select and implement the best solution at the best possible value.

The companys dedicated Solutions Divisions proactively market, sell and deliver Adobe, VMware, Symantec, EMC, F5 Networks, Open Source, HP, SAP, and Innovative and Intelligence products and services among others. Carahsoft is consistently recognized by its partners as a top revenue producer, and is listed annually among the industry’s fastest growing firms by VAR500, CRN, Inc., Washington Technology, Washington Business Journal, and SmartCEO. Visit us at http://www.carahsoft.com.

Contact: Deborah Mullan Lois Paul and Partners, for Cleversafe 925-383-7765

Mary Lange Carahsoft 703-431-8485

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