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This Presentation date is November 15, 2016 at 16:30 - 18:30.
Igneous Systems Introduction with Kiran Bhagesphur
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Kiran Bhagesphur, CEO at Igneous Systems, introduces their unique approach to Infrastructure as a Service. Their model is to bring the benefits of a cloud centric approach like IaaS to customers who aren’t willing or cannot move their data to the cloud. Kiran reviews the markets the company is targeting for their product, including financial services, machine generated automotive data, and biotech. Finally, he introduces the idea of their zero-touch infrastructure approach Igneous has designed from the ground up to meet the market need.
Personnel: Kiran Bhagesphur
Igneous Systems Hyperscale Management with Jeff Hughes
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Jeff Hughes, CTO at Igneous, reviews how their solution took inspiration from hyperscale software efficiency. Igneous designed their solution to bring hyperscale fleet management techniques to their local storage IaaS offering, including auto-provisioning, automated granular upgrades within a SLA, and proactive failure management. From this, they can derive insights based on how different setup configurations impact performance and reliability for their entire customer base. They’ve combined this with a consumer inspired hardware install, with a simple “out of the box” setup.
Personnel: Jeff Hughes
Igneous Systems Administration Demo with Christian Smith
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Christian Smith, VP of Product at Igneous Systems, demos how the Igneous storage solution is administered. Overall, the system is heavy on automation. Administration is handled through a standard web interface, and provides an overview of the current storage, performance and capacity burn. From this monitoring, Igneous can monitor for outages on the customer side, as well as reach out when more capacity is needed. It also features full provisioning capabilities, with the ability to assign roles to manage provisioning without allowing access to underlying data.
Personnel: Christian Smith
Igneous Systems RatioPerfect Architecture with Jeff Hughes
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Jeff Hughes, CTO at Igneous Systems, reviews the design decisions behind their system architecture, which they call RatioPerfect. They’ve designed a system to help alleviate the I/O bottlenecks and larger fault domains inherent in putting a number of drives behind a single CPU node. After reviewing their design history, they hit upon their current product, a system around an array of nanoservers. Each hard drive in the array has a ARM CPU, so that a failure of any drive or CPU does not bring down anything else in the system. Their RatioPerfect architecture solution is to go 1:1.
Personnel: Jeff Hughes
Igneous Systems Continuous IaaS Delivery with Asif Daud
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Asif Daud, VP of Engineering at Igneous Systems, goes into a deep dive on how updates with the Igneous solution works. The update process prioritizes shipping features quickly and responding to customer feedback. This is done by issuing frequent granular updates, rolled out progressively to make sure there are no overall issues for customers. All updates are non-destructive, and can be easily rolled back by design to make sure customers are not disrupted.
Personnel: Asif Daud
Igneous Systems Datapath with Jeff Hughes
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Jeff Hughes, CTO at Igneous Systems, reviews why Igneous decided to design their own Datapath. After a six month review of open source options, they took a lot of inspiration from the Ceph project. Igneous uses an algorithm similar to CRUSH as used by Ceph to deterministically layout data across a distributed system. The overall built from scratch design prioritizes capacity and performance. To that effect, the system is designed to handle 4-8 concurrent failures.
Personnel: Jeff Hughes
