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Storage Strategy for the new Millennium

Storage Strategy for the new Millennium. Today’s issues. Across the Enterprise. Managing the growth. Managing across the Enterprise. Resources and skill sets. Budgets, justifications and ROI. The world today. They said it was going to get easier. What is the message?.

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Storage Strategy for the new Millennium

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  1. Storage Strategy for the new Millennium

  2. Today’s issues • Across the Enterprise. • Managing the growth. • Managing across the Enterprise. • Resources and skill sets. • Budgets, justifications and ROI. • The world today • They said it was going to get easier.

  3. What is the message?

  4. Terabyte intensity index is increasing dramatically • Disk storage system TB shipments are increasing almost 80% per year. • Storage managers must improve efficiency more than 60% per year. Source:IDC

  5. Skills shortage is increasing • Unfilled IT positions are growing more than 5% per year. • More than 1.8 million IT positions will be unfilled in 2003. • The networked world makes job-switching easier. • Storage management positions taking more than 4 months to fill. • DBA positions taking 12 months to fill. Source:IDC

  6. Chairman/CEO 3Com AOL Time Warner Cisco Compaq Dell EMC Eastman Kodak Hewlett-Packard Intel Lexmark Microsoft Motorola StorageTek Unisys

  7. Storage Related Business Issues: Storage Management - the REAL cost of Storage … the cost of managing data per megabyte can range from five to ten times the cost of the physical storage medium. John Webster - Illuminata Inc. Storage Analyst and IT adviser For every dollar that a company spends on storage, it can expect to spend ten times that sum in management costs. “The Holy Grail of Data Storage Management” by Jon Toigo Prentice Hall, 2000 As storage hardware becomes an increasingly smaller portion of the total cost of storage infrastructure ownership, the value for suppliers and the largest expense for the customer moves from hardware to the management of storage. Storage Infusion by Fred Moore President Horison Information Strategies

  8. How do my people keep up with this growth rate? Storage Related BusinessIssues: Storage Growth & Too few People Storage Storage Admin. Staff RESOURCES TIME

  9. Application Server/Storage Population

  10. Application Server Heterogeneity IRIX NT AIX NT Linux Solaris HP-UX Solaris Win2000 Solaris NT HP-UX

  11. Problem Space Characteristics 90% 80% 80% 90% 40% 60% 40% 60% 50% 50%

  12. How can I at least minimize my “Planned” downtime? Storage Related Business Issues:The Cost of Downtime • The Effects of: • Adding new Storage • Upgrading Existing Storage • Servicing • Replacing • New Technology • Change is a constant in the Open Systems World

  13. Storage Administration and Management Storage Area Network The SAN TodayCost of Storage Management (People & Administration) • Today’s SAN solutions Partially address this issue • Storage is centralized • People Resources are Centralized • Homogeneous Solutions - One Vendors Storage, Server, or Software • Hosts are communicating to actual devices

  14. SAN Management

  15. What happens when you don’t have a strategy?

  16. HOW? • Doing more with LESS… • Less Storage Assets • Less People • Less Time • Less Administration and Management = $ Virtualization

  17. LUNs SSD DASD I/O Subsystem I/O Subsystem I/O Subsystem DASD I/O Subsystem CPU LUNs I/O Subsystem Disk Arrays Disk Arrays Mainframe SNAP Virtualization Products

  18. Types of Virtualization • Host based • Volume managers • Storage based • Virtualization done at a controller level – host platform independence • Network based • In band appliance • All data (control and user) flow through the appliance • High degree of security when volumes are accessed • Out of band appliance • Separate communication and data path • Agent software or special driver software required

  19. RAID 3 RAID 6+ RAID 5 Virtualization Results Server View Storage Admin/Mgmt View

  20. RAID 3 RAID 6+ RAID 5 Virtualization Results Storage Admin/Mgmt View Severless Backup HSM

  21. Media 2 mm Probe Tip Pitch 100µ x 100µ Sled Micro Electro-Mechnical Systems Micro Electro-Mechnical Systems Holographic Holographic Tip Electronics Electronics Electronics Arrays 1 cm Media media RAID 3 Coating on Bottom proximal probe tip Surface 1 cm RAID 6+ Sled motion - 100µ x 100µ XYZ movable suspension RAID 5 Virtualization Results Storage Admin/Mgmt View

  22. Measure the $avings !!!! SAN Plumbing Virtualization Change Assets Count Asset Utilization Planned Downtime StorageMgmt. Staff Efficiency

  23. Creating a storage strategy • Audit your environment • Think long term (5+ years) • Review current challenges • Prioritize business needs • Understand the data life cycle

  24. Nearline Application requirements SLA’s Disaster recovery needs Regulatory issues What Data goes where? High Performance Bulk Online Storage Nearline Offline

  25. What Technology do I use? DAS NAS Brocade GigE 10Gb SAN McData ISCSI Inrange Cisco 1Gb 2Gb SAN Point Control DAS WideSky

  26. Cross Site Backup Configuration Location A TCP/IP LAN MM Fibre Channel Location B SM Fibre Channel Switches FC tape drives Extended Coax Robot control

  27. Summary • A strategy is long term (not tactical) • Technology WILL change • Virtualization simplifies management • Business applications are driving technology • Need to react quickly to remain competitive

  28. Thank you

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