greg schulz top storage trends 2008

Greg Schulz

Top Storage Trends 2008

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Industry Trends and Perspectives:What’s Hot For 2008

Greg Schulz, Founder & Sr. Analyst -The StorageIO GroupAuthor “Resilient Storage Networks” (Elsevier)


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A key question is, can you or yourbusiness afford the risk of data being lost or stolen?

Is more data being lost or stolen today than in the past?Industry Trends – Information Security

Lost tapes are actually on the decline, However…..

Encryption Data At Rest and In-Flight, FDE & Drive Trust, Host Software and Storage Encrypt, Key Management, Secure Digital Destruction Authorization, Authentication, Identity Management


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(SaaS) Software or Storage as a ServiceGrid, Cloud,

Web 2.0Out-source & In-source

Cell Phones, PDAs, Pocket PCs

Desktop PCs & Laptops

Mid-range & Servers

MainframesLPARs/VMs Open Networking Native Linux

From Proprietary to x86 & Hypervisors & Open

From Desktop to laptop x86 and VMs

Converged Phones & Computers

DistributeConsolidate

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Industry Trends – Compute ContinuumWe Are In A Consolidation Phase (Again!)

Client Server


• Shift from doing more with what you have, doing more with less

• Continued growth and shift towards unstructured data usage

• Emergence of data barns or bulk storage for unstructured data

• Unstructured data requires meta tools for management

• Boosting performance while improving storage utilization

• New data access patterns and lifestyles:– Old story: Data goes idle after so many days– New story: Data goes idle, then gets busy, then idle, then…– New story: Commercial I/O getting bigger, HPC small meta lookups– New story: Data stays put, how its accessed changes– New story: NFS & CIFS, HTTP & XML access– New story: Even databases using DIO & CIO on NAS– New story: SMB today, F1000, F500, F100 tomorrow!!!

Common challenges and issues – Old vs. New Rules!Industry Trends – Shifting Landscapes


Supply Demand

Limits on Generate & TransmissionRising Energy Costs and AvailabilityAging and expensive infrastructureEmerging Eco and ETS regulations

Growing data footprintMore servers & storage

Increase density, reduce costEHS, RoHS, WEEE, E-Waste

Balancing Act

See report “Analysis of EPA report to Congress” at www.storageio.com/xreports.htm

Focus on green house gases (GHG)Carbon Credit OffsetsEcological sustainment Power avoidanceSave moneyGlobal

Concern with available PowerEnergy rebates and certificates

Economic sustainmentEnergy efficiencyCost to be green

Local

Confusion leading to inactivity and missed opportunity

Messaging IssuesThe Green Gap

Industry Trends – Growing Green Gap


Consolidation

MaskOr MoveIssues

Reduce Data Footprint

Boost Energy Efficiency

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PCFE = Power, Cooling, Floor space, Environmental/EHSHot Storage Topic – PCFE aka “Green”

The Wheel Of Fortune: Economic and Ecological Sustainment


Infrastructure Resource Management(IRM) Functions and Activities

• Namespace and Virtualization• Measurements and Metrics• Monitoring and reporting• Modeling, analysis, planning• Resource usage and allocation• Performance and Capacity Plan• Thin Provisioning and purposing• Diagnostic and resolution• Change & configuration validation• Data protection and footprint reduction• Policy management and service levels• Facilities and asset management• Logical and physical security• Procurement and disposition

IT Infrastructure Resource Management (IRM)

Processes and ToolsProcesses and Tools

Hot Storage Topic – Cross Domain IRM


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Migration

Virtual Infrastructure

WebAppLinuxVM

EmailWindows

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FileLinuxVM

AppsUNIXVMPre/Post

Processing

VTL / Disk Library(Block or File) Tape Devices

Disk Storage

BackupServer

LAN, MAN or WAN

Vol-BVol-ASnapshots

Data MovementOver SAN or DAS

Hot Storage Topic – Data ProtectionOpportunity To Re-Architect Data Protection Practices

VCBs, Snapshots, Replication, Application

Aware, HA vs. BC/DR

D2D, D2D2D, D2T, D2D2T, VTLs,

Compress & Dedupe


Requires Real Resources: Server, Network, Storage, Facilities

FAN, LAN, SAN,WAN, MAN

Local PITSnapshots

Switch

FAN, LAN, SAN, MAN, WAN

Block LUNs(iSCSI & FC)

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Vol002File Sharing(NFS & CIFS)

ServersStorage

TapeRotation

Virtual Server Environment

Web

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Replicate

NetworkedVolumes &File Shares

Mainframes, Open Systems

Power, Cooling, Floor-space, Environmental (PCFE)

EmailMessagingDatabase, DSS

CAD,EDA,SW Dev.

SpreadsheetsPPTs, PDFsBilling, E-TailFile Serving

VolCD

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Video/Audio

Hot Storage Topic – IT Virtualization


Hot Storage Topic – Tiered StorageTier-0, 1, 2 etc: Different Categories and Price Bands

RAMFLASH

Fast HDD

FAT HDD

Tape &Optical

Tier-3Tier-0 Tier-1 Tier-2

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Mid-RangeSMBSOHO

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Different Price Bands and Categories

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CostService Level

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See “MAID Overview” and “IPM and MAID 2.0” reports at www.storageio.com


Hot Storage Topic – Clustered StorageThe Many Faces of Clustered Storage – Not Just for HPC!


I/O Virtualization – Converged Networks, IOV and FCoE

Traditional ApproachesSeparate Networks & Interconnects

(Fibre Channel, GbE, IBA, Etc.)

Evolving ApproachesUnified and Converged Interconnects

(Virtualized FC, GbE, FCoE, Etc.Physical Data Center Ethernet or IBA)

Hot Storage Topic – I/O Virtualization

I/O, I/O, Its Off To Virtual Work We Go…


• Develop an overall data foot reduction strategy– Address on-line primary, secondary and off-line data– Combine archiving, compression and de-dupe in strategy

• Archiving and pruning with data classification– Database, email, un-structured block and file– Big benefit, costly to deploy (people, hardware, software)

• Compression for on-line and off-line storage– Can be applied to most any data type for some benefit– On-line real-time compression for active primary data

• Single Instance Storage (SIS) & De-duplication– Initially targeted at backup and archive– Look into scaling capabilities and claims by vendors

See “Business Benefits of Data Footprint Reduction” www.storageio.com

Hot Storage Topics – Data Footprint ReductionArchiving, Compress (On and Off-line), De-duplication


• You Can’t Go Forward if You Can’t Go Back!

• You Can’t Delete What You Have Not Preserved– Assuming your data has some value, preserve before delete

• You Can’t Preserve What You Can’t Move– Automated or Manual Data Movement/Migration Tools

• You Can’t Move What You Don’t Manage– Rules and Polices Needed To Manage Migration Process

• You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Know About– Identify What Data, Files and Objects you have = Insight– Database vs. Unstructured data = Welcome to the new world!

Next To Final CommentsBasic Premises and Themes – This is Not Rocket Science!


• Many approaches depending upon your issues– Do more with what you have, maximize what you have

• Avoid simply moving IT problems around– Gain control of data and infrastructure management– Virtualization improves utilization, not necessarily performance

• Balance futures with what works today– Leverage what works, learn about the trends

• Where you can learn more:– SearchStorage and other TechTarget venues and seminars– www.storageio.com (see portfolio for articles etc)– www.greendatastorage.com various articles and links

Closing Comments


Questions


Thank You!

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