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POWERING THE CLOUD : 30th – 31st October 2012, Congress Frankfurt
SNW EUROPE; DATACENTER TECHNOLOGIES; VIRTUALIZATION WORLD
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How new storage solutions enable organizations
to reinvent themselves?
Presented by Christian Hagen Vice President EMEA & Managing Director,
DataCore Software
Session reference KN12 for your feedback forms
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How new storage solutions enable
organizations to reinvent
themselves?
Transforming constraints into opportunities
Christian Hagen
Vice President EMEA and Managing Director
DataCore Software Corporation
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What Constraints?
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Facilities
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Financial
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Physical
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Personnel
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► Different models
► Different generations
► Different vendors
► Different disk interfaces
Compatibility
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No one wants to hear your
problems, or your excuses
Solutions?
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Take a look from above
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Pool resources
Direct traffic with
automation
Manage centrally
Virtualize Storage for Organization
& Control
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Combines overall capacity
Makes disks shareable
Recovers inaccessible or isolated disk space
► No longer isolated
Hides equipment incompatibilities
► Standard server / app connections bridged to
device-specific interfaces
Pooling
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Allocates space just-in-time
► Thin provision small groups of disk blocks
► No waste
Dynamically directs workloads to most
appropriate resource
► Auto-tiering
► Determined by access frequency &
business rules (high priority override)
Device-independent
Automation
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Common menus & commands
► Across diverse equipment
Single console
► Status dashboard
► Performance view
► Consolidated notifications & alerts
External integration point
► Virtualization
Central Management
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Leverage nearby branch or colocation facility
Rent capacity from public cloud
Stage 2 – Beyond Your Walls
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Continue operations despite facility problems
► Equipment upgrades / maintenance
► Air conditioning / ventilation
► Construction
► Water leaks
► Etc.,
Mirror or replicate critical volumes to a secondary
site
► Auto-failover within metropolitan area
► Take advantage of different storage devices
Under a Different Roof
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Archive or disaster recovery copies
Rent temporary space
► Short term, unexpected demand
Low-cost expansion
The Public Cloud Option
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Users and apps can’t tell
► Storage hypervisor makes it transparent
Same principles merely extended
► Pooling
► Automation
► Central management
Off-premises storage appears to be
local
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Apparent limitations removed
Optimal use of available resources
► Take full advantage of existing capacity
► Defer acquisition of more disks
Higher levels of service
► Rapidly provision space
► Remove storage-related disruptions
► Speed up app response
Outcome
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Flexible like a Cloud
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QUESTIONS
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