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Audience - European Journalists Occasion - Dell meeting, Stamford Bridge London Presenter(s) – Tony Lock
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Tony LockFreeform Dynamics Ltd
[email protected] 2008
www.freeformdynamics.com
The Joy Of Bits The Storage Landscape
Today and Tomorrow
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Challenges in Storage
► IT Trends► Virtualisation► Management► The Future ► Summary and Questions
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Today, business want to…► Reduce costs
● Reduce time to market / Leverage existing investments● Rationalise infrastructure / Reduce power consumption
► Increase agility● information on demand / Streamlining communications● Support business initiatives quickly & effectively● Proactive versus reactive
► Manage risk● Legal & regulatory / Security and privacy● Information & IT / Continuity / resilience / Protect brand
► Be good corporate citizens● Governance / External obligations / Internal improvement
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Storage Trends► Rapidly increasing volumes of data being generated
● Applications ● Data Base / Structured Material● E-Mail / Unstructured Data
► Social Site Usage growing rapidly● Facebook / MySpace / Schoolbank● Digital Images● Proactive versus reactive
► Managing storage growth is a major challenge● Data held for long time periods ● Archive / Destroyed at EOL ● Heterogeneous Platforms● Search / Retrieval
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Social Networking
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To what degree are the following used in your data centres and how is this changing?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Frequent disk todisk backup
High speed tapebackup
Simple mirroring ofstorage devices
Continuous dataprotection solutions
Smart distributeddata replication
High Medium Low
-40% -20% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80%
Decreasing Increasing
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Challenges in Storage
► IT Trends Today► Virtualisation► Management► The Future of Storage► Summary and Questions
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In your own mind, how clear is the rationale for adopting In your own mind, how clear is the rationale for adopting Virtualization? (250-4999 employees)Virtualization? (250-4999 employees)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Broad deployment ofbusiness applications on
x86 servers
Broad deployment ofbusiness applications on
other servers
Desktop / notebook PCs
Storage
Very clear Partially clear Not clear at all
The arguments for Storage and Desktop virtualization are less well developed or understood
The arguments for Storage and Desktop virtualization are less well developed or understood
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How much has your organisation adopted Virtualization in How much has your organisation adopted Virtualization in the following areas? (<250 employees)the following areas? (<250 employees)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
X86 Servers running critical applications
X86 Servers running other businessapplications
Other servers running critical applications
Other servers running other businessapplications
Infrastructure use (app servers, databaseserving etc.)
Desktop / notebook PCs
Storage
Standard for live systems Deployed for live systems in some areasEvaluating or preparing for live use Only for R&D testing etcNo current activity
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Which of the following do you regard as significant drivers Which of the following do you regard as significant drivers for implementing Virtualization - For Virtualized storage? for implementing Virtualization - For Virtualized storage? (>5000 employees)(>5000 employees)
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
Improving response to changing businessrequirements
Increasing IT service reliability
Improving operational service levelsInternal cost reduction, resource & space
optimisationReducing operational risk
Support for IT governance
Support for regulatory compliancePower consumption reduction /
optimizationGreen issues
Direct “cost reduction“ is not seen to be the most significant driver, unlike in most other areas of IT. Again this is true across all sizes of organization
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Has virtualization had an effect on your hardware Has virtualization had an effect on your hardware acquisition strategy? acquisition strategy?
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Tier 1: >5000 emps
Tier 2: 250-4999 emps
Tier 3: < 250 emps
Yes - we now buy all IT hardware with virtualization requirements in mindYes - but only in specific casesNot yet - but it mightNo
Virtualiz
ation is
changing
spending plans
Virtualiz
ation is
changing
spending plans
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Challenges in Storage
► IT Trends Today► Virtualisation► Management► The Future of Storage► Summary and Questions
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Storage Management Challenges► Managing growth
● Over half of organisations with >50 employees say managing the growth of “genuinely useful” and “superfluous” information is a burden
● Where to store it? / What protection does it need?● How long should it be kept on line or archived?
► How to find information rapidly when required?
► Storage Management tools are hard to use● Around half of organisations use more than one tool● Skills are difficult to obtain / maintain ● Functionality is incomplete
► Managing storage in virtualised environments is even harder
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Would you say that your organisation places the right level of importance on the 'management of IT'?
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Yes it's a top priority
Yes it's important, but simply keepingthe business running leaves little time for
anything else
No, but we know we have to improvemanageability in order to deliver what
the business needs
No, this isn't important at all
ANALYST COMMENTS
The biggest problem is obviously finding time to work on improvement initiatives.
Even though we know that investment in tools and/or training will free up time, this is one of those classic chicken-and-egg situations.
But in the question of investment, finding additional budget is always a challenge.
ANALYST COMMENTS
The biggest problem is obviously finding time to work on improvement initiatives.
Even though we know that investment in tools and/or training will free up time, this is one of those classic chicken-and-egg situations.
But in the question of investment, finding additional budget is always a challenge.
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How much impact on management and support How much impact on management and support processes do you see from the move to the use of processes do you see from the move to the use of virtualized storage systems? virtualized storage systems?
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Tier 1: > 5000 emps
Tier 2: 250-4999 emps
Tier 3: < 250 emps
Major impactSome impact, but no major changes requiredNoneHaven't worked it out yet
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How well do you think vendors support How well do you think vendors support heterogeneous virtualized storage? heterogeneous virtualized storage?
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Tier 1: > 5000emps
Tier 2: 250-4999emps
Tier 3: < 250emps
Very well indeed OK, but needs to be betterNot well at all Don't know
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Challenges in Storage
► IT Trends Today► Virtualisation► Management► The Future of Storage► Summary and Questions
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Virtualised ComputingPresentation Layer
Processing Layer
Data Management Layer
WebServers Portal
Server
MsgingServers
SecurityServerDir.
ServersIDServer
ProxyServer
AppServers
Integr’nServers
Trans’nServers
FileServers
DatabaseServers
AccessDevicesAccess
DevicesAccessDevices
Security & Access Management
Application & System Management
Data Management ILM and Power Costs visible as never before
WebServers Portal
Server
MsgingServers
SecurityServerDir.
ServersIDServer
ProxyServer
AppServers
Integr’nServers
Trans’nServers
FileServers
DatabaseServers
AccessDevicesAccess
DevicesAccessDevices
Security & Access Management
Application & System Management
Data ManagementMedia
Servers
Information Access – At All Times, and Fast with little / no IT intervention
Information Access – At All Times, and Fast with little / no IT intervention
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► Virtualisation = Flexibility● Networks, Storage, Servers● Applications – Web Services / OOA● Users – Access Infrastructure / Thin Clients / Browsers / Portals
► All costs will become highly visible● Power, People, Media, Access
► Service Management / Charge Back ● Effective Management is Essential
► Tiered Service / Tiered Storage will become the norm► Access to information at all times, from all locations, from the
entire history of the organisation
Future Infrastructure
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► iSCSI usage is growing● Slow start● Initial “lack of understanding”● Now being deployed, frequently under the covers
► Good fit for mid-market and SMB organisations● Price● Functionality● Understanding of IP networking● Workloads match capabilities
► Will spread into Enterprise● Branch office● Edge of network● Service Providers
IP Storage?
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Challenges in Storage
► IT Trends Today► Virtualisation► Management► The Future of Storage► Summary and Questions
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► Virtualisation = Reality► From ‘data storage’ to ‘information management’► Service Management / Charge Back
● Effective Management is Essential
► Need for more capable classification & discovery processes► Tiered Service is happening – ILM to manage data in relation to
its “business value” not just its age● Archive and Backup are both required
► Access to information at all times, from all locations, from the entire history of the organisation
► Again, costs are becoming more visible● Power, People, Media, Access● Archive functionality will grow in importance, rapidly
Summary