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Storage The Year In Review

2008And looking ahead for 2009

Rob Kobrin

Chief Technology Officer

Integrated Media Technologies, Inc.

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It Happened

Files Flowed From

Glass-to-Glass

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By 2012, one-third of all

disk storage sold will be to the media and entertainment market.

-IDC, 12/2008

Growing Storage Need in2008

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HollywoodIs

Different

HollywoodIs

Different

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Synchronicity

• Real-Time

– Acquisition

– Compostion

– Exhibition

• Asynchronous

– Rendering

– Transcoding

– Transferring

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Hollywood Needs Performance

• HDV– 3 MB/s• ProRes422 – 30 MB/s• 720P – 83 MB/s• 2K – 238 MB/s• 4K – 478 MB/s

Per Stream Per Second

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Hollywood Needs Capacity

• HDV10 GB / hour

• DNxHD 100 GB/ hour

• 2k 1000 GB / hour

• 4k 6000 GB / hour

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Storage Differentiation

Performance vs. Capacity

Real-time vs. IOPS

“Bandwidth vs. Storage” –Al Kovalik

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Tier 1Firewire Drives

SANs

RAID Arrays

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Tier 2

NAS

High Performance NAS

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Tier 3

Firewire Drives

Robotic Tape

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Introduction of Tier 0

Flash SD Cards

Solid State Disk Drives

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The Shadow of Tier 4

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Broad Adoption of Tiered Storage in 2008

• Tier 1– Real time serving– Block level calls– DAS & SAN

• Tier 2– Asynchronous serving– File level calls– NAS

• Tier 3– Archive

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Technology Trends 2008

Capacity

Density

Speed

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Pricing

• $1 - 3K per TB SATA

• $2 - 7K per TB Fiber Channel

• $7000 - $35,000 per TB Solid State

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The Growth of Tier 2

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The Survey

32 Users:

10 Suppliers

Their chances of winningthe Blu-Ray Player1:42

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Most important in choosing storage in 2008

• Performance

• Dependability

• Cost

• Ease of Use

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What type of storage did they use in 2008?

TB DAS NAS SAN Tape

0 5% 5% 30% 30%

1-10 40% 50% 15% 20%

11- 50 30% 25% 25% 10%50 -100 10% 10% 20% 10%

100+ 5% 10% 10% 30%% of survey respondents

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What did they use for applications?

Application DAS SAN NAS TAPEEditorial 60% 30% 50% 0%

Animation & CG

40% 45% 20% 0%

Finishing & DI

30% 10% 25% 0%

Archive 0% 20% 20% 51%

% of survey respondents

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What storage connections were used in 2008?

• Firewire/USB

– <800 Mb/s 65%

• Ethernet

– 1 Gb/s 70%

– 10 Gb/s30%

• Infiniband

– 10 Gb/s 20%

– 40 Gb/s <5%

• Fiber Channel

– 1 Gb/s 10%

– 2 Gb/s 25%

– 4 Gb/s 50%

– 8 Gb/s 10%

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What Storage Are They Planning to Add in 2009?

TB DAS NAS SAN Tape

0 25% 45% 45% 45%

1-10 25% 10% 10% 5%11- 50 35% 25% 25% 20%50 -100 10% 25% 15% 10%

100+ 5% 5% 5% 20%% of survey respondents

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What connectivity will be added in 2008?

• Ethernet

– 10 Gb/s30%

• Fiber Channel

– 2 Gb/s 5%

– 4 Gb/s 5%

• Infiniband

– 10 Gb/s 10%

% of survey respondents

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Most important in choosing storage in 2009

• Performance

• Cost

• Dependability

• Ease of Use

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Technologies 2009

• Deduplication

• Virtual Tape Tier 3

• Commodity-based cluster storage

• Fiber Channel over Ethernet

• Open Storage

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Probably Not in 2009

• Holographic Storage

• The Death of Fiber Channel

• The Death of Tape

• Thin Provisioning

• Cloud Storage

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It Happened

Files Flowed FromGlass-to-Glass

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Storage The Year In Review

2008And looking ahead for 2009

Rob Kobrin

Chief Technology Officer

Integrated Media Technologies, Inc.