the future of storage in the data center
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The Future of Storage in the Data Center Richard Scannell
SVP Consulting ServicesGlassHouse Technologies
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Please profile yourself: I’m a Storage…
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1. Neophyte
2. Rookie
3. Player
4. Guru
Agenda
Setting the contextThe long road to ILMCurrent state of playReview of focus areas
Setting The Context
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1. I Love megabytes
2. Industrial light and magic
3. Information lifecycle management
4. In loving memory
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In my world, ILM stands for…
It’s a long way off…
ILM
Realtime Data Classification
Storage Mgmt Software
Utility Storage
Shifting Expectations
End-User - The Storage Utility• Endless supply• Increasing quality• Commodity pricing
Changing Business Demands• Information drives competitive advantage• Regulatory demands drive up risk
Shifting Demands on ITFrom… Faith Based Initiatives (Innocent till
proven guilty)• 5-Nines, 6-Nines• Business continuity• Disaster recovery• $Millions spent, questionable results
To… Evidence Based Regulations (Guilty till demonstrated innocent)• Public company requirement• Vertical market specific regulations• $Billions to be lost, unquestionable results
The Reality GapAnalysts, VCs, Media, OEM
marketing declare “an issue”Market gets saturated with FUDAppetite for a solution emergesEarly products are immature or
failMarket gets disillusioned
The Long Road To ILM
FundamentalsGrid, Utility, ILM – none of it works until
infrastructure is streamlinedEconomics demand non linear growth in cap-ex
and op-ex for growing amount of data under management
Lose (or keep) the wrong data and you may be shut down or go to jail
Users still think all you do is plug in PCs and printers
Fundamentals of ILM
WAY too much talk about this…First steps• Tiered Storage Offerings• Business Impact Assessment
No Storage Vendor can deliver ILM
Cost - Getting to Tiered Storage
X-axisCost accountingArchitecture &
policyContribution to cost
(C2C) reporting
Risk - Getting to BIA
Y-axisValue at riskRTORPORegulationsSensitivity (Security)
Current State Of Play
In only a few short years
Interoperability issues in significant declineHeterogeneous management solutionsDisk based backupContent Addressable StorageStorage has finally decoupled from the server• iSCSI is happening
In only the NEXT few yearsInteroperability will be replaced by Performance
as a major issueSolutions will push some control to the end
consumerIT focus will shift from storage management to
data management (no, really)Security of stored data hits the big screen…
State of StorageLarge vendors• VC based R&D• Significant acquisition activity – will continue• Everyone’s becoming a systems company
Customer’s problems are vertical in natureSolutions remain horizontal, marketing is becoming verticalNo one is focused on the storage consumerCost accounting is still screwed up and where it is done,
it’s a black art
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1. Risk analysis around our data
2. Capacity planning for infrastructure
3. Cost accounting for storage
4. May I have another choice please?
If there’s one thing we do well in my company it’s:
Focus Areas
I-SCSIAllows for the complete decoupling of
computing and storageThe high value functionality of SAN at a price
appropriate for lower value dataSome great early success storiesSome confusion remains about performance,
need for TOEsLefthand Networks, EqualLogic, OEMs coming…
Intelligent Fabric“Next generation” fabricMulti-protocolShifts features from the array to the fabricDisrupts OEM high-margin “locked-in”
productsBrings all kinds of interesting organizational
questions
Storage Management ToolsISVs have gained great traction70% of audience at Storage Decisions were
disappointed with the results they achieved after deployment – not the fault of the products
Must be able to define “success” beyond deployment of the tool
OEMS, AppIQ, Creekpath, Storability, Veritas
Data Protection StackData Protection is morphing from an activity to a continuous process ReplicationMirroringContinuous data protectionFull/incremental (Tape/Disk)Archiving
Backup to Disk
Recent move to Front and CenterSignificant interest is Backup
Acceleration – improved backup windows and recovery timeframes
High interest is eliminating tapes, but significant inertia towards that reality
Most all OEMs have a box, COPAN
Regulatory Compliance Sarbanes-Oxley
SEC 17a ¾
NASD
HIPAA
Others ….
Can your company survive a Discovery action?
Long Term Data ManagementLegal issues have caused a lot of focus in financial servicesMessaging technology under particular scrutinyMuch bigger issue in regulated environmentsApplication and platform dependenciesRequires strong process managementFor e-mail – Legato, KVS, Intellireach, othersContent Addressable Storage (CAS) – EMC, others on the
way
Storage Management ProcessVery recently, significant focus on process to govern infrastructure
activitiesControl Points, Artifacts necessary for compliance ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library)• Europe – Wide acceptance in the UK, spreading worldwide• Task Framework – Focused delivery of IT services
COBIT (Control Objectives for IT)• Canada/US – IT Governance Institute• Control – Focused on processes and governance
COSO (the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission)• US - Gaining traction for Sarbanes-Oxley auditing• Auditing - Focused on process assessment
ISO 17799 • International - International Standards Organization• Security – Focused on enabling security audits
