The Future of Storage in the Data Center

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The Future of Storage in the Data Center

• Richard Scannell
• SVP Consulting Services
• GlassHouse Technologies

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Agenda

• Setting the context
• The long road to ILM
• Current state of play
• Review of focus areas

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Setting The Context
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In my world, ILM stands for

• I Love megabytes
• Industrial light and magic
• Information lifecycle management
• In loving memory

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Its a long way off
ILM
Utility Storage
Realtime Data Classification
Storage Mgmt Software
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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

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Shifting Demands on IT

• From 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

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The Reality Gap

• Analysts, VCs, Media, OEM marketing declare an
  issue
• Market gets saturated with FUD
• Appetite for a solution emerges
• Early products are immature or fail
• Market gets disillusioned

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The Long Road To ILM
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Fundamentals

• Grid, Utility, ILM none of it works until
  infrastructure is streamlined
• Economics 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

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Fundamentals of ILM

• WAY too much talk about this
• First steps
• Tiered Storage Offerings
• Business Impact Assessment
• No Storage Vendor can deliver ILM

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Cost - Getting to Tiered Storage

• X-axis
• Cost accounting
• Architecture policy
• Contribution to cost (C2C) reporting

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Risk - Getting to BIA

• Y-axis
• Value at risk
• RTO
• RPO
• Regulations
• Sensitivity (Security)

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Current State Of Play
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In only a few short years

• Interoperability issues in significant decline
• Heterogeneous management solutions
• Disk based backup
• Content Addressable Storage
• Storage has finally decoupled from the server
• iSCSI is happening

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In only the NEXT few years

• Interoperability will be replaced by Performance
  as a major issue
• Solutions will push some control to the end
  consumer
• IT focus will shift from storage management to
  data management (no, really)
• Security of stored data hits the big screen

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State of Storage

• Large vendors
• VC based RD
• Significant acquisition activity will continue
• Everyones becoming a systems company
• Customers problems are vertical in nature
• Solutions remain horizontal, marketing is
  becoming vertical
• No one is focused on the storage consumer
• Cost accounting is still screwed up and where it
  is done, its a black art

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If theres one thing we do well in my company
its

• Risk analysis around our data
• Capacity planning for infrastructure
• Cost accounting for storage
• May I have another choice please?

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Focus Areas
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I-SCSI

• Allows for the complete decoupling of computing
  and storage
• The high value functionality of SAN at a price
  appropriate for lower value data
• Some great early success stories
• Some confusion remains about performance, need
  for TOEs
• Lefthand Networks, EqualLogic, OEMs coming

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Intelligent Fabric

• Next generation fabric
• Multi-protocol
• Shifts features from the array to the fabric
• Disrupts OEM high-margin locked-in products
• Brings all kinds of interesting organizational
  questions

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Storage Management Tools

• ISVs have gained great traction
• 70 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

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Data Protection Stack

• Data Protection is morphing from an activity to
  a continuous process
• Replication
• Mirroring
• Continuous data protection
• Full/incremental (Tape/Disk)
• Archiving

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Backup to Disk

• Recent move to Front and Center
• Significant 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

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Regulatory Compliance

• Sarbanes-Oxley
• SEC 17a ¾
• NASD
• HIPAA
• Others .
• Can your company survive a Discovery action?

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Long Term Data Management

• Legal issues have caused a lot of focus in
  financial services
• Messaging technology under particular scrutiny
• Much bigger issue in regulated environments
• Application and platform dependencies
• Requires strong process management
• For e-mail Legato, KVS, Intellireach, others
• Content Addressable Storage (CAS) EMC, others
  on the way

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Storage Management Process

• Very recently, significant focus on process to
  govern infrastructure activities
• Control 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

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Thank You

• Richard.Scannell_at_GlassHouse.com