Storage trends for storage conference

1. ; Trends for Smart Storage Pini Cohen EVP pini@stki.info

2. Technologies Maturity Model2011 Storage Business Value Sophisticated snaps for creating environments Investment to make money CDP VTL Dedupfor Backup Green Storage Dedupfor Primary storage Cut costs, Increase productivity Storage Virtualization Thin Provisioning NAS and SAN FCOE Commodity IT Services Flash Drives Cloud Storage Email Archiving Email Archiving as a service Investment for regulations Using Implementing Looking

3. Storage growth – you have not seen nothing yet… 3

4. Ubiquitous computing pervasive computing Source: http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/people/stefan/ubicom/slides/ubicom-ch02-slides.ppt Ubiquitous computing: smart devices, environments and interaction 4

5. 5 MEMS Micro fabrication and integration of low-cost sensors, actuators and computer controllers, MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) Source: http://bcctae.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/adaptive-experiences-ubiquitous-computing.ppt Ubiquitous computing: smart devices, environments and interaction Photo: courtesy of Brett Warneke

6. Ubiquitous computing pervasive computing Source: http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/people/stefan/ubicom/slides/ubicom-ch02-slides.ppt Ubiquitous computing: smart devices, environments and interaction 6

7. Storage Size and Growth in Selected Industries

8. STKI Round Table

9. RT storage Users are certain that FCOE will change dramatically the storage landscape and the relationship between Storage and Networking However users believe that FCOE will mature only in about 2-3 years or more 9

10. RT VTL DEDUP Actual Dedup ratio in Backup environment is about 1 to 10. Vendors claim much more… The solution throughput and scalability is also an issue Some clients has discontinued physical tapes completely! But most clients to backup to physical tapes once in a while. 10

11. Competition in Storage is the toughest! User to STKI “I am in shock. From 32$ per GB to 14$ in two months!” 11 Source: http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRry6HPDj21W6jLMe6hIeJFDJtuA0JLGJFIah_GGbelxmC5DNCL

12. Users perspective: Should we differentiate SAN and NAS? 12

13. Users perspective: Should we differentiate Highend and Midrange Storage?

14. High End Storage vs. Midrange Storage The majority of IT organizations differentiate High End and Midrange Storage solutions. What differentiate according to users: Performance (example: “500 to 900 MB per second is HIGHEND”) Availability – Reliability Higher risk Upgrade firmware without downtime Functionality (number of copies, failback, etc.) Price More difficult to manageperate Big storage shops tend to differentiate Higher level managers tend not to differentiate New argument this year “Do not need midrange storage – we can use SATA in highend”! Source: http://blog.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty_impact/2009/07/large_Worthington-Testifies.JPG

15. Storage Ratios Number of Raw TB and Usable TB per Storage Staff Member FTE (including backup and DRP of storage): Moderate 25% increase from last years data Source: STKI

16. Usable/Raw storage ratio Net Storage in this research – usable for applications: After Raids After replication to DRP Without VTL’s

17. STKI Market Positioning Being updated

18. The enormous storage growth VTLedup is maturing fast and can bring real benefit now. Soon we will have “general storage” category. Specialized “HighEnd” or NAS will be a niche. Managing the storage will be key priority Automation AutomationAutomation (which also means standardization) Users should have established storage metrics such as: Storage managed per administrator Storage in inventory - unused storage divided by total storage Data multiplier (number of copies made of primary data ) Data availability (number of hours storage is Mean time to recovery (MTTR) IAAS (Storage services) will become mainstream for long term data retention needs in about 5 years 18

19. Thank you! Pini Cohen Blog: http://pinicohenstki.blogspot.com/ Twitter: pinicohen