Organizations have tried a variety of solutions to regain control of their data storage infrastructure. They’ve invested in monolithic storage systems, software defined storage (SDS) and hyper-converged systems. While each approach may have brought some value, each failed in its primary task: consolidating storage resources. Each of these consolidation efforts is unable to consistently guarantee performance, scale capacity and drive down storage costs. As a result, most organizations end up buying workload specific solutions for both legacy and modern applications. Most data centers today have a mixture of multiple all-flash storage systems, hyper-converged environments and high capacity data archives. They also have storage software for each use case. IT ends up dealing with a data management nightmare, which limits organizational efficiency and productivity. Don’t give up! Join Storage Switzerland and Datera to learn how monolithic, software defined and hyper-converged architectures have let IT down and why the problem gets worse as data centers modernize. Attendees will learn how storage solutions need to change in order to eliminate primary storage silos while guaranteeing specific application performance, scaling to meet capacity demands and lower storage TCO.

1. Overcoming the Storage Roadblock
to Data Center Modernization
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2. OurSpeakers
Bill Borsari, Sr. Director
Systems Engineering
George Crump,
Founder and Lead Analyst

3. What is Data Center
Modernization?
● New Apps (NoSQL, Hadoop,
Splunk, Spark)
● New Architectures - Software
Defined Data Center
● But...
○ Supporting traditional applications
(Oracle, MS-SQL, VMware, User
Files)
● Storage becomes a key roadblock!

4. Why is Storage a
Roadblock to SDDC?
● Most modern applications expect a
new storage architecture
○ Local storage with replication for
protection
○ Object storage
● Legacy applications expect shared
block storage
● Result: Multiple storage silos x 2
(modern and traditional)

5. Is Public Cloud the
Answer?
● Throw in the towel and make
storage someone else’s
problem
● In actuality cloud providers
have similar storage problem
○ Hide inefficiency by creating
massive amounts of scripts

6. How to Overcome the
SDDC Storage Roadblock

7. ● Traditional Applications expect it,
modern apps need it
● Performance an increasing concern
in modern apps as AI and ML
become more prevalent
● Storage IO challenges of containers
also require high performance
Requirement 1: Enterprise Performance
and Features

8. Requirement 2: Automation, Orchestration and
Autonomous Actions
● Automation
○ Automatically move data between storage types and nodes
● Orchestration
○ A workflow of actions, some related to storage some not
● Autonomous Actions
○ Self-analyzing storage that takes its own action based on conditions

9. Requirement 3:
● Expansion of compute
and capacity by adding
nodes
● Automatic rebalancing of
resources
● Continuously available
Scale Out and Continuously Aware

10. Requirement 4: Storage Hardware
Award but Hardware Free
● Don’t treat hardware as dumb
bricks
● Understand the capabilities of
each node
● Understand the capabilities of
media within the node
● But don’t force purchase of
specific hardware

11. Requirement 5:
Data Center Aware
● From data aware to DATA
CENTER aware
○ Identify needs of application
○ Identify network traffic
changes
○ Take corrective measures

12. Summary
● Modernization = Software Defined Data Center
● SDDC Requires a Storage ReThink
○ Enterprise Performance
○ Automation, Orchestration, Autonomous
○ Scale Out
○ Hardware Aware but no Lock-in
○ Data Center Aware

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Typical Customer Legacy Environments
Big Data Dev/Test
Point Data
Products
Workloads &
Requirements
VMs Containers / λ
Ridged Silos:
• “Trapped” Performance and Capacity
• High Cost of “getting it wrong”
• Expensive Data Migrations
High Operational overhead:
• Different vendors
• Different physical requirements
• High training costs
Director Class
Array
DAS Mid Size
Array
OpenSource ???
Enterprise Apps

19. Thank you!
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20. Overcoming the Storage Roadblock
to Data Center Modernization
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