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The Future of Storage Management
Storage Management Is Labor-Intensive Using
Too Many Manual Processes and Techniques
Manual File,
Data, Device
Management
Manual File,
Data, Device
Management
Manual
Customized
Reporting
Manual
Customized
Reporting
Automated
Formal
Reporting
Automated
Formal
Reporting
"As hardware costs fall and users demand more capacity,
the performance, administration, power, heat extraction
and data center accommodation costs can all rise,
especially when they exhaust supply."
Five Ways to Manage Storage Assets and Defuse Explosive Growth (G00149222)
Automated
Storage
Management
Automated
Storage
Management
By 2013, storage systems will no longer
be manually tunable for performance or
manual data placement. Similar to virtual
memory management, the storage array's
algorithms will determine data placement.
Key Issues
1.
Why are we resistant to storage
management, and how is it changing?
2.
How is device management changing,
what has changed, and what will change?
3.
How will efficient organizations manage
storage in 2013?
Key Issues
1.
Why are we resistant to storage
management, and how is it changing?
2.
How is device management changing,
what has changed, and what will change?
3.
How will efficient organizations manage
storage in 2013?
Data Without Management Is Just Storage
Lose a CPU, get a new one.
Lose the data, it cannot be replaced and you may go to jail.
High-risk occupation with low rewards = conservatism.
Storage management is a dangerous,
unglamorous business.
The Development of Storage Management
Maturity Model
Automated,
tiering, primary
deduplication
and compression
of data
Automated
tiering, thin-
provisioning
Additional
chargeable
software options
outside of the
array
Manual
movement by
storage
administrator
Performance Tuning
Best
Good
Fair
Poor
Overall Assessment
Based on Gartner
Analysis
Some
customized
reports, actions
Customizing
reports and the
formal SRM tool
Partial, using
some tools
Yes, everything
done in-house
Internal Programs,
Scripts, Reports
Automated
storage
provisioning
High-level "pool"-
based storage
provisioning
Mostly manual
and some pools
Storage
provisioning
done manually
Storage Hardware
Workflow,
provisioning, root
cause
Yes, via base
SRM product,
capacity
planning,
performance and
reclamation
Array/point-
based reporting
No
Formal SRM
Ideal
Mature Today
Immature Today
Manual DIY
Hardware vs. Management Software Spend
Storage management lacks $480M of investment.
Forecast: Enterprise Software Markets, Worldwide, 2008-2013, 1Q09 Update: G00166478
Forecast: External Controller-Based Disk Storage, Worldwide, 2008-2012, G00169825
Servers Worldwide: Forecast Database (HWCP-WW-DB-SV02)
Dataquest Insight: Short-Term Server Forecast Assumptions, Worldwide, 2009-2010, June 2009 Update
(G00169240)
Forecast: Storage Management Software Market, Worldwide, 2008-2013: G00166883
0.0
10,000.0
20,000.0
30,000.0
40,000.0
50,000.0
60,000.0
External
Storage hw
SRM sw
Worldwide
Server hw
Server Avail,
Perf, Event, Log
& Fault mgmt
sw
Ent Network hw Network Mgmt
sw
$M
2007
2008
Proportional Hardware vs. Management
Software Spend
Storage management has been neglected.
Forecast: Enterprise Software Markets, Worldwide, 2008-2013, 1Q09 Update: G00166478
Forecast: External Controller-Based Disk Storage, Worldwide, 2008-2012, G00169825
Servers Worldwide: Forecast Database (HWCP-WW-DB-SV02)
Dataquest Insight: Short-Term Server Forecast Assumptions, Worldwide, 2009-2010, June 2009 Update
(G00169240)
Forecast: Storage Management Software Market, Worldwide, 2008-2013: G00166883
0.00%
1.00%
2.00%
3.00%
4.00%
5.00%
6.00%
7.00%
% SRM spend vs
Storage HW
% Server Mgmt SW vs
Server HW
% Network Mgmt sw vs
Ent Network HW
% Revenue
2007
2008
Costs and Technology Force Change
•
Administration (people) costs are increasing
-
We no longer have or want the skills
•
Storage capacity costs are decreasing
-
HDD $/GB 32% decrease per annum
•
Storage software
-
SRM products become agentless, simpler
-
Now: Akorri, Tek-Tools, APTARE
-
Planned: EMC ECC, HP SE, IBM TPC,
NetApp SANscreen, Symantec CC
•
Data services and features are becoming "free"
Key Issues
1.
Why are we resistant to storage
management, and how is it changing?
2.
How is device management changing,
what has changed, and what will change?
3.
How will efficient organizations manage
storage in 2013?
SRM Market Maturity
61.2% 18.1% -4.8% 7.8% 0.1% 4.4% 454.5% 0 100 200 300 400 500 600EMC IBM Hewlett-Packard
NetApp Symantec CA Other Vendors Revenue ($M) -100% 0% 100% 200% 300% 400% 500% Percent 2007 2008 Growth Akorri CA
Hitachi Data Systems HP IBM Brocade NTP Software NetApp Symantec Tek-Tools Northern Parklife Quest Software APTARE EMC Completeness of Vision A b il it y t o E x e c u te Akorri CA
Hitachi Data Systems HP IBM Brocade NTP Software NetApp Symantec Tek-Tools Northern Parklife Quest Software APTARE EMC Challengers Leaders
Niche Players Visionaries
As Of March 2009
2006-8 SRM Market Total Revenue ($m)
650.0 660.0 670.0 680.0 690.0 700.0 710.0 720.0 730.0 2006 2007 2008
•
Simpler implementation —
fewer agents
•
Smaller modular packages
•
Specialized/niche products
More Storage Administrators, Not a Priority
User Survey Analysis: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Storage Purchasing Decisions, Worldwide, 2009
What priority level will your organization assign to these storage strategies in 2009?
27 April 2009 (G00167438)
4 . 0 9 . 4 8. 2 9 . 4 1 0 .5 13 .2 1 9 .3 2 6 .0 18 . 0 2 3. 1 2 7. 9 4 1 .7 44. 9 45 . 7 50 . 9 5 5. 6 6 5 .2 6 9 .8 7 1. 1 72 . 3 0 1 0 20 3 0 4 0 5 0 6 0 7 0 80In crea sin g sto ra g e st af f to m e et sto ra g e a dm in ist ra tio n n ee d s (Me a n = 3 .2 6 ) D e cre a sing sto ra g e a dm in istrat io n s ta ff
to re d u ce co st s (M e a n = 3. 8 6) M inim izin g ch a ng e in t he sto ra g e
en viro n m e nt (M e a n = 4 . 22 ) Im ple me n tin g g re en sto ra g e te ch n olo g ies
(M e an = 4 .1 1 )
A cq u irin g m o re S A S o r S A T A d isk drive s t o m e e t da t a g row th req u ire m e nt s (M e an = 4. 3 3)
I nc rea sin g st o rag e u t iliza tion to d e la y c ap a city p urc ha se s (M ea n = 4 .5 9 ) Im p le m e n tin g o r im p ro ving arc hivin g
(M e a n = 4 .9 5 )
I n cre as ing d a ta sec urit y (via d a ta en cryp tio n or imp rove d p o lic ie s) (M ea n = 5 .1 3 ) M a in t aining or im p rovin g p e rfo rm a nce le ve ls
( Me a n = 5. 0 9)
Im ple m e nt ing or im p rovin g b acku p a n d re co very (M e an = 5 .18 )
P e rc en ta ge o f R e s pon de n ts
Automated Arrays
•
Where data is moved between the tiers by the
storage device without administrative intervention
or application outage.
-
Atrato, BlueArc, Compellent, Sun7000
•
Plus:
-
Deduplication, compression, SSD, thin-provisioning,
snapshots, mirroring, replication, clones
•
Who else will do this?
-
Everyone, however the issues are:
• Backporting to traditional storage array controller designs
• Where arrays are not capable of doing this, additional software
external to the storage device is required to move the data.
Key Issues
1.
Why are we resistant to storage
management, and how is it changing?
2.
How is devices management changing,
what has changed, and what will change?
3.
How will efficient organizations manage
storage in 2013?
Storage Consolidation Is Still High Priority
User Survey Analysis: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Storage Purchasing Decisions, Worldwide, 2009
Storage Projects Being Implemented in 2009 As Planned But With a Reduced Budget
27 April 2009 (G00167438)
15.6 17.0 20.0 22.2 23.7 27.4 27.4 31.9 31.9 40.0 41.5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45Implementation or further deployment of boot from SAN
Implementation or further deployment of MAID
Adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet Implementation or further deployment
of thin provisioning
Implementation or further deployment of data reduction techniques Implementation or further deployment
of storage tiering
Acquisition of new storage disk arrays Expanding existing storage platform Disaster recovery project Archiving project Storage consolidation project
Software, Hybrids or Virtualization Hardware
•
Solving the virtualization management problem
-
All SRM tools support this
-
AutoVirt, DataCore, DoubleTake, StorMagic, FalconStor,
LeftHand
•
Hybrid storage and network concentrator devices
-
Aprius, F5, VirtenSys and Xsigo
•
Enterprise virtualization devices
-
IBM SVC, EMC V-MAX, HDS/HP/Sun USP-V, NetApp V
Homegrown scripts are not automation, but a
lock-in, support and maintenance cost.
No Unified System by 2013 — Gartner's RTI
•
We are not ready today
-
Too disparate, and lack of integration and APIs
•
Storage needs to be fixed first
•
Examples
-
Cisco Unified Computing — but not the storage
-
HP Adaptive Enterprise — some storage provisioning
-
IBM Tivoli CloudBurst, AutoVirt, Double-Take,
StorMagic — very early
-
EMC with VMware vSphere — CLARiiON vs. VMFS
-
Oracle/Sun Q-Layer — unknown, but do have a lot of
IP "N1" and so on
The Emerging Trends
•
Fewer people
•
Better and simpler storage management software
•
More automated storage devices that adapt to
workloads without human intervention
•
pNFS ratification and agreement
-
Virtualization
-
Object storage
•
Appliances
Man vs. Machine to Man Manages Machine
Investigate, report and plan first.
Do this.
What's in the storage device?
Recommendations
9
First, improve storage management processes.
Second, buy hardware.
-
Proactive capacity and technology planning
-
Document usage trends within your storage environment
-
Do not implement server virtualization without considering storage
9
Combine your findings with automated intelligent storage.
-
Automated tiering: SSD, FC, SAS, SATA HDD, tape
-
High levels of device instrumentation and reporting data
-
Thin-provisioning and deduplication
9
Manage the system; do not let the system manage you.
-
Reduce or eliminate manual data placement, device management
-
Reduce or eliminate internally written reporting programs
9
Monitor and direct the system — create and define
the policies.
Î
New Storage Architectures Make SSDs More
Cost-Effective
Valdis Filks, Stan Zaffos (G00168570)
Î
Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management
and SAN Management Software
Valdis Filks, Bob Passmore (G00168258)
Î
Use SLAs to Optimize Storage Costs
Stan Zaffos (G00165398)
Î
Cost Optimization: Using SRM to Recover and Manage
Storage Costs
Valdis Filks (G00165988)
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The Future of Storage Management
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