Emerging Technology ShowcasePart Two

Policy-Based Storage Resource Management

Steven Toole

Vice President

Precise-WQuinn

• Hundreds of StorageCentral SRM storage audits reveal:

– Desktop backup files– Uncontrolled growth– End user PST files– Computer games – Scores of copyrighted MP3 files – Offensive graphics, movies & jokes– Pornographic & other offensive GIF files

Storage Explosion Effects

• Offensive graphics, movies & jokes

• Duplicate, triplicate, & quadruplicate files

• Outdated & orphaned files

• Unlicensed software applications

• VBS viruses …just plain DATA JUNK!

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While every MB of storage added is less than $1 to purchase it costs an additional $7/MB a year in labor and lost productivity to manage this storage.

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StorageCentral® AASET™ SRM

• Audits regain 30% - 50% storage space.• Allocating controls spiraling disk usage

through quotas.• Screening blocks unwanted file types.• Educating enables end user cleanup.• Trending prepares for future planned

growth.

360° Storage Resource Management

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1. Preempt storage hardware purchases at 20x SRM software cost

2. Reclaim 30% to 50% of wasted network storage space

3. Protect against destructive worm viruses

4. Reduce storage growth rate by 30%

5. Save 25% of storage administrative costs

6. Eliminate frequent unplanned network outages caused by exceeded capacity

7. Reduce backup cycles by 33%

8. Eliminate the need for a dedicated storage administrator

Eight Ways Customers Realize

StorageCentral SRM ROI

StorageCentral SRM Testimonials

• “We RECLAIMED THREE TERABYTES OF WASTED STORAGE SPACE using StorageCentral SRM.” -- Bell Canada

• “StorageCentral SRM SAVED US OVER $1,100,000!” --Lucent

• “StorageCentral SRM PAID FOR ITSELF RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX.”

- Boise Cascade

• “Without StorageCentral SRM, our DISK PURCHASES WOULD LIKELY BE GROWING SOME 30 PERCENT FASTER” -- WRQ, Inc.

• “Automated assessment and allocation of storage space and the real-time enforcement of disk quotas, allowed us TO LOWER OUR IT COSTS AND ENHANCE OVERALL PRODUCTIVITY.” -- Microsoft

Precise-WQuinn: The Proven SRM Leader

• Microsoft’s provider of SRM technology• Best SRM solution Target Award for 3 years• World’s fastest growing SRM firm• 15 years in storage management solutions• 4,000+ customers in 50 countries• 80 of the Fortune 100; 100,000+ licenses• Market share leader• Patented real-time SRM technologies• World’s largest Windows SRM contract

Free Policy Field Research Paper

wquinn.com

Steven Toole

Vice President

Precise-WQuinn

Seize Control of Your Storage

Kirby Wadsworth

Chief Corporate Strategist

Storability, Inc.

Key Questions Facing IT

…find underutilized assets and put them to work?…find underutilized assets and put them to work?

…manage multi-vendor storage without additional staff or training?…manage multi-vendor storage without additional staff or training?

… offer consistent and measurable quality of service to my departments?… offer consistent and measurable quality of service to my departments?

…centralize management of distributed storage capacity?…centralize management of distributed storage capacity?

…automate routine storage management tasks?…automate routine storage management tasks?

How do I…How do I…How do I…How do I…

Simplifying Storage Management

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• Improve Asset UtilizationImprove Asset Utilization• Reduce New InvestmentReduce New Investment• Develop Storage StrategyDevelop Storage Strategy• Establish Best PracticesEstablish Best Practices

ControlControl • Increase Staff EfficiencyIncrease Staff Efficiency• Reduce Operation CostsReduce Operation Costs• Increase Staff EfficiencyIncrease Staff Efficiency• Reduce Operation CostsReduce Operation Costs

• Increase AvailabilityIncrease Availability• Reduce Task RepetitionReduce Task Repetition• Increase AvailabilityIncrease Availability• Reduce Task RepetitionReduce Task RepetitionAutomateAutomate

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CreekPath Storage Expert Solutions

Mike Koclanes

CTO and Co-founder

CreekPath Systems

CreekPath AIM™ SuiteApplication Intelligent Management

CreekPath is developing storage management software to: Manage storage for business growth Ensure enterprise application uptime Control complexity of Networked Storage Resources

Our software solution provides: Automated storage management Process and best practiced orientation Detailed audit trail Application based, policy storage management

CreekPath Investors• $20+ million in equity and debt financing• Telesoft – www.telesoftvc.com• Sequel – www.sequelvc.com• Exabyte

CreekPath Management Team>100 years Executive Management Experience

• Victor Walker, President and CEO – 18-year veteran with Tantia Technologies, Groupe Bull and StorageTek.

• Mike Koclanes, Founder and CTO– 25-year IT veteran with Sun, Exabyte, Sclumberger and McDonnell Douglas

• Paul Cardosi, Founder and CFO – 14 years experience with Mitsubishi, Hewlett Packard, Apricot Computers and Exabyte

• Craig Reed, Founder and VP Engineering – 24-year veteran with Exabyte, Texas Instruments, OpenConnect, Convex Computer, Kulicke and Soffa, and Electro Scientific Industries

• Paula Dallabetta, Marketing Director - 20-year veteran with Hewlett Packard, USWest and Informix

CreekPath Partners

Servers

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Core Architecture

StoragePoolTM Advisor

Advisor continuously monitors the storage resource status

PAMs execute control actions and updates configuration information detected by Advisor

Advisor sends workflow and control recommendations to system admins and PAMs

Advisor policy and workflow engines process storage resource data

Optimization Maximize SLAs Storage resource planning under constraints

Policy Based Management Policy Rules Service Level Objectives Capture Best Practices

Dynamic Data Model Element Discovery Element Monitoring Event Management and Analysis Complex Data Model

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Closed Loop ControlProactive automation to meet SLAsBest Practice/workflow automation

Storage Pool™

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StoragePool™ Application Advisors

Customer BenefitsCreekPath AIM™ Suite increases business continuity and lowers the total cost of ownership within a networked storage environment.

• Business continuity is achieved through:– Higher application availability, reduced complexity and

human error

– Increasing uptime through proactive response and process automation

• The lower total cost of ownership is a result of:– Increasing efficiency of storage personnel and assets

CreekPath Differentiators

1. Real-time storage fabric analysis

Complex data model

Service Level Management

2. Policy-based management of the storage fabric

Policies derived from storage best practices

3. Closed-loop control

More than just notification of an issue but an automated resolution with a detailed audit trail

4. Policy-based storage resource optimization

Based on data protection, storage availability, storage performance, security and fail-over requirements

Network Unified Storage - NUS

The Power & Scalability of a SAN with the Simplicity of a NAS

Bill ChambersCo-Founder and CEOLeftHand Networks

Easy to managePower & scalability of SANSimplicity of NASBlock & file support on Gig-EBuy what you need, when you need

Network Unified Storage – A New Network Storage Category

A complete network storage solution! A complete network storage solution!

What People are Saying about NUS….

“The primary benefit to end users is that they don’t have to buy separate devices for the two types of data access which in turn, reduce storage management costs… and delivers the performance advantages of SAN with end user benefits of NAS” David Thompson, INFOSTOR

“This gives a user great deal of flexibility in determining to add additional units and manage them as a single entity provides an ease of management, the user does not need to manage additional elements when they scale their storage assets”

Nancy Marone, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group

“It’s like Legos. You just keep adding them. I can afford to do more” Jeff Pelot, Denver Health

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A Pioneering ApproachDirect Attached Storage

Network Attached Storage

Storage Area Network

Network UnifiedStorage

NSM 100 Product OverviewFirst Product in the NUS Category

• 1U NetworkStorage Module

• Integrated hardware and software solution

• First product in the emerging category of Network Unified Storage (NUS)

• Enables raw block transfer over Ethernet networks (AEBS™)

• Capable of either native file support (CIFS, NFS,HTTP, FTP)

• Consumes 1/3rd the power of competing solutions

NUS Applications - Databases

NSMs appear as a directly attached, single storage volume

Leverage existing, installed Application Servers

Additional NSMs expand the virtual single pool

Gigabit Ethernet Network

In Summary• New category – Network Unified Storage (NUS)• Leveraging Today’s Technologies• Block and File over Standard Ethernet Networks• Expandable storage pool via virtualization / clustering