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Cloud Storage Options For Big Data: Big Data Needs More Than Just Big Storage

Onica King, Infrastructure & Operations Research Analyst

Thursday, May 31st, 2012




Storage-as-a-service

Internet based multitenant storage repository with self-

service access and management

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5%

23%

30%

41%

2%

7%

21%

34%

36%

2%

Critical priority

High priority

Low priority

Not on our agenda

Don’t know/does not apply

Europe n = 727

North America n = 1,594

Cloud storage adoption has been anemic

“Is the use of cloud service offerings for storage-as-a-service likely to be your

organization’s top hardware/IT infrastructure priorities over the next 12 months?”

Source: Forrester’s Forrsight Hardware survey, Q3, 2010


Source: November 2011 “TechRadar™ For I&O Professionals: Cloud Computing, Q4 2011”

Storage in the cloud offerings continues to mature


Is it a viable option for enterprise data storage?

Identify feasible workloads •Performance

•Security

•Geographic access requirements

•Integration with other applications

Consider fallback strategies


The inevitability of Big Data

A GROWING TORRENT

Just how big is big data? Huge, and with the

potential to expand even more in the future

EXPLODING DATA

WHAT IS BIG DATA?

Volume: approaches or exceed

physical limits of vertical scalability

Variety: many different formats that

make integration expensive

Velocity: decision window small,

compared with data and/or data

requirements change rate

Variability: many options or variable

interpretations that confound analysis

The amount of digital data in our world has been

exponentially growing in just a few short years.

Big data has the potential to become the next

frontier for innovation, competition and profit.

4

Billion

Pieces of content are

shared everyday on

Facebook

235

Terabytes

Of data has been collected

by the US Library of

Congress In April 2011

40%

Projected growth of global

data per year

5%

Projected growth of global

IT spending per year.


Data continues to grow in the enterprise


Unstructured Data is making Big Data bigger

Structured data:

– transactional, consistent

Unstructured data:

– data streaming in from

disparate data sources and

behavioral patterns

Today, this balance is tipping


Big Data requires a next gen storage architecture

Today’s storage architecture

On-premise

Structured data

Limited ad-hoc management tools

Giga-/terabytes

Scale up

Next generation big data architecture

Scale out

Peta-/ zetta-/ yottabytes

Automated management tools

Any data

In the cloud


Value proposition extends beyond the infrastructure level


A move to integrated infrastructure and intelligent management

Network and Storage Infrastructure Private

Public

NAS

SAN

DAS

Developer Frameworks

PaaS Hadoop

Python Cloudfoundry

Spring

Analytics Tools Madlib

Data Meer Karmasphere

Tableau

Intelligent Management Object Storage Deduplication

Compression

Provisioning Virtualization


•Prepare the storage environment.

•Evaluate emerging solutions optimized for big data.

•Rationalize your data.

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Thank you

Onica King

+31 20.305.4864

[email protected]

www.forrester.com

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