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Taking a Step Back to have a better view of data protection Industry Trend: The Big Picture
• In the data center everything’s not the same • Resource constraints – people, time, budgets • No such thing as an data recession • People and data living longer & getting larger • Changing data access life-cycles • New technologies, tools and techniques
• Everything is not the same in the data center (aka Information Factory) • Various threat risk scenarios that require protect, preserve and serve information • Different types of applications with various data and business characteristics • Expanding data footprint impact results in more overhead and complexity = costs • Not all data and applications can be deduped, need more than one silver bullets
Why do you need resiliency? Various threat risks Industry Trend: Need for Resiliency
• Archiving – Life Beyond Regulatory Compliance • Backup modernization – More than swapping out tape for disk • Cleanup (delete, find orphan data), Compression, consolidation • Data Management and Dedupe – At the Source and Destination • The “s”’s – Storage things that start with “s”
• Single Instance Storage (server/OS or storage based) • Storage tiering, tiered storage and thin provisioning • Storage protection (e.g. RAID, Erasure Codes/Forward Error Correction) • Storage space saving snapshots and clones • Network bandwidth optimization • Pre-ship / pre-stage static data off-site or to the cloud
Reducing your data footprint impact and overhead Industry Trend: The ABCDs of DFR
One approach, technology or techniques does not fit everything
• Hybrid environments, organization, business and application needs – Different types of applications and characteristics
• Hybrid data protection – Local and remote, primary site and ROBOs
• Hybrid clouds – Adapt clouds to your needs and applications
• Hybrid storage systems with various storage – Access including block SAN (iSCSI, FC) and files NAS (NFS, CIFS) – Media and mediums (SSD, performance HDD, capacity HDD) – DFR optimization / efficiency (compress, dedupe, thin provision) – Storage works for you, vs. you working for the storage
Hybrid Flexibility = What can your data infrastructure do for you? Industry Trend: The Hybrid Home-Run
One approach, technology or techniques does not fit everything
Prepare and plan for your journey • Have a vision, strategy and plan (e.g. an itinerary and road map) • Do more with what you have, boost productivity where needed • You need insight into your costs which requires E2E metrics • Evolve from DR to BC and BR to remove complexity and costs • Reduce your data footprint impact (pack smartly for your journey) • Modernize data protection including HA, BC, DR, Backup/Archive
Where to learn more • www.Imation.com and www.Nexsan.com • www.storageio.com (articles, videos & webcasts) • www.storageioblog.com and twitter @storageio • Feel free to call, IM, tweet, or email [email protected]
Closing comments (for now…) Where to learn more, next steps…
