Three primary storage challenges that keep IT up at night:
* How to keep up with application performance demand
* How to affordably manage and store the vast amount of data that IT has to store
* How to protect that data so that applications can quickly return to service if a server, storage system or entire data center fails
To meet these challenges IT has either used multiple solutions from multiple vendors, creating cost overruns and massive complexity or they have to try to consolidate to a single vendor via hyperconvergence or cloud migration leading to inefficient use of resources and feature shortfalls.
Webinar: Flash to Flash to Cloud – Three Steps to Ending the Storage Nightmare
1. Webinar
Flash-to-Flash-to-Cloud
Three Steps to Ending the Storage Nightmare
Three Primary Storage Challenges
keeping IT up at night:
1. How to keep up with application performance demand
2. How to affordably manage and store the vast amounts of
data IT has to store
3. How to protect the data so that applications can quickly
return to service if a server, storage system or entire
data center fails
For audio playback and Q&A go to: http://bit.ly/FlashFlashCloud
2. Our Speakers
Narayan Venkat, Chief Marketing Officer at Tegile Systems is a highly passionate and experienced
technology professional with over 20+ years of experience in the IT industry. Experienced executive
with a demonstrated history of success in the computer systems industry. Skilled in Enterprise
Software and Storage, Go-to-market Strategy, Demand Generation, and Digital Marketing. Extensive
start-up leadership experience, great team builder, and accomplished marketer with a MBA focused in
Marketing, Finance from The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business.
George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the
subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is
widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash
arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking.
He has over 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.
3. IT is Struggling to
Keep Up With:
● Performance Expectation
● Capacity Demands
● Recovery Requirements
● Budget Realities
4. The Performance
Challenge driven
by:
● Real-time Application Response
● Denser Virtual Machine / Container
Architectures
● Instant Analytics - Splunk / Spark /
Hadoop
● Flash helped but more performance
is needed
5. Capacity Challenge
Driven By:
● Data Driven Business
○ IoT - sensors everywhere
○ Decision based on data
● Keep It Forever Data
Retention
○ Government regulations
(GDPR)
○ Data repurposing
6. Recovery
Requirements
● Rapid Recovery is now a
Requirement
○ Recovery times are literally
being mandated by
governments
○ The cost of downtime is too
expensive
7. Budget
Realities
● Budgets are not
keeping pace with
demands and
expectations
● IT is being asked to do
more with the same
(or less) resources
8. Traditional Tier 1 Vendor
Solutions are out of Step
● *Might* meet the performance,
capacity and recovery need
○ But can’t meet budget reality
● Too many applications have
tier 1 expectations
● IT needs to get creative
9. Flash to Flash to Cloud - Three Steps to
Ending the Primary Storage Nightmare
10. Step 1: High
Performance Flash
System On-Premises
● Sized to storage all active and
near-active data
● Leverage high performance
flash and high capacity flash,
automatically
11. Step 2: Hybrid Array at
DR Site
● Replication from primary to DR
● Secondary system has smaller flash
tier and hard disks
● Provides excellent performance
during disaster
● But saves costs in the meantime
12. Step 3: Archive to
Object/Cloud Storage
● Identify old data and
move to low cost
scalable object storage
● Movement and Recall is
the only issue
○ Transparent vs.
Manual
13. Optional Step 4: Second On-Premises
Storage System
● Similar role to DR system but
on-premises for faster access
● Most failures don’t result in loss
of data center
● Second system can also be
used for test/dev, reporting and
analytics
14. Summary -
Needs Met ● Production Performance via
NVMe All-Flash
● Capacity Demands via high
density flash or HDD
● Recoveries can be almost
instant
● Budget Under Control - Primary
storage and data protection
storage shrinks
24. Flash-to-Flash-to-Cloud
Three Steps to Ending the Storage Nightmare
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