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Applied SRM
A Business Perspective
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Agenda
WTF: Whats This For? Technical Position
Business Challenges
Metrics that Make Sense
Bridging the Gap
Sample Views
Company Profile
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Environment Profile
2.3 PB on the Floor
Storage dispersed between 2 data centers
Applications are not completely federated
West (FTW) 60% ; East(DAL) 40%
65% unstructured data; 35% structured
Predominantly CIFs based on unstructured data
Less that 1% others, e.g. NFS, ISCSI
Unstructured data are predominantly clinical images
Backups 15TB/day with 30 day retentions Policy
400 Tape capacity in Silo, 1500 external tapes
Advance storage feature code are deployed
De-duplication
Thin Provisioning Virtual Tape
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What This (is) For?
Simplistic way to
quickly leverageSRM informationfrom a businessperspective
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Static
On-line w/
Drill Down
Dashboard
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Business Challenges
Increasing Storage Cost(CAPEX)
Storage Sprawl
Increased OperationalComplexity (OPEX)
Pervasive customer view thatstorage is free
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What is lacking in out of the
box SRM
Too Flat
Too Isolated Too Manual
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Still using Spreadsheets?
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Metrics from a Business Context
Simple Actionable
Predictive
Where is the growth comingfrom?
Who is using it? Businessunits, Applications
What is it being used for?
What is the value to thebusiness?
How Much is this costing thebusiness?
Why is it growing?
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Do these metrics really help?
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How we bridged SRM info withBusiness
Think like the business Group resources according to business
units
Correlate information into actionable andprescriptive items
Associate cost whenever possible to aresource or component
Aggregate and normalize information
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Aligning with the Business - Showbacks
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Consumption by Business Units
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White Space and Dark Storage?
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FCP vs CIFS
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Final Thoughts
Agent of Organizational Change Drive a more cost conscious
culture
Increase Visibility
Strategy Refinement Showback
Align with the business
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Texas Health Resources
Texas Health Resources is one of the largest faith-based,
nonprofithealth care delivery systems in the United States, and the
region'slargest in terms of patients served. The system's primary
service areaconsists of 16 counties in north central Texas, home to
more than 6.4million people.
More than 21,500 employees
24 acute-care, transitional, rehabilitation and short-stay
hospitals that areowned, operated, joint-ventured or affiliated
with Texas Health Resources
16 acute-care hospitals
6 short-stay hospitals
1 transitional care hospital
1 rehabilitation hospital 18 outpatient facilities and more than
250 other community access points
More than 3,800 licensed hospital beds (more than 3,200
operated/availablebeds)
More than 5,500 physicians with active staff privileges
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Bio
20+ years in IT Database Administration
Application Developer
Data Analyst
12 years Storage Industry
Certified SNIA Storage Professional
EMC Certified Proven Professional
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