The Challenges of Managing and Protecting Expodential Data Growth
Robert Amatruda, Research Director Data Protection and Recovery
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The Challenges of Managing and Protecting Expodential Data Growth
Customers increasingly managing not just information but infrastructure
Increasingly, geo-dispersed data drive the need for flexible and agile infrastructure
Rapid unstructured data growth as a result of mobility, social media, big data and cloud adoption
Data growth, virtualization, optimization and edge protection coupled with more aggressive RTO/RPO’s driving more use of disk and replication
Explosion of Devices and Management Challenges in the Datacenter
…managing both infrastructure and information.
Data centers are the cornerstone of business…
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The Evolving Data Landscape
Ever-growing data sets require
dispersed data management
Workloads need to run where the
data is located
Geo-dispersed data sets require
geo-dispersed workloads
Workloads are gaining location
awareness
Social media, big data and cloud usage
is generating more unstructured data
Machines generating more semi-
structured
Decentralized data stores
Mobile Data
AppData
User Data
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Unstructured Data is Growing Rapidly
Implications of Unstructured Data
growth:
Drives the need for capacity
optimized systems that house
unstructured data
Unstructured data can be
stored/accessed via on-
premises or cloud-based
delivery models
Object-based storage platforms
also power the cloud storage-as-a-
service solutions
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Capacity Optimized (shipped PB)
Performance Optimized (shipped PB)
• UNSTRUCTURED DATA accounts for 70-80% of storage capacity growth
• Capacity-optimized storage spending growth has 16.2% CAGR
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Top Unstructured Data Use-Cases
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How is your organizations’ file-based data split amongst these following types of files?
31%
14%
19%
8%
7%
16%
5%
1%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
File and print services or network shares
Virtual server or desktop images
Back up/Recovery
CAD/Images (pictures, X-rays, records)
Video/audio (surveillance, training, entertainment)
Archive
Big Data (Hadoop Clusters)
Others
% of respondents
2013 2012 N=150
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Changes in the Protection and Recovery Landscape
Physical Virtual
Backup Back-office Structured Datacenter Data only 100’s of GB Initial SANs
+ Options C-level focus + Unstructured + Edge Data and images Multi-TBs Multi-approach
Cloud as-a-Service ++ Objects ++ Endpoints Convergence Petabytes Reuse freedom
Performance Consolidation Unified Mgmt
In the Past … Today … In the Future …
What’s driven these changes?
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Factors that have Driven Transformation
1. Virtualization Images and Data
2. Cloud Era Storage to/from the Cloud
3. Data Growth B2D, Storage Efficiency
4. Recovery Snaps, Replicated Backup
5. Better Retrieval Items, indexing
PAST TODAY Backup Replica DR
vBackup Snaps Archive
Disk as a Transformative
Technology
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Factors that will Drive Transformation
1. Control v. Data Movement Technology Integration
2. Copy Data reuse Native format
3. Role of Flash/SSD Performance
4. Scale out Storage Architectures Consolidation
5. Image mobility Recovery to/in the Cloud
Backup Replica DR
Unified Data Management
Snaps ArchiveSearch
FUTURE
Spectra Logic
Next Generation Technologies
• Unstructured data drives 70-80% of storage growth– Unstructured Data = Files… lots of them!
• What’s driving it?– Virtualization– Backup/Recovery/Archive– Big Data – Video/audio
• And this trend will continue into the future
What did we just hear from IDC?
nTier Verde – Simply Affordable File Storage
• No previous storage experience required• Half the cost of traditional file storage• Never lose data
• From power on to production in 10 minutes– Simple user interface– Minimal formatting of disks required
• Monitoring/reporting– Visual Status Beacon– Automatic alerts– Call home
No previous storage experience required
• Enterprise capacity storage for the cost of JBOD• Install it yourself• PriceLock for support pricing• Compression
Half the cost of traditional file storage
Subsystem Category $ / GB
Solid State Disk (DRAM) $400 - $1000
Flash < $50
Enterprise Disk Subsystem $5 - $16
Midrange Disk Subsystem $1 - $6
Economy Disk Subsystem < $.50
Automated Tape Library $.05 - $1
Source: Horison, Inc.
• Hardware– Enterprise-class, capacity drives– Burn-in at our factory to eliminate “infant mortality” of
components– Redundant power/fans
• Software– Triple parity option for RAID– No RAID write hole issue– Intelligent rebuilds
Never lose data
nTier Verde 2U nTier Verde 4U
Supported Hard Drives 4 TB 7200 RPM SAS Hard Drives
Master Node Capacity* 6 to 11 Drives24 TB to 44 TB RAW
10 to 35 Drives40 TB to 140 TB RAW
Expansion Node Support 1 Expansion Node 9 Expansion Nodes
Max Capacity* 220 TB RAW Max 1.7 PB RAW Max
Parity Options Mirroring, Single Parity, Double Parity, Triple ParityDouble Parity recommended for most use cases
Hot Spares Unlimited
Supported Protocols NFS, CIFS
3 x 1 GigE Data Ports Standard Standard
2 x 10 GigE Data Ports Optional Standard
nTier Verde
* Using 4 TB drives
Store massive data forever at virtually no cost
• Absolute lowest cost way to store data• Easiest way to move bulk data• Most scalable long-term storage available
Spectra BlackPearl plusT950 with TS1140 drives
6.4 PB uncompressed
@ $0.09/GB
Spectra BlackPearl plusT950 with LTO drives
2.4 PB uncompressed
@ $0.10/GB
Spectra BlackPearl plusT380 with LTO drives
1.9 PB uncompressed
@ $0.14/GB
Absolute Lowest Cost Way to Store Data
ClientSoftware
FCSAS
ObjectInterface
10 GigEStandard
Objectsto
DeepStorage
Easiest Way to Move Bulk Data
Inside BlackPearl: SSD Object tracking Tape Library
Management LTFS Data Integrity
Verification Data Security Integration
with BlueScale
Spectra’s DS3 interface makes it possible• Industry first interface to tape via a web browser• RESTful (the way the web works)• Modeled after Amazon S3
• LTFS for standard reading/writing• Scale from TB to Exabytes• Keep data forever w/ media migration
Most scalable long-term storage available
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