Jim Miller

Senior Analyst, Storage Management

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)

@jmillerema

EMA Radar Report on

Software-defined Storage

Today’s Presenter

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Jim Miller, Senior Analyst, EMA

Jim has 22 years of industry experience in IT storage product

management, business management, and marketing. Prior to joining

EMA, Jim was the product manager of software and hardware for the

storage server, archive, backup and recovery, NAS, object storage,

and virtual and physical tape solutions at SGI. His experience with

identifying market and product requirements for a wide range of

hardware and software products enables him to understand and

advise on the evolving storage landscape, as cloud, virtualized

infrastructures, and mobile device storage complement traditional

storage applications and administration.

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EMA Radar Report on

Software-defined Storage

Jim Miller

Senior Analyst, Storage Management

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)

@jmillerema

Agenda

• Software-defined storage 2015 approach

• Software-defined storage definition

• Evaluation model

• Vendors covered in this study

• Software-defined storage Radar results

• General findings

• Software-defined storage Radar results chart

• Value leaders

• Special recognitions

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Enterprise Software-Defined Storage Defined

• Abstracts physical storage

infrastructure into logical resources

utilizing intelligent software

• Capacity and services are logically

provisioned independent of physical

storage

• Enterprise software-defined storage is

implemented on all storage

• Orchestration and automation

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Enterprise Software-Defined Storage Benefits

• Reduces hardware costs

• Leverage existing infrastructure

• Increase utilization

• Use of commodity hardware

• Limits the effort to manage and administer storage

• Single management console

• Provisioning across multiple storage devices

• Common basic and advanced services

• Enable data as a service

• Orchestrate and automate provisioning and QOS

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Radar Report Overview

• Purpose of this EMA Radar:

• Review/compare software-defined storage designed for, and

deployed in medium and large enterprise settings

• Minimal criteria for software-defined storage inclusion

• Operating solution for six months

• Solution supports storage systems from multiple vendors and

storage types

• Proven enterprise-class deployments, managing at least 500TB of

network and direct attached storage capacity

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Software-Defined Storage Evaluation Model: Key Criteria

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Resource Efficiency

• Deployment and administration

• Cost advantage

Solution Impact

• Architecture and integration

• Functionality

Vendor Strength

• Strategy

• Financial strength

• Technology and distribution partnerships

Vendors Covered in this Study

• Atlantis

• Citrix

• DataCore

• EMC

• HP

• IBM

• Nexenta

• Symantec

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General Findings

• All solutions provided heterogeneous device support

• All provided single management console

• Variations observed in:

• Functionality, the number of services supported

• Device and file types supported

• Cloud support

• Greatest opportunity lies in orchestration

• Automation of provisioning capacity and performance

• Quality of Service

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Software-Defined Storage Radar Results

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Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders

• DataCore

• Top overall solution impact score

• Highest score for breadth of functionality

• Richest set of basic and advanced services

• Competitive pricing

• Citrix Melio

• Originally Sanbolic Melio

• Integrated with Citrix WorkspacePod and VDI appliances

• Second highest score in solution impact

• Second highest score in functionality

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Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders

• Atlantis

• Provider of hyper converged solutions and SDS

• Top overall cost efficiency score

• Second highest score in cost advantage

• High performance, inline deduplication

• Nexenta

• Portfolio of integrated products

• Second highest cost efficiency score

• Rich collection of services

• Collection of reference architectures from Cisco, Dell, HP,

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Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders

• VMware VSAN and Virtual Volumes

• Imbedded directly into vSphere hypervisor

• Seamless integration with VMware storage

management

• Virtual Volumes extend SDS to SAN and

NAS arrays

• HP StorVirtual VSA

• Second highest cost efficiency score

• HP OneView for VMware vCenter plug in

• HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC

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Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders

• IBM Spectrum

• Third highest score in solution impact

• Modular approach with six products

• Spectrum Control provides common

management platform

• EMC ViPR Controller, ViPR SRM

• Second highest cost efficiency score

• Plugs into an existing cloud stacks and hypervisors

• Project CoprHD open source

• SRM delivers detailed and relationship and topology

views

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Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders

• Symantec Storage Foundation

• Rich set of services that can be executed

manually or automatically

• Integrated with VMware, vSphere,

Hyper-V and KVM

• Supports public, private and hybrid clouds

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Radar Special Recognitions

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Software-Defined Storage Radar Summary

• Software-defined storage provides significant opportunity

to reduce storage hardware and administration costs

• Ensure solution can address all storage

• Utilize existing infrastructure

• Areas of future improvement

• Advances in automation and orchestration

Provisioning capacity, performance

Services

QOS

• Cloud

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