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Information Lifecycle Management Assessment

Information Lifecycle Management Assessment. Julio 2007. Agenda. When do I need storage assessment? NSA Reports TCO NSA Customer Challenges Business Value Consulting Process NSA Architecture Supported Systems. When do I need storage assessment?.

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Information Lifecycle Management Assessment

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  1. Information Lifecycle Management Assessment Julio 2007

  2. Agenda • When do I need storage assessment? • NSA • Reports • TCO NSA • Customer Challenges • Business Value • Consulting Process • NSA Architecture • Supported Systems

  3. When do I need storage assessment? If any of the following conditions are met: • Server or Storage consolidation • SAN or NAS purchase planning • Adding storage to new/current application. • Back-up and recovery planning • Service level agreement management • Acquisition/Merger due diligence • Improved ROI and increased storage utilization. • ILM discovery

  4. Networked Storage Advisor A decision support tool, used by storage consultants to automate data collection for a storage assessment. Enabling service to build a storage practice by industry best practice.

  5. NSA Report Categories Asset Capacity Usage Backup • What storage assets are being used within my organization? • by OS type • by server • by server group • by file system • by database instance • How much storage are we using? • How much unused/ unallocated space do we have? • Where is the disk space reaching a critical shortage? • How much file system free space do we have? • What user/application is consuming the most storage space? • Of the space being used, how much is used by orphaned, obsolete, or forbidden files? • What servers or file systems have the most/ least amount of traffic? • What are the largest files or directories? • What files are modified the most often? • Do we have enough space to do a backup of our data? • What data should be fully or incrementally backed up? • What files have never been backed up? • What files are at most risk if a disaster occurs?

  6. NSA Generated Reports Assets Backup • Free Space by File System • System Wide Computers • Unallocated Disk Space • Files Modified 6 Month to 1 Year Not Backed Up • Files Modified More than 1 Year Not Backed Up • Full Storage Requirements by Computer • Full Storage Requirements by Filesystem • Incremental Range Sizes by Computer • Modified Files Not Backed Up • Most at Risk Files Usage • Access Time by Computer • Duplicate Files Network wide • Files Not Accessed in the last 6 months to 1 Year • Files Not Accessed in over 1 Year • Largest Directories Network Wide • Largest Files by Computer • Largest Orphan Files Network Wide • Largest Orphan Files by Computer • Most Obsolete Files Network Wide • Non-business Files • Outlook Message Store • User Space Usage by Computer Capacity • Disk Capacity by Computer • Disk Capacity by Disk • File System Capacity by Computer • File System Capacity by File System

  7. Total Cost of Ownership: How NSA Helps Average Storage TCO for Storage Systems, Source: Gartner Group Helps reduce administration costs by central mgmt. and: • Better manage explosive data growth • Provide common set of advance function software spanning heterogeneous storage • Simplify storage management across the tiers of storage • Reduces time to provision storage • Can improve performance for most storage subsystems Designed to reduce downtime • Predict out of space conditions • Detect availability issues in SAN Designed to reduce Backup/Restore costs • Monitors backup and archive of corporate files Helps improve storage utilization and environmentals: • Lower hardware costs • Make more efficient storage purchases based on capacity demands

  8. Business Driven Development Business Processes IT Service Management Business Applications Information Accelerators Information Services Information Assets & Systems Information On Demand- where does NSA fit? Information On Demand (IOD) - Getting the right information to the right people or processes at the right time to act on emerging opportunities and competitive threats. Creating business value and reducing risk by integrating, analyzing and optimizing all types and sources of information throughout its lifecycle. IOD Framework

  9. Information Assets & Systems Infrastructure Management Data Retention Business Continuity Resource Virtualization Systems Storage Servers Networking

  10. Storage-related expenditures as a % of IT budgets Storage-related expenditures 25 70% of 2005 CIO budget is labor Customers 20 Employees Transactions 15 Partners Percentage (%) Source: IBM Commissioned IDC Study 1Q05 Products Organizations Financials 10 5 Web content E-mails Databases 0 Media 1996 2002 2007 Reports Documents Why Information On Demand? Three Customer Challenges • Volume of Data and Rising Storage Costs • Variety of Information and Its Effective Use • Rise of Change and Its Effect on Labor Costs

  11. Action Information On Demand Strategy Transforms Data and Information - Delivering Greater Business Value NSA Insight Empower people and processes to take the proper action… Business flexibility & responsiveness NSA Information Transform it into useful in-context information . . . Integrate ever evolving data and content, from many different sources… Data Business value

  12. Customer Engagement- Where does the NSA fit? • End User’s Initiatives • Storage Consolidation • Business Continuance • New application deployment • Disaster Recovery • Data Protection • NSA Service • Assets, Capacity, Usage, Backup Objective What do we want to accomplish Identification What do we have? Recommendation How do I get there? • Customer Value • IP & best practice • Solution Integration h/w & s/w

  13. TotalStorage Productivity Center A Single Point of Management for Storage Infrastructure Storage Infrastructure Monitor NSA ProblemDetermination Analyze Storage Management Report Architect NSA Availability, Performance and Capacity

  14. HP/UX Web Server NSA Server NSA Architecture Managed Storage Browser Repository

  15. Supported OS: The NSA client based application is compatible with the following operating systems: • Windows NT 4.0 or superior with Service Pack 6/6a • Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, DataCenter Server, Professional • Windows XP • Windows 2003 Server, Enterprise Edition & DataCenter Edition • HP-UX 11.0, 11i • Sun Solaris 2.6,7,8,9 • AIX 5.1, AIX 5L Version 5.2 • Red Hat Linux 7.3 (64 bit version not supported) • Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1

  16. HP/UX NAS Server OperatingSystem StorageNetwork The NSA is ideal regardless if your company has… OS’s Applications Storage Topologies DAS Email (Exchange, Notes) E-Commerce (WebSphere) CRM (Siebel) Supply Chain (i2) Finance (Oracle Financials) Human Resource (PeopleSoft) ERP (SAP) NAS DBMS Oracle MS SQL Server UDB DB2 Sybase SAN

  17. “If you don’t know what you’ve got, how do you know what you need?”

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