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5 Critical Components of an Enterprise Storage Management Framework

Discover the critical components of an enterprise storage management framework, learn how to become a utility, deliver storage quality of service, and create and prove SLAs. Understand the importance of knowing your costs and collecting your rent. Explore the possibilities of enterprise storage management and the building blocks of information availability. Gain insights into IT objectives and operations, as well as the future of storage management. Find out what needs to be considered and which companies are contenders in this field.

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5 Critical Components of an Enterprise Storage Management Framework

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  1. 5 Critical Components of an Enterprise Storage Management Framework Steve Duplessie Founder/Senior Analyst The Enterprise Storage Group www.enterprisestoragegroup.com

  2. Enterprise Storage Management • Why Bother? • Because You Need To Become A Utility • Deliver Storage QoS • Create, Deliver and Prove SLA’s • Know Your Costs, Collect Your Rent

  3. Enterprise Storage Management • Is It Even Possible? • The Patriots Won The Super Bowl, Anything is Possible • It Will Take a New Infrastructure Paradigm • Pirus, Cloverleaf Communications and a slew of smart switch makers are on the horizon • It Will Take Enterprise Storage Management

  4. Enterprise Storage Management • To date, storage management is an ad hoc collection of disparate tools, predominately independent device management utilities (aka just buy 3X what we need). • ESM is the #1 cost (and potential cost saving) portion of the Data 2000 IT departments moving forward.

  5. The Building Blocks of Information Availability Information Availability Utility-Type Infrastructure Dynamically Able to Provision Policy Managed Charge/ Bill back Network & System Management Enterprise Storage Management Application Management Source: Enterprise Storage Group, May 2001

  6. Enterprise Storage Management • What Do IT Objectives call for? 1. The ability to understand what they have 2. Understand usage patterns by storage assets 3. Understand usage patterns by line of business 4. An easier way to guarantee information availability in order to meet business objectives

  7. Enterprise Storage Management • What Does IT Operations Want? 1. The ability to modify their storage world 2. The ability to create storage policies 3. The ability to restore — 100% of the time 4. The ability to USE disparate hardware assets

  8. SCSI over IP InfiniBand FC/SCSI FC/IP IP Fibre Channel Network Ethernet Network Block Storage File Storage Enterprise Storage Network Application Database Servers Heterogeneous Protocols Heterogeneous Networks • Heterogeneous • Services: • Raw Device • File Services • DB Services Heterogeneous Devices Source: Enterprise Storage Group, July 2001

  9. Enterprise Storage Management • What’s Beyond ESM? • Automated Action based on • Business Rules • Policies and Procedures • Best Practices • Attributes

  10. Storage Requirements Differ by Industry Healthcare Engineering Value Print Media Time Source: Enterprise Storage Group, 2001

  11. Storage Requirements Differ ByLine Of Business Financial Software Development Value Rev 2.0 Rev 1.0 Marketing Time Source: Enterprise Storage Group, 2001

  12. ESG’s Enterprise Storage Management Model Storage Resource Management Storage Virtualization Enterprise Storage Management Storage Network Management Data Management Storage Policy Management Source: Enterprise Storage Group, June 2001

  13. Enterprise Storage Management • Storage Resource Management • SRM provides (at a base level) the ability to discover assets and correlate them to users/application, etc. • SRM provides the ability to visualize what data is where – what is duplicate, what is wasting space, what is being backed up that shouldn’t be.

  14. Enterprise Storage Management • Virtualization • The great equalizer — it allows you to neuter the “brand”, creating equality among array vendors. Creates the ability to “use” disparate assets. Enables heterogeneity.

  15. Enterprise Storage Management • Data Management • Backup/Restore/Bus. Continuance, H/A, HSM, etc. Data Management delivers the key components of information life cycle management.

  16. Enterprise Storage Management • Storage Network Management • SNM delivers topology mapping and discovery, device management, zoning, multi-pathing, etc. in order to enable a visual overview with the ability to drill down.

  17. Enterprise Storage Management • Storage Policy Management • User policies are implemented, which feed (ultimately) automated processes in all other areas. Likewise, all other ESM areas feed into the Policy Engine.

  18. What Needs to Be Considered? Type of Content Quality Of Service Size Storage Management Attributes Locations Protection Levels Backup & Archiving Policies

  19. Enterprise Storage Management • Who Contends For The Framework? • EMC • CA • HP • BMC • Tom Brady • Sun (yes, Sun) • IBM (Tivoli) • Veritas

  20. Enterprise Storage Management • Go To WWW.ENTERPRISESTORAGEGROUP.COM • Free Research Subscription For IT Professionals (assuming you’ll agree to participate in ESG’s periodic research studies)

  21. Questions? • Steved@enterprisestoragegroup.com

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