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Section 1 : Storage System

Introduction to Information Storage and Management

Chapter 1

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Chapter Objectives
Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to: o Describe who is creating data and the amount of data being created o Describe the value of data to business o List the solutions available for data storage o List and explain the core elements of data center o Describe the ILM strategy

o Describe storage evolution

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Lesson : Information Storage


Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to: o Describe the importance of information to individuals and to businesses o Define data and information o Discuss the categories of data o Describe the storage architectures and their evolution

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Why Information Storage


o Digital universe The Information Explosion
o 21st Century is information era o Information is being created at ever increasing rate o Information has become critical for success

o We live in an on-command, on-demand world


o Example: Social networking sites, e-mails, video and photo sharing website, online shopping, search engines etc

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Nearly a quarter of the world's population roughly 1.4 billion people will use the Internet on a regular basis in 2009.
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50 billion photos taken every year

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Online Video

4,700,000,000 video streams monthly


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England has approximately 4 million surveillance cameras

1 for approximately every 14 Britons


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Storage requirements: Facebook


10,000,000,000 photos 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site every day One petabyte of photo storage Serve over 15 billion photo images per day

Photo traffic now peaks at over 300,000 images served per second
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Information management is a big challenge

Store

Protect

Optimize

Leverage

Information Infrastructure

Store

Protect

Optimize

Leverage

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A Vocabulary for Measuring Information


If a Grain of Sand were One Byte of Information . . .

1 Megabyte =
1 million bytes a tablespoon of sand

1 Gigabyte =
1 billion bytes patch of sand 9 square, 1 deep

1 Terabyte =

1 trillion bytes a sandbox 24 square, 1 deep

1 Petabyte =

1,000 terabytes a mile long beach 100 wide , 1 deep


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A New Vocabulary for Measuring Information


If a Grain of Sand were One Byte of Information . . .

1 Megabyte =
1 million bytes a tablespoon of sand

1 Exabyte =
1,000 petabytes the same beach from Maine to North Carolina

1 Gigabyte =
1 billion bytes patch of sand 9 square, 1 deep

1 Zetabyte =

1 Terabyte =

1,000 exabytes the same beach along the entire US coast

1 Yottabyte =

1 trillion bytes a sandbox 24 square, 1 deep

1 Petabyte =

1,000 zetabytes enough info to bury the entire US under 296 feet of sand

1,000 terabytes a mile long beach 100 wide , 1 deep


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What do you Think ?


o What is your contribution to the digital Universe ( how many Mbs have you generated till date ?? )
a) <100 GB b) 100 GB - 500 GB c) 500 GB 1 TB d) > 1 TB

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What is Data
Collection of raw facts from which conclusions may be drawn

o Data is converted into more convenient form i.e. Digital Data


o Increase in data processing capabilities o Lower cost of digital storage o Affordable and faster communication technology
Video

Photo

Book

01010101010 10101011010 00010101011 01010101010 10101010101 01010101010


Digital Data

o Who creates data?


o Individuals o Businesses

Letter

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Categories of Data
o Data can be categorized as either structured or unstructured data o Over 80% of enterprise information is unstructured
E-Mail Attachments X-Rays PDFs

Check

Unstructured (80%)
Instant Messages Documents

Manuals

Images
Forms

Web Pages Rich Media Invoices Audio Video

Contracts

Structured (20%)
Rows and Columns
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Define Information
o What do individuals/businesses do with the data they collect?
o They turn it into information

o Information is the intelligence and knowledge derived from data

Centralized information storage and processing Network Network

Wired

Wireless

Wireless

Wired

Uploading information

Accessing information

o Businesses analyze raw data in order to identify meaningful trends


o For example:
o Health history of patients
Creators of information

Users of Information

o Buying habits and patterns of customers

Demand for more Information

Virtuous cycle of information


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Value of Information to a Business


o Identifying new business opportunities
o Buying/spending patterns
o Internet stores, retail stores, supermarkets

o Customer satisfaction/service
o Tracking shipments, and deliveries

o Identifying patterns that lead to changes in existing business


o Reduced cost
o Just-in-time inventory, eliminating over-stocking of products, optimizing shipment and delivery

o New services
o Security alerts for stolen credit card purchases

o Targeted marketing campaigns


o Communicate to bank customers with high account balances about a special savings plan

o Creating a competitive advantage


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Storage
o Data created by individuals/businesses must be stored for further processing o Type of storage used is based on the type of data and the rate at which it is created and used o Examples:
o Individuals: Digital camera, Cell phone, DVDs, Hard disk
o Businesses: Hard disk, external disk arrays, tape library

o Storage model: An evolution


o Centralized: mainframe computers o Decentralized: Client server model o Centralized: Storage Networking
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Storage Technology and Architecture Evolution

LAN

FC SAN

Multi Protocol Router

IP SAN RAID Array SAN / NAS

JBOD Internal DAS Time


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Lesson Summary
Key points covered in this lesson: o Importance of information

o Data, information and storage


o Categories of data o Storage architectures and their evolution

Additional Task for Students Research on Storage Technologies & Architecture evolution ( RAID & Storage Networking )

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Lesson: Data Center Infrastructure and Introduction to ILM

Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to: o List the five core elements of a data center infrastructure

o Describe the requirements of storage systems for optimally supporting business activities
o Explain the importance of Information Lifecycle Management

o List the activities in developing the ILM strategy

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IT World as We Know It Today

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Example of an Order Processing System

Server/ OS Client

LAN

FC SAN

Application User Interface

DBMS Storage Array

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Key Requirements for Data Center Elements

Availability Data Integrity Security

Manageability

Performance Scalability

Capacity

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Challenges in Managing Information


o Exploding digital universe
o Multifold increase of information growth

o Increasing dependency on information


o The strategic use of information plays

o Changing value of information


o Information that is valuable today may become less important tomorrow.

Additional Task Research on Tiered Storage Model


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Information Lifecycle Management

Protect

New order Value

Process order

Deliver order

Warranty claim

Time

Fulfilled order

Aged data

Warranty Voided

Create

Access

Migrate

Archive

Dispose

A proactive strategy that enables an IT organization to effectively manage the data throughout its lifecycle
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Information Lifecycle Management Process


Policy-based Alignment of Storage Infrastructure with Data Value

AUTOMATED
Classify data / applications based on business rules
Implement policies with information management tools Integrated management of storage environment Organize storage resources to align with data classes

FLEXIBLE

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Benefits of Implementing ILM


o Improved utilization
o Tiered storage platforms

o Simplified management
o Processes, tools and automation

o Simplified backup and recovery


o A wider range of options to balance the need for business continuity

o Maintaining compliance
o Knowledge of what data needs to be protected for what length of time

o Lower Total Cost of Ownership


o By aligning the infrastructure and management costs with information value

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Lesson Summary
Key points covered in this lesson: o The five core elements of a Data Center infrastructure

o Key requirements of storage systems to support business activities, as well as some of the constraints
o ILM strategy
o Importance o Characteristics o Activities in developing ILM strategy o IML implementation o Benefits of ILM

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Chapter Summary
Key points covered in this chapter: o Importance of data, information, and storage infrastructure

o Types of data, its value, and key management requirements of a storage system
o Evolution of storage architectures o Core elements of a data center o Importance of the ILM strategy

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What do you Think ?


o If you were to send a 1.1 MB e-mail to 4 of your friends, by the time your 4 friend receive that e-mail, What is your contribution to the digital Universe ( how many Mbs )
a) < 5 MB b) 10 30 MB c) 30 50 MB d) > 50 MB

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How Much Data do YOU Create?


START 1.1 MB
E-mail with Attachment
E-mail with doc 1.1 MB
E-mail with doc 1.1 MB E-mail with doc 1.1 MB 1.1 MB 1.0 MB 2.1 MB 2.1 MB E-mail with doc 1.1 MB 2.2 MB Backup

SENT TO FOUR COLLEAGUES

2.2 MB

Document 1 MB

E-mail with doc 1.1 MB

2.2 MB

Original Document + E-mail Text Local E-mail Copy E-mail Server Desktop Backup Redundant Server Tape Archive Copies (4) E-mail Local Copies Server Copies Server Backup Tape Archive

MB 1.0 0.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 2.1 4.2 9.5 4.4 4.4 4.4 8.8 22.0

2.2 MB

E-mail Server/ Redundant Desktop Backup Backup

Transient Overhead 20.0 TOTAL 51.5

4.2 MB Tape Back-up

8.8 MB
Tape Back-up

FINISH 51.5 MB!

Source: IDC White Paper, "The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe," Sponsored by EMC, March 2008
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What is Information Storage & Management

An Example for an Intelligent Information Infrastructure

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Typical IT Environment

Web server

Outlook users & file clients

Exchange servers

LAN

CRM server

App server

LAN backup File servers

SQL server

Tape backup

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Typical IT Environment Potential Issues

Web server
Data Everywhere

Outlook users & file clients

Exchange servers

Data Everywhere

LAN

CRM server

App Data Everywhere

server

LAN backup File serversData


Everywhere

SQL server

Tape backup

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Typical IT Environment Potential Issues

Web server

Outlook users & file clients

Exchange servers

LAN

Multiple Backup

CRM server

App server
Multiple Backup Hard to Manage

LAN backup File servers

SQL server

Tape backup

Low Utilization

Difficult to build DR

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Typical IT Environment Potential Issues

User Identification

Web server

Outlook users & file clients

Automating workflow

Exchange servers
How to Archive

How to manage SLA

LAN

Unprotected Tape

CRM server
How to handle paper

To many App server servers Compliance

LAN backup File servers


RTO/RPO

SQL server
Business Intelligence

Tape backup

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Store More Intelligently

Web server

Outlook users & file clients

Exchange servers

LAN IP/iSCSI ERP server App server LAN backup FC SQL server SAN IP iSCSI

Tape backup

Unified Storage

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Protect Against Data Loss

Web server

Outlook users & file clients

Exchange servers

LAN FC ERP server App server Consolidated backup SQL server SAN IP iSCSI

Data Snapshot Data Replication


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Protect from Mis-Use (Security)

Protect User Access

Web server

Outlook users & file clients

Exchange servers

LAN FC ERP server App server


Protect Backup Tape Protect Database

SQL server

Protect Information Protect Replication

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Intelligent Information Management

Web server

Outlook users & file clients

Exchange servers

SQL server LAN FC ERP server App server


Archive Storage Archive inactive data before backup Information Classification backup

Tiered Storage

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Leveraging Content to Create Business Value

Web server

Outlook users & file clients

Exchange servers

LAN
Web Content

Unstructured files

Email Transaction

Unified Content Repository

ERP server

Report Data

Customer data FAX Paper Doc.

SQL server

ECM server

Capture, Classify, Change, Route, Approve, Publish, Search, Retire information

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Virtualized & Automate Infrastructure

VMware Environment

VMware Environment

Users
ERP Server App server
Web server Exchange Server SQL server

Corporate Network (IP & FC)

Virtualized Storage and File System

Next Generation Backup


De-Duplication
Virtual Tape

Archive

End to End Infrastructure & Service Management

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