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09/13/2006, 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Speaker:
Brajesh Goyal, Senior Manager, Database and Grid Solutions, NetApp.
This session will look at how enterprises can evolve towards service-centric storage grid. Businesses demand their IT infrastructure including storage infrastructure to provide flexibility to meet changing business needs and deliver value for money. However, storage infrastructure today is highly underutilized -- typical enterprise utilizes less than 30% of its storage and storage infrastructure is misaligned with their business needs. Storage infrastructure isn't ready to deliver on the needs of 24x7 enterprise -- it is extremely difficult to meet RPOs and RTOs with explosive data growth and shrinking maintenance windows. It takes a long time to set up IT systems for new applications. This session will look at how enterprises can gradually evolve towards service-centric storage by defining storage data sets, resource pools, and policies that are aligned with business needs. Data sets provide logical encapsulation of the application storage needs with service-level objectives such as cloning, availability, and performance. Resource pools define the physical storage hardware infrastructure. Policies define the action that's required to meet the defined service objectives. Enterprises can gradually expand on the service attributes by defining the service attribute and the policy required to implement it. Standards bodies can help in defining standard service attributes; thus leading to the development of true heterogeneous storage grid. The talk will also include a customer case study on how service-centric storage can improve productivity and flexibility of enterprise data centers.
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