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Analyst Corner
Top Issues in Planning for Storage Infrastructure
IDC's end-user survey across the Asia-Pacific (excluding) Japan region in 2007 has identified the key issues that organisations face in planning their storage infrastructure. Security, disaster recovery, capacity, compliance and disk utilisation have been listed as some of the top issues. In addition, all IT managers mentioned the need to reduce operating and storage management costs.
“Virtualisation is a technology that is believed to reduce complexity and cost, improve utilisation levels and help control the server and storage sprawling within enterprises. However, while we have seen a lot of interest and excitement in the server virtualisation world, that same enthusiasm has been slower to appear in the storage side,” says Graham Penn, Associate Vice President of IDC’s Asia-Pacific Storage.
Today's typical data centre houses equipment from many large yet independent server and storage systems. There are also servers running a variety of operating systems with some storage attached. Many of these servers run a single application, and in some cases, these have been built into distinct and separate silos, resulting in hundreds and sometimes thousands of these silos in the data centre of today's larger enterprises. This proliferation has introduced considerable physical complexity and made the management of devices and data very difficult for IT Managers.
The solution to this complexity is to introduce virtualization technology at the server, networking, and the storage layer within the infrastructure fabric. In time, some of the applications & clients accessing information can be virtualised as well. This is expected to occur over the next 2-4 years so that a "utility capability" becomes available, eliminating silos. The goal is to enable easy management of the overall environment so as to provide better access to information and to have applications delivered as if they were a utility at a level of performance that the users have requested.
“By adding storage virtualization on top of the heterogeneous storage systems, IT managers can provide a consistent interface for all storage applications, enabling a single set of storage applications, rather than multiple applications, supporting the same functions. This is also true for tasks like data migration and consolidation, making these otherwise disruptive tasks far less disruptive to the storage enterprise,” Graham concludes.
“Virtualisation is a technology that is believed to reduce complexity and cost, improve utilisation levels and help control the server and storage sprawling within enterprises. However, while we have seen a lot of interest and excitement in the server virtualisation world, that same enthusiasm has been slower to appear in the storage side,” says Graham Penn, Associate Vice President of IDC’s Asia-Pacific Storage.
Today's typical data centre houses equipment from many large yet independent server and storage systems. There are also servers running a variety of operating systems with some storage attached. Many of these servers run a single application, and in some cases, these have been built into distinct and separate silos, resulting in hundreds and sometimes thousands of these silos in the data centre of today's larger enterprises. This proliferation has introduced considerable physical complexity and made the management of devices and data very difficult for IT Managers.
The solution to this complexity is to introduce virtualization technology at the server, networking, and the storage layer within the infrastructure fabric. In time, some of the applications & clients accessing information can be virtualised as well. This is expected to occur over the next 2-4 years so that a "utility capability" becomes available, eliminating silos. The goal is to enable easy management of the overall environment so as to provide better access to information and to have applications delivered as if they were a utility at a level of performance that the users have requested.
“By adding storage virtualization on top of the heterogeneous storage systems, IT managers can provide a consistent interface for all storage applications, enabling a single set of storage applications, rather than multiple applications, supporting the same functions. This is also true for tasks like data migration and consolidation, making these otherwise disruptive tasks far less disruptive to the storage enterprise,” Graham concludes.
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