7 steps to storage freedom and avoiding vendor lock in - io fabric 2017
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Objective-defined storage aims to create a single storage pool from any vendor or storage type to eliminate silos and vendor lock-in. It uses advanced data tiering to move hot data to fast RAM and SSDs, warm data to SSDs and fast disks, and cold data to high-capacity disks or cloud. This improves performance while reducing costs by utilizing commodity hardware. Reliability is improved through artificial intelligence and maintaining multiple live instances of data in different locations. Overall, objective-defined storage aims to reduce costs, improve performance, reliability, and unlock data from proprietary vendors through a software-defined approach.
7 steps to storage freedom and avoiding vendor lock in - io fabric 2017
- 1. STEPS to7 Storage Freedom The new enterprise with rapidly growing virtualisation, Digital Transformation, IOT, Big Data, Containerisation, Dev/Ops requires a new intelligent storage platform to drive business transformation = Objective-Defined Storage and avoiding vendor lock-in Objective-Defined Storage Create a single storage pool SAN and NAS products are over 20 years old and were developed for the physical world. They simply can't deliver the scalability, reliability, performance or value needed by the new enterprise. In the new enterprise all storage regardless of vendor, make or model needs to be seen as a single storage pool. Data is decoupled from the underlying hardware including RAM, SSD, AFA, SAN, NAS, DAS, JBOD, and CLOUD. Any vendor, any storage, Completely storage agnostic. 1 Eliminate storage silos, forklift upgrades and vendor lock-in Data freedom is finally here Advanced data tiering Typically 50 to 80 per cent of all data is COLD. Using advanced real-time data tiering, hot data is moved to RAM and you fastest SSDs, warm data is moved to SSDs and your fastest spinning disks with cold data migrated to your highest capacity, lowest costs disks or the cloud, including AWS, AZURE and Google. In the new enterprise, the application objectives control where data resides. This is called Objective-Defined Storage. 2 Use commodity RAM and SSD instead of expensive, proprietary All Flash Arrays Add value performance If any of your applications require more performance, simply add RAM or commodity SSDs and let the platform allocate it to the applications that need it, when they need it. EASY. When specific data is no longer needed in RAM, it is moved to SSD, then to spinning disks - freeing up your expensive, high performance storage resources to deliver exceptional performance all the time and in real-time. Consider adding 512GB ($6000) RAM, Intel Optane ($1500 / 375GB) and some SSDs ($500 - $1000 / TB) to a host and performance will soar for ALL applications as excess performance can be shared with other applications and even across the entire network. Typically 2 to 10 per cent of data is hot and 10 to 20 percent of data is warm - utilise your fastest resources for the hottest data. 3 Add commodity capacity Commodity is not about using the cheapest - it is about using the right storage for the right outcomes. As data becomes aged or stale, it does not need to reside on expensive performance storage. Objective-Defined Storage understands your data and moves it to the right medium at the right phase in its lifecycle to deliver performance combined with value. Maximise your existing investment in storage whilst future proofing your data and your storage. 4 How much of your COLD data is on expensive storage? Commodity disk or cloud for cold data Reliability driven by artificial intelligence The new enterprise needs improved data reliability, availability and resilience. AI and self-healing are required to change the reliability paradigm. Advanced technologies deliver 2 to 8 Live Instances of data in multiple locations instead of RAID. Each Live Instance is updated in unison without traditional replication and each is able to instantly serve up data in the event that multiple storage devices fail. Failures are to be expected on storage hardware - it is how you deal with simultaneous multiple failures without impacting production workloads that ensures reliability. Multiple Live Instances in multiple locations 5 Driven by AI and SWARM technologies Deliver exceptional value Reduce cost and complexity from your storage. Expand your storage with commodity storage whilst you leverage your existing investment in your current storage hardware. The intelligence is built into the software platform using Objective-Defined Storage. Single dashboard for all your data management. Orchestrating and automating almost every task reduces downtime, costs and complexity whilst improving performance, availability and reliability. Storage becomes a business enabler, not an inhibitor. 6 Reduce storage costs Deliver previously unattainable outcomes Just like virtualisation changed how you use and manage servers - and it didn't care if you had DELL, HPE, Lenovo or white box servers underneath. Objective-Defined Storage does the same to your data. Your data is finally free from expensive, proprietary storage vendors, storage silos and vendor lock-in. Watch performance soar through the roof and costs plummet while delivering previously unattainable levels of performance, capacity, reliability and value. Transform your storage, transform your business. 7 Unlock your storage Release your data Asia Pacific: +61 2 9099 5500 www.ioFABRIC.com.au The leader in Objective-Defined Storage Global HQ: +1 844-216-7418 EMEA: +44 20 3287 8772 Always On, Agile and Affordable