Conquering Disaster Recovery Challenges and Out-of-Control Data with the Hybrid Cloud

Editor's Notes

• #3: Ed Walsh is Catalogic’s Chief Executive Officer, a proven CEO with 20 years of high impact senior-level management experience with public, private and venture backed firms within the high-tech industry. Prior to joining Catalogic, Ed held a number of executive positions including CEO of Avamar, which was acquired by EMC. He was the GM and VP of the EMC/Avamar data protection business.  Most recently, Ed was the Vice President of Marketing and Strategy and Vice President of IBM's Storage Portfolio Strategy and Business Line Executive.  Ed joined IBM through the acquisition of Storwize where he was the CEO of an evolutionary technology for real-time compression.  Ed earned a degree of business and finance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and received his MBA at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan Business School. Kamlesh has over 20 years of experience with designing and developing storage management software. 
• #13: #1 Avoid hardware costs #3 Budgetary concerns with on-premises solutions
• #20: Forrester named IBM a leader in its latest Wave™ report on hybrid cloud management solutions. Forrester analyzed and scored numerous hybrid cloud management solutions and identified IBM as both a “leader” and a “significant software provider.” The report goes on to say that some of the leaders such as IBM “offer deep and broad support for prebuilt application and infrastructure templates, powerful provisioning and configuration management, role-based controls, and rich cost, performance, and capacity management features.”   Synergy’s report, “Worldwide Cloud Infrastructure Services Market Share, Q3 2015,”  acknowledged IBM as a top performer and leader in the private and hybrid cloud space for 2015. The firm’s findings around IaaS, PaaS, hybrid and private cloud, clearly confirms our position as one of the market leaders in cloud.
• #25: As a company we have been delivering software for over 18 years – Our headquarters are in Woodcliff Lake, NJ and we have offices throughout the US and Europe. We believe Data is more critical to business than ever. Business must leverage their data copies to deliver operational efficiencies, while simultaneously delivering greater business agility. The next great leap in Data Management will be Copy Data Management.   We have two products DPX and ECX. DPX is our heterogeneous data protection product and ECX is our Copy Data Management platform. And we have 1000’s of satisfied customers WW. The rest of this presentation will be about Copy Data Management and our ECX software platform
• #26: IT teams are struggling with the challenge to drive down cost while increasing agility. A common catch phrase for this is “IT modernization”. Catalogic drives IT modernization through their “In-Place Copy Data Management platform. (click) You simply take your existing IBM storage infrastructure, which you bought for good reasons. No need to rip and replace or change anything (Click) You add Catalogic Software in the environment. The solution is agentless, non-disruptive and installs in about 15 minutes. The solution works “in-place” or with your current infrastructure. no need to “rip and replace” anything. (Click) And you get some very powerful use cases. Self-service storage provisioning. Leveraging storage templates and role based access, a storage team can provide admins or developers self-service, while keeping control and governance Easy Storage management. Storage templates make it easy to role our consistent storage and save time Automated DR is one of the powerful automated uses cases. Leverage your remote storage replicas to perform daily DR. It might sound complex but its really quite simple to deploy in a cloud or private data center. Image life without DR weekends. Automated Hybrid Cloud drives high ROI uses cases leveraging your existing investments in IBM storage DevOps automation is typically impossible to do traditional IT. Catalogic with its templates, role based access and rest API make it quiet simple.
• #27: Here is what is important to know about how Catalogic’s Copy Data Management software works.   [BUILD] ECX installs as a virtual machine or vApp and does not require any agents. The configuration is as simple as just registering the storage and hypervisor assets in ECX and that’s it.   From there, Catalogic catalogs all copy data from the storage as well as Vmware   ECX does this by talking directly to the public storage and hypervisor APIs
• #28: Once the environment is cataloged, IT now has detailed visibility and insight of all the data, including the data copies, within the environment.   ECX catalogs all snaps, replicas and VMware objects.   In addition, the catalog understands the lineage and location of a data copies, so there is a clear understanding of what is production data and what is snapshot or replica data and which volumes the snaps and replicas are associated with.   The catalog also correlates between Virtual Machines and Storage infrastructure so IT has compliance reporting on recover points or data availability points, local and remote, on a VM by VM basis.   ECX provides detailed reporting to ensure business SLAs are being met.
• #29: We’ll dive a bit deeper into how ECX’s ‘Use Data’ workflow works. [BUILD] To make data available for a DR, DevOps or Analytic environment for a set of applications or different business units is next to impossible without automation and orchestration.   [BUILD] ECX’s Copy Data Management Platform enables IT to set up these environments and meet the business SLAs. Leveraging ECX’s actionable catalog, the ECX ‘Use Data’ workflow is able to spin up application consistent VMs in a fenced network environment. This is a critical step so as not to impact production. ECX even allows IT to configure the order in which to bring up the VMs needed to ensure application dependencies are met.   [BUILD]The new environment is now up and running and available in this fenced off environment and the data is available to be used for any use case.
• #30: Once the environment has been spun up and utilized, ECX provides multiple option around this copy of production data;   [BUILD] First, the environment can be automatically cleaned up; typically, these environments never get cleaned up. The ability to automatically clean up these environments helps to reduce data sprawl. This is especially important if these workflows are running daily.
• #32: And what we do is allow IT an easy way to take advantage of the cloud by simply extending their existing environment. Again, because ECX is build to use the technology within the underlying storage, we simply leverage their storage array’s capability to move an app consistent snapshot into the cloud. Then ECX delivers all the required automation and orchestration of all of the layers of the stack that need to come together to instantiate a working application environment in the cloud, in support of those key use case that we’ve talked about– DR, Analytics, Test and Dev, etc– And ECX controls the process of spinning up an environment when needed, and spinning it back down to return the infrastructure and take advantage of the elasticity. The API comes into play here as well as this all can be driven through the API, which allows ECX to serve up the cloud infrastructure with self service and automation to the dev teams. And the ROI of this can be significant. We have white paper showing 318% ROI on things like daily DR in the cloud, compared to doing DR in a traditional format. Same value can be applied to an analytics use case. You spin up an environment for a given period of time to allow the data scientists to run their analyses, and once completed, you spin it down. And this really increases the agility of the overall IT organization, provides dramatic operational cost savings, and of course lower capex as you are simply paying on consumption as a monthly expense and not a huge capital purchase.
• #34: ESX 5.5 – 4 core & 64GB of RAM • Storwize V7000 array • Catalogic ECX, deployed as a virtual appliance • Application VMs hosted on Storwize Exchange 2010 Oracle Database server SQL database server Active Directory Server