Software-Defined Storage Radar Report: Deploying Enterprise Wide
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The EMA Radar Report on Software-Defined Storage outlines the benefits and evaluation criteria for software-defined storage solutions designed for medium and large enterprises. It highlights key vendors, their offerings, and the advantages of this technology, such as reduced hardware costs and improved resource management. Significant findings include a focus on orchestration and automation as areas for future enhancement.
Software-Defined Storage Radar Report: Deploying Enterprise Wide
- 1. Jim Miller Senior Analyst, Storage Management Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) @jmillerema EMA Radar Report on Software-defined Storage
- 2. Today’s Presenter Slide 2 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. Jim Miller, Senior Analyst, EMA Jim has 22 years of industry experience in IT storage product management, business management, and marketing. Prior to joining EMA, Jim was the product manager of software and hardware for the storage server, archive, backup and recovery, NAS, object storage, and virtual and physical tape solutions at SGI. His experience with identifying market and product requirements for a wide range of hardware and software products enables him to understand and advise on the evolving storage landscape, as cloud, virtualized infrastructures, and mobile device storage complement traditional storage applications and administration.
- 3. Logistics for Today’s Webinar Slide 3 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. An archived version of the event recording will be available at www.enterprisemanagement.com • Log questions in the Q&A panel located on the lower right corner of your screen • Questions will be addressed during the Q&A session of the event Questions Event recording
- 4. EMA Radar Report on Software-defined Storage Jim Miller Senior Analyst, Storage Management Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) @jmillerema
- 5. Agenda • Software-defined storage 2015 approach • Software-defined storage definition • Evaluation model • Vendors covered in this study • Software-defined storage Radar results • General findings • Software-defined storage Radar results chart • Value leaders • Special recognitions Slide 5 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 6. Enterprise Software-Defined Storage Defined • Abstracts physical storage infrastructure into logical resources utilizing intelligent software • Capacity and services are logically provisioned independent of physical storage • Enterprise software-defined storage is implemented on all storage • Orchestration and automation Slide 6 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 7. Enterprise Software-Defined Storage Benefits • Reduces hardware costs • Leverage existing infrastructure • Increase utilization • Use of commodity hardware • Limits the effort to manage and administer storage • Single management console • Provisioning across multiple storage devices • Common basic and advanced services • Enable data as a service • Orchestrate and automate provisioning and QOS Slide 7 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 8. Radar Report Overview • Purpose of this EMA Radar: • Review/compare software-defined storage designed for, and deployed in medium and large enterprise settings • Minimal criteria for software-defined storage inclusion • Operating solution for six months • Solution supports storage systems from multiple vendors and storage types • Proven enterprise-class deployments, managing at least 500TB of network and direct attached storage capacity Slide 8 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 9. Software-Defined Storage Evaluation Model: Key Criteria Slide 9 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc. Resource Efficiency • Deployment and administration • Cost advantage Solution Impact • Architecture and integration • Functionality Vendor Strength • Strategy • Financial strength • Technology and distribution partnerships
- 10. Vendors Covered in this Study • Atlantis • Citrix • DataCore • EMC • HP • IBM • Nexenta • Symantec Slide 10 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 11. General Findings • All solutions provided heterogeneous device support • All provided single management console • Variations observed in: • Functionality, the number of services supported • Device and file types supported • Cloud support • Greatest opportunity lies in orchestration • Automation of provisioning capacity and performance • Quality of Service Slide 11 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 12. Software-Defined Storage Radar Results Slide 12 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 13. Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders • DataCore • Top overall solution impact score • Highest score for breadth of functionality • Richest set of basic and advanced services • Competitive pricing • Citrix Melio • Originally Sanbolic Melio • Integrated with Citrix WorkspacePod and VDI appliances • Second highest score in solution impact • Second highest score in functionality Slide 13 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 14. Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders • Atlantis • Provider of hyper converged solutions and SDS • Top overall cost efficiency score • Second highest score in cost advantage • High performance, inline deduplication • Nexenta • Portfolio of integrated products • Second highest cost efficiency score • Rich collection of services • Collection of reference architectures from Cisco, Dell, HP, Intel, Inventec, SuperMicro and Quanta Slide 14 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 15. Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders • VMware VSAN and Virtual Volumes • Imbedded directly into vSphere hypervisor • Seamless integration with VMware storage management • Virtual Volumes extend SDS to SAN and NAS arrays • HP StorVirtual VSA • Second highest cost efficiency score • HP OneView for VMware vCenter plug in • HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC Slide 15 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 16. Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders • IBM Spectrum • Third highest score in solution impact • Modular approach with six products • Spectrum Control provides common management platform • EMC ViPR Controller, ViPR SRM • Second highest cost efficiency score • Plugs into an existing cloud stacks and hypervisors • Project CoprHD open source • SRM delivers detailed and relationship and topology views Slide 16 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 17. Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders • Symantec Storage Foundation • Rich set of services that can be executed manually or automatically • Integrated with VMware, vSphere, Hyper-V and KVM • Supports public, private and hybrid clouds Slide 17 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 18. Radar Special Recognitions Slide 18 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 19. Software-Defined Storage Radar Summary • Software-defined storage provides significant opportunity to reduce storage hardware and administration costs • Ensure solution can address all storage • Utilize existing infrastructure • Areas of future improvement • Advances in automation and orchestration Provisioning capacity, performance Services QOS • Cloud Slide 19 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
- 20. Q&A – Please Log Questions in the Q&A Panel Slide 20 © 2015 Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.