Dr Vijay Birchha

Senior Asst Professor

School of Computer Science Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (SCAI)
VIT Bhopal University
Mobile- 9826065780
Cabin- AB2-203
Email- [email protected], [email protected]
Module-01

• Introduction: Importance of data storage - Business issues and IT challenges - Business and IT
opportunities - opportunity for Cloud,
• Virtualization and Data Storage Networking - Server and Storage I/O Fundamentals - I/O connectivity and
Networking Fundamentals - IT Clouds - Virtualization - Virtualization and Storage Services - Data and
Storage Access.
The Importance of Data and Storage
Information-
Centric World

• Society increasingly relies on creating

and consuming data.
• Data must be accessible when and
where needed.
Enablers of
Information Services

Information services rely on IT

resources such as:
• Applications
• Facilities
• Networks
• Servers, storage hardware, and
software.
Data Storage
Improvements

Advances in storage technology allow:

• More data stored in the same or
smaller physical footprint.
• Reduced power and cooling
requirements per GB, TB, PB, or
EB.
Challenges of
Data Growth
Data growth drives demand
for:
• Increased processing
power.
• Higher network bandwidth
and I/O capabilities.
• Expanded storage
capacity.
Growing Data usage spans personal, home, business,
and professional needs.

Dependen Organizations are required to:

ce on •Generate, process, move, and store more data.
•Retain multiple copies for extended periods.
Data
IT Resource
Constraints

IT organizations face challenges

such as:
•Limited power, cooling, and floor
space.
•Restricted budgets, IT staff, and
infrastructure.
Goal: Maximize existing
resources and overcome
constraints.
The Business End of IT
Data Storage Impact
 Data storage impacts businesses across
all sizes:
• the small office/home office (SOHO)
Economic to the remote office/branch
Drivers in office(ROBO), small/medium-size
business (SMB), small/medium
IT Data enterprise (SME).
Storage Key economic factors:
•Costs and expenses.
•Profits and margins.
•Return on investment (ROI).
•Total cost of ownership (TCO).
Balancin Growing reliance on data for
business growth and
operations.

g Act
Between Balancing data needs with the
cost of supporting, managing,

Data and and storing it.

Economi Information drives profits but

cs
comes with associated costs
(e.g., hardware, software,
people, power, facilities).
Innovation and Cost-
Effectiveness
Innovation is about doing more with
existing resources while:
• Supporting business growth.
• Maintaining service-level objectives
(SLOs) and quality of service (QoS).
• Reducing per-unit cost for service
delivery.
 Common challenges in IT resource
Constrain management:
 People, processes, budgets, facilities, power,

ts and cooling, and hardware/software resources.

Trade- Trade-offs:
 Cost reduction may lead to lower QoS and SLOs

Offs
(e.g., cloud migration).
 Boosting QoS or performance may increase costs or
reduce resource utilization.
Tools and Techniques
for Innovation

 Cloud, Virtualization, and Data Storage Networks:

 Enable cost reduction via consolidation.
 Enhance agility, flexibility, and service quality.

 Support both top-line (growth) and bottom-line

(efficiency) metrics.

 Applications of these tools vary:

 Some focus on cost reduction with minimal
growth.
 Others prioritize stretching budgets/resources
while supporting business demand.
Addressing Business and IT Issues
• Clouds, virtualization, and storage networks are tools, techniques, and
best practices to help support or sustain growth while reducing per-
unit costs, removing complexity, enabling flexibility or agility, and
also enhancing customer experiences.
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Focus-
• Do not think or plan more about the technology, tools, and techniques.
Keep the bigger picture in focus, helps to understand what to use
when, where, and why, as well as how to go about it in a more
effective manner.
What Is Driving Data Growth and
Information Reliance
Examples of applications driving continued growth of unstructured data include:
• Gaming, security, and other surveillance video or security
• Unified communications including Voice-over-IP (VoIP)
• Rich media entertainment production and viewing
• Digital archive media management
• Medicine, life science, and health care
• Energy including oil and gas exploration
• Messaging and collaborations (email, IM, texting)
• Internet, Web, social media networking, video and audio
• Finances, marketing, engineering, and customer relations management (CRM)
• Regulatory and compliance requirements
Business Issues and IT Challenges
Common business issues, challenges, and trends pertaining to IT
include:
• Increased reliance on information services being accessible when needed
• Competitive and other market dynamics causing financial constraints and
focus
• Regulatory compliance and other industry or corporate mandates
• Stretched resources (staffing levels, skill sets, budgets, facilities)
• The need to reduce costs while increasing services and productivity
• A shift from cost reduction or avoidance to efficiency and effectiveness models
IT Challenges
Common IT issues, challenges, problems, and trends include: More data to process,
move, manage, store, and retain for longer periods of time
• Increased reliance and expectation that information services be available 7×24
• Limited or strained resource constraints causing bottlenecks or barriers
o People or staffing and applicable skill sets
o Hardware, software, and networking bandwidth
o Budgets (capital and operating)
o Power, cooling, floor space
Cont.
• Time for backup or data protection windows
• Regulatory, compliance, and other regulations
• Demand causing performance, availability, capacity, and energy (PACE) impacts
• Software or hardware licensing and maintenance, support as well as service fees
• Aging IT infrastructures along with related interoperability and complexity
• Time involved in aligning IT resources to business or service needs
• Speed and accuracy of IT resource provisioning
Business and IT Opportunities
1. “Do I need to have someone buy or implement a
cloud, virtualization, or storage networking solution?”
2. How you are going to support business growth,
demands for more data, flexibility, reduce cost, and
enhance service delivery.
3. You need to figure out how to defend your
environment or market your environment to the rest of
your business as opposed to the business going to
external resources.
Traditional Information Services
Delivery/Model
Information Service Delivery Basics
Information Factories
• Most IT organizations or infrastructures exist to support
the business applications and information needs of an
organization.
• In some cases, the business applications services
provided by IT include supporting factories, accounting,
marketing, and engineering, among others.
• Traditional factories (Figure 1.4) leverage different tools,
techniques, metrics, measurements, best practices,
resources, and people skill sets to build and deliver
goods or services to a prescribed service level and price
point.
Traditional Factory
Basic characteristics of factories
include:
• Reliable, to meet demand, avoid downtime, avoid mistakes and rework
• Scalable, to meet changing workload demands
• Efficient, reduce waste, customer SLOs met in an economical manner
• Work is done quickly, yet reliably, with good quality
• Flexible capacity and ability to retool to meet changing needs
• Factories may be wholly owned, shared, or owned by a third party
• Factories consume materials and resources to create/deliver goods and
services
• Those goods and services may in turn be consumed by other factories
• Factories produce product to a blueprint, template, or run book specifications
The notion of the information factory sets up the
discussion around cloud, virtualization, and storage
networks on either a public, private, or hybrid basis.
Information Factory