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How breakthroughs begin.™
Data Storage Trends
From 10GB to 1PB…
Jeff Alsford Director of Technology, EMEA
6th November 200
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The Expanding Digital Universe
Source IDC 2007
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The Expanding Digital Universe
Category Millions in 2006Digital cameras 400Camera Phones 600PCs 900Audio Players 550Mobile Subscribers 1,600LCD/Plasma TVs 70
2010 prediction is a 50% increase, plus higher resolution
Source IDC 2007
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From 10GB to 1.6PB…
IDC: Unstructured data will become the primary task for storage
October 29th, 2008 by Beth Pariseau
According to a new IDC Enterprise Disk Storage Consumption Model report released this week, transaction-intensive applications are giving way as the main segment of enterprise data to an expanded range of apps as well as a tendency to create more copies of data and records for business analytics including data mining and e-Discovery.
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File Size
Traditional Data
E-mail Database File
5KB
xMB
Digital Content
Digital Camera Picture
Map
4MB
300MB
Health Care
60 GB
DigitalMusic
10MB
Video
50MB
Digital Content: Pervasive Across Businesses of All Sizes
Document
25KB
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The Expanding Digital Universe
• 2006 digital information created, 161 Exabytes
Petabyte, Exabyte, Zettabyte
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The Expanding Digital Universe
The consequence is
More files to manage
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From 10GB to 1.6PB…
There are some simple design criteria that ensure scalable, high capacity
storage systems will work…
• Remove complexity• Ease of use• Plug & Play mentality• Recovery techniques• Management• Scalability
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From 10GB to 1.6PB…
Hardware failures will happen, especially in large systems, and must
be mitigated.
• Zero impact on users• Automatic data recovery• Time to recover• Hardware replacement • Pre-emptive action
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From 10GB to 1.6PB…
Different data types, at different times, need different levels of protection and
access.
Not all data is equal
Dynamic protection based on business criteria, n+1..n+4
Information Lifecycle Management
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From 10GB to 1.6PB…
Storage growth needs are unpredictable...
...so customers want low cost of ownership, simplicity of installation & upgrade, and easy-to-use systems.
• Touch/People• Time to add, configure• Management tools/alerts
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From 10GB to 1.6PB…
Customers want to scale storage performance & capacity, seamlessly and
independently, depending on their business application needs.
Performance and capacity are different
They want storage to interoperate with existing investments, turning
data into a proactive resource.
How breakthroughs begin.™
Automating Large Scale Storage Infrastructure
