SDS: Myth or · 2016-03-03 · IDC Storage SW Market Forecast Total Storage SW market expected to grow from $15.9B in CY16 to 23.25 B in CY19 (CAGR 3.9%). Table above is a subset

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SDS: Myth or

Reality?Gary Quinn – President & CEO

WHAT IS “SOFTWARE DEFINED

STORAGE”(SDS)

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Layer of Abstraction

Gartner SDS Framework

Infrastructure “Control Plane”

Service Layer

Infrastructure “Data Plane”PhysicalInfrastructure

Gartner, SDS Taxonomy, Sept 2014

Northbound APIs

Southbound APIs

Arrays, Hyper Converged Appliances

Software Defined Controllers, Disaggregated from HW


New IDC SDS Framework (Dec 2015)

Software Defined Storage

Discrete

(Storage Only)

Converged

(Compute + Storage)

Storage Workload

OS

Server based Storage

Storage Workload

Server based Storage

Non-Storage Workload

Virtual Machine

ContainerBare-Metal

Hyper-Visor / Micro-Visor

OS

IDC SDS Taxonomy, December 2015


Analyst View of SDS Today

A true SDS platform controls the IO path and data services independently, disaggregated/discretely from the HW.

IDC and Gartner use different words, but have similar functional views

Layer of Abstraction

Infrastructure “Control Plane”

Infrastructure “Data Plane”

Software Defined Storage

Controller(SDS-CS)

Discrete

(Storage Only)

Converged

(Compute + Storage)


SDS Provides Deployment Flexibility

Deployment Type

Hyper-Converged Hyper-Scale

Scaling approach Scales compute and storage togetherScales compute and storage

independently

SummaryDeploys storage controller and array on

the same server, providing compute and storage in a single node

Decouples storage controller and array, forming an elastic storage cluster using white

box servers.

Use Cases

Basic, modular building blocks for enterprise virtualized workloads,

especially apps like Exchange, SQL Server, and even Oracle databases.

Much more suitable architecture for elastic workloads, especially

Hadoop, Cassandra, and other NoSQL flavors. Better

platform for enterprises building out their own clouds

with technologies like OpenStack or Docker.


IDC Storage SW Market Forecast

Total Storage SW market expected to grow from $15.9B in CY16 to 23.25 B in CY19 (CAGR 3.9%). Table above is a subset and does NOT include Storage and Device Mgmt. And File System software segments as they are not relevant to FreeStor

SW Segment 2016 2017 2018 2019 CAGR

Data protection $6,283.3 $ 6,601.5 $6,935.8 $7,656.0 5.1%

Storage Mgmt. $908.7 $1,078.0 $1,278.9 $1,800.0 18.6%

Replication $2,796.0 $3,031.7 $3,287.3 $3,865.0 8.4%

SDS $700.0 $1,134.1 $1,837.4 $4,823.0 62.0%

Archive $1,544.7 $1,636.3 $1,716.0 $1,790.4 3.8%

Cloud Storage $537.9 $598.7 $655.0 $708.7 7.1%

Total $12,770.60 $14,080.35 $15,710.45 $20,643.10 12.8%


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One Platform, One View, One Price

MigrationContinuous Availability

Protection & Recovery

Optimization

Intelligent Abstraction® CoreWith Predictive Analytics

Scale Up

Scale Out

Monitor, Manage, Analyze, Take Action

Local, Remote, Hybrid Deployment

Mix and match data services as needed


FreeStor takes a new, comprehensive approach to real-world challenges in managing data

Rethinking How Data is Managed


Intelligent Abstraction

Intelligent Predictive Analytics

Intelligent Action

Addressing Business Challenges


FreeStor delivers greater efficiencies, reduced downtime, lower costs, and improved simplicity

1 Platform, 1 View, 1Price

Lower Costs Increase

Efficiency Eliminate silos Choose the

Right Storage

Intelligent

Predictive Analytics

Heterogeneous Metrics, Monitoring & Reporting

Centralized Management

Predictive

Proactive Detection

Smart Rules Multi-Tenant Take Action on

Real-Time Data

Action

How Do You Make it Happen?


Take a Software-Defined Storage Approach

Q & A


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SDS: Myth or · 2016-03-03 · IDC Storage SW Market Forecast Total Storage SW market expected to grow from $15.9B in CY16 to 23.25 B in CY19 (CAGR 3.9%). Table above is a subset