Archive Strategies for 100% Data Availability

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Archive Strategies for 100% Data AvailabilityChris WoodDirector, Pillar LOBDonna HarlandPrincipal Product Manager, System LOB


Program Agenda

Data Stored Today, Used Tomorrow, Kept Forever

Storage Abstraction Layer

Oracle Optimized Solution

Use Case: Novant Healthcare


Data Stored Today, Used Tomorrow, Kept Forever


The Session FocusWe will talk about exactly what it says

• Policy based data tiering, including disk and tape

• Clustered File System with Global Namespace

• Ability to self-protect

• Infinite scale of capacity and performance

Archive Requirements


Scott RifeThe Library of Congress

“Reliable retrieval is key: An archive that only stores content is indistinguishable from a landfill. We need technology that reliably delivers all the content whenever requested and tell us proactively if there are issues affecting the retrieval of archived content.”


Data Growth and Storage RequirementsThe Nature of Storage and Data Management has to Change

35,000 Exabytes

information in the Digital Universe is growing at 50% a year *

68% of companies require 100 year archive

2020 2020

80% of data is never used

after 90 days (Why?)

Cost to power and manage Storage is Increasing

* Source: IDC Digital Universe Study, 2011

2009 2009800 Exabytes


100TB or 100PB: Same Problems

• Data Growth

• Data Protection

• Data Access

• Overall Costs

Small BusinessSmall Data

Big BusinessBig Data


Scale to Meet New Requirements

Capacity Throughput

Accessibility IOPS

Scale


Data Protection for 100% Access Forever

Policy BasedIntegrity

Validation

Media Life Expectations

Multiple Copies

Data Protection


Data Protection

File Damage• Printed Photo has water

marks and creases but is identifiable

• Flip one bit in a file and it becomes unreadable

Data Protection• Multiple copies• Data Integrity Validation


Access Data of Any Age

Hardware Failures

Disasters

Technology and Format Changes

Media Type

Data Access


Data Access: Media Life Expectancy and Access

Media Useful Life

Access Time Access Caveats

Disk 3-5 yrs Msec • Uses standard protocols and formats of the day

Tape 30 yrs Min-Hrs • Requires Storage Archive Manager or Restore from a Backup

Film 140 yrs Slow Original films are well protected with limited access

Low Acid Paper

500+ yrs Very Slow Well protected environment with limited access

Papyrus 3,000 yrsLimited if even possible

Well protected environment with highly restricted access

Paint on Rock

21,000 yrsLimited if even possible

Restricted access to original caves


Data Access: Media Life Expectancy and Access

Media Useful Life

Access Time Access Caveats

Disk 3-5 yrs Msec Uses standard protocols and formats of the day

Tape 30 yrs Min-Hrs Requires a Storage Archive Manager or Restore from BU

Film 140 yrs Slow Original films are well protected with limited access

Low Acid Paper

500+ yrs Very Slow Well protected environment with limited access

Papyrus 3,000 yrs Limited Well protected environment with highly restricted access

Paint on Rock

21,000 yrs Limited Restricted access to original caves


What do we need?A Storage AbstractionLayer

Rare Image from Hubble Space Telescope. ©NASA, 2009


Solution Architecture Requirements

Tiered Storage Capacity– 5% Primary Storage

– 30% Disk Archive

– 200% Tape Archive

Data Access– All data on-line to application

– 100% data availability

– Any data, any location any age

Storage abstracted from application Primar

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Disk A

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Tape

Archiv

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50%100%150%200%250%

Capacity

Capacity


Application Writes Standard Block or File I/O

Disk

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Pro

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l• Easy• Expensive• Does not scale• Data Protection separate


Introduce Tiered Storage to Meet Requirements

Primary Disk

Disk ArchiveAp

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Sta

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lock

Pro

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Tape Archive

• App changes required• Lower device cost• Limited Scale


The Missing Part: The Storage Abstraction Layer

Tape Archive

Primary Disk

Disk Archive

Sto

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Ma

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Ap

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• No application changes• Lowest cost• Data protected on ingest• Greatest scalability


QFS Client

Architecture of Tiered Storage Infrastructure

T4-2SAM QFS Servers

CIFS Client

NFS Client

Block Mode Client • Tape Archive

Customer Application

Servers

Server

Server

Primary Storage

Capacity Storage

Tape Storage

• Pillar Axiom Disk Archive

• Pillar Axiom Primary Disk

• Storage Abstraction Layer


Summary: Storage Abstraction Architecture Delivers

1 2 3 4

Scalability Data Integrity

Access Control

5

Data Protection

Security


Subpoint

Subpoint

Subpoint

Subpoint

Mainpoint


Summary: Storage Abstraction Architecture Delivers

Scalability

Data Integrity

Access Control

Data Protection

Security

Storage Abstraction


Oracle Optimized Solutions


Oracle Optimized SolutionsAccelerate Your Business Innovation

Save Money Reduce Risk Increase User Productivity

Ensure continued access to critical data

and functions

Improve service levels resulting in higher

employee productivity

Reduce capital and operational costs to

maximize IT investments


Traditional Approach

Solving IT Deployment Complexity

Collection of vendors

First integration is in your

data center

Complex matrix of products

Staff focused on making

it work

Oracle’s OptimizedApproach

Engineered to work together

One point of accountability

Tested & proven architecture

Staff focused on strategic projects


* See substantiation slides

WebCenter Content

11x faster vs. x86 servers

Oracle Unified Directory

3x greater scale

WebLogic Server

6x better $/perf vs. IBM Middleware

Lifecycle Content Management

>2.5x better TCO over Disk-only System

Database46% lower TCO and 2x faster vs. IBM,

Data Management

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

3.5x faster vs. IBM P7

Agile PLM

36% lower TCA vs. IBM

PeopleSoft HCM

11x faster, ½ the cost of IBM

Enterprise Applications

Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure

Deploy 6x faster vs. HP/VMware

Backup and Recovery

5x less cost & faster vs. Symantec

SystemsInfrastructure

WebCenter Portal

38% lower TCA vs.. IBM

Oracle Optimized Solutions Leadership


Summary About Massive Long Term Data Storage and Access

From Oracle Optimized Solutions Proven architecture Known results

From Lifecycle Content Management Scale Data Protection Data Access


Use CaseNovant Healthcare


Robert DickNovant Healthcare

" Data availability and access 7x24 in our business is mandatory. Actually, it is often a matter of life or death. Oracle's SAM QFS solution allows us to easily store over 1 Billion files ranging from 512 bytes to 58 Gigabytes. This flexibility allows concurrent ingest and access from 79 different applications using the CIFS, NFS and FTP protocols on Solaris, Linux and AIX clients. We are able to continuously replicate between two active/active data centers 30 miles apart with 20 second fail-over. Lack of immediate data access is simply not an option."


Novant Healthcare: Active/Active Archive

Novant Basic Criteria• 7x24x375 Operation mandatory• Retention Period: Forever• Server & OS agnostic• Shared by 79 concurrent

applications• Scale Capacity and

Performance• Affordable OPEX• RPO < 5min; RTO < 20 Sec

Application Servers

Applications Servers

30

M

iles

SAM SERVER

SAM SERVER

10GbE 10GbE

Disk Cache

Disk Cache

Tape Archive

Tape Archive

DWDM Dark Fiber

User Network


DATA HAS VALUE, BUT… If you cannot access it, it is useless landfill material If you cannot store cost effectively, is it worth it? If you cannot trust it, what good is it?

ORACLE HAS A SOLUTION FOR YOUR BIG DATA PROBLEMS

Any business Any size

Conclusion Slide/Call to action


We are both dedicated Archivists, sometimes mistaken for Librarians…Please don’t make that mistake, or….


Now, maybe you’ll think about returning your library books on time...

Lifecycle Content Management Solutions

Hardware and SoftwareEngineered to work together


OOW Focus on Storage: Upcoming SessionsDay Time Type Title Location

Wed 11:45 General GS: Oracle Storage-Best of Breed and Best for Oracle Moscone S. 103

Wed 3:30 Conf Meet Oracle’s Storage Experts YBCA – Forum

Wed 1:15 Hands-on-lab

StorageTek Tape Analytics: Managing Tape Has Never Been So Simple

Marriott Marquis Salon 14/15

Wed All Day

DemoTape Storage for long term archive and for Backup Recovery

Demo Grounds; Moscone South

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DemoStorage Software for Managing Devices and Managing Data

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Learn more about managing content on Tiered Storage

http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/oos/lifecycle-content-mgmt/overview/index.html

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/storage-software/storage-archive-manager/overview/index.html
