Garry Carpenter Storage Consultant

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Garry Carpenter Storage Consultant
Data Migration
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Storage Demand Drivers

• Increasing need for storage
• Competing in todays world means providing more
  information to internal and external customers
• Internet growth (get more data on line)
• Size of the average file is growing
• Data retention directives
• Increasing Importance of Data Availability
• 24 x 7 x Forever
• Faster access to data leads to competitive
  advantage
• IDC predicts an 80 data growth per annum over
  next three years in the global network storage
  market

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The Data Deluge
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The Escalating Cost ofStorage Administration
250
200
Capacity per Administrator
150
Administrators per Site
Average Capacity per Administrator
Source SRC
100
50
0
1997
1998
2000
1996
1999
2001
2002
2003
Year

• Cost to manage storage is about 5x the cost
  of the storage itself

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Data Storage Lifecycle
High
High
Hard Disk (RAID)
Off Line
Frequency of Access to Data
Volume of Data
Low
Low
Days
Years
Time
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Data Storage Lifecycle
High
Hard Disk (RAID)
Off Line
Frequency of Access to Data
Volume of Data

• Reduces Cost of Storage Management
• Reduces Time to Backup and Restore

• Increases Online Data Accessibility
• Availability Enhances User Productivity

Low
Low
Time
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Common Data ManagementBusiness Problems
LAN
Inactive Data
Key
Active Data

• Inability to share primary storage causes
  inefficiencies... over or under-utilisation of
  resources
• Shrinking backup window with more data to backup
• Primary storage restore takes 80 longer than
  necessary to get operational after crash

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Direct Data Management Costs

• Analysts estimate Average Disk Management Cost
  per year at sites with 300 users 65,000
• Data Migration will reduce disk management
  activities
• Reduces requirement for additional disk storage
• Restore time of live data improved dramatically
• Data Migration based savings could be as high as
  80 of disk management expenses
• Automated Data Migration requires very little
  maintenance after initial setup

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LAN Data Migration
LAN
Email Server
Migration Management Server
File Server
SCSI Connection
HD / RAID
HD / RAID
HD / RAID
Free Space
Centralised Storage Migration Device
Live Data
Migrated Data
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Examples of Data Migration

• Medical Scans and Records
• Scientific Data and Research
• Publishing
• Law, Financial, insurance etc..
• Email archiving

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Email Migration

• Reduce costs by reducing burden on IT
• Leverages infrastructure by freeing up
  saturated email servers
• Reduces email server backup time
• Protect business processes and vital
  communications
• Eliminates need for personal archives such as
  Outlook's .pst files.
• Manages email as a record of business, in
  accordance with rules of evidence.

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Data Migration Benefits

• Reduces Total Cost of Ownership
• Automatically migrates inactive data to lower
  cost near-line storage
• Reduces back-up and recovery time
• Only active files need to be backed-up
• Reduces data management costs
• Provides automated data management, allowing IT
  staff to do more important tasks
• Set your storage free Migrate your data!

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