Information Lifecycle Management and Storage Consolidation

1
(No Transcript)
2
Pillar Data Systems

• Funding Tako Investments (not VC funded)
• Mission Build a storage company that changes the
  rules. Storage solutions should be
• Inexpensive to buy and own
• Flexible to meet current and future business
  demands
• Simple to deploy and manage
• Founded July 21, 2001
• Customers 100 Customers in first year of
  shipments
• Employees 500 Worldwide220 Engineers
• Headquarters San Jose, CAOffices throughout
  North America and Europe expanding into Asia
  and Australia in 2006

3
Business Challenges

• Data growth continues to explode
• Storage management technologies not keeping pace
  with demand
• Storage infrastructure too complex, and
  expensive
• Regulatory concerns compounding problem
• IT budgets flat or declining

4
The Industrys Answer ILM

• All data is not created equal store it
  accordingly.
• ILM puts information to work.
• Optimizing storage efficiency throughout the
  life of your information.
• Simplifying the management of information
  through its lifecycle.

5
ILM Implementation Challenges

• ILM is expensive
• Multiple, special purpose appliances and
  platforms
• Distinct and disjoint management software
  components
• Additional management time and cost due to lack
  of automation
• ILM adds complexity
• Identifying information assets and infrastructure
  resources
• Deploying tiered storage only partially addresses
  the need
• Lacking a comprehensive policy management
  capability
• ILM is risky
• Movement of data across tiers in the
  infrastructure is predominantly manual and adds
  risk

Bottom Line Cost and complexity have increased
6
(No Transcript)
7
Addressing Customer Needs

• Three tiers of storage on ONE platform
• NAS, SAN or iSCSI on ONE platform
• Multiple applications on ONE platform
• SATA or FC or both on ONE platform

Multiple Apps
Tiers 1,2,3
ONE
ONE
SATAFC
NASSAN
ONE
ONE
8
Simplified, Consolidated Storage

• ONE integrated system
• ONE scalable platform
• ONE unified architecture
• ONE storage pool
• ONE management view

9
Las Vegas Review Journal

• Pain Point
• Needed to update aging infrastructure and move
  tier 2 and 3 data off expensive primary disk.
• No heterogeneous replication capabilities
• Scaling the system was cost-prohibitive and
  complex
• Solution Deployed
• Pillar Axiom 20TB NAS/SAN storage system
• Benefits
• Very simple management and easy upgrade path
• Automated quality of service capabilities for SAN
  environment
• TCO for entire system
• was less than annual maintenance and software
  licenses for legacy EMC solution

10
I/Pro Media Research

• Pain Point
• Disparate EMC and NetApp platforms driving cost
  and complexity too high
• Needed to add headcount just to manage current
  environment
• Legacy system didnt allow for seamless data
  migration
• Proposed ILM solution only meant increased cost,
  complexity and risk
• Solution Deployed
• Consolidated all legacy EMC and NetApp gear onto
  Pillar Axiom storage system
• Benefits
• Significant costs savings
• One platform for NAS and SAN
• One platform for multiple tiers of storage