Storage Infrastructure Optimization (SIO).
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Lot of info from https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/InsideSystemStorage/?order=asc&maxresults=15&sortby=0&page=49&lang=en
- SIO deals with both the demand and supply of data growth in five specific areas:
- Data reclamation, rationalization and planning
- Virtualization and tiering
- Backup, business continuity and disaster recovery
- Storage process and governance
- Archive, Retention and Compliance
- Trends
- 70 percent of data stored on disk has not been accessed in the past 90 days, and is unlikely to be accessed at all in the near future.
- Would probably be better to store on lower cost storage tiers.
- Storage Resource Management (SRM) is also a mess, with over 85 percent of clients having serious reporting issues.
- Even rudimentary "Showback" systems to report back what every individual, group or department were using resulted in significant improvement.
- Archive is not universally implemented mostly because retention requirements are often misunderstood. This is attributed to lack of collaboration between storage IT personnel, compliance officers, and application owners.
- A "service catalog" that identifies specific storage and data types can help address many of these concerns.
- 70 percent of data stored on disk has not been accessed in the past 90 days, and is unlikely to be accessed at all in the near future.
Reshaping Storage for Virtualization and Big Data
- there is no downturn on the demand for storage.
- To address this:
- identify storage inefficiencies.
- develop better forecasting methodologies.
- implement ILM.
- follow vendor management best practices during acquisition and outsourcing. \
- To address this:
- Other suggestions
- get upper management to accept new technologies by refering to them as "Green" technologies, as they help reduce energy costs as well.
- data deduplication.
- thin provisioning.(drive up storage utilization to rates as high as you dare, typically 60 to 70 percent is what most people are comfortable with.)
- compression is to refer to them as "Green" technologies, as they help reduce energy costs as well. Thin provisioning can help drive up storage
- get upper management to accept new technologies by refering to them as "Green" technologies, as they help reduce energy costs as well.
- top three initiatives for 2012 are to implement
- data deduplication,
- 10Gb Ethernet,
- Solid-State drives (SSD).