IBM Storage. Leading the 21st Century Growth. Freddy Lee Advanced Technical Support

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1 IBM Storage Leading the 21st Century Growth Freddy Lee Advanced Technical Support

2 Why IBM System Storage? Heritage of Distinction 50+ years in storage business Innovation leadership - Invented many of the storage technologies employed today Leadership in Storage Today Over $5 billion revenues Leading and growing market share Over 5,000 people In 170 countries Over 1,500 IBM Business Partners Research for a Bright Future 15 development labs worldwide Over $500 million in R&D annually More US patents than any other vendor Acquiring new technologies to bolster inhouse innovation #1 ASEAN External Disks #1 ASEAN Tape #1 AP External Disks #1 WW Tape #1 WW Archive & HSM solutions #1 Enterprise Content Management #2 WW Data Protection Software Fastest Growth in Storage Software #1 Malaysia External Disks and Overall Disks Source: IDC Storage Tracker, Q3 & Q4 07

3 Storage Has Evolved Through Three Eras - Managing Information in Silos has become Obsolete 1950s Server-Centric Desktops LAN Workstations Workstations SAN Information Handheld devices Desktops LAN Terminals Server Server Server Server System Subsystems Storage SAN Storage Storage 1990s Network-Centric 21 st Century Information-Centric Globally Integrated Enterprise 3

4 IBM System Storage - Strategy Intelligent Management. Protected Information. Smarter Insights. Leverage Information Capitalize on data sharing for collaboration Align storage investment, information value Mitigate Risk Address regulatory, security requirements Keep your business running continuously Optimize IT Automate and Simplify IT operations Optimize Performance, Functionality Enable Business Flexibility Flexible, On Demand IT infrastructure Protect your IT investment 4 Get the most value from your information

5 IBM Acquires XIV January 2, 2008 HEADLINES: External Media & Analysts IBM Buys Israeli Data-Storage Company XIV will be a very serious center for IBM IBM Acquires Privately Held XIV IBM Expands Digital Content Storage With XIV Buy IBM Buys Israeli Start-Up IBM is Buying XIV IBM Moves into Next Generation Storage with XIV Buy IBM Acquires Scale Out Grid Storage Technology with XIV Systems IBM acquires Israel-based XIV for undisclosed sum

6 IBM Acquires XIV January 2, 2008 Media and Analyst Quotes "This is an architecture that fits into IBM's data center of the future pitch seamlessly, carries huge services potential (assessments, data migrations, and ongoing data lifecycle management and protection), and has the ability to wrap a ton of other IBM product/technology around it. Jan 2, 2008 IDG.net Nextra's self-healing, self-tuning, and dynamic scaling capabilities will give IBM new technology to address the growing requirement for high-performance storage for digital archives, digital media, and Web 2.0 applications, IBM said. Jan 2, 2008 "This is about IBM further strengthening its infrastructure portfolio," Daniel Powers, vice president of mergers and acquisitions at IBM System Storage, told a news conference.. IBM said the deal would boost its position in emerging storage opportunities such as Web 2.0 applications, digital archives and digital information. -- Jan 2, 2008 "I think what's most interesting about the company is that their storage offering is modular and built on industry standard hardware, For emerging workloads like surveillance and the storage of rich digital content (video, photos), cheap and scalable and easy to manage are very important. --Jan 2, 2008 The acquisition puts IBM ``in the best position to address emerging storage opportunities like Web 2.0 applications, digital archives and digital media,'' Andy Monshaw, general manager at IBM System Storage Jan 2, 2008 "What the XIV architecture does is scale performance with capacity," David Vaughn, IBM's worldwide marketing manager for system storage.. "When you're posting things -- video, audio and other media types -- you need to make sure that as your storage capacity grows you have predictable performance." Jan 2, 2008

7 Announcing: Growth in IBM System Storage Acquiring an innovative storage architecture that complements our existing product portfolio Provides entry to new markets, new customers and improves our competitiveness Represents new storage development growth and opportunity Reaffirms IBM investment and commitment to storage

8 Announcing: IBM is acquiring XIV Data storage solutions company Founded July 2002 Private company Chairman: Moshe Yanai CEO: Ofir Zohar President US Operations: Jim Sullivan over 50 skilled professionals over 60 patents This acquisition closed on December 31, XIV is now a subsidiary of IBM.

9 What this means to our Clients This acquisition delivers a next generation storage architecture Scalable open storage architecture High performance, reliability and functionality Autonomic self-healing technology Low Cost: Enterprise class (Tier 1) attributes at tier 2 price Simple to deploy and manage Nextra product based on this architecture addresses emerging requirements Digital Archive Web 2.0 Service Providers Digital Media Development / Test Clustered Computing "Nextra is designed for Web 2.0 digital content that nobody had a clue about two years ago. This content requires outrageous levels of scale on demand, runs on cheap component-based hardware and is selfhealing." Steve Duplessie, Enterprise Strategy Group

10 NextraTM Architecture Scale Out Design principles: Massive parallelism Off-the-shelf components Coupled disk, RAM and CPU User simplicity Interface Interface Interface Switching Node Node Interface Interface Switching Node Node Node Node Node

11 Nextra Distribution Algorithm Each volume is spread across all drives Data is cut into 1MBdisks partitions on the disks Nextra behaveand likestored connected vessels,algorithm as the distribution Nextra s distribution automatically distributes partitions algorithm aims for constant disk across all disks in the system pseudo-randomly equilibrium. Thus, Nextra s overall disk spindle usage approaches 100% in all usage scenarios. Interface Interface Interface Switching Node Node Node

12 Nextra Distribution Algorithm on System Changes Data distribution only changes when the system changes Equilibrium is kept when new hardware is added Equilibrium is kept when old hardware is removed Equilibrium is kept after a hardware failure Node 1 Node 2 Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 Node 3

13 Nextra Distribution Algorithm on System Changes Data distribution only changes when the system changes Equilibrium is kept when new hardware is added Equilibrium is kept when old hardware is removed Equilibrium is kept after a hardware failure Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 Node 4 [ hardware upgrade ]

14 Nextra Distribution Algorithm on System Changes Data distribution only changes when the system changes Equilibrium is kept when new hardware is added The fact that distribution is full and Equilibrium automatic is kept when makes old hardware sure all spindles is removed join Equilibrium the is kept effort after of data a hardware re-distribution failure after [ hardware failure ] configuration change. Tremendous performance gains are seen in recovery/optimization times thanks to this fact. Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 Node 4

15 Breakthrough in Internal Replication Space efficient point in time copies Sub-second creation time Thousands of point in time copies allowed per volume No performance degradation Performance, creation time and restore time are independent of volume size or number of copies

16 Creating a Volume

17 Comparing Traditional and Emerging Workloads Traditional workloads Database, On line transaction processing Values $ per I/O, not just $/GB Emerging workloads Digital Video Surveillance, Web 2.0, Archive Object level storage Values $/GB, TB/Sq. Ft. Characteristics Random I/O workloads Short record lengths millisecond response time Can handle high, peak I/O loads Mix of reads and writes Characteristics Mostly sequential work loads Longer record lengths some metadata (short record) ops High streaming (MB/sec) throughput Predictable (but not fastest) response times May involve: Write once, read rarely (archive) Write once, followed by a mix of long (video) and short (metadata) reads

18 The Bottom Line: Real World Benefits High Availability Revolutionary self healing that takes minutes, not hours GRID WEB resiliency Linear Performance Massive Parallelism, Spindle utilization and cache effectiveness boost performance dramatically. Unmatched Scalability Practically unlimited scalability of capacity and performance Add capacity together with CPU, cache and Bandwidth Reduced Cost Off the shelf components SATA large drives Self healing allows scheduled visits for maintenance Practically eliminates time spent for array management Power saving Simplified Management and Deployment A logical volume has only two parameters: name and size No need to optimize disk layout or manage data tiers

19 Potential Use Case Scenarios of the Nextra Architecture Digital Archive Web 2.0 Low cost, highly scalable storage needed for massive amounts of archive data that requires acceptable response time that is easy to configure and manage Low cost, highly scalable storage with predictable performance and quick response times for massive amounts of data uploaded and viewed by millions of people Need to easily add capacity on a regular basis and will not use Fibre Channel SANs Service Providers Low cost, highly scalable storage for offsite data storage with advanced, efficient Snapshot technology for backups. Digital Media Low cost, highly scalable storage needed for digital streaming applications with predictable high sequential performance that is easy to configure and manage Development / Test Low cost, predictable high performance storage needed for development/test environments Advanced efficient Snapshot capabilities with no performance impact to production data required Clustered Computing Predictable, high sequential performance storage that scales with capacity with load balancing and no hot spots needed for large computational models in clustered server environments

20 IBM offers a complete end-to-end IT environment Services consulting, design and outsourcing services IBM offers complete end-to-end solutions Software vendors may offer applications, middleware and/or tools to manage different data Server vendors may offer servers with internal storage, file systems, operating system utilities, and storage related features such as Host Bus Adapters (HBA) Storage vendors may offer storage area networking, storage software, external disk systems and/or tape systems

21 Why IBM as Your Systems On Demand Partner? Fifty years of storage system innovation Comprehensive roadmap/vision for on demand IT environment Heterogeneous Device Support and open standards based interoperability World s s largest IT services provider Wide range of IBM Business Partners, ISVs, solutions World s s largest IT financing company

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