IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights

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1 IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights 1

2 Questions? Step 1: Please ensure that the window is expanded by clicking the orange arrow Step 2: Expand the Questions tab and type your questions within the input box

3 Agenda About APSU IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights Q&A

4 About APSU

5 One of the leading Managed Services Business in the UK Highest Technical Accredited Business Partner IBM s 1st cloud service for Power I delivered by APSU CISCO Premier Partner Specialist in Security IBM s preferred TSS partner in UK Leading STG VAR and MSP in Europe IBM Softlayer Partner 1st in the UK

6 Locations Leeds Ohio Northampton Nashville Kentucky North Carolina Virginia Coventry South Cerney London Florida

7 EXPANDING GLOBALLY WITH. 7

8 IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights Matt Fordham UK&I Software Defined Storage Leader, IBM Copyright IBM Corporation, 2016

9 IBM Spectrum Storage Optimize storage from the cloud Achieving Storage Agility and Improved Economics Matthew Fordham Software Defined Storage

10 Changing Nature of Business and Data Business Pressures New Applications Data Growth Hybrid Cloud Free data from constraints of hardware and realign with new business processes and applications 10

11 Evolving Data [center] Challenges Reporting Database DataWs 26 % Hadoop Systems of Record Systems of Engagement 11

12 Business SLAs Challenging Traditional Storage Approaches Cost Blindly adding capacity Data trapped in storage silos Complexity Data duplication and more silos Extending refresh cycles Ad hoc cloud usage Inflexibility 12

13 Managing data growth remains the top storage concern and other concerns are increasing What are your top storage concerns? Q. What are your top storage-- related pain points? List up to three. 1H 14, n=264; 1H 15, n=247. Source: Storage Wave Research, LLC.

14 Organizations are managing more types of storage and rapidly moving data to the cloud What s your strategy to benefit from and compete with external cloud providers? Storage Acronyms FC = Fibre Channel SAN = Storage Area Network NAS = Network Attached Storage FCoE = Fibre Channel over Ethernet iscsi = internet Small Computer System Interface DAS = Direct Attached Storage Left Chart: Q. Considering disk storage purchased in 2014, what percentage will be on the following storage connectivity types? n=214. Right Chart: Q. What is your expected growth rate percentage of capacity for each of the following storage connectivity types for 2015? n=191. Source: Storage Wave Research, LLC.

15 What if you could Manage data growth more effectively Become a trusted service provider Significantly reduce storage costs and what if you don t?

16 IBM Spectrum Storage Family Securely unboxing storage to revolutionize data economics for clients IBM Spectrum Control Analytics-driven data management to reduce costs by up to 73 percent IBM Spectrum Protect Optimized data protection to reduce backup costs by up to 53 percent IBM Spectrum Archive Fast data retention that reduces TCO for active archive data by up to 90% IBM Spectrum Virtualize Virtualization of mixed environments stores up to 5x more data IBM Spectrum Accelerate Enterprise storage for cloud deployed in minutes instead of months Any Storage Flash Systems Private, Public or Hybrid Cloud IBM Spectrum Scale High-performance, highly scalable storage for unstructured data Added 1,600+ clients who use the Spectrum portfolio since launch in 2Q 2015! 16

17 Analyst Opinion This is bold! No other competitor can offer something like this. - Gartner Group, October 2015 IBM Confidential 17

18 IBM Spectrum Storage family Old to New Names Spectrum Previously known as: Appliance (Pre Integrated) Software Cloud Service IBM Spectrum Control Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) n/a Purchased as: Spectrum Control Standard Spectrum Control Advanced Also included within the bundle license Virtual Storage Center IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights (Service Engage) IBM Spectrum Protect Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) + Unified Backup and Recovery Suite n/a (some partners may offer package bundles) IBM Spectrum Protect IBM SmartCloud Managed Backup and Archive IBM Spectrum Archive Linear Tape File System (LTFS) IBM Spectrum Archive n/a IBM Spectrum Virtualize SAN Volume Controller (SVC) SAN Volume Controller (SVC), Storwize Family, FlashSystem V9000 IBM Spectrum Virtualize (available Q316 previously not sold separately) n/a (will soon use cloud for snapshots) IBM Spectrum Accelerate The XIV Software XIV Storage System, FlashSystem A9000 IBM Spectrum Accelerate Perpetual license for XIV HW or x86 IBM SoftLayer Spectrum Accelerate IBM Spectrum Scale 18 General Parallel File System (GPFS) Elastic Storage Server (ESS), Storwize V7000 Unified IBM Spectrum Scale IBM SoftLayer Elastic Storage Server or Platform Computing Services

19 Spectrum Control

20 IBM Spectrum Control solutions optimise all types of storage At-a-glance health check of complex applications and storage environments Reduces administration by up to 50% compared to managing storage systems 1-by-1 Facilitates migration to new types of data and storage, including object data, flash systems and software defined storage Note: Not all features are available in all versions of Spectrum Control. Please see website for details.

21 Automate and simplify storage administration Manage more data per administrator, with better results Automated storage provisioning Self-service provisioning Service catalog Complex event processing Scalable data replication without scripts Note: Not all features are available in all versions of Spectrum Control. Please see website for details. 21

22 Service Class Based Provisioning 22

23 Application-Oriented Management Modelling storage consumed by line of business and applications Application-based performance troubleshooting Capacity management for applications that span multiple volumes Application-centric dashboards for quick look status with special dashboards for VMware / Server Hypervisors Provisioning for applications tied to service classes and service level requirements Quota management De-commissioning storage for retired applications / servers 23

24 Storage Optimisation and Balancing Optimise volume performance Up-tier hot volumes or volumes containing frequently accessed files Down-tier cold volumes or volumes containing infrequently accessed volumes Balance performance across a selection of pools Tier 1 Tier 2 EasyTier Pools Non EasyTier Pools SVC 1 SVC 2 24

25 Unique predictive analytics Avoid issues from happening in the first place Analyzes and optimizes storage tiers Identify and move active data to faster storage Reduce reliance on top tier storage Significantly reduce the total cost of storage: o Up to 73% lower total cost than EMC o Up to 61% lower total cost than Hitachi o Up to 35% lower total cost than VMware storage tools Projects capacity requirements Predicts SAN Errors Incorporates predictive failure analysis Enables storage network errors to be resolved before they impact users Generating storage optimizing recommendations in Spectrum Control Storage Insights is fast and as simple as install, point, click, go! -- John Sargent, Blue Chip Customer Engineering Ltd Note: Not all features are available in all versions of Spectrum Control. Please see website for details.

26 Failure Detection and Avoidance Analytics to detect looming problems before they can cause outages, proactive management of problem areas Greater control over how events in the environment are reported and how and when actions are taken Insight into the impacts of copy services and data protection activities to production workloads to help identify appropriate windows and avoid impacting production environments 26

27 Are you paying too much for storage today? Hint: If you don t use IBM Spectrum Storage, you re probably paying too much Capability IBM Spectrum Control EMC Hitachi VMware Reduces reliance on top-tier storage Yes No No No Software is priced the same for all storage tiers Yes No No Yes Software outlasts storage systems Yes Partial Partial Yes Reduces storage administration workload Yes No No No Consolidates all types of storage Yes No No No Choice of cloud and on-premises options Yes No No No Free your data from storage hardware lock-in Note: Not all features are available in all versions of Spectrum Control. Please see website for details.

28 Introducing IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights Cloud, analytics, and data management from IBM converge Hybrid-cloud data management Delivers visibility and rapid insights: Ø Understand the environment and its usage Ø Monitor capacity and performance Ø Reclaim allocated, but unused storage Ø Optimize data with predictive analytics Insights deepen as scans collect more metrics Deploys in less than 30 minutes, no onsite management and maintenance required Simple pay-as-you-go pricing model IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights

29 Storage Insights Dashboard The dashboard provides quick visibility into storage environment health and efficiency-improving recommendations Data growth and available storage capacity Storage reclamation opportunities Storage distribution across tiers Customized views Drill down capability Historical trending and available capacity ensures fact-based storage investments IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights

30 Capacity Analysis Empirically forecast by aligning data growth rates to available capacity Detailed device views provide deeper insights Capacity utilization and growth Savings gained from thin provisioning and compression Capacity used for data protection Views can be configured based on user interest Performance Insights Integrated view of performance with drill-down capability Gain visibility to resolve issues before they impact service delivery IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights

31 Reclamation Improves Capacity Utilization Reclamation identifies allocated but under/unused storage Reclaiming under-utilized storage frees up valuable budget Delays additional capacity purchases Fulfills new storage requests without budget impact Improves utilization across the environment IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights

32 Optimize Data Placement with Tier Planning Storage tiering analysis identifies volumes that are improperly allocated to storage tiers based on usage over time Tier recommendations represent an optimized configuration based on actual utilization and configuration Specific volumes are identified along with source and target tier to provide immediately actionable visibility. Proven to lower the cost of storage by 50% per GB IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights 32

33 See storage as others see it Application, department and server views of storage Easy to customize for reporting and chargeback Self-maintaining One solution for block, file and object data Comprehensive views of IBM Spectrum Scale file and object storage, and its underlying storage infrastructure IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights

34 Deploy instantly from the Cloud in 3 easy steps Storage-optimizing insights produced inside of an hour; greater insights generated with each scan No need for management or maintenance; Cloud-based service reliably and securely managed by IBM IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights

35 Get Started with Spectrum Control Storage Insights Explore IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights on Service Engage ( See what insights will be revealed about your environment try Storage Insights for 30 days at no charge IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights

36 Questions? Step 1: Please ensure that the window is expanded by clicking the orange arrow Step 2: Expand the Questions tab and type your questions within the input box

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