New Approaches To Challenges Facing Enterprise ICT April 7, 2015 Gideon Senderov Director, Advanced Storage NEC Corporation of America
Contents Introduction to NEC Challenges faced by enterprises today NEC s approach to software defined storage (SDS) Big data infrastructures for new forms of businesses NEC s approach to social infrastructures Page 2 NEC Corporation of America 2015
NEC Technology Innovation Corporate Profile Founded 1899 (115 Years) Annual Revenue: $30 billion* Employees: 101,000* Worldwide $1.4B/yr in Research and Development Five R&D Centers Worldwide Patents: >50,000 Worldwide Global Presence Fortune Global 500 Corporation >55 Years in Servers & Storage (1958) Top 10 Branded and OEM Storage Sales Top 100 Manufacturer Globally Page 3 NEC Corporation of America 2015 *As of March 31, 2014
NEC Worldwide: One NEC Business activities in over 140 Countries and territories North America 7 Europe, Middle East, and Africa 25 Greater China 21 Japan Latin America 7 Asia- Pacific 19 77 (As of June. 6, 2014) 29.54 Billion dollars in 2013 sales *U.S. dollar amounts are translated from yen, for convenience only, at the rate of \103 = U.S.$1.(As of March.31, 2014) Page 4 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Challenges faced by enterprises today Page 5 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Changes in ICT Investments Maximizing ICT investments with a scheme directly connected to profits New business creation Data application Faster launches Cloud Big data Quality assurance Reduced maintenance cost Reduced operational cost More efficiently maintaining and operating existing systems Page 6 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Problems Surfacing through Rapidly Growing Cloud Volume Too many ICT devices to handle M2M Private cloud Public cloud Marketing IT IoT Enterprise WAN Internet Distance Partner s offices M&A offices Domestic offices Overseas offices Mobile workers Versatile and diversified devices SOHO workers Time Globalization Flexibility Page 7 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Too many ICT devices to handle Volume Current problems Future solutions System A System B System C System A System B System C System D Virtual resources Virtual resources Virtual resources Virtualized infrastructures Virtualized Virtualized infrastructures infrastructures Physical resources Physical Physical resources resources Page 8 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Flexibility Time Current problems Future solutions Server Storage Switch System planning Negotiation with SIer System designing by SE of SIer Device preparation System construction AP development & service launches A few months or more Request for resources User Cloud In a few minutes Resource provisioning Flexibility Page 9 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Globalization Distance Current problems Future solutions Remote DR Site Overseas DC Load balancing Production site AP stop VM move NW switch Synchroni zation Production DC Public cloud Remote DR Site Click! Manual Operations Automated Operations Page 10 NEC Corporation of America 2015
ICT and Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI) I. Too many ICT devices to handle II. Flexibility III. Globalization Volume System B Time Distance System A System C Offloading administration burden on system operations Quick resource delivery Load balancing between DCs Simplified disaster recovery Abstraction, Automation, and Scalability Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI) Page 11 NEC Corporation of America 2015
What is Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI)? Main DC Automation Middleware API Public cloud SDC SDS SDN Virtual servers Virtual storages Virtual networks Sub DC (overseas) Abstraction Virtual resources Compute Storage Network Physical resources Scalability Page 12 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Abstraction: Centralized management In conventional systems SDS VM VM VM VM VM VM Consolidated GUI Block File Object Dedicated GUI for block Dedicated GUI for files Dedicated GUI for objects Administrator Block File Object Individual management Page 13 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Abstraction: Policy-based management & QoS Guaranteed IOPS Highly loaded Important Normal Normal Gold Silver Bronze Guaranteed IOPS Automatic backup Abstraction Stable performance IOPS lower limit Automatic backup Storage Load control Block File Object SSD Primary storages NL- SAS Backup Page 14 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Automation: Automated operations by API Middleware OpenStack Automation RESTful API OpenStack API Virtual storage Gold Silver Bronze Guaranteed IOPS Automatic backup Abstraction Physical storage Block File Object Page 15 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Automated Virtualized Management Virtualized storage units Technology Refresh Data Tiering Disaster Recovery SAS SSD Page 16 NEC Corporation of America 2015
NEC s approaches to SDS Page 17 NEC Corporation of America 2015
NEC s Software-Defined Storage (SDS) SDS Virtualization of management Abstraction Automation Virtualization of physical resources Scalability Page 18 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Policy-based management Abstraction App OS App OS Tenant A App OS Tenant B High performance Gold Silver Resource pool Low cost Central management of various resources Servers Storage Page 19 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Guaranteed Performance QoS Abstraction Stable performance Important Normal Normal Guaranteed performance Highly loaded IO Load Manager Load control A B C M series [IOPS] Stable performance A A: IOPS lower limit QoS B C B: IOPS upper limit QoS Page 20 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Automatic backup Abstraction Gold Silver Bronze Automatic backup M series DirectDataShadow (automatic backup) HS series Page 21 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Automated operations by API Automation Administrator Portal site Standardized interface vdc Automation API OpenStack Guaranteed IOPS Automatic backup M series Primary storage HS series Backup/Archive/Object storage Page 22 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Resource Allocation Optimization Scalability Application server (An example of effect) Before reallocation Reallocation Access frequency High Middle Low 500 400 300 200 100 Increased by about 60% After reallocation SSD pool SAS pool NL-SAS pool 0 Before After the 1st reallocation After the 2nd reallocation M series Page 23 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Disaster Recovery and Cloud Scalability Customer site NEC Cloud IaaS (public cloud) Hokkaido HS3/HS8 Business operations resume in IaaS environment in case of a disaster. Kyushu Kanagawa (adheres to FISC) Shikoku (adheres to FISC) Page 24 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Big data infrastructures for new forms of businesses Page 25 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Increasing Unstructured Data The market of disk storage systems in Japan Structured and unstructured data volumes shipped and forecasted Data center 12,000 10,000 [PB] CAGR from 2013 to 2018 8,000 Unstructured data Network 6,000 46.8% 4,000 2,000 Structured data Sensors/Devices 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 22.0% (Year) Terminals dedicated to services Digital signage Source: IDC Japan, July 2014 Japan Storage for Unstructured Data Demands Analysis 2014 (J14440108) Page 26 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Value creation by big data analysis Data in the real world Information directly available e.g. Road traffic, logistics, videos, texts, and others Visible data Existing values Invisible big data New value creation with analysis technologies through ICT Information invisible below the surface e.g. activity logs, failure causes, risks, supply and demand on commercial products, education, and others Page 27 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Making Use of Invisible Unstructured Data Sensor data Medical data Production quality monitoring Satellite images Research data Data in the real world Documents Images and videos CAD data E-mail Large-scale archive storage (object storage) Analysis New value creation Page 28 NEC Corporation of America 2015
SDS Architecture for Technology Refresh Abstraction Automation Scalability Business application Data migration Add Add Add 増設 Remove Remove HS6 Page 29 NEC Corporation of America 2015
High-definition Image Compression Solution The Venus probe Akatsuki employed StarPixel. Low communication speed (2 to 32 kbps) in ultralong distance between Venus and Earth (longer than 0.1 billion km) Probe satellites have strict limitation in battery power and weight JPEG2000 imposes a heavy load on processing an image in 60 seconds >> StarPixel compresses an image in about 1 second. Device mounted on Akatsuki The Earth shot from Akatsuki Page 30 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Managing Big Data in Layers of Storage and Tape StorageForce HS6 Automatic allocation by access frequency Tape device 1 week ago 1 year ago 10 years ago Tape library Cost Compression Layered NEC Storage HS6 High-speed access Economic efficiency Capacity Page 31 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Example1: Measures against information leakage Sent/Received e-mail E-mail archiving system Date User Target Operation Access logs Log recording system Transaction logs Application PDF Report managing system Object storage Analysis New value creation Detecting unauthorized actions Providing evidence in the event of an accident Working as a restraint against data leakage Page 32 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Example2: Video Analysis Public space Real-time sensing system LAN Object storage Camera Building/Tenant Camera Video searching system Large volume of video data Facility reception New value creation Camera Analysis Sales promotion through product and service matching Security and monitoring enforcement Page 33 NEC Corporation of America 2015
NEC approach to Social Infrastruture Page 34 NEC Corporation of America 2015
NEC s Concept Innovative Social Infrastructure Page 35 NEC Corporation of America 2015
Innovation of Social Infrastructure via ICT Page 36 NEC Corporation of America 2015