Efficient Data Storage Tips and Tools on Managing Your Data Storage More Efficiently Are Highlighted in This Guide
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Managing the information that drives the enterprise STORAGE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO Efficient Data Storage Tips and tools on managing your data storage more efficiently are highlighted in this guide. INSIDE 4 Efficient storage management 9 Reduce costs with technology 13 Trim storage with dedupe and compression 21 Tiered storage today 24 Channel extra: Improving power efficiency with archive hardware 1 , SYMANTEC IS You can’t stop the explosion of data across your enterprise, but you can change the way you back it up. NetBackup™ with integrated deduplication assures that data from your data centers, remote offices, and virtualized environments is stored only once — no matter what your storage hardware. upgrade to Netbackup 7 today. For more information and trial, visit www.netbackup.com dEduplicatioN. © 2010 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Symantec and the Symantec Logo are registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. 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UHC purchased the Hitachi Data Systems’ Universal Storage Platform V (USP V) storage virtualization controller in 2008 when it forecasted 400% data growth. Steven Carlberg, UHC’s principal network administrator, said he chose the USP V system over systems from EMC Corp., e Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co., IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. be- g a r cause he anticipated virtualizing arrays behind the controller would o t s make future migrations easier. d “Obviously, the main cabinet would take a forklift upgrade to replace, e r e but I don’t foresee having to swap it out for a long, long time. It can i T scale up to 247 petabytes,” he said. “Going forward, on lower tiers, we can change out obsolete hardware without a lot of pain.” DATA REDUCTION MAXIMIZES TIERED STORAGE EFFICIENCY Clackamas County in north central Oregon deployed tiered storage by n using F5 Networks Inc.’s ARX file virtualization switch and Data Domain’s d o n i DD565 data deduplication disk arrays in an effort to put off adding capacity s a s e e to its tier 1 SAS-based iSCSI storage-area network (SAN) storage. p r u p Similarly, Vancouver, B.C.-based d m e o D Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. uses c “It helps us not have to an ECO appliance from Ocarina Networks with network-attached chase capacity while we go storage (NAS) systems from through a budget crunch. BlueArc Corp. and NAS systems from Isilon Systems Inc. to reduce We can focus on perform- s e s primary storage and keep more ance rather than capacity. n e archival data online. p x “Our tiered storage policy will In a couple of budget cycles, e e free up about 10 TB of tier 2 stor- we should be able to look at c u age. That, in turn, frees up SAS d replacing our current tier 1 e capacity used by database servers R and our email archiving system,” with solid-state disk .” said Christopher Fricke, Clackamas —CHRISTOPHER FRICKE, senior IT administrator, Clackamas County t County’s senior IT administrator. n e “It helps us not have to chase m e capacity while we go through a budget crunch. We can focus on per- g a formance rather than capacity. In a couple of budget cycles, we should n a be able to look at replacing our current tier 1 with solid-state disk .” m t Data reduction technologies originally deployed for backup are making n e their way into primary and nearline storage. Cornell University’s Center i c i for Advanced Computing (CAC) and e-commerce site Shopzilla are among f f E the early adopters of primary storage data reduction to consolidate their 5 Storage Essential Guide to Efficient Data Storage STORAGE s e c r u o s e r r storage and keep up with data growth. Both use compression appliances o d n from