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Organizations now need to store larger volumes of data for longer periods due to business requirements. This creates challenges around managing increasingly complex storage infrastructures, ensuring data protection, and dealing with issues like power consumption. Most data that is over 90 days old is rarely accessed. Tiered storage approaches help address these challenges by allocating data to different storage classes or tiers based on access frequency and business needs. This allows infrequently accessed data to be stored more cost-effectively while optimizing performance for active data. Storage area networks and network attached storage are two major forms of network storage that differ in their network transport, protocols, and data structures.

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Organizations now need to store larger volumes of data for longer periods due to business requirements. This creates challenges around managing increasingly complex storage infrastructures, ensuring data protection, and dealing with issues like power consumption. Most data that is over 90 days old is rarely accessed. Tiered storage approaches help address these challenges by allocating data to different storage classes or tiers based on access frequency and business needs. This allows infrequently accessed data to be stored more cost-effectively while optimizing performance for active data. Storage area networks and network attached storage are two major forms of network storage that differ in their network transport, protocols, and data structures.

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IT for Managements

Storage Technologies Click to edit Master subtitle style

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Storage requirements
Organisations are now grappling with the

need to keep larger and larger volumes of not just business-critical information, but other less critical data as well, for longer and longer periods of time. Why is this?

1. Sound business requirements to hold more

detailed information on products, services, customers, suppliers and associated transactions that will inform business strategy, drive growth and increase service22 7/4/12

Issues to take care of


Associated cost and overhead of managing

storage infrastructures that are ever increasing in complexity, with frequent disjoints duplicated across the organisation.

Data that is often dispersed and even Challenge of providing protection against the

very real threats of loss, theft or sabotage,

Need to deal with growing issues around

power consumption, cooling and physical 7/4/12 space availability.

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The value of data stored by an organisation

varies considerably and often changes over time. is more than 90 days old is rarely or never accessed.

Rule of thumb, is that up to 90% of data that

Recent study by the University of California

which showed that 90% of data stored to NAS was never accessed again, and another 6.5% was only accessed one more time.
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Introducing the concept of tiered storage hierarchical storage management (HSM)


The approach is based on defining different

classes of storage based on the characteristics of the devices being used and then allocating data to those devices in a way that fits in with business needs and data retention policies

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A Historical Perspective
The first era was that of internal storage. In these architectures, storage was highly

integrated with processor technology to realize the efficiencies necessary to provide the performance improvements that were demanded as the utilization of IT accelerated.

The cost of storage technology was

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Second Era
The second era was that of external storage. As the cost of storage technology declined

and as the standardization of external storage channels stabilized with protocols such as ESCON and SCSI. many applications required augmenting internal storage with storage that was external to the processor.

System architectures evolved to the point that

The growth of external storage was also


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by the rise of heterogeneous

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Third Era
The third era is that of network storage. The continued decline of storage technology

costs,

The emergence of high-bandwidth

networking,
The development of access-dominated

applications have led to the emergence of a series of new storage architectures,


They differ in design concept and
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technological approach but share the common 88 characteristic of being integrated into the

Today, network storage is implemented in one

of two major forms:

Storage Area Network (SAN) Network Attached Storage (NAS)

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SAN
SANs are basically an extension of the

dedicated storage channel architecture,


enhanced physical distribution of storage

Utilizes Fibre Channel technology to provide


resources,
Enhanced sharing and access to storage

resources,

Enhanced manageability.

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NAS
NAS:an extension of client networking to

provide

enhanced independence between the storage

resources and the server operating systems and file systems,


enhanced sharing and access to data resources

in heterogeneous environments,
enhanced scalability.

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SAN and NAS architectures can be

distinguished in three basic areas:


network transport, network protocol, data structure.

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Network Transport
SANs and Fibre Channel networks are often

used interchangeably. transport for SANs

While Fibre Channel is not the only possible It does remain an excellent choice because of

its bandwidth (1Gbps with 2Gbps within a year) and its distance capabilities (up to 10Km). Ethernet transport

NAS architectures, implemented using the Historically fast Ethernet (100Mbps), today
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Network Protocol
SAN architectures use a straightforward

extension of the SCSI protocol to transport data efficiently over local networks. important.

The efficiency of the SAN protocol can be very The sparseness of the protocol, however,

makes it difficult to extend a SAN beyond a local networking environment.


NAS architectures, use the TCP/IP protocol. IP is the protocol used in most Ethernet 7/4/12

environments for Unix and Windows file

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