Bangkok--15 Jan--Core & Peak 1. Awareness of Storage Deficiencies The "Green Tech" movement will drive a growing awareness that the storage of data has become highly inefficient, with low utilization, over allocation, stranded storage, too many redundant copies, low access speeds, inefficient search, and disruptive movement and migration. Actual utilization of storage is less than 30% and 70% of data over 60 days old is rarely referenced again. Continuing to buy more of the same old storage architectures will no longer be an option. Buying faster storage processors with larger capacity disks on the same 20 year old architectures will not solve the problem of inefficient use of storage. New storage architectures will be required to meet this demand for greater efficiency. 2. Control Unit Virtualization of Storage with thin provisioning will be recognized as the only approach to storage virtualization that can increase utilization, eliminate allocated but unused space, recover stranded storage, reduce redundant copies, increase access speed, and provide non disruptive movement of data for multi-tiering, migration and replication. A control unit based approach to virtualization is able to leverage all the rich functionality of the control unit and provide it as a service to enhance the functionality of less capable, lower cost, or legacy tiers of storage arrays. This approach creates a powerful platform whereby storage services can be packaged and delivered across heterogeneous storage assets and be invoked by applications when needed. 3. Increasing use of Archiving — Data over 60 days old on production systems will be considered toxic waste. Structured data like data bases and semi structured data like email and document management data are increasing dramatically as they are required to hold more data, longer, for compliance reasons. Corporate email quotas will increase from less than 200 MB to 2GB in order to support new knowledge workers and compete with free mail box offerings from Google and AOL. An avalanche of unstructured data will be driven by RFID tags, smart cards, and sensors that monitor everything from heartbeats to border crossings. All these pressures will drive the need to archive data in order to reduce the working set of production data. Reducing the working set will reduce the need for storage capacity, on high energy consuming production storage. Once it is contained in a managed archive, the data can be reduced through single instance store, de-duplication, copy on write, expiration, and deletion. This will call for new types of archiving systems that can scale to petabytes and provide the ability to search for content across different modalities of data. 4. Rebuilding facilities or out sourcing: Over half of the energy costs in a data center is spent on the facilities. Most were built 10 or 20 years ago before energy costs were a concern or a limitation. Growing concerns around global warming will drive legislation to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprints. As a result we will see many data centers replaced or outsourced to more efficient data centers. This replacement of data centers will require non disruptive replication technologies like Hitachi's Universal Storage Platform with universal replication. For out sourcing, HDS has partnered with Data Islandia, who provides archiving services, using HDS Hitachi Content Archive Platform, HCAP, in their energy efficient data center in Iceland. The Data Islandia data center uses readily available geothermal and hydro electric power, and natural cooling techniques to provide an environmentally friendly data archiving service. Hitachi and Data Islandia have developed a "Data Scooter" to facilitate the movement of data to this data center service. For more information, please contact; Srisuput Siangyen Core & Peak Tel: 0 2439 4600 ext. 8300 [email protected]