2013-year data storage trends for NetApp

Jay Kid (Jay Kidd) is NetApp's chief technology officer and is responsible for the overall technical direction of NetApp storage vendors. Recently, Jay Kid on the world's top data storage trends, as well as on cluster storage, virtualization, Flash and cloud several aspects of the 2013-year NetApp program.

What is the development trend of major data storage in the 2013?

Jay Kid: I think the IT world is facing a revolution, and the past few years have been a virtual revolution. Now is the revolution in Flash and cloud computing virtualization.

Three or four years ago, we recognized the positive use of virtualization, and the flash exists to some extent, the server and storage infrastructure challenges.

IT services and cloud services have a specific appeal for CIOs, and IT staff have shifted their traditional mindset and started to consider which service providers and service providers are right for themselves.

Cluster storage is a major breakthrough in storage. Virtualization allows customers to consolidate all 10 applications onto a single server. The hundreds of servers are then connected to a unified storage environment through cluster storage. When a customer is running 2PB of storage, a clustered environment runs 10,000 virtual machines, providing customers with uptime and availability levels.

Jay Kid says NetApp's Ontap is one of the key drivers of its cluster storage to enterprise workloads. And NetApp has been focused on technology in this area. NetApp acquired Spinnaker in 2003 to gain Ontap technology, Jay Kid said, adding hardware and software to a physical device by joining the virtual storage device camp with ONTAP products. NetApp is trying to provide a full range of ONTAP capabilities.

Over the past 20 years of ONTAP development, NetApp has made a ONTAP cluster of Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft for increased storage efficiency and integrated data protection.

Is EMC's Isilon a cluster ONTAP primary competition?

Jay Kid says there is a misconception that cluster Ontap is not a clustered storage system. NetApp Cluster ONTAP Major competitors are EMC's Vmax and high-end vnx arrays, as well as traditional enterprise-class storage, such as IBM and HP, rather than cluster vendors. NetApp is not trying to beat anyone, but to continue to improve and work on enterprise-class systems. NetApp also focuses on Ontap.

How to view the popular Flash technology in enterprise?

Jay Kid This analogy to flash memory, he saw a Ferrari sports car, only when you need to show its perfect function. It's like a Ferrari taking a vacation trip instead of buying things at a nearby grocery store. Because for companies, driving a Ferrari to the grocery store is a bit expensive.

Flash development in the digital market strong demand and rapid development trend, the foreseeable future flash market will become more and more huge.

Does virtualization require a new storage architecture?

Jay Kid says virtualization has many benefits, even in the traditional architecture of storage devices. If a small business needs to run eight to 10 applications on a single multicore server or on, an enterprise's internal storage can meet business needs. But the enterprise has developed to a certain scale, virtualization and external storage devices are very meaningful, because this can be a virtual machine to run a large number of applications.

What new technology will be moved into the business in 2013?

Businesses are looking for a way to keep data synchronized and secure between devices. In the 2013, companies ' Dropbox substitutes will rise, as companies often do not care what they use, but want to see if the phones they use, the tablet computers and the data they work with are easy and safe to exchange.

NetApp will provide its own file-sharing service, the public service provider, in 2013. NetApp and Citrix collaborate to develop a new architecture that provides a storage platform for Citrix's Sharefile Enterprise file-sharing software to help enterprise customers address the growing number of employees bringing mobile devices.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)