Optimal architecture open up IBM Storage Nuggets cloud computing

Highlight three major storage architecture optimizations

IBM's strategy for cloud computing has always adhered to the overall wisdom of the Strategy, held in Shanghai, the theme of "The best structure of the Century Wisdom Cloud" IBM Intelligent Information Architecture Forum site, IBM Systems and Technology Department of Storage products, general manager of Greater China Huang in the interview with Dostor also said, IBM has prepared an integrated, efficient storage technology, a comprehensive data protection solution, and a cloud-ready storage architecture to launch an IBM storage Infrastructure Optimization strategy, with IBM Storwize V7000 Unified, the new product of unified storage, and IBM XIV Storage System Gen3, IBM Active Cloud engine, and so on a series of "intelligent computing" new products, to this end, IBM storage-provided optimized storage infrastructure for the rapid implementation of "intelligent operation" provides the best foundation.

In Huang's view, the successful building of a durable, highly rewarding cloud computing strategy and large data consolidation needs to be based on an optimized architecture. From a storage perspective, the IBM Storage Architecture Optimization solution focuses on three areas, namely integrated, efficient infrastructure, a highly secure infrastructure, and a cloud-ready infrastructure.

For an integrated, efficient infrastructure, cloud computing, built on an invalid infrastructure, does not increase productivity, but becomes more complex and inefficient because of fragmentation, redundancy, or system partitioning. Customers who use IBM's Storage Architecture optimization solution for the first time can reduce costs by 20% to 25%, and 3-5 years later, the cost savings will reach more than 50%, while building three storage advantages, more refined, more appropriate and more provincial. Save more: Remove redundant data, data compression technology, duplicate data deletion; Fit: Transfer data to appropriate location, automatic level, automatic data migration, use more province: Store more data with existing resources, virtualize storage resources, streamline configuration.

With a highly secure infrastructure, IBM's Efficient Data protection program provides END-TO-END data protection solutions that help customers manage more types of data securely on the basis of reduced complexity and cost, and establish management mechanisms for enterprise data with different backup technologies, unified recovery management systems, If you have a regular backup of commercially valuable data that requires the best backup interval, frequent snapshots of critical application data that are not interrupted for rapid recovery, remote mirroring for system failures to ensure high availability of critical data, and so on, to automatically help enterprise management data, securely excavate and implement data value, The safety and security of Evergreen.

For the cloud-ready infrastructure, the newly released IBM Active Cloud engine can efficiently extend the cloud file system by transferring files on demand anytime, anywhere, with fast access to billions of of files and significantly improving the management and efficiency of the cloud storage environment. The system is based on policy-driven file management, such as placing important documents of enterprise leadership in fast storage units, the movement of files in different storage units is completely automated by placing unimportant files in a near-line storage unit, or by automatically placing inactive files into the lowest-value storage pool after a year. Thus significantly reducing storage costs and management costs. The different features of the file will automatically match the most suitable storage unit, so the overall performance will be greatly improved. The system supports a global cloud platform through the IBM Scale-Out receptacle Checkmark Storage R 1.3 (SONAS), and supports midsize cloud platforms through Storwize V7000 Unified systems.

Creating V7000 Unified Unified Storage Era

It is reported that recently, IBM announced the largest server and storage technology product update this year, the introduction of 55 new or enhanced technology offerings, including Business Analytics, integrated storage, optimization systems, and virtualized data centers, will help enterprises make scientific decisions, operate efficiently, and accelerate the "intelligent computing".

On the storage side, IBM launched the IBM Storwize V7000 Unified――, which is the only storage product that truly implements "unified storage", improves the efficiency and convenience of data storage by implementing both file and block-level storage on the same system through a world-class graphical user interface. The product can automatically transfer files to the appropriate type of drive based on policy, helping the enterprise to control costs and simplify management. In addition, Storwize V7000 Unified can be extended both within the system and through the clustering of two systems, and provides enhanced remote mirroring capabilities. Storwize V7000 Unified the capacity and performance of the expansion of relatively independent, enterprises can be based on their own need to continuously upgrade and expand, like a single system management cluster system. IBM integrates enterprise-class clustering technology into midrange storwize V7000 Unified to help businesses achieve greater customer value in an economical way.

Various messages show that V7000 sales in 2010 is better, but storwize V7000 unified from sales to exceed V7000 growth level? The
Huang a very positive statement and will get better growth. He said: "In fact, Storwize V7000 Unified basically covers two areas of application: one is block storage, the other is file storage. itself and V7000 is not completely isolated two product lines, after all, when we sell V7000, the original V7000 product objects or users can be used to storwize V7000 Unified, the two things themselves are not completely separate two products. One advantage of this is that many NAS applications can be used on storwize V7000 Unified. In fact, according to IDC, Nas in the past two years and the next five years its demand growth is very fast, even its growth rate than traditional block storage faster. "So it can be expected that the demand in this area may be more rapid and the growth will be higher than the V7000 demand, possibly Storwize V7000 unified."
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is the IBM Technology Architecture Optimization Assessment service geared toward existing IBM users or all IBM users? Huang stressed: "For all users, in fact, for a user with a complex environment, the user has a complex infrastructure, with a lot of application system, or the use of brand manufacturers of many products, the more complex words, such an assessment or such an optimized debugging, in fact, they will be more valuable. If the enterprise's application system is only a single to two applications, it seems that such an assessment does not mean much to him. It is for a relatively high degree of architecture complexity, larger than the user, such service assessment will bring them a greater benefit. As for the original product, this is not an important indicator.
   
Dostor asked the IBM Department of Systems and Technology general manager of the Greater China region of East China, Wang Jiayue about IBM's big central China business in the entire IBM region growth rate ranking in what position? Large east China in the open system, to the third quarter of 44% growth, so Big East China is IBM STG inside the fastest growth? He said: "I have not been compared to this, because there are several comparisons, I just said to take off the mainframe and the attached storage, why remove, because there may be no comparison, because the IBM mainframe system, there is no competition outside." IBM Big East China business basically in the IBM country also accounted for about One-third. I recently talked to aSome leaders were talking about things, and it suddenly occurred to us to compare the UNIX server with the X86 server plus storage with a single open system. "But because of the IDC report to the second quarter, both servers and storage in UNIX are IBM's big central to remain first." In addition, he further noted that in storage, this year's sales took a different approach, focusing on the value of the product sales, to the programme-oriented. For various industries, in the cloud environment, to promote the characteristics of different sectors of the customer structure of the program.

(editor: Heritage)