5 Steps to an Agile Data Infrastructure

Steps to an Agile Data Infrastructure > uh Ш1 Identify Your Business Needs Build Your Leverage Key Technologies Scale Your Protect Foundation Performance Your Data How much do you know about your storage envi- ronment? Is that enough? With annual data growth rates around 50% (IDC), your storage choices determine how quickly you can get a new product or service to market and, ultimately, how success- ful your company will be. Storage technology has evolveda lot. What was impossible a year ago is likely possible today. Follow these five steps to discover how you can build an ag- ile data infrastructure to help your company be more flexible and respond faster to market opportunit ies. Let's Get Started IDENTIFY YOUR NEEDS Start by addressing your biggest problem. CAPACITY SCALE SPEED/PERFORMANCE • You can't keep up with the grow- ing amount of data • You have problems integrating IT provisioning is too slow • Storage is too complex • You re spending too much time on maintenance • ERP rollout and changes take too long • Making production copies for business intelligence is too slow • You need to shut down applica- tions when migrat ing data data from mobile • Storage is not scalable 2. BUILD YOUR FOUNDATION UNIFIED ARCHI TECTURE Whatever your main issue is, it is time to consider a universal storage pool that can be accessed by all protocols. Running all your workloads on one storage platform will radically simplify your envi- ronment and open the door to all the benefits of an agile data infrastructure. That means there will no longer be a need for extensive change, capacity, and performance management. You can change, grow, or flex your infrastructure to meet your busi- ness needs wit hout any downt ime. LEVERAGE KEY TECHNOLOGIES Clustered storage is the backbone of an agile data infrastructure. It gives you the flexibility to scale your storage capacity without limits, move workloads to the right storage based on applica- tion requirements, or upgrade your systems-all seamlessly. Clustering comes in many shapes and forms. At NetApp it is part of the Data ONTAP operating system, so it is available at no extra cost. Clustering also makes it easier to use automation tools to increase your team's productivity. But even with clustering, don't forget the benefits of good efficiency features. This is what you can expect with NetApp. CLUSTERING AUTOMATION TOOLS STORAGE EFFICIENCY • Nondisnuptive operation » Eliminate planned downtime » Dy namically move and access data within or across a cluster Use service automation and ana- lytics tools from Net App On- Command software to manage and administer your environment • Free up time and resources to focus on more strategic tasks • Use the AutoSupportTM tool to minimize unplanned dow nt ime • Reduce your storage needs and costs by 50% with Net App stor- age efficiency features: » Compression » Thin provisioning » Deduplication » Flex Clone technology » SnapshotTM technology • Operational efficiency: » Scale from 2 to 24 nodes » Mix different-size controllers in the same cluster » Choose from a variety of flash and HDD options • Support for: » All NAS and SAN protocols » Enterprise and technical applications » Secure multi-tenancy » Virtualized third-party storage 4 hla SCALE YOUR PERFORMANCE Scaling storage capacity without sacrificing performance is always a challenge. Flash allows you to do both. Use OnCommand Insight to assess the per- formance of your storage and see where flash is needed. You can add flash eit her at the disk, controller, or server level to boost your applica- tion performance based on your specific workload requirements. Our flash technology is easy to install and won't impact your data management. As an ad- ditional benefit, using flash will increase your overall storage efficiency. And flash is integrated with Data ONTAP, so the hot data is always placed on the highest-perform ing media. DISK CONTROLLER SERVER Flash AccelM: • Has hardware-agnostic caching sof tware running on server • Accelerates random reads for a particular applicat ion in virtua lized environment (great for business apps) • Reduces back-end storage costs Flash Pool: • Combines the speed of SSD with the efficiency of HDD drives • Supports caching of both Flash Cache: • Uses PC le flash cards • Supports caching of random reads • Is cost effective • Increa ses performance of shared storage infrastructure random reads and overwrites • Provides highest level of availability • Is cost effective • Increases performance of shared storage infrastructure 5 A PROTECT YOUR DATA Last but not least, all of these benefits can easily be wasted if you don't protect your data. All the data protection features offered are part of Data ONTAP, which gives you maximum flex ibility to implement a solut ion. INTEGRATED DATA PROTECTION EMBEDDED DATA SECURITY SECURE MULTI-TENANCY • Isolate your data securely • Maintain wor kload performance Role-based access control Use Snapshots copies for local backup Use SnapMirror technology for replication • Use RAID-Dp technology to Antivirus on board • Data encryption protect against double disk failures AGILE DATA INFRASTRUCTURE say that your infrastructure is Intelligent. Being Infinite, Immortal, and Intelligent are the three characteristics of an agile data inf rastruc- ture. The FAS3200 is an ideal building block for an agile data infrastructure. Combining it with the FAS2200 and the FAS6200 will provide you with the ultimate in flexibility. When you get to this point, the importance of the characteristics of each system fades in comparison to the characteristics of the whole inf rastructure. Although no individual system can scale infinitely, your data storage inf rastructure can. The same is true of the dura bility of your data infrastructure- we call it "Immortal. And with all of your manage- ment tasks happening automat ically, we can also I NetApp Information provided by © 2012 NetApp, Inc. All rights resered. No portons of this doaument may be reproduced without prior written con sent of NetApp, Inc. Specif- cations aresubject to change without notice. NetApp, he NetApp logo, Go furher, faster, AutoSupport DataMotion, Data ONTAP, Flah Accel, FlexCone, OnCommand, RAID-DP, SnapMiror, and Snapshot aretrademarks or registered trademarks of NetApp, Inc in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective halders and should be treated as such