Presentation Onica King, Forrester

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2. Cloud Storage Options For Big Data:
Big Data Needs More Than Just Big Storage
Onica King, Infrastructure & Operations Research Analyst
Thursday, May 31st, 2012
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5. Storage-as-a-service
Internet based multitenant storage repository with self-
service access and management
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6. Cloud storage adoption has been anemic
“Is the use of cloud service offerings for storage-as-a-service likely to be your
organization’s top hardware/IT infrastructure priorities over the next 12 months?”
Critical priority 5% Europe
7% n = 727
North America
23%
High priority 21% n = 1,594
30%
Low priority 34%
41%
Not on our agenda 36%
2%
Don’t know/does not apply 2%
Source: Forrester’s Forrsight Hardware survey, Q3, 2010
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7. Storage in the cloud offerings continues to mature
Source: November 2011 “TechRadar™ For I&O Professionals: Cloud Computing, Q4 2011”
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8. Is it a viable option for enterprise data storage?
Identify feasible workloads
•Performance
•Security
•Geographic access requirements
•Integration with other applications
Consider fallback strategies
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9. The inevitability of Big Data
EXPLODING
DATA The amount of digital data in our world has been
exponentially growing in just a few short years.
WHAT IS BIG DATA? Big data has the potential to become the next
frontier for innovation, competition and profit.
Volume: approaches or exceed Velocity: decision window small,
physical limits of vertical scalability compared with data and/or data
requirements change rate A GROWING TORRENT
Variety: many different formats that Variability: many options or variable Just how big is big data? Huge, and with the
make integration expensive interpretations that confound analysis potential to expand even more in the future
4 235
Billion Terabytes
40% 5%
Pieces of content are Of data has been collected
shared everyday on by the US Library of
Facebook Congress In April 2011 Projected growth of global Projected growth of global
data per year IT spending per year.
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10. Data continues to grow in the enterprise
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11. Unstructured Data is making Big Data bigger
 Structured data:
– transactional, consistent
 Unstructured data:
– data streaming in from
disparate data sources and
behavioral patterns
Today, this balance is tipping
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12. Big Data requires a next gen storage architecture
Today’s storage architecture Next generation big data architecture
On-premise In the cloud
Structured data Any data
Limited ad-hoc management tools Automated management tools
Giga-/terabytes Peta-/ zetta-/ yottabytes
Scale up Scale out
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13. Value proposition extends beyond the infrastructure level
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14. A move to integrated infrastructure and intelligent
management
Madlib
Analytics Tools Karmasphere
Data Meer Tableau
Hadoop Developer Spring
PaaS
Python Frameworks Cloudfoundry
Virtualization Provisioning
Deduplication Intelligent Management Object Storage
Compression
NAS Network and Storage Infrastructure
Private
Public
SAN
DAS
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15. •Prepare the storage environment.
•Evaluate emerging solutions
optimized for big data.
•Rationalize your data.
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16. Thank you
Onica King
+31 20.305.4864
oking@forrester.com
www.forrester.com
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