Copy Data Management & Storage Efficiency by Ravi Namboori

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Copy Data Management Efficient Data Storage

• Presentation by
• Ravi Namboori
• Visit us _at_ http//ravinamboori.net

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Introduction

• Ravi Namboori, a Cisco evangelist and an IT
  entrepreneur, California discusses as to how Copy
  Data Management can be managed better and how to
  manage data more efficiently i.e Efficient Data
  Storage.
• This PPT endeavors to explain how copy data
  management practices can bring about changes in
  our workplaces. Creation of more space to operate
  in is one of its main benefits. And it discusses
  on how it is possible for us to manage our data
  better. This has been written keeping the problem
  of data explosion that is on the verge of
  becoming a menace.

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Copy Data Management

• When we talk about data explosion, providing
  larger storage space is the solution to manage
  it.
• Its being caused by inefficient practice of Copy
  Data Management.
• International Data Corporation, a market research
  firm, states that copy data comprises over 60 of
  the entire enterprise disk capacity globally. It
  also adds that by the year 2020, expenditure
  incurred for copy data storage could reach 50
  billion, and this alone would consume more than
  315 million terabytes (TB) of space!!

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Copy Data Management

• If we look at testing and development workflows,
  numerous code applications copies are generated
  in several locations, where several teams' access
  and use it. Each team then snapshots it,
  replicates it, and backs it up on disks, tapes,
  etc. At the time of this process coming to an
  end, we end up with couple of extra copies of the
  same data.
• Database administrators then usually resort to
  practices, such as replicating the original
  database.
• Following that, the storage infrastructure
  department protects data by snapshotting it and
  replicating it. Then, the restore and backup
  departments procure the database data for
  exporting it into the media they choose.

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Continues

• Few firms are trying to helps in the exponential
  growth of copy data. Simultaneously, they are
  minimizing the expensive process of data
  consumption by platforms, which have been created
  expressly to reproduce the data.
• Ex Actifio and Hitachi Data Corporation
• Copy data management does not mean just reducing
  data copies, it also entails doing away with
  them, if possible forever.

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Efficient Data Storage

• Have you had any idea as to how much of our
  primary data is properly organized?
• Only 15 to 20 of the data is structured!!!else
  is not!!
• Occupation of less space, resulting in less time
  being wasted.
• Most of the unstructured data is reportedly old
  or obsolete data.

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Data Explosion Problems

• Data does not suddenly explode instantly. It is
  accrued over time we don't keep track of it!!
• Another problem with data explosion is Data
  Duplication, which leads to shrinkage of our
  storage space. For that need to keep in check
  proliferation of data.

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Secure Data Management

• The first step should be archiving -YES!!!
• We archive data by sourcing, tagging, and adding
  in new data sets by placing stubs behind them.
• If a blanket rule is enforced across the board in
  our environment that one must start placing a
  stub behind every file that we have not seen for
  over 3-4 months, it would bring about a major
  change.
• We would logically transfer the obsolete data to
  a secure and a solid platform in order to retain
  it and for retrieving whenever we need.

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Conclusion

• After all, data management is a very crucial
  issue that needs to be addressed on a priority
  basis.
• One instance of data archiving based on a single
  criterion would get rid of data from the data
  protection path and every workflow. As our space
  to work on is increased, it will have a domino
  effect on the performance of almost our entire
  file systems.
• If we start archiving on a permanent basis with
  the aid of copy data management, most of our data
  management challenges can be overcome.

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Thanks!!

• Presented by
• Ravi Namboori
• Visit us _at_ http//ravinamboori.in