Garry Carpenter Storage Consultant

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Garry Carpenter Storage Consultant
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Agenda

• What are the IT challenges today?
• How does Cristie and IPStor address them?

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The IT Challenges
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The Network Storage Challenges

• Consolidate storage resources from multiple
  vendors with various I/O interfaces
• Provision storage capacity to multiple operating
  systems over FC, IP/iSCSI, ESCON, FICON, CIFS,
  NFS
• Provide unified storage services across vendor,
  interface and protocol boundaries including
• Mirrored disks across RAID boxes
• Take Snapshot copies of active disks
• Replicate active disks over IP
• Journal disk changes to facilitate instant
  roll-back incremental database backup
• Facilitate high-speed backup and recovery
• End-to-End Manageability

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Network Storage Manageability
SCSI, FC, iSCSI, InfiniBand
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Storage Solutions

• Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery
• Active/Active failover configs replication
  mirroring over SCSI, FC and IP Timemark/Timeview
  safeguard soft-errors with fast recovery
• Backup Consolidation and Acceleration
• Zero-impact backup mechanisms, consolidate,
  simplify automate
• Storage Consolidation
• Leverages new and existing infrastructures to
  create high performance SANs across multiple
  physical disk resources, and NAS file sharing
  capabilities with a single storage management
  console
• Data Migration
• Seamlessly migrate active and static data across
  multiple vendor subsystems and geographical
  locations
• Security
• Provide end-to-end security with key-based
  authentication

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Business Continuity
Oracle
DB2
Notes
FC SAN
Data Center
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P
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Backup Consolidation
WS
WS
LAN
Oracle
DB2
Notes
TimeView
FC SAN
Data Center
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P
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A Simplified Solution
Simplification using IPStor Reduce 8 Point
Products, 5 Unified Solutions across all hardware
/ OS platforms into a single integrated
software solution
System Management
System Availability
System Availability
Application Management
Failover
Failover
Data Availability
Data Availability
Mirroring
Mirroring
Storage Management
Storage Management
IPStor
Resource Optimization
Resource Optimization
Device Management
Device Management
RAID
Recovery
Backup Recovery
Recovery
Backup Recovery
Backup to tape
Backup to tape
Online Storage Optimization
File Systems
Volume Management
A Single Integrated Solution
File System Management
Point Products
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Why IPStor?

• IPStor provides the best, open and credible
  storage management solution
• IPStor provides Enterprise Class storage
  solutions across multiple platforms, O/S, and
  disk sub-systems inc.
• Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery, Backup,
  SAN consolidation
• IPStor leverages existing storage infrastructures
  providing a better ROI
• IPStor provides a single management interface in
  hetrogeneous environments lowering TCOs

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Thank You