Reducing the Cost and Complexity in the Data Centre

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1 Reducing the Cost and Complexity in the Data Centre Charlie Lavacchia Director, SAN Product Management Network Appliance Inc.

2 NetApp is Data Center Proven Operating in more than 5,000 data centers worldwide Growing over 15 times faster than the industry in SAN Over 10,000 contracts for 24x7 global support Excellent customer satisfaction: 9.3 out of 10 Over 6 million Exchange seats worldwide World s largest Linux data warehouse runs on NetApp SAP, Oracle and SAS run their business on NetApp 2

3 What Customers Are Saying NetApp enabled us to maintain operations 24x7x365 and improve performance with a 10:1 savings. NetApp for our data center is like the 737 for our business. Flexible, scalable and cost-effective. Reduced IT costs from $500M to $220M annually moving to the Grid and NetApp With NetApp/VERITAS solution we achieved a 200% faster recovery time and 100%ROI in 18 months NetApp provides nonstop service. 3

4 Professional Services for the Data Center Experts, tools, & partners to: Assess Understand your existing environment Design Plan for scale, capacity and flexibility Implement Optimize Deploy solutions that drive availability, on time & on budget Tune for reliability, performance, and best practices Our knowledge becomes your advantage 4

5 Data Center Class Support Systems, processes and people to: Global Capable Responsive Meet site-specific needs everywhere Execute locally with global consistency Address complex & critical environments Align our delivery to your business needs Expedite and resolve issues quickly Proactively monitor; drive serviceability Our execution becomes your confidence 5

6 Meeting Top IT Challenges More Responsive Improve Application Availability More Business Value 6

7 More Responsive 7

8 Flexibility To Adapt To Change Competitors NetApp Incompatible silos Incompatible software; different processes Lots of experts and integration services Platforms Software & Processes Experts & Integration Services Common Architecture Unified software; Same processes Reduced training & service requirements 8

9 Single Unified Flexible Family FAS 250 4TB FAS TB FAS TB FAS TB FAS TB FAS TB One architecture One management interface Total interoperability Learn one; know them all 9

10 Dramatic Productivity Impact Task Change DB Size 500 DB s x 4 changes/year = 2000 changes Competitor 290 days for 1 fulltime admin NetApp 4 days for 1 fulltime admin Create Clones 3/week for 5 weeks = 15 Clones 2 days 8 minutes Source: Veritest, 5/05 Scalability and Performance comparison New project storage activation cycles reduced from eight to 12 weeks to hours. 10

11 Improve Application Availability 11

12 Causes of Unplanned Downtime Applications Errors 40% of Downtime All Other Failures 20% of Downtime Keys Takeaways Simplify procedures to reduce operator errors Improve application recovery times Protect more of your applications Operational Failures 40% of Downtime Source: Gartner Data Center Survey (15 April, 2005) 12

13 Simplicity = Higher Uptime Competitors NetApp Setting up DR Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4.. Step??? 3 days 30 minutes Setting up DR Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Complex processes Incompatible software More prone to errors Need lots of expensive Professional Services Simple processes Unified Software Less prone to errors Faster deployments NetApp is so cost effective that we now have almost every process protected instead of just the most critical ones. 13

14 Fast Recovery From Application Errors Competitors NetApp Snapshot Snapshot Snapshot Snapshot Minimal Data Loss Time Time Snapshot Significant Performance Hit Negligible Performance Overhead Snapshot Negligible Performance Hit Production Tape 1 day 17+ Hours Faster Backup & Recovery Production Disk Backup Minutes NetApp customers reported at least 2x faster application restores than competitors customers. 14

15 More Business Value 15

16 Highest Utilization With Thin Provisioning Competitors: 40% Utilization NetApp: 60%+ Utilization App 3 App 2 App 1 waste waste needs more What You Buy Labor some provisioning leads to excess capacity Lots of excess capacity, but never where you need it Lost productivity Our storage utilization went up from 43% to 76% once we moved to NetApp FlexVol. Shared capacity App 3 App 2 App 1 What You Buy Policy-based provisioning Dramatically higher utilization Reduced operator intervention 16

17 Advanced De-Duplication Primary Competitors Original NetApp Original Backup Compliance Copy 1-3 Copy 4 Copy 1 Backup Compliance Disaster Recovery Test & Dev. Decision Support Copy 5 Copy 6-10 Copy 11 Lots of Duplicate Data Idle DR copy Limited Versioning capabilities Multiple full copies is expensive Copy 2 DR Clones Test & Dev Decision Support Copy 3 Optional Decision Support Industry s most advanced deduplication Put your DR copy to use Advanced Snapshot versioning Virtual copies that reduce cost With NetApp we cut the cost of raw disk by 5x. Less copies also resulted in significant administrative and management savings. 17

18 Reduced Administrative Costs Competitors NetApp Need more storage Application Admins Storage help desk Application Admin With SnapManager Application admins get needed storage based on preset policies Provision additional storage Storage admin Storage admin Sets policies Now the DBA and Exchange administrators can manage some parts of their storage environment. 18

19 Efficient Storage Management Indexed Average TB Managed per FTE Average TBs / FTE Managed by Storage Environment (Primary Storage Only)* x x x Activities measured include: Capacity Planning & Provisioning Managing Availability (Snapshot/Mirroring) Backups Archival/Compliance Mirroring for DR Version Changes & Upgrades User Support Other NetApp EMC CLARiiON HP EVA EMC Symmetrix Source: Mercer Customer Interviews, November 2005-May

20 The Industry s Best TCO SAP Exchange Database Disk-to-Disk Total Cost Index % higher 43-56% higher % higher % higher 50 0 NetApp CLARiiON EVA CLARiiON EVA CLARiiON EVA Symmetrix Tape Tape with Remote Sites Source: Mercer Database & SAP Storage Total Cost Comparison Interviews December March

21 Extending NetApp in the Data Center More Responsive Higher Application Availability More Business Value 21

22 Simplifying Data Management Network Appliance brings unmatched simplicity to the complex world of enterprise data management. Reduce cost & complexity Minimize risk Control change 22