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The Data Deluge
“The Growth of Unstructured Data ”
Dr Kevin McIsaac, IBRSwww.ibrs.com.au
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Overview
The Impact of Changes in Data Growth Rates
Exploiting Data Management Technologies
Taking Control Of E-mail Conclusions
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The Impact of Changes in Data Growth Rates
Data growth rates accelerate The “unstructured data” tipping point How big is the impact?
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Data Growth Rates Accelerate
92% of all new data is stored on magnetic media, primarily hard disks.
That data grew about 30% pa between 1999 and 2002
Growth rate forecast to grow at 60% pa though 2011!
i.e., your storage capacity will double every 18 months!
2007: First 1TB disk!
So What’s New! Data Has Always Grown At High Rates.
Source: Computer World/IBRS Data Management Survey
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The “Unstructured Data” Tipping Point
What is “Unstructured Data” We have reached a tipping
point were More that ½ of all data
managed by IT is unstructured Merrill Lynch estimate 85% of
business data is unstructured Some of your largest data sets
are unstructured, e.g., e-mail Unstructured data growth
rate of 65%-200% But, 38% of ITO’s lack a
document management system
Data Management Was Traditionally About Managing Structured Data. This Focus Needs to
Change.
Source: Computer World/IBRS Data Management Survey
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How Big Is The Impact? Office workers spend an average
of 9.5 hr/wk searching, gathering and analysing information, with 60 % of that on the Internet
Outsell White collar workers spend 30%
- 40% of their time managing documents
Gartner Our survey highlights
Strong concerns with the rate of unstructured data growth
Lack of systems to manage this Few concerns with the storage
infrastructure.
IT Must Learn To Manage Unstructured Data As Effectively As It Does Structured Data Today
Our unstructured data is growing too rapidly
70%
We do not have adequate systems to manage our unstructured data
65%
We don't know our storage costs
28%
We have problems meeting our compliance requirements
22%
Our structured data is growing too rapidly
19%
Provisioning storage takes too long
10%
We are spending too much on people to manage storage
10%
We are spending too much on storage hardware
4%
We are spending too much on storage software
4%Source: Computer World/IBRS Data Management Survey
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Exploiting Data Management Technologies
Advances in Storage Hardware Commoditisation of Storage Arrays Information Lifecycle Management Document Management Data Classification Disaster Recovery Readiness
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Advances in Storage Hardware
Shugart’s Law - $ per bit of magnetic storage declines 1/2 every 18 months
~37% pa (10%/Q), recently 50% pa! Flat budget supports ~60%pa growth
SANs well established & a commodity Fully featured arrays reasonably
priced iSCSI taking off as a complement to FC Bolt-on storage virtualisation not
gaining traction Content Addressable Storage
Use for long term archive. TCO benefits are in the long term
management of data
Shugart’s Law Ensures Drive Costs Are Contained, But What About The System Costs
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Commodity Storage Arrays G1: Monolithic arrays
Proprietary & very expensive G2: Modular arrays
Proprietary with commodity components, moderately expensive
G3: Commodity based arrays Commodity components, standards based, inexpensive
SAS as high performance, lower cost alterative to FC-disk Freely mix SAS and SATA in same frame
In-box virtualisation for simpler management and lower cost Thin provisioning is the next big virtualisation technology
Potential for new vendor to challenge established players
e.g., Compellent, EqualLogic, 3-PAR etcHardware Is Just A Small Part Of The Problem. Data Management Processes Are More Important
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Information Lifecycle Management
Automate the management of your data lifecycle policy
Retain, delete, migrate, archive Defining and enforcing policy
Who sets policy? Who has authority?
IT is not the data owner, just the steward!
Start with tiered storage Balance price with service levels
Due to high growth rates focus on unstructured data
Transactional stuff generally Ok Archival of E-mail and
Documents Don’t confuse backup & archival!
Separate archive from backupWhile ILM is The holy grail of storage vendors it has not yet been widely adopted
Source: Computer World/IBRS Data Management Survey
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Document Management Document management can
eliminate significant wasted time
“White collar workers spend 30% - 40% of their time managing documents”
But, 38% have no DM system and 50% only cover some documents
Document management needs to include e-mail
E-mail is often the largest unstructured data repository
But only12% said document management includes e-mailDocument Management and ILM and Archiving Are
All Predicated on Data Classification and Policy
Source: Computer World/IBRS Data Management Survey
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Data Classification & Policy Only 12% had clear,
formal policy. Without this: IT can’t act responsibly as a
steward No mandate!
ILM is nearly impossible, i.e., Data can’t be deleted and
archival is difficult.
Few had metadata or taxonomies, which hampers data use and reuse
We have classified some or all of our data.
53%
IT is a steward, managing data using policies set by the business.
35%
We have assigned business owners for our data.
30%
The business has defined the value of our key data.
18%
We have clear, formal policies for data management.
12%
We create metadata to help classify data.
6%
We create taxonomies to help classify data.
4%Source: Computer World/IBRS Data Management Survey
Businesses Need to Invest in Data Classification & Policy
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Disaster Recovery Readiness
Disaster recovery confidence level are high, however…
44% said they have not tested their DR plan in the last 12 months.
35% said they had only one a limited disaster recovery test in the last 12 months.
Without Regular Testing Disaster Recovery Plans Are A Lottery
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Taking Control Of E-mail
The Importance of E-mail E-mail Data Management Challenges Managing Users’ Mailboxes
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The Importance of E-mail 80% say e-mail is more
important than the telephone. 74 % said being without e-mail is a greater hardship than losing the telephone.
META Group A typical business user sends
and receives around 600 e-mail per week
Ferris Research The average office worker
spends 49 min/day managing e-mail. Upper level managers spend up to 4hrs/day. All that sending & receiving, responding & deleting takes an enormous toll on workplace productivity.
ePolicy Institute
E-mail Is An Essential Business Tool But E-Mail Data Management Is Still A “Cottage
Industry”
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E-mail Data Management Challenges
57% Said Managing E-mail Was One Of Their Top DM Problems
Top Exchange DM challenges Managing Exchange disaster
recovery Managing the size of Message
Stores Protecting & searching individual
.PST files Restoring individual mailboxes Responding to legal discovery
and capturing all email for compliance
Osterman Research
Managing Users’ Mailboxes Is Key To All These Challenges
Source: Computer World/IBRS Data Management Survey
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Managing Users’ Mailboxes
The common solution is to use mailbox quotas
40% use PSTs to limit growth but 37% said it caused problems.
Just shift the problem elsewhere
E-mail archival can be a powerful solution but…
Only 13 % had successfully implemented e-mail archiving
Another 13% tried and failed! Needs robust data management
policy Only 2% implemented an e-
discovery/compliance solution!
Getting E-mail Under Control Is An Important And Urgent Issue, But Proceed With Great Caution
Source: Computer World/IBRS Data Management Survey
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Conclusions We have reached a tipping point,
where unstructured data volume and growth exceeds that of structured data
Learn to manage unstructured data as effectively as structured data
Invest in data classification & policy before applying technology
The Data Deluge
“The Growth of Unstructured Data ”
Dr Kevin McIsaac, IBRSwww.ibrs.com.au
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