Catalogic Copy Data Management (CDM) modernizes and transforms your IBM Storage infrastructure. Catalogic provides the only integrated CDM solution that lets you:
• Catalog and track copies and VMs across the enterprise
• Automate protection SLAs, copy creation and system provisioning
• Transform IT operations with Hybrid Cloud, DevOps and user self-service
Through operational modernization, Catalogic lets you derive additional value from your IBM storage investment, deliver a more agile IT infrastructure, and improve business productivity. Catalogic transforms your IBM Storwize, SAN Volume Controller (SVC), VersaStack and FlashSystem V9000 environments with a non-disruptive, software-only solution. Join this webinar to learn how Catalogic can help you modernize and transform your IT.
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Modernize and Transform your IT with IBM Storage and Catalogic Copy Data Management
1. Modernize and Transform your IT with
IBM Storage and Catalogic
Copy Data Management
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Peter Eicher, Catalogic
2. Agenda
• Modernization and Transformation
– What does it mean?
– How are we doing?
• Catalogic ECX: What is it?
• Modernization and Transformation Use Cases
• User example
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3. Organizations are Looking Toward the Future
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Organizations need to
modernize IT operations
What does “modernize”
really mean?
IT transformation is
happening now, but how are
we doing?
4. Surveying the IT Landscape
VMware surveyed 660 global firms and asked
them:
• How do you want to transform IT?
• How can you better serve your organization?
• Are you succeeding or failing?
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5. What is IT Transformation and Modernization?
Firms in the survey saw IT
Transformation and Modernization
as primarily fitting three categories
• Transforming Operations
• Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
• Empowering and Accelerating
Application Development
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6. Are Organizations Succeeding at Transformation?
90% of organizations feel it is important to have a
documented IT transformation strategy and
roadmap in place
Yet over 55% have nothing documented
While some organizations are transforming
successfully, most are struggling
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8. Find Copies
Track copies of data and VMs
Global view of data
Increase efficiency
Create & Use Copies Go Beyond Copies
SLA compliance
Spin up LUNs or whole
application groups
Streamline operations
User self-service
Integrate storage w Cloud
Enable DevOps
REST API driven
Catalog Automate Transform
Catalogic: Modernize and Transform IT
Through In-Place Copy Data Management
Organizational Goals: Modernize to meet business and regulatory demands. Reduce cost, complexity.
Direction: Transform to new business models like DevOps and Federated Cloud.
How: In-Place Copy Data Management enables these efforts while leveraging current infrastructure.
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9. IT Modernization through “In Place” Copy Data Management
Your Infrastructure
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
Virtual snapshot and
replication capabilities
IBM
Storwize, SVC, V9000, VersaStack
and FlashCopy Manager
NetApp
7-Mode, Clustered ONTAP, NPS,
Cloud ONTAP, FlexPod
EMC
VNXe, Unity
-Private or Hybrid Cloud
AND/OR
Catalogic ECX
Software-Only
Copy Data Management
Platform
• Cloud integrated
• DevOps enabledTransform
Catalog
• Discover
• Search
Automate
• SLA compliance
• Policy-based
LEVERAGE
Use Cases
Protection and
Disaster Recovery
Automate Test/Dev
DevOps
Hybrid Cloud
Automated Copy
Management by SLA
Applications
11. Deploying Hybrid Cloud
Why do organizations want to move to a
hybrid cloud model?
• Looking for cost efficiencies
• Want to move more workloads to the cloud
How are organizations doing?
• 90% are only in evaluation or proof-of-
concept phase for hybrid cloud
• 91% have no organized, consistent method
of evaluating workloads for hybrid cloud
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12. How Can Catalogic Help with Hybrid Cloud?
• Catalogic bridges the gap between system-of-record data and flexible
cloud compute resources
• Automated replication of data into the cloud
• Push-button spinning up of cloud compute to operate on data
• Spin-down of workloads to save compute costs
IBM Storage
Storwize, SVC, V9000, VersaStack
Scheduled, Automated
Data Transfer
VM VM VM
VM1 VM2 VM3
Data Copies
Cloud
Compute
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Use For
Test/Dev
DevOps
Automated DR
Reporting, etc.
14. Transforming Operations
What is the goal of Transforming Operations?
• Run IT like a customer-focused business
• Automate operations like infrastructure provisioning
• Identify key services and present them in an easily
consumable way, such as via self-service
How are organizations doing?
• 77% of organizations want to be able to provision
infrastructure in less than a day
– Yet over 50% say it takes between a week and a month
– The best 20% can provision in a day to a week
• 76% of organizations have no self-service in place, or
under-developed offerings
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15. How Can Catalogic Help Transform Operations?
• Catalogic provisions infrastructure-as-a-service
– Storage access or full system spin-up (storage, networking, compute)
• Infrastructure provisioning takes place in minutes
• Routine, manual, labor-centric tasks are automated to push-button speed
• Service delivery via IT or through user self-service
IBM Storage
Storwize, SVC, V9000, VersaStack
Scheduled or
On Demand
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
Complete running
systems
Mapped storage
volumes
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IT driven or via self-
service offerings
17. Better Application Development
What is the goal for better App Development ?
• Organizations want agile processes and
automated platform (infrastructure) delivery
How are organizations doing?
• 82% of organizations do not have a scalable,
infrastructure-independent application
delivery framework
• 68% take as long as 12 months to complete a
new application development cycle
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18. How Can Catalogic Help with Application Development?
• Catalogic satisfies the need for automated
platform delivery by spinning up complete
systems, based on most recent data copies
• Drive via GUI-based portal or RESTful APIs
• Supports Waterfall or DevOps models
• Works across heterogeneous storage
infrastructures
• Works in conjunction with DevOps tools
– Chef, Puppet, IBM Bluemix, IBM UrbanCode, etc.
API CALL
API CALL
API CALL
Software
Development
BUILD
TEST
PRODUCTION
DevOps
Automation Tools
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19. Automated Test/Dev: User Example
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Customer Challenges
• Manually build VMs, configure storage, network etc.
• Manual monitoring, tracking of test copies
• IT labor-intensive
By the Numbers
No. of servers built/month: 10-15 VMs
Average build time/server: 4 hours
Time spent per month: 40-60 hours
Engineer time/year: 3 months
After Catalogic ECX
• Fully automated with self-service
• Automated monitoring and tracking
By the Numbers
Average build time/server: 2-3 minutes
Time spent per month: 30-45 minutes
Engineer time/year: 6-9 hours
99% Time Savings
Across the Board
20. More Information
Key Resources
• Data sheets, white papers, webinars, demo
videos, analyst reports, etc.
Data.CatalogicSoftware.com/IBM
• General questions: info@catalogicsoftware.com
• Also catalogicsoftware.com/resources
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Papers and Reports
Video demos with
Bluemix and
UrbanCode
Copy Data Management for a Hybrid
Cloud , a Technology Validation
Catalogic ECX and IBM FlashSystem
V9000: Software-defined agility
Dedicated Redbook on the joint
Catalogic-IBM solutions
So from an opportunity identification perspective, you can consider this slide and the next one as your OI slides. In fact, we’ll make the presentation available to you, and I’ve included them in a separate OI section at the end.
What we mean by “in place” copy data management is that ECX installs into your existing infrastructure, and leverages the existing technologies that you already have in your environment, whether they are in the hypervisor, the storage in your data center, or even already in the cloud. The current release of ECX support NetApp ONTAP-based systems, including Cloud ONTAP, IBM systems including the Storwize family, the flash V9000 and SVC. And the EMC Unity storage platform. Most importantly, with ECX you don’t need to roll in any additional hardware…you simply use what you have.
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What ECX delivers is a robust in-place copy data management platform, giving IT a single enterprise-wide system that replaces the complicated set of products, tools and scripts that are collectively used today. ECX installs as a simple VM that takes about 15 minutes to deploy. Once deployed, ECX starts to deliver immediately on three key value areas.
The Catalog function discovers the assets in your environment to build a rich, meta-data catalog which you can search for numerous IT objects. The Automate function brings automation and ease of operations to common IT tasks, using a policy-based model. And finally, these features let you Transform you IT environment by easily expanding into areas such as hybrid cloud and DevOps.
With this core functionality, ECX delivers across many use cases.
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The core use case of ECX automated copy data management based on service level agreements. By automating the common IT practice of snapshots and replication, ECX brings more consistency, reliability and reporting to these functions. This leads to huge OPEX savings. You can even provide users with self-service access to resources.
And of course, given that we are talking about the management and orchestration of application consistent copies, ECX becomes a powerful solution for data protection and disaster recovery… What’s unique about using ECX in this way compared to traditional backup is that ECX allows IT to mount and instantly access copies that are already in the production storage environment. This drops recovery time to seconds, regardless of how much data needs to be recovered because there is no data movement from some secondary appliance back into a production environment.
But ECX is about more than protection and recovery. You can use the same mechanism to automate test/dev environments. ECX can automatically provide access to storage or access to entire systems, and it can refresh them on a regular basis. This can dramatically speed up test and development efforts.
Given the functionality in ECX, it becomes a powerful enabler of the hybrid cloud, allowing IT to really take advantage of the promise of the cloud, while again, maintaining control and without disruptive changes to the existing environment. What ECX allows is not just the movement of data to the cloud– most storage products today do that, but it’s not just about having a static LUN in the cloud– that’s not the goal. The goal is bringing up live application environments in order to deliver DR, Test and Dev, Analytics or other key functions while leveraging the less expensive, elastic infrastructure in the cloud. When you have the automation and orchestration that manages not just the data copy, but also the instantiation of the complete application environment, you can take advantage of the limitless compute that’s available in the public cloud. You can spin up the workloads, but more importantly, spin them back down reliably. This is where you really capture the economic benefit of the cloud– only using, and paying for, the infrastructure as needed, and scaling it down when it’s not. With ECX we’re seeing a 3-to-1 cost benefit when leveraging the hybrid cloud for certain use cases, or said another way, an ROI of over 300%+
Finally, we have DEVOPS and what ECX allows the IT team to do– for the first time—is use their existing storage infrastructure to enable DEVOPs and meet the needs of the dev teams for rapid deployment and agility. Today, without ECX, it really isn’t possible! With ECX, you get what DEVOPs team call infrastructure as code. You have the templates which define the policies and the whole system is accessible via the REST API– this is key because it’s not a human on the other side it’s a system—like Puppet or IBM Bluemix-- doing this automation for DEVOPs. So it allows IT to extend enterprise storage into DevOps but has the enterprise storage team keep in control.