The document discusses the future of storage in relation to advancements in computing, highlighting the need for open-source software that operates on standard hardware. It emphasizes scalability, flexibility, and multi-tenancy, suggesting that storage systems must adapt to handle unstructured and big data efficiently. Overall, the future storage solutions should enhance manageability and performance while maintaining compatibility with evolving computing environments.

1. The Future of Storage is Open for Business
The Revolution in Computing is Leading to a
Similar Revolution in Storage
Revolution
in
Computing
Virtualization
Standardiz’n
Multi-Tenancy
Location
Independence
Open Source
Data Explosion
Scale-out
Scale On-
Demand
Revolution in Storage
Storage must support
new computing environment
Storage will look like the new
compute environment

2. The Future of Storage is Open for Business
Implications for Storage I
• Be open source software that runs on commodity h/w
Open Source
• Provide economics, manageability, & performance that scale
with data
• Be appropriate for both unstructured data & “big data”
Data Explosion
• Flexibly and linearly scale both performance and capacity
through “small boxes”
Scale-Out
• Transparently add or delete volumes & users
• Flexibly add/delete VM Images, application data, etc.
• Do so without disrupting any running functionality
Scale on
Demand

3. The Future of Storage is Open for Business
Implications for Storage II
• If your applications, PCs, and data center are becoming files (VM
Images)…be a file based system
• Enable VM Images, application data to be accessed, managed,
backed-up…as files
Virtualization
• Run on standard hw, standard networks, standard OS
• Reduce or eliminate need for specialized hardware/tiering for different
applications, workloads, file sizes
• Don’t require application rewrite to use storage
Standardiz’n
• Don’t tie apps or users to particular physical storage
• Enable global namespaces, quotas, and partitioning of resources
Multi Tenancy
• Provide a global namespace across geographies
• Work with the public cloud as well as on-premise
Location
Independence