Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is a technology that seeks to reduce the burden of storage administration while increasing overall storage utilization. SDS aims to make storage application-aware, enabling server administrators, application managers, and developers to provision storage in a policy-driven, automated self-service manner. These slides - based on the webinar featuring Jim Miller, senior analyst at EMA - cover: - Challenges of procuring and managing storage in large enterprise deployments - Key functional capabilities needed to deliver the benefits of SDS to the enterprise - Highlights of the nine vendors included in this study and how their solution fits into best practices for network monitoring The nine SDS vendors that will be covered are: 1. Atlantis Computing 2. Citrix 3. DataCore 4. EMC 5. HP 6. IBM 7. Nexenta 8. Symantec 9. VMware

1. Jim Miller
Senior Analyst, Storage Management
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
@jmillerema
EMA Radar Report on
Software-defined Storage

2. Today’s Presenter
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Jim Miller, Senior Analyst, EMA
Jim has 22 years of industry experience in IT storage product
management, business management, and marketing. Prior to joining
EMA, Jim was the product manager of software and hardware for the
storage server, archive, backup and recovery, NAS, object storage,
and virtual and physical tape solutions at SGI. His experience with
identifying market and product requirements for a wide range of
hardware and software products enables him to understand and
advise on the evolving storage landscape, as cloud, virtualized
infrastructures, and mobile device storage complement traditional
storage applications and administration.

3. Logistics for Today’s Webinar
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An archived version of the event recording will be
available at www.enterprisemanagement.com
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4. EMA Radar Report on
Software-defined Storage
Jim Miller
Senior Analyst, Storage Management
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
@jmillerema

5. Agenda
• Software-defined storage 2015 approach
• Software-defined storage definition
• Evaluation model
• Vendors covered in this study
• Software-defined storage Radar results
• General findings
• Software-defined storage Radar results chart
• Value leaders
• Special recognitions
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6. Enterprise Software-Defined Storage Defined
• Abstracts physical storage
infrastructure into logical resources
utilizing intelligent software
• Capacity and services are logically
provisioned independent of physical
storage
• Enterprise software-defined storage is
implemented on all storage
• Orchestration and automation
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7. Enterprise Software-Defined Storage Benefits
• Reduces hardware costs
• Leverage existing infrastructure
• Increase utilization
• Use of commodity hardware
• Limits the effort to manage and
administer storage
• Single management console
• Provisioning across multiple storage
devices
• Common basic and advanced services
• Enable data as a service
• Orchestrate and automate provisioning
and QOS
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8. Radar Report Overview
• Purpose of this EMA Radar:
• Review/compare software-defined storage designed for, and
deployed in medium and large enterprise settings
• Minimal criteria for software-defined storage inclusion
• Operating solution for six months
• Solution supports storage systems from multiple vendors and
storage types
• Proven enterprise-class deployments, managing at least 500TB of
network and direct attached storage capacity
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9. Software-Defined Storage Evaluation Model: Key Criteria
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Resource
Efficiency
• Deployment and
administration
• Cost advantage
Solution Impact
• Architecture and
integration
• Functionality
Vendor Strength
• Strategy
• Financial strength
• Technology and
distribution
partnerships

10. Vendors Covered in this Study
• Atlantis
• Citrix
• DataCore
• EMC
• HP
• IBM
• Nexenta
• Symantec
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11. General Findings
• All solutions provided heterogeneous device support
• All provided single management console
• Variations observed in:
• Functionality, the number of services supported
• Device and file types supported
• Cloud support
• Greatest opportunity lies in orchestration
• Automation of provisioning capacity and performance
• Quality of Service
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12. Software-Defined Storage Radar Results
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13. Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders
• DataCore
• Top overall solution impact score
• Highest score for breadth of functionality
• Richest set of basic and advanced services
• Competitive pricing
• Citrix Melio
• Originally Sanbolic Melio
• Integrated with Citrix WorkspacePod and VDI appliances
• Second highest score in solution impact
• Second highest score in functionality
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14. Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders
• Atlantis
• Provider of hyper converged solutions and SDS
• Top overall cost efficiency score
• Second highest score in cost advantage
• High performance, inline deduplication
• Nexenta
• Portfolio of integrated products
• Second highest cost efficiency score
• Rich collection of services
• Collection of reference architectures from Cisco, Dell, HP,
Intel, Inventec, SuperMicro and Quanta
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15. Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders
• VMware VSAN and Virtual Volumes
• Imbedded directly into vSphere hypervisor
• Seamless integration with VMware storage
management
• Virtual Volumes extend SDS to SAN and
NAS arrays
• HP StorVirtual VSA
• Second highest cost efficiency score
• HP OneView for VMware vCenter plug in
• HP ConvergedSystem 200-HC
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16. Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders
• IBM Spectrum
• Third highest score in solution impact
• Modular approach with six products
• Spectrum Control provides common
management platform
• EMC ViPR Controller, ViPR SRM
• Second highest cost efficiency score
• Plugs into an existing cloud stacks and hypervisors
• Project CoprHD open source
• SRM delivers detailed and relationship and topology
views
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17. Software-Defined Storage 2015 – Value Leaders
• Symantec Storage Foundation
• Rich set of services that can be executed
manually or automatically
• Integrated with VMware, vSphere,
Hyper-V and KVM
• Supports public, private and hybrid clouds
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18. Radar Special Recognitions
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19. Software-Defined Storage Radar Summary
• Software-defined storage provides significant opportunity
to reduce storage hardware and administration costs
• Ensure solution can address all storage
• Utilize existing infrastructure
• Areas of future improvement
• Advances in automation and orchestration
 Provisioning capacity, performance
 Services
 QOS
• Cloud
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20. Q&A –
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