Most storage consolidation strategies fail because they attempt to consolidate to a single piece of storage hardware. To successfully consolidate storage, IT professionals need to look at consolidation strategies that worked. Server consolidation was VMware’s first use case. It was successful because instead of consolidating hardware, VMware consolidated the environment under a single hypervisor (ESXi) and console (vCenter) but still provided organizations with hardware flexibility. A successful storage consolidation strategy needs to follow a similar formula by providing a single software solution that controls a variety of storage hardware, but that software also has to extract maximum performance and value from each hardware platform on which it sits. Join Storage Switzerland and StorOne in which we discuss how to design a storage consolidation strategy for today, the future and the cloud.

1. Gal Naor,
Co-founder and CEO
George Crump,
Founder and Lead Analyst
Designing a Storage Consolidation Strategy
for Today, the Future and the Cloud
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2. OurSpeakers
Gal Naor,
Co-founder and CEO
George Crump,
Founder and Lead Analyst

3. What’s the Problem
with Fragmented
Storage?
● Complexity
● Expensive
● Stresses other Processes
● Risky

4. Storage Fragmentation
is Getting Worse
● Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning
● Cloud Storage
● Increased Data Protection
Requirements
● Increased Compliance
Requirements

5. What’s the Goal of
Storage Consolidation
● Reduce Storage Complexity
● Improve other Processes
● Reduce Costs

6. Understanding the
Storage Consolidation
Methods
● Storage Mainframe - Consolidate
to a Single Storage System
● Software Defined Storage -
Consolidate to Single Storage
Software
● Hyperconverged Infrastructures -
Collapse Compute and Storage

7. Why The
Storage
Mainframe
Falls Short
● Very Expensive
● Inflexible
● Complex to setup and operate
● No Knowledge of the Cloud

8. ● Still Expensive
● Questionable hardware flexibility
● Most SDS solutions only meet one use
case
● Most SDS solutions are inefficient
● Limited Cloud Capabilities
Why Software Defined Storage Falls Short

9. Why HCI Falls Short
● Repeat of SDS - SDS
running in Compute Tier
● Adds complex networking
● Still only single use case

10. Seems Hopeless? -
What Consolidation
Efforts Have
Worked?
● Server Consolidation with Hypervisors
(VMware)
● Software Defined Networking (SDN)
● Commonalities?
○ Single software solution that does more
(automation, management)
○ Software becomes the operating environment
○ Multi-use case (VDI and servers)
○ Flexible hardware choice
○ Relatively inexpensive

11. The Data Center
Needs a Storage
Hypervisor
● Single software solution that
advances current SDS
capabilities
● Multi-use case, multi-protocol
● True hardware flexibility

17. StorONE completes data center CONSOLIDATION with UES
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• Who is StorONE ?
• 8 years in development –
Innovation vs. Integration
• 50 patents –
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• Proven disruptive founders,
investors, and top tech
industry luminaries from
Microsoft, SUN
Microsystems, and Oracle

18. Thank you!
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19. Designing a Storage Consolidation Strategy
for Today, the Future and the Cloud
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