08.216.2015 - Spicing up Data Lifecycle Management with Hybrid Cloud Storage Recipes

As enterprises grapple with exponential data growth, they are looking for new models to efficiently store, analyze, and archive data. Software-defined storage (SDS), as well as the hybrid cloud model, is shifting wasteful “just-in-case” provisioning into seamless “just-in-time” provisioning and storage management for optimal total cost of ownership (TCO). The hybrid cloud model allows enterprises to leverage both their existing data centers’ deployments as well as the cloud in a seamless fashion, leveraging well-established workflows and management tools. The focus of this blog post is to discuss emerging intersection points between traditional data lifecycle management and hybrid cloud storage. Let’s level-set on the lowest common denominator for this discussion -- storage hardware trends, and their implications on data management. A decade ago, storage tiers were mainly rotating disks with different speeds, and sequential media such as tapes. The industry’s research focus was mainly on closing the latency gap between main memory with nanoseconds service times and disks operating at milliseconds. Today, storage tiers have spread across the entire latency spectrum: Non Volatile Memory (NVM) with expected service times of hundreds of nanoseconds, to NAND Flash operating at an order of microseconds, to innovations in high density disk technologies such as [...]]>... - View Press Release - Visit VMware, Inc.