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Many organizations are experiencing rapid growth in the amount of information held on computer storage and storage costs are escalating.  
Many organizations are experiencing rapid growth in the amount of information held on computer storage and storage costs are escalating.  
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*The business impact of delaying some projects because of resources dedicated to storage.
*The business impact of delaying some projects because of resources dedicated to storage.
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An analysis of the need for tiered storage is likely to find that a business case including both IT and business benefits will be good (ROI and IRR>150%), while a business case with only IT benefits is likely to be deemed acceptable (ROI & IRR ~100%). The business cases will be improved if organizations align spending on storage services with the additional business value these services generate in the supported applications.
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An analysis of the need for tiered storage is likely to find that a business case including both IT and business benefits will be good (ROI and IRR>150%), while a business case with only IT benefits is likely to be deemed acceptable (ROI
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==Risks of implementing tiered storage==
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Tiered storage is a medium risk initiative.  In general, tiered storage technologies, software, processes and procedures are still immature. The industry has yet to agree a common definition of tiered storage. In particular the current storage management software that monitors service level agreements at the application level can best be described as inadequate.
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There are four major risks to a tiered storage initiative:
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#Incorrectly defining the the number of tiers can increase costs.
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#Incorrectly designing the service level capabilities for each tier can negatively impact cost and business value.
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#Lack of tools to monitor and report storage on an application basis will negate the benefits of tiered storage.
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#Migrating to a common set of storage services risks compromising service levels for certain applications in the near term.
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==The tiered storage initiative==
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The tiered storage will be implemented when the tiered storage infrastructure has been designed, built, tested, implemented and successfully handed over to operations so that it can run as specified without external support.
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===Expectations (out-of-scope)===
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The following factors that are not within the scope of the tiered storage initiative are vital to ensure a successful tiered storage outcome:
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*Application service level agreements are in place.
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*A charge-back mechanism is in place that can be changed to charge user departments according to storage used and storage tier.
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*Storage virtualization has been planned and/or implemented.
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*The IT organization will support consolidating the storage management services and procedures.
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*The primary storage vendors for the storage pools analyzed have solid tiered storage offerings.
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===Analyze phase===
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A fully detailed blueprint and step-by-step project outline for the analysis phase can be found at [[Analyzing tiered storage requirements]].
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====Acceptance test considerations====
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The analyze phase will be completed when the initial business case has been accepted by the sponsor, and agreement has been reached to proceed to the design phase or kill the project.
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====Key analysis milestones====
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This phase should take about 4-6 weeks and 14-20 person days of effort.
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#An effective sponsor of the initiative is identified
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#Data collected
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#*Determine the actual storage service level delivered for each of the major application groups
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#*Determine the total costs of the storage, including complete staff costs, storage management costs, storage network costs, connectivity costs and (where applicable) telecommunication costs
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#*Determine where there is either over provisioning or under-provisioning of storage services by application
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#*Calculate the business and IT impact of that over/under-provisioning by application
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#An initial tiered storage design built:
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#*Construct a basic tiered storage design and cost structure (one-time and ongoing). 
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Tiered storage is a technology that makes intrinsic sense.  Most organizations are likely to determine that a tiered storage implementation should be in their strategic plans. When organizations have the storage architecture foundations in place, such as centralization, virtualization, and a commitment to a single management suite, early implementation should be considered. If the foundations are immature, tiered storage may wait or be implemented in an a part of the organization ready to exploit the solution.
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Many organizations are experiencing rapid growth in the amount of information held on computer storage and storage costs are escalating.

Traditional methods of managing storage use either a “one size fits all” strategy, or a "Mix, Match and Manage" approach introducing many different storage pools. The challenge of the first technique is high equipment cost, whereas the latter often brings higher labor costs to manage the multiple storage pools all with different software, services and procedures.

Today's storage technologies span a spectrum from high density, low cost, low performance storage at one end to increasingly sophisticated data management functionality at the other. Creating storage tiers with more granularity with a single management approach begins to address the problems that one size does not fit all and storage pools are hard to manage.

Tiered storage capability

Tiered storage is the process of provisioning different types of storage media based on application requirements. Storage tier choice may be based on performance, cost, protection needed, speed of recovery, and many other considerations. Ideally, a common set of storage services and procedures can be applied as required to each tier, matching application requirements with storage tier characteristics. A more complete description can be found on the WikiBon entry for Tiered storage.

Tiered storage has the potential to reduce the costs of storage and storage management functionality for some applications and improve the performance, availability, and recovery capabilities of others. The primary initial costs associated with a tiered storage implementation include software to manage the environment, implementation expenses, and possibly write-down costs for hardware that will be retired.

Specific operational goals of implementing tiered storage

The likely investment required to implement tiered storage is between $0.5 million to $0.7 million, with an elapsed time of between 6 to 9 months. [Note: These figures assume a Standard WikiBon business model organization with $1B in revenue with 4,000 employees and an IT budget of $40M per year. The scenario assumes that 40 terabytes are installed, with a mixture of high performance SAN, mid-range storage solutions, some direct attached storage, and some NAS]. A successful tiered storage implementation will:

  • Allow consumers of storage to optimize the functionality, performance, and cost profile for storage that best fit the business need for each application by providing different tiers of storage.
  • Ideally, provide a common set of storage management tools, processes and procedures and services for all the storage tiers, including the ability to dynamically migrate storage to the optimal tier.

The major expected reductions in IT cost will normally include:

  • Fifteen percent (15%) reduction in cost of equipment and connectivity (~$200K/year).
  • Twenty percent (20%) reduction in cost of storage administration (~$150K/year).

Case studies indicate the major expected business productivity improvements (so-called intangibles) will yield an estimated gain that equates to ~.06% of revenue and normally be derived from the following:

  • Business benefits of accelerating time to implement new projects or speed changes (~$200k/year).
  • Business value of improving security measured in mitigated losses (~$100k/year).
  • Economic benefit of higher performance on user productivity (~$75k/year).
  • Business value of improved productivity from reduced application downtime (~$25k/year).
Figure 1 - Tiered Storage Rules of Thumb

In addition to the investment in tiered storage, other potential impacts on an organization include:

  • Loss on books for storage equipment and software retired early.
  • The business impact of delaying some projects because of resources dedicated to storage.

An analysis of the need for tiered storage is likely to find that a business case including both IT and business benefits will be good (ROI and IRR>150%), while a business case with only IT benefits is likely to be deemed acceptable (ROI

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