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Managing information with EMC
Shuja Mirza, Pre-Sales Consultant, North & East,
EMC India, spoke on what the company brings to the table.
Shuja Mirza |
Information technology strategy involves storing, protecting,
optimising and leveraging information. Data availability at the right place,
time and cost is of paramount importance. Shuja Mirza quoted what a CIO had
once said to him, “I will not generate information unless I can protect
it.”
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EMC has been No. 1 for the last four quarters in India.
The company has technologies such as CAS that are built for archival.
If you have more than 1 TB of data you need these technologies
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The goal is to collaborate across geographies. EMC has been
No. 1 for the last four quarters in India. The company has technologies such
as CAS that are built for archival. If you have more than 1 TB of data you need
these technologies.
For managing storage resources you need virtual file systems. VMware, the leader
in this technology, is an EMC company today. EMC offers virtualised storage
and file systems that support hardware from other vendors, not just itself.
Mirza highlighted other acquisitions through which EMC is in a position to offer
a broad range of products including Documentum solutions for leveraging information
by creating a single repository for all the data in an organisation, Captiva
to capture it in the first place, and RSA to secure the data once it’s
been captured. “Any packet travelling in or out of the repository only
goes to the user for whom it is intended, thanks to RSA tokens,” he stated.
Mirza gave a perspective on the evolution of EMC from a decade back—when
it had only the Symmetrix product line for large enterprises—to today,
when it offers a line-up starting from entry-level boxes going up to 480 discs
in a single sub-system (up to 220 TB). In one company, 70 percent of the information
was not accessed in the previous three months. This company, an EMC customer,
saved half a million dollars in tape costs by deploying the relevant archival
solutions.
Talking about the present compliance scenario, EMC has SRDF, a tool that assists
companies in this endeavour.
When the performance of a corporate e-mail system becomes an issue, EMC has
a solution called EmailXtender to migrate old data to cheaper storage. For databases
there’s a product called DBXtender that supports Oracle and others. The
company has also pre-tested solution blueprints to slash deployment time.
| EMC offers information protection and availability
with the right service level, at the right time. The solutions offered include
array-based solutions such as SRDF, TimeFinder, MirrorView and SnapView;
network-based solutions include RecoverPoint (Kashya); host-based include
NetWorker, Avamar and RepliStor, and infrastructure-based ones include AutoStart,
PowerPath and Vmotion |
| Management aspects |
Challenges |
| Managing growth |
Dramatic growth of information
has led to increasingly complex infrastructure |
| Managing risk |
Protecting against information
loss, securing against unauthorised access, complying with legal and corporate
mandates |
| Managing effectiveness |
Reducing capital and operational
costs, improving flexibility and responsiveness, delivering service levels
demanded by the business |
| Creating new value |
Leveraging information in
new ways using infrastructure to drive business |
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