cloud storage options: the true costs
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The cloud presents organizations with a new way to deliver IT services. It can significantly lower costs, improve efficiency, and, if implemented well, provide significant competitive advantage. But cloud computing takes a number of forms: private, public hybrid and combinations of these. These options can be confusing in terms of their technical implementations as well as their economics. This session describes the various types of clouds and major trends in the cloud market. It also looks at the economic issues to consider when making the decision on whether to go with cloud, and if you choose cloud, which path to take.TRANSCRIPT
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CLOUD STORAGE OPTIONS: THE TRUE COSTSSTEVE GARONE, DAVID MERRILL, AND DON MCNICOLLJANUARY 15, 2014
© Hitachi Data Systems Corporation 2014. All Rights Reserved.
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The cloud presents organizations with a new way to deliver IT services. It can significantly lower costs, improve efficiency, and, if implemented well, provide significant competitive advantage. But cloud computing takes a number of forms: private, public hybrid and combinations of these. These options can be confusing in terms of their technical implementations as well as their economics.
This session describes the various types of clouds and major trends in the cloud market. It also looks at the economic issues to consider when making the decision on whether to go with cloud, and if you choose cloud, which path to take.
Attend this webinar to learn how to:
• Understand cloud variations and the technical and economic considerations associated with each.
• Gain insight into the cost and other economic factors associated with implementing cloud solutions.
• Become familiar with specific cloud use cases and their economic profiles.
CLOUD STORAGE OPTIONS: THE TRUE COSTS
WEBTECH EDUCATIONAL SERIES
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AGENDA
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OVERVIEW OF CLOUD MARKET AND CLOUD DELIVERY OPTIONS
CONCLUSIONS: UNDERSTAND AND COMPARE
CLOUD ECONOMICS PRINCIPLES
CLOUD ECONOMICS USE CASES
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WHY IS CLOUD INTERESTING?
Cloud brings greater agility and flexibility to IT- Scale up or down based on dynamically changing needs
(especially where unstructured data is an issue)- Choose the financial and cloud delivery models that make
sense for you
Potential for universal access and services connectivity- Flexibility of application choices- Access to applications and data anywhere, anytime, and
from any device
Cost reduction (maybe)- Depending on delivery and financial models chosen, cloud
can provide savings in some cases
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HOW BIG IS THE CLOUD?
Lots of ways to measure the impact of cloud
Public cloud services
17.4% CAGR through 2017
End-user spending on public cloud services will reach almost US$250 billion by 2017
Source: Gartner, 2013
Private cloud IT infrastructure (hardware and software)
17.6% CAGR through 2017
Software will grow faster than hardware
Spending will grow to US$22.2 billion by 2017
Source: IDC, 2013
Top reasons for using a private cloud
Reduce IT staff count
Improve service levels and business agility
Quicker implementation of new services and business processes
Source: IDC, 2012
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THE CLOUD DEFINED
Three models dominate the cloud market
Private cloud: Implemented totally within the enterprise firewall and under complete control of the IT department
Public cloud: Implemented typically by service providers making resources available to enterprises and the general public via the Internet
Hybrid cloud: Combines private and public models; workloads reside on either or both and can easily interoperate
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CLOUD IS NOT 1 SIZE FITS ALL
AT YOUR DATA CENTER OFFSITE DATA CENTER
HybridCloud
PrivateCloud
TraditionalStorageNeeds
OFFSITE DATA CENTER
PublicCloud
Storage
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FLEXIBILITY AND CHOICE TO MEET A VARIETY OF DEPLOYMENT MODELS
ONE FOUNDATION, MULTIPLE IMPLEMENTATIONS
STRONGER NEED FOR Strict SLAs High performance Data security Control
OFFSITE DATA CENTER
HybridCloud
OFFSITE DATA CENTER
PublicCloud
AT YOUR DATA CENTER
PrivateCloud
Traditional StorageNeeds
Virtualized Storage
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STRONGER NEED FOR Opex financial model Flexibility of use Fast reaction to change
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WHY CLOUD ECONOMICS IS IMPORTANT
Cloud, like any other option, involves true TCO considerations Cloud decisions can be long-term and “sticky” A real TCO evaluation involves many variables that may not be
obvious up front (such as costs of data center modernization) Cloud delivery models present different cost profiles
Capex vs. opex Network access costs and data transfer costs Optional services (such as security)
Costs and other economic considerations must be measured against benefits of various cloud (and non-cloud) options
The cloud market is highly competitive Requires a careful look at exactly what you are getting (are low
published prices real?) Need to understand total costs given your exact needs
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AGENDA
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OVERVIEW OF CLOUD MARKET AND CLOUD DELIVERY OPTIONS
CONCLUSIONS: UNDERSTAND AND COMPARE
CLOUD ECONOMICS PRINCIPLES
CLOUD ECONOMICS USE CASES
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KEY PRINCIPLES OF I.T. ECONOMICS
It is becoming essential to apply economic and financial principles to IT
‒ Architectures, roadmaps, standards‒ Operational excellence‒ Consumption behaviors
Use TCO to measure and compare
Four key principles of storage and IT economics
1. Price does not equal cost – price is about 20% of TCO
2. Thirty-four different types of cost – where is your sensitivity
3. There are economically superior IT architectures
4. Econometrics – “You cannot improve what you cannot measure”
Cloud economics requires an awareness of hard and soft costs
Measure
Reduce
Measure Again
Identify
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DO CLOUDS REDUCE UNIT COSTS?
We need to first understand current unit costs before we start to compare to cloud offerings- Much more to consider than just the price (as it will be lower)
Cloud may introduce new costs- Risk- Performance, latency- Additional circuits- Onboarding, migration, lifecycle costs- Penalties- Vendor management
Measure these costs over a multi-year horizon, then calculate the PV cost to determine if is really lower
Make sure that you are reducing costs, not just shifting costs
Don’t get seduced by very low-cost cloud pricing
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SHIFTING THE COSTS?
Storage Total Cost Element
Traditional Ownership
Private Cloud, Utility
Public Cloud
Depreciation X
Maintenance X
Labor X (?)
Electricity X X
Floor space X X
Backups X
New data circuits X
Subscription fees X X
Usage penalty X
Performance risk X
Onboarding or offboarding
X
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CLOUD ECONOMICS RESOURCES
Websites www.economizeyourstorage.com
White papers, books http://www.hds.com/assets/pdf/four-principles-for-reducing-total-
cost-of-ownership.pdf “Cloudonomics” by Joe Weinman, 2012
Blogs http://blogs.hds.com/david/2012/03/storage-clouds-sweet-and-
sour-spots.html http://blogs.hds.com/david/2011/08/don’t-just-transfer-the-
costs.html http://blogs.hds.com/david/2012/10/transformation-and-the-
impact-to-your-staff-part-4-utility-based-consumption.html http://blogs.hds.com/david/2013/07/cloud-economics-from-the-
iaas-perspective.html
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AGENDA
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OVERVIEW OF CLOUD MARKET AND CLOUD DELIVERY OPTIONS
CONCLUSIONS: UNDERSTAND AND COMPARE
CLOUD ECONOMICS PRINCIPLES
CLOUD ECONOMICS USE CASES
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KNOW YOUR USE CASE − CAVEAT EMPTOR
Cloud introduces paradigm shift to IT and business - Significant benefits to be realized
Many options available; key to value is matching option attributes to your use case- One size does not fit all - The details matter
Storage use cases - Systems of record
The day-to-day business, mission-critical - Systems of reference
New(er) applications, business-important
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RELATIVE ACQUISITION COSTS
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$$/GB/Month
• Acquisition costs are very low
• Other costs need to be considered
• With cloud, emphasis changes
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THE DETAILS MATTER
Information is readily available, so take the time to understand it- What are the rules, what do they mean, how do they apply to
you On-boarding costs
- Network charges, requests, one time charges, gateways
Off-boarding costs- Network charges, requests, excess charges
Free retrieval - Five % per month is .167% a day
Retrieval time is impacted by daily rate
Simple models, vendor calculators, and 3rd-party tools available as well
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A SIMPLE MODEL
FTE Affected 5.00
Retrieval Hours 24
Drag Slider to Select Target
TB Stored 300
$$/Hour per Employee 60$
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300TB, NO USE BEYOND UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD
Onboarding‒ Cost of storage
‒ Requests
‒ Network
Offboarding‒ Requests
‒ Network
‒ Excess charges‒ Delete vs. retrieve is a plus
CONSIDERATIONS
1 Year 2 Years 3 Years $-
$100,000
$200,000
$300,000
$400,000
$500,000
$600,000
$700,000
$800,000
$900,000
$1,000,000
Obj Stor 0
Cold Stor 0
TCO Including Onboarding and Offboarding
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WHAT ARE YOUR REQUIREMENTS?
1 Year 2 Years 3 Years $-
$200,000
$400,000
$600,000
$800,000
$1,000,000
$1,200,000
$1,400,000
$1,600,000
$1,800,000
$2,000,000
Obj Stor 0
Cold Stor 0
Cold Stor 5
What if retrieve is 5% with 4-hour response?
Or 5% with 24-hour response?
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TIME IS MONEY
Five % of 300TB- 15,360GB
• 2,565GB per day Five FTE group
- $60/hour
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Retention period and disposition‒ Longer is better
‒ Delete better than retrieve
Retrievals‒ Percent per interval
‒ Response time
What is the cost to wait?‒ Who or what is waiting on data?
Don’t be misled by low acquisition cost
UNDERSTAND YOUR USE CASE
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OUR AGENDA FOR TODAY
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OVERVIEW OF CLOUD MARKET AND CLOUD DELIVERY OPTIONS
CONCLUSIONS: UNDERSTAND AND COMPARE
CLOUD ECONOMICS PRINCIPLES
CLOUD ECONOMICS USE CASES
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BOTTOM LINE: DO YOUR HOMEWORK
Assess your goals and priorities in moving to the cloud up front What problems are you trying to solve? Understand your use cases Determine mix of delivery and financial models
Carefully assess options available to you Gain a full understanding of all associated costs Take a “full-TCO” approach to determining the costs of your
choices Measure vendors and providers against realistic economics
metrics as well as functional ones
If cost is a high priority in moving to the cloud, make sure you fully understand all costs associated with the move – there is more to the cloud than just acquisition costs!
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More Efficient
More Responsive
More Flexible
YOUR PATH TO THE CLOUD
VIRTUALIZE
AUTOMATE
SELF SERVE
CONSOLIDATE
Do it yourself or bring in HDS Services
Transform into a service-defined IT organization
Increase business agility with on-demand consumption of infrastructure
More Cost Effective
PRIVATE CLOUD
PUBLICHYBRID
Hitachi Services FrameworkTRANSFORM
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HITACHI OPEN CLOUD ARCHITECTURE
FRAMEWORKS AND PORTALS ORCHESTRATION AND MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Block File Object Cloud Mobile
ACCESS METHODS AND PROTOCOLS
INFRASTRUCTURE
TRADITIONALARCHITECTURE
CLOUD AUTOMATION SUITE
My Account
My Status
My Services
Active Messages pending
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pq rst uv wx yz View bill
Add services
View reports
3rd-party storage Spin down Server and
network Hard disk drive
and flash Optical Tape
WebDAVREST/HTTP(S)
Amazon S3
Entire solution stack
Across multiple frameworks
APIs for customer or 3rd-party integration
SOFTWARE DEFINEDARCHITECTURE
OPEN CLOUD ARCHITECTURE
OPEN CLOUD ARCHITECTURE
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QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION
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WebTechs
‒ Best Practices for Deploying Exchange for Microsoft Private Cloud, January 29 a.m. PT, noon ET
UPCOMING WEBTECHS
Check www.hds.com/webtech for Links to the recording, the presentation, and Q&A (available next
week) Schedule and registration for upcoming WebTech sessions Questions will be posted in the HDS Community:
http://community.hds.com/groups/webtech
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