Storage Service Provider - Enterprise Storage Service Provider (2)
As I mentioned, I'm doing a lot of things currently so what i promised to write two weeks ago is just about to be out today.
iSCSI is going to be the main driving force behind a lot of ESSPs since it's based on IP. Yes, Internet Protocol. Plain and simple. IP won the battle with all competing technologies namely token ring, ATM, etc. TCP/IP has a lot of nice features - block re-ordering (in case one packet arrives before the other, TCP/IP stack will put them in order), link aggregation (ability to put 2 links to act like 1 - or having 2x1Gb port act as 1x2Gb port), and more.
In addition, TCP/IP is not point-to-point like Fiber Channel, it could be multi-point to multi-point. So you can have multiple data centers and then you decide which combination of disaster recovery scenario you'd like to do.
Let's see if you have 3 data centers with iSCSI in each location across the US (Palo Alto (CA), Chicago (IL), New York(NY)). You can have all three iSCSI systems replicate data to each other to ensure that you have 3 copies of data.
So you'll have the following replications: CA->IL, CA->NY, IL->CA, IL->NY, NY->CA, NY->IL. What if one day your risk pattern changes? You can decide to add another data center in Timbuktu (TI) then you stop all 6 replications. Then do 3: CA->TI, IL->TI, NY->TI. With Fiber Channel technology, you need months of planning. With iSCSI, you only need a few days. If you already put iSCSI storage in TI, this exercise could finish in a day (depending on the network bandwidth).
Let's put another interesting event, what if CA site was under earthquake. Your CA offices can reroute their network traffic to TI while CA data center is under restoration. Then you setup an interim disaster recovery site in Las Vegas (NV). You can restore data from TI->NV. All this depend on the fact that you have enough network bandwidth among sites.
This is why ESSP business is very interesting for companies that own a lot of network bandwidth! They can sell you bandwidth with managed services offering such as managed storage service, managed backup service, managed disaster recovery service, managed business continuity service.
As one of my wise friends said "Outsourcing is the way of the future". Amen to that, my friend.
We'll talk about how can we get these outsourcing opportunities. (not tomorrow but soon). Have a nice day.
iSCSI is going to be the main driving force behind a lot of ESSPs since it's based on IP. Yes, Internet Protocol. Plain and simple. IP won the battle with all competing technologies namely token ring, ATM, etc. TCP/IP has a lot of nice features - block re-ordering (in case one packet arrives before the other, TCP/IP stack will put them in order), link aggregation (ability to put 2 links to act like 1 - or having 2x1Gb port act as 1x2Gb port), and more.
In addition, TCP/IP is not point-to-point like Fiber Channel, it could be multi-point to multi-point. So you can have multiple data centers and then you decide which combination of disaster recovery scenario you'd like to do.
Let's see if you have 3 data centers with iSCSI in each location across the US (Palo Alto (CA), Chicago (IL), New York(NY)). You can have all three iSCSI systems replicate data to each other to ensure that you have 3 copies of data.
So you'll have the following replications: CA->IL, CA->NY, IL->CA, IL->NY, NY->CA, NY->IL. What if one day your risk pattern changes? You can decide to add another data center in Timbuktu (TI) then you stop all 6 replications. Then do 3: CA->TI, IL->TI, NY->TI. With Fiber Channel technology, you need months of planning. With iSCSI, you only need a few days. If you already put iSCSI storage in TI, this exercise could finish in a day (depending on the network bandwidth).
Let's put another interesting event, what if CA site was under earthquake. Your CA offices can reroute their network traffic to TI while CA data center is under restoration. Then you setup an interim disaster recovery site in Las Vegas (NV). You can restore data from TI->NV. All this depend on the fact that you have enough network bandwidth among sites.
This is why ESSP business is very interesting for companies that own a lot of network bandwidth! They can sell you bandwidth with managed services offering such as managed storage service, managed backup service, managed disaster recovery service, managed business continuity service.
As one of my wise friends said "Outsourcing is the way of the future". Amen to that, my friend.
We'll talk about how can we get these outsourcing opportunities. (not tomorrow but soon). Have a nice day.
posted by Peter Srivaree-Ratana at
1:47 AM
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