Presentation on Storage

By Nelson A. To Mr. A. K. Siva Kumar Product Sales Specialist CA & Fujitsu

What is Storage?
Says Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, refers to computer components and recording media that retain digital data. Data storage is a core function and fundamental component of computers.
Wikipedia

Hierarchy of Storage
1) Primary Storage 2) Secondary Storage 3) Tertiary Storage 4) Offline Storage

1) Primary Storage : often referred to simply as memory, is the only one directly accessible to the CPU. The CPU continuously reads instructions stored there and executes them as required. Any data actively operated on is also stored there in uniform manner. (RAM) 2) Secondary Storage Secondary storage (also known as external memory or auxiliary storage), differs from primary storage in that it is not directly accessible by the CPU.
3) Tertiary Storage : Tertiary storage or tertiary memory, provides a third level of storage. removable mass storage media into a storage device according to the system's demands; these data are often copied to secondary storage before use. 4) Off-line Storage: Off-line storage is a computer data storage on a medium or a device that is not under the control of a processing unit.

Characteristic of Storage
1) Volatility: Requires constant power to maintain the stored information. The fastest memory technologies of today are volatile ones 2) Mutability: Read/write storage or mutable storage Read only storage Slow write, fast read storage

3) Addressability : Location-addressable File addressable

4) Accessibility : Random access Sequential access

Types of Storage

SAN (Storage Network Area)

NAS (Network Attached Storage)

SAN
In storage networking terminology, a Storage Area Network (SAN) is a high-speed subnetwork of shared storage devices A storage device is a machine that contains nothing but a disk or disks for storing data. A SAN's architecture works in a way that makes all storage devices available to all servers on a LAN or WAN. As more storage devices are added to a SAN, they too will be accessible from any server in the larger network. In this case, the server merely acts as a pathway between the end user and the stored data.

NAS
A network-attached storage (NAS) device is a server that is dedicated to nothing more than file sharing. NAS does not provide any of the activities that a server in a servercentric system typically provides, such as e-mail, authentication or file management. NAS allows more hard disk storage space to be added to a network that already utilizes servers without shutting them down for maintenance and upgrades. With a NAS device, storage is not an integral part of the server. Instead, in this storage-centric design, the server still handles all of the processing of data but a NAS device delivers the data to the user. A NAS device does not need to be located within the server but can exist anywhere in a LAN and can be made up of multiple networked NAS devices.

SAN & NAS Architecture

Brand

IBM SAN24B

1) Why IBM Storage??? To stay competitive in the global marketplace access to the right information at the right time in order to be effective, creative and highly innovative. IBM offers a comprehensive portfolio of SAN switches, storage, software, services and solutions to reliably bring information to people in a cost effective way. IBM provides flexible, scalable and open standardsbased business-class and global enterprise-class storage networking solutions for the on demand world