Faster and Easier with Built-in Data ProtectionRyan Troy – NorthEast System Engineering Manager

12/13/1312/13/13

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Nimble Fact Sheet

Founded in January 2008 Headquartered in San Jose, California (Silicon Valley) Operations in US, Canada, Europe, and PacRim Successful IPO Dec’13, NYSE: (Up From $21 to $40+)

#1 Build the world’s most efficient storage

#2 Make it the most simple storage to use

#3 Give customers the most upgrade options

#4 Simplify Backup and DR

#5 Provide the best support in the industry

What We Do:

How is Nimble Different?

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– We developed a Filesystem called CASL that allows us to write to disk faster than flash

» We can sustain 50,000 4k IOPS with 12 disks

– We include all features bundled with the Array» Snapshot, Replication, Compression, many more…

– Our install takes less than 1 hour» Our storage is very simple to use

– Built-in data retention and offsite rotation» Simple way to replace or augment backup» “Keep 500 hourly copies locally and 100 remotely”

– Low cost expansion options» Add a disk shelf for capacity» Add Flash for more read performance» Add CPU for more write performance through a low-cost

controller upgrade» Scale-out our arrays with true storage clustering

CASL: First Filesystem to Optimize Disk & Flash

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1. Application-Tuned Block Sizes» Match the volume block size to the application block size

» Benefit: Better performance and Better snapshots

2. Compress & Consolidate Small Blocks» With LZ Compression we achieve 2:1 compression

» Benefit : 50% less IO to disk

» Benefit: Reduces storage footprint by 50%

» Package 4K-32K writes into 512K writes to disk

» Benefit: 100 times less operations to disk

3. Sequential Write Anywhere Layout» Large sequential write stripes

1. Benefit: Eliminates random writes to disk

– No RAID Penalty2. No IO penalty for RAID6

3. No Modify-Write RAID penalty

– Offload 98% of read workload from disk to Flash» Virtually 50% of the disk workload eliminated

» Disk is primarily only used to write sequential stripes

» Benefit: Disk no longer the bottleneck

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The Best Investment in the Industry

+ FLASH AND CPU

SCALE CACHE, COMPUTE

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SCALE CAPACITY

CAPACITY

Flexible. Non-disruptive. Cost-effective.

SCALE OUT

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Designing a storage file system from the ground up has many advantages

Scale Performance (IOPS)

Incumbents Nimble

Compression

Response Time

Early

1x

Mature

3x

20x

Mature

Add CPUAdd CPU

SpeedsSpeeds

MatureMature

A new approach to performance and scale

Add SpindlesAdd Spindles

SlowsSlows

5-20 ms5-20 ms

Scaling Storage limitedlimited

<1 ms<1 ms

scale to fitscale to fit

Sell MoreSell More Built-InBuilt-InData Protection

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Gain Peace of Mind and More

SECURE REMOTE SUPPORT

PROACTIVE WELLNESS

PUSH-BUTTON DEPLOYMENT

5-minute heartbeats and detailed daily telemetry ensure arrays are in top condition

Real-time analysis of entire environment with automated case creation before failure occurs

All-inclusive features

Built-in application profiles eliminate manual tuning

Extensive integration with hypervisors and applications

Non-disruptive software upgrades

US Based Support

All Tier3 and VMware trained

Secure tunnel enables fast and easy triage and problem resolution

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Select New York Based Clients

InfoSight Engine: Data Collection

Comprehensive telemetry

Log files, sensors, status

5-minute heartbeats

>30M sensor values per array per day