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Gaining a Business Advantage With

Intel-based Storage Solutions

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Intel products are not intended for use in medical, life saving, life sustaining, critical control or safety systems, or in nuclear facility applications. All dates and products specified are for planning purposes only and are subject to change without notice 1.IDC content from: Storage 3.0: The Next Revolution in Storage Systems. IDC, 2008. Available for download at: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=209702 or

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/general/0,295582,sid5_gci1283722,00.html 2.Open Storage Adoption Sun Systems: Storage White Paper available for download at: http://www.sun.com/storage/openstorage/OpenStorAdoption.pdf Copyright © 2010-2011 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon and Intel Core are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All dates and products specified are for planning purposes only and are subject to change without notice

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Datacenter Storage Challenges Rising

Storage Power Consumption in Data

Center

40%

17%

Source: Forrester Research Source: Juniper

50% Average Annual

Data Growth

Source: IDC

IT Budget is Storage

$2T IT spend

through 2015 on operating costs

45

Source: Bain & Company

New Coal Power Plants built to

support IT Data Center’s by

2015

Today’s Storage Infrastructure is Too Costly & Inefficient

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Storage Open

Platforms Network Common Fabrics

Compute Flexible

Workloads

Virtualized Infrastructure

Data Center Evolution Federated ,

Automated, Client Aware

Share data securely across public and

private clouds

Open & Scalable Solutions Essential for Tomorrow’s Data Center

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Intelligent Enterprise Storage is More Important than Ever

Traditional Storage Storage Evolution

Unified Network

Servers Storage Arrays

Mgmt

VM VM VM VM

• Structured data • Bottlenecks at data silos • Protect Data • Specific application storage

Compute Network Storage

Management

Intel® Xeon® based storage is the foundation for converged data centers

• Rapid unstructured data growth • Storage virtualization • Data protection plus workloads

shifting to storage sub-systems • Scalable storage as you need it

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Next Generation Storage Demands Compute Power

Backup and archive (server and client)

Large object storage (e.g. Sharepoint, Haystack)

Application data store (e.g. Web,E/Vmail, VM/Boot)

Large analytics (e.g Hadoop)

Content distribution network (CDN)

Business DB (OLTP, OLAP)

High performance compute (e.g. pNFS)

Performance Storage

Capacity Storage

Converged Storage Server

Server

Large Relational DB (e.g. NoSQL, non ACID)

Data de-duplication

Encryption

Data mining

Analysis

Thin Provisioning

Storage Virtualization

Workloads & Optimization

Storage Work loads shifting to where data resides

Converged Storage Server Enables Tuning for Usage Model

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Sophisticated Storage Capabilities: Need Increased Processing Power

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Intel Storage Technologies for Tomorrow’s Data Center

Built in Advanced Storage Features provide added data protection without sacrificing performance

Enable more sophisticated storage capabilities faster and efficiently

Powering new usage models within server-storage convergence

Energy-Efficient Performance

Data Protection

Scalability

Make the world’s vital information efficient, safe and useful to society

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Storage Solutions enabled with Intel® Technology Energy-Efficient Performance for Growing Data Needs

Scale storage as-you-grow in small & large increments without requiring a system redesign or replacement

The compute power enables storage virtualization to shift from storage silos to scalable storage

Need to decrease bandwidth consumption & utilization of precious resources by big data

Reduce bottlenecks & shift compute intensive workloads to storage

Optimize current storage capacity to efficiently handle growing data needs

Take advantage of the compute power & advanced storage features to increase efficiency of storage workloads

The Challenge: Storage solutions with Intel® Xeon®

technology enable you to:

More capacity, performance, and power efficiency lowers your operational costs

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Beyond Added Data Protection Storage Must Provide More Than Data Protection

Supports Increased Compute & I/O Requirements

CHALLENGE STORAGE FUNCTION

We need to manage it over time

Archiving

We should ensure we comply with regulations

Discovery; Back-up

Risk of data theft increases

Encryption

Need to end of life data Data Removal

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The Challenge: Storage solutions with Intel® Xeon®

technology enable you to:

Storage Solutions enabled with Intel® Technology Reliable Added Data Protection

Business continuity requires high availability of data in enterprise storage

The integrated hardware RAID engine allows a storage system to continue operation even in the event of disk failure

As risk of data theft increases, data centers need more secure platforms

Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (AES-NI) enables broader use of encryption throughout the data center

Storage must provide more than just data protection as security workloads are shifting to the storage sub-system

Compute power enables data discovery, mining, analysis & optimized archiving at the storage tier

Helps Remove the Barriers for Protecting Data

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Storage Open

Platforms Network Common Fabrics

Compute Flexible

Workloads

Virtualized Infrastructure

Data Center Evolution Federated ,

Automated, Client Aware

Share data securely across public and

private clouds

Scalable Solutions Essential for New Usage Models

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The Challenge: Storage solutions with Intel® Xeon®

technology enable you to:

Storage Solutions enabled with Intel® Technology Scalability to Enable New Storage Usage Models

Optimize storage to increase efficiency & better utilize IT budgets

Take advantage of sophisticated optimization capabilities such as data de-duplication and compression

It’s increasingly more expensive & challenging to move large data around.

10GbE unified network coupled with the compute power of Xeon® Technology breaks bottlenecks where the data resides

Storage solutions must balance capacity vs. performance storage to enable new usage models

Push infrequently accessed data to lower storage tiers while top tiers power storage virtualization & the cloud

Cloud computing is driving dynamic usages that require higher levels of built-in storage system intelligence

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Intel’s Storage Technologies Enable Tomorrow’s Data Center

Innovative solutions achieve greater business value

New emerging usages require dynamically scalable architecture

Today’s storage infrastructure struggles to efficiently handle explosive data growth

Converged storage on a unified network provides high-performance, energy efficient & cost effective solutions

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