increase your mission critical application performance without breaking the bank

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Increase Your Mission-Critical Application Performance without Breaking the Bank


Using Software-Defined Storage (SDS) to utilize Flash► Sushant Rao► Sr. Director of Product Marketing► DataCore

All Flash Arrays (AFA) to accelerate applications► Timm Hoyt► VP Worldwide Sales & Marketing► Skyera

Live Q & A

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Agenda


Server virtualization has put key applications on shared infrastructure

Troubleshooting performance issues is very problematic

When root cause for performance issues has been determined, storage is often the culprit

Why?

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Tier 1 Applications Often Run Slow

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WHAT CAN YOU DO NEXT WITH DATACORE?

1. GET INFORMED 2. GET STARTED

http://datacore.com/resources/30-Day-Trial.aspx

http://datacore.com/resources/free-virtual-san

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/8609/135105


CPU Storage0

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Yearly Performance Gains (since 1980)

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CPU performance has outpaced Storage performance

Source: IBM


Flash storage is (at minimum) 50X faster than spinning disk

But, ► What’s the best way to utilize Flash?► How reliable is Flash storage?► Will Flash break my storage budget?

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Flash to the Rescue


DataCore’s Software-defined Storage platform to seamlessly add Flash to the storage infrastructure

Skyera’s All Flash Arrays to harness the power of Flash to accelerate mission-critical applications

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The Right Solution

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http://www.datacore.com/


DataCore Software-defined Storage Platform

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INTEGRATION AND MANAGEMENT

How do I integrate this new technology with my existing environment?

What new processes do I need to manage this investment?

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Common Challenges With Flash Storage

AVAILABILITY OF SOFTWARE FEATURES

How do I get the functionality I need like high-availability and failover?

What tools will I have to handle data migrations, tiering and thin provisioning to ensure that I’m making the most of my investment?

SHARING FLASH STORAGE BETWEEN

APPLICATIONS

Do I really need to buy dedicated Flash hardware for every application?


Create up to 15 tiers of storage

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Evaluates data at the block level so data from a single application can reside on multiple storage tiers

Auto-tiering Dynamically Optimizes Resources

Below average moves down a tier

Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier n

ColdHot / Warm Archive

Above average moves up a tier


Create up to 15 tiers of storage

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Evaluates data at the block level so data from a single application can reside on multiple storage tiers

Auto-tiering Dynamically Optimizes Resources

Below average moves down a tier

Tier 2 Tier 3Tier 1 Tier n

Hot ColdWarm Archive

Above average moves up a tier


Data is synchronously mirrored between unlike storage systems

Replicate, failover and failback between unlike devices

Seamlessly move data from one device to another

Cross-Device Synchronous Mirroring


One Storage Services Platformacross your entire infrastructure

10th generation product 16 Years of R&D 25,000+ deployments worldwide Most comprehensive hardware-agnostic

storage stack in the industry

Cross-device Storage Services

Auto-tiering

Async Replication

Virtual SAN

Storage Pooling

Storage Load Balancing

Centralized Management

Analysis & Reporting

Sync Mirroring

Adaptive Caching

Thin Provisioning

Data Migration

Snapshots

Continuous Data Protection

NAS/SAN (Unified Storage)


Long-term Investment Protection

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Inexpensive or EOL Storage

High-endArrays

MidrangeAppliances

All Flash Arrays

Future devices

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• Easily take advantage of advances in hardware technology

• Complete set of cross-platform storage services

• Avoid vendor lock-in and costly forklift upgrades

• Centralize storage management

• Repurpose aging storage systems

• Leverage whitebox or JBOD devices


Benefits at a Glance

75% 10x 4x 100% 90%reduction in storage

costs

performance increase

capacity utilization

reduction in storage-related

downtime

decrease in time spent on routine

storage tasks

Surveyed DataCore™ Customers Report Up To:

www.techvalidate.com

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VP Worldwide Sales & Marketing

TIMM HOYT

Skyera and DataCore Partnership

Cost Effectively Increasing Application Performance in a Virtual Environment


• Increase storage performance 10x without paying more than your current legacy spinning disk storage

• Reduce TCO by 80% vs. the status quo storage architecture from the 1980’s

• Have limitless flexibility to deploy the storage you need, when you need it through storage virtualization

How would you like to…

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IOPS comparisonIO

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* 40U used for storage in a rack* IOPS per U normalized based on max IOPS per system


Source: ABB Data Center Infographic 2014

FORECAST: 56% of total US Electricity consumed by data center by 2037

Imminent Data Center Crisis

Exponential data growth at over 50% YoY• Every two years, amount of data doubles

Data Center footprint is increasing by 10% YoY• Data center footprint Doubling every 7 years• Federal data centers grew from 432 in 1998 to 2,094 in 2010• Over 500,000 data centers today globally

Data Center Power continued on current path• 2016: 7% of total US Electricity• 2023:14% of total US Electricity• 2030: 28% of total US Electricity• 2037: 56% of total US Electricity

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SWaP

SizeSmallest form factor at

136TB/U

Weight6X lighter than closest

competitor Price

Most competitive $/GB

PerformanceMost competitive

IOPS/UPower

Most efficient <3 Watts/TB

Plug & Play

10 minutes install

How are we different?


136TB skyHawk FS vs. Competition*

80%REDUCTION

SIZE

81%REDUCTION

POWER

EMC XtremIO77x 36x

Pure Storage29x 14x

Violin Memory10x 16x

IBM TMS 5x 5x

* Normalized for usable capacity


Benefits of Skyera All-Flash Arrays

BOOST PERFORMANCEOF CRITICAL

APPLICATIONS

IMPROVED RELIABILITY

LOWER INFRASTRUCTUREAND OPERATIONAL COSTS

- Reduce data center storage power/cooling consumption by 67x (99%)

- Reduce the floor space of your data center storage by 60X (98%)

- 10X performance at price parity with enterprise HDD systems

- 3x improved MTBF


Skyera skyHawk FS – Second Generation skyHawk

• Unified SAN/NAS array• High performance + low latency• Lowest TCO, smallest form factor• Flash-optimized operating system

• Superior hardware-assisted inline compression

• Dual power supplies

BENEFITS

16, 32, 68, 136 TB

(Raw)*

Uncompressed

Up to 400K

IOPS, 2.4GB/s

3 x 10 GbE 300W

nominalSmallest Form

Factor, 25lb

Enterprise

Storage

*Usable capacity: 11.5TB (10.46TiB) / 23TB (20.92TiB) / 50TB (45.47TiB) / 100TB (90.95TiB)


Integrating Skyera with DataCore

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Sushant Rao► Sr. Director of Product Marketing► DataCore

Timm Hoyt► VP Worldwide Sales & Marketing► Skyera

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Q & A


DataCore’s Software-defined Storage platform to easily incorporate flash storage

Skyera’s All Flash Arrays to cost-effectively accelerate your Tier 1 applications

Contact us for a free trial► DataCore: 877-780-5111 or [email protected]► Skyera: +1.408.954.8100 or [email protected]

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Summary & Next Steps

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Thank You!

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3 Pool all storage capacity and provide centralized management

The right software must be able to do a few things…

1 Enable different storage devices to communicate with one another

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Why Software-defined Storage?

Make hardware maintenance, data migrations, and hardware refreshes easy4

Separate advances in software from advances in hardware2

increase your mission critical application performance without breaking the bank

Software

tier tier

sharing flash storage

tiers of storage

softwaredefined storage

storage budget

storage performance

power of flash

storage infrastructure