software defined storage v6 01_jan13

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CHANGING THE STORAGE LANDSCAPE WITH STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

Paul MurphyVice President WW Marketing


Storage is Growing At an Unsustainable Rate

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Performance

Costs

Management

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Challenges of Storage Architectures

Heterogeneous storage management is non-existent Planned downtime is impossible Vendor lock-in cripples innovation

Applications are becoming more demandingServer/desktop virtualization creates bottlenecks

Low utilization of storage Hardware maintenance and refresh cycles are a pain


The Typical Solution?

MORE Incompatible Hardware


3 Pool all storage capacity and provide centralized management

In theory, software should be able to do a few things…

1 Enable different storage devices to communicate with one another

Why Software-defined Storage?

Make hardware maintenance, data migrations, and hardware refreshes easy4

Separate advances in software from advances in hardware2


DataCore is committed to creating an enduring and dynamic software-driven storage architecture liberating storage from static hardware-based limitations

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The DataCore Vision

“George TeixeiraDataCore CEO1998

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Global leader in software-defined storage

Over 25,000 deployments world-wide

Flagship product is our hardened 9th generation virtualization platform

Privately held and profitable for 15 years

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DataCore Overview


A Better Solution Has Emerged

The DataCore Software-defined Storage Solution

Runs on x86 servers

Sits in the data path between applications/users and storage hardware

DataCore nodes operate synchronously leaving no single point of failure

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Core Benefits

3-5x Performance Increase

3x Capacity Utilization

Eliminate planned and unplanned

downtime

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15 years of development into a complete set of storage services

No other vendor provides these in a hardware agnostic, universally compatible format

Feature Rich Storage Control


Technology Highlights

Automatically tier shared storage resources

3-5x performance on existing storage

Eliminate Planned and Unplanned Downtime

Investment protection


Create up to 15 tiers of storage

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Tier 1 Tier 2Tier 0 Tier n

Hot ColdWarm Archive

Above average moves up a tier Below average moves down a tier

AUTO-TIERING

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

Auto-tiering Dynamically Optimizes Resources


15 TB of Flash!

Forced to use Flash

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Auto-tiering Reduces Cost of Flash Storage

AUTO-TIERING

On average, only 1/3 of tier 1 application data needs high performance storage

Before

15 TB Database

With DataCore

15 TB Database

5 TB of Flash + 10 TB disk

1/3 Needs Flash

2/3 can use existing disk


Auto-tiering Reduces Cost of Flash Storage

AUTO-TIERING

On average, only 1/3 of tier 1 application data needs high performance storage

Before With DataCore

15 TB of Flash! 5 TB of Flash + 10 TB disk

At $10,000 x TB = $100,000 savings

Same data requires 10TB less Flash storage


Uses x86-64 CPUs and memory from DataCore nodes as powerful, inexpensive “mega caches”

Run applications at electronic memory speeds vs slow spinning disks

Intelligently anticipates reads and streamlines writes to optimize performance

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HIGH SPEEDCACHING


5x Performance from existing disk-based storage

HIGH SPEEDCACHING

15 TB of Flash!

Forced to use Flash

Before

15 TB Database

With DataCore

15 TB Database

0 TB of Flash + 15 TB disk

0% needFlash

100% can use existing disk

Do We Really Need Flash?


5x Performance from existing disk-based storage

HIGH SPEEDCACHING

Do We Really Need Flash?


15 TB of Flash! 15 TB disk

At $10,000 x TB = $150,000 savings

Same data requires NO Flash storage at all


Cross-Platform, Metro-wide Synchronous Mirroring

Data is synchronously mirrored between unlike storage systems

Replicate, failover and failback between unlike platforms

Seamlessly move data from one platform to another

SYNC MIRRORING(CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY)


Long-term Investment Protection

Inexpensive or EOL Storage

High-endArrays

MidrangeArrays

Flash / SSDs

INVESTMENTPROTECTION

Future devices

?

• 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



Hardware $668,480 $317,604

Software $656,143 $180,000

$1,324,623 $497,604

New Economics of Hardware Refresh

INVESTMENTPROTECTION

100 TB Mirrored (~230 TB Raw)

62% Savings

• Better capacity utilization

• Leverage lower cost hardware

• Decrease software licensing costs


Benefits of DataCore Software Defined Storage

Automatically tier shared storage resources


Heterogeneous storage replication and failover

Investment protection


Addressing Storage Challenges

Performance

Costs

Management Simple, centralized management Cross-platform storage services

3-5x performance on existing storage hardware Seamlessly integrate Flash and other

high-performance technologies

3x utilization Decreases dependence on hardware vendor Long-term investment protection


When to get started with SDS

Before your next storage

purchase

Using or considering flash/SSDs

Prior to any data migration

projects


QUESTIONS?Contact: [email protected]

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http://www.datacore.com/

software defined storage v6 01_jan13

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