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Enterprise IT is Transforming Globally

SOFTWARE DEFINED DATA

CENTER

INFRASTRUCTURE 2.0

CLOUD COMPUTING

PRIVATE CLOUD

3RD PLATFORM

Regardless of the name, desired outcomes are the same

– Next Generation Data Center

PUBLIC CLOUD HAS RAISED THE BAR

Agile Scalable Automated Predictable

NEXT GENERATION DATA CENTER

Storage Architectures have Failed to Keep Up…

... And the gap is further widened by two major market shifts

THE MOVE FROM

DISK TO FLASH

THE MOVE FROM SILO’ED

TO SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE

“…while other core elements of the datacenter have gone through radical changes

over the last decade, data center storage remains fundamentally unchanged…the

architectures are fundamentally the same as they were in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

BEST OF

BREED

APPLIANCE

CONVERGED AS A

SERVICE

SOFTWARE

ON

COMMODITY

HARDWARE

How to Choose Your Infrastructure

SMB / Startups Large Enterprise Hyperscale / SP

E A S I E R I M P L E M E N T A T I O N

H A R D E R I M P L E M E N T A T I O N M O R E V E N D O R L O C K - I N

L E S S V E N D O R L O C K - I N

L E S S F L E X I B L E M O R E F L E X I B L E

S M A L L S C A L E L A R G E S C A L E

SF SERIES APPLIANCES

FUELED BY SOLIDFIRE

Applying All-Flash to Your Data Center

Flash for the Next Generation Data Center

Requirements constantly changing

Consumes the most capital and time

Performance and Capacity

Public / Private Cloud, IaaS

Cheap and Deep [object / file]

Backup / Archive / Video Streaming

Extreme Performance

Transactional Processing /

Trading Platforms

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PCI Flash

LOW HIGH P E R F O R M A N C E

SolidFire NetApp Hybrid Storage

StorageGRID

AltaVault

All-Flash FAS SERVICES

SCALE

NetApp Data Fabric

EF-Series

Proven in the

Most Demanding

Service Provider

& Enterprise Data

Centers Globally

ALL-FLASH STORAGE PLATFORM FOR THE NEXT GENERATION DATA CENTER

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SolidFire is Gartner’s highest scoring product for Overall Use Cases for the second consecutive year. That makes us the defending solid-state array champion. In this year’s Critical Capabilities for Solid-State Arrays study, learn why SolidFire SF Series nodes received the highest product score for 5 out of 6 use cases and understand how the SolidFire architecture compares against other all-flash arrays.

Online Transaction Processing

Server Virtualization

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

High-Performance Computing

Analytics

SolidFire SF Series Overall Score

Score Critical Capability SolidFire Rating

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3.58

3.61

3.56

3.61

3.66

3.60

HIGHEST RATED ALL -FLASH ARRAY

CC 2014 + 2015

Source: Gartner (June 2015)

DATA

ASSURANCE

SOLIDFIRE INTRODUCTION

GUARANTEED

PERFORMANCE

AUTOMATED

MANAGEMENT

GLOBAL

EFFICIENCIES

SCALE-OUT

Scale-Out Agility

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35 TB 200,000 IOPS

43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS

52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS

60.8 TB 350,000 IOPS

Linear and Non-Linear Scale of performance and capacity through

mixed node support

Expand / Contract without disruption or reconfiguration

Guaranteed Compatibility Between

All SolidFire Storage Nodes

Future-proof your storage

investment

Eliminate storage migrations

and forklift upgrades

Never wait 3 years for

an upgrade

R E M O V E

R E M O V E

2405

4805

Scale-Out Agility

STORAGE PLATFORM RESOURCES

Capacity

Performance

with QoS

Drive rebuilds = <10 minutes | Node rebuilds = <60 minutes

NEVER MIGRATE DATA AGAIN

SOLIDFIRE HELIX™

Cluster wide RAID-less data protection

No single points of failure

Automatic self-healing –

restores redundancy after failure

Maintains all QoS settings

regardless of failure condition

Non-disruptive hardware and

software upgrades

Faster recovery as you scale out

Reduced risk exposure

Automated generational upgrades

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Self Healing High Availability

SOLIDFIRE HELIX™

Cluster wide RAID-less data protection

No single points of failure

Automatic self-healing –

restores redundancy after failure

Maintains all QoS settings

regardless of failure condition

Non-disruptive hardware and

software upgrades

Faster recovery as you scale out

Reduced risk exposure

Automated generational upgrades


Guaranteed

Quality of

Service (QoS)

Dynamically

Allocate, Manage

and Guarantee storage performance

independent

of capacity

Define / enforce

Min, Max

and Burst settings for each

application / volume

Eliminating Noisy Neighbor Applications

Boot Storm

SolidFire QoS Eliminates

of traditional performance

related storage problems – ESG 2015

93%

A fully automated next gen datacenter is critical to

delivering greater strategic value to the business

o Native REST-based API

o Deep integration with management & orchestration platforms

o Support development of user-facing storage controls

o Reduce risk of human error and associated with complex

administrative tasks

o Enables rapid deployment of applications & services

Complete System Automation

“SolidFire Automation helps lower

operating expenses by up to

– ESG 2015

67%

Complete System Automation

Self-Service Portal Leverage SolidFire’s upstream OpenStack integration for day 1 operational efficiency

Simple Push Button Management Allow clients to create volumes & accounts, set up new host configurations,

boot from SAN or image with APIs through PowerShell

Completely Programmable Storage Deep API integration builds upon the programmatic nature of the Software Defined Data Center

SDK

Always-on Global Deduplication, Compression and Thin Provisioning

In-line Data Reduction

SOLUTION BENEFITS

o Cloud – Deduplication typically scales with capacity

o VDI – Enables full-clones saving on compute

o Databases – Enables dev/test spinoffs and replica sets

Drives cost below the price of disk

63.5x increase

in performance per rack unit

90% fewer cables

77% less

power & cooling costs

89% less

rack space

NEXT GENERATION DATA CENTER

Use Cases

PRIVATE CLOUD

Accelerate self-service and private

cloud infrastructure deployment

WEB INFRASTRUCTURE

Rapidly respond to what

customers need from your IT

WORKLOAD CONSOLIDATION

Consolidate all workloads

within a single-all-flash array

MANAGED HOSTING

Develop and

monetize new

services

DEV/OPS Speed up application

development and

test cycles

VMware Virtualization on SolidFire

SRA for Site Recovery Manager

Fully Integrated, on-node VAAI and

VASA providers

Vmware vCenter web plug-in

SolidFire QoS integrated with

VMware Storage

I/O Control

Early Development access to

VVOLs program

VSPHERE INTEGRATION

VMware Virtualization on SolidFire

CUSTOMER

SUCCESS

VALIDATED

INTEROPERABIL ITY

VSPHERE INTEGRATION

The Performance Block Storage Choice for OpenStack

Create, snap, clone and

manage SolidFire

volumes directly

SolidFire driver fully integrated into

OpenStack - no additional

features / licenses required

Eliminates arduous management

layers between OpenStack

and the storage system

SolidFire Cinder driver enables all

OpenStack block

storage features

Configure SolidFire as block

storage back-end

in under a minute

Ability to set and maintain true

QoS levels on a

per-volume basis

DEEP OPENSTACK INTEGRATION

The Performance Block Storage Choice for OpenStack

CUSTOMER

SUCCESS

VALIDATED

INTEROPERABIL ITY

The All-Flash Array for the Next Generation Data Center

Self-healing,

shared-nothing

data protection

Deep automation

integration with

management and

orchestration platforms

Always-on global

deduplication,

compression and

thin provisioning

Granular,

non-disruptive scale

Predictable, guaranteed

storage performance

THANK YOU

24/7 World Wide

Direct Tier

3 support

to every

customer

Real-Time

telemetric data

and trending

analysis

Support Criteria COMPETITION

Level 3 engineer support on

the first call - No tiered support

Single case owner from

opening to resolution

In-house, regional

support centers

Industry standard parts

depot support

Simple architecture resulting

in simplified part replacement

and faster support resolution

Software upgrades included

Active Support

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1 Reduce Productization Time By offering SP experienced resources to deliver onsite

go-to-market pricing and positioning workshop assistance

for both executive and product management teams.

2 Driving Improved Systems Utilization By collaborating on joint marketing efforts to drive

leads to cloud provider’s sales teams driving both

revenue and utilization.

3 Help Develop New

Marketing Opportunities By delivering broad industry expertise and market

knowledge, SolidFire can help you develop unique

solutions with differentiating value propositions to

better serve your customers cloud-hosting needs.

4 Improve Sales Engineering Effectiveness By delivering deep technical training to your sales engineers that aligns

with the technical architecture of SolidFire storage architecture and the

overall value proposition of your productized solution.

5 Improve Account Executive Effectiveness By delivering effective sales training to ensure your account

executives deliver the right storage related value proposition

to your customers.

6 Help Service Providers

Reduce Churn By delivering an innovative storage architecture

specifically designed for large-scale service providers.

Fueled by SolidFire Program Benefits FLASH BLOCK STORAGE FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS WORLDWIDE

P L AT F O R M C O M PAT I B I L I T Y

G U A R A N T E E

o Ensures that all future software & platforms from

SolidFire will interoperate with existing infrastructure

U N L I M I T E D D R I V E W E A R

G U A R A N T E E

o Eliminate concerns around flash endurance

o No restrictions on use-case or workload

Never Obsolete

Unparalleled Investment Protection

No More Forklift

Upgrades

Eliminate Data

Migration

The Industry’s Broadest All-Flash Portfolio

AFF

Performance, robust data

management, shared general IT

Streamlined architecture optimized

for low-latency workloads

EF

Scale-out, service-oriented flash

storage for next gen architectures

SOLIDFIRE

SPEED

Standalone apps

Improve slow app response,

reduce time to results

Ultra low latency, low cost,

direct attach model

DATA SERVICES

Virtual infrastructure

Support variety of block

and file applications

Unified multi-protocol storage

with application integration

SCALE

Cloud-like infrastructure

Performance control for

multi-tenant environments

Guaranteed QoS to

1000s of apps

Platform Building Blocks

2405 o 5-10TB effective capacity

o 50,000 guaranteed IOPS







All Inclusive

Feature Set

o Replication (synchronous / asynchronous)

o Integrated cloud backup

o Snapshots & clones

o Global efficiencies

o 256-bit encryption-at-Rest

o Comprehensive logging

o Cloud based monitoring

o Secure multi-tenancy (VLAN support, volume access groups)

o Simultaneous multiprotocol support (FC / iSCSI)

o Deep integrations: VMware, OpenStack, CloudStack

PROVIDED AT NO ADDIT IONAL COST

Running an OpenStack private cloud

o Clusters in both development/test and production

o Expanded footprint into Xfinity X1 infrastructure

Required flash performance combined with:

o Deep OpenStack Cinder integration

o Scalability to dynamically re-configure

OpenStack block storage

o Guaranteed performance for low latency

database and I/O intensive workloads

Scale-Out Architecture

Guaranteed Performance

API Automation

High Availability

In-Line Efficiency

Solution Drivers

(NASDAQ:CMCSA)

Fully virtualized its entire IT environment and

won the long-elusive trifecta of fast, reliable,

and affordable storage


o Ability to grow non-disruptively and without having

to move data

o Guaranteed performance in order to virtualize last

20% of high IOPS applications

o Strong VMware integration in order to

successfully deploy VDI environment



API Automation

High Availability

In-Line Efficiency

Solution Drivers

(Privately Held)

Providing myriad services, including web

hosting, VPS and e-mail

o Introduced new 1&1 Cloud Server for SMB


o Predictable performance and capacity gains

o Quality of Service to eliminate performance tuning

and protect against “noisy neighbors”

o Ability to integrate fully into existing

management and orchestration environments



API Automation

High Availability

In-Line Efficiency

Solution Drivers (Privately Held)

Running OpenStack private cloud

o Utilizing containers for application microservices

o Running applications on OpenStack cloud before

moving out to public cloud


o Deep OpenStack Cinder integration

o Ability to scale horizontally as workloads increase

o Enterprise-grade automation to reduce system

management



API Automation

High Availability

In-Line Efficiency

Solution Drivers

(Privately Held)

Delivering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

for development


o Unencumbered scalability

o Deep OpenStack integration for stamp automation

o System needed to withstand multiple

concurrent failures

(NASDAQ:EBAY) Scale-Out Architecture


API Automation

High Availability

In-Line Efficiency

Solution Drivers

Storage Infrastructure behind Digital

Messaging Center (DMC)

o Integrated messaging suite has delivered over 100

billion emails to date


o Unencumbered scalability

o In-line efficiency / Low $/GB

o Ability to withstand

multiple concurrent failures

(NYSE:TDC) Scale-Out Architecture


API Automation

High Availability

In-Line Efficiency

Solution Drivers

Offering five tiers of storage service to

Enterprise customers

o Tiers 0 – 3 delivered from a single SolidFire platform

o QoS performance guarantees on Tier 0 and 1


o Cloud scale – support and monitor deployments

across 20 data centers

o Ability to guarantee storage performance,

move between performance tiers

o API functionality to enable automation /

customer self service

(Privately Held)



API Automation

High Availability

In-Line Efficiency

Solution Drivers

Storage for VMware environment with

mix of VDI, SQL, web servers and

production applications

Why they chose SolidFire;

o Wanted next generation storage that worked within

existing Cisco UCS environment

o Reduced colo costs from footprint & power savings

o Needed flexibility and scale to easily incorporate

newly acquired businesses/assets in the future

(Privately Held) Scale-Out Architecture


API Automation

High Availability

In-Line Efficiency

Solution Drivers

Hosting talent management platform

for their customers


o HA and system resiliency was critical

o Ability to easily scale in parallel with

customer growth

o Flexibility to expand and contract cluster size

o Opportunity to increase utilization with

additional production applications

and future OpenStack needs

(NASDAQ: ULTI)



API Automation

High Availability

In-Line Efficiency

Solution Drivers

OpenStack cloud for internal and

externally facing applications


o Performance and efficiency of

MongoDB on SolidFire

o HA was key functional requirement

o Replication capability

o Leveraging APIs to plug into

internal monitoring tools

(NASDAQ: MELI)



API Automation

High Availability

In-Line Efficiency

Solution Drivers

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