SOFTWARE- DEFINED STORAGE: THE FUTURE IS HEREData is Exploding. Budgets are Imploding. You Need SDS.

CONTENT03Enterprise Pain

Points

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Type of Workload

Lenovo for Every Type

of SDS Requirement

Lenovo’s Leadership in

Block Storage

Lenovo’s Leadership in

Object Storage

Lenovo Advantages Lenovo Leadership

Lenovo’s Leadership in

Scale Out Very High-

Performance Storage

Lenovo’s Leadership in

File Storage

Voice of the Enterprise:

What Lenovo

Customers Say

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IDC forecasts that by 2025 the global

datasphere will grow to 163 zettabytes. That’s

ten times the 16.1 ZB of data generated in 2016.

As a result, a paradigm shift is occurring in how

data is utilised, putting pressure on existing

storage infrastructure. A lot of data is captured

and stored, but its value is dependent on:

• Being accessible to the right people.

• Being accessible at the right time.

• Being accessible on a device of their choice.

Storage architectures are becoming increasingly

complex with different options depending on

the need. However, choosing one isn’t as easy as

one might assume. Deciding on the right storage

solution and approach depends on:

• The type of workload: Light, heavy, simple

or complex.

• The type of storage: Block, file, or object.

• The storage tier - tier 1 (high performance)

to tier 4 (low performance).

Complex Storage Architectures

Enterprise Pain Points Today, every business depends on its digital data to provide insights and analysis into its business. Whether it be structure or unstructured, optimal storage and management of this data is a challenge to most organisations due to the following reasons:

The vendor landscape, meanwhile, matches the

increasing complexity of storage architecture. At

best, the vendor landscape is confusing. Navigating

it to find the right solution can be a nightmare as a

business has to consider:

• Saving legacy investments and reducing TCO.

• Integration of different storage architectures in a

single datacenter.

• Performance tuned to the application and capacity.

Confusing Storage LandscapeExplosive Data Growth

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Lenovo for Every Type of WorkloadDifferent workloads have different characteristics and hence require distinct approaches. Lenovo offers multiple options to ensure the right fit for your business application, irrespective of the complexity in the workload.

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SimpleConnected to entry SANs

HeavyConnected to physical systems

LightRunning in virtual systems

ComplexSDS deployments

Storage Workloads

Simple storage at very low $/TB

Pre-integrated & easy-to-deploy rack-level solution

Simplified IT infrastructure at reduced costs

Turnkey, pre-integrated & easy-to-deploy rack-

level solution

Virtualised compute, storage, and

networking resources at reduced costs

Advanced storage protection with encryption

Cloudian-based object storage

Datacore-based block storage

Nexenta-based unified storage

High-capacity JBODs

Extreme capacity dense storage

High reliability and performance

Virtualised, flash-optimised modular storage

Unified file/object storage for high availability & data integrity

Entry-level tape autoloader for offline storage

Standalone tape automation solution

Versatile storage systems with intelligent real-time

tiering capabilities

Data grows independent of computing capacity Data grows with computing capacity

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Lenovo for Every Type of SDS RequirementAs complex workloads become the norm in enterprises, storage solutions that can handle this well are preferred for the flexibility they offer. SDS can offer benefits such as easy application management, virtualised storage, and cloud-based access at low TCO. Lenovo’s SDS appliance model focuses on customer requirements to produce the best solution for meeting specific requirements and solve different problems.

Product Concern Addressed Key Value AccessMethod

Support for Unstructured Data

Affordable, highly efficient, high-

capacity storage to meet growth of

unstructured data. Provides Amazon

S3-compliant storage at a cost of

pennies per GB per month.

Integrates into applications and

public clouds.Object Yes

YesObject

File

File

File

Block

Block

Unified block and file storage with

low $/TB pricing.

Upto 5M IOPS of block storage

and storage virtualisation.

100s of PB scaling with low latency,

high resiliency systems used for HPC

and big data.

Highly efficient and durable storage

platform to meet massive data growth

that allows scaling from tens to

hundreds of TBs of storage.

Solves silo issues using storage

virtualisation and parallel I/O

delivering extreme performance at

less than $500,000.

Software-defined solution for dense

scalable file and object storage

suitable for high performance and

data-intensive environments.

No

No

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DataCore’s survey in 2016 found that among customers who deployed SDS:

81%reduced storage-related

spending by 25% or more.

100%saw a positive ROI in

the first year.

Lenovo’s Leadership in Block StorageBlock-storage is mainly used for transactional databases, email, and virtual machines. Leading the industry on a number of metrics, below are a few business benefits that enterprises can derive when using Lenovo’s block-based software-defined storage.

TCODS2200 & DS4200 support

intelligent real-time tiering

capabilities that help optimise

system performance, reduce costs,

and simplify management.

DX8200D offers not only all the

features of an advanced storage

like deduplication, compression,

auto-tiering, caching, QoS, thin

provision, and data migration, but

also synchronous 3-site replication.

ScalabilityThe DX8200D DataCore appliance

from Lenovo solves storage silo

issues with storage virtualisation

for block storage and allows

scaling from tens to hundreds

terabytes of managed storage.

The DX8200D allows scaling to

hundreds of terabytes of managed

storage and avoids rip and replace

by automatically adding additional

storage capacity to existing pool.

PerformanceThe DX8200D offers flexible

virtualisation of internal and external

storage with automated storage

tiering to accelerate transactional

databases, analytics, and enterprise

applications.

The DX8200D uses DataCore parallel

I/O technology, in combination with

high-speed RAM caching, to service

read/write requests quickly to

optimise performance.

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60-70%The savings Nexenta can

provide customers with

its enterprise storage

offerings.

Source: IDC

47%Of customers say

greater agility is a factor

for considering a SDS

investment.

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group

Lenovo’s Leadership in File StorageFile-storage is mainly used for storing large files, sharing, and local archiving. Leading the industry on a number of metrics, below are a few business benefits that enterprises can derive when using Lenovo’s file-based software-defined storage.

TCOThe DX8200N, an affordable,

highly efficient and durable

storage platform, easily integrates

into any existing cloud set-up and

offers large capacity storage at

very low $/TB.

The DX8200N Nexenta

appliance from Lenovo offers

data management functionality

and supports inline data

reduction for additional storage

cost savings.

ScalabilityThe DX8200N appliance utilises

the D3284 84 drive JBOD to

scale up to 6.72PB in addition

to offering both file and block

storage in a single cluster.

The DX8200N Nexenta appliance

from Lenovo offers massive

scalability with the ability to run

on all-flash, hybrid, and spinning

disk configurations to meet your

specific workload needs.

High AvailabilityThe DX8200N is designed for

always-on data storage with

multiple levels of protection and

availability, including end-to-end

data integrity, multi-parity RAID,

multi-pathing, and replication.

DX8200N Nexenta Appliance from

Lenovo offers true high availability

with full active/active clusters

with the ability to failover without

disconnecting the client and having

the ability to self-heal failed disks.

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Unstructured data growth:

78%of respondents say their

unstructured data is

growing faster than other

business data.

90%

penetration of object

storage among

respondents within 24

months for key big data

use cases.

Lenovo’s Leadership in Object StorageObject-storage is mainly used for storing data analytics, videos, photos, document records and online collaboration services. Leading the industry on a number of metrics, below are a few business benefits that enterprises can derive when using Lenovo’s object-based software-defined storage.

TCOThe DX8200C makes it easy to

build full-featured, on-premise

Amazon S3-compliant storage at a

cost of pennies per GB per month.

Besides, it offers an affordable,

high-capacity storage to meet the

growth of unstructured data.

The DX8200C uses Cloudian’s

efficient architecture and industry

standard components save 70% on

CAPEX and its massive scalability

and lights-out management results

in 95% less overhead.

ScalabilityThe DX8200C can start small and

scale to hundreds of petabytes.

Its HyperStore peer-to-peer

architecture allows almost endless

scaling from as few as three

servers to many hundreds of

servers, across data centers and

geographic regions.

Automated data-tiering to the

cloud is easily possible with

the DX8200C. It is also 100%

compatible with AWS, Microsoft

Azure and Google GCP.

Reliability & PerformanceThe DX8200C powered by Cloudian

automates failure avoidance

with Dynamic Object Routing.

Additionally, it offers up to 14

nines data durability, or more, with

configurable data protection.

DX8200C processes multiple

requests in parallel, across all nodes

in HyperStore’s shared nothing

cluster, thus eliminating bottlenecks

and allowing performance to grow

as nodes are added.

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>80%of enterprise data will

be stored in scale-out

storage systems in

enterprise and cloud

data centers by 2021, up

from 30% today.

– Gartner

Lenovo’s Leadership in Scale Out Very High-Performance StorageDeploying solutions for technical computing, HPC, analytics and cloud environments can place a significant burden on IT. The Lenovo Distributed Storage Solution for IBM Spectrum Scale (DSS-G) reduces the complexity of deployment with integrated, delivered and fully-supported solutions that match best-in-industry components with optimised solution design.

Ease of DeploymentLenovo DSS-G is delivered as a

pre-integrated, easy-to-deploy

rack-level solution that dramatically

reduces time-to-value and TCO.

It gives the choice of shipping

as a fully integrated unit with

the Lenovo 1410 rack cabinet

or with the Lenovo Client Site

Integration Kit. The solution is

tested, configured, and ready to be

plugged in and turned on.

Extreme ScalabilityLenovo DSS-G for IBM

Spectrum Scale can scale both

performance and capacity with

no bottlenecks, providing users

with extreme scalability.

Lenovo DSS-G combines

the performance of Lenovo

servers with IBM Spectrum

Scale software to offer a high

performance, scalable building

block approach to storage needs.

PerformanceLenovo’s DSS-G solution for

IBM Spectrum Scale allows

for very low latency and its

performance increases linearly

when adding nodes.

Lenovo’s DSS-G is a high-

performance, low latency solution

for managing data at scale with

the distinctive ability to perform

archive and analytics.

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Voice of the EnterpriseWhat our customers say about our solutions.

“With the Lenovo Storage DX8200C solution, we can offer extremely flexible data storage services that deliver all the benefits of public cloud storage from our own datacenter.”— Arthur Olshansky, CTO, Federal Hill Solutions

“Everything that is mission-critical to the running of the hospital is supported by the DataCore virtualised storage platform. Users not only receive faster access to data, but they benefit from more server capacity as well.” — Rog Fe de Leon, Head of the Storage Group, Maimonides

“We are very satisfied with DataCore software-defined solution that complements the virtual server environment with VMware and Hyper-V perfectly. It gives us the storage flexibility to set up performance and highly available customer environments quickly, run stable and be easy to handle. It helps us to cover the various needs of our clients in a cost-efficient manner.”— Håkon Svendsen, CTO, Braathe Gruppen AS

Business Impact of Software-Defined Storage:IT services provider

Braathe Gruppen uses SDS

to operate a scalable high-

performance cloud at high

service levels and reduced

its storage TCO by 40%.

As a bonus, this simplified

infrastructure provisioning

and maintenance.

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Lenovo AdvantagesLenovo is the leader in scalable, affordable storage solutions to meet enormous data capacity needs. Lenovo understands customers’ needs and makes the solution and technology play well together. Here are some facts about Lenovo, which make it an ideal partner for enterprises.

Provides clarity and a clear sense of direction in a fragmented market.

Value addition on key fronts —capacity, performance, and reliability.

Provides implementation and maintenance services for both hardware and software.

Enables customer innovation for internal platform and external business. For example, SAP HANA was developed using Lenovo servers.

No legacy baggage to protect, thus ensuring the right solution is offered to address requirements.

Focus on the best hardware and offering the newest proven technology to boost datacenter efficiency.

Best of breed software partnerships allow Lenovo to offer the best R&D, support, simplified deployment, and easy maintenance.

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Lenovo Leadership

#1 in reliability among mainstream server hardware platforms with 99.999% uptime.

Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series is #1 in price/performance, measured in $/IOP, according to Storage Performance Council

88 world record benchmarks held by Lenovo for x86 server performance.(Source: As of November 8, 2017 on benchmarks including

STAC-M3 and SPEC benchmarks.)

Easy IT administration with Lenovo’s advanced management tools.

#1 in customer satisfaction with products, after-market technical service and support.

160+ countries served by Lenovo.

99.998% hardware availability achieved by mission-critical Lenovo servers, when combined with Lenovo committed repair service offerings.(Source: Internal Study according to Lenovo internal

repair action statistics.)

Modular server design for seamless upgrades and operational savings.

(Source: ITIC 2016–2017 Global Server Hardware/OS

Reliability Survey.)

(Source: ITIC 2016–2017 Global Server Hardware/OS

Reliability Survey.)

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