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Nithya A. Ruff

The Disruptive Power of Flash in the Data Center

Director, Open Source Strategy Office

August 19, 2015

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Forward-Looking Statements

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The Way It Used to Be

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The New Age of Digital Images

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Flash has changed application media repeatedly by reaching new levels of cost for utility.

Waves of Disruption

1995 2005 20152000 2008

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Open Source & Flash - Key Data Center Disruptions

Datacenter Architecture

Low Energy Scalable

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Low Energy Extreme Performance

Scalable Reliable Breakthrough Economics

Flash Meets Key Data Center Requirements

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Stored Data to On-Demand Data

vs.

Cold and Archived Data On-Demand Data

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Open Source Software Rules the Datacenter

OpenStack, Ceph, Mesos, Swift, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Docker

Datacenter Level Orchestration API

Object and Key Value Stores

SW Defined Datacenter

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Imagine If…

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We Can Make It Happen Together…How Far Reaching the Ripple Effects Could Be

On Innovation Big Data & complex tasks more feasible,

enabling new possibilities

On the Data Center Bottom LineITC, TCO, delivering on SLAs,

growing the business

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Open Source and Flash Today Create New Possibilities

Do the Unimaginable

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Thank you

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