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
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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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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
P E R F O R M A N C E
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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
Drive rebuilds = <10 minutes | Node rebuilds = <60 minutes
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
4805 o 10-20TB effective capacity
o 50,000 guaranteed IOPS
9605 o 20-40TB effective capacity
o 50,000 guaranteed IOPS
9010 o 20-40TB effective capacity
o 75,000 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
Required flash performance combined with:
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
Scale-Out Architecture
Guaranteed Performance
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
Required flash performance combined with:
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
Scale-Out Architecture
Guaranteed Performance
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
Required flash performance combined with:
o Deep OpenStack Cinder integration
o Ability to scale horizontally as workloads increase
o Enterprise-grade automation to reduce system
management
Scale-Out Architecture
Guaranteed Performance
API Automation
High Availability
In-Line Efficiency
Solution Drivers
(Privately Held)
Delivering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
for development
Required flash performance combined with:
o Unencumbered scalability
o Deep OpenStack integration for stamp automation
o System needed to withstand multiple
concurrent failures
(NASDAQ:EBAY) Scale-Out Architecture
Guaranteed Performance
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
Required flash performance combined with:
o Unencumbered scalability
o In-line efficiency / Low $/GB
o Ability to withstand
multiple concurrent failures
(NYSE:TDC) Scale-Out Architecture
Guaranteed Performance
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
Required flash performance combined with:
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)
Scale-Out Architecture
Guaranteed Performance
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
Guaranteed Performance
API Automation
High Availability
In-Line Efficiency
Solution Drivers
Hosting talent management platform
for their customers
Why they chose SolidFire;
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)
Scale-Out Architecture
Guaranteed Performance
API Automation
High Availability
In-Line Efficiency
Solution Drivers
OpenStack cloud for internal and
externally facing applications
Why they chose SolidFire;
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)
Scale-Out Architecture
Guaranteed Performance
API Automation
High Availability
In-Line Efficiency
Solution Drivers