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All  Flash  Arrays  Transforming  storage,  data  

center  economics  and  business  pracBces  

Business  in  a  Flash.  

ScoD  Cleland  Sr  Director  Product  MarkeBng    

August  2014  

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That  Was  Then  

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This  is  Now  

•  96%  Less  Space  •  67%  Less  Power  •  33%  Lower  TCO  •  5,645%  More  Performance  

•  8  Floor  Tiles  •  62  K  IOPS  

•  0.36  Floor  Tile  •  3.5  M  IOPS  

•  150  TB  Usable  Capacity   •  207  TB  Usable  Capacity  •  $1.26M  –  TCO  SAVINGS  

Intelligent  All  Flash  Array  Legacy  Infrastructure  

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Architecture  MaDers  

Flash   System   SoPware  

Significant  OpBmizaBon  Opportunity  

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Intelligent  Architecture  Removes  ‘The  Waste’  

CPU Cycle with Disk:

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80% Wait

20% Work

       

CPU Cycle with Violin:

5% Wait

95% Work

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20X Work In the Same Time: Latency Matters

I/O Wait I/O Wait

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£  Low  latency  makes  a  human  difference  

£  Low  latency  makes  a  business  difference  

Impact  of  Low  Latency  

Based on Google/Bing experiments on ecommerce apps See Violin Memory Blog “Latency Matters”

Decreasing latency →

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Workload  Benefits  

ProducBon  Database  on  Disk  

storage  

Business  CriBcal  ApplicaBons  

Extract  Transfer  Load   Finance  

OperaBons  

Sales  

Reports  

AnalyBcs  

Trends  

TradiBonal  OLTP/DW/ReporBng  architecture   OLTP/DW/ReporBng  consolidaBon  with  Flash  

ProducBon  Database  on  

Flash  

Business  CriBcal  ApplicaBons  

Finance  Reports  

OperaBons  AnalyBcs  

Sales  Trends  

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ConsolidaBon  &  VirtualizaBon  Benefits  

Finance  Apps  

Finance  DB  

Sales  Apps  

Sales  DB  

OperaTons  Apps  

Ops  DB  

VM  1  

Finance  Apps  

VM  n  

Sales  Apps  

VM  1  

Ops  Apps  

VM  n  

Legal  Apps  

Ops  DB  

Legal  DB  Sales  DB  

Finance  DB  

Physical  Workloads   Mixed,  MulBple,  Virtualized  Workloads  

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Thank  You  Business  in  a  Flash.