Webinar: Are You Sticking Your Head in the SAN?

WebinarAre You Sticking Your Head in the SAN?

How To Break “The Cycle” and Move To Hyperconvergence

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● How the post-virtualization data center is impacting infrastructure and operations

● How hyperconvergence simplifies IT and establishes a path to cloud computing

● How a move toward hyperconverged infrastructure alleviates the pain points of technology refresh

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Our SpeakersGeorge Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection.

He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

Speaker bio

● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud and virtualization

● Knowledge of these markets is gained through product testing and interaction with end users and suppliers

● The results of this research can be found in the articles, videos, webinars, product analysis and case studies on our web site:http://storageswiss.com

Who Is Storage Switzerland?

Our SpeakersAdam Sekora is a director in the Office of the CTO at SimpliVity, where he contributes to SimpliVity’s product strategy and vision. Having previously led a VMware consultancy and as a VMware certified instructor, he brings a wealth of real-world virtualization experience to tackle the problems of today’s IT consumers.

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SimpliVity Overview

• Pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure• Mission: Simplify IT• Founded in 2009; launched product in April 2013• Headquartered in Westborough, MA• Raised $276M in venture capital from premier investors; achieved over

$1B valuation• Worldwide presence

• Nearly 750 SimpliVity employees in 24 countries• 100% indirect distribution through a worldwide network of resellers

and distributors

Copyright © 2016 SimpliVity. All rights reserved.

The State Of The Data Center

• Virtualization IS the production

data center

• Non-virtualized workloads are

the exception, not the rule

• Focus is now on virtualized

density and scale while reducing

costs and complexity

Hardware Refresh Cycle Challenge

• Every 3-4 years IT is forced to “full-stop” and evaluate compute, storage and networking alternatives• storage is actually worse• the demand for high performance and high capacity

is growing faster than 3 year refresh cycle will allow

• Each refresh requires migration of data and apps to new platforms• also time consuming and potentially disruptive

The Cloud Is A Viable Alternative

• Highly Virtualized

• Highly Scalable

• Limited concerns about

Upgrades

• True ‘Pay As You Grow’

(and shrink) design

The Cloud Is A Viable Alternative

• But the public cloud remains

a concern• Unpredictable allocation of

resources

• Difficult to guarantee quality of

service

• Periodic costs eventually add up

• Especially for storage

Enter Hyperconvergence

• Built on Public Cloud Principles• Highly Scalable, Highly Virtualized• Compute, Storage, and Networking

Integrated

But...• You Own it

• direct control over resource allocation• lower periodic costs but still pay as

you grow

• Works with YOUR Hypervisor

Hyperconvergence - The Self-Refreshing Infrastructure

• As more compute/storage is needed, just add nodes• non-distributive and automatic

• Each node does not have to be identical• per node capabilities (compute, storage, networking)

will evolve over time• old nodes can be expired as they reach the end of

life • Upgrade/Refresh process is eliminated

Are You Sticking Your Head in the SAN?

Adam Sekora

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What We Do: Hyperconverged Infrastructure

• SimpliVity converges all IT infrastructure and services below the hypervisor into scalable x86 building blocks

• Delivers the resiliency and control of on-premises infrastructure with the efficiency, agility, and cost that rivals cloud computing platforms

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Differentiation

VM centricity and mobility Global federation Abstract policy from

underlying infrastructure One administrator, globally Single pane of glass VMware vCenter or

vRealize, Cisco UCS Director

Global Unified Management

RPOs of minutes RTOs of seconds to minutes Local/remote synchronous

replication for HA Disaster recovery Full logical at the speed of

snapshots Manual or automatic by policy

Built-in Data Protection

Single shared scale-out resource pool

Deduplication, compression, optimization

At inception, once and forever

Across all tiers, globally

Powered by OmniStack Accelerator Card

Accelerated Data Efficiency


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Financial Benefits

Initial Year 1 Year 2 Year 3($1,500,000)

($1,000,000)

($500,000)

$0

$500,000

$1,000,000

$1,500,000

$2,000,000

$2,500,000

$3,000,000

$3,500,000 Financial Analysis (risk-adjusted)

Total costs Total benefits Cumulative total

Cash

flow

s

224% ROI

3.7x TCO Savings

6.6 MonthPayback

QUANTIFIED BENEFITS

› Total savings: 73%› Increased storage

efficiency: 60:1 › Reduced data center

footprint: 10:1 › Backup management

savings: 3 hours/ day› Consulting hour savings:

24 hours/ week

Source: Forrester Research TEI. Note: All benefits are specific to the composite organization, based on actual savings reported by study participants. See study for details.


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Independent Lab Validation: Protected Application Performance

Predictable Performance With Scale

Source: ESG Independent Lab Validation

Average Response Time (ms)


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SimpliVity Customers Run Mixed Workloads

Other

SAP

E-Commerce

Oracle

VDI

Microsoft SharePoint

Industry-specific application (e.g., 911 system, healthcare application, legal case management, CAD/CAM, etc.)

Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft SQL Server

18%

7%

10%

19%

36%

38%

48%

50%

80%

SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure WorkloadsWhich application types are you running or planning to

run on SimpliVity? (N=173, Multiple responses)


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SimpliVity Addresses Multiple Use Cases

Data Center Consolidation

ROBO

VDI

Tier1 Applications

Cloud Computing

Test/ Dev

Data Protection

Tech Refresh


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SimpliVity Addresses Multiple Use Cases

Data Center Consolidation

ROBO

VDI

Tier1 Applications

Cloud Computing

Test/ Dev

Data Protection

Tech Refresh


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Top Drivers for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Adoption

Other

Ongoing performance issues causing disruption to service delivery

Current deployment time could not keep pace with demand or staffing resources

Centralization of management for remote/branch office infrastructure

New application deployment (including VDI)

Mandate/desire to implement DR and/or improve backup/recovery

Data center migration or consolidation initiative

Capacity purchase/upgrade of existing infrastructure led to an overall platform review

11%

2%

3%

5%

8%

13%

18%

41%

Drivers For SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure AdoptionWhat is the primary catalyst event that prompted your organi-

zation to select SimpliVity? (N=175)


SimpliVity – Breaking the Tech Refresh Cycle Challenges

• Never-ending refresh cycle

• Migrations are expensive: about 17% of the total cost of a storage array

• Budgets are flat

• Each technology has its own:

• Management• Training• Maintenance• Support• Operational

expense

• Predictions of future growth have been far from accurate

Solution

• SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure

• Break the buying cycle with SimpliVity

• Enable continuous change without the impact

• Scale-out/in: buy what you need when you need it

• One vendor

• Reallocate time and resources towards innovation and productivity

Server and VMware

HA shared storage

WAN Optimization

Server and VMware

Storage Switch

HA shared storage

Data Protection Apps

Backup and deduplication


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• Learn more about hyperconverged infrastructure• Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Dummies

• Learn more about SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure • Solution Brief• White Paper: OmniStack Data Virtualization Platform

• Learn more about Technology Refresh with SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure

• The Post-Virtualization Refresh – Is Hyperconvergence the Answer?• Learn more about SimpliVity customer successes

• Customer success stories• Learn more

• SimpliVity.com

Next Steps


http://demand.simplivity.com/download-hyperconverged-infrastructure-for-dummies

https://www.simplivity.com/wp-content/uploads/SIM_DS_FINAL_4.pdf

http://demand.simplivity.com/whitepaper-data-virtualization-platform



https://www.simplivity.com/resources/customer-testimonials/

https://www.simplivity.com/

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