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GaryLyng

TheWorldisReadyforBigDataFlashSnr DirectorMarketing&Strategy,DataCenterSolutionsFlashMemorySummit2015– session 301-A

BusinessTrends

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BeyondData CustomerExperience&Impact

ConsistentQoS

ScaleBeyond

Simplicity Informationon-Demand

BILLIONSofpeople

MILLIONSofApps

MOBILE ・ CLOUD ・ BIGDATA ・ SOCIAL

40,000ExabytesDigitalUniversein2020

TechnologyTrends

4

WEB SCALE

GEO -DI S TRI BUTEDSCALE-OUT

CLOUDS ERV I CES

BI LLIONS OF OBJECTS

BI LLIONS OF DEV I CES

KEEPI NFORMATION

FOREVER

ScalingBeyondConsolidate-Expand-Consolidate

CL IENT/SERVER

VIRTUAL IZATION

HYPER-CONVERGE DINFRASTRUCT U RE

MAINFRAME

DISAGGREGATEDSTORAGE & COMPUTE

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EnableaNewGenerationofServices&Applications

foranExperienceNeverbeforethoughtpossible!

Extreme Performance Massive Capacity Immediate Access to Information

On Our LivesSolve impactful challenges quicker

FlashChangesEverythingandtheRippleEffectsareWide-Ranging

On Innovation Big Data & complex tasks more feasible, enabling

new possibilities

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

growing the business

FlashChangesEverythingandtheRippleEffectsareWide-Ranging

SanDiskSolutionBuildingBlocks&FlashIntelligence

Scale-out Capacity SW High Performance SWCustom

Applications

Storage Management Services

Data Path Optimization Services

Caching SW

NAND FLASH MEDIA

Guardian Firmware AMP VSL

WorkloadsDemandingFlashSolutions

BigData

ContentRepositories BigDataAnalytics MediaServices

ContentRepositories§ MixedMedia container,Active-archiving,Backup,Localityofdata

§ Largecontainersformidtolongperiods

§ On-demand access perApplicationservice levelobjective

BigDataAnalytics§ Time-to-Value andTime-to-Insight§ Hadoop,NoSQL,Cassandra,MongoDB

MediaServices§ Highread intensiveaccess frombillionsofedge devices

§ Hi-Def videodrivingeven greaterdemandforCapacityandPerformance

AddressingRapidDataGrowthDatabases Virtualization

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WorkloadsDemandingFlashSolutions

BigData

ContentRepositories BigDataAnalytics MediaServices

TraditionalApproachesFail➻ Over designsoftware forHDDfailure➻ Forcedmassive redundancy➻ Poorperformance➻ Newsteps notaddressing

Performance withCapacity➻Forcedtrade-offs andhighcomplexity

§ Billionsofusers, objectsandimmediategratificationrequired

§ Yourcolddataismyhotdata

BigDataNDOScale-out➻Filesystemsbreak atmassive scale§ ObjectStorageoptimalefficiency§ Multi-protocolaccesstoacommonstorage substrate:Block,ObjectandFileinterfaces

Challenges &Considerations forScaling Storage

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AJBOFSystem– SanDiskInfiniFlash§ Designed forsimplicity atscale

§ 64TBto512TBin3USAS system, upto1MIOPS

§ Management atsystem level(API, CLI)

§ Hotswappable components, fullyHAdesign

§ Fully supported: system tocomponent

§ BigDataFlash Solution Integrationwith• InfiniFlash-OS :Unified File, Object, Block

• IONSW:High Performance Block

MassiveCapacityDeploymentsChoicesJBOF§ BunchofSSDsina3rd partychassis forsharedstorageorDeploy inServers

§ Standard2.5”SSDformfactor

§ Datacentergradedrivechoices– 4TBSASSSD(OptimusMAX)– 2TBSATA(CloudSpeed UltraGen.II)

§ Supportperdrive

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PetabytetoExabyteSolutionBuildingBlocks

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PEFORMANCE NOT SEEN BEFORENoSQL databases, Hadoop

~5x performance gains relative to HDD

SW - GPFS, CEPH or Redhat Gluster, Openstack

SCALE-OUTSCALE-UP

ENTRY LEVEL FLASH UPGRADE PREMIUM UPGRADE FROM ‘ENTRY’For any application in virtualized (VMware) Windows, Linux

Oracle, SQL server, SAP, Exchange, SharePoint and other scale up

~3X performance gains through caching ~10x performance gains relative to HDD

SW: FlashSoft SW: ION, Tegile, Nexenta, Windows Storage Spaces

HadoopwithInfiniFlashOptimizedObjectStore

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Hadoop Technology atanInflection Point• Hadoop 2.xenhancements• Rapid network bandwidth improvements• Nowaffordable FlashAcceleration &Capacity

§ MapReduce withhighperformance ObjectStorewithS3

§ HighThroughput, HighIOPs,Highdensityatlowercost

§ Nocompromise inTime-to-Insight

Architecture§ DisaggregatedCompute andStorageleadingtoflexibledeployments andoptimal useofresources

§ High throughput ObjectStoreprovidesdataprotection withErasureCodingwithhighstorageefficiency

ComputeFarm

DramaticTCOImpactforHadoopDeploymentReliability– 10xHigher• 10xhigher reliability than atypicalHDD*• AFR<0.15%*• Improving up time&useable capacity

6xDensity,EnableITConsolidation• 70%less Racks• 50%less Servers• Upto1PB/3RU– 6xthedensity of typicalHDDarray

MaintenanceCostReduction• 100PB – failure rateperweek, 15-35 HDD• Fastrebuild times reduce exposure tofailures• Less dataredundancy &hotspares needed• Fewer repaircalls&less FRUstock held

Power&Cooling– 66%Less• Halfthepower&cooling of atypicalHDDarray• Lowpower - 750W active,400-500W average• Power scaleswithactivity, don’t pay forwhatisn’t

being used

*AnnualFailureRateascomparedtoHDDs.InfiniFlashAFRbasedoninternaltesting.Resultsavailableuponrequest.** Ascomparedto2-4TBHDDs.

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BigDataMediaServices- VideoSurveillance

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ITConsolidation &CostControl/Avoidance• Move toIP&HDincreasing storageneeds• Longer retention• Regulatory&Threatsdriving more demand

Customer Growth• Physical Security, The‘TLA’s• Compliance officer, Risk officer• Government, City Surveillance &Transportation are

thehighest spend instorageamongst verticals

Partners• VideoManagement Software (VMS) providers• Keytocertify players likeGenetec,Dvtel,Milestone,

Verint

SanDiskScalesFlashfromIdeatoReality

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IntegratedwithKeyServer&StorageVendors

DistributionPartners Integrating&SolutionDelivery

ApplicationPartnersMarketLeaderPCIeAccelerator4TBSASSSD

MassiveCapacity&Scale-outInfiniFlash512TB

Innovation Leadership• 5000+Patentportfolio

Vertically Integrated• SolefocusonFlashtechnology• Fab– MemoryCellDesign• FullProductManufacturing• ~40%ofworld’sflashproduceby

SanDisk/Toshibapartnership

Innovation withISVs&OpenSource

SolutionBuildingBlocksfortheDataCenter…

Ø Application Intelligence & Performance

Ø Breakthrough Economics @ Scale

Ø Immediate Access to Information

foranExperienceNeverBeforeThoughtPossible!

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DataCenterSolutIonsforInfinitePossibilities