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Isilon Scale-Out NAS Overview Nick Kirsch, Director of Product Management

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Agenda •  Isilon Overview • Elements of Scale-Out •  Isilon Product Portfolio • Architectural Overview • Questions

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Isilon Overview Proven, global leader in Scale-Out NAS Storage solutions

Unrivaled product innovation – 6th Generation

1600+ worldwide customers and growing Acquired by EMC on 12/21/2010

World-class products and global services

Strong ecosystem of technology partners

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Isilon Drives Down the Cost of Storing Massive Amounts of File-based, Unstructured Data…

Video & Graphics

Genetic Sequencing

Satellite Photos

Computer Modeling

Seismic Exploration Music / Audio PDFs

Medical Imaging

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Isilon Addresses Significant and Growing Market Needs…

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2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Worldwide File And Block Disk Storage Systems, 2005-2012*

(PB

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File Based: 80% CAGR Block Based: 31% CAGR

By 2012, 80% of all storage capacity sold will be for file-based data

* Source: IDC

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Capturing the “Big Data” Opportunity •  Data volumes are expected to grow 44x by 2020

–  Growth in unstructured data will be 3x structured data

•  $2B opportunity going to $6B by 2014 (36.7% CAGR)

•  Storage infrastructure for private / public clouds

Scale-Out NAS ($B)

$0.5 $1.18

$1.69

$2.51

$3.65

$4.69 $5.35

$6.12

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

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What are CIOs Concerned About?

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CIO Survey, October 2010

47%

Data Growth #1

37%

System Performance & Scalability

#2

36%

Network Congestion & Connectivity architecture

#3

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Storage Buying Criteria are Changing

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84% of respondents are either “already using”, “planning to use” or “interested in using” scale-out within the next 24 months.

50% – percentage increase in the amount of data residing on scale-out storage within the next 24 months. (35% to 52%)

78% of respondents believe that their organization’s current or planned use of scale-out storage technology will moderately or significantly impact their usage of traditional scale-up systems.

Scale-out NAS Market Survey, November, 2010

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Growing momentum – 1600+ customers

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Enterprises Had Deployed a Scale-Up Strategy ne

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Scalability

Performance

Management

Availability

Cost

SCALE UP

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Enterprises are Transitioning to Scale-Out ne

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Scalability

Performance

Management

Availability

Cost

SCALE OUT

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Isilon’s Scale-Out Storage Solution Elements of Scale-out CLUSTERED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES

(Distributed File Systems, Clustered File Systems, etc)

•  Ease of Use/Management

•  High Availability

•  Enterprise Services (Windows, Unix, Security, Authentication, etc.)

•  Unlimited Scalability

•  High Performance

•  Maximum Data Protection

COMMODITY HARDWARE ISILON IQ PLATFORM NODES

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ISILON IQ PLATFORM NODES

ISILON OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE

Isilon’s Scale-Out Storage Solution

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Core Innovation…Value to Customers Isilon’s OneFS Scale-Out Operating System

•  Single file system, single volume •  >80% raw storage utilization •  Highest performance, fully symmetric cluster •  Easy to manage and grow •  Multi-tier single file system/single cluster (SSD, SAS & SATA) •  Single unified platform across all products (file and block) •  Engineered for file-based workflows

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Isilon’s Scale-Out Storage Solutions Extending our Lead in Scale-Out Storage Market

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Isilon Scale-Out Storage Value

– 100x Larger File Systems Massive

– 40x Higher Total Throughput Unmatched

Industry-leading and

As 1000+ Terabytes as 10 Terabytes

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Isilon’s Broad Range of Solutions

Linear Scaling of Performance & Capacity

NL-SERIES

X-SERIES

S-SERIES

Purpose-built for high-transactional & IOPS-intensive applications

A flexible solution to accelerate high-

concurrent and sequential throughput applications

Purpose-built for cost-effective, large

capacity storage

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CREATE & CAPTURE PROCESS ARCHIVE ARCHIVE

S-Series Transactional I/O & Random Access

X-Series High Concurrent / Sequential Throughput

NL-Series Nearline Storage

Backup Accelerator to Tape Storage

Isilon IQ 5400S, IQ 5000S-SSD

Isilon IQ X Series Nodes 6000 and 12000

Isilon IQ 10000X-SSD 36000X, 72000X, IQ

32000X-SSD

Isilon IQ 72NL,36NL

Isilon IQ SAS (16-518 TB)

Isilon IQ X Series SATA (18TB – 10.4PB)

Isilon IQ Nearline SATA (100TB – 10.4PB)

High Performance Backup/Restore

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Architecture Overview Because Simple is Smart

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Isilon IQ Network Architecture

Isilon IQ Storage Layer

Intracluster Communication Infiniband

or GigE Layer

Servers

Client/Application Layer Standard Gigabit Ethernet Layer

(optional 2nd switch)

NFS, CIFS, FTP, HTTP

Servers

Servers

(optional 2nd switch)

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Writing a File with Isilon IQ

(optional 2nd switch)

Servers

(optional 2nd switch)

NFS, CIFS, FTP, HTTP

Servers

Servers (optional 2nd switch)

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Writing a File with Isilon IQ

(optional 2nd switch)

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Writing a File with Isilon IQ Reading a File with Isilon IQ

Servers

(optional 2nd switch)

NFS, CIFS, FTP, HTTP

Servers

Servers

(optional 2nd switch)

(optional 2nd switch)

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Servers

(optional 2nd switch)

NFS, CIFS, FTP, HTTP

Servers

Servers

(optional 2nd switch)

Reading a File with Isilon IQ

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Largest and Most Scalable File System 500X More Scalable than Traditional Storage Systems OneFS™ can scale from 18TB to over 10,000 TB in a single file system •  Traditional Scale-Up NAS players are limited to 2-16TB max file system

•  Under 60 seconds to scale with no downtime

•  World’s fastest performance and capacity scaling

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AutoBalance Automated data balancing across nodes reduces costs, complexity and risks for scaling storage

“Using Software to do Work Unfit for Humans”

•  AutoBalance migrates content to new storage nodes while system is online and in production

• Requires NO manual intervention, NO reconfiguration, NO server or client mount point or application changes

•  Eliminate “Hot Spots” EMPTY

EMPTY

EMPTY

EMPTY

EMPTY

FULL

FULL

FULL

FULL

BALANCED

BALANCED

BALANCED

BALANCED

BALANCED

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The Most Reliable Storage System Built-in high availability clustered architecture EMC and NetApp require costly, redundant heads and software

100%

(optional 2nd switch)

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

FAILED

FAILED

And… Isilon IQ offers the industry’s fastest drive rebuild times —

In less than an hour!

With N+2, N+3, and N+4 protection, data is 100% available if multiple drives or nodes fail

With N+1 protection, data is 100% available even if a single drive or node fails

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One File System for Multiple Tiers of Storage

I/Ops Throughput

NL Archive I/Ops

I/Ops

Throughput

Throughput NL Archive

NL Archive

I/Ops

NL Archive

IQ SATA X-Series

S-Series

Nearline Series

Nearline Series

X-Series

NL Archive

NL Archive

Throughput

Throughput

Throughput

Throughput

Single Point of Management •  Single File System •  Single Volume •  Tiers of Performance Automatic Data Movement •  Policy-Based Movement •  Transparent Reallocation •  NO application-changes

Investment Protection •  Eliminate Data Migration •  Scale Any Application •  Completely Transparent

SmartPool™ Innovation MB/s Archive I/Ops

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Powerful But Simple •  Rich Visualizations •  Elaborate Drill-Downs •  Historical and Near-Time Performance Analytics •  CPU/Network Utilization •  Cluster, Node, Interface, Client •  Protocols, Operations, Disk •  Per-File/Directory Performance File System Analytics •  Directory/File Visibility

Technical Insights

Scale-Out Analytics Platform

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Isilon Enables Success For…

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Broad Institute Complete Genomics

Jib Jab

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