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May 17, 2016

Announcement

DDN Flashscale™

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2DDN Flashscale™ Game-Changing Performance and Cost Optimized All-Flash Array

Industry Leading Performance in 4U 48 NVMe Dual Port or 72 SAS SSDs

6 million IOPS

60 GB/sec throughput

As low as 100μs latency

Broad Connectivity Options

o FC16/32

o IB FDR/EDR

o Gb/E10/40/100*

o OmniPath

Low Latency, Hyperconverged Architecture

Intel Broadwell Processors

PCI-e 3 Embedded Fabric

Embedded File Systems & Applications

Flexible Scalability Performance: add 6

million IOPS, 60GB/s and

576TB capacity with each

4U performance node

addition

Capacity: add 672 TB raw

capacity with each 4U

capacity node addition

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3DDN Flashscale™Our DNA Delivers Performance Capabilities Beyond Compare

FOR MASSIVE SCALABILITY

FOR NEXT-GEN USE CASES

FOR MASSIVE PERFORMANCE

Largest PCIe Fabric For Flash Array Real-time

QOS & Cache Management

Predictable, Sustained performance

PERFORMANCE FIRST ARCHITECTURE

Data-intensive custom apps &

multi-step workflows

6M to 1B IOPS

60GB/s to 10TB/s

Future-proof

Efficient at-scale

FOR MASSIVE CONSOLIDATION

Hyperconverged

Largest building block

2 decades of people, process & technologies

innovation, iteration and refinement

MOST AT-SCALE EXPERIENCE

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4DDN | Flashscale™Design Criteria

Overcome Intel 20GB/s Bottleneck

No Effective Bandwidth Increases since Sandy Bridge

PCIe-3 maximum speed has not increased

Accommodate New Interconnect Technologies

Mellanox EDR, Intel Omni-Path, PCIe-3 x16, 100 Gb/s Ethernet, 32 Gb/s FC

Adaptive Motherboard Design to Encompass Multiple Configurations

Integrate Cutting Edge Solid State Technologies

12Gb/S SAS Dual Port, 25W PCIe, NVMe Dual Port

Most efficient IOPS, $/capacity, $/performance

DDN NDA CONFIDENTIAL

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5DDN Flashscale™Accelerates and Optimizes Performance-intensive Workloads

Hyperconverged for Lowest Latency

Applications and File Systems: embedded, interrupt

free, in-storage, virtualized processing

Real-time Storage OS: interrupt-free, massive

parallel I/O

Unmatched Memory and Application Acceleration

Cache: I/O and Data-Aware Adaptive and Read

Cache

Burst Buffer: IO and parallel file system optimization

Robust Data Protection

Quality of Service: highly tuned engine, data integrity

verification for every I/O

PCIe Gen 3 Fabric: highly redundant, performance

provisioned

Delivering Best-in-Class performance,

scalability & density for large scale data sets

The World’s Fastest

Scale-out

All Flash Storage Array

Designed to Scale to

Over 1 Billion IOPS

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6DDN Flashscale™The World’s Only Massive AND Highly Efficient At-scale Building Block

4

6 Million

60GB/s

<100μ

576TB

SBBScale-out

Building Block

Rack Units 4

IOPS 4

Bandwidth 4

Latency 4

Capacity 4

RACKScale Multiple SBBs for

At-scale Requirements

42

60 Million

600GB/s

<100μ

5.8TB

Rack Units 4

IOPS 4

Bandwidth 4

Latency 4

Capacity 4

RACK SCALINGScale Multiple Racks for

Hyperscale Requirements

17

1 Billion

10TB/s

<100μ

100PB

Racks4

IOPS 4

Bandwidth 4

Latency 4

Capacity 4

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7DDN Flashscale™ All Flash ArrayCompetitive Comparison – Not All Flash is Created Equal

4U 3U

All Flash Array

FC/IB/OmniPath to NetworkAll Flash Array

SAS Connections to 8 Servers

DDN Flashscale SanDisk® IF700™

48 NVMe Commodity SSDs (dual port)

72 SAS Commodity SSDs

Scale-out & Scale-up

64 SAS Flash Cards

Proprietary Form Factor

Scale-out

IOPS B/W

6M 60GB/s

IOPS B/W

1M12GB/s

As low as $0.05 per I/O

and $1/GB

SANDISK

1/5 the bandwidth

1/6 the IOPS

SAS only

Expensive

Proprietary Flash

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8DDN Flashscale™ All Flash ArrayCompetitive Comparison – Not All Flash is Created Equal

4U

All Flash Array

FC/IB/OmniPath to NetworkAll Flash Array

40GbE to Network & Backplane

DDN Flashscale Pure Storage® Flashblade™

48 NVMe Commodity SSDs (dual port)

72 SAS Commodity SSDs

Scale-out & Scale-up

MLC NAND

Proprietary Form Factor

Scale-out

IOPS B/W LAT

6M

COST

60GB/s

<100μ$1/GB

4U

Use CasesHigh Performance, Latency Sensitive

Structured/Unstructured Data

Use CasesLow-Med Performance

Unstructured Object Data

PURE STORAGE

¼ the bandwidth

No IOPS or Latency

specs

40GbE only

Expensive Proprietary

Flash

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9DDN Flashscale™ All Flash ArrayThe News - Summary

► Introducing 14KXi • Ultra High Performance All Flash Array Built on SFAOS QoS Engine for

predictable

• Embedded PCIe-3 fabric with Broadwell application processorso Embed Hadoop, Databases, OpenStack, File Systems

► Specifications• Performance o Rack Scale

– 600GB/sec

– 60 million IOPS

o 4U Chassis– 60GB/sec

– 6 million IOPS

– <100μ

► Availability• Generally Available August 2016

► Pricing• As low as $0.05/IOP

• As low as $1.00/GB

• Capacity

o 72 SAS SSD (8TB capacity expected in Q3’16)

o 48 NVMe (6.4TB capacity expected in Q3’16)