Flash Myth: Flash is for Everything vs. Flash is for One Thing Selecting the Right Flash for the Right Workload

Are You Using the Right Flash for the Right Reasons?

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1. What are the Five Best Workloads for Flash?

2. What are the Unique Requirements of these Workloads?

3. What All-Flash Array is Right for Which Workload?

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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 over 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

● 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 SpeakersEric Herzog, Vice President, Product Marketing & ManagementEric’s responsibilities include worldwide product marketing and management for IBM's award winning family of storage solutions, software defined storage, integrated infrastructure, and platform computing. Herzog has over 30 years of product management, marketing, business development, alliances, and sales experience in the storage software, storage hardware, and storage solutions markets, managing all aspects of marketing, product management, sales, alliances, and business development in both Fortune 500 and start-up storage companies. Prior to joining IBM, Herzog was Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Alliances for all-flash storage provider Violin Memory.

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IBM Storage Awards and Accolades

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IBM Tape Library

2014 - 2016 Market Leader

IBM2015

#1 in EnterpriseNetwork Storage

IBM Storage 2013, 2015 Winner: IBM Singapore

Customer Care Award

IBM Storage 2013, 2015 Winner: IBM

Malaysia Customer Care

Award

* Based on IBM analysis of IDC quarterly tracker data;

IBM Spectrum Scale

2015 Product of the Year

Finalist:Storage System Software

IBM FlashSystem2015

France CRIP IT Innovation Forum Winner: Cloud,

Infrastructure & Storage Category

IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights

2015 Product of the Year Finalist: Storage Management Tools

IBM Storwize, XIV, DS8000

2013 - 2015 Magic Quadrant Leader:General Purpose Arrays

IBM FlashSystem2014

#1 in Units & Capacity Shipped

for Solid-State Arrays

IBM FlashSystem2014 - 2015

Magic Quadrant Leader:Solid State Arrays

IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM Spectrum

Virtualize2015 Tech Innovator Award –

Virtualization Category (Runner Up)

IBM DS80002010 - 2015

#1 Market Share Mainframe Storage*

IBM FlashSystem2015-2016

Major Player: All-Flash Array Marketscape

IBM Spectrum Storage

2014 & 2015 #1 Software Defined

Storage*

IBM FlashSystem

900/V90002015

Top 10 Coolest Flash Products

IBM FlashSystem V9000

2015 Product of the Year Finalist:

All-Flash Systems

IBM Spectrum Protect2011 - 2016

Magic Quadrant Leader:Data Center Backup & Recovery

Software

IBM FlashSystem

2014-2015 #1 Market Share

Canada*

IBM2015

#1 Market Share

Big Data

IBM 2016

5-Star Storage Vendor

IBM Cleversafe 2016

Market Leader Scale-Out Object Storage

Software

IBM Cleversafe

2016 #1 in Object

Storage

IBM FlashSystem

A9000/A9000R2016

Top 10 Coolest Flash Products

A Brief History Of Storage Performance

• Flash was not the original high performance storage

• Wide-Stripe HDD Arrays

• DRAM based Appliances StoragePerformance

A Briefing History Of Flash• ~2009 - SLC based flash for caching and

appliances

• Flash for extreme performance workloads

• ~2012 - MLC based all-flash arrays

• Flash for performance workloads

• ~2016 - 3D TLC NAND

• Flash reaches near price per GB disk parity (with a little help)

• Flash exceeds density per GB

Flash

Flash Today

• Flash is the standard for all primary storage applications, workloads, active data

• MLC is the Enterprise Standard

• 3D TLC NAND is quickly making in-roads

The Five Flash Workloads

• Business Critical Data/Workloads (Oracle, MS-SQL, SAP)

• Storage Consolidation

• Virtual Infrastructures (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM)

• Cloud Infrastructures (Large VMware, VDI)

• Big Data Analytics (SAS, Spark, Cassandra, Hadoop)

Flash And Business Critical Data

• The Original Flash Sweet Spot

• Extreme High Performance

• Often Scale Up Environments

• Which Flash is Best?

Flash And Storage Virtualization / Virtualization Infrastructures

• High Performance but not Extreme Performance

• Features become more important

• Economics become important

• Which Flash is Best?

Flash And Cloud Infrastructures

• Similar to Virtual Infrastructures (Performance, Price, Features)

• Scale becomes Critical

• Scale Performance (many parallel workloads)

• Scale Capacity

• Which Flash is Best?

Flash And Big Data

• Performance is Important but..

• Density is King

• A new Flash Array is needed - Dense with Good Performance

Conclusion

• Flash and Business Critical Data - High Performance, Highly Available Flash

• Flash and Virtualization - Enterprise Features, Solid Performance

• Flash and Cloud - Scale, Scale, Scale

• Flash and Big Data - Density

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The Right Flash for the Right WorkloadEnvironments

Key Attributes

Business Critical Storage

• z OS Support • High Performance• Highest Availability • Three-site/Four-site Six

9’s Reliability• Enterprise Scalability

Virtual Storage Infrastructure

• Heterogeneous Enterprise-class Data Services

• Dynamic Data Migration

• Multi-Vendor Management

• Data Reduction• Multi-site active-active

Grid Scale Cloud Storage

• Cloud-optimized (QOS, Multi-Tenancy)

• Predictable High Performance with Data Reduction Technologies (including deduplication)

• Ease-of-management

Typical Workloads

Big Data Storage

• Multi-protocol support• Policy-driven tiering• Single namespace • Data ocean• High-performance file

storage

• Distributed block workloads

• SQL Server, MySQL

• Large-scale distributed block

• VDI• Hybrid cloud

deployment• CSPs• Mixed workloads• Multi-tenancy• SAP• VMware• Exchange

• Distributed file/object• Hadoop• Media Streaming• SAS• Spark• HPC• Content Collaboration• High-performance

backup target

• High-availability• Low RTO applications• High-performance OLTP• Real time analytics• High-performance data

warehouse

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IBM All-Flash FamilyFlash for all primary storage workloads

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Fl FlashSystem

V9000

Virtualizing the DC

• Enterprise class heterogeneous data services and selectable data reduction

Storwize

V7000F

Mid-Range

Storwize

V5000F

Entry / Mid-Range

FlashSystem

A9000

Cloud service providers

• Full time data reduction

• Workloads: Cloud, VDI, VMware

FlashSystem

A9000R

Large deployments

• Full time data reduction

• Workloads: Mixed and cloud

DS8888

High End Server

• Mainframe• Power

IBM FlashCore™ Technology Optimized

• Extreme performance• Targeting database

acceleration & Spectrum Storage booster

FlashSystem 900 All flash array for application acceleration

• Enterprise class heterogeneous data services and selectable data reduction

• Enterprise class heterogeneous data services and selectable data reduction

DeepFlash 150

All-Flash for Big Data

• High capacity• High density

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Flash Myth: Flash is for Everything vs. Flash is for One Thing Selecting the Right Flash for the Right Workload

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