The All-Flash Array for the Next Generation Data Center

The All-Flash Array for theNext Generation Data Center

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• Founded in 2010

• Born out of one of the world’s largest cloud infrastructures

• HQ: Boulder, CO

• $150M raised to date

• World-class executive team

– Rackspace, 3PAR, Isilon Systems, LeftHand Networks, Skype

• 275+ employees globally

• 700% y/y growth in 2013

• Strong original IP portfolio

About SolidFire


Gartner Recognized SolidFire as a “Visionary” in 2014 Magic Quadrant Ranks #1 Overall in Gartner Critical Capabilities Study “SolidFire is highly differentiated from its competitors through its

scale-out capabilities, rich software features and ability to guarantee storage performance.”

“The QoS and multi-tenancy allow customers to run multiple workloads in isolation with guaranteed performance, eliminating disruption or degradation from unwieldy workloads.”

-Gartner Gartner Identified SolidFire Strengths

▪ High Scalability▪ High Performance▪ Emphasis on Keeping Costs Low▪ Included In-line Efficiency Features▪ Guaranteed QoS▪ Design for Multi-Tenancy▪ All-inclusive, Simple Pricing▪ Rich Software Features

o Report analyzes 13 SSAs across six high-impact use cases

o Quantifies product attractiveness against seven critical capabilities that are important to IT leaders.

▪ Overall Use Case▪ Online Transaction Processing ▪ Server Virtualization▪ Virtual Desktop Infrastructure▪ High Performance Computing▪ Analytics


Dial in performance at a volume level. Software adjust Storage Capacity and IOPS independently to service the changing application needs.

Scale Capacity & Performance 1U at a time in a linear fashion. Grow your infrastructure at the same pace as your business needs.

Automate the entire system via REST-based APIs – just as easily as it is with compute in the cloud today.

High Availability that provides consistent performance in good times and bad

Deduplication, Compression and Thin Provisioning. Global, inline and no impact to performance.


Nodes are added / removed as demand dictates Performance and capacity instantly available to all volumes Non-disruptive expansion - No stopping, starting or reconfiguring of services

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5, SF2405 Nodes 43 TB 250,000 IOPS

Scale-Out Architecture

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Operational Efficiency (compares 173TB of effective capacity)

Reduce rack space Consume less power Increase performance

52,000 IOPS

375,000 IOPS


SolidFire & OrchestrationNative multi-tenant architecture, best-in-class integrations

Flexibility

Control

Time to Value

Mixed Workloads


VDI Success Story – Large Global Telco

• 3000 user VDI POD – 200K+ Deployment 2YR

• Selected solution after having analyzed and completed Proof of Concepts of(18) Hybrid, Traditional Raid, and Flash Array vendors

• Power savings key business driver SolidFire and Dell Networking helped cut this in ½ compared to competitive solution.

• Replaced existing standard POD which took up 2 44U Racks

• Inline efficiency was key benefit achieved greater than 10X

• API integration with custom management tool easily achieved with REST API

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The All-Flash Array for theNext Generation Data Center

For more information visit www.solidfire.com or email

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SolidFire Solutions are in the Dell Solutions Center for POC’s and Demo’s. Contact us for a solutions discussion and demo!

Contact your Dell sales team for a quote today!

http://www.solidfire.com/

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The All-Flash Array for the Next Generation Data Center

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