A New Vision in Storage

1. A New Vision
for Enterprise Storage
April 2010
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2. Our History
►Private, based in San Francisco
› 30 people, 95% engineers; expanding sales rapidly
►Technology and company milestones
› v1.0 (2006): Basic iSCSI appliance with RAID 5
› v2.0 (2008) : Snapshot, RAID DP, and replication
› v3.0 (2009): Unified (iSCSI, NFS, CIFS), scale-on-demand
› IBM Tivoli, EMC/Iomega, & AMCC licensed our iSCSI code
►Mission: Build a storage company for the ages
› Profitable, debt-free today, without VC financing
› Customers: US DoD, Loro Piana, Nexgen Pharma
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3. A New Vision for Enterprise Storage
►Performance
› Virtualization demands dramatic storage IO capabilities
►Efficiency
› Drastic energy reduction is critical for growth & cost control
►Simplicity
› Versatile, agile storage is essential for nonstop IT operations
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4. Introducing the Enterprise Flash Array
►10x Performance
› 500,000 IO’s, 100% flash
› 40 Gbps bandwidth
►95% Greater Efficiency
› 10:1 inline deduplication
› Up to 50 TB: less than 100 W
►Unmatched Simplicity
› Full enterprise software and data protection suite
› Easy Web management
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5. Ready for Mainstream Deployment
►Unprecedented product
› First pure flash enterprise storage array
►Unprecedented price
› 2.5 TB raw (25 TB potential): starting under €20K
› 5 TB raw (50 TB potential): starting under €30K
►Comprehensive
› All-inclusive software: no à la carte licenses
› 3 year or 5 year warranty
› 24 x 7 x 365 4-hour onsite service
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6. How Did We Do It?
►Software engineered over 4 years
› Enterprise-proven
› Feature-complete
►Advanced hardware design
› Manufacture our own flash modules
› Westmere/Nehalem processing cores
› FlexConnect: GbE/10GbE network + 6G SAS for expansion
►Pure channel focus
› Enable our selling partners
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7. Alternatives?
►“Legacy” Primary Storage
› 15K/10K disk is dead: 10 years, no IO gains
►“Tiered” Storage
› A Band-Aid, not a Breakthrough
►Caching
› Attempts to mask but fails to solve the performance gap
►Memory Appliances
› Very limited software and unaffordable
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8. Market Opportunity
►Virtualization
› Hyper-V, Citrix, VMware
►OLTP/Databases
› Unmatched price/IO performance
►HPC
› Oil/gas, supercomputing, advanced multimedia
►Microsoft
› Exchange, SQL, mainstream server consolidation
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9. HALO Storage Operating System
►Features
› 64-bit architecture
› Multi-protocol
(iSCSI, NFS, CIFS)
› Web-based interface
› Storage pooling
› RAID protection
› Advanced snapshot
› Always-on replication
› Inline deduplication
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10. Unified Storage
►Features
› True block and file consolidation
› NFS v3/v4
› iSCSI with ERL2
› CIFS with Active Directory
› 10:1 hash-based inline deduplication
› All-in-one: No filer/NAS head or dedupe box
› VMware, Xen, Hyper-V ready
› FCoE coming
› FlexConnect: one wire runs all protocols
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11. Storage Virtualization
►Features
› 64-bit file system: no 16 TB limit, no silos
› 4 Exabyte capable: single file system
› Add storage-on-demand, up to 20 enclosures total
› Scalable to 100 TB capacity (1 PT potential @ 10:1)
› Thin provisioning by default
› RAID DP (level 6) by default
› Quick drive rebuilds and double fault protection
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12. Data Protection
►Features
› Snapshot (space efficient, no limits)
› Snapshots may be scheduled and recur
› Plug-ins for Exchange, SQL Server, etc.
› Synchronous mirroring: ultimate HA
› Asynchronous replication: offsite DR
› Always-on continuous protection: improves RPO
› Bandwidth throttling
› Dedicated WAN replication port
› Fully-redundant and hot-swap components
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13. Simplicity
►Easy-to-use
› Setup in just a few minutes
› Tool-less rackmount installation
› 100% Web management
› All features included at no additional cost
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14. The Road Ahead
►Industry ready for quantum leap forward
› Cost parity with spinning-disk arrays today
› Essential foundation for virtualizing broadly & efficiently
› Unparalleled price/performance
› Launch and general availability on April 26, 2010
►What’s to come?
› Increased capacity and density (petabyte-class)
› Greater network connectivity
› Superior security features
› First-in-class mobile storage management
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15. Thank you!
Nimbus Data Systems, Inc.
221 King Street, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94107
www.nimbusdata.com
(877) 6-NIMBUS
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