In this deckt, Uday Mohan from DataDirect Networks presents: DDN GS7K - Easy-to-deploy, High Performance Scale-Out Parallel File System Appliance. High performance computing is critical in commercial markets, spanning a wide range of applications across multiple industries, and this trend is only growing. The GS7K from DDN will help bring the latest high-performance storage technologies to more of these markets, connecting companies to their next innovations faster while satisfying their enterprise standards.” Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-d99

1. GS7K - Easy-to-deploy, High
Performance Scale-Out Parallel
File System Appliance
Under Embargo till Oct 1, 12:30 a.m. ET
© 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
September 2014

2. We Solve Big Data Lifecycle Management Challenges at Large Scale
© 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
DDN | Who We Are
► Markets: Enterprise Big Data, Cloud, HPC
► Solutions: Platforms, File Systems, Object Storage
► Customers: 1,000+ in 50 Countries
► Go-To-Market: Direct, Partner Assist
► Employees: 550 in 20 Countries
► Headquarters: Santa Clara, CA
► History: Founded in 1998 and Profitable
•The World’s Largest Private Storage Company
•NDA Confidential
2

3. Big Data & Cloud Infrastructure
3 DDN’s Award-Winning Product Portfolio
Lustre® Storage
Storage Fusion Architecture™ Core Storage Platforms
Cloud Foundation
© 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
Analytics Reference
Architectures
Petascale
EXAScaler™
10Ks of Clients
1TB/s+, HSM
Linux HPC Clients
NFS & CIFS [2014]
Enterprise
Scale-Out File Storage
GRIDScaler™
~10K Clients
1TB/s+, HSM
Linux/Windows HPC Clients
NFS & CIFS
SFA™12KX
48GB/s, 1.7M IOPS
1,680 Drives in 2 Racks
Optional Embedded Computing
SFA7700
12.5GB/s, 450K IOPS
60 Drives in 4U
228 Drives in 12U
Flexible Drive Configuration
SATA SAS
SSD
SFX™ Automated Flash Caching
WOS® 3.0
32 Trillion Unique Objects
Geo-Replicated Cloud Storage
256 Million Objects/Second
Self-Healing Cloud
Parallel Boolean Search
Big Data Platform
Management
DirectMon™
Cloud
Tiering
Infinite Memory Engine™ [Tech Preview]
Distributed File System Buffer Cache
WOS7000
60 Drives in 4U
Self-Contained Servers
Adaptive Transparent Flash Cache
SFX API Gives Users Control
[pre-staging, alignment, by-pass]

4. Scale Out | NAS vs Parallel File Storage
Scale-Out NAS Does Not Mean Parallel!
NAS - Point:Point Technology
Clients Can Only See One Server At A Time
Locking Engines Not Designed For Massive Parallelism
Parallel File Systems – Removes NAS bottlenecks
Read/Write From Many Servers in Parallel – Concurrent
Order of Magnitude Higher Performance than NAS
Support for RDMA Communication & Large Packets
Makes Best Use of High Performance Networks!
Object-Based Locking; No Dedicated Storage Network; Scalable To 100+ PBs
©2013 DataDirect Networks. All Rights Reserved. ddn.com
Big Data
Cluster
Parallel Storage Cluster

5. The News: Introducing GS7K
► DDN is leveraging it’s HPC expertise and 3 generations of Embedded technology
to bring to market the GS7K – an All-in-one, Scale-out Parallel File System
Appliance.
► Combines DDN’s Storage Fusion Architecture with the scalability of IBM’s GPFS
file system to introduce the industry’s first scale-out parallel file system appliance
complete with enterprise-class features, NAS access and Cloud tiering
capabilities
► Customers no longer have to trade off between performance and enterprise
features: they can have the best of both worlds including massive performance
and scalability in a scale-out parallel file system that also offers the simplicity and
rich feature set in an all-in-one appliance
► Designed to help customers in data intensive industries like oil and gas, FSI, and
life sciences jumpstart their first Big Data projects with an optimally sized and
priced enterprise appliance
► Engineered for performance, GS7K can deliver ~12 GB/s per scale-out building
block, making the appliance the most powerful and scalable appliance of its size
► Offers a building block approach so customers can start small with 60 drives in
4U and expand capacity by adding up to 4 additional 4U 84 drive enclosures.
Multiple GS7K systems can then be aggregated to hit 100s of GB/s of performance
and PBs of capacity to minimize overall TCO.
► Provides rich feature set of enterprise-class capabilities; migration between SSD,
SAS, SATA tiers, Cloud and tape under one global namespace; and federation of
GS7K namespaces for multi-site ingest, distribution and collaboration across
multiple GS7K Clusters
© 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
5

6. © 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
Challenges
► Traditional NAS scale-out storage systems aren't scaling in
performance to meet big data analysis needs
• Scale-out NAS only goes to few GB/sec
• Customers in Big Data markets need more
► Parallel file systems are hugely scalable, but...
• Give up many critical enterprise data management capabilities; or,
• Are complex to install/manage/optimize and difficult to use
► Customers with large, business valued data sets need:
• Performance of a Parallel File System
• Feature Rich
• Simplicity of a scale-out appliance
• Option of NAS Connectivity
6

7. 7 Introducing the GS7K
Easy-to-deploy, High Performance Scale-
Out Parallel File System Appliance
Performance
Optimized
Feature Rich
• Power of the SFA
Architecture combined
with the performance and
scalability of IBM’s GPFS
file system
• 12 GB/sec per scale-out
building block
Scalable
• Enterprise Class
Features for Big Data
• Cloud Connectivity
• Data Tiering
• Integrated Backup
using Tivoli
• Start Small – 4U/60
Drives
• Scale out to 100s of
GB/sec of performance
and 100s of PBs
Capacity
• Building block approach
Simple
• All-in-one appliance
with processing and
storage pre-loaded
• Power of a Parallel
File System in a simple
to use appliance
• Singe Vendor Support
© 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.

8. Scalable Building Block for Big Data
(Animated – please see in full screen mode)
© 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
8462PPPPBBBB
Big Data
Add additional
Appliances to
Linearly Scale
Performance and
Capacity
4368214G2GGGBBBB//ss//ss
GS7K
Single Global Namespace
…….
Integrate multiple appliances to scale to over 100s of GB/s & 10’s of PBs

9. DirectMon™ | Simple, Scalable
Appliance UI
Get Up and Running in a matter of
© 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
Hours
Storage Management Made Simple
► A powerful, intuitive single
pane of glass to monitor &
manage the GS7K Appliances
► Web interface delivers 100% of monitoring
capabilities anywhere, any time
► Performance and Capacity Metric Monitoring:
Monitor over 350 metrics to model, problem
solve and predict
► Provision and configuration tool sets
► User Defined Alerts and Thresholds

10. 10 GS7K - Target Markets
© 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
Life Science
Financial
Oil and Gas
Manufacturing
Web 2.0
Social Networks
Cloud
Computing
Intelligence
Government
Surveillance
Broadcast
Video on
Demand
Special Effects
But NOT Designed for
 Data Center Applications like Oracle, Exchange, SAP, CRM, ERP
applications
 Not for Virtualization, VDI etc
Government &
Academia
Professional
Media
Cloud, Web, &
Telco Infrastructure
HPC & Enterprise
Big Data Analysis

11. GS7K Features - At-a-glance
Data Access Options
Parallel File System (WINDOWS & LINUX),
NFS, CIFS
InfiniBand – FDR 56 Gb/s
© 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
11
Data Protection/Mgmt Intelligence
Snapshots and Rollback
Integrated Backup
Mirroring & Aync (TSM) ReplicationI*
Cloud Connectivity and Tiering*
Non Disruptive Scaling, Restriping, Rebalancing
Multi-Tiered File System w/ HSM*
DirectMon Single Pane of Glass
Data Delivery Intelligence
ReACT Cache Management
SFX Storage Cache
Read Quality-Of-Service Engine
Storage Infrastructure
Intelligence
World’s Densest – 84 drives in 4U
DirectProtect™ Self-Healing Drive
Protection
*Optional, Additional Licenses Required

12. Manage Data Intelligently
Single Global Namespace
SSD
Policy driven Tier
© 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
Information Lifecycle Management*
► Built in ILM
Policy based Data Migration
Seamless integration with Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) to
migrate data to and from Tape
► All data is instantly accessible and managed
from a single point.
Automatically
HSM To Tape
Automate migration between SSD, SAS, SATA and Tape
Cloud Tiering
Active Tier
SAS
Tier
SATA
Tier
Policy driven
Cloud Tiering*
► Tier, Archive and Migrate to a WOS cloud
o ILM-based Rules, executed periodically or can be
scheduled
► Offload GS7K files to WOS to free up space &
improve performance
► View archived files from GS7K as a WOS (NFS)
mount point
*Optional, Additional Licenses Required

13. Collaborate, Distribute and Federate
© 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
Site 1
Compute
Grid
Site 2
Overview
► Federation of GS7K namespaces,
using WOS as the wide area
distribution mechanism
► Multi-site ingest, distribution &
collaboration capacity for up to 8
GS7K Clusters
Access Mechanisms
► Data is ingested and written into
GS7K & copied to WOS, or written
directly to WOS – and then exposed
as a NAS mount point
► Data is ingested into WOS via NFS or
CIFS and accessible to GS7K as a
NAS mount point
Compute
Grid

14. © 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
14 Backup Slides

15. 15 GS7K | Building Blocks
© 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
Base
Enclosure
Base + 1 Base + 2 Base + 3 Base + 4
Number of
Drives
60 144 228 312 396
Performance 6 GB/s 11 GB/s 12 GB/s 12 GB/s 12 GB/s
Rack Space 4U 8U 12U 16U 20U
Scale Out to Any Performance and Capacity
Requirements using these Building Blocks

16. © 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
Peace of Mind
Snapshots
Replicated Data
and Metadata
Flexible RAID
Tape Backup*
DirectProtect
Cloud Connect
& Archive
Data Protection at Multiple Levels
► Policy-driven snapshots protect against accidental
deletion, corruption or viruses
► Synchronously replicated data and metadata adds
reliability
► Cloud Tiering and Archival
► Flexible RAID configurations provide parity protection
against disk failures
► Integrated backup (with Tivoli Storage Manager*) uses
an optimized journal to efficiently backup changed data
► DirectProtect to automatically detect and correct silent
data corruption
*Optional, Additional Licenses Required

17. © 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
GS7K Specifications
Specifications
Protocols NFS v3, CIFS SMB 1.0, 2.0 and 2.1
Linux and Windows Parallel FS Clients
Performance 12GB/sec per scale-out building block
Metadata Distributed
Storage Host Ports: 4 x 56Gb/s FDR InfiniBand Ports
Drive Support SSD, Performance SAS and Capacity SAS/SATA
drives, 3.5” 60 in base unit, 396 with expansion
enclosures
File Servers per base
enclosure
4 NSDs
Data Protection • RAID 1/5/6
• Up to 256 Snapshots per Volume – policy driven
• Snapshot Rollback
• DirectProtect & DirectProtect+
• Online & Automatic Storage Rebalancing
• High Speed Defragmentation
Replication • Synchronous Data and Metadata
• Asynchronous using WOS
Data and System
Management
• Quotas (users, groups, file sets)
• DirectMon Centralized configuration and
monitoring solution
• Optional HSM Interface for ILM (IBM HPSS)
• Optimized Backup (IBM TSM)

18. DirectMon™ | Monitoring
© 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
High-Level GS7K
Monitoring
Selection Tree
Shows NSDs and Storage
Select a Component to Drill Down
Aggregated Performance
and Capacity Metrics
System Health for All
NSDs and Storage in the
GS7K Cluster
NSD Specific
Monitoring
Selection of
Monitoring Views
Available for GS7K
NSDs
Capacity
Monitoring
Health Status
Time-Based View
Options
Graphic Monitoring
Report

19. DirectMon™ | Simple, Scalable
Appliance UI
© 2014 DataDirect Networks, Inc. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
ddn.com •Any statements or representations around future events are subject to change.
Storage Management Made Simple
► A powerful, intuitive single
pane of glass to monitor &
manage the GS7K Appliances
► Web interface delivers 100% of monitoring
capabilities anywhere, any time
► Performance and Capacity Metric Monitoring:
Monitor over 350 metrics to model, problem
solve and predict
► Provision and configuration tool sets
► User Defined Alerts and Thresholds