Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Briefing

London - 17th November 2016

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09.00 Arrival / breakfast meet and greet 09.30 Introduction by Will Garrett-Levy 09.45 State of the Market by Dale Hyde 10.15 Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Product Positioning by MVP Dishan Francis 10.30 Coffee break 10.45 VMware VX:RAIL Product Positioning by Maciek Kozanka 11.00 Introduction to SimpliVity by Neil Simonsen 11.30 SimpliVity technical presentation by Mark Lindsay 12.00 Q&A 12.15 Lunch / Networking

Agenda

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IT Requirements

Reduce CAPEX and OPEX

Implement High Availability

Simplify Management

Automate Increase

Performance

IT Challenges

Shrinking Budgets

Improve Uptime Limited

Resources Faster IT Service

Delivery Improved User

Experience

Organisational Challenges

Create Revenue Opportunities

Improve Customer Satisfaction

Increase Employee Productivity

Create Innovation

Challenges

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An infrastructure system with a software-centric architecture that tightly integrates compute, storage, network and virtualisation resources to help organisations simplify data management and reduce costs

Definition

Hyperconverged

Infrastructure

Transformative

Converged

Infrastructure

Integrated

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Do-it-Yourself

Infrastructure Evolution

Legacy

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Do-it-Yourself

Advantages Brand Comfort Common Skills & Understanding Mix and Match Upgrade Cycles

Disadvantages Complex Inflexible Blended I/O Lacks Scalability Expensive

The good and the bad

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Advantages Brand Comfort Technically Validated Lowered Risk Easier Management

Disadvantages Forklift Inflexible Lacks Granular Scalability Rack space Expensive

Converged

Infrastructure

The good and the bad

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Advantages Reduces Cost and Risk Reduces Time to Deploy and Complexity Increases Efficiency, Scale and Agility Linear Performance Gains

Disadvantages Forklift Brand Lack of extensive storage features

Hyperconverged

Infrastructure

The good and the bad

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Infrastructure Replacement Consolidation and Simplification VDI Linear Performance and Scalability Database High performance and Density

Use cases

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Analyst Validation

May 2016

While a traditional SAN or NAS infrastructure that is connected via Fibre Channel or IP networks to a compute

environment still has a place in the modern datacentre, hyperconverged solutions provide a different level of

simplification, scalability, and agility.

March 2016

Hyperconvergence is a concept whose time has come.

August 2016

The market for hyperconverged integrated systems (HCIS) will grow 79% to reach almost $2 billion in 2016,

propelling it toward mainstream use in the next five years.

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Customer Advocacy

UK & Global Hyperconverged Deployments, since 2014

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Landscape

Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems October 2016

The Forrester Wave™: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Q3 2016 analyst report

HyperConvergence Vendors

• Simplivity

• Nutanix

• Pivot 3

• Hypergrid (Gridstore)

• Atlantis

• Scale Computing

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Software Defined

• VMware VSAN

• Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct

• DataCore

• Maxta

• ScaleIO

• Stratoscale

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Conclusion

• Hyper-Converged Infrastructure is a Megatrend • Architectural Advantages

• Reduces Time to Deploy and Complexity • Increases Efficiency, Scale and Agility

• Cost Advantages • Reduces Cap-Ex and Management Cost and

Risk • Multiple Use Cases

• VDI, SQL and General Purpose • Analyst Validation and Customer Advocacy • Talk to Frontier Technology