The State of All Flash in 2018

What You Need To Know!

In this webinar you will learn:

● How NVMe Flash and NVMe over Fabrics promise

to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and

low latency

● How Ultra High-Density flash pledges to open up

new opportunities like flash for big data, secondary

storage and even archive

● The role of hard disk and tape in a flash dominant

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Our Speakers

Rob Commins has been instrumental in the success of some of the storage industry's most

interesting companies over the past twenty years including HP/3PAR, Pillar Data Systems,

and StorageWay. At Tegile, he leads the company's marketing strategy, product marketing,

press/analyst activities, as well as competitive analysis.

George 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.

The State of Flash

Media

● Ultra High Capacity Flash

(50TB’s + announced)

● NVMe Interconnect

● Supply vs. Demand

The State of Flash

Systems

● Hybrid (flash and HDD) in decline

● All-Flash

○ Density boost (UHD Flash)

○ Performance boost (NVMe)

● Software

○ Deduplication and compression

tablestakes

○ Feature parity with traditional

enterprise systems

Planning for Flash in 2018

Dealing with Dense

Systems

● Intelligent data movement

becomes important again

○ No longer flash to HDD but

flash to flash

● IT needs to pay attention to failure

domains

Planning for NVMe

● First step is NVMe internal to system

● Flash to flash data movement

important

● Next step is NVMe Over Fabrics

What is NVMe Over

Fabrics

● Extends NVMe Protocol to the network

● Why does direct attached performance

matter with flash?

● Network has seen similar improvements as

storage

● NVMe Over Fabric allows the network to

reach full potential

● Result should be direct attached

performance for shared storage

NVMe Over Fabrics

Rollout

● Stage 1 is likely interconnect

of storage systems

○ Redefines scale-out

● Stage 2 is host to storage

interconnect

Planning a Scale-Out

Strategy

● Scale-up vs. Scale-out

● Loosely Coupled Cluster vs.

Tightly Coupled Cluster

What About Hard Disk

and Tape?

● Hard disk will continue to have a role

in archive / object storage

● Tape’s primary role will be to

maintain a disconnected copy of data

Summary

● 2018 will be the year that all-flash

supplants hard disk and hybrid in

primary storage

● NVMe internal to the flash array

should be standard in 2018

● NVMe Over Fabrics will eliminate the

advantage of direct attached storage

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From the Clean Room to the Cloud …

Vertical Integration

Storage Platforms

NVMe, All-Flash & Hybrid Arrays

Systems & Software

Enterprise & Cloud Storage

Storage Devices

NVMe, SSD, HDD

Components

NAND, Disk, Head

Vertical Innovation

StorageDevices

NVMe, All-Flash & Hybrid Arrays

Systems & Software

NVMe, SSD, HDD

Storage Platforms

Design &Optimization

Enterprise & Cloud Storage

Massive Economies of Scale

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Client Solutions

Client Devices

Data CenterDevices

Data Center Systems

Broadest Storage Leadership and Family of Brands

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Diverse and Connected Data TypesNew demands and challenges in storing, protecting and accessing data

Fast Data

High Performance

Big Data

High Capacity

Transaction Processing

Simulation & Modeling

SmartMachines

Insight

Prediction

Prescription

BatchAnalytics

Real-timeAnalytics

ArtificialIntelligence

MachineLearning

DataAggregation

Modeling

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Our MissionEnabling Customers to Transform their Business

Real-timeAnalytics

ArtificialIntelligence

MachineLearning

DataAggregation

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Disrupting the Economics of Data

Accelerating the Speed of BusinessBatch

Analytics

Modeling

Fast DataBig Data

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MULTI-TIERED FLASH ARRAYS

HD2040 HD2080

Tegile Product Portfolio

HYBRIDARRAYS

T4100 T4200T4x30 T4x60

ALL-FLASH ARRAYS

T4500 T4600T4700 T4800

NVMe ARRAYS

N5200 N5800

CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

IntelliStack

INTELLICARE

CLOUDMANAGEMENT

INTELLIFLASH

OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

Density Performance ManageabilityDurabilityCapacity Integrity

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Run Every Workload @ the Speed of Memory

Performance Tier

Capacity Tier

▪ Get the affordable capacity you need for your business-critical applications

▪ Get the high IOPS and low latency you need for your top-tier applications

NVDIMM

FlashMemory

Dense Flash orHDD

100s of Microsecond Response Times

10x-20x FASTERTHAN LEGACY STORAGE

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Fast Data Acceleration

60% FLASH30% FLASH

10% FLASH 100% FLASH

FAST D

ATA

ONE Operating System | ONE Feature Set | ONE User Experience

WA

RM

DA

TA

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IntelliFlash™ Operating SystemDelivering Comprehensive Data Management

Inline CompressionInstant Snapshots

Instant Clones AsynchronousReplication

Inline Deduplication & Compaction

EncryptionEnd-to-end Data Integrity Metadata Acceleration

Automated Data Placement

Multi-Parity RAID

Thin ProvisioningPer-VM

ManagementHigh Availability

Multiprotocol Data Access

Storage Pooling

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Get Predictive Analytics in the Cloud

BIG DATAANALYTICS

ARRAYTELEMETRY

AUTOMATED REMEDIATION

MACHINE LEARNING& MODELING

SELF-SERVICE PORTAL

GLOBAL MONITORING

PREDICT & PREVENT ISSUES

MODEL & RECOMMEND

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The State of All Flash in 2018

What You Need To Know!

For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at:

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