flash stories: how customers make smarter decisions faster

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Flash Stories: Making Smarter Decisions Faster

Sr. Mgr. Marketing, Data Center SolutionsJanuary 2016

Rob Callaghan


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Rob Callaghan, Product Marketing, SanDisk® Data Center SolutionsBio

Over 20 years of experience in enterprise storage product marketing.

Managed product marketing in the Datacenter Solutions Group at LSI Corporation, Quantum Corporation, Nortel, 3COM and Adaptec.

Involved with SNIA in the Solid State Storage Initiative. Former Chair for the SNIA Storage Management Forum. Bachelor’s degree in Business Information Systems from California

State University East Bay and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

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Closing the I/O Performance Gap

T1 Storage

T2 Storage

Near Line

Processor

L1 Cache

L2 Cache

Main Memory

1 ns

10 ns

100 ns

10,000,000ns (10 ms)

20,000,000ns (20 ms)

>20,000,000ns (>20 ms)

Latency Penalty for leaving memory hierarchy100,000x

Memory / Storage Gap (Enterprise)

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The Challenge: Closing the I/O Performance Gap

T1 Storage

T2 Storage

Near Line

Processor

L1 Cache

L2 Cache

Main Memory

1 ns

10 ns

100 ns

10,000,000ns (10 ms)

20,000,000ns (20 ms)

>20,000,000ns (>20 ms)

Latency Penalty for leaving memory hierarchy100,000x

Memory / Storage Gap (Enterprise)

Fusion ioMemory™ 15,000 nanosecondsMore than 667 times faster

than HDD Storage

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C A S E S T U D Y

Santos Finding Needed Energy for Southeast Asia Markets

CHALLENG EThe IT team needed to determine how to have multiple servers share one storage repository, which would be as local and as fast as possible.

SOLUTI ONTwo 6.4TB Fusion ioMemory™ SX300 PCIe application accelerators

R E S U LT Server footprint reduced 3:1 Latency on the server has all but disappeared

We tried other vendors’ products on the back end and threw huge amounts of RAM at the servers to try to cache up the database as much as possible and accelerate the assets, rather than move them to separate storage. We had some small wins along the way, but the move to the Fusion ioMemory™ cards has been a complete game-changer.”

Darren StantonServer Platform Team Leader


C A S E S T U D Y

Skills Inc. Providing Aerospace Services with the Help of Dell and SanDisk® DAS Cache

CHALLENG EKey reporting and analysis functions were being compromised due to the slow performance of the ERP system

SOLUTI ON Fusion ioMemory™ drive SanDisk® DAS Cache Dell™ PowerEdge™ R730xd server

RES ULT 75% improvement in report processing time Reduced points of failure

With SanDisk DAS Cache, I don’t have to think about it. I just turn it on and it works. It provides the performance I need and that’s worth a lot to me.”

Ed Hammond Senior Systems Administrator


C A S E S T U D Y

Northern Arizona University:SanDisk® + Nexenta : Elevating Academic Success

CHALLENG EPoor system performance in the student labs across NAU’s 13 state-wide campuses was affecting student productivity and academic progress.

SOLUTI ON Optimus Ultra™ SAS SSD from SanDisk NexentaStor™ from Nexenta

RES ULT 20 to 1 reduction in storage requirements 10X improvement in IOPS 10X reduction in latency Eliminated user complaints

Originally, we had a lot of performance complaints throughout the semester, and they could happen at any time. Once we implemented our new Nexenta/SanDisk solution, we basically went down to zero complaints on performance.”

Duane Booher Senior Software Systems Engineer


C A S E S T U D Y

Ehime University Hospital:Hospital Carves Out New Possibilities Through High-speed, Reliable Next-Generation Storage

CHALLENG EAs Ehime University Hospital digitizes medical records, the organization anticipates data volumes to soar to 300TB or more. Both data storage and data search requirements must be accommodated.

SOLUTI ON Fusion ioMemory ioDrive2

R E S U LT 60X improvement in query processing High availability Low bit error rate

The system has to return more than six results in one second. Deploying the Fusion ioMemory ioDrive2 enabled this processing, which had been difficult with the previous system.” Dr. Eizen Kimura Deputy Director Department of Medical Informatics


C A S E S T U D Y

ScaleMatrix:Providing White Glove Cloud Era Service with SanDisk and Nexenta

CHALLENG EAs ScaleMatrix doubles in size annually, the team requires a solution that provides low-latency, highly scalable storage with proven data protection.

SOLUTI ON Optimus Eco™ 400GB SSD CloudSpeed Ultra™ 800GB SSD NexentaStor™ from Nexenta

R E S U LT White glove service to Data Center 2.0 customers 100% access; 100% responsiveness all the time End user clients get more work done

In our industry we’re competing with giants. How do you compete with giants? By providing better service, better support, better availability, and better data integrity.”

Roy BettleVice President of Technology


C A S E S T U D Y

PlentyOfFish:A Perfect Match for Engineering Love

CHALLENG EPlentyOfFish servers 100 million users, many for free. Therefore, the company needed a cost-effective solution to address data consistency, latency, and performance when it became apparent that HDDs could not keep up.

SOLUTI ON Fusion ioMemory SX300 PCIe application accelerators

R E S U LT Low latency; high performance 4x improvement in compute power over hard disk drives Cost containment Reliability and ease of use

When we used traditional hard disk drives in our environment, we were often hours behind. Now that we have moved to Fusion ioMemory™ SX300 PCIe cards, it’s real time. We are also seeing a 4x increase in workload processing on our servers which allows us to get a lot more out of our computers.”

Owen MorleyDirector of Infrastructure


C A S E S T U D Y

Mercator Biologic:Accelerating Genetic Assembly with SanDisk ION Accelerator™

CHALLENG EMercator BioLogic needed a high performance storage solution to turn their innovative approach to genetic code assembly into reality. The company teamed up with SanDisk to deploy a 4-node Oracle RAC cluster that used 25TB of Fusion ioMemory™ application accelerators with SanDisk ION Accelerator software.

SOLUTI ON Fusion ioMemory SX350 6.4TB PCIe application accelerators SanDisk ION Accelerator™ software

R E S U LT Reduced genetic code assembly time from 37 days to 84 minutes Maintained the highest level of accuracy

“While researching methods to improve our performance, we read a benchmark study for I/O processing using SanDisk ION Accelerator software. We have been impressed with the performance gains realized with this data acceleration. This system has proven to give more than three times the performance of any other system we’ve seen.”Roger Arvisais Founding Partner


Rackspace ObjectRocket and SanDisk Accelerate MongoDB “Every aspect of our stack has been tuned to make MongoDB fast, which is why we only use the fastest storage like PCIe flash accelerators in our platform…”

“We rely on the superior performance of Fusion ioMemory™ PCIe application accelerators so that our customers get more transactions per second and more consistent performance without the typical penalty of a shared cloud environment.”

Chris Lalonde Chief Executive and Co-founder, ObjectRocket


Accelerating Oracle Transactional Databases with SanDisk Flash Storage

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Go to Market - from Creation to Solutions

SanDisk Partners and Vendors End Users

Cloud

Large Enterprise

Hyperscale


Fusion ioMemory™ Application Accelerators

• Database• Virtualization• VDI• Analytics• Web hosting

• Seismic data processing • Content caching• 3D Animation• CAD/CAM

Provides a cost-efficient solution for I/O intensive workloads

Databases VirtualizedServers

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Big DataAnalytics

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Source: 2014 SanDisk Fusion Customer Survey

Key Customer Findings

Revenue More customers and transactions

supported Access actionable data fasterCost Consolidate infrastructure Higher employee productivity Leverage SAN InvestmentQuality Meet SLAs Service customers more quickly

Business BenefitsPerformance Improvements

>10x

6-9x

3-5x

1-2x

29%

23%

32%

14%

Levels of performance improvement reported by

Fusion Customers

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Cost Capacity

VSL

FlashSoft® Software

Storage

SanDisk ION Accelerator TM Reference Arch.

Server

(Bandwidth, IOPS, Latency)

SanDisk Application Acceleration OptimizedPerformance

Fusion ioMemory™

Fusion ioMemory™

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Optimus and Lightning SAS SSD’s

CloudSpeed Gen. II SATA SSD’s


NEW Fusion ioMemory™ Mezzanine PCIe Application Accelerators Provide ultra-low latency for real-time data access

• Designed for I/O intensive enterprise applications• These Mezzanine Cards sit close to the CPU and accelerate

applications for high performance• More VMs per server• Fast database/data mining • Fast business intelligence

• Fusion ioMemory Mezzanine cards • Ultra-low latency • High IOPS• Zero Footprint

Only PCIe flash vendor providing flash on mezzanine cards

for blade servers

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Fusion ioMemory™ PCIe Product Family

7,000 Customers & 250,000

Installs

8 YearsPioneer of PCIe Flash

Storage

Broadest Portfolio

PCIe to Mezzanine

Fusion ioMemory™

Trusted & Proven

• Multiple Generations of Servers

• Multiple OEMS

• New HW bundles with FlashSoft

• 1.0TB–6.4TB Capacity Range

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A Global Fortune 500 Leader in Flash Storage Solutions

Personal Smartphones & Tablets Client SSDs Data Center SSDs, Systems & Software

* Financials as of Q2’15. Net Cash = (Cash + cash equivalents + short-term and long-term marketable securities) less (debt at maturity value) as of end of Q2’15; patents are as of Q2 2015.

Vertically Integrated• Fab – Memory Production• Memory System Design• Full Product

Manufacturing • Software Solutions

Patent Portfolio• 5,000+ Patents

Financial StrengthTrailing 4 Quarter Financials*

• $6.1B Revenue• $1.5B Net Cash • $0.9B R&D Investment

SanDisk Ventures• $75 Million for

Strategic Investments

Customers, Channels• OEM• Enterprise• Hyperscalers• Retail, Consumers


Solution Building Blocks for the Data Center… Application Intelligence & Performance

Breakthrough Economics @ Scale

Immediate Access to Information

for an Experience Never Before Thought Possible!

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