Dave Wright, Founder/CEO of SolidFire, delivers keynote October 30th at Cloud Expo Asia, Singapore

2. The move from Siloed to Shared
Infrastructure – and the future of the
Data Centre
Dave Wright, Founder/CEO, SolidFire

3. 2 major shifts within Enterprise IT
• Disk Flash
• Siloed Shared Infrastructure

4. Compute
Stand Alone Virtualized Orchestrated
Network
Isolated Consolidated Converged
Evolution of the Data Center
NextGenerationDataCenter
Storage
Dedicated Shared
Scalable
Predictabl
e
Automated

5. Public Cloud Has Raised the Bar
…driving the transformation of Enterprise IT

6. A Massive Transformation in IT Delivery
Siloed  Shared
Isolated Workloads  Mixed Workloads
Manual Provisioning  Automated
Project Based  Self Service
Scale up  Scale out

7. The End of Siloed Data Center Infrastructure
• Dedicated (Siloed) Infrastructure
• Isolated Workloads
• Inefficient use of Performance / Capacity
• Manually Managed
• Project Based
• Scale-up

8. A Fundamental Shift In App Design & Delivery
Apps span VMs
Data stored in scalable DBs,
cached in memory tiers
Interaction via API,
web or mobile
Apps run on a computer
Data stored in files
Interaction via UI
Legacy Data Center Next Generation Data Center

9. Legacy technology can’t bridge the gap alone
Legacy Data Center Next Generation Data Center

10. Regardless of the name…
...the outcomes are the same
Next Generation Data Center
Software Defined
Data Center
Infrastructure 2.0
Cloud
Computing
Private Cloud IT-as-a-Service
Agile Scalable Automated Predictable
“The demands of the NGDC -
approach are now being felt
strongly by IT organizations of all
types; so much so that one can see
data centers in the next few years
either embracing such a move
themselves, or buying their IT
services from someone that does.”
Mark Peters, ESG

11. Next Generation Data Center delivers…
More agile and scalable infrastructure
Rapid application and service deployment
Increased application performance and predictability
Greater automation and end-user self-service
Improved operational efficiency and reduced costs

12. Getting to the Next Generation Data Center:
Consolidate – Automate – Scale
…all with Guaranteed Performance

13. • Confidently run mixed workloads on a single platform
• Eliminate complex consolidation planning, guaranteed QoS
ensures predictable application performance
• Simplify operational management
• Reduce storage footprint, lower power and cooling costs
Consolidate

14. Automate
• Rapidly deploy applications & services to meet business needs
• Automated data distribution & load balancing eliminates
downtime, reduces administrative tasks
• Full REST based APIs enable deep integration with
management & orchestration platforms
• Reduce risk of human error

15. Scale
• Control capital budgets, granularly add capacity as needed
• Simply, granularly, non-disruptively expand infrastructure to
respond to business growth
• Architecture enables linear capacity and IOPs scaling
• Eliminate generational, forklift upgrades with mixed node
scaling

16. Guaranteed Performance
• Performance virtualization allows you allocate, manage and
guarantee performance to every application
• Provision performance independent of capacity
• Fine-grain QoS ensures your applications get exactly the
performance they need
• Adjust performance on the fly without downtime

17. SolidFire Platform
• Guaranteed Quality of Service
• Complete REST-based API
Automation
• Scale-Out Architecture Design
• In-Line Data Reduction
• Shared Nothing HA Architecture
• FC / iSCSI
• 4-100 nodes in a single cluster
Platform
building
blocks
Mix and match
nodes to realize
your storage vision
Seize Control
SF2405
• Single application acceleration
• Private cloud deployment
• Lowest starting price
• 8.6TB effective capacity
• 50,00 IOPS
Smash Silos
SF4805
• Consolidate multiple Apps
• Consolidate VM silos
• Most cost effective $/GB
• 17 TB effective capacity
• 50,000 IOPS
Achieve Web
Scale
SF9010
• ITaas / IaaS
• Large scale SaaS platforms
• Highest density platform
• 35 TB effective capacity
• 75,000 IOPS

18. Powering the Most Demanding Data
Centers in the World
Service Providers Large Enterprise

19. Consolidate – Automate – Scale
…all with Guaranteed Performance