Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 1 SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE IN ACTION Add speaker name here

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 2 Storage Market in Midst of Disruption Server Storage 1985 CHALLENGES  Too many incompatible devices  New software for every device  Silos of storage  Management NAS SAN 2000 Server Storage Hybrid Arrays Today NAS SAN Server Storage Flash Arrays Flash Hyper-converged Systems Cloud

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 3 Pool all storage capacity and provide centralized management The right software must be able to do a few things… 1 Enable different storage devices to communicate with one another 3 Why Software-defined Storage? Make hardware maintenance, data migrations, and hardware refreshes easy 4 Separate advances in software from advances in hardware 2

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  Accelerate  Centralize & Automate  Pool & Protect 4 One Software Platform for any Storage Hardware UNIFIED STORAGE SERVICES HYPER- CONVERGED SAN CLOUD VIRTUALIZED HOSTSPHYSICAL SERVERS Virtual SANSANsymphony-V

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Introducing SANsymphony™-V10  10 th generation product  Runs on standard x86 servers  Most comprehensive hardware agnostic storage stack in the industry  25,000+ deployments worldwide Define Your Storage 5 UNIFIED STORAGE SERVICES HYPER-CONVERGED SAN CLOUD AVAILABILITY Synchronous Mirroring Snapshots / Backups CDP Asynchronous Replication PERFORMANCE Caching Random Write Accelerator Auto-tiering Quality of Service (QoS) EFFICIENCY Thin Provisioning Storage Pooling Data Migration Deduplication/Compression MANAGEMENT NAS/SAN (Unified Storage) Centralized Management Analysis & Reporting Cloud Integration

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 6 Benefits at a Glance 75%10x4x100%90% reduction in storage costs performance increase capacity utilization reduction in storage-related downtime decrease in time spent on routine storage tasks Surveyed DataCore ™ Customers Report Up To:

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 7 Use Cases for SANsymphony-V10 Virtualize your existing storage hardware Create hyper-converged storage from clustered servers Integrate Flash/SSDs with existing storage

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 8 Solution Overview Virtualize your existing storage hardware Create hyper-converged storage from clustered servers Integrate Flash/SSDs with existing storage

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Virtualize External Storage Hardware FUNDAMENTALS OF DATACORE STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION  Runs on standard x86 servers  One set of common storage services for all storage devices  All storage capacity in a single pool eliminating wasted capacity  Unlike storage systems communicate seamlessly reducing complexity and preventing downtime  Replicates data leaving no single point of failure  Seamless scalability with no reason to commit to a single hardware manufacturer 9

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Create up to 15 tiers of storage 10 Evaluates data at the block level so data from a single application can reside on multiple storage tiers Auto-tiering Dynamically Optimizes Resources Below average moves down a tier Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 1 Tier n HotColdWarmArchive Above average moves up a tier

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  Uses x86-64 CPUs and memory from DataCore nodes as powerful, inexpensive “mega caches”  Run applications at electronic memory speeds vs. slow spinning disks  Intelligently anticipates reads and streamlines writes to optimize performance 11 10x performance on existing storage

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 12 Faster Apps / IT Advantage

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 13  Data is synchronously mirrored between unlike storage systems  Replicate, failover and failback between unlike devices  Seamlessly move data from one device to another Cross-Device Synchronous Mirroring

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 14 Easily Connect Between Sites Any Application Any Hypervisor Any Storage Hardware

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 15 Peace of Mind

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 16 Solution Overview Virtualize your existing storage hardware Create hyper-converged storage from clustered servers Integrate Flash/SSDs with existing storage

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Transform DAS, Flash & SSDs into Hyper-converged Storage 17  Pools local storage resources for all to share  Runs as a virtual machine  Any hypervisor, any storage, any server  Faster built-in server RAM for superior cache performance  Lower cost since only 2 nodes needed for High Availability ► Flash is optional as Tier 1 storage

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  Dramatically increase performance  Share Flash cards between hosts  Auto-tier between RAM, flash and disk  Share capacity across cluster of servers  Speed up apps with RAM caching Full-featured Hyper-converged Storage 18

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 19 Low Cost Storage at Remote Sites and Branch Offices  No need to buy expensive external storage  Runs on any standard server hardware  Increases application performance Scales up to 1000’s! Hyper- converged storage Virtual SAN Hyper- converged storage Data Center Central SAN

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 20 Massive Scale for Tier 1 Apps and VDI 125…… 6443 Scale up to 64 PB Scale from 2 to 64 nodes Accelerate up to 100 million IOPS

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 21 Solution Overview Virtualize your existing storage hardware Create hyper-converged storage from clustered servers Integrate Flash/SSDs with existing storage

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. INTEGRATION AND MANAGEMENT  How do I integrate this new technology with my existing environment?  What new processes do I need to manage this investment? 22 Common Challenges With Flash Storage AVAILABILITY OF SOFTWARE FEATURES  How do I get the functionality I need like high-availability and failover?  What tools will I have to handle data migrations, tiering and thin provisioning to ensure that I’m making the most of my investment? SHARING FLASH STORAGE BETWEEN APPLICATIONS  Do I really need to buy dedicated Flash hardware for every application?

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 23 Flash/HDD Hybrid One Software Platform for any Storage Hardware The Premier Software Stack for Flash Flash - SSD and Arrays

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Easy Integration and Sharing of Flash Storage Flash Cards in DataCore nodes Flash Arrays in storage pool Flash Cards in Hyper-converged Cluster 24  Share Flash between servers and applications  Minimize downtime and risk of integration  Complete set of storage services  Block level auto-tiering  Easily add Flash anytime  Realistic path to all Flash environments

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Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 26  Expand beyond limits of clustered hosts  Fast local primary storage & secondary central pool  Same set of services across both topologies  Leverage central storage resources and services ► Replication, backups, etc.,  Managed from same console Combine Hyper-Converged Storage with Central SAN

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 27 Centrally Managed Environment Major Data Centers [Central SANs] Branch Office [Hyper-converged] Cloud Storage Disaster Recovery Site [Hyper-converged] Branch Office [Hyper-converged]

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. New Economics of Storage Hardware  Avoid hardware vendor lock-in  Skip costly forklift upgrades  Repurpose aging storage systems  Leverage lower cost storage hardware  Massive reduction in planned downtime  Integrate new hardware with minimal disruption ‘The best hardware refresh is the one we didn’t do’* * DataCore Customer 28

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 29 Reduce unproductive hours spent on:  Data Migrations  Hardware Refreshes  Capacity Expansion  Hardware Maintenance  Unexpected Downtime Dramatic Productivity Improvements 62% “In our 24x7 environment, we leverage DataCore to bring in the new SAN, migrate all of the data…without any downtime and within normal business hours.” Neville Lee Director of Infrastructure at Englewood Hospital % of time spent on routine storage tasks BeforeWith DataCore 23%

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Long-term Investment Protection 30 Easily take advantage of advances in hardware technology Complete set of cross-platform storage services Avoid vendor lock-in and costly forklift upgrades Centralize storage management Repurpose aging storage systems Leverage whitebox or JBOD devices

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 31 When to get started with SDS Before your next storage purchase Using or considering flash/SSDs Expanding Server/Desktop Virtualization Developing your Business Continuity Plan

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved ,000 + Deployments Worldwide 10,000 + CustomersFounded 1998 Market Segments Software-defined Storage Storage Virtualization Australia Germany France Japan UK USA Proven. Globally.

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 33 Achieved Preferred Partner Level Elevated to Technology Partner Level Joint Venture on Storage Virtualization Appliance Launched Global Partnership Key SDS partner with integration of System-x Global Partnerships

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved x7x365 multi-lingual support, around the globe Gold-level (not tiered) Consistently achieve > 90% satisfaction in customer surveys 3 major support & training centers: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A. Reading, England Tokyo, Japan DataCore engineers own resolution start to finish Multi-vendor collaboration via World-Class Customer Service

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 35 One Storage Services Platform Across your entire infrastructure  10 th generation product  17 Years of R&D  25,000+ deployments worldwide  Most comprehensive hardware-agnostic storage stack in the industry

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