Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved DataCore Advances Its All-Embracing Software-Defined Storage Platform New Features in PSP2 of SANsymphony™-V10 and DataCore™ Virtual SAN 1

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 2 One Software Platform for any Storage Hardware  Accelerate  Centralize & Automate  Pool & Protect UNIFIED STORAGE FUNCTIONS HYPER-CONVERGED SANCLOUD VIRTUALIZED HOSTSPHYSICAL SERVERS

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 3 V10 PSP2 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. 4 V10 PSP2 – Highlights 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. SDS Platform Services Performance Management 5 Cloud Integration 3 Key Areas Of Enhancements

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  DataCore brings Software-Defined Storage to Cloud Architectures adds OpenStack Support Amazon and Azure integrations Fibre Channel & Auto-tier to Azure StorSimple 6 Cloud Integration Services Cloud Integration

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Gaining popularity  Enterprise IT  Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) 7  Open-source for delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) in private hybrid clouds  Manages pools of compute, storage & networking resources  Spans geographically-distributed datacenters  Offers exclusive access to subset of resources (multi-tenant) OpenStack OpenStack Shared Services Standard Hardware ComputeNetworkingStorage Your Applications Cloud Operating System APls OpenStack Dashboard CLOUD INTEGRATION

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Focus Enterprises & CSPs adopting OpenStack Cloud O.S. DataCore Solution Integrate comprehensive software-defined storage services into OpenStack Results Centralize provisioning / management of existing storage resources using standard OpenStack Cinder commands ROI Savings from not replacing current storage with OpenStack-compatible devices 8 Challenge Lack way to include incompatible storage into new Cloud environment CLOUD INTEGRATION OpenStack Integration

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 9 Administrative Interface Cinder (Block Storage Server) Nova (Compute Server = Host) Horizon  Register Host  Create mirrored virtual disks  Serve virtual disk to hosts  Select redundant paths  Take snapshots Automatic CLOUD INTEGRATION DataCore in an OpenStack Cloud VM

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  Powerful services make it easy to set up  hyper-converged environments,  scalable file systems over clusters,  VDI configurations,  mixed file / block storage and multi-node high- availability deployments  Automates running the software on either physical or on virtual platforms (VMs). 10 Hyper-Converged and Popular Use Case Deployment Services SDS Platform Services

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 11 Focus Stateful VDI deployments with <500 desktops in departmental and mid-market organizations DataCore Solution Highly available / higher density VDI across clustered Hyper-V server pairs with on-server caching & snapshots of inexpensive local disks Results Substantially reduces storage capacity & class of storage needed ROI Lower cost per virtual desktop makes VDI an attractive alternative to physical desktops Challenge Expensive storage necessary to meet performance / HA makes VDI prohibitively expensive VDI Services SDS PLATFORM SERVICES

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 12 VDI Services Compact nodes Cache internal disks Low Cost per Desktop / Departmental VDI Failover Cluster

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Focus Most IT organizations with general file shares and backup volumes DataCore Solution De-duplicate and compress data in the background for virtual disks located in designated pools Results Reduce capacity necessary to store less frequently used copies of data ROI Spend less on storage Challenge Wasting disk space storing same old data in many places 13 Universal Deduplication / Compression SDS PLATFORM SERVICES

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Infrequently-used “cold” data ANALYSIS DEDUPLICATION / COMPRESSION Space Reduction SDS PLATFORM SERVICES

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  Adds Veeam integration services in addition to supporting CommVault Simpana’s IntelliSnap technology and Microsoft Data Protection Manager to centralize backups for a wide range of applications, hypervisors, operating systems and storage devices. 15 Backup Integration Services, Added Veeam Support and Automation SDS Platform Services

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 16 Focus Using Veeam to backup VMware vSphere servers DataCore Solution Automatically trigger Veeam backups of DataCore snapshots to relieve burden of VM snapshots on hosts Results Backups can be taken more frequently with minimal impact on apps to improve RPOs ROI Greater productivity and speedier recovery Challenge vSphere snapshots of VMs used for backups overload hosts and slow down Apps Veeam Backup Integration SDS PLATFORM SERVICES

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 17  Momentarily suspend VM  Snap datastores  Resume VM  Back up datastores in background Datastores Snapshot Proxy Backup Server Host VM Backups from DataCore Snapshots SDS PLATFORM SERVICES

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 18 Focus Organizations with virtual storage pools distributed across multiple locations DataCore Solution Control multiple SANsymphony-V server groups from the same UI & divide administration across appropriate individuals Results Streamlined, centralized management with delegated responsibilities ROI Fewer people required to manage widely distributed storage infrastructure Challenge Difficulty managing remote storage resources Console Services for Multiple Groups SDS PLATFORM SERVICES

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. VMVM VMVM 19 VMVM VMVM Main Data Center VMVM VMVM Centrally Manage Distributed Groups VMVM VMVM Remote Sites SDS PLATFORM SERVICES

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  Powerful set of tools to profile, monitor, instrument, identify ‘hot spots’ and manage performance- impacting application workloads. 20 End-to-end IO Performance Management Performance Management

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 21 PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Focus All organizations DataCore Solution Display additional performance metrics for virtual disks & S.M.A.R.T. alerts from physical storage Results Isolate performance & disk problems before they become serious ROI Reduce time and expense to troubleshoot root causes of application slow downs Challenge Need visibility to IO behavior of virtual and physical disks Expanded Instrumentation / Metrics

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 22 PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Early Warnings Prevent Problems Device-level predictive failure monitor

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 23 PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Focus Using or considering flash memory to speed up apps DataCore Solution Optimize how cache reads from PCIe flash cards Results Faster applications response & better utilization of costly resource ROI Reduce investment in premium-priced flash memory needed to meet SLA Challenge Reads from flash are not as fast as expected Flash Memory Optimizations

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 24 PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Focus Heavy transactional updates with database applications & OLTP workloads DataCore Solution Convert high-latency random writes into storage-friendly sequential writes Results SSD-like speed from spinning disks ROI Reduce need for costly flash Challenge Slow response from apps with high random write percentage Random Write Accelerator

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 25 Before Spending More on Flash PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Disks are slow on random writes

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Low cost spinning disks boost performance of random write-intensive database applications & OLTP workloads 26 DataCore IOPS DataCore Note: SATA + DataCore outperforms SSD! SSD 33X FASTER! PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Random Write Accelerator

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Closing the Server to Storage Gap; Empowering Server Vendors to Meet Enterprise Demands 27

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Huawei and DataCore: Global Partnership Software-Defined Storage and Hyper-Converged 28

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. “The combination of FUJITSU PRIMERGY servers + DATACORE…takes software-defined storage to a whole new price performance level” DataCore and Fujitsu Software-Defined Storage Servers & Appliances " Together, our solutions are defining a new era of software-defined storage solutions. ” - Jens Peter Seick, VP, Product Management and Development, Platform Business of Fujitsu.

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 30 DataCore & Dell PowerEdge Servers View DataSheet: DataCore Software-Defined Storage on Dell PowerEdge ServersDataCore Software-Defined Storage on Dell PowerEdge Servers

Copyright © 2015 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 31 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

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