1. Extending Auto-Tiering to the Cloud For additional, on-demand, offsite storage resources 1

2. Copyright © 2011 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Harness the Power of Diversity Disks Storage Hypervisor Apps Server Hypervisor Users Desktop Hypervisor

3. Copyright © 2011 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Top Level View Storage Hypervisor Server Hypervisor(s) Tiered Pool of Purpose-Built Storage Resources On Premises In the Cloud

4. Copyright © 2011 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Demand / Priority Determine Tier 4 MailDatabaseWebAppsFile 35%5% Speed Price / TB Storage Hypervisor Price/ Capacity Infrastructure-wide Caching Boosts Performance Across All Tiers On-PremisesCloud 60%

5. Copyright © 2011 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  Monitor sustained I/O behavior across groups of disk blocks (chunks)  Compare access frequency against average for each tier  Promote or demote chunks to most suitable tier 5 Tier 2 Tier 3 Above average moves up a tier Below average moves down a tier Tier 1 Chunks Tier n Auto-Tiering: How it Works

6. Copyright © 2011 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. TierCostRASSpeedDensity Disk Space (TBs) 1 HiMedHiLo W brand P1 model 2 MedHiMed W brand G2 model 3 LoMedLoHi X brand S3 model n Very Lo MedLo Very Hi Monthly Cloud Subscription (Pay per TBs used) Explicit Tier Assignments 2TB 10TB Used W brand P3 model W brand G5 model Z brand Q7 model Used 8TB 20TB SAN 6 30TB 2TB

7. 7 CloudArray® Virtual Appliance Overview FOR DataCore Software Extending Data Storage and Data Protection to the Cloud © 2012 TwinStrata, Inc Zero-Friction Enterprise Storage™

8. Public Cloud Storage CloudArray® Storage Applications Virtual & physical servers Virtual Software Appliance VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, EC2, or Hardware Private Cloud Storage iSCSI Provider API SECURE At-rest, in-flight 256-bit encryption FAST & EFFICIENT Dynamic Disk Caching, Deduplication and Compression, Bandwidth Controls Customer Premises The Gateway to Cloud Storage “Pay as you go" Utility Model Plus Save Space, Power and Cooling! Think 50PB = “Zero” U form factor CloudArray Portal 8 © 2012 TwinStrata, Inc CloudArray® Virtual Appliance

9. 9 Web portal Web UI Simple To Setup  CloudArray Portal  www.cloudarray.com www.cloudarray.com  License management  Alert management  Automatic “push” upgrades  Auto backup  CloudArray Control  Browser based  Management Console  Petabytes of cloud storage in minutes  Rapid configuration tools  Web-based UI and APIs © 2012 TwinStrata, Inc

10. 10 Hypervisor VMWare, Hyper-V, XenServer, EC2 VM Local Storage DAS/SAN/NAS Cloud Volumes Benefits Instant cloud storage tier Virtually unlimited capacity expansion Secure 256-bit encryption Efficient deduplication & compression Instant off-site capacity for Backup/Archive Offload existing Tier1 storage, extending lifecycle Tiered Storage Use Case VM CloudArray® Virtual Appliance © 2012 TwinStrata, Inc

11. 11 Hypervisor VMWare, Hyper-V, XenServer, EC2 VM Backup Server VRanger Pro RMAN Backup Software CloudArray Virtual Appliance Local Storage DAS/SAN/NAS 256GB Cache01 Cloud Storage 2TB Volume Thin Provisioned Blocks Tape Backup VM Works with existing backup solutions No API programming No “rip and replace” No policy changes Backup & Archive Use Case Microsoft Cluster Service © 2012 TwinStrata, Inc

12. Flexible Configurations Cloud Storage 2TB Volume CloudArray Appliance iSCSI Fast File Backup Server “Full Disk Cache” 2 copies of the data Challenges Mandatory Local Performance Local Copy Cloud Storage 10TB Volume CloudArray Appliance iSCSI 50GB Disk Cache Archive Volume Small Disk Cache Large Cloud Volume Challenges Tier1 Growth Regulatory Compliance Local Costs Cloud Storage 4TB Volume CloudArray Appliance iSCSI 1TB Cache Backup Server Disk Cache > 1 Full Volume Backup Partially Disk Cached Challenges Replace Tape Costly Error Prone Manual 2TB Volume 12 © 2012 TwinStrata, Inc

13. CloudArray Virtual Appliance  iSCSI-attached cloud storage  Thin-provisioned, resizable volumes  Up to 384TB per data volume  Policies to meet application needs  Multiple disk caches, dynamic resizing  Using any local storage (SAN/NAS/DAS)  Bandwidth controls, scheduling  In-cloud snapshots  Downloadable software  Runs on VMware, Xenserver, Hyper-V, EC2 13 CloudArray® Business Applications Shared Disk Cache Dedicated Disk Cache StorageCloud © 2012 TwinStrata, Inc

14. CloudArray® Virtual Appliance System Requirements  64-bit server running VMware ESX or ESXi Server v3.5 or higher, Citrix Xenserver v5.5 or higher, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon EC2  50 GB free disk space min  1GHz 64-bit x86-based CPU min (2 CPUs recommended)  4GB RAM  1Gb Ethernet network 14 © 2011 TwinStrata, Inc

15. Copyright © 2011 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  Free 1TB CloudArray Virtual Appliance ► Perpetual license (not just a short term trial version) ► Limit one per DataCore Customer ► Runs on any of the major server hypervisors  Features ► Access to full CloudArray feature set ► One data volume ► Up to 1TB capacity ► Optional free 30-day cloud storage account on Amazon S3  Support ► Full support for 30 days - 9am-6pm ► email support after 30 days Special TwinStrata Promotion $2995 value

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