April, 2015

Nexenta: Global Leader in Open Software Defined Storage (OpenSDS)

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#1 SDS player; founded in 2008; 200+ employees; HQs in Santa Clara.

#1 w 6,000+ total customers and 1EB+ in production.

#1 in open “only-software”; 10 years of file system R&D; w 130+ FTEs; 32 patents.

#1 in partner eco-system for any HDD, SSD, Server, Platform, App/workload, Protocol.

#1 Open Source Community w 100,000+ transactions; 46,000+ developers/researchers

#1 in unified block, file and object access support vision.

#1 in WW service/support at enterprise level in OpenSDx-based OpenSDS

#1 in HW, SW, cloud platform certification/delivery process

#1 in flexible SW pricing model – w no HW, SW, and GM dependency

#1 in File System control/innovation (ZFS and CCOW)

#1 in integration for VMware, Citrix, MSFT, OpenStack, CloudStack, etc.

#1 in app-centric vision – orchestration and predictive rules engine

#1 in repeat business with F500-class enterprise customers in the segment

Nexenta is #1 in Open Software Defined Storage (OpenSDS)

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Top Trends - 2015+: Nexenta OpenSDx Vision via OpenSDS Platform

1. Social media meet social commerce via rich media

2. Mobility and IoT – devices, apps and management

3. Big Data with global security, privacy and data governance

4. Hybrid Cloud – public, private, and personal

5. Cloud via Software Defined Everything (SDx) and Open Source at Web Scale/WOAs on commodity hardware: DC to EUC; Infrastructure to Apps –OpenSDx

6. Open Source-driven SDS (OpenSDS) – The Latest Frontier

Source: 2014-15 – Company, Gartner, IDC and Wall Street research.

Faster time to market and simplicity Flexibility and interoperability Improved risk management Lower TCO – OPEX and CAPEX

$1.2B

$16.9B

CAGR: 70%

2015 2020

6.1 zettabytes

42.1 zettabytes

CAGR: 50%

2015 2020

Explosive Data Growth: OpenSDx driven by OpenSDS Mega IT Trends – 2015 - 2020

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No Hardware / No Data Lock-In• Designed to run on broad selection of certified hardware

• Enables dramatic cost savings• Maximum flexibility and agility

Ecosystem Ready• Fully integrated with Citrix, VMware, OpenStack, Microsoft and CloudStack

• 100% delivered through channel partners and OEMs• Scalable from 10s of Terabytes to 100s of Petabytes

Any Access Protocol for Wide Range of Workloads• Block, File and Object protocols

• Advanced data management, data optimization and data protection built-in• Unified, single pane of glass management for all assets

Enable customers to transform their storage infrastructure to increaseflexibility, simplicity and speed to market; improve data and risk

management and reduce TCO

Powerful & Differentiated Value Proposition of True SDS in Education

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15% to

70% less!

25% to

60% less!

Total Cost ($/GB) for 512TB over 3 and 5 Years

3 Years 5 Years

Note: All list prices. Amazon S3 pricing post 12/1/2014 decrease.

Nexenta: #1 End-to-End OpenSDS – Best Cost/Performance

Source: 2014-15 – Company, Gartner, IDC and Wall Street research.

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Q2FY15

Scale-up , block and fileUnified Storage

Enterprise AppsCloud backend and unstructured data

repositories

Storage Services for virtualized infrastructure

VMware Virtual SAN, Horizon and Citrix XenDesktop

Scale-out object, block and file storage

OpenStack SwiftAmazon S3

Next Gen Cloud &Big Data Apps

Unified analytics and orchestration

Real time analytics on performance and capacityCloud service or on-premise deployment

Nexenta: #1 End-to-End OpenSDS – Portfolio as a Platform

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Nexenta Products

NexentaStor

– Enterprise-class Software-Defined Storage Platform

NexentaConnect

– Complete suite of software solutions to optimize Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments, at any scale, persistent or stateless desktops, on legacy shared storage or converged infrastructure.

NexentaEdge

– Nexenta’s next-generation scale-out object, block and file storage solution designed to be the most efficient platform in the market for OpenStack clouds and Big Data applications

NexentaFusion

– Provides analytics and orchestration software that automates arrangement, coordination, and management of complex compute systems, data stores, and services

Product Overview/Strategy

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Unified storage services– File: 10GbE NFSv3 / NFS v4 / CIFS / SMB 2.1– Block: 8Gbps FC / 10GbE iSCSI

High availability & disaster recovery– 2 node active / active cluster

– Periodic async replication over any distance

Data protection– ZFS powered end-to-end data integrity with block level check summing

– Software based RAID 1, RAID N+1, RAID N+2 and RAID N+3– All RAID operations performed on allocated blocks for faster recovery

Capacity optimization– Thin provisioning

– Inline data reduction on entire dataset

Scale– From 10’s of TBs to 2PB (raw)

– Unlimited file system size– Unlimited space optimized snapshots and clones

NexentaStor Key Features

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Block & File

NexentaStor

NexentaStor

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Common Deployment Scenarios

2 way replication

Site A Site B

ScheduledBackup

ScheduledBackup

Backup Target Array

Local unified storage

– NAS and SAN

High Availability cluster

– Two head nodes

– Shared storage

– Write cache coherency

– No single point of failure

Disaster recovery with replication

– Auto-sync to remote data center

Powerful UI with real-time display

All HDD, Hybrid and All SSD configurations

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“Nexenta beats the competition in cost/performance for VDI!” Gartner

Source: 2014-15 – Company, Gartner, IDC and Wall Street research.

Nexenta: #1 End-to-End OpenSDS – Best Cost/Performance

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Customer Reference: Wipro Global Cloud Service via Nexenta OpenSDS

Source: 2014-15 – Company, Gartner, IDC and Wall Street research.

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NexentaStor Typical Use Cases and Differentiators

File Shares for Apps & Desktops

NFS, SMB 2.1Inline data reductionSnaps and clones for protectionSimple scaling to PB usableIndustry leading TCO

Cloud Backend

NFS, iSCSI, FC, SMB 2.1High performance with hybrid SSD & HDDUnlimited namespace sizeInline data reductionEcosystem integration

Business Continuity & Near Line Archive

NFSPB scale with inline data reductionEnd to end data integrityDual & triple parity RAIDIndustry leading TCO

File Shares for Grid and Digital Media Apps

NFS, iSCSI, FC, SMB 2.1High performance hybrid SSD & HDDUnlimited namespace sizeInline data reductionUnlimited, high perf snaps and clones

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NexentaStor 4.0 Reference Architectures – Dell, HP, Supermicro

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Disrupting Storage Market via OpenSDS “One Byte at a Time!”

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Award-Winning Company, Award-Winning Software

April, 2015

Nexenta: Global Leader in Open Software Defined Storage (OpenSDS)

@nexenta#softwaredefinedstorage#sddc#opensdx#opensds