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In this presentation, you will learn how world-class enterprises use the Windows Flash Array to improve performance and lower costs. The Windows Flash array was developed jointly with Microsoft Corporation. This presentation includes * enterprise storage challenges * how new sources of revenue can be enabled, thanks to real-time data availability -- users enjoy "business in a flash" * how total cost of ownership is lowered thanks to an all-flash solution * comments from real customers regarding increase in performance and decrease in costs * the key benefits of using the Windows Flash Array
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Windows Flash ArrayThe New Class of Windows
All Flash Storage
Business in a Flash.
Eric HerzogChief Marketing Officer and SVP of Business Development
June 2014
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Global 500 Traction
9 of the Top 15 Largest IT Companies
4 of the Top 10 Largest U.S. Banks
350+ Fortune 500 Class Customers
Billions of Dollars Saved by Customers
NYSEVMEM
Fortune Global 500 leaders
Web/Cloud, Telco, Banking, Retail, Government, Healthcare, etc.
1000s deployed
10s of Petabytes delivered
Wide Variety of Enterprise and Cloud Deployments/Workloads
Flash
Leader
3 of the Top 10 Largest Corporations
5 of the Top 10 Largest Telcos
3 of the Top 10 Largest Retailers
5 of the Top 5 Largest Software Companies
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Enterprise Storage Challenges
Data Growth Demands- Performance- Capacity Efficiency- Operational Management
Data as a Competitive Weapon- New Business Models - Real Time Analytics
Intense Pressure on Data Center Costs- Capital Expense- Operating Expense
Regulatory- Disaster Recovery Contingencies- Encryption for Data at Rest or In Transit
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Violin Flash Arrays Transform Your Business
Enabling New Sources of Revenue Transformative performance for real time innovation
- Real Time analytics to serve ads when they matter
Capture business opportunities with low latency for pan European billing system
- $140M in lost opportunities reclaimed
Tyson Foods Inventory Management & Logistics- Need to ship right inventory to right store every day -
>10,000 stores to service daily
Delivering “Business in a Flash”
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Lower TCO: All-Flash Solution
Status Quo Violin All-Flash
Sto
rage
Serv
ers
Ap
ps
Dat
a C
en
ter
Over-Provisioned
UnderUtilized
LicensedBy Core
Limited Real Estate
Up to 90% Reduction in Storage Costs
Up to 80% Reduction in Cores/Servers
Up to 70% Reductionin Software Licensing
Up to 90% Reductionin Power/Space/Cooling
“Forward-thinking CIOs use flash to lower their costs... In the end, the argument boils down to how much the CIO is willing to spend to avoid using flash.”
Jim Handy, Director Objective Analysis
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Powerful Customer ROI and TCO
ROI in >1 year with 90% reductionin report time for its billing application
Up to 80% reduction in cooling, power, space costs; YoY savings of £200 per VDI unit
“Reduced the cost per IOP by nearly 9X (from £8.88 to £1.03)”
Mary Reeder, CTO
Nightly reports reduced by over 7X, down to 50 minutes from 6 hours.
“Achieving up to 800% improvement in VM creation time.”
“With Violin technology the data is ready, waiting for us whenever we need it”
Ensure business continuity
for e-banking application.
ERP system is running 4X faster on the Violin platform.
NATS saved £9M over 4 years.
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The Windows Flash Array
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Windows in a Flash!
Transformative Speed in Storage
Consolidation and cost savings
Increases server utilization
SMB Direct for Microsoft applications
Enables file server functions
RDMA as a Storage Superhighway
Encryption Dedupe Live Migration Mirroring Scale-Out
>1 year of Joint Violin - Microsoft Development
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1.2M
1.0M
800K
600K
400K
200K
SQL WRITES*
Beta Site Performance: SQL* and Hyper-V
• SMB Direct reduces CPU load up to 30%• Latency averages 500 microseconds at Load
SQL READS*
HYPER-V WRITES
WFA
AFA
IOPS
41% Increase
54% Increase
2x Increase
30% Decrease
50% Decrease
SQL Writes
SQL Reads
Hyper-V Writes
Application Server CPU Utilization
Latency at Load
WFA
WFA
AFA
AFA
*All Microsoft SQL results based on SQLIO load test with Infiniband connectivity
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Windows Flash Array
Application ServersVM Hosts
Flash Array
HA Cluster
RDMA NIC
Redundant Fans
Windows Flash Array has 2 clustered blade servers running Windows Storage Server 2012 R2- 10Gb Ethernet or Infiniband interface for RDMA-enabled
access.
Application servers focus on applications workloads - SMB Direct enables Windows Flash Arrays to directly load
data into app server’s DRAM for unmatched performance
- Windows Flash Array maximizes storage I/O
- Application servers focus on application workloads
Scale up to 280TB of Flash- Up to 4 arrays
System Center and PowerShell simplify storage management and decrease TCO
SMB Direct
“But we're blown away with the Violin Memory Windows Flash Array that combines the power of both.”
Brian Garrett, Vice President, Enterprise Strategy Group
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WFA: Software (Windows Storage Server 2012 R2)
SMB 3.0/SMB Direct/RDMA Data Deduplication
Live Migration
Thin Provisioning
Compression
Mirroring
Replication (DFS Replication - Windows)
Snapshots
NAS: Scale-out File Server
System Center 2012 R2/PowerShell
Microsoft optimized WSS 2012 R2 for Windows Flash Array
SMB Direct performance could not be achieved with any other vendor’s storage
“By embedding Windows management functionality into the storage controller, Microsoft and Violin are solving a problem we often hear from practitioners in the Wikibon community.”
Dave Vellante, Chief Research Officer, Wikibon
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Superior workloads and use cases• SQL Server — Transactional apps, OLTP, Data Warehouse/BI, Big Data Analytics
• SharePoint Server
• Hyper-V — Consolidation, Hyper-V farms
• File Server — QA, dev/test, staging
• Large Scale VDI — up to 5,000 persistent desktops
Microsoft IT environments:
• Return on Investment and Total Cost of Ownership for MSFT Applications
• Workloads with high random I/O
• Improve utilization on Microsoft enterprise app servers
• Hyper-V virtualization and application consolidation initiatives
• Application and server sprawl stretching datacenter limits
Broad Workload Acceleration for Enterprise and Private Cloud Deployments
“Violin’s flash technology gives the Windows Flash Array extremely high storage performance, which has the knock-on effect of reducing CPU load on application servers, while also cutting operational costs by eliminating storage as a source of performance bottlenecks.”
Tim Stammers, Senior Analyst, 451 Group
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Windows Flash Array Key Benefits
Up to 1M 4K IOPS in 3U
Microsecond latencies
Reduce OPEX by up to 80%
Consolidate and virtualize Microsoft applications with no performance penalty
Standardize on Microsoft management tools for training and cost savings
Reduce CAPEX the features of SAN, the performance of DAS, at the price of NAS
Business critical apps up to 10x faster and improved end user experience
*Gartner: Market Share Analysis: SSD Component and SSD-Based Appliances Worldwide, 2012, June 2013
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Microsoft’s View –
“Violin’s Windows Flash Array is clearly a game-changer for enterprise storage.”
Link to blog on TechNet
Scott M. Johnson Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
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“Business In a Flash” from Violin
Windows Flash Array Summary
WFA solves the problems of storage complexity, high costs, and scalability - Real world Performance, ROI, and TCO for SQL and Windows
Deployments- Jointly developed Violin and Microsoft code- Windows Flash Arrays provide unmatched resiliency- SMB Direct and RDMA achieve game changing performance- Windows Flash Array + Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 deliver rich NAS
and storage services
“By building Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 directly into Violin’s uniquely designed all flash array, enterprises will find their Microsoft applications will run at incredible rates to transform their business critical processes.”
George Crump, Founder, Storage Switzerland
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Thank YouBusiness in a Flash.