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Compelling Economics: Traditional Storage vs. StorSimple

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Traditional Storage + Data Protection Architecture

Servers Primary Volume Snapshot Disk Array ($100K; Double if Replicated) Media Server ($25K) Disk Backup/ VTL ($100K; double if replicated) Encryption Appliance Physical Tape Infrastructure ($50K) Offsite Vault

StorSimple Cloud-integrated Storage

50 TB

Traditional

CapEx: $375K | Support: $75K per Year

Azure + StorSimple

CapEx: $70K | Support & Cloud: $39K per Year

Primary Volume Local Snapshot Cloud Snapshots To Nearby Cloud Storage Service Region Cloud Clones To Remote Cloud Storage Region for DR Servers

Storage Challenges Are Broad

2 Primary Storage Disk-Based Backup Storage Tape Infrastructure and Management Archival Storage Replicated Storage for DR Offsite Facility for Georesilience

Storage Today = Complex & Expensive

Data Management Complexity Backup Issues Untested Disaster Recovery Data Growth and Footprint Equipment Sprawl

Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS) Can Help

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Azure + StorSimple = 60–80% Lower TCO

Thin, Reduced Snapshots Cloud Snapshots Recover in Cloud

• r Any DC

Automated Cloud-as-a-Tier Use Cloud as Secondary DC Cloud-Integrated SAN Storage

Primary Storage Disk-Based Backup Storage Tape Infrastructure and Management Archival Storage Replicated Storage for DR Offsite Facility for Georesilience

Storage Today = Complex & Expensive

Focused CiS Applications and Workloads

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Capacity Time

Data Grows Exponentially

(50–60% Annually)

However, Most I/O Happens to the “Working Set” Data

CapEx, OpEx

• f Traditional

Storage

CapEx, OpEx of StorSimple Cloud Storage Local Storage

Target Use Cases

File Share

• CIFS
• NFS
• File servers
• NAS

SharePoint

• Business

intelligence

• Collaboration
• Content and records

management

Archives

• EMR/PACS
• Legal
• Construction
• Media
• Engineering
• Logs, records

VMs

• Regional office

storage

• VM sprawl
• VM archives

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Application Servers Inactive Data + Backup Copies

• n Azure storage

Connects Windows and VMware Servers to Azure Storage in Minutes with No Application Modification

Benefits

• Consolidates primary, archive, backup,

DR thru seamless integration with Azure

• Cloud snapshots = revolutionary speed,

simplicity and reliability for backup and recovery

• Reduces enterprise storage TCO by 60–80%

Speed of SSD/SAN + Elasticity of Cloud SAS Local Tier Most Active Data on SSD

StorSimple Cloud-Integrated Storage

StorSimple SharePoint Database Optimizer

Smaller databases, seamless content scaling

• Automatic BLOB separation = 95%+ reduction in database size
• Instant thin provisioning of multi-terabyte SharePoint content

Simple management

• Full integration into central administration
• Reduction in # of databases + administrators
• Empowered end-users

Better availability and disaster recovery

iSCSI/SCSI driver iSCSI Windows Server BLOBs EBS/RBS SSDO Relational Access

Storage Object Model

SharePoint Application

DBs BLOBs

StorSimple Solution Characteristics

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Scalability / Performance Capacity

5520

10-50TB* usable local 300TB max capacity

7520

20-100TB* usable local 500TB max capacity * Denotes usable local storage capacity with compression and de-duplication, varies by use case. * Additional details about appliance specifications can be found at: http://storsimple.xyratex.com/storsimple/specifications

5020

2-10TB* usable local 100TB max capacity

7020

4-20TB* usable local 200TB max capacity

StorSimple Cloud-integrated Architecture

• Seamless iSCSI integration
• Highly efficient storage
• Thin provisioning
• Primary storage de-duplication
• High performance + cloud elasticity
• Integrated tiering: SSD, SAS & cloud
• Full security for the cloud
• Local keys + encryption of all cloud data
• Protecting both data-in-motion and data at rest
• Fast, automated data protection + recovery
• Automated snapshots to cloud
• Fast online restores and elimination of tape
• Integrated disaster recovery – lowest cost &

complexity

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On an Enterprise-Class Platform

• Certified: VMware-ready and Microsoft Windows Server-certified
• HA: full redundancy + hot swaps + non-disruptive upgrades

SAN Storage

• iSCSI SAN with auto-tiering (SSD/SAS)
• Automated snapshots
• Primary dedupe/compress

Seamless Cloud Integration for:

• Tiered primary + archives
• Cloud snapshots: mountable for DR

With Cloud Data Management

Enterprise-class Hardware Platform

• 1. Full MPIOs
• 2. Dual controllers with auto-failover
• 3. Dual power
• 4. Dual cooling
• 5. RAID drives
• 6. Hot-spare drives
• 7. Non-disruptive software upgrades
• 8. Certified by Microsoft & VMware

Highly available - no single point of failure

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* 5020, 7020, 5520 and 7520 appliances are built and distributed by Xyratex

One Box – One Management Console

Simplify Storage Management

10 Minute Install Enterprise Grade Manageability Simplify - One Console Intuitive Dashboard Integrated Diagnostics Powerful Reporting

StorSimple Tiered Architecture SSD Performance, Deduplication and Auto-Tiering to Cloud

SSD

Deduplicated

SAS

Deduplicated Compressed

Cloud Deduplicated Compressed Encrypted SSD

Linear Tier A B C A B D E C D E D E E

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StorSimple Incremental Snapshots

Local Snapshot Performance with Cloud Data Protection

Instant Snapshot Cloud Snapshot Instant Restore 95% Storage Reduction Application Consistent <RTO/RPO >Retention

…Enables Seamless Scalability and Rapid Recovery

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Cloud Snapshots Enterprise Data Center 1 Enterprise Data Center 2 Connect Many Servers to Cloud Storage and Scale Data Sets with StorSimple Solution Rapidly Recover to Any Data Center, Location-Independent, via Mounting the Cloud

Production Data Production Data

Cloud Snapshots: Up to 100x Faster RTO

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Application Recovery Times from Offsite Backups in a Disaster

Recovery Time Primary Data

1 TB 5 TB 20 TB 50 TB 100 TB 15 Min. 1 Hour 1 Day 7 Days 30 Days 90 Days

Regular Cloud Backup

With 100 Mbps WAN Link

Tape StorSimple Cloud Snapshots

With 50 Mbps WAN Link

Azure and StorSimple ASAP Offers

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$100K for ~100TB1

with 7020 appliance2 OR 7520 appliance2 (no additional cost)

$50K for ~50TB1

with 7020 appliance2 (no additional cost)

1 Approximate amount of storage. This varies based on discounts, Azure storage type selected (local vs. geo replicated) and usage of other Azure services. 2 Appliance built and distributed by Xyratex

$50K/year on Azure EA for storage

• Covers 50TB of Azure storage through StorSimple

appliance for most use cases

What customers are paying for

$100K/year on Azure EA for storage

• Covers 100TB of Azure storage through StorSimple

appliance for most use cases

What customers get at NO additional cost

7020 appliance (worth $70K)

• Gold support for 1 year with Next Business Day

(NBD) parts

Option-1: 7020 appliance (worth $70K)

• Gold support for 3 years with NBD parts

Option-2: 7520 appliance (worth $120K)

• Gold support for 1 year with NBD parts

Additional costs

(Xyratex charges customer directly)

• $5,000 per year for Gold support in years 2 & 3
• Additional $2,500 per year for upgrade to platinum

support

• Additional $10,000 for upgrade from 7020 to 5520

Option-1 – 7020 with 3 years of Gold support

• Additional $7,500 for upgrade to platinum support

for 3 years

• Additional $10,000 for upgrade from 7020 to 5520

Option-2 – 7520 with 1 year of Gold Support

• $7,500 per year for Gold support in years 2 & 3
• Additional $2,500 per year for upgrade to platinum

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