Transcript Company Presentation - S & L International

Compellent
Company and Product
Overview
Why Compellent?
Compellent
Redefining the impact of data storage
with enterprises around the world
 World’s fastest growing storage company
 NYSE:CML
Key Technology Partners
 Award-winning technology
– SAN of the Year
– Quality Award Winner
 Lowest TCO in the industry
 Worldwide installs across all industries
– 98% customer satisfaction ratings
FBI
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Our Customers are Passionate
SAN Market Window of Customer Ratings
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Compellent Storage Center
Scalable Enterprise-class SAN with the lowest TCO in the industry
 Reduce CAPEX by over 74%
– Automated Tiered Storage
– Thin provisioning
 Cut OPEX in half
– Less administration: no training required
– Reduced bandwidth, power, cooling, rackspace
 Ensure continuous data availability
– Unlimited snapshots without full copies
– Replication flexibility for low-cost DR
 Supports any open-systems server without agents
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Connect via FC, iSCSI or both
File access via NFS, CIFS or both
Scale from 1TB to over 700 TB
OS Support: Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, AIX,
Netware, Mac OS X, Tru64, Open VMS, VMware
 Investment Protection
– Seamless growth: no more forklift upgrades
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Hardware Overview
Server and disk drive technology independence — Mix and match
any combination
Storage Center Controllers
• Standards-based hardware
• Server and disk connections via PCI cards
• Controller clustering for high availability
– “Shared nothing” approach
• High-speed mirrored, write-back cache
Storage Center Disk Enclosures
• Scale from 1TB to over 700TB
• Expand storage online
• FC switched disk enclosures (SBOD)
– Drives supported: FC – 10K, 15K
– SSD – STEC Zeus IOPS
• SATA/SAS disk enclosures
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The Compellent Advantage: Dynamic Block Architecture
The only storage solution that manages
data inside the volume
Dynamic Block Architecture
 Metadata
– Creation, Access, and Modification time
– Frequency of access
– Disk drive type/RAID level
 Sophisticated data movement engine
 No performance impact
 U.S. Patents issued
Traditional SANs
Compellent
72°F
72°F
70°F
68°F
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Reduced System Complexity
Block-level virtualization improves asset utilization and performance
Virtualization Benefits
Compellent Advantage
 Optimized data placement
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Traditional SAN
Drive type/speed
Multiple
One
RAID type
Multiple
One
 Higher performance
Drive capacity
Any
One
 Change RAID levels
anytime
Change RAID level
Any time
Downtime required
Performance tuning
Automatic
Manual
Auto re-striping
Yes
No
 All volumes span all drives
 No performance tuning
 Simplified capacity
planning
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Enabling Efficient Storage Utilization
Eliminate the need for provisioning empty space
Thin Provisioning Benefits
Dynamic Capacity Advantage
 Only consume capacity
when data is written
 Reduce disk drive, space,
power and cooling costs
 Instant volume creation
 Automatic growth with
applications
 Performance gains
 Thin Import for immediate
savings
Traditional Thin Provisioning
 Much larger chunks
 Windows–unrecoverable space
 Pre-allocation required
 “Fat” data migrations
 Snapshots not thin provisioned  Limitations on application usage
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Automated Management of Inactive Data
The ONLY SAN to automate ILM inside the volume
Benefits
Data Progression Advantage
 Patented technology
automatically moves
inactive data to lower tiers
 Eliminates RAID 5
write penalty
 74% less disk costs
 Reduced power, cooling
and floorspace
 Automatically move
snapshots to lower tiers
 No server side agents
required
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Traditional Approach to Tiered Storage
 Entire Volume movement ONLY
 Manual data classification
 Manual data movement
 Extra software on each server
Optimize Data Placement
Reduces the number of drives while maintaining performance
Fast Track Benefits
 Operates inside the
volume at the block-level
Fast Track Data Placement
Minimize Seek Time
Data on the Fast Track
 Use up to 30% fewer
drives
 Reduce the need for
costly, high-power drives
 Improve disk utilization
 Optimize performance on
actual usage patterns
 Significantly lower latency
on read/write operations
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Traditional Data Placement
 Volume-level placement
 Active data distributed across
the drives
 Allocated but empty space on
outer tracks
 Wasted inner tracks on the drive
Rapid Data Recovery
Industry’s most advanced snapshots reduce downtime and save time
Data Instant Replay Benefits
Data Instant Replay Advantage
 Readable and writeable
instantly
Replays
Traditional
Snapshots
Mount by any
server
Yes
No
Recovery time
Seconds
Hours–
Cloning required
Writeable
Yes
No
8:15
Boot volume
Yes
No
Maximum
allowed
Unlimited
Limited 8-12
8:30
Pre-allocation
None
20-50%
required
 Patented technology
Copy-on-write
No
Yes
 Single Mailbox Recovery
Drive type used
Any–
user defines
Same as active
volume
 Space efficient – freeze
pointers
 No space pre-allocation
 Integration with common
applications
 Reduce dependence
on tape
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Compellent
Approach
8:00
8:45
Simplified, Low-cost Disaster Recovery
Live testing anytime, fast recovery minimizes outage time
Thin Replication Benefits
Remote Instant Replay Advantage
 Anytime DR validation
 Significant reduction in
bandwidth and
management costs
San Diego
Quality of
Service
M-F
8:00 –
17:00
M-F
17:00 –
5:00
Sat
0:00 –
24:00
Oracle
45%
10%
30%
Exchange
45%
10%
30%
File servers
10%
80%
40%
Las Vegas
 No space pre-allocation
 Integrated IP & FC –
No extra hardware to buy
 Replication in 6 clicks
London
 One button, automated
restore
 Patented technology
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Thin
Provisioned
Volume
Replay
Schedule
Storage Management
Centralized Monitoring and Management
Enterprise Manager
Single Pane of Glass
 Multi-System Management
– Discovery
– Capacity Management
– Performance
Management
– Reporting and Data
Export
– Replication Management
– Event Management
San Diego
London
 Benefits
– Simplifies Storage
Administration
– Streamlines Disaster
Recovery
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Las Vegas
Boot From SAN
Lower server costs by more than $100,000 for every 25 servers
Boot from SAN Benefits
 Diskless servers
 Thin provisioned boot
volumes
 Less power, cooling and
floorspace
 “Spawning” of boot
images
 Replace failed servers in
less than 15 minutes
 Easy to replicate boot
images for DR
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The Complete Boot From SAN Solution
Compellent Copilot Services
World-class service delivered by Compellent from the USA
Service and Support Benefits
 Support Services
Proof Points
Compellent Ranked No. 1 in Technical Support
– Copilot engineers available
24x7x365 @ headquarters
– Immediate response –
No “2 hour call-back” policy
 H/W & S/W maintenance
 Phone-home monitoring
– Predictive & proactive
 Professional Services
 High customer satisfaction
– 98% satisfaction rating
– 100% would buy again
 2008 Quality Award Winner
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“Top-Rated SAN”
“The most knowledgeable support staff
belongs to Compellent.”
Storage Magazine, April 2008