Guus Bentvelsen

IBM RTC Appliance

Guus Bentvelsen STG Product Manager

Give Your Storage More Space!

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Maximizing Your NAS Storage Investment with Real-time

Compression

Announced: 7 December 2010

GA: today

Two models of the IBM Real-time Compression Appliance:

IBM Real-time Compression Appliance STN6500 (2452-650)

Sixteen 1-Gb Ethernet Ports

IBM Real-time Compression Appliance STN6800 (2452-680)

Four 10-Gb and 8 x 1-Gb Ethernet Ports
or
Eight 10-Gb Ethernet Ports

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Market Indicators are Overwhelmingly in Our Favor

GB of Data

Data Growth

1990

2000

2010

Over time data continues to grow at

exponential rates and will into the future.
487 Exabyte's of data created in 2008.
Only 25% of this data was unique.
- IDC 2009

Percentage of IT Budget
Allocated to Power/ Cooling.
- Wikibon 2010

Source IDC 2009

Millions of $$$

IT Spend as a % of Revenue

Information
Mobility

1990
More data needs to be in more locations than
ever before for protection and availability.

2000

2010

Always looking to do more with less!

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The Primary Storage Growth Challenge

Primary storage continues to grow
35% to 65% for most companies

Servers

Virtual
Servers

All of this data is being backed up

Disk
Backup

Archive

Tape

Archive

Disk

Archives of primary data are also

created for compliance purposes

Mirrors
Snapshots
Clonesn

In the remote facilities backup tapes

are cut from the disk copies for long
term preservation
Disk

Disk
Backup

Replicas
Mirrors
Snapshots
Clonesn

Off-Site
Data Storage
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Value Proposition from Technology to Financial

Something for Everyone
Finance

Technologist

What if Real-time Compression could save

Name another technology that can:
significant CapEx / OpEx expenditures?

Smarter:Store up to 5x more data for improved Analytics

Better: Shrink data in real time, while its still active
Faster: Reduce I/O bottlenecks; improve user response time
Greener: Reduce power, cooling, data center space
Efficient: Achieve up to 80% more storage utilization in the same footprint

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Real-time Compression Give Your Storage More Space!

Real-time Data Compression Up To 80%

Reduce costs for NAS Environments
Virtualized Server
Reduce CapEx / OpEx

Servers

No Performance Degradation!
Mgt. Console

Fully Transparent
Easy to deploy & manage
No change to performance
No change to applications,
networks or storage
No change to process

Innovative
35 Patents

Switches

IBM Real-time
Compression
Appliances

Storage

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IBM Real-time Compression Appliances for NAS

STN 6500

STN 6800

Two Appliance Models

STN 6500
Supports up to 16 1 GbE
connections
STN 6800
Supports up to 8 10 GbE
connections

Appliance based on Latest IBM

X Series Server

Easy configuration
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Average Real-time Compression Rates

Never change over time!

80% = 5:1 or 5x
66% = 3:1 or 3x ---------50% = 2:1 or 2x

Individual Compression Rates Vary

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IBM Real-time Compression Client Results

Customer
Shopzilla.com
USA

Polycom
Israel

Senwes

Use Case

50% reduction in storage capacity

25% reduction in backup windows
200% annual data growth rate managed effectively

data domain

75% (4x) smaller footprint for home directory data

Reduced backup window, replication costs

Microsoft

EMC2

83% (5.9x) smaller footprint for SAP with Oracle

2x increase in transaction processing

Oracle

Helphire

United Kingdom

75% (4x) smaller footprint for VMDK files

Reduced power, cooling floor space

VMware

Mazda

67% (3x) smaller footprint for CAD data

More archive data kept online

South Africa

Japan

Results

Siemens
PLM
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Give Your Storage More Space - Throughout the Data Lifecycle

2x / 5x

CapEx / OpEx Savings

2x / 5x

Real-time compression of data at

the point of origin
2x / 5x

Primary Data

Remote
Office

Disaster Recovery

2x / 5x

2x / 5x

Secondary
Storage

2x / 5x

Perform analytics on more data

Keep more archive data
online / active

Active
Archive

2x / 5x

Up to 5x capacity increase for new

and existing storage

Reduce data transmission costs

2x / 5x

Reduce backup / restore times

Backup to Tape

10

Deduplicated
Backup

LAN B2D

Complement to data deduplication

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Sizing a Real-time Compression Environment

Process to Qualify a Real-time Compression Solution
Pre-Qualification Tasks:

1. Storage Platform (NAS? Protocol? Vendor?)

2. Data Type (Compressible?)
3. Capacity
4. Growth Rate
5. Cost/TB

Process to complete cursory sizing of a Real-time Compression

Solution
1. Connectivity?
2. HA ?
3. Model ?

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Real-time Compression Value Proposition

Immediate Cost Savings & ROI

Total Capacity 100TB

90% Full

40TB Back-Office, 30TB VMware, 20TB Oracle

CAGR 30%, Price/TB = $5,000

Immediate Need for 30TB
35% YoY Growth

Option A Purchase Additional Capacity ($150k)

Option B Purchase IBM Real-time Compression
($62k)

Results:
71% average data reduction
Delay capacity purchase by 56 months
- Leveraged 312TB from existing storage
Immediate CAPEX savings of $88k, ROI of 142%
Reduce effective $$/TB to $1,758 (64% savings)
3-yr CAPEX savings of $476,650

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The Competition What is Real-time Compression Up Against?

Buy More Disk

Wait for the Big Guys

Market Confusion
IBM ProtecTIER

Can you afford it?

Doesnt help with the
green story

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Real-time
compression is very
HARD!
Most solutions are
post-process
Other solutions have
poor performance

A lot of hype around

deduplication
Compression and
deduplication are
complementary

IBM has the market leader advantage now!

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Efficiency Characteristics - File

IBM

NTAP (ASIS)

Ocarina

EMC

ZFS

Up to 80%

9% - 12%

18% - 80%

35% - 55%

~55%

CORE*

1800

2.5

78

1.7

250

Real-time

YES

No

No

No

Yes

Random access

YES

Yes

No

No

Yes

No performance impact

YES

No

No

No

No

Lossless

YES

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Deterministic

YES

No

No

No

Yes

Fully transparent:
Applications

YES

Yes

No

No

Yes

Fully transparent:
Downstream processes

YES

No

No

No

Yes

High availability

YES

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Storage agnostic

YES

No

Yes

No

Yes

Heterogeneity

YES

No

Yes

No

No

Optimization Rate

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In summary

Business Value of RTC

Lower TCO
Greener storage
Do more with less
Improved availability

By using specific benefits of RTC

Storage capacity savings up to 80%
Very fast and easy installation/implementation
No performance loss, fully transparant
Shorter backup and restore window

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Interesting stuff to check

Real-time Compression website:
http://www.realtimecompression.com
How to install RTC in 8 minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/user/RealTimeCompression#p/a/u/1/uHoejV
_aS7A
Comparison vs NetApp DOT based compression:
http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Measuring_the_Effectiveness_of_Capacity_
Optimization_Technologies
http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/NetApp_add_Compression_to_its_Storage_
Efficiency_Portfolio
http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/IBM_Integrates_Storwize_and_Readies_for_
Large-scale_Deployment
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