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BeyondRAID – RAID Without Regrets
IP ExpoOctober 2010
Paul Thackeray – VP/GM of EMEA
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Agenda
Business Challenges of SMBs
Limitations of Traditional RAID
Key Benefits of BeyondRAID
About Data Robotics
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Business Challenges of SMBs
Data storage is too complex to manage – requires the ability to predict future storage needs
Storage failure cause downtime and massive loss of productivity and revenue
Limited budgets are not sufficient to keep up with exploding data growth - SMB storage continues to be overpriced
Small, overworked IT staff tend to be generalists and are unlikely to have in-depth knowledge of storage
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There is a need for safe, expandable storage…
SoHo and Remote Workers
Small and Medium Business Servers
Digital Home Theatre Media Center PCHi-Def
Small and Medium Business Applications
External Storage Solutions
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…Yet RAID remains the only alternative
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Traditional RAID
✔Protection Against Hard Drive Failure
however.........
✘Complicated to Configure
✘Difficult to Expand
✘Inflexible - Requires Identical Drives
✘Inefficient - Requires Dedicated Hot Spare
✘Antiquated – 25 Year Old Technology
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What if you could...
Not have to configure or manage RAID levels
Switch between RAID levels with a single click
Utilize any size drive from any manufacturer
Instantly expand by adding a larger drive
Never have to manage capacity at the volume level
Have RAID arrays that manage and heal themselves
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BeyondRAID – RAID Without Regrets
Heterogeneous – mix drive sizes, vendors Auto detecting and configuring Instant expansion Self-healing Change between RAID levels instantly No provisioning required, ever No skilled management required Determine real usage at a glance - “data aware” Operations (e.g. rebuilds) happen much more quickly
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RAID 1
RAID 5
RAID 6
BeyondRAID
Single Disk Redundancy ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔Dual Disk Redundancy ✔ ✔
Instant Expansion ✔Smart Volumes™ ✔Data Aware ✔Proportional Rebuild Times ✔Automatic Healing ✔Mixed Drive Size Utilization ✔Thin Provisioning ✔ ✔ ✔Self-Managing Storage ✔
BeyondRAID vs. Traditional RAID
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Not All Thin Provisioning is Created Equal
Most thin provisioning pulls storage from specific drives
Still requires LUN-level capacity management
Limited-to-no ability to reclaim blocks from deleted data
Smart Volumes pull storage from common pool of drives
Common pool eliminates need for LUN-level capacity management
Smart Volumes “stay thin” by reclaiming deleted data blocks
CommonDrive Pool
LUN 1 LUN 2 LUN 3 SV 1 SV 2 SV 3
90%Full15%
Full25%Full
RAID BeyondRAID
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About Data Robotics
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Provide SMB and Departmental Enterprise customers with the best storage experience ever
Easier to use and manage Affordability for the value that is
unprecedented Safer and smarter regarding
data protection Expandable in an easy and
perpetual manner
Expandability
Security
Affordability
Ease of use
Drobo Value Proposition
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Shipped first product mid-2007
100% year-year growth rates
>150,000 units sold
>50 Industry Awards
Started with Prosumers and Creative Professionals
Expansion to business (SOHO, SMB) products
Global: Offices in UK, US, Germany, Singapore
Rapid Growth
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Drobo Customers Range Beyond the SMBBusiness Government Education
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Data Robotics Business Products
Model DroboPro DroboPro FS DroboElite
Pricing Starting at £959 Starting at £1,279 Starting at £2,739
Primary UsageDAS - Single Server
StorageNAS – Shared File
Storage
SAN - Multiple Server Storage for SMBs and
Departments
Capacity 8 Drives / 16TB 8 Drives / 16TB 8 Drives / 16TB
Redundancy Single or Dual Drive Single or Dual Drive Single or Dual Drive
Volumes Up to 16 Auto Up to 255
Hosts Single Up to 25 Active Up to 16
Interfaces Gigabit Ethernet (iSCSI), FireWire 800, USB 2.0
Dual Gigabit Ethernet (SMB/CIFS & AFP)
Dual Gigabit Ethernet (iSCSI)
New
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Award-Winning DroboPro
Single server storage for creative professionals and SMBs
Over 10,000 units installed iSCSI, FireWire, and USB interfaces Eight (8) drive capacity Supports up to 16 Smart Volumes Single or dual-drive redundancy Ideal for single server storage, disk-
based backup, or online archive
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Customer Validation of BenefitsDroboPro
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DroboElite – World’s First Self-Managing iSCSI SAN Multiple server storage for SMBs and departments Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports offer best-in-class performance Eight (8) drive capacity with single or dual drive redundancy Supports up to 255 Smart Volumes and up to 16 hosts Symantec and VMware Certified Perfect for email storage (<100 mailboxes), virtual machine
storage, disk-based backup, multiple-machine media editing Savings up to 90% compared to other iSCSI solutions
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Customer Validation of BenefitsDroboElite
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UpgradeForever
Pay As You Grow
DataAware
Mix n’ MatchDrives
SimpleManagement
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