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Concerto 7000 All Flash Array

Comprehensive Data Services

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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Global Customer Success

Public Sector & Education

Telecom Media &Entertainment

Healthcare & Medical

Retail Services & Manufacturing

TechnologyFinance & Insurance

ROI in >1 year with 90% reduction in report time for its billing application

“With Violin technology the data is ready, waiting for us whenever we need it”

ERP system is running 4X faster on the Violin platform.

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Violin Flash Arrays Transform Your Data Center

Unmatched Operational Cost Violin Density provides lower power, cooling and floor

space

Remove caching & overprovisioning to reduce management expense

Near Instant Payback Optimize servers and licenses: more workloads at less

expense

Combine OPEX and CAPEX savings + Business Transformation

Flash is faster, easier, and pays for itself

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Example is from an EMEA global financial organization

Annual expense by category

After Violin All Flash Arrays were installed, next year’s spend changed dramatically

Multiple workloads = high ROI

Violin Flash Arrays Dramatically Reduce Costs

$ / year

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Violin Symphony

vMOS & Embedded Platform Software

Concerto™ and Windows Flash Array

3rd Party Storage

6000 All Flash ArrayMaestro 2510

REST APIs &3rd Party Management

Host Software & Application Plug-Ins

Maestro

Enterprise Data ManagementData Movement Services

Windows Flash Array

Enterprise All Flash Storage Solution Portfolio

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“Violin has led the adoption of all-flash storage systems by both enterprises and service providers. Now, Violin is driving flash usage to encompass a wider range of applications. Data center operators need storage systems that not only meet ever-growing performance challenges, but also offer sophisticated data management and protection services.”

Tim Stammer, Senior Analyst 451 Group

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Comprehensive Data Services Software

Business Continuity

Data Efficiency

Data Scaling

Data Protection

Designed for Concurrent Mixed and Multiple Workloads

“Hardware architecture – hardware design - matters. To extract maximum performance the molecule to start with is the flash chip, not SSD. Enterprise-caliber data services matter…It will actually change the way you do business.”

Arun Taneja, Founder and consulting analystThe Taneja Group

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Business Continuity

Metro AreaData Center Global

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Comprehensive Data Services SoftwareBusiness Continuity Remote asynchronous replication Synchronous replication

- Local/Metro

Zero RPO and RTO for stretch clusters Consistency Groups for replication Automated App DR management WAN optimized replication

Data Efficiency Snapshots (app consistent, writable)

Thin Provisioning

Thin Clones

Data Scaling Scale-up to 280TB raw

Capacity pooling across shelves

Online expansion of capacity

Online LUN expansion

Single name space across shelves

Data Protection Snapshots (app & crash consistent)

Consistency Groups for Snapshots

Continuous data protection

Transparent LUN mirroring

Backup app integration

“The storage market has always been plagued by an over emphasis on dollar per gigabyte. Now it's about the cost per data center. An all-flash array is a negative cost to the CIO when a solution brings together a one-of-a-kind hardware architecture and advanced software features to sustain enterprise workload performance while reducing hardware, software licenses and power.”

Greg Wong, Founder, Principal Analyst Forward Insights

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Feature Details

Storage Virtualization Thin Provisioning, LUN expansion, multiple shelf single name space

Snapshot Crash consistent snapsApplication consistent snapsLUN group snaps1000 snaps per LUNConsistency Groups (128 LUNs per group, best practice: <50)

Remote Site Data Replication

Continuous and Periodic- by LUN for application controlLocal, Metro, WANWAN optimized traffic: Compression/reduction/bandwidth throttling to save on network costsEncryption for Replication traffic

Clone Thin CloneThick Clone

DR Automation Framework Automated server recovery

Comprehensive Data Services Software

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Feature Details

Scale Up Dynamically scale to 280TB rawSingle name space across full scale up capacityDynamically scale LUNsDynamically utilize new capacity for thin LUNs and snaps

Continuous Data Protection Copy on First Write (more efficient than continuous snapshots)

Eco-System Integration VAAI VMware ESXSRM- VMware Site Replication ManagerSMI-S Windows 2012

Stretch Metro Cluster Transparent Failover/Failback between two sites (up to 100km)

Mirroring Transparent mirroring of LUNs between two storage devices

Near-Zero RPO and RTOZero RPO and RTO

For replicationFor stretch clustersEliminates the backup window, enables recovery of all files received

Comprehensive Data Services Software

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Concerto 7200 Array: Sample Deployment Overview

Replicas

Promotion for disaster recovery

DR Server

Datacenter Disaster Recovery Site

Application consistency

Snapshot Agents

Thin, Snap, Clone, VAAI

Virtual disk

Scale up

Stretch Cluster

Replication (Continuous, Periodic)

Snapshot Agents Snapshot Agents Snapshot Director

IP

Multiple DBs orDB + email + ERP + CRM

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Flash Fabric Architecture™

Performance- Over 500K sustained IOPS at sub .5ms latency with

mixed, heavy workloads using MLC Flash

- Automatic Quality of Service

Density- 70TB raw in 3RUs and low power (500W/RU)

Resiliency- Automated, transparent GBC in the background

without application performance impact

- Designed for long flash life with array-wide flash management, wear leveling and vRAID

64 Violin Intelligent Memory Modules – All FlashStriping across entire system

RAID Controller

RAID Controller

RAID Controller

RAID Controller

PCIe Switched Storage Fabric

Array Manager

Built for Concurrent

Mixed & Multiple Workloads

“We now see the tipping point for all flash array adoption. Without sophisticated data services, most large enterprises hesitated to make the switch to support the entire business on flash. Now with Violin’s Concerto, these workload heavy organizations now have good reason to consider making the leap into an all-silicon data center for concurrent mixed workloads.”

David Hill, Principal Mesabi Group

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Performance, Density & Resilience

Switched Flash Fabric Architecture

- Heart of the system

- 4x vRAID Control Modules (VCM)

Array control modules

- Controls flash fabric

- System level PCIe switching

Active/Active Array Managers

- Storage virtualization

- LUN configuration

- Fully redundant hot-swappable hardware

- Fans, power, gateways, controllers

- No Downtime with non-disruptive upgrades (NDU) for firmware and software

SWITCHED

FABRIC

24 to 64

Hot Swappable

VIMMs

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Comprehensive Data Services Software

Mixed and multiple heavy workloads

Performance to transform your data center and your business

Up to 280TB raw capacity- ALL FLASH

Upgrades from 6000 available to 7000

Concerto 7000 All Flash Array

Concerto 7000

“Users are looking to go beyond tactical deployments that solve the need of a single application and therefore functionality like non-disruptive software and hot swappable components are essential to prevent down time. Violin Memory has combined its home grown data management features with its flash array architecture to do just that.”

Stu Miniman, Principal Research Contributor Wikibon

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Thank YouBusiness in a Flash.