Smarter Storage Solutions for the Cloud

and Enterprise Data Centers

Davide Villa

EMEA Business Development Manager

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Our Heritage

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40% DATA GROWTH

4.4 ZB in 2013, 44 ZB in 2020Source: IDC

THE

EXPLODING

DIGITAL

UNIVERSE

INCREASING

GROWTH OF

VALUABLE

DATA

Data is the Currency

of the New Economy2013

22%

Useful Data

In 2013, 22% of the

digital universe was

thought to be useful

INCREASING

GROWTH OF

VALUABLE

DATA

Data is the Currency

of the New Economy2020

37%

Useful Data

Data growth presents a

sizable opportunity, if the

data can be stored and

accessed effectively.

CTOs SURVEYED

ARE NOT

SAVING ALL

AVAILABLE DATA

48% NOT SAVING and

NOT HARNESSING

the Power of Data

STORAGE #1

DRIVER OF IT

INVESTMENTS

Top Priorities Driving IT

HGST Smarter Storage

Solutions for Cloud

and Enterprise Data

Centers

BIG DATA.

YOUR WAY.

Velocity

Volume

Longevity

Value

Purpose-built for

High-Scale Cloud

Data Centers

Volume

Velocity

Value

Longevity

HGST

ULTRASTAR®

HE8

8TBPMR

33%capacity boost

23%lower power

worksanywhere

HGST

ULTRASTAR®

HE8

World’s highest capacity mainstream enterprise HDD

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CABLESFLOOR SPACEPOWERHDDsEnclosures

6TB 3.5”AIR HDDs

8TB 3.5”

Ultrastar® He8 HDDs

160 1,920 13.6 KW 128sqft >350

120 1,440 7.3 KW 96sqft >250

Ultrastar He8 8TB Reduces TCO

Using 3.5”

AIR

6TB HDDs

Using 3.5”

Ultrastar® He8

8TB HDDs

46% less power(Idle, HDD only)

25% less space

Less Complexity

Example 11 petabytes

11-7-14

Delivering Performance

without Compromise

Volume

Velocity

Value

Longevity

HGST

VIRIDENT

SOLUTIONS &

FLASHMAX®

PCIe SSDs

Up to

1.6TBMLC NAND

2-10-25DWPDendurance tuned to requirements

>100KRead/write IOPS

HGST

UltraStar®

12Gb/s SAS

SSDs

Industry most widely adopted SAS SSD

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SAS Use

cases

Up to

4.8TBMLC NAND

<30μsDRAM-like latencies

HHHLlow-profile form factor

>500KIOPS

HGST

FLASHMAX®

PCIe SSDs

Supercharged Flash storage for the hottest applications in the data center

Shared Flash

Pools

High

Availability

Reduced

TCO

HGST

VIRIDENT

SOLUTIONS

Flash Enabled Architecture

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PCIe

Solutions

Single Instance

Caching

Accelerate existing SAN

Boosts any environment

Simple to deploy &

support

RAC: Caching + Share

Accelerate existing RAC

Does not replace SAN

3x IOPs Boost w/ >1ms

latency

RAC: All Flash + Share

Best Performance & Latency

Disruptive approach

6x performance @ 1/3 SAN

cost

SQL Server Cluster

All-Flash or Caching

2x performance @ ½

cost

SAS or PCIe SSDs

Unlimited Flash Pool Size

Hyper-V Cluster

VSAN Alternative

All-Flash or Caching

2x performance @ ½ cost

SAS or PCIe SSDs

HA for MySQL

Fully Synchronous

60% Faster

2:1 server consolidation

ClusterCache for

MySQL

3x IOPs Boost

No SAN Replacement

6x Latency Reduction

Flash Pools for MySQL

Disruptive Technology

38% Server Consolidation

60% Performance Boost

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Travel Site: 3 to 1 Server Consolidation

After

• 3:1 server consolidation & 6:1 rack consolidation

• 3x increase in performance

• Accommodates higher user growth and increased revenue

• Excellent user response times

• Reduced capital expenses

Before

• MySQL using disk form-factor SSDs

• Exponential growth driving massive server sprawl

• Escalating space/power and operations expense

• Large storage infrastructure drove high management costs

Purpose-built for High

Density Active Archiving

Volume

Velocity

Value

Longevity

ACTIVE

ARCHIVE

PLATFORM

enables

MultiPBper rack

5Xstorage density and power efficiency

compared to common scale-out storage

increase

ACTIVE

ARCHIVE

PLATFORM

Storage platform for Petabyte-scale data centers

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HGST Storage Portfolio (come to our booth for more)

Capacity Enterprise

Performance Enterprise

Cloud & Datacenter Mobile External Storage

Computing Creative Professional

G-Technology™

7200 RPM &

CoolSpin

HDDs

Consumer Electronics

5400 & 7200 RPM

HDDs

9.5mm

7mm

9.5mm 7mm

5400 & 7200 RPM

HDDs

Automotive & Industrial

Ultrastar™

Ultrastar ™

Ultrastar He

MegaScale DC™ Embedded Flash & Endurastar™

CinemaStar™

Travelstar™

10K & 15K

HDDs

Enterprise SSD

4200 RPMHDDs

& Flash Modules

9.5mm

Service

Flash Management & Analysis

Customer Verification Center

Active Archive

• Profiler

• Virident Space

>32TB of Flash

across 128 Servers

• Device Affinity

Elastic Storage Products

Software

• Enabling >10 PB

per Rack

Consumer

Touro™

#LongLiveData

Helping the World Harness the

Power of Data with Smarter

Storage Solutions.