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The Future of Enterprise and Datacenter Primary Storage March 26, 2012
About Us
Sustainable Storage
Memory-based multiprotocol storage systems for virtualization, databases, HPC, and cloud infrastructure
CPUs
DRAM Networks PCIe Bus Hard Drives
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1x
Pentium 4 1.5 GHz
5x
Pentium D 2.6 GHz
30 x
Romley Octal 2.4 GHz
1x
2.1 GB/s DDR1 PC-2100
4x
8.4 GB/s DDR2 PC2-4200
14 x
25.6 GB/s DDR3 PC3-8500
1x
100Mb Ethernet
10 x
Gigabit Ethernet
400 x
40 Gigabit Ethernet
1x
133 MB/s PCI 32/33 MHz
15 x
2000 MB/s PCIe Gen1 x8
48 x
6400 MB/s PCIe Gen3 x8
1x
3.8 ms seek Cheetah 15K.2
1.2 x
3.6 ms seek Cheetah 15K.4
1.2 x
3.6 ms seek Cheetah 15K.7
Accomplishments
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Founded 2006 (privately-held) Profitable since 2009 200+ customers 3-time Product of the Year 3-time Top 10 storage startup
10 - 500 TB (10 TB per U) Distributed Cache Architecture No single-point-of-failure, live SW updates Up to 800,000 IOps and 8.0 GB/sec
2.5 - 100 TB (5 TB per U) Parallel Performance Architecture All-in-one system, 20 minute deployment Up to 800,000 IOps and 8.0 GB/sec
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Unified Storage
SAN: iSCSI, Fibre Channel NAS: NFS (v2/3/4), CIFS (SMB1, SMB2) Server-attached: SRP (SCSI RDMA Protocol) Direct-attached or Network-attached
All-inclusive Software
No per-feature licensing fees
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Deduplication
Stores only unique data, reducing capacity needs Superior hash algorithm eliminates collisions Up to 20:1 data reduction in real-time
Multipathing
Supports industry-standard ALUA protocol No host-based filter driver or agent necessary
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Replication
Continuous, always-on for superior data protection Asynchronous IO for zero local performance impact Bandwidth throttling and automatic recovery on link failures
Data Security
AES-512 (FIPS-compliant) encryption Instant secure erase of flash modules
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Easy Administration
Full CLI
Fully documented and scriptable
Application Integration
VMware ESX/vSphere and Citrix XenServer/Desktop support VAAI support (vSphere 5 and later) Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint-aware VSS provider available (beta) Oracle 11g/RAC/ASM support
Web/Mobile Management
Web-based GUI iPad interface (coming soon)
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Acquisition Cost
15K RPM Array Nimbus
Total Cost/GB
$14.00
Flash Wins!
$13.00
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Effective Cost
Others Nimbus
Reality check
NetApp dedupe survey: 32% typical savings Unrealistic to compare dedupe vs non-dedupe but if you want to, Nimbus still wins
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500
15 ms 13,140 44,834 4U $143,360 $81,920
8,000
< 0.2 ms 2,190 7,472 1U $133,120 $40,960
Flash Wins!
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Top 3 virtualization software provider Top 3 news/digital information provider Top 3 post-production technology provider 3 of the 10 largest semiconductor companies Top 3 provider of online freight management Major US Dept of Defense field deployment Top 3 supercomputing center Top 5 provider of electrical power systems Leader in financial portfolio optimization
Nimbus Wins
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Reduced provisioning time from 40 to 3 minutes Cut power usage 78% Reduced rackspace needs by 65% Comparable acquisition cost to 15K RPM disk
International Distribution
Currently in UK, Netherlands, France, Nordics, and Japan
Excellent support
24 x 7 x 365 technical support Worldwide parts depots
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Questions?
Nimbus Data Systems USA 701 Gateway Blvd, Suite 100 South San Francisco, CA 94080 www.nimbusdata.com (877) 6 - NIMBUS
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