Solid Access Technologies is a privately held company based in Massachusetts that develops ultra-fast solid state disk (SSD) products using standard interfaces like Fibre Channel and SAS. Their SSD products have outperformed other storage technologies in customer benchmarks. With headquarters in Boston and offices in Europe, Solid Access focuses on global opportunities through direct sales and partners. Their SSD products eliminate latency and boost IOPS and performance for applications with heavy random I/O workloads.

2. Solid Access Technologies Based in Newburyport, Mass., privately held Solid Access Technologies was incorporated in 2002, with a mission to lead the ultra-fast Solid State Disk category by adhering to a philosophy of reliance on industry standards in both sharable technology and the use of widely available components. Solid Access’s USSD products have won head-to-head customer benchmarks against all other popular Storage technology types worldwide, providing empirical data to the claim that Solid Access offers the fastest Storage technology in the world, using standard interfaces like Fibre Channel and Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS). With Headquarters in the Boston area and worldwide Research & Development and European Union Sales efforts located in Prague, Czech Republic, Solid Access focuses on global opportunities through direct selling efforts and via our Partners in North America, Latina America, Europe and Asia.

3. Some Solid Access Industry Partners

4. OPENWARE-RAMSAN is OPENWARE BRASIL in America. With its office in LA, Openware-ramsan has been a central focus for business all over Latin America. At Openware-Ramsan we don’t sell just hardware, we sell a solution for your company OPENWARE BRASIL provides software and IT services to improve the value of your technology investments. We can help you and guide your IT operational team to increase efficiency in your environment and decrease costs OPENWARE-RAMSAN

5. CUSTOMERS Openware do Brasil & Openware-Ramsan

6. What is Solid State Disk ? SSD - Solid State Drive is data storage device It is a no-mechanical hard drive It is a RAM-Drive Easily plugged in any server easily Commom soltuion for I/O bottleneck HD -> 4000 microseconds access time (= 4 Milliseconds) SASSD -> 10 MICROSECONDS access time

7. What is an SSD ? Memory as storage: DRAM versus Flash Flash: cheaper than DRAM, but more expensive than FLASH HDD Non-volatile Same write speed as a HDD and a little faster reading than HDD Reliability for DRAM is >2M hours MTBF) DRAM: TB cost more expensive than HDD, but IOPS cost cheaper than HDD Volatile Access time average 140 times faster than HDD. Same as what is used in modern storage system caches. Reliability for DRAM is >2M hours MTBF) Note: MTBF ("Mean Time Between Failures")

8. Table of Storage Technologies and key Metrics – Source Violin Memory Notes 1 - Metrics are all normalized as typical rackmount system statistics per U of height (1.75”) 2 - Latency and IOPs estimates assume same numbers of random reads and writes 3 - Latency and IOPs estimates assume 4K block sizes Technology Capacity (GB) Latency (µS) IOPs Cost / IOPs ($) Cost / GB ($) Capacity HDDs 2,500 12,000 600 13.3 3 Performance HDDs 700 7000 1,200 16.6 28 Flash SSDs 700 200 500 140 100 Flash SSDs (R/O) 700 45 50,000 1.4 100 DRAM SSD 250 3 200,000 0.5 400

9. Why SSD Now? Facts: Storage performance is increasing in importance For some banks, every millesecond of storage response time reduction translate to $100M annual profit! Performance gap between servers and storage is widening HDDs are the only components in the modern data processing systems that rely on moving parts IOPs/GB is decreasing over time Memory prices are dropping

10. The State Solid Disk Solution Solid State Disks are peripheral devices, comprised of an array of semiconductor chips . They function as a hard disk emulator without the random access speed limitation of hard disks Unlike mechanical disks, DRAM based SSDs have no moving parts and process data at RAM speed They eliminate seek and rotational latency times during read and write requests and are much more robust than hard disks The key advantage of SSDs is that they access data in microseconds (compared to milliseconds for hard disks), which increases I/O operations per second (IOPS) by an order of magnitude By closing the I/O Performance Gap, SSDs effectively eliminate I/O bottleneck problems encountered in transaction-intensive enterprise applications

11. The I/O Performance Gap The mismatch between solid-state CPU and mechanical hard disk processing speeds is the root cause of system I/O bottlenecks. Remember: CPU Performance has increased 30-fold over the past 10 years

12. DRAM SSD Background Solid State Disk is deployed by customers with an absolute need to meet the highest IOPS requirements and data integrity, such as military, security and intelligence agencies Since 2003, USSD technology has been used by customers supporting mission critical applications DRAM SSD devices are proven ultimate performers, superior to any other data storage technology in existence today, including Flash-based technology, which is limited by inferior random write performance and durability

13. The Price Barrier of Conventional Solid State Disk With a random access speed over 1000 times faster than hard disk drives, experience has proven that SSDs can dramatically improve the performance of all enterprise applications that process large numbers of random I/O data transactions Specially-engineered devices using proprietary components jacks the price up on SSD SSDs historically have been produced primarily as proprietary standalone units, purchased by big-budget customers (such as the military) for whom the absolute need to meet demanding IOPS requirements justified their high cost Old mentality of Price-per-TB versus Price-per-IOPS made the market harder for SSD

14. Eliminating I/O Bottlenecks Solid State Disk is a proven solution to I/O bottleneck problems that does not disrupt existing IT infrastructure The key to this solution is off-loading identi fi ed I/O demanding fi les (“hot fi les”, typically less than 5% of total content) onto an SSD device for processing at RAM speed with microsecond data access rates Cold fi les continue to be processed on mechanical disk drives (or RAIDs) with millisecond access rates This instantly improves the ef fi ciency of servers by recovering CPU cycles formerly lost in I/O wait loops

15. Eliminating I/O Bottlenecks Common solutions to I/O bottlenecks employed by IT administrators have included: endless application performance tuning, server upgrades, storage upgrades, (adding cache and more HDDs), and re-writing the application Each approach has had specific drawbacks, including slow implementation, increased engineering support, complexity, vendor lock-in, reliability issues, and limited scalability Furthermore, these approaches generally had little effect when applied in random access environments since they did not directly address the root cause of I/O bottlenecks – the inherent restricted IOPS capability of hard disk drives

16. TCO Comparison: HDD vs USSD – Universal State Solid Disk As Solid Access USSD I/O Accelerators provide tremendous IOPS and bandwidth performance, the devices provide significant CAPEX and OPEX benefits when used in conjunction with traditional storage arrays A transactional application using a typical 4K file size can expect 200 IOPS from a Hard Disk Drive, while the same files will produce 60,000 IOPS on a Solid Access USSD unit, a 300 times multiplier, or equal to 300 HDDs For immediate result and minimal cost re-directs all "hot files“ associated with a typical OLTP application to a Solid Access device (average 10 - 30 GB) 300 drive storage array with all associated hardware = $200,000 USD SSD unit = 90% less to provide the same performance Storage array requires planned maintenance as well as expected drive failure replacements USSDs have zero maintenance requirements and no hard drives in the data path to replace, leading to additional savings

17. TCO Comparison: HDD vs USSD – Universal State Solid Disk

18. What applications are good SSD candidates? First take a look at the CPU utilization of the server that the application is running on Check network bandwidth for bottleneck in the network or host bus adapter (HBA) Run some storage diagnostics to locate I/O bottlenecks Generally: CPU utilization high = different bottleneck CPU utilization less than 40% = storage I/O problem

19. Our USSD All USSD products are covered by a two year warranty and is designed as an open system architecture appliance Our USSD’s sole use of standard industry components of proven performance and reliability and its assembly by a world-class, ISO 9001 and 2000 certified manufacturer-integrator By placing just 16 GB of their most dense I/O application subsets on a USSD, Solid Access customers have experienced incredible productivity gains and recouped their acquisition cost almost overnight using easily quantifiable metrics USSD is a plug-and-play device that appears as a conventional SCSI, SAS or Fibre Channel disk drive to the host computer, supporting all major operating systems. No special drive A mapping company using a well known data management software product to handle 160TB of images and supporting files reduced search times from minutes to seconds by placing application metadata on a 16GB FC USSD device, with no tuning (payback for the device in five weeks!)

20. USSD UNAS Evaporate Disk I/O Latency Dramatic Application Acceleration 10 µsecond Access Time 1,000 MB/second Bandwidth via a single 10 GigE Interface Over 300,000 Aggregated Random IOPS Plug and Play with Existing 10 Gigabit Ethernet Infrastructure Dual interface 10 Gb/s Network Interface Card (NIC) Standard 64 GB ( 1.2 TB UNAS ) or 96 GB ( 2.4 TB UNAS ) DRAM Cache for better Read/Write Performance and Flash Drive Durability

21. USSD UNAS

22. USSD SERIES 200 US SD 200 supports 4Gb/s Fibre Channel, 3Gb/s SAS and 320MB/s LVD SCSI - 3 Ultra Wide interfaces. Up to six Fibre Channel host connections are available per 2U chassis. Multimode capability provides backwards compatibility (4Gb/s >> 2Gb/s >> 1Gb/s). Up to four SAS or SCSI host connections are available per 2U Chasses. Evaporate Disk I/O Latency Dramatic Application Acceleration Over 300,000 Aggregated Random IOPS 3.6 GB/s Sustained Aggregated Bandwidth 300,000 IOPS, capacity 16-128GB,Bandwidth 3.6 Gbps Plug and Play with Existing Infrastructure Access time 10 microseconds

23. USSD Series 200

24. USSD Series 300 Model 310 USSD 310 supports 4Gb/s Fibre Channel and 3Gb/s SAS interfaces Two Fibre Channel host connections are available per 1U chassis Multimode capability provides backwards compatibility (4Gb/s >> 2Gb/s >> 1Gb/s). One SAS host connection is available per 1U Chasses Best for organizations needing high DRAM SSD capacity in the smallest space possible Offers the same ultra-fast performance as our top of the line offering for those users not requiring interface expansion capability IOPS 130,000; Capacity 32-256 GB, 1U; Bandwidth 1.5 GBps; Access Time 10 microseconds

25. USSD Series 300 Model 310

26. USSD Series 300 Model 315 USSD 315 is the first DRAM SSD integrated with a server in the same 1U enclosure Featuring: 2 CPU AMD Opteron server 128 GB of DRAM SSD storage in a 1U format PCI-Express x 16, dual Gigabit Ethernet port, 2 x 3.5” hot-swap SATA drive bays Model 315 is targeted at custom solutions requiring integration between DRAM SSD storage and other products Combines a server with DRAM SSD storage in a single package Typical application: program the server to allow the on board ultra-fast DRAM SSD storage to act as a buffer between devices for data that is read and written at disparate speeds. 130,000 IOPS, Capacity 16-128 GB,Bandwidth 1.5 Gbps Access Time 10 microseconds

27. USSD Series 300 Model 315

28. USSD Series 300 Model 320 - the fl agship model USSD 320 supports 4Gb/s Fibre Channel and 3Gb/s SAS interfaces. Up to six Fibre Channel host connections are available per 2U chassis. Multimode capability provides backwards compatibility (4Gb/s >> 2Gb/s >> 1Gb/s). Up to four SAS host connections are available per 2U Chassis. 2U rack mount form factor,a maximum storage capacity of 2GB Connectivity can be rapidly modi fi ed and adapted to your data center’s evolving requirements It is an ideal resource in switched fabric environments (SAN) for processing frequently accessed data 300,000 IOPS, Capacity 32-256 GB Bandwidth 4 Gbps, Access Time is 10 microseconds Flexible Interfacing

29. USSD Series 300 Model 320

30. USSD Series 300 Model 310T USSD 310T (Tera Tower) contains four USSD 310 standard units connected to hosts directly or via a SAN switch USSD 310 “engines” can be configured as a one 1 TB volumes or split to multiple virtual disks USSD 310T Tera Tower comes with a wide range of connectivity options (up to 8 FC links) and can be shared by multiple servers as an ultra fast data storage resource USSD standard configurations can be scaled beyond 1TB capacity by linking USSD devices in industry standard 19” rack cabinets One such high capacity option is the 46U (89.5”) Tower, which contains 40 USSD 310s standard IOPS 520,000, Capacity 1TB GB, Bandwidth 6 GBps, Access Time 10 microseconds

31. USSD Series 300 Model 310T

32. USSD Series 300 Model 320T USSD 320T (Tera Tower) contains four USSD320 standard units connected to hosts directly or via a SAN switch USSD 320 “engines” can be configured as a one 1 TB volumes or split to multiple virtual disks USSD 320T Tera Tower comes with a wide range of connectivity options (up to 24 FC links) and can be shared by multiple servers as an ultra fast data storage resource USSD standard configurations can be scaled beyond 1TB capacity by linking USSD devices in industry standard 19” rack cabinets One such high capacity option is the 46U (89.5”) Tower, which contains 20 USSD 320s standard IOPS 1,200,000, Capacity 1TB GB, Bandwidth 16 GBps, Access Time 10 microseconds

33. USSD Series 300 Model 310T

34. Replacing HDD storage with USSD offer numerous benefits including: Better server performance Smaller storage footprint Higher data transfer rate Lower power and cooling requirements Faster I/O response times Improved Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) Reduced cost per IOPS and cost per Watt Eliminate “short-stroking” HDDs and wasted capacity

35. Performance Advantages of Solid State Disk Solid State disks have been recognized for many years as a proven technical solution to IOPS imbalance and I/O bottleneck problems They also provide a multitude of benefits throughout the system network As a peripheral device, properly implemented SSDs do not disrupt existing IT infrastructure They complement RAIDs (File Cache vs. Block Cache) and effect desirable processing load shifts by using CPU more efficiently and reducing the hits on wear-and-tear prone hard disks SSDs can dramatically increase the life span of legacy systems, extending its return-on-investment period Additionally, multiple users can be served concurrently with no peak-load slow down

36. USSD Manufacturing and Reliability • USSD provides numerous advantages that further distinguish it from competitive SSD products • The components we use are of proven reliability and are already deployed in the world’s top data centers in unit volumes of ten of thousands • Should a component become unavailable, or an improved component becomes available, we rapidly implement component replacement • An essential element in the Solid Access business model is that we do not stock components • USSDs are assembled by world-class ISO Certified Integration Center • USSDs are backed by a two-year warranty

37. Solid Access stands ready for server you • If I/O throughput in your enterprise application is a problem, we are confident we can deliver I/O acceleration product at a cost, quality and reliability unmatched in the industry • Organizations are continuing to adopt or add additional capacity to their DRAM SSD investments for mission critical, “succeed or fail” uses requiring sustained, predictable performance • In this way, DRAM SSD is still the king of performance for OLTP and other write-intensive workloads ingesting high data volumes • Contact us today to experience the “Eureka! moment” of almost instantaneous performance improvement by strategically placing a small amount of data onto a Solid Access USSD

38. The issue is not the cost per GB, but the cost per device. How much is a particular user willing to pay for a storage device to get a particular job done? We have learned from corporate CIOs that they are willing to pay a 10-20% premium for a laptop with an SSD. Not all users are storage hungry. Corporate users such as road warriors, for instance need capacity of about 100GB to get their work done, and then are much more concerned with productivity and user experience. Why should I pay more per GB of SSD storage when I can pay less and get much more storage with an HDD?

39. SSD DRAM addresses these concerns directly by offering durability, fast computing * and power efficiency. As SSDs continue to make their way into mainstream adoption, prices will become more attractive and SSDs will be available at higher capacities to a growing population. The question is no longer if SSDs will be adopted in computing applications, but how quickly such adoption will take place in the various sub-segments. Why should I pay more per GB of SSD storage when I can pay less and get much more storage with an HDD?

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