This document compares all-flash storage solutions from NetApp and Pure Storage. It finds that NetApp has stronger performance capabilities, supported by its scale-out architecture and Data ONTAP innovations. However, Pure Storage leads in storage efficiency through its deduplication and compression techniques. While both vendors offer enterprise-grade reliability, NetApp provides more robust data management services and flexibility in scaling storage capacity and performance over time. The document recommends that NetApp focus on medium and large enterprises by emphasizing its strengths in scalability, performance, and data services management.
Pure Storage provides all-flash storage arrays that are faster and use less space and power than traditional disk-based enterprise storage. Their FlashArray and FlashBlade products improve performance over disk storage. Pure Storage has achieved strong revenue growth, narrowing operating losses, and ample cash reserves. Their business model focuses on selling systems inexpensively initially and relying on customers purchasing additional capacity over time.
NetApp SAPPHIRE 2016 in SUSE booth: "Safeguarding HANA"Mike Nelson
The document discusses how to safeguard SAP HANA systems using SUSE HA and NetApp data protection. It recommends combining SUSE HA for high availability with NetApp SnapCreator backups to provide fast, non-disruptive backups and recovery of SAP HANA. NetApp integrations with SAP LVM and disaster recovery capabilities allow using snapshots for system copies, testing, and disaster recovery while leveraging storage.
The Formula for Maximum Oracle Database PerformancePure Storage
This document discusses how applying the science of simplicity can help achieve business goals through speed and simplicity. It provides examples of companies that consolidated their Oracle databases onto a single Pure Storage server and saw data processing jobs run 5 times faster while reducing their data storage racks from 50 to 5. The companies experienced optimized inventory management and performance that exceeded expectations without needing to purchase more equipment as their data grew.
Cost Effectively Run Multiple Oracle Database Copies at Scale NetApp
Scaling multiple databases with a single legacy storage system works well from a cost perspective, but workload conflicts and hardware contention make these solutions an unattractive choice for anything but low-performance applications.
For many organizations MS-SQL is the backend to many of their mission critical applications. The environment provides a cost effective foundation for an organization to develop custom designed solutions that drive the business forward. As MS-SQL has risen in importance, the demands on the storage infrastructure have also increased. MS-SQL needs a high performance, well-protected storage system that is also cost effective. To meet these requirements many organizations are now looking at flash storage.
Pure Storage provides all-flash storage arrays that are faster and use less space and power than traditional disk-based enterprise storage. Their FlashArray and FlashBlade products improve performance over disk storage. Pure Storage has achieved strong revenue growth, narrowing operating losses, and ample cash reserves. Their business model focuses on selling systems inexpensively initially and relying on customers purchasing additional capacity over time.
NetApp SAPPHIRE 2016 in SUSE booth: "Safeguarding HANA"Mike Nelson
The document discusses how to safeguard SAP HANA systems using SUSE HA and NetApp data protection. It recommends combining SUSE HA for high availability with NetApp SnapCreator backups to provide fast, non-disruptive backups and recovery of SAP HANA. NetApp integrations with SAP LVM and disaster recovery capabilities allow using snapshots for system copies, testing, and disaster recovery while leveraging storage.
The Formula for Maximum Oracle Database PerformancePure Storage
This document discusses how applying the science of simplicity can help achieve business goals through speed and simplicity. It provides examples of companies that consolidated their Oracle databases onto a single Pure Storage server and saw data processing jobs run 5 times faster while reducing their data storage racks from 50 to 5. The companies experienced optimized inventory management and performance that exceeded expectations without needing to purchase more equipment as their data grew.
Cost Effectively Run Multiple Oracle Database Copies at Scale NetApp
Scaling multiple databases with a single legacy storage system works well from a cost perspective, but workload conflicts and hardware contention make these solutions an unattractive choice for anything but low-performance applications.
For many organizations MS-SQL is the backend to many of their mission critical applications. The environment provides a cost effective foundation for an organization to develop custom designed solutions that drive the business forward. As MS-SQL has risen in importance, the demands on the storage infrastructure have also increased. MS-SQL needs a high performance, well-protected storage system that is also cost effective. To meet these requirements many organizations are now looking at flash storage.
Performance for SAP and Citrix XenDesktop applications improved significantly with Pure Storage flash storage. Delivery truck schedule generation time reduced by 60% and virtual desktop login time reduced by 63% with Pure Storage. Daily sales reports in SAP that previously took an hour are now completed in just two minutes. Pure Storage eliminated the massive spikes and wait times associated with spinning disk storage.
CACHEfx is a storage caching appliance that can accelerate storage performance for real-time applications by caching frequently accessed files in RAM. It complements existing storage infrastructure, provides a centralized cache resource that can scale easily, and simplifies storage configurations. The CACHEfx appliance caches files served from NAS filers and delivers them 10-50 times faster to application and database servers, helping to reduce storage over-provisioning and improve quality of service.
IBM NYSE event - 1-16 IBM's Alex Yost and Sean Poulley on IBM X6 Technology B...Cliff Kinard
Alex Yost, VP and Business Line Executive, IBM PureFlex, System x and BladeCenter AND Sean Poulley, VP of Databases and Data Warehousing IBM SWG -
Keynote presentationS from the Jan 16th IBM Infrastructure Matters event NYSE.
TechTarget Event - Storage Architectures for the Modern Data Center - Jeramia...NetApp
Why Is All-Flash Adoption Growing So Fast?
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To be successful today, IT must transition from a cost center to a competitive advantage – and the path to success is through the data center. More central to business than ever before, the next-generation data center must be powered by all-flash.
All-flash is no longer the future; it's the present. Learn how all-flash can save your IT team time and resources with intelligent policy-based management, automation and more.
Is your flash system up to the challenge? Attend this webinar and learn how you can optimize your SQL Server performance. Hear how the pros pinpoint performance bottlenecks and leverage the latest advancements in storage technology to decrease access latency and IO wait times. By the end of the webinar you’ll have the tools and information you need to recommend the best approach for your SQL Server environment.
This ESG Lab Validation Report presents the hands-on evaluation and testing results of the NetApp FAS2200 series with Flash Pool. ESG Lab focused on key areas that make the FAS2200 an attractive offering for midsized businesses and distributed enterprises: cost-effective mixed workload performance, ease of implementation, and storage efficiency.
Mary Firme Content Marketing for Demand Creation Mary Firme
1) Enterprise DBAs tested Pure Storage flash arrays against other vendors by running intensive workloads that would traditionally cause performance issues or break disk arrays, but they were unable to find the breaking point for Pure Storage.
2) A large company saw significant improvements in Oracle database performance and reduced backup times from over 16 hours to 4-6 hours when migrating to Pure Storage from other SAN storage.
3) DBAs reported that managing storage was technically easier with Pure Storage since they did not have to worry about complex storage configuration and management tasks like RAID levels and LUN sizing.
Learn how x6: The sixth generation of EXA Technology is fast, agile and Resilient for Emerging Workloads from Alex Yost. Vice President, IBM PureSystems and System x
IBM Systems and Technology Group. x6 drives cloud and big data for enterprises by achieving insight faster thereby outperforming competitors. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210715795/X6-The-sixth-generation-of-EXA-Technology
6 Ways of Solve Your Oracle Dev-Test Problems Using All-Flash Storage and Cop...Catalogic Software
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Next to performance and scalability, cost efficiency is one of the top three reasons most companies cite as their motivations for acquiring storage technology. Businesses are struggling to control the storage costs, and to reduce OPEX costs for administrative staff, infrastructure and data management, and environmental and energy. Every storage vendor, it seems, including most of the Software-defined Storage purveyors, are promising ROIs that require nothing short of a suspension of disbelief.
In this presentation, Jon Toigo of the Data Management Institute digs out the root causes of high storage costs and sketches out a prescription for addressing them. He is joined by Ibrahim “Ibby” Rahmani of DataCore Software, who will address the specific cost efficiency advantages that are being realized by customers of Software-defined Storage
PernixData FVPTM software decouples storage performance from capacity by aggregating server-side flash into a scale-out data acceleration tier to provide dramatic storage performance improvements to unmodified applications using existing storage systems. FVPTM can be deployed transparently in virtualized environments to support common operations like vMotion and DRS without requiring changes to applications or virtual machines. It provides an enterprise-class performance tier that can be deployed within minutes to deliver an immediate return on investment.
DataCore software can significantly improve performance of virtual servers running SQL Server, Exchange, and file server workloads compared to physical servers with direct-attached storage. Using DataCore, these workloads saw performance increases of 346-538% in IOPS. DataCore also allows customers to achieve up to 500% faster performance, 90% utilization rates, 100% uptime, and 60% cost savings.
Nimble Storage introduces its flash-optimized hybrid storage engine, which is designed from the ground up to leverage the best of flash and disk. It eliminates compromises between performance, capacity, and data management. Key benefits include 2-5x better performance and capacity per pound, as well as significant space savings from inline compression. Nimble's snapshots also consume much less space than competitors due to fine-grained granularity and compression.
Attix5 is an excellent backup solution covering all major platforms and applications. However it also has a very efficient multi-tenant portal. Easy to maintain; quick to deploy.
The document provides an overview of NetApp's FAS2200 series storage systems. It discusses [1] how the new FAS2220 and FAS2240 systems provide a more powerful and affordable foundation for midsized businesses and distributed enterprises, [2] how features like Flash Pools can accelerate performance and lower storage costs, and [3] how the systems offer simplified management, protection software, and flexible growth options.
The document discusses Oracle Linux, Oracle VM virtualization software, and Oracle Cloud products. It describes that Oracle Linux includes the Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for robust performance and high availability features. It also summarizes that Oracle VM provides powerful virtualization capabilities like live migration and high availability and is optimized for running Oracle databases. The document aims to demonstrate Oracle's virtualization and cloud computing products and solutions.
Performance for SAP and Citrix XenDesktop applications improved significantly with Pure Storage flash storage. Delivery truck schedule generation time was reduced by 60% and virtual desktop login time decreased by 63%. Daily SAP sales reports that previously took an hour were now completed in just two minutes. Flash storage from Pure Storage eliminated the massive spikes and wait times associated with spinning disk storage.
Performance for SAP and Citrix XenDesktop applications improved significantly with Pure Storage flash storage. Delivery truck schedule generation time reduced by 60% and virtual desktop login time reduced by 63% with Pure Storage. Daily sales reports in SAP that previously took an hour are now completed in just two minutes. Pure Storage eliminated the massive spikes and wait times associated with spinning disk storage.
CACHEfx is a storage caching appliance that can accelerate storage performance for real-time applications by caching frequently accessed files in RAM. It complements existing storage infrastructure, provides a centralized cache resource that can scale easily, and simplifies storage configurations. The CACHEfx appliance caches files served from NAS filers and delivers them 10-50 times faster to application and database servers, helping to reduce storage over-provisioning and improve quality of service.
IBM NYSE event - 1-16 IBM's Alex Yost and Sean Poulley on IBM X6 Technology B...Cliff Kinard
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Keynote presentationS from the Jan 16th IBM Infrastructure Matters event NYSE.
TechTarget Event - Storage Architectures for the Modern Data Center - Jeramia...NetApp
Why Is All-Flash Adoption Growing So Fast?
Presented by Jeramiah Dooley, Principal Architect, SolidFire
To be successful today, IT must transition from a cost center to a competitive advantage – and the path to success is through the data center. More central to business than ever before, the next-generation data center must be powered by all-flash.
All-flash is no longer the future; it's the present. Learn how all-flash can save your IT team time and resources with intelligent policy-based management, automation and more.
Is your flash system up to the challenge? Attend this webinar and learn how you can optimize your SQL Server performance. Hear how the pros pinpoint performance bottlenecks and leverage the latest advancements in storage technology to decrease access latency and IO wait times. By the end of the webinar you’ll have the tools and information you need to recommend the best approach for your SQL Server environment.
This ESG Lab Validation Report presents the hands-on evaluation and testing results of the NetApp FAS2200 series with Flash Pool. ESG Lab focused on key areas that make the FAS2200 an attractive offering for midsized businesses and distributed enterprises: cost-effective mixed workload performance, ease of implementation, and storage efficiency.
Mary Firme Content Marketing for Demand Creation Mary Firme
1) Enterprise DBAs tested Pure Storage flash arrays against other vendors by running intensive workloads that would traditionally cause performance issues or break disk arrays, but they were unable to find the breaking point for Pure Storage.
2) A large company saw significant improvements in Oracle database performance and reduced backup times from over 16 hours to 4-6 hours when migrating to Pure Storage from other SAN storage.
3) DBAs reported that managing storage was technically easier with Pure Storage since they did not have to worry about complex storage configuration and management tasks like RAID levels and LUN sizing.
Learn how x6: The sixth generation of EXA Technology is fast, agile and Resilient for Emerging Workloads from Alex Yost. Vice President, IBM PureSystems and System x
IBM Systems and Technology Group. x6 drives cloud and big data for enterprises by achieving insight faster thereby outperforming competitors. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210715795/X6-The-sixth-generation-of-EXA-Technology
6 Ways of Solve Your Oracle Dev-Test Problems Using All-Flash Storage and Cop...Catalogic Software
By combining all-flash storage with copy data management, you can provision timely, space-efficient, masked Oracle copies both easily and automatically.
Next to performance and scalability, cost efficiency is one of the top three reasons most companies cite as their motivations for acquiring storage technology. Businesses are struggling to control the storage costs, and to reduce OPEX costs for administrative staff, infrastructure and data management, and environmental and energy. Every storage vendor, it seems, including most of the Software-defined Storage purveyors, are promising ROIs that require nothing short of a suspension of disbelief.
In this presentation, Jon Toigo of the Data Management Institute digs out the root causes of high storage costs and sketches out a prescription for addressing them. He is joined by Ibrahim “Ibby” Rahmani of DataCore Software, who will address the specific cost efficiency advantages that are being realized by customers of Software-defined Storage
PernixData FVPTM software decouples storage performance from capacity by aggregating server-side flash into a scale-out data acceleration tier to provide dramatic storage performance improvements to unmodified applications using existing storage systems. FVPTM can be deployed transparently in virtualized environments to support common operations like vMotion and DRS without requiring changes to applications or virtual machines. It provides an enterprise-class performance tier that can be deployed within minutes to deliver an immediate return on investment.
DataCore software can significantly improve performance of virtual servers running SQL Server, Exchange, and file server workloads compared to physical servers with direct-attached storage. Using DataCore, these workloads saw performance increases of 346-538% in IOPS. DataCore also allows customers to achieve up to 500% faster performance, 90% utilization rates, 100% uptime, and 60% cost savings.
Nimble Storage introduces its flash-optimized hybrid storage engine, which is designed from the ground up to leverage the best of flash and disk. It eliminates compromises between performance, capacity, and data management. Key benefits include 2-5x better performance and capacity per pound, as well as significant space savings from inline compression. Nimble's snapshots also consume much less space than competitors due to fine-grained granularity and compression.
Attix5 is an excellent backup solution covering all major platforms and applications. However it also has a very efficient multi-tenant portal. Easy to maintain; quick to deploy.
The document provides an overview of NetApp's FAS2200 series storage systems. It discusses [1] how the new FAS2220 and FAS2240 systems provide a more powerful and affordable foundation for midsized businesses and distributed enterprises, [2] how features like Flash Pools can accelerate performance and lower storage costs, and [3] how the systems offer simplified management, protection software, and flexible growth options.
The document discusses Oracle Linux, Oracle VM virtualization software, and Oracle Cloud products. It describes that Oracle Linux includes the Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for robust performance and high availability features. It also summarizes that Oracle VM provides powerful virtualization capabilities like live migration and high availability and is optimized for running Oracle databases. The document aims to demonstrate Oracle's virtualization and cloud computing products and solutions.
Performance for SAP and Citrix XenDesktop applications improved significantly with Pure Storage flash storage. Delivery truck schedule generation time was reduced by 60% and virtual desktop login time decreased by 63%. Daily SAP sales reports that previously took an hour were now completed in just two minutes. Flash storage from Pure Storage eliminated the massive spikes and wait times associated with spinning disk storage.
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Nimble Storage reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2016. Revenue for Q4 2016 increased 32% year-over-year to $90.1 million, and gross margins were 66.4%. For the full fiscal year, revenue increased 42% to $322.2 million while gross margins were 67.1%. Nimble continues to invest aggressively in growth through increased sales and marketing headcount and capital expenditures. The company provided guidance for Q1 2017 with revenue expected between $83-86 million and operating losses between $20-22 million.
TriZetto is replacing its core data storage arrays with Pure Storage's FlashArray to reduce total cost of ownership by 70% on average compared to traditional disk arrays, improve performance with consistent sub-millisecond latency, and accelerate batch processing. The FlashArray provides data reduction of 7.3:1, simplifies TriZetto's technology footprint, and ensures always-on encryption for protected health information supporting over 50% of the US population.
Nimble Storage is a leading provider of predictive flash storage platforms, with over 9,450 customers in 50+ countries. It has experienced rapid growth, with a customer base increasing 9x since 2013. Nimble Storage offers all-flash and hybrid-flash storage solutions that provide high performance, scalability, and resiliency through predictive analytics. Their solutions aim to close the gap between applications and data storage to optimize performance and lower costs.
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Analyzed 1 million SATA disks and found disk failure is predictable based on indicators like reallocated sectors. Built RAIDSHIELD with PLATE for single disk proactive protection and ARMOR for disk group protection. PLATE eliminated 70% of RAID failures by reconstructing failing disks early. ARMOR recognizes vulnerable disk groups. Proactive replacement reduces redundancy needed to ensure data reliability compared to passive RAID approaches.
Nimble Storage presentation used during the SWITCHPOINT NV/SA Quarterly Exper...SWITCHPOINT NV/SA
This document provides information about Nimble Storage, including:
- Nimble Storage is a data storage company headquartered in San Jose with over 1,100 employees worldwide.
- They have over 15,000 customers since 2010 across industries like healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and more.
- Nimble Storage offers both all-flash arrays and adaptive flash arrays to provide fast performance for latency-sensitive workloads as well as a balance of performance and capacity.
Deloitte's report and point of view on IBM's Watson. IBM Watson, AI, Cognitive Computing are rapidly evolving technologies that can support and enhance enterprise solutions. Learn about IBM Watson the Why? and the How?
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NetApp enterprise All Flash Storage
This presentation provides the key messages and differentiation, value propositions, and promotional programs for AFF.
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Automated SAN Storage Tiering: Four Use Cases - Dell 8 sept 2010Agora Group
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The document discusses Red Hat software-defined storage which uses standard hardware and software instead of proprietary appliances to provide scalable, flexible storage services at a lower cost. It highlights how software-defined storage differs from traditional storage approaches by using scale-out architectures and software-based intelligence rather than hardware-based solutions. Examples of using Red Hat storage include OpenStack, object storage, virtual machines, containers, and converged Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Gluster storage.
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Data is being generated at rates never before encountered. The explosion of data threatens to consume all of our IT resources: People, budget, power, cooling and data center floor space. Are your systems coping with your data now? Will they continue to deliver as the stress on data centers increases and IT budgets dwindle?
Imagine if you could be ahead of the data explosion by being proactive about your storage instead of reactive. Now you can be, with NetApp's approach to the designs and deployment of storage systems. With it, you can take advantage of NetApp's latest storage enhancements and take control of your storage. This will allow you to focus on gathering more insights from your data and deliver more value to your business.
NetApp's most advanced storage solutions are NetApp Virtualization & scale out. By taking control of your existing storage platform with either solution, you get:
• Immortal Storage system
• Infinite scalability
• Best possible ROI from existing environment
Workload Centric Scale-Out Storage for Next Generation DatacenterCloudian
For performance workloads, SolidFire provides a scale-out all-flash storage platform designed
to deliver guaranteed storage performance to thousands of application workloads side-by-side,
allowing performance workload consolidation under a single storage platform. The SolidFire system
can be combined together over standard networking technologies in clusters ranging from 4 to 100
nodes, providing high performance capacity from 35TB to 3.4PB, and can deliver between 200,000
and 7.5M guaranteed IOPS to more than 100,000 volumes / applications within a single cluster.
[NetApp] Simplified HA:DR Using Storage SolutionsPerforce
This document discusses using NetApp storage solutions to simplify high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) for Perforce server deployments. It provides an example architecture where NetApp features like SnapMirror are used to replicate data between sites, improving HA and minimizing data loss during a disaster. The architecture is scalable for large enterprises and helps meet requirements like performance, capacity, global access, and data protection.
The document discusses HP's strategy to provide IT infrastructure as a service (ITaaS). It outlines HP's portfolio of converged storage solutions including 3PAR, StoreOnce, StoreAll, and StoreVirtual. These solutions provide scalable, software-defined storage that can be deployed from small to large organizations to enable private and public cloud storage services. HP storage solutions are designed to improve efficiency, performance and manageability while reducing costs compared to traditional SAN solutions.
The document discusses Hitachi's Unified Compute Platform (UCP) for Oracle and Hitachi Unified Storage with Hitachi NAS Platform as an infrastructure solution for running critical Oracle databases and applications. It provides predictable performance, capacity efficiency, high availability, simplified data protection and lower total cost of ownership. Key benefits include consolidation and simplified management, lower TCO through features like deduplication, intelligent tiering for capacity efficiency, robust data protection options, and administration simplified by using NFS with Hitachi NAS Platform for Oracle.
The document provides an overview of the Dell Compellent Storage Center sales playbook. It highlights key features of the Dell Compellent Storage Center and FS8600 NAS solution including built-in intelligence, agility, automation, efficiency, resiliency, virtualization capabilities, and ability to scale non-disruptively. The solutions provide a unified platform for block and file storage that optimizes performance and reduces costs as environments scale.
The document summarizes the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G series hybrid flash storage array. Key points:
- It delivers high performance of up to 4.8 million IOPS using flash tiering to accelerate applications while maintaining cost-effectiveness through a mix of flash and disk.
- It supports both block and file workloads for greater consolidation and simplification. Individual file systems belong to Hitachi Enterprise Virtual Servers for NAS.
- Features like data reduction, direct cloud connectivity, and space-efficient snapshots allow for maximum efficiency and cost savings.
Similar to NetApp Pure Storage - A Business Intelligence PPT (20)
3. INFLUENTIAL TRENDS
Flash brings high performance to data services
Storage efficiency technologies
The newer application workloads are driven by mobile computing, social
media, big data/analytics and cloud computing
These associated higher workloads require storage performance (IOPS,
latency, throughput, consistency) that HDDs alone cannot cost effectively
meet
Data is expected to grow at 44% CAGR, so the ‘managing growth’ problem
will not let up soon. Flash is needed to maintain balance as infrastructure
density increases.
4. ECONOMICS
SSD Prices per GB have steadily
fallen since 2013, from about $2
to 69 cents while HDD’s remain
constant
FLASH AT SCALE
Flash at scale delivers significant secondary economic benefits
Fewer devices, reduced energy/floor space consumption, fewer
servers, lower s/w licensing costs
5. AFA MARKET – REVENUE & FORECAST
WorldwideAFA segment reached $1.3 billion in 2014
Market expected to grow 5 times in revenue by 2019
AFAs will dominate primary storage by 2018-2019
AFAVendors pursuing lower entry price points
Shorten sales cycles, newer customers
REVENUE ($M) SHARE (%)
EMC 112.3 22.6
Pure Storage 90.9 18.3
IBM 82.9 16.7
NetApp 45 9.1
SolidFire 35.6 7.2
Nimbus Data 34.3 6.9
Other 95.3 19.2
Total 496.3 100
6. FUTURE OUTLOOK
Mixed workload consolidation is the competitive
background for AFAs for 2015 and beyond
Independent software vendors (ISV) will develop
primary storage applications assuming all flash
configurations
VM-level storage management will become a way
of life by 2017
8. FOREWORD
The two products under comparison come from firms
whose competency and outlook in the AFA market is
different
Pure Storage’s competency lies in software (storage
efficiency) and reducing effective cost
NetApp’s competency is hardware, performance and
enterprise class data services
Ultimately, it is the application workload that governs
which solutions you should consider
9. TARGET MARKETS
The Pure Storage FA-405, FA-420 and FA-450 are
designed to address the small business and remote
offices, mid-market and high-end enterprise
markets respectively
Netapp All Flash FAS is targeted for enterprise
customers who want an all-flash system for
performance while maintaining their familiar
storage management and data protection features
10. PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE
NETAPP PURE STORAGE
Scale out approach - Is a cluster of servers
(nodes) with a single point of management
Scale up approach – One stand alone server
deployed. (Moore’s law allows for
replacement of the stand alone server in the
tech. refresh cycle. *How long now?)
COMMON GOALSOF EACH APPROACH
Scale performance, capacity or both non-disruptively and without performance
degradation.
Others include affordability, interoperability and operational simplicity
Regarded as the storage of the future
Mission critical workloads can run on 2 or
more servers to preserve availability
Suitable when a large number of smaller
nodes are needed, perhaps for a web server
farm or a server cluster where physically
redundant hosts are required
Suitable for major virtual server
consolidation
Works only if resources to a virtual machine
are carefully allocated
Potential for scale-up server failures and
work disruptions is real
*“I pick 2020 as the earliest date we could call [Moore's law] dead”, Bob Colwell (Intel)
11. PERFORMANCE
Performance is one of the most important metrics for
embracing All Flash Storage.
Impacts your business by increasing efficiency and
reducing server and licensing costs by 50%
Key factors are
IOPS (Higher the better)
Latency/Response time (Lower the better, <1ms)
Consistency
12. NETAPP WINS IN PERFORMANCE
NETAPP (STRENGTH) PURE STORAGE (WEAKNESS)
Scale out performance Use commodity SLC flash drives as
“NVRAM” to journal data, so maximum
theoretical write performance of only
150,000 4K IOPS*
685,281 IOPS, $2.68 IOPS and 1.23
millisecond response time at 100% load
(Variability in latency is low too)
The 512B granularity approach shall lead to
fragmentation over time.
And since in flash, sequential IO is faster
than random, when the system would have
to hop around (random read) to read in
512B blocks, performance dips
NetApp’s Data ONTAP FlashEssentials
innovations increase flash performance and
efficiency
500,000 overall IOPS sustained (@ 4KB)
200,000 write IOPS sustained (@ 4KB)*
Pure Storage’s ACTIVE/ACTIVE Controller Message (P.S. – Similar to
ACTIVE/PASSIVE)
Understand your requirements to determine if you need high performance or consistent
performance
13. STORAGE EFFICIENCY
Second most important metric enabling more data to be
stored in less space
Storage efficiency significantly reduces your cost of
ownership and effective cost
Areas of study include
Deduplication (Inline and cluster wide is desirable)
Compression (Inline is desirable)
In-line data reduction
Thin provisioning
14. PURE STORAGE WINS
Pure Storage is the leader in storage efficiency with it’s
differentiator being deduplication and compression
NETAPP’S WEAKNESS
The new AFF offers partial inline deduplication with
actual byte-to-byte comparison being post process
NetApp’s deduplication is volume based only
Data ONTAP lacks global deduplication across
LUNs which means that 250 LUNs can have 250
copies of same data adding up to a high cost flash
array
15. CAPACITY (NETAPP WINS)
NetApp’sAFF offers upto 384TB in raw capacity
and 1565.3 in effective capacity (Single HA Pair)
NAS Scale out (12 HA Pair) can offer 4.6 PB
SAN Scale out (4 HA Pair) can offer 1.5 PB
Pure Storage’s //m Series offers only upto 136TB in
raw capacity and 400TB in effective capacity but
with high storage efficiency
16. APPLICATION PERFORMANCE + DATA SERVICES
While Pure Storage supports enterprise applications
likeVDI, Oracle etc., superiorVDI application
performance is achieved on NetApp.
For databases however, Pure Storage wins
Data services like Replication, Encryption etc. are
refined at NetApp
17. APPLICATION PERFORMANCE + DATA SERVICES
NETAPP PURE STORAGE LEADS
Converged
Infrastructure
AllFlash FlexPod
available forVDI
environments
Hybrid Array FlexPod
available too
Flash Stack CI
announced Dec 2014
NETAPP
ORACLE & Microsoft
SQL
Supported Supported - It
requires 5-10x less
flash than hyper
converged approach
PURE STORAGE
VMWare (VDI) &Citrix Supported - Storage
costs as low as $55/
desktop with Horizon
View
Supported - Markets
only against disks
NETAPP
Openstack Deeply Integrated Recently added (2014) NETAPP
Data Services
Snapshots,
encryption,
replication,
Integration
Supported (MATURE) Supported and free in
Purity 4.0
(FlashProtect &
FlashRecover
(Launched 2014))
NETAPP
18. FLEXIBILITY AND SCALABILITY(NETAPP WINS)
How confident are you about your future data architectures?
Flexibility - NetApp’s FAS allows for a lot of flexibility by allowing
data to be moved from flash to disk to cloud.
NetApp offers both SAN & NAS architectures, while Pure Storage
offers SAN only
Scalability - A Pure system uses a whopping 384 GB of RAM to
deliver 120TB
Given that DRAM prices are dropping at a much slower pace than
flash, Pure is hitting the limits of commodity server design
19. QUALITY OF SERVICE (NETAPP WINS)
Built-in QoS lets you set performance limits on files,
volumes, LUNs, or an entire storage virtual machine
(SVM) to give priority to your most important
workloads.
RELIABILITY (STALEMATE)
Both companies boast >99.999% reliability across all systems deployed
Pure Storage - Proprietary RAID 3D is deployed
NetApp – RAID 6 or RAID 4 or combination of prior with RAID 1 is deployed
20. PURE STORAGE – STRENGTHS (INHERENT & TRANSIENT)
Cost efficient performance driven by deduplication and compression driving down
effective cost
Creative pricing and guarantee programs around controller upgrades, SSD
warranties and maintenance pricing
Customer trust by demonstrating it is reliable, stable and easy to work with
Delivers capable data management services and proven data reduction
implementation while based on consumer-grade SSD technology
Accelerate the I/O performance for relational databases, virtual desktop
infrastructure (VDI), and virtual server infrastructure and clouds.
Others (TRANSIENT) – Gartner Magic Quadrant Leadership status
21. PURE STORAGE - WEAKNESSES
Performance
Lack of enterprise class data management and
application features, NetApp standard
Pure Storage’s FA-400 series product has limited
scalability (read high RAM/Storage ratio) when
compared to competitive products.
22. NETAPP - STRENGTHS
Robust performance
Leading data management services and ecosystem
Scalable – All flash systems will run out of capacity
before performance levels decrease
All-Flash FAS is available as part of the FlexPod
reference architecture
Alliances (Cisco,VMWare etc.)
23. NETAPP - WEAKNESSES
Lack of data reduction capabilities limits the appeal
of FAS Series in server virtualization, virtual desktop
infrastructure (VDI) and online transaction
processing (OLTP) consolidation use cases.
Creative Marketing capabilities vis-à-vis Pure
Storage
24. PROMOTION (TRANSIENT – Info only)
Pure Storage introduced the ForeverFlash initiative,
which combines the ability to non-disruptively scale
performance or capacity with a maintenance program
that promises no hikes in annual fees.
When users extend support for another period, Pure
provides new controllers at no cost.
Caveat
Pure must continue to excel at R&D and deliver upgrades
from engineering
With majority of sales from channel, how would the finances
work out?
25. PRICING & STANDARD WARRANTY – (STALEMATE -
PRICE/SERVICE WARS)
FACT - Flash performance is so good that customers want to stay on one platform for as long as possible
PURE STORAGE
FlashArray 405 & 450
List prices range from sub-$100K to multi-$100K.
Pure's raw flash is the most expensive at $12.03/GB
Standard warranty is 3 years from initial purchase.
Maintenance and support are offered in 1, 3 and 5 year plans, each with 4-hour or next business day (NBD)
options (both options are 24x7).
Pricing for support is based on percentage of list price:
1 year 4-hour is 8%, NBD is 6%
3 year 4-hour is 20%, NBD is 15%
5 year 4-hour is 33%, NBD is 26%
NETAPP
Starting street price is $25,000
AFF8000 is now priced at the same $5 per raw GB
Support flat maintenance for up to seven years versus the typical three to five years, so there's no penalty for
staying on the platform for longer times
26. GAPS IN NETAPP’S OFFERING
Storage efficiency is an industry requirement and
NetApp is lagging.
NetApp lacks ease of use for the SME target
market. Pure Storage achieves this well.
Training and professional services are required for
most of NetApp’s deployments
27. RECOMMENDATIONS
LONGTERM
Product Enhancements
SHORTTERM – SAY “Capacity is free, performance costs”
Focus on the medium & high-end enterprises targeted by Pure
Storage’s FA-450 only.They are more inclined to need performance,
data services, application integration etc.
Leverage and build a compelling case for scalability, performance
and data management services (NetApp’s strengths) during the
pitch
Storage is a long term investment, caution the customer to not rush
into the decision based on cost (Pure Storage’s strength)
“Moore’s law will be dead in a decade”, Bob Colwell (Intel), marking
an end to scale up architecture (Pure Storage)
Discuss NetApp’s whole range of offerings
28. RECOMMENDATIONS
Partner with ISW’s/Alliances to offer discounts on licenses
Attack Pure Storage’s hardware/weakness & marketing (Consumer
grade SSDs, Performance, 50% CPU utilization etc.)
Tackle the prospect’s H/W and S/W needs separately (Review and
refine product offerings, Unbundle premium offerings)
Focus on customer priority - $/GB or $/IOPS ?