Le soluzioni di Virtual Data Center Iperconvergenti

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Le soluzioni di Virtual Data Center
Iperconvergenti
Luca Cardone, Marketing Manager, RETELIT
Roberto Massoli, Channel Manager Italia - SIMPLIVITY

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Traditional Shared
Storage Array
Traditional Shared
Storage Array
Local Storage
ESXi
VMWindowsWindows
Local Storage
ESXi
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
Local Storage
ESXi
VM WindowsWindows
Local Storage
ESXi
VMWindowsWindows
Local Storage
ESXi
VMWindowsWindows
Local Storage
ESXi
VM linuxlinuxVM VM VM
WAN Optimization
Deduplication
Disk Backup Appliance
Cloud Gateway
SSD Array
SSD Cache
SSDSSD SSDSSD
SSDSSD SSDSSD
Public Cloud
Data Protection Apps Data Protection Apps
Remote
Data Center
Enterprise
Capabilities
1. Data protection
2. Data efficiency
3. Performance
4. Global Unified
Management
Past ~25 Years in IT Infrastructure

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Vision
Servers
Storage switch
HA shared storage
Cloud gateway
SSD array
Management
Orchestration
Hypervisor
All IT infrastructure
below the hypervisor
Anywhere:
Public Cloud, Private Cloud, ROBO
Legacy IT Infrastructure
Storage caching
Backup appliance
WAN optimization
Data Protection
Applications
Any x86 Platform

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Evolution of Convergence
Incremental Evolutionary
Legacy Stack
Convergence 2.0
Partial Convergence
Converge only
storage &
server
Convergence 3.0
True Hyperconvergence
Revolutionary
Servers
Storage Switch
HA Shared Storage
SSD Array
Backup & Dedupe
WAN Optimization
Cloud Gateway
Storage Caching
Data Protection Apps
(Backup & Replication)
Convergence 1.0
Integrated Systems
Pre-integrated
storage &
server
Enterprise
Capabilities
1. Data Protection
2. Data Efficiency
3. Performance
4. Global Unified
Management
Cloud
Economics
1. Simplicity
2. Low Cost
3. Agility & Elasticity

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Remote
Data Center
Cloud Gateway
OmniCube
SSDSSD
Server Hyper
ESXi
Local Storage
SSDSSD
ESXi
Local Storage
ESXi
Local Storage
SSDSSD
ESXi
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
Public Cloud
Server Hyper
ESXi
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
Traditional Shared
Storage Array
SSDSSD
Data Protection Apps
SSD Cache
SSD Array
Deduplicated
Disk Backup Appliance
WAN Optimization
Server Hyper
SSDSSD SSDSSD
ESXi
VM VM
VM VMSVT SVTSVT
Traditional Shared
Storage Array
SSDSSD SSDSSD
SVT
Data Protection Apps

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Architecture of Data Virtualization Platform
 Policy-based, VM-centric mgmt.
 No LUNS, shares, or volumes
 Right-click operations
 Single view of all data centers
and ROBOs
Global Unified Management
Instant VM recovery
Granular RTOs and RPOs
Full logical backups with near zero
overhead
Simple, affordable offsite DR
Built-in Data Protection
 Global inline dedupe across all
storage tiers, once and forever
 Guaranteed 10:1 data efficiency
 Increases performance by
eliminating IOPS
 Powered by OmniStack
Accelerator Card
Accelerated Data Efficiency

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DATA VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM
App 3 App 4
HDD
SSD
DRAM
X86 CPU
ESXi
ALL DATA WRITTEN/REGISTERED TO VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM
ONLY UNIQUE DATA WRITTEN TO HDD
DATA MANAGEMENT LAYER
PRESENTATION LAYER
Data Virtualization Platform
“The best IO is the one you don’t have to do.”

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DATA MANAGEMENT LAYER
PRESENTATION LAYER
HDD
SSD
DRAM
X86 CPU
ESXi
App 4App 3
“The best IO is the one you don’t have to do.”
Data Virtualization Platform

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Disaster recovery
Milano
HDD
SSD
DRAM
X86 CPU
ESXi
DATA MANAGEMENT LAYER
PRESENTATION LAYER
Bologna
ESXi
DATA MANAGEMENT LAYER
PRESENTATION LAYER
Local, Full VM Backup Remote Full VM Backup
Fast Application
Restore from Full
VM Backup
All data is deduplicated and compressed
to minimize data flow across geography
App
4
App
3
App
5

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Write I/O Efficiency Gains
In-line Deduplication Eliminates IOPS
• 5:1 data efficiency on production VM data - no local or remote backup data
• Up to 5x performance improvement through elimination of IOPS
• Taken from actual customer environment

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Production workloads running on Hyperconverged inf.

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Why Hyperconvergence Matters?
Reduce IT costs and
streamline operations
Improve agility and
time to production
Maximize uptime and
prevent data loss
1. 73% TCO savings compared to
traditional IT infrastructure – a 3.7x
reduction (Forrester Consulting)
2. 10:1 device reduction (Forrester
Consulting)
3. 22% to 49% TCO savings
compared to Amazon Web Services
(Evaluator Group)
1. 81% increase in time spent on
innovation (IDC)
2. Rapid scaling to 1,000 VMs with
peak and predictable performance
(ESG)
3. One hour to provision eight-node
cluster (ESG)
1. 57% of customers reduced
recovery time from days or hours
to minutes (TechValidate)
2. 70% improvement in
backup/recovery and DR (IDC)
3. 51% of customers retired existing
third-party backup or replication
software (IDC)

13. • Founded in 2009 in Boston, MA:
• 3.5 years of development
• All code purpose built and “home grown”
• Pioneer in Hyperconverged Infrastructure
• Mission: To Simplify IT
• Premier investors:
Hyper Growth
• Doubled Y/Y bookings in 2015
• Grew customer base by 2.5X
• More than 50% of sales outside of North
America
• 750+ employees worldwide
• More than 6,000 systems shipped
• Rapid enterprise and Global 2000 adoption
SimpliVity Overview

14.  Retelit is a leading Italian provider of data services and
infrastructure for the telecommunications market
 Listed on Milan Stock Exchange since 2000
 Retelit's network owns more than 9,500 km of
infrastructure (ducts and fiber cables) along the main
Italian roads, 9 metropolitan networks (MANs) in the
largest Italian cities and over 200 town centers covered
 Integrated with a pan-European ring, a broad Eurasian
subsea infrastructure (AAE-1 member) and 15 Data
Centers, to provide new generation Cloud and ultra
broadband fiber based services
Capabilities
Pan European Network
9 Metropolitan Networks
14 Data Centers
UNI CEI ISO/IEC 9001:2008
Retelit, E-VIA
UNI CEI ISO/IEC 27001:2006
Retelit, E-VIA
ALLA/NALLA Telecom Services for NATO,
U.S. DoD, DISA/DITCO
Metro Ethernet Forum
2.0 Certification
UNI CEI ISO/IEC 14001:2006
Retelit, E-VIA
Quality & Certifications
Subsea cable system member
Retelit: a leading player in ICT

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L’Offerta di Virtual Data Center Iperconvergente in Italia
On Premise
Virtual DC
DR Site
RTO:0Min
RPO:10 Min

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Contacts
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MAIN CONTACTS RETELIT ON LINE
Website: http://www.retelit.it
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/retel
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Retelit
Website: http://www.simplivity.com
Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/simplivity-
corporation
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SimpliVityCorp
Simplivity ON LINE
Retelit Contact
Luca Cardone
l.cardone@retelit.it
Marketing Manager
Letizia Cilente
l.cilente@retelit.it
Marketing & Communication
Simplivity Contact
Roberto Massoli
roberto.massoli@simplivity.com
Channel Manager - Italy

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