The document discusses how software-defined storage (SDS) is broken and proposes a solution to fix it. Specifically: 1. Standard SDS solutions are inefficient because they require similar hardware as dedicated systems and do not fully utilize modern processors and storage. 2. This inefficiency limits hardware choices and forces specialization, as different SDS solutions are needed for different workloads. 3. A new "holistic SDS" approach called StorONE aims to solve these problems by taking full advantage of hardware, requiring less resources than legacy systems, and providing a single environment for all workloads and protocols.

1. SDS is Broken - And How to Fix It
Learn how SDS is Broken:
1. SDS is Hardware Inefficient
2. Inefficiency Limits Hardware Choices
3. Inefficiency Forces Specialization
and learn how to fix it...
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2. Michael Finkelstein has played an integral role on the sales and implementation team at
StorONE. He has engaged with enterprise clients from a wide range of industries, leveraging
his extensive knowledge of higher education and financial services. Prior to working at
StorONE, Michael worked at Red Hat on their financial service sales team, and led the
coordination and partnerships between Red Hat and emerging fintech companies, and has
worked as a venture capitalist at Bain Capital Ventures.
Bruce Lewolt is the Co-Founder of JOYai, a leader in the fast-growing category of AI for
sales. Bruce has two granted technology patents and started his career working for Unisys,
which at the time was the second largest computer company in the world.
George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the
subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is
widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash
arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He
has over 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.
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3. Level Set - A
Little SDS
Background
● What is it?
● What problem was it
trying to solve?
● How’d SDS try to solve
it?

4. ● Eliminate hardware lock-in
● Lower physical and
operational costs
● Provide a centralized storage
operating environment
Goals of SDS

5. ● Turnkey systems
continue to sell
● Even hyper-converged
solutions are used only
for point projects
SDS Adoption is Low

6. What Went Wrong? Why is SDS Broken?

7. ● Requires just as much compute
as dedicated systems
● Requires just as much storage
hardware as dedicated systems
Problem 1: SDS Has An Efficiency Problem

8. ● Don’t fully take advantage of
multi-core processors
● Count on open-source/public
domain for features
● Haven’t re-written algorithms
for modern architectures
Why do SDS Solutions Lack Efficiency

9. ● Most data centers have a need for
○ Random IO
○ Sequential IO
○ Capacity
SDS Has a Workload Problem
● SDS Can’t mix multiple
workloads with the same
software
○ Data centers end up buying
multiple SDS solutions for
each workload type
○ As well as the
corresponding hardware

10. SDS Has a Cost
Problem
● Need hardware just as powerful
as dedicated systems
● Need a variety of software and
hardware to meet workload
requirements
● Increases both physical and
operational costs

11. Introducing Holistic SDS - The Next Generation SDS
Clean slate approach to storage software
○ Take full advantage of today’s
processors
○ Take full advantage of memory
based storage and HDDs
○ Write algorithms like RAID from
scratch to minimize overhead
○ Internally develop features like
snapshots

12. ○ True Hardware Freedom
○ Maximum Performance
○ Multiple Use Cases
○ Single Storage Environment for
the Data Center
Summary
Holistic Storage Delivers SDS Promise

13. 12
StorONE - INTRODUCITON

14. What You Are Paying For
What You Are Getting
With Standard Storage
What You Get with StorONE
590K
The Storage ROI Problem
600K
60K

15. StorONE Solves the Problem of Limitations
Current SDS – Legacy - Limitations
• Locked into hardware
StorONE - Holistic SDS – No Limitations
• Free to mix, match & upgrade
hardware

16. StorONE – No Hardware Limitations
Complete Separation of Hardware and Software

17. StorONE Solves the Problem of Limitations
Current SDS – Legacy - Limitations
• Locked into hardware
• Requires the same hardware, cost
and physical size as legacy systems
StorONE - Holistic SDS – No Limitations
• Free to mix, match & upgrade hardware
• More with Less - Less than a one-quarter
of the required hardware, cost and
physical size of legacy systems

18. What You Are Paying For
What You Are Getting
With Standard Storage
What You Get with StorONE
The Storage ROI Problem

19. StorONE Solves the Problem of Limitations
Current SDS – Legacy - Limitations
• Locked into hardware
• Requires the same hardware, cost
and physical size as legacy systems
• Requires different storage solution
for each protocols and workload type
StorONE - Holistic SDS – No Limitations
• Free to mix, match & upgrade hardware
• Less than a third of the required
hardware, cost and physical size of
legacy systems
• Provides a centralized storage operating
environment for all protocols and
workload types

20. StorONE – Centralized Storage Environment
Mix Multiple Protocols in the Same Environment

21. StorONE – Centralized Storage Environment
Top Volumes - Mix Multiple Workloads in the same environment

22. StorONE Solves the Problem of Limitations
Current SDS – Legacy - Limitations
• Locked into hardware
• Requires the same hardware, cost
and physical size as legacy systems
• Requires different storage solution
for each protocols and workload type
• Slow – Can’t take full advantage of
Multi-core Processors or modern
drives
StorONE - Holistic SDS – No Limitations
• Free to mix, match & upgrade hardware
• Less than a third of the required
hardware, cost and physical size of
legacy systems
• Provides a centralized storage operating
environment for all protocols and
workload types
• Lightening Fast – Optimal use of Multi-
core Processors and Modern Drives

23. StorONE Solves The “Hard” Problem – Limited RESULTS
StorONE, All Rights Reserved © 2018 Confidential, Proprietary
SW is the Chokepoint
Network Adapters
10-100Gbps E-net, 8-32Gbps FC
Drivers HDD, SSD, NVMe
100K-1M IOPS, 1-15TB
30
Broken ECO system

24. StorONE Unique Solution
StorONE, All Rights Reserved © 2018 Confidential, Proprietary
“Full
Wire-Speed”
Revolution
Total Resource Utilization
Network Adapters
10-100Gbps E-net, 8-32Gbps FC
Drivers HDD, SSD, NVMe
100K-1M IOPS, 1-15TB
Greater functionality
On data path

25. NVME performance results
4 NVME ONLY

26. StorONE Solves the Problem of Limitations
Current SDS – Legacy - Limitations
• Locked into hardware
• Requires the same hardware, cost
and physical size as legacy systems
• Requires different storage solution
for each protocols and workload type
• Slow – Can’t take full advantage of
Multi-core Processors or modern
drives
• Limited Data Protection – Expensive
External Equipment Required
StorONE - Holistic SDS – No Limitations
• Free to mix, match & upgrade hardware
• Less than a third of the required
hardware, cost and physical size of
legacy systems
• Provides a centralized storage operating
environment for all protocols and
workload types
• Lightening Fast – Optimal use of Multi-
core Processors and Modern Drives
• Full suite of built in data protection

27. StorONE – Full suite of built in data
protection
• How – Increased Data protection
• Memory - Persistent integrity. Enables recovery from any HW issue
• Disks - You choose the amount of disk failures per volume. Fast rebuild. No
RAID restrictions
• Data - Integrated unlimited snapshots with zero performance degradation.
Writable, nested, VSS and CG
• All of these functions are available across any use case

28. StorONE – Full suite of data protection - Snapshots

29. StorONE – Full suite of data protection - Fast Rebuild
Traditional RAID
Rebuild
S1 Rebuild

30. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
georgeacrump@storageswiss.com
StorageSwiss on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/storageswiss
StorageSwiss on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss
StorONE
https://www.storone.com
StorONE on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/StorOne_Inc
StorONE on FaceBook:
https://www.facebook.com/StorONEinc

31. SDS is Broken - And How to Fix It
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