Join Storage Switzerland and Cloudistics for an informative webinar that will provide an alternative approach that meets user’s performance expectations while leveraging existing – and often already paid for – storage hardware and does not introduce new silos of storage.

1. On Demand Webinar:
Achieving VDI Success
Without All-Flash Problems
Join us as we explain:
1. How AFA Vendors try to Overcome the
Cost per Desktop Challenge
2. How AFAs Lead to a more Fragmented
Storage Architecture
3. How to Introduce Storage Sanity into the
VDI Infrastructure
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/GetVDISuccess

2. Our Speakers
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 25 years of experience designing storage
solutions for data centers across the US.
Speaker bio

3. ● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud
and virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets is gained
through product testing and interaction
with end users and suppliers
● The results of this research can be
found in the articles, videos, webinars,
product analysis and case studies on
our web site:
http://storageswiss.com
Who Is Storage Switzerland?

4. Our Speakers
Todd Fredrick
CRO & Founder of Cloudistics
Todd is a software executive with over 25 years of experience in building and
growing software companies. Using his extensive sales and operational
experience, Todd has developed an innovative, data-driven sales and
marketing methodology to create go-to-market strategies that generate
awareness and drive revenue. These techniques produce significant and
consistent revenue and are proven to be highly scalable.
As one of the founders of AppAssure, Todd grew the company’s revenue from
zero to $25 million in four years, making AppAssure the fastest-growing backup
company worldwide, as reported by INC Magazine. Todd has also held
executive leadership positions at Dell, Symantec, Veritas, Precise, and
WQuinn. He holds an MS in Information Management from Marymount
University and a BS in Marketing from Virginia Tech.

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WHO WE ARE
Mission
To democratize IT through next-generation virtualization
infrastructure products.
Founders
Founded in 2013 by entrepreneurs with 30+ years of
experience in storage and high performance computing.
Headquartered in Reston, VA
Vision
Create easy to use, application centric infrastructure software
that enables businesses of all sizes to deliver services on
demand.
We build high
performance
software that
enable
businesses of
all sizes to
simplify and
optimize their
infrastructure

6. Polling Question
Where Are You On Your VDI Journey?
A) Exploring
B) In Test Phase
C) Initial Production
D) Trying to Scale

7. Polling Question
Where Are You On Your VDI Journey?

8. Why VDI
• Improve Operational
Efficiencies
• Improve Organizational
Data Security and
Protection

9. The VDI Challenge
• Getting operational and organizational efficiencies
without increasing cost per desktop
• Providing users a “physical” experience
• Requires:
High performing and cost optimized storage
infrastructure

10. The VDI Challenge
• Getting operational and
organizational efficiencies without
increasing cost per desktop
• Providing users a “physical”
experience
• Requires:
High performing and cost optimized
storage infrastructure
• Which Often Leads to an All-Flash
Array

11. The VDI Challenge
• Impact of Cost-Justifying an All-Flash
Array:
Highly dense virtual desktop to host ratio
Creating highly random I/O demand
Utilization of data efficiency techniques
(clones, thin provisioning)
Efficiency creates write heavy workload

12. The State Of VDI Storage
• Hard Disk meets the cost Requirement but not
Performance
• Hybrid Systems were tried but failed
Overly focused on cost per GB - Flash area was too small
VDI not “small - cache” friendly
Still required replacement of current storage systems

13. The State Of VDI Storage
• All-Flash System seen as
the only Alternative
Cost increases need for high
density and high efficiency
Despite that, it more than meets
the performance expectation

14. The State Of VDI Storage
• All-Flash System seen as the
only Alternative
Increases demand for high density
and high efficiency
Despite that it more than meets the
performance expectation
• BUT…
Still more expensive despite
efficiency
Creates a very dense desktop to
host ratio (large failure domain)

15. An Alternative Is Needed
• Prior Attempts
HDD and Hybrid too focused on cost per GB
All-Flash too focused on performance
• A Better Compromise - Performance
Appliance
Large flash tier TBs instead of GBs
Compliment existing storage resources instead
of replace
Lowest $ per GB is the storage you already
own
Continue to use current, well-vetted data
protection features

16. TURBINE
Application Acceleration Appliance
Accelerate Your Applications / Accelerate Your Storage / Accelerate Your Business

17. Increased
Application
Provisioning
Increased Storage
Provisioning
Forced to create
numerous storage pools
and arrays
Constant application tuning
to squeeze out every last
ounce of performance
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THE STORAGE PERFORMANCE GAP
The Storage Performance GapStorage Performance Falls Behind
CPU and Storage Capacity Growth
CPU performance is consistently growing along with
storage capacity, but IOPS/spindle remain the same
Randomization of Virtual Workloads
Server virtualization has compounded the problem—
random I/O’s of virtual apps have increased causing
poor storage performance

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TURBINE LOGICAL VIEW

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Bolt-On Performance
• One appliance supports any combination of
hypervisors and storage vendors
• Pick and choose applications you want to
accelerate
DISRUPTIVELY NON-DISRUPTIVE
No Complex Data Migrations
• No data migrations or software
installations
Up and Running in Under an Hour
• Install Hardware
• Configure IP Settings
• Select LUNS to Accelerate
• Active / Passive set up ensures full fault tolerance
• Auto failover and failback
Fully Redundant and Highly Available
HYPERVISORS
APPLICATIONS
SAN STORAGE

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TURBINE PHYSICAL VIEW

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ACCELERATED PERFORMANCE
Write-back Cache
• Full-fidelity Write-Back support satisfies writes
immediately after being written to the redundant
flash.
TBs not GBs
• Up to 8TB of Cache vs. GBs found in other
solutions
• Capacity to support growth of your entire
infrastructure
Exponential Acceleration
• Delivers 300k Write IOPS and 550k Read IOPS
@ 4k
• 40Gbs Bandwidth Throughput
• Increased IOPS and reduced latency enables
you to run 2-3x more applications per
hypervisor
All-Flash
Performance

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I/O Reduction
• De-duplicates redundant I/Os to boost
performance of your SAN
SMART SOFTWARE
Write Combining/Coalescing
Technology
• Intelligently combines random I/O into sequential
I/O and writes in place to the SAN
Integrated Online Support
• Built in Real-Time Chat
• Built in Support Mode for remote diagnostics
Sequential Bypass
• Turbine preserve cache capacity for random I/O by
automatically bypassing large sequential writes
directly to the SAN
Optimizing
Your Existing
SAN

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Turbine
CLOSES STORAGE GAP
ACCELERATES APPLICATIONS
OPTIMIZES STORAGE

24. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
gcrump@storage-switzerland.com
StorageSwiss on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/storageswiss
StorageSwiss on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss
Cloudistics
http://www.cloudistics.com
Cloudistics on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/cloudistics
Cloudistics on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/cloudistics

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Achieving VDI Success
Without All-Flash Problems
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