All-Flash Arrays are the model of inefficiency and as flash media increases in density and performance, the cost of this inefficiency becomes more obvious. Enterprise solid-state drives (SSD) deliver 70,000 IOPS per drive but most AFAs need 24 drives or more to achieve 70,000 IOPS. Those same systems also need high-end processors to move IO through them at those speeds. The cost of these systems is hundreds of thousands of dollars when in reality they should cost less than $100,000. In this webinar we discuss why their software bottlenecks current all-flash arrays. We explain how inefficient storage software requires vendors to use more powerful and more expensive CPUs, as well as a greater quantity of flash drives. We also explain why technology advancements like NVMe and increasing flash density will only make the situation worse.

1. How to Design a 92TB, 500K IOPS AFA for
less than $95,000!
Gal Naor,
Co-founder and CEO
George Crump,
Founder and Lead Analyst
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Gal Naor,
Co-founder and CEO
George Crump,
Founder and Lead Analyst

3. The State of All-Flash
Array Hardware
● Flash Media is becoming more dense
● Flash interfaces (NVMe) are delivering
better performance and lower
latencies
● Networking interfaces are delivering
better bandwidth (32GB FC / 40GbE /
100GbE) and lower latencies (NVMe)
● Next Generation Storage Memory is
only a few years away

4. The State of All-Flash
Array Software
● Software, even from “new” vendors, is at least ten
years old and based on legacy technology
○ Yet, hardware updates have all occurred within the
last 18 months
● Many of the features within software (RAID,
Deduplication, Compression, Snapshots, etc..)
are based on algorithms that are twenty years old
● Software is now THE bottleneck in Flash
Performance

5. The Impact of the State
of All-Flash Arrays
● Raw performance of hardware
specs indicates that an AFA
with just a few drives should
deliver hundreds of thousands
of IOPS and deliver dozens of
TBs of capacity
● BUT most AFAs take dozens of
drives to get there

6. The Software Bottleneck
Workarounds
● Use more powerful processors and even
more drives
○ Increases costs and inefficiencies
● Use dedicated hardware (ASICs and
FPGAs) to run software
○ Increases cost and limits customer flexibility
○ “Flies in the face” of the Software Defined
Data Center

7. The Software Bottleneck
Workarounds
● Moving to distributed architectures
○ Scale-out adds networking complexity and
latency
○ Overall resource efficiency actually goes
DOWN
○ Hard to start small (three node minimum)

8. The Answer? Build Better
Software
● Write software from the ground up for
flash environments
○ New algorithms
○ New optimizations
○ Better use of multi-core processors

9. The Result - Faster,
More Efficient and
LESS EXPENSIVE
AFAs

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11. Utilization Vs. Spec
Performance, Capacity
Cost Vs. Commodity
Data protection/
compromising
HW Innovation.
Mix and Match
Unified Enterprise
Storage
Are you enjoying the benefits of the latest
drive innovation?
5-Star Safety Ratings
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12. SlowlyAdoptingNewHW
TechRefresh
Performance and Capacity are NOT the challenge any more
The current solutions get the high performance and capacity by:
• Taking out functionalities
• Multiple CPU
• Adding more DRAM
• Low density DRIVES
• Proprietary DRIVERS
The Results:
Cost, Complexity and data
protection Compromising
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Network Adapters
10-100Gbps E-net, 8-32Gbps FC
Drivers HDD, SSD, NVMe
100K-1M IOPS, 1-15TB
StorONE’s unique Technology - TRU SDS
Total Resource Utilization - Software Defined Storage
SSD
S1 opens the SW Choke point with a simpler architecture - We wrote better code!
HW innovation in the last decade
Drives & Networking: X1000
Vs.
CPU: Max of X32
Native SDS – Future proof

14. MORE WITH LESS - We are able to extract more from the drives
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AFA (SSD & NVME)
Greater Density - Performance and Capacity per RU:
1.Up to 1.5M IOPS/15 GBps, Up to 368TB physical
capacity in a 2U AFA JBOD.
2.Up to 10PB HDD in a single cabinet
Up to 1.5M IOPS 4KB Latency < 0.5ms

15. AFA & Virtual appliance – 500,000 IOPS, 92TB SSD
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4KB
Latency (ms) < 1
SBB with 24 SSD drives – HA solution
24 drives * 3.84TB = 92.16TB

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SOFTWARE
CHALLENGE
TO
HARDWARE
SOLUTION
The Other Guys
Vs.
Getting too low a percentage of aggregate SSDs+ INTEGRATED Data protection and Data retention

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UNIFIED ENTERPRISE STORAGE (UES)
ALL storage protocols, drives,
workloads and applications running
together in the same system. NO
need to install proprietary drivers.
Unified - High performance by
default with full data protection
and retention working continuously
without any performance
degradation

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4 redundancy drives
2 redundancy drives
Single redundancy drive
TOTAL:
6X7.68TB=46.08TB
(184TB)
6X3.84TB=23.04TB
(92TB)
6X15.36TB=92.16TB
(368TB)
6X3.2TB=19.2TB (76)
46.08TB69.12TB161.28TB180.48TB
Block
FC/iSCSI
Object
S3
File
CIFS/SMB, NFS
50,000 IOPS, 1.6GBps
10,000 IOPS, 3.2GBps
100,000 IOPS, 0.4GBps
Unified Enterprise Storage - All storage protocols, drive types, Future
proof, any amount of drive redundancy levels and mixed workloads

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Better RESULTS in each category & The only vendor that
enables all 3 in ONE product
Cost effective high capacity
& integrated backup solution
Revolutionary AFA
SSD and NVMe solution
Breakthrough Virtual
appliance solution
1. Ultra high performance – 70,000
IOPS/ single SSD or 350,000/NVME
2. Full data protection and retention
without performance degradation
3. Doesn’t need any drivers
4. Start small with a few drives and get
extreme high performance Up to
368TB physical space @ 2U JBOD
1. Very low resources & high performance:
2 VM 500,000 IOPS / 10Gbps
2. All virtual infrastructure,
No need to reinstall
3. SUPPORT external ESXis and external
physical servers
4. Start with single VM
1. 10PB in a SINGLE cabinet
2. ~1.5PB in 4U JBOD & SSD
3. Integrated backup solution
(/backup target). Zero-time
backup and restore. Unlimited
snapshots
4. High throughput with HDD
Everything for Everyone: Small - Mid - Large - Enterprise - Cloud - HPC
All enterprise
storage layers
combined !

20. • Pay per capacity. Grow as you need
• Lowest price in the industry - Cents per GB with all enterprise features. Enterprise SSDs
• One price for all storage protocols, different workloads and all of StorONE’s features. All
included
• 90% less cost compared to the cloud without the additional networking and hidden charges
• Same flexibility as the cloud. All storage services exist on the same drives and a single UI
ON PREM storage solution
With
all the Cloud service advantages
Without
the Cloud challenges

21. More with Less. Lowest CAPEX - 5X Greater Density - Performance and capacity per RU
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Integrated data protection - New level of data protection and retention
o More active data on a higher performance tier or SAVE 80% on your storage cost
o No need to change any configuration and no proprietary drivers at the host
StorONE. S1 solution – Simplicity Without Compromise
o Extremely low RPOs and RTOs. Unlimited snapshots with no performance
degradation
o Any amount of drives failure per volume. Persistent Integrity no specialized HW
Unified Enterprise Storage - Lowest OPEX - Ease of use - Cloud-like flexibility
o Unified storage - All storage protocols and workloads sharing the same drives
o Future proof and HW innovation - All types of appliances and drives - Mix & match

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23. How to Design a 92TB, 500K IOPS AFA for
less than $95,000!
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