NVMe and NVMe over fabrics promises to change the flash and networking industry. NVMe enables storage systems to tap into the full potential of flash storage and NVMe allows those systems to deliver in-server latencies. NVMe will fundamentally change storage. Are you ready? Join Storage Switzerland and Tegile for this webinar as they provide you with a path to NVMe.

1. What’s Your Path to NVMe?
In this webinar you will learn:
1. Where are we RIGHT NOW with NVMe?
2. How will NVMe and NVMe Over Fabrics
impact the data center?
3. What will be the path to a full NVMe over
Fabric data center?
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/NVMePath

2. Our Speakers
Rob Commins has been instrumental in the success of some of the storage industry's most
interesting companies over the past twenty years including HP/3PAR, Pillar Data Systems,
and StorageWay. At Tegile, he leads the company's marketing strategy, product marketing,
press/analyst activities, as well as competitive analysis.
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.

3. What’s Your Path to
NVMe?

4. Welcome NVMe
● What’s NVMe?
● What’s NVMe over Fabrics?
● Why is it Important?

5. The Impact of NVMe on
the Data Center?
● Internal to Servers and Storage
● Reduced Latency (PCIe)
● Increased command set

6. Do Servers Need It?
In the Mainstream - No
● Most single servers can’t generate
enough IO to justify performance
advantages over flash
● Those that can (Hadoop, Spark, Splunk)
are part of a clustered network which
adds the latency back in
● Exception, scale-up, single server
database

7. Do Storage Systems Need
it - Yes (mostly)
● There is clearly a mainstream use case for
a percentage of the data
● All IO Channels down to a single storage
system - having that system leverage
NVMe makes sense
● But the reality is that this dataset
(immediately active IO) is relatively small
● And...NVMe is still a premium over SAS

8. The Impact of
NVMe-F on
the Data
Center
● A Network for scale-out storage
○ Large command queuing
○ Essentially a PCIe connected cluster of
storage nodes
● Most host attachments won’t need
(high speed FC or IP is good
enough)
● Should allow for much great scale of
scale-out architectures

9. The Path to the
NVMe Data Center
● Avoid NVMe in the server
● Buy NVMe All-Flash Arrays
Now
● Look for all-flash arrays that
can support a mix of NVMe
and SAS
● Look for vendors with a scale-
out via NVMe Strategy

10. © 2017 TEGILE
SYSTEMS
If Storage Media Were Sprinters…
In the time it takes a HDD
to sprint the length of the
basketball court…
…NAND could finish a
marathon…
…and PERSISTENT MEMORY
could circle the globe.

11. © 2017 TEGILE
SYSTEMS
…But Speed Comes at a CostCOST
1x 5x 20-25x 100x
CAPACITY
4-16TB 512GB-4TB 128GB-1TB 16-128GB
HARD DISK
DRIVES
FLASH PERSISTENT
MEMORY
DRAM

12. © 2017 TEGILE
SYSTEMS
You need a Storage Platform that delivers
WARM DATA
(Sporadic Access)
HOT DATA
(Read/Written Frequently)
HIGHER
PERFORMANCE
LOWER
COST

13. © 2017 TEGILE
SYSTEMS
Run Every Workload at the Speed of Memory
Performance
Tier
Capacity
Tier
▪ Get the affordable capacity you need
for your business-critical applications
▪ Get the high IOPS and low latency you
need for your top-tier applications
NVDIMM
Flash
Memory
HDD
or
Dense
Flash
100s of MICROSECOND
RESPONSE TIMES
10-20x FASTER
THAN LEGACY STORAGE

14. © 2017 TEGILE
SYSTEMS
ALL-FLASH
HD
HYBRID
Award Winning Portfolio

15. © 2017 TEGILE
SYSTEMS
The Future – Open NVMe Fabric
Open
NVMe Fabric
Applications, VMs, Containers
Tegile Capacity Enclosures
Tegile
Storage
Controllers
Tegile
Storage
Controllers

16. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
georgeacrump@storageswiss.com
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17. What’s Your Path to NVMe?
For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at:
http://bit.ly/NVMePath