Madrid SSD Enterprise conference

Gaetano PastoreManager, Sales CE-Russia-Turkey

28 June 2011

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Agenda

STEC introduction

STEC EMEA support team

Why SSD in Storage

• SSD are not all equal

• Nexenta implementation

Next to come

• Channel program

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STEC History and Expertise

Building SSDs since 1994

Focused on Enterprise,

Defense and Government

customers

Extensive FC, SAS, SATA

interface skill &

experience

The Company

In-House Controller

Development

Deep Interface Expertise

SSD Firmware and Logic

Design

A significant IP portfolio

with patents in key SSD

technologies Flash management

Controller Technology

Power backup

The Technology

Industry’s broadest

portfolio of SSDs

Highly integrated system

architecture

Continued innovation

through technology

integration

Proven performance,

reliability and endurance

The Products

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Enterprise Leaders Rely on STEC SSDs

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Continuing Leadership Initiatives

• Continued investment in SSD technology

• Research & Development

• Quality & Reliability

• Growing Engineering resource USA and Penang

• Expanding Manufacturing in Penang

• Strengthened STEC controller technology

• Introduced Secure Array of Flash Elements™ (S.A.F.E.) Technology

• Introduced CellCare™ Technology to bring MLC-based SSDs to enterprise

• Continuous development of flash channel technologies

• Active evaluation of key industry groups

• eNVMHCI working group

• SFF working group

• JEDEC

• SNIA

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Building on our Customers’ Success

Markets

#1 Volume and revenue

supplier in enterprise

SSDs

Leading supplier of

military and industrial-

grade memory products

>82% CAGR in enterprise

SSDS through 2014

Customers

Largest list of top-tier

global OEMs fully

qualified

Over 20 years experience

serving requirements of

OEM customers

Design and FAE support

centers worldwide

Innovation

First to market with

enterprise SSDs

First to market with

3Gb and 6GB SAS

Leading in time-to-market

with industrial SlimSATA

and CFAST

Leading in SSD controller

integration with

CellCare™ Technology

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Performance Computing

High performance Enterprise

Server/Storage

Mainstream Enterprise Storage

Value Enterprise Server/Storage

Embedded, Military and Aerospace

Most Comprehensive Solid-State Line-up

MACH16

Enterprise-Class SATA

ZeusIOPS

Fibre Channel

ZeusIOPS

6Gb SAS

ZeusRAM

SAS 6Gb

CF, Cfast, SlimSATA,

for embedded applications

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ZeusIOPS Gen3 Enterprise SSD’s

True enterprise-class solid state drive

• SAS and Fibre Channel Interfaces

• Variable sector size:

512, 520, 524 and 528 Bytes

• Performance SLC IOPS MLC IOPS

• 4K Random 70/30 Q16 30,000 10,000

• 4K Random R/W, Q16 45K/16K 45K/5K

• 512b Random Read Q16 75,000 70,000

• 256K Sequential Read/Write 380/225 MB/s 350/100 MB/s

Warranty 2.5” 3.5”

SLC Media 5 years 100, 200 GB 100, 200, 400 GB

MLC Media 3 years 300 GB 300, 800 GB

Shipping

Now

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MACH16 Enterprise Class SATA SSD

2.5” & 1.8” hard drive form factors

Full data path protection

• Capacities & Form Factors

SLC Media MLC Media

• 4K Random 70/30 Q16 12,000 IOPS 11,000 IOPS

• 4K Random Read Q16 20,000 IOPS 16,000 IOPS

• 4K Random Write Q16 5,000 IOPS 2,500 IOPS

• 128K Sequential Rd 240 MB/s 240 MB/s

• 128K Sequential Wr 180 MB/s 100 MB/s

Warranty 1.8” 2.5”

MACH16SLC 5Yr

Unlimited Write

/day

50, 100 GB50, 100, 200

GB

MACH16MLC 3Yr

10X capacity Write

/day

100, 200,400

GB 200, 400 GB

i-temp version available, details & capacities available on request

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ZeusRAM

High IOPS drive for Performance Computing

• 6Gb Dual Port SAS Interface

• 512 Byte Sector size

• Hot Pluggable SAS interface

• Fully backed up DRAM to FLASH

• Built in power backup protection

• Dual Port Performance Aggregation

• Performance 6Gb-SAS

• Latency <23us

• Random Read / Write (4K) 69K/51K IOPs

• Random Read / Write (4K) 100K/100K IOPs (Dual Port)

• Sequential Read / Write 475/430 MB/s

• Sequential Read / Write 900/800 MB/s (Dual Port)

3.5”

DDR3 SSD 8GB

Designed specifically as a

“WEAR RESISTANT” SSD• Low latency, high throughput

• File system metadata, log store

• Tier0+ Storage for fast write commit

Shipping Now

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STEC EMEA

Daniel

North Europe;

East Europe

Israel; Africa.

Gaetano

Central Europe,

Russia, Turkey

Davide

South Europe:

Italy, France,

Spain, Portugal

Giorgio

FAE EMEA

Bridget Phoon

AE EMEA

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Winning storage solution has to bring ...

Improved value proposition

Support large number of users

At better service levels

While reducing operating costs

This can only be achieved by co-optimization of hardware and software for ideal performance

Workload optimized storage solution

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SSD in the Storage Landscape…

Pros: Fast access time (100ns-20us)

Wear-resistant storage

during heavy write workloads

Persistent media

RAM SSDs

Persistent media

High capacity primary storage

Pros: Highest capacity primary storage

Cons: Slow access time (10ms range)

Low performanceHDDs

Pros: Fast access time (100ns-10us)

Wear-resistant storage

during heavy write workloads

Cons: Non-persistent memory (data loss)

DRAMs

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It is important to use the right SSD…

Consumer

- Mobile and Laptop

- Low duty cycles

- Infrequent write activity

- Minimal data protection

Enterprise

• Storage, SAN, Server

• 24x7x365 duty cycles

• Performance & Reliability

• Endurance and longevity

A great SSD drive in a Does not make a

mobile application good Enterprise SSD

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STEC Enterprise SSDs Key FeaturesIt’s all in the Controller

Performance

• Consistent steady state performance

Reliability

• Advanced Flash Management

• Data path Protection

• S.A.F.E. TM for Reliability

• Power backup Protection

Endurance using CellCareTM

• For eMLC/MLC SSDs

SSD Controller

SAS

Host Interface

Wear

Leveling

Error

Detection

Correction

S.A.F.E.(Secure Array of Flash

Elements)

Data

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Write Amplification

Reduction

CellCare™

Technology

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Flash aware file system (ZFS) + SSD = Best bang for buck

Storage HeadZFS Optimized Read Cache

(L2ARC)

STEC ZeusIOPs/MACH16

• ZilCache – Non volatile write

cache

• Improves synchronous writes

• Small capacity (8GB)

• Extremely write intensive

• Use ZeusRAM

• L2ARC – Read cache

• Speeds up read operations

• ~5% of total storage capacity

• Use ZeusIOPs MLC/SLC SSDs

Configuration provided by

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Microsoft Exchange Supports 10x users & 3x Response Time Improvement

• Configuration:

- Storage Head (2U enterprise Server)

- 22x HDDs

- STEC ZeusRAM + ZeusIOPs

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Enterprise SSD System Savings Summary

HDD Only SSD & HDD

Hardware Pwr & Cool

15K HDDs 1TB SATA

Zeus SSD

52%

ZeusRAM SSD

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Key Takeaways

• Important to pick the right SSD based on target application

• Beware of using consumer SSDs in Enterprise applications

• Consider the needs of the application

• Tiered storage provide the best TCO

• Best bang for buck from each storage tier

• STEC’s has the widest range of SSDs

• ZeusRAM SSDs for ZilCache

• ZeusIOPs SLC and MLC SSDs for L2ARC