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
Path
Pro
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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
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