Rackable Systems Overview

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Rackable SystemsOverview
Mike Hoey Sr Director, Northeast Sales
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About Rackable Systems
Leading Provider of Servers Storage for
Large-Scale Data Centers
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Vital Stats

• Founded in 1999, based in Silicon Valley, CA
• 4th largest x86 server vendor in North America
  (IDC Gartner)
• Fastest-growing x86 provider worldwide (IDC)
• Successful IPO in June 2005 (Nasdaq RACK)
• Distinguished by our highly differentiated
  chassis, cabinet and power designs (patents
  awards)
• The first to launch DC power solutions for
  wide-spread data center adoption (patents
  pending)

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Rapid Revenue Growth
(2)
(1)
(1) 12 months ended September 30, 2002. (2)
Midpoint of recent guidance range.
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250 Leading CustomersAcross Many Verticals
Internet
Semiconductor Design
Enterprise Software
Biotech Pharma
Top 10 Global I-Bank
UCSC Human Genome Project
Entertainment
Fox Sports Network
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A Vast Improvement
Old Way
Rackable Way
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The Data Center Dilemma
Density
Power
Heat
Operations
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Maximum Density

• Highly differentiated server cabinet designs
• Half-depth form factors for back-to-back mounting
• 2x density levels 88 servers per cabinet 352
  cores
• Ability to cool fully populated cabinet of systems

• Back-to-back mounting
• 352 cores per cabinet

• Back-to-back and side-to-side mounting
• 352 cores per cabinet

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Flexible Configurations

• Total flexibility and configurability
• Open architecture, X86 designs
• Customer and order specific bill of material
• Rapid new technology adoption
• Range of memory, disk formats (SCSI, SATA, IDE,
  SAS) and RAID configurations
• Leading edge development around AMD and Intel
  chipsets
• Best-of-breed partners
• Full support for range of software platforms
• World-class OS expertise
• Linux, Windows, Solaris

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Lower Power Consumption

• Reduce power consumption in the server
• Use low wattage parts (CPU, memory, fans)
• Eliminate unnecessary components
• Map designs to data center power availability
• Less power less heat greater reliability
• Reduce losses associated with getting power to
  servers
• Industrys first DC Power technology
• AC-to-DC conversion at cabinet, row and data
  center level
• 10-30 lower power draw
• 20-40 elimination of heat at server level
• Maximize density to available power in legacy
  data centers
• Only supplier to provide Direct DC powered
  servers and storage
• In AC systems, carefully match power supply to
  system power draw

Source Lawrence Berkeley/California Energy
Commission, 6/2006
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Distributed DC Power
Which would you rather have in your server?
Choose the cooler, more efficient, more reliable
solution
Rackable Systems DC Power Supply
Competitors AC Power Supply

• Small 29 cu in (no moving parts!)
• 2 million hours MTBF
• Dual power feed
• 93 efficiency
• Very low thermal signature

• Big 240 cu in
• 100,000 hours MTBF
• Need (2) for Dual power feed
• 73 efficiency
• High thermal signature

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Cabinet DC Power Technology
Power Cost Savings and Higher Reliability

• Highly reliable DC power supply (93 efficient)
  replaces standard AC power supply (73
  efficient)
• Rectifiers convert AC input to DC power for 10
  increase in power efficiency
• DC distribution bars inside cabinet deliver NM
  redundant DC power to individual servers
• 20-40 elimination of heat
• Deployed in any existing AC data center

Source Lawrence Berkeley/California Energy
Commission, 6/2006
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Row Data Center DC Solutions

• Row Level
• One rack used to power entire row of cabinets
• Added redundancy, reduced cost
• Reduce number of circuits
• Eliminate need for AC PDUs in data center

• Data Center Level
• Additional efficiency benefit (up to 30)
• Improved thermal shift/corresponding HVAC
  benefits
• Maturing technology

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AC DC Greenfield Building Comparison
Data Center Level DC Power
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Customer Case Study
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DC Power Testimonials

• Rackable has allowed us to increase our global
  hardware capacity by more than 50 without
  increasing our electricity costs. CIO of Webex
  to Forbes Magazine, June 2006
• DC Power keeps the units considerably cooler
  within the chassis themselves and saves us
  somewhere between 10 and 20 percent over the
  AC-powered alternative." Lead Engineer at
  University of Florida to CNET, March 2006
• By purchasing a DC-powered solution, eWEEK Labs
  believes organizations will increase server
  reliability while lowering monthly power costs.
  eWeek Labs, March 2006
• We saw the power savings right away when we put
  in the Rackable Systems servers. President of
  Spectrum to eWeek, March 2006
• Using DC powered servers, we're saving money
  on energy, while receiving 20 more compute power
  in the same footprint." VP Technology of Right
  Media to Tech Target, Jan 2006

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Cooling Strategies

• Every 100W of power consumed by a server requires
  70W power for HVAC to cool it
• Reduced power less heat reduced HVAC costs
  higher MTBF

• Better heat evacuation
• Back-to-back mounting enables central air plenum
  in cabinet
• Louver system allows vectoring of air to returns
  (either upward or downward inside plenum)
• Elimination of hot aisle/cold aisle phenomenon
• Reduces requirements on air handlers
• No additional power needed to evacuate hot air

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Operational Savings

• Better serviceability
• I/O in front for easy access
• Roamer remote management
• Modular power mating
• Elimination of rail kits clean cabling
• Turnkey deployments
• Designed to meet customer-specific data center
  space and power requirements
• Fully racked, stacked and cabled
• System/cabinet-level power optimization
• Configurations specific to customer
• Comprehensive support and sparing packages
• World-class technical consulting

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Low Total Cost of Ownership
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Global Service and Support Capabilities

• Choice in domestic or global support
• Complete 24x7 North American capability, 4 hour
  onsite support from network of 3,000 engineers
• We currently support customers in Beijing,
  England, India, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg,
  Malaysia and Taiwan
• Self-service support portal for customers
• Unified case management infrastructure
• Use SF.com infrastructure
• Many customers provide automated input via SOAP
  APIs
• Custom support models available globally
• Build-to-order service and support options
• Fix in Place
• Sparing
• Self-maintenance

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Rackable Systems Advantage

• Rack Roll ! full turnkey deployment
• Open architecture COTS
• Built-to-order, NOT Cookie-Cutter
• Superior cooling power management
• Best Rack Server Density in Market
• Superior TCO
• Easier serviceability
• Full Customer Support choices
• On site sparing / field inventory
• Worldclass Linux support
• Short lead times - Rapid deployment
• (3,000 server order in 7 weeks !)

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RapidScaleTM High-Performance Clustered Storage
Systems
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Accelerating Application Throughput
Scalable applications are NOT commoditieseven if
most hardware is
CPU MIPS (12X)
RapidScale closes the gap
I/O interconnect (10X)
Memory bus MHz (8X)
Application throughput (4X)
Source www.top500.org
2000
2004
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The RapidScale Storage Solution

• Enhances application engine performance
• Eliminates expensive SAN arrays
• Minimizes use of slower NAS protocols
• Eliminates complex parallel file systems
• Reduces storage administration effort

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Evolution to Clustered Storage
Capacity
Price / Performance
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Next Generation of Storage Networking

• Clustered Storage
• No data silos all nodes access the same global
  name space file system
• Highest performance
• Excellent capacity utilization
• Data sharing across nodes
• Lower capital and operating costs

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RapidScale Clustered Storage

• Parallel data access improves
• application performance
• Global name space file system
• Ethernet switches become virtual
• multi-ported RAID controller
• Linear performance scaling
• Simple management
• Highly Available configurations

RapidScale Storage Appliances maintain cache
coherency across clients
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RapidScale Storage Appliances

• Capacity
• Up to 8TB (16 x 500GB drives) per appliance
• Aggregate to 18 exabytes
• Performance
• 200 MB/sec (Infiniband)
• Aggregate to over 10 GB/sec
• Networking Support
• Ethernet, Infiniband, Myrinet
• Power
• DC or AC

• RapidScale SA3100
• AC power
• Up to 8TB per appliance
• Up to 112TB per cabinet

• RapidScale SA2150
• DC power
• Up to 4.5TB per appliance
• Up to 126TB per cabinet

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RapidScale Performance Monitor
Small scale array running at 1GB/sec!

• Easy to use monitoring tool
• ID RapidScale Systems
• Monitor performance
• Tune network and application hotspots

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The RapidScale Value Proposition

• Modular Solution
• Add capacity/performance by simply adding more
  Storage Appliances
• Simple Installation and Deployment
• Easy to deploy and manage using well-known
  Linux tools
• Greater Return-on-Investment
• Increased cluster efficiency improves
  application performance
• Faster Results
• Better application performance streamlines and
  improves business
• decisions
• Most Environmentally Friendly Solution
• DC power will save up to 30 in power
  consumption and up to 40 BTU reduction while
  back-to-back / half-depth provides double density
  and cuts floorspace in half !

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Thank You