Xiotech Press Conference

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Xiotech Press Conference

• Start Time 740 am

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Casey Powell

• President and CEO Xiotech Corporation

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Steve Sicola

• Chief Technology Officer Xiotech Corporation

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Storage Building A Better Foundation
The Problem The storage foundation hasnt kept
pace with increasing growth, protection, and
availability requirements of the data center.

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Storage Foundational Issues
1. Environmentals

• The Problem
• Inadequate cooling and drive vibration cause
  failures
• Drives plug in
• horizontally hanging
• from connector.
• Human errors are
• hard to prevent

• The Impact
• Unstable environment causes premature drive
  failures

• The Solution
• New enclosure design
• to eliminate vibration
• and cooling issues.
• Drive connectors that
• work with gravity
• Drives sealed to avoid
• handling mistakes

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Storage Foundational Issues
2. Drives Are Too Big
The Problem Recovering data from todays large
drives takes too long.
The Impact Risk of losing data and the
disruption caused by the length of time it takes
to recover.
The Solution Ability to recover smaller
increments of data such as single surfaces or
portions to shorten recovery. Parallel recovery
techniques
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Storage Foundational Issues
3. Drives Are Too Small
The Problem Drives are too small to serve as
the foundational element for larger storage
requirements.
The Impact Poor scalability and too much
complexity as storage requirements grow. Too
many moving parts.
The Solution A foundational storage element 10x
to 20x larger than the typical drive.
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Storage Foundational Issues
4. Dated Controller Software

• The Impact
• Reduced performance and reliability because
• Controllers have to compensate for too much
  inconsistency across all component possibilities

• The Problem
• Inefficiencies and inconsistencies to controller
  code to accommodate
• Moving drives
• Different models, mfgs.,
• behaviors, and combined
• groupsA MESS!

• The Solution
• Homogeneity
• Updated, clean and consistent software
• Fixing the ills of SCSI
• interface
• Adv. error checking
• For increased reliability, efficiency and
  performance

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Storage Foundational Issues
5. Intelligence In The Wrong Places
The Problem Caching, RAID, and Drive Management
dont scale well at the array level.

• The Impact
• Storage arrays become performance bottlenecks,
  managing
• Caching
• RAID
• Drive hardware
• along with host connectivity and higher
  application functions such as virtualization

• The Solution
• Move intelligence
• closer to drives for
• RAID, cache, and drive
• management
• Virtualize drives
• within the array for
• presentation to the
• host

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Storage Foundational Issues
6. Fixing What Aint Broke
The Problem 5085 of all drives replaced in
the field are NO TROUBLE FOUND (NTF) when they
get back to the factory.
The Impact Significant disruption, cost, and
risk caused by drive replacements most of which
can and should be avoided.
The Solution Preventative, Self-healing, and
fail-in-place architectures that diagnose and
address apparent drive failures in place,
eliminating most replacements.
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The Solution Intelligent Storage Element (ISE)
TechnologyA New Foundation for Storage

• 6 Years
• 100 leading engineers
• 75 patents

• 100 Times More Reliable
• Industry-Leading Performance
• Scalable from 1TB to 1PB

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Intelligent Storage Element (ISE)?
A revolutionary storage element designed to
dramatically improve reliability, performance and
scalability.
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Intelligent Storage Element (ISE)?
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Maximum Reliability - No more fixing what
aint broke

• Xiotech tests
• 15 months, 208 ISEs containing 5,900 drives.
• NO service events
• More than 100x more reliable than traditional
  disk drive systems

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Maximum Performance
Rated First in Storage Performance Council
Benchmarks

• SPC Benchmark 1
• Lowest cost per SPC-1 IOPS
• SPC Benchmark 2
• Lowest cost per SPC-2 MBps

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ISE Technology - Maximum Scalability

• 1TB to 16TB per ISE
• 1TB to 1PB systems
• DAS to SAN
• Investment protection
• Unique to this industry!

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Emprise 7000 Powered by ISE

• ISE Technology Foundation
• All the Advanced Capabilities of Magnitude 3D
  4000
• Virtualized, Clustered Storage
• ICON Manager
• Web Services
• Intelligent Provisioning
• Data Protection Suite

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Emprise 5000

• Direct / Switch Attached Solution
• ISE Technology Foundation
• Maximum Performance
• Flexible Configuration
• Maximum Reliability
• Optimized Storage

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Solutions TechnologyTested and Validated by
Users and Analysts
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Early Adopters

• Len Carella, Chief Technology Officer
• Newsweek

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Customer Overview

• Weekly news magazine providing comprehensive
  coverage of world events
• Global network of 1,000 correspondents and
  reporters
• Circulation 3.7 million
• Readership - 23 million
• Ownership - The Washington Post Company

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Storage Challenges

• Strategic Initiatives
• Business continuity to produce weekly magazine
• Situation
• Moving headquarters and connecting all of our
  servers to a new SAN.
• Need
• Looking for maximized performance and
  availability for editorial applications and
  exchange
• Reliability is critical to success
• Publication environment is changing need high
  performance today, with ability to scale

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Emprise 7000 Implementation

• Implemented
• March 2008
• Data Stored
• 7 terabytes
• Exchange and editorial applications
• Why Emprise 7000
• Eliminates drive failures and lowers maintenance
  costs

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Benefits Realized Expected

• Higher performance up to 50 percent throughput
• Zero downtime
• Ease of installation, configuration and
  management
• Expected Increased uptime, no loss of data or
  data degradation

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Early Adopters

• Rich Baldwin, Chief Executive Officer
• Nth Generation

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Who is NTH Generation?

• Enterprise Server Storage Integrator
• 20 Year old consulting and integration company
• Headquartered in San Diego
• Focused on Enterprise Clients with Heavy Data
  Storage Needs
• Experts in Mission Critical Computing,
  Consolidation Data Protection
• A 5 Million Dollar RD Test Lab

• Experience
• Over 600 Storage Area Network Data Center
  Solutions for medium to large enterprises.
• Experts in Server and Storage Virtualization
• Top Partners include HP, VMware, CommVault,
  Microsoft, Xiotech
• 16 Solution Architects and Consultants on staff
• 40 Million in annual revenue

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Emprise 5000

• Implemented
• January 2007 A Seagate test site
• Data Stored
• 2 terabytes
• Exchange and CRM Corporate Database
• Why Emprise 5000
• ISEs eliminate failures and protects our Mission
  Critical Data.

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Emprise 7000

• Implemented March 2008
• Data Stored
• 2 terabytes
• Exchange and CRM Corporate Database
• Why Emprise 7000
• Bullet Proof Storage, easy to use and manage, and
  DOUBLE the performance of any other solution that
  we have tested.
• The Best Storage for use with VMware.

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Why Xiotech?

• Cutting Edge Paradigm Shift for Storage
• Data Reliability to the NTH Degree
• Lowest Cost of Ownership Easy to Manage
• Scalability Performance
• Investment Protection
• The Best Storage on the Planet!

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Thank You

• Questions?

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Press Kit on Thumb Drive

• Press Conference
• Press release
• Press conference presentation
• Press conference video
• PR contact information
• Product literature
• Emprise brochure
• Emprise 5000 data sheet
• Emprise 7000 data sheet
• ISE white paper
• Product images
• www.xiotech.com/presskit.aspx

• Analyst reports
• Redefining the Foundation for Storage Systems
  Benjamin Woo, IDC
• Its Time for Disk Drives 2.0 Mark
  Peters, ESG
• Lab Validation Report, Xiotech Intelligent
  Storage Element Tony Palmer, ESG
• About Xiotech
• Corporate background
• Executive biographies photos
• Company logo

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