SOFTWAREDEFINED STORAGE: THE FUTURE IS HERE. Data is Exploding. Budgets are Imploding. You Need SDS.

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1 SOFTWAREDEFINED STORAGE: THE FUTURE IS HERE Data is Exploding. Budgets are Imploding. You Need.

2 03 Enterprise Pain Points 04 Lenovo for Every Type of Workload Lenovo for Every Type Lenovo s Leadership in of Requirement Block Storage ONTENT Lenovo s Leadership in 07 Lenovo s Leadership in File Storage 08 Object Storage 09 Lenovo s Leadership in Scale Out Very High- Performance Storage 10 Voice of the Enterprise: What Lenovo Customers Say Lenovo Advantages Lenovo Leadership

3 3 Enterprise Pain Points Today, every business depends on its digital data to provide insights and analysis into its business. Whether it be structure or unstructured, optimal storage and management of this data is a challenge to most organisations due to the following reasons: Explosive Data Growth IDC forecasts that by 2025 the global datasphere will grow to 163 zettabytes. That s ten times the 16.1 ZB of data generated in As a result, a paradigm shift is occurring in how data is utilised, putting pressure on existing storage infrastructure. A lot of data is captured and stored, but its value is dependent on: Being accessible to the right people. Being accessible at the right time. Being accessible on a device of their choice. Complex Storage Architectures Storage architectures are becoming increasingly complex with different options depending on the need. However, choosing one isn t as easy as one might assume. Deciding on the right storage solution and approach depends on: The type of workload: Light, heavy, simple or complex. The type of storage: Block, file, or object. The storage tier - tier 1 (high performance) to tier 4 (low performance). Confusing Storage Landscape The vendor landscape, meanwhile, matches the increasing complexity of storage architecture. At best, the vendor landscape is confusing. Navigating it to find the right solution can be a nightmare as a business has to consider: Saving legacy investments and reducing TCO. Integration of different storage architectures in a single datacenter. Performance tuned to the application and capacity.

4 4 Lenovo for Every Type of Workload Different workloads have different characteristics and hence require distinct approaches. Lenovo offers multiple options to ensure the right fit for your business application, irrespective of the complexity in the workload. Storage Workloads Data grows independent of computing capacity Data grows with computing capacity Simple Connected to entry SANs Complex deployments Heavy Connected to physical systems Light Running in virtual systems Simple storage at very low $/TB Cloudian-based object storage Advanced storage protection with encryption Pre-integrated & easy-todeploy rack-level solution Extreme capacity dense storage Versatile storage systems with intelligent real-time tiering capabilities Datacore-based block storage Scale up High reliability and performance Virtualised, flash-optimised modular storage Turnkey, pre-integrated & easy-to-deploy racklevel solution Simplified IT infrastructure at reduced costs High-capacity JBODs Entry-level tape autoloader for offline storage Nexenta-based unified storage Scale out Unified file/object storage for high availability & data integrity Virtualised compute, storage, and networking resources at reduced costs Standalone tape automation solution Click on the product for more information

5 5 Lenovo for Every Type of Requirement As complex workloads become the norm in enterprises, storage solutions that can handle this well are preferred for the flexibility they offer. can offer benefits such as easy application management, virtualised storage, and cloud-based access at low TCO. Lenovo s appliance model focuses on customer requirements to produce the best solution for meeting specific requirements and solve different problems. Product Concern Addressed Key Value Access Method Support for Unstructured Data Affordable, highly efficient, highcapacity storage to meet growth of unstructured data. Provides Amazon S3-compliant storage at a cost of pennies per GB per month. Integrates into applications and public clouds. Object Yes Highly efficient and durable storage platform to meet massive data growth that allows scaling from tens to hundreds of TBs of storage. Unified block and file storage with low $/TB pricing. File Block No Solves silo issues using storage virtualisation and parallel I/O delivering extreme performance at less than $500,000. Upto 5M IOPS of block storage and storage virtualisation. File Block No Software-defined solution for dense scalable file and object storage suitable for high performance and data-intensive environments. 100s of PB scaling with low latency, high resiliency systems used for HPC and big data. File Object Yes

6 6 Intel Xeon processor Lenovo s Leadership in Block Storage Block-storage is mainly used for transactional databases, , and virtual machines. Leading the industry on a number of metrics, below are a few business benefits that enterprises can derive when using Lenovo s block-based software-defined storage. TCO Scalability Performance DS2200 & DS4200 support The DX8200D DataCore appliance The DX8200D offers flexible intelligent real-time tiering from Lenovo solves storage silo virtualisation of internal and external capabilities that help optimise issues with storage virtualisation storage with automated storage system performance, reduce costs, for block storage and allows tiering to accelerate transactional and simplify management. scaling from tens to hundreds databases, analytics, and enterprise terabytes of managed storage. applications. features of an advanced storage The DX8200D allows scaling to The DX8200D uses DataCore parallel like deduplication, compression, hundreds of terabytes of managed I/O technology, in combination with auto-tiering, caching, QoS, thin storage and avoids rip and replace high-speed RAM caching, to service provision, and data migration, but by automatically adding additional read/write requests quickly to also synchronous 3-site replication. storage capacity to existing pool. optimise performance. DX8200D offers not only all the DataCore s survey in 2016 found that among customers who deployed : 81% reduced storage-related spending by 25% or more. 100% saw a positive ROI in the first year.

7 7 Lenovo s Leadership in File Storage File-storage is mainly used for storing large files, sharing, and local archiving. Leading the industry on a number of metrics, below are a few business benefits that enterprises can derive when using Lenovo s filebased software-defined storage. TCO The DX8200N, an affordable, highly efficient and durable storage platform, easily integrates into any existing cloud set-up and Scalability The DX8200N appliance utilises the D drive JBOD to scale up to 6.72PB in addition to offering both file and block High Availability The DX8200N is designed for always-on data storage with multiple levels of protection and availability, including end-to-end 60-70% The savings Nexenta can provide customers with its enterprise storage offerings. Source: IDC offers large capacity storage at very low $/TB. The DX8200N Nexenta appliance from Lenovo offers data management functionality and supports inline data reduction for additional storage storage in a single cluster. The DX8200N Nexenta appliance from Lenovo offers massive scalability with the ability to run on all-flash, hybrid, and spinning disk configurations to meet your specific workload needs. data integrity, multi-parity RAID, multi-pathing, and replication. DX8200N Nexenta Appliance from Lenovo offers true high availability with full active/active clusters with the ability to failover without disconnecting the client and having 47% Of customers say greater agility is a factor for considering a investment. cost savings. the ability to self-heal failed disks. Source: Enterprise Strategy Group

8 8 Intel Xeon processor Lenovo s Leadership in Object Storage Object-storage is mainly used for storing data analytics, videos, photos, document records and online collaboration services. Leading the industry on a number of metrics, below are a few business benefits that enterprises can derive when using Lenovo s object-based software-defined storage. Unstructured data growth: TCO Scalability Reliability & Performance The DX8200C makes it easy to The DX8200C can start small and The DX8200C powered by Cloudian build full-featured, on-premise scale to hundreds of petabytes. automates failure avoidance Amazon S3-compliant storage at a Its HyperStore peer-to-peer with Dynamic Object Routing. cost of pennies per GB per month. architecture allows almost endless Additionally, it offers up to 14 Besides, it offers an affordable, scaling from as few as three nines data durability, or more, with high-capacity storage to meet the servers to many hundreds of configurable data protection. growth of unstructured data. servers, across data centers and geographic regions. The DX8200C uses Cloudian s DX8200C processes multiple 78% of respondents say their unstructured data is growing faster than other business data. 90% requests in parallel, across all nodes penetration of object efficient architecture and industry Automated data-tiering to the in HyperStore s shared nothing storage among standard components save 70% on cloud is easily possible with cluster, thus eliminating bottlenecks CAPEX and its massive scalability the DX8200C. It is also 100% and allowing performance to grow respondents within 24 and lights-out management results compatible with AWS, Microsoft as nodes are added. in 95% less overhead. Azure and Google GCP. months for key big data use cases. Source: State Of Object Storage Survey 2017 by 451 Research.

9 9 Intel Xeon processor Lenovo s Leadership in Scale Out Very High-Performance Storage Deploying solutions for technical computing, HPC, analytics and cloud environments can place a significant burden on IT. The Lenovo Distributed Storage Solution for IBM Spectrum Scale (DSS-G) reduces the complexity of deployment with integrated, delivered and fully-supported solutions that match best-in-industry components with optimised solution design. >80% of enterprise data will be stored in scale-out storage systems in enterprise and cloud Ease of Deployment Extreme Scalability Performance Lenovo DSS-G is delivered as a Lenovo DSS-G for IBM Lenovo s DSS-G solution for pre-integrated, easy-to-deploy Spectrum Scale can scale both IBM Spectrum Scale allows rack-level solution that dramatically performance and capacity with for very low latency and its reduces time-to-value and TCO. no bottlenecks, providing users performance increases linearly with extreme scalability. when adding nodes. as a fully integrated unit with Lenovo DSS-G combines Lenovo s DSS-G is a high- the Lenovo 1410 rack cabinet the performance of Lenovo performance, low latency solution or with the Lenovo Client Site servers with IBM Spectrum for managing data at scale with Integration Kit. The solution is Scale software to offer a high the distinctive ability to perform tested, configured, and ready to be performance, scalable building archive and analytics. plugged in and turned on. block approach to storage needs. It gives the choice of shipping data centers by 2021, up from 30% today. Gartner

10 10 Voice of the Enterprise What our customers say about our solutions. With the Lenovo Storage DX8200C solution, we can offer extremely flexible data storage services that deliver all the benefits of public cloud storage from our own datacenter. Arthur Olshansky, CTO, Federal Hill Solutions Everything that is mission-critical to the running of the hospital is supported by the DataCore virtualised storage platform. Users not only receive faster access to data, but they benefit from more server capacity as well. Rog Fe de Leon, Head of the Storage Group, Maimonides We are very satisfied with DataCore software-defined solution that complements the virtual server environment with VMware and Hyper-V perfectly. It gives us the storage flexibility to set up performance and highly available customer environments quickly, run stable and be easy to handle. It helps us to cover the various needs of our clients in a cost-efficient manner. Håkon Svendsen, CTO, Braathe Gruppen AS Business Impact of Software-Defined Storage: IT services provider Braathe Gruppen uses to operate a scalable highperformance cloud at high service levels and reduced its storage TCO by 40%. As a bonus, this simplified infrastructure provisioning and maintenance.

11 11 Lenovo Advantages Lenovo is the leader in scalable, affordable storage solutions to meet enormous data capacity needs. Lenovo understands customers needs and makes the solution and technology play well together. Here are some facts about Lenovo, which make it an ideal partner for enterprises. Provides clarity and a clear sense of direction in a fragmented market. No legacy baggage to protect, thus ensuring the right solution is offered to address requirements. Value addition on key fronts capacity, performance, and reliability. Focus on the best hardware and offering the newest proven technology to boost datacenter efficiency. Provides implementation and maintenance services for both hardware and software. Best of breed software partnerships allow Lenovo to offer the best R&D, support, simplified deployment, and easy maintenance. Enables customer innovation for internal platform and external business. For example, SAP HANA was developed using Lenovo servers.

12 12 Lenovo Leadership #1 in reliability among mainstream server hardware platforms with % uptime. (Source: ITIC Global Server Hardware/OS Reliability Survey.) #1 in customer satisfaction with products, after-market technical service and support. (Source: ITIC Global Server Hardware/OS Reliability Survey.) Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series is #1 in price/performance, measured in $/IOP, according to Storage Performance Council 88 world record benchmarks held by Lenovo for x86 server performance. (Source: As of November 8, 2017 on benchmarks including STAC-M3 and SPEC benchmarks.) 160+ countries served by Lenovo % hardware availability achieved by mission-critical Lenovo servers, when combined with Lenovo committed repair service offerings. (Source: Internal Study according to Lenovo internal repair action statistics.) Easy IT administration with Lenovo s advanced management tools. Modular server design for seamless upgrades and operational savings.

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