• Pioneers of Software Defined Storage • ‘Goldilocks’ size of scale plus agility: • 10,000 customers • 800 channel partners • 220 employees • 50 countries • HQ in Florida, offices in Austin, London, Paris, Munich, Sofia Bulgaria, Tokyo, Taipei • Critical data meets performance 4 DataCore-at-a-Glance
5 • New leadership team • CEO /CMO / CPO/ VP Sales • New pricing model • Simple, capacity-based • More customer obsession • Market-driven product development • Customer community & forums • Increased marketing focus • Value and use-case based • New brand, website Improved channel commitment • Improved partner portal • Increase economic incentives Even better support • Premier Plus • Stevie award for customer service Renewed focus globally • Better local websites • More localized content and materials The New DataCore
9 A Software-Centric Model Changes Everything SDS operates as a device- independent control plane • Works across storage systems and network types • Pooled storage across storage tiers • Consistent Services • Highly available • Dynamic block-level auto-tiering Hot Warm Cold Software-Defined Model
10 People who know, know DataCore is the most powerful, most flexible SDS platform The Flexibility to easily evolve among deployment models • Consolidate existing storage under a virtualized layer • No more forklift migrations No vendor or technology lock-in. Evolve as your needs evolve • Escape 3-year refresh cycles. Use the hardware you choose • Leverage bare metal, virtual, HCI, cloud, and containers Flexible options to achieve HA/DR/BC • Zero Downtime, Zero touch business continuity • Synchronous or a-synchronous. Local, metro, or remote SPC World Record for performance • 500% improvements in performance on old or new hardware • Patented Adaptive Parallel I/O eliminates key bottlenecks Reduce storage spending by 50% or more • Extend life of old hardware. Efficient utilization. • No more fork-lift migrations. Since we deployed DataCore in 2010 we have had zero downtime. - City of Carmel
• Based on capacity – simple price per TB • One license, maximum deployment flexibility • Deploy 1 node with 100TBs or 100 nodes with 1TB each • Three base licenses: EN / ST / LS • All features included • Perpetual or Subscription (term) licenses • Starting in July 11 Flexible & Simple Licensing Options Embargo until July 9th
Proven, Mature, and Reliable • DataCore is trusted by over 10,000 customers worldwide • Enterprise-grade, proven technology • Stable company, 10 years of continuous profitability • Highest customer satisfaction and the best support in the industry 16 Experts recognize DataCore as the authority on SDS 3 Time Platinum Award Software-Defined Storage 2018 Leader SDS & HCI “Mature VSAN product, very stable, cost effective and easy to use. No need to overspend on proprietary hyper-converged appliances. “ - Customer Review on Gartner peer insights “Software-defined storage is the future. By decoupling the hardware from the storage software, we were able to choose the best hardware at the lowest price while ensuring enterprise-grade storage was provided to our end users.“ – Customer on Review on G2Crowd “DataCore’s intelligent use of processor and storage capacity puts it ahead of the rest at this time. “ – Virtualization Review “First in functionality in the Products of the Year competition“ “A long-proven product that keeps adding more capability,".” – Storage Magazine “Once you use it, you won't want something else. No vendor lock-in.“ – Customer on IT Central Station 96% of CEOs, CFOs, CSOs, and CTOs at IT organizations are likely to recommend DataCore - TechValidate Research
• Freedom - Abstraction from hardware, no lock-in • Flexibility - Evolve your architecture via software • Integrated - No silos, maximum utilization • Highly Available - Flexibility on zero downtime architectures • Smarter – Optimization across existing and new systems 20 The World is Becoming Software-Defined bare metal cloud software-defined virtualized
21 A Software-Centric Model Changes Everything SDS operates as a device- independent control plane • Works across storage systems and network types • Pooled storage across storage tiers • Consistent Services • Highly available • Dynamic block-level auto-tiering Hot Warm Cold Software-Defined Model
“The infrastructure of the future is all about choice” - Julia Palmer, Gartner Research 22 With SDS your storage becomes Adaptable The Flexibility to easily evolve among deployment models • Data center, multi-site, local cluster, ROBO, and Cloud • Converged, Hyper-converged, Hybrid-converged • Distributed SAN, NAS, DAS, SAN, JBODs • One node or one hundred, easy evolution, same price “This is game changer which is ahead of the trend and a key element to help an organization truly have a Software Defined Data Center.” Irvin Nio, IT Architect at Capgemini Stand Alone HA + DR in the Cloud Metro HA + HCI Robo
23 Automated migration without disruptions • Add new storage systems or decommission older arrays • Seamless evolution to Hyperconverged • Data is copied in the Background • Regardless of Source/Destination • Across vendors or technologies • No Impact on SLAs • Fast snapshot and cloning for testing, reporting, etc.
The Flexibility to evolve as technology and your needs evolve – You are in control • Add new arrays, decommission old - no migration • iSCSI, Fiber Channel, or both • Bare metal, virtual, cloud, and containers • Dynamic block-level Auto-Tiering across old and new • Full Rest API to enable integration and automation 24 With SDS your storage becomes Future-Ready No vendor, technology, or architecture lock-in
Flexible options to achieve HA/DR/BC • Zero Downtime, Zero RPO, Zero RTO • Synchronous or a-synchronous. Local, metro, or remote • Auto fail-over, auto fallback, auto re-build, CDP SPC World Record for performance • Patented Adaptive Parallel I/O eliminates key bottlenecks • AI-assisted smart caching and dynamic auto-tiering • Immediate performance improvement for all your storage Reduce storage spending by 50% or more • Extend life of old hardware, and optimize utilization • Storage consolidation, automation, and centralized management 25 With SDS your storage becomes Smarter NASA Stennis Space Center improved performance by 10x since virtualizing their storage with DataCore.
Mature, proven solution for HA/DR/BC • Zero Downtime, Zero RPO, Zero RTO • Synchronous or a-synchronous • Local, metro, remote, or cloud • Auto fail-over, auto fallback, auto re-build • Mirror between different hardware types • CDP time machine allows restores to any point in time in a 14-day window 26 With SDS your storage becomes Highly Available
SPC Benchmark World Record for price-performance • Patented Adaptive Parallel I/O eliminates key bottlenecks across the system • AI-Assisted smart caching • Dynamic Block-Level Auto-Tiering • Super-efficient, RTOS-based code • Disk-based storage becomes flash-fast • Flash storage becomes even faster 27 With SDS your storage becomes Incredibly Fast now
47% of companies using DataCore SDS were able to reduce storage spending by 50% or more • Extend life of old hardware • One management layer across all your storage systems • No more fork-lift migrations • Thin provisioning maximizes capacity utilization • Deduplication and compression reduces capacity requirements • Reduce time manually provisioning and managing capacity 28 With SDS your storage becomes Efficient “ ” Eliminates need for high-priced proprietary storage hardware… Deploy storage software on industry-standard server hardware [to] significantly lower opex of storage upgrades and maintenance costs. - Gartner Research
• 24x7x365 multi-lingual, global support • 100% staffed with Level-3 engineers • Support centers in US, England, and Japan • Industry-leading SLAs • 90% + customer satisfaction • Premium Plus support available – 30 min response • We own resolution from start to finish • Cross-vendor collaboration with TSANET • Telemetry-Assisted support • Expert-led Health Checks available • Peer support via online forums 29 With SDS your storage becomes reliable Multi-year Stevie Award Winner “ ” Product Is Excellent, Support Is Stellar.