GRAID Technology - IT Press Tour #46 Oct. 2022

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1. Introducing SupremeRAID™ by GRAID Technology Inc. G R A I D T E C H . C O M PRESENTED BY: Leander Yu, Founder and CEO Thomas Paquette, SVP & GM Americas/EMEA IT PRESS TOUR, SILICON VALLEY October 10, 2022
2. Agenda Introducing GRAID Technology Inc. Our Leadership The Enterprise Storage Landscape The RAID Bottleneck Challenge Our Innovative Solution Competitive Comparison SupremeRAID™ Use Cases Partnerships, Whitepapers & Testimonials Value Prop & Competitive Advantages SupremeRAID™ Product Roadmap Events, Media & Awards Questions / Closing 2 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc.
3. GRAID Technology Inc. The New Standard in Enterprise Data Protection & Performance 3 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. HQ in Silicon Valley Offices in Ontario, CA R&D center in Taipei, Taiwan Global Partners & Resellers $15M Series A in January 2022 We’ve developed the world's first NVMe and NVMeoF RAID card to unlock the full potential of your SSD performance. Our extraordinary software plus hardware solution is the most powerful and flexible NVMe SSD RAID in the world.
4. Leadership 4 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. Leander Yu Co-Founder & CEO Santa Clara, CA Tom Paquette SVP & General Manager, Americas and EMEA Bonita Springs, FL Dr. Henry Chang CTO Taiwan, Taipei David Tseng Chief Architect Taiwan, Taipei Our dedicated team of experts bring decades of experience in the SDS, ASIC and storage industries
5. A Decade of Change in the Storage Market • Storage systems are becoming increasingly software-defined • Commodity hardware prevents vendor lock-in • SSDs are replacing HDD as the storage medium of choice for the enterprise as they deliver lower TCO with improved scalability and flexibility • Gartner analysts predict enterprise SSDs will be 32% of overall HDD/SSD capacity shipped by 2026 (vs ~20% share in 2021) 5 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. Source: Gartner; Wells Fargo Securities, LLC; Blocks & Files
6. The Challenge 6 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. • Flash storage performance is evolving too fast to be fully utilized by existing storage architectures • Software-based RAID competes with other applications for CPU power, slowing the whole system down • Advances in NVMe technology are moving so fast that ASIC-based RAID can’t deliver the full performance capability of the SSDs • With these performance numbers, there is little to no ROI on investment in NVMe SSDs Traditional RAID is a bottleneck
7. 7GB/s 7GB/s 7GB/s 7GB/s 12GB/s RAID Card Application SSD SSD SSD SSD Why? 7 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc.
8. The Solution: SupremeRAID™ SupremeRAID™ | The world's first NVMe and NVMeoF RAID card to unlock the full potential of your SSD performance 8 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. I N T R O D U C I N G Solve the IOPS Bottleneck • Our powerful AI chip directly processes every IO — with minimal CPU involvement Solve the Throughput Bottleneck • The RAID computation on our AI chip is out of path, resulting in up to 19M IOPS and 110GB/s integrated with 32 SSD Get Record Performance & Increased Scalability • SupremeRAID™ removes the traditional RAID bottleneck to deliver maximum SSD performance, comprehensive data protection, and unmatched flexibility SupremeRAID™ SR-1010 for PCIe Gen 4 SupremeRAID™ SR-1000 for PCIe Gen 3
9. Our Innovative Technology How It Works • SupremeRAID™ is a software defined solution on GPU designed to deliver maximum SSD performance without consuming CPU cycles • Out of path RAID protection technology means data travels directly from CPU to storage without passing through the SupremeRAID™ card 9 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. Blowing Away the Competition & Setting World Records • SupremeRAID™ SR-1010 for PCIe Gen 4 delivers 19M IOPS and 110 GB/s throughput integrated with 32 SSDs Based on Linux RAID5 with Intel Xeon Gold 6338 CPU 32-Core with 2.0GHz x 2 • SupremeRAID™ SR-1000 for PCIe Gen 3 delivers 16M IOPS and 110 GB/s throughput integrated with 32 SSDs Based on RAID5 with 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon Scalable Platform and Intel D7-P5510
10. ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. SSD SSD SSD SSD Application Application Application Application 10
11. ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. SSD SSD SSD SSD Application Application Application Application AI + 11
12. ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. SSD SSD SSD SSD 7GB/s 7GB/s 7GB/s 7GB/s 7GB/s 7GB/s 7GB/s 7GB/s Application Application Application Application AI + SSD SSD SSD SSD 12
13. ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. 13 Designed for the Future Composable Infra Hosts SSD Farm Network: InfiniBand, Ethernet, FC Hosts Hosts Hosts NVMeoF App A App B Volume Volume SupremeRAID™
14. Competitor Landscape Broadcom MegaRAID Card • Designed for HDDs (based in ASICs) • Delivers less than 200k IOPS when used for NVMe SSDs • Only supports 4 direct-wired NVMe SSDs per card Intel VROC • Purely a software solution • RAID5 – 4k random write is only 21.9k IOPS* while SupremeRAID™ SR-1000 is 750k IOPS and SupremeRAID™ SR-1010 is 1.5 Million IOPS 14 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. * Source: StorageReview.com
15. SupremeRAID™ SR-1010 Software RAID Hardware RAID Performance (RAID 5) 4k random read 19M IOPS ~2M IOPS 3.5M IOPS 4k random write 1.5 M IOPS 200K IOPS 180K IOPS Sequential read 110GB/s Throughput ~9GB/s Throughput 13.5GB/s Throughput Sequential write 22GB/s Throughput 2GB/s Throughput 4 GB/s Throughput Random read in re-building 5.5M IOPS Unknown 36K IOPS Random write in re-building 1.1M IOPS Unknown 18K IOPS CPU Utilization None High None Data Protection RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and EC RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 NVMeoF Support Yes Yes No Flexibility High Limited by CPU None Maximum Number of SSD Supported No limitation 32 4 Comparison SupremeRAID™ SR-1010 PCIe Gen 4 15 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc.
16. SupremeRAID™ SR-1000 Software RAID Hardware RAID Performance (RAID 5) 4k random read 16M IOPS ~2M IOPS 3.5M IOPS 4k random write 750k IOPS 200K IOPS 180K IOPS Sequential read 110GB/s Throughput ~9GB/s Throughput 13.5GB/s Throughput Sequential write 11GB/s Throughput 2GB/s Throughput 4 GB/s Throughput Random read in re-building 3M IOPS Unknown 36K IOPS CPU Utilization None High None Data Protection RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 and EC RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 NVMeoF Support Yes Yes No Flexibility High Limited by CPU None Maximum Number of SSD Supported No limitation 32 4 Comparison SupremeRAID™ SR-1000 PCIe Gen 3 16 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc.
17. Maximum SSD Support Comparison 17 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. GRAID Technology Inc. • SSDs connect directly to PCIe bus • SupremeRAID™ is a PCIe device connected to PCIe bus • Leverages our patent-pending technology for RAID protection off the data path • No extra PCIe switch is needed, SupremeRAID™ supports the maximum number of SSDs allowed by your system • SupremeRAID™ removes all throughput bottlenecks Broadcom • Broadcom comes with 16 channels directly connected to SSD • Each NVMe SSD occupies 4 channels • Supports only 4 SSD direct connections to RAID card • System design requires an extra PCIe switch in order to work around the number of SSDs supported • PCIe switch aggregates SSD channels into 16 channels to connect to RAID card • Solve the number of SSD supported (32 max) but bandwidth is limited at 16 channels
18. SupremeRAID™ SR-1010 for PCIe Gen 4 18 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. SupremeRAID™ SR-1010 Software RAID Hardware RAID 4k Random Read 19 M IOPS ~2 M IOPS 3.5 M IOPS 4k Random Write 1.5 M IOPS 200 k IOPS 180 k IOPS 512k Sequential Read 110 GB/s ~9 GB/s 13.5 GB/s 512k Sequential Write 22 GB/s 2 GB/s 4 GB/s 4k Random Read In Rebuild 5.5 M IOPS Unknown 36 k IOPS 4k Random Write In Rebuild 1.1 M IOPS Unknown 18 k IOPS Delivers 19 million IOPS and 110GB/s of throughput on a single card Based on Linux RAID5 with Intel Xeon Gold 6338 CPU 32-Core with 2.0GHz x 2
19. SupremeRAID™ SR-1000 for PCIe Gen 3 19 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. SupremeRAID™ SR-1000 Software RAID Hardware RAID 4k Random Read 16 M IOPS ~2 M IOPS 3.5 M IOPS 4k Random Write 820 k IOPS 200 k IOPS 180 k IOPS 512k Sequential Read 110 GB/s ~9 GB/s 13.5 GB/s 512k Sequential Write 11 GB/s 2 GB/s 4 GB/s 4k Random Read In Rebuild 3 M IOPS Unknown 36 k IOPS Delivers 16 million IOPS and 110GB/s of throughput on a single card Based on RAID5 with 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon Scalable Platform and Intel D7-P5510
20. Competitor Landscape 20 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. SupremeRAID™ Pure Software Hardware ASIC/FPGA Performance ✓ ✕ ✕ Release cycle Every year Every year 2~3 years Flexibility ✓ ✓ ✕ Scalability ✓ △ ✕ Cloud native ready ‘23 ✓ ✕ CXL ready ✓ ✓ ✕
21. SupremeRAID™ Use Cases ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. 21
22. AI Training 22 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. “AI Training requires reading large amounts of data, a procedure that can take more than 12 hours with traditional solutions. Combining SupremeRAID™ and NFS over RDMA reduced the procedure to 2 hours—a huge productivity improvement.” SupremeRAID™ Use Case — AI Director of a well-known Health Research Department Institution
23. 4K Video Surveillance 23 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. “To capture a car race with 4k video quality from different cameras requires more than 10GB/s write throughput. GRAID Technology Inc. is the only RAID solution to deliver this kind of performance with RAID5 data protection.” — IT Director of a Global Media Company SupremeRAID™ Use Case
24. Automobile, Aviation & Drone 24 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. “When recording large amounts of high- definition video in a limited environment, a RAID1 solution might be able to keep up with the speed but it’s not cost efficient. SupremeRAID™ delivers RAID5/6 that matches the performance of RAID1, which pumps up the available space from 50% to 80+%. Not only is it good for cost savings but also makes a lot of things possible in this limited environment.” — Solution Architect of a North American-based Aviation Company SupremeRAID™ Use Case
25. SAN/NAS Storage Systems 25 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. “While most of the all-flash array vendors in the market only deliver up to 1.5M IOPS, GRAID Technology Inc. makes 19M IOPS possible with a single SupremeRAID™ card.” — R&D Director of a SAN Storage Company SupremeRAID™ Use Case
26. Local Databases 26 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. “Current hardware RAID is obviously not the solution for local databases due to its latency and performance limitation for NVMe SSDs. SupremeRAID™ provides unbeatable performance and latency for databases to realize the full benefits of using NVMe SSDs.” — Solution Architect of a Tier-one IT Company SupremeRAID™ Use Case
27. SupremeRAID™ Global Partnerships & Recognition ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. 27
28. Global Partners, Distributors & Resellers 28 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc.
29. Our Partner Whitepapers 29 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. READ THE WHITEPAPERS
30. Quotes & Testimonials “Absolutely phenomenal, we were blown away by the efficacy of this simple to use card and accompanying software. Compared to traditional hardware or software RAID options, SupremeRAID™ offers amazing ROI for demanding workloads.” StorageReview.com, Oct 2022 SupremeRAID SR-1000 Review 30 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. “Leveraging a speedier PCIe 4.0 interface, the SupremeRAID™ SR-1010 arrives with a substantial performance uplift... it's light years beyond even the most high-end hardware RAID arrays.” TomsHardware.com, May 2022 SupremeRAID SR-1010 Review “Tremendous computational power…SupremeRAID™ delivers superior performance while increasing scalability, improving flexibility, and lowering TCO by utilizing the computational power of the GPU.” StorageReview.com, May 2022 SupremeRAID SR-1010 Review “Astonishing storage performance. We don't know exactly what GRAID's algorithm looks like, but whatever magic it's doing, it seems to work." HotHardware.com, May 2022 SupremeRAID SR-1010 Review “Probably the most impressive test we've seen so far…almost perfect scaling, that's freaking incredible!” Linus Tech Tips, April 2022 | SupremeRAID SR-1000 Review
31. SupremeRAID™ Value & Competitive Advantages ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. 31
32. 32 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. Plug & Play Out of the box, into the future: effortless installation, no cabling or motherboard re-layout required Easy to Use SupremeRAID™ doesn’t rely on memory caching technology to improve performance, eliminating the need for battery backup modules Liberate CPU Resources Offload your entire RAID computation to SupremeRAID™ to free-up precious CPU computing resources for 5G, AI and AIoT applications Flexible & Future Ready Unmatched flexibility with features like new O/S support, compression, encryption, thin provisioning, or boot drive protection easily added with software releases World Record Performance Unbeatable at 19M IOPS and 110 GB/s throughput (Based on Linux RAID5 with Intel Xeon Gold 6338 CPU 32-Core with 2.0GHz x 2) Highly Scalable Easily manage 32 direct attached NVMe SSDs; extend data protection without sacrificing performance with Software Composable Infrastructure SupremeRAID™ Innovation, Performance, & Value
33. SupremeRAID™ Competitive Advantages 33 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. Industry Leadership Led by a dedicated team of experts with decades of experience in the SDS, ASIC and storage industries Disruptive Innovation Award-winning NVMe / NVMeoF performance via RAID without compromising data security or business continuity Strategic Partnerships Strong strategic partnerships with well known OEMs, distributors, resellers, and technology providers across the globe Global Footprint Immediate distribution to the greater global market (NA / EMEA / APAC); delivering well ahead of our competitors Proven Performance Extensive testing with documented record-breaking performance stats for both SupremeRAID™ SR-1000 and SR-1010
34. SupremeRAID™ Product Roadmap ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. 34
35. Roadmap 35 ©2021 GRAID Technology Q4 2022 2023 2024 Windows 1.2.2 Dev Datacenter Edition Enterprise Edition 1.3.0 Release • Supports dual card high-availability • Supports up-to 1023 virtual drives • More Linux distribution support • Sequential read performance improvement • Performance improvement for RAID0/1 on IO size bigger than 4k • Clustering RAID architecture for NVMeoF • Kubernetes support • VMWare support • Storage as code • SPDK support • Erasure code • GUI • Zero-impact rebuild • PCIe Gen5 • Cloud native storage infrastructure • Erasure code • Compression/encryption/dedup • Thin provision • On-the-fly drive extension • Thin provision • End-to-end data protection
36. SupremeRAID™ News & Events ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. 36
37. Upcoming Events 37 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. Abacus Server Event 2022 Join the GRAID Technology EMEA team Oct 13 in Prague for Abacus Servers 2022 where Ron Macleod, GRAID Technology EMEA Sales Director, is speaking at 2pm, discussing “Faster HW RAID for NVMe SSDs using GPU Cards.” Learn more here OCTOBER 2022 / PRAGUE NLIT 2022 with Mazda Computing Join GRAID Technology in Mazda Computing Booth #239 at NLIT 2022, focused on IT and Cybersecurity professionals within the DOE complex, Oct 16-19 in Albuquerque. Additional networking events as well. Learn more here. OCTOBER 2022 / ALBUQUERQUE SC22 SuperCompute Conference, Dallas Join the GRAID Technology North America team at SC22, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. Find us in Booth #4341 Nov 14-17, at the Convention Center, Dallas. Learn more here NOVEMBER 2022 / DALLAS
38. SupremeRAID™ In The News 38 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. READ ABOUT US IN THE NEWS Flash Memory Summit Best of Show August 2022 GRAID Technology Named Most Innovative Flash Memory Startup, Best of Show at Flash Memory Summit 2022 https://www.graidtech.com/news-graid-technology-most- innovative-flash-startup-fms-best-of-show/ StorageReview.com July 2022 “StarWind ties Memblaze NVMe SSDs with the SupremeRAID™ accelerator to share storage over the network—a remarkable feat, most SDS platforms aren’t capable of this level of engineering.” https://www.storagereview.com/review/starwind-san-nas-over-fibre-channel CRN 2022 Emerging Vendors July 2022 GRAID Technology Spotlighted on CRN's 2022 Emerging Vendors List in the Storage with Disaster Recovery category https://www.graidtech.com/news-graid-crn-2022-emerging- vendor-award/
39. SupremeRAID™ In The News 39 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. READ ABOUT US IN THE NEWS Linus Tech Tips SupremeRAID™ Review Mar 2022 I Predicted The Future! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12l326jQML8 StorageNewsletter.com April 2022 GRAID Technology V1.2 Software Update Delivers Tri-mode Support of NVMe, SAS, and SATA Drives, Offering Enterprises Flexibility and Performance https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/04/05/graid-technology- v1-2-software-updated-for-supremeraid-sr-1000/ StarWind Press Release April 2022 Future-Proof: NVMe and NVMe-oF RAID Data Protection Comes to StarWind Backup Appliance with SupremeRAID™ https://www.starwindsoftware.com/fastest-nvme-raid-data-protection
40. SupremeRAID™ In The News 40 ©2022 GRAID Technology Inc. READ ABOUT US IN THE NEWS CRN Award June 2021 CRN Features GRAID: "Top 10 Hottest Data Storage Startups of 2021“ https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/storage/the-10- hottest-data-storage-startups-of-2021-so-far-/7 CRN Award March 2022 CRN Features GRAID: “10 Storage Products That Are Tearing Up The Rule Book” https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/storage/10- storage-products-that-are-tearing-up-the-rule- book/6 Blocks & Files Coverage July 2021 GRAID Uses SmartNIC Approach to RAID Card for NVMe SSDs https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/07/22/graid-for-nvme-ssds/ CES Innovation Awards Jan 2022 GRAID Named CES Innovation Awards Honoree https://www.ces.tech/Innovation-Awards/GRAID StorageReview.com Independent Review Oct 2021 “Absolutely phenomenal... compared to traditional hardware or software RAID options, GRAID SupremeRAID™ offers tremendous ROI for demanding workloads.” https://www.storagereview.com/review/graid-supremeraid-sr-1000-review
41. Questions? Thank You PRESENTED BY: LEANDER YU, FOUNDER & CEO leander.yu@graidtech.com TOM PAQUETTE, SVP & GM AMERICAS/EMEA thomas.paquette@graidtech.com Copyright © 2021–2022 GRAID Technology Inc. All Rights Reserved. SupremeRAID™ is trademarked by GRAID Technology Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States, certain other countries, and/or the EU. The term GRAID refers to GRAID Technology Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit www.graidtech.com. GRAID Technology Inc. reserves the right to make changes without further notice to any products or data described herein. Information provided by GRAID Technology Inc. is believed to be accurate. However, GRAID Technology Inc. does not assume any liability arising from the use of any application or product described herein, neither does it convey any license under its patent rights nor the rights of others. G R A I D T E C H . C O M