Leil Storage - IT Press Tour #55 April 2024

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1. Bringing hyperscalers data storage efficiency to on-premises
2. Sauna, a place of spirits
3. Significance of Leil Sauna has traditionally been a place of birth ”Leil” is the steam from pouring water on hot rocks For ancient Estonians ”Leil” meant The Spirit of Rebirth This symbolizes the new life coming to the world
4. Why we are called Leil Rebirth of an industry Leil Storage aims to reinvent the Data Storage industry to give it a ”second life” Best of both worlds Leil combines the technology of spinning drives with new innovations to create a solution that combines best of the old and best of the new.
5. About us Leil Storage is modern storage designed for backup and archival data. Our green feature-set has been designed to lower the kilowatt per terabyte (KW/TB) ratio, positioning them to capture a significant portion of backup and archive market, including LTO/tape storage market. At Leil Storage, we combined development expertise from Google with support from Western Digital and created a platform that allows more people to store more data at a lower cost while using less energy and making the world a greener place. Financials: €1M is funded by the group company.
6. Exponential Data Growth What is the challenge? Data Storage Environmental Impact X https://www.statista.com/statistics/871513/worldwide-data-created/
7. Sustainable Development Goals by UN
8. Bread for Large-Scale Data Storage We are the bread for data storage, not butter, not caviar Simple products, not monstrous everything for everyone We may go into butter space at some point
9. Leil Storage is modern storage designed for backup and archival data. Aims to capture market share in backup and LTO/tape storage No performance compromise! Enables rapid data retrieval, which is crucial due to the current pace of data growth Reduces energy use with a lower KW/TB ratio What is Leil Storage?
10. Backup and archive appreciation We all know that the most valuable data any organization has is their backups and their archive The fact that people don’t see how sexy that is the real problem! It’s like gold mining! Everyone likes the gold but has no appreciation for this
11. Backup and archive appreciation We all know that the most valuable data any organization has is their backups and their archive The fact that people don’t see how sexy that is the real problem! It’s like gold mining! Everyone likes the gold but has no appreciation for this
12. Verticals
13. What makes Leil Storage Green? JUST RELEASED Lower power per TB by 18% with Host-Managed SMRs drives vs other HDD ROLLOUT IN H2 2024 “Power disable” feature to decrease
 storage power draw by 25% and more Leil Storage is a commercial closed-source product that extends SaunaFS distributed file system with these unique and proprietary green features to enhance its performance, efficiency and energy consumption.
14. Sustainability misconception? Erasure Coding Recycling drives idea Semi-faulty drives Eternity of LTO 50% compression promises
15. Competition For managing multi-petabyte backups and archives in-house, these on- premises storage solutions are top choices: Tape Libraries High-Capacity HDD Arrays Object Storage Systems Software-Defined Storage (SDS)
16. Blue Ocean of Hyperscalers Efficiency
17. Single product, multiple use cases
18. Nearline, big, long-term
19. And why use HM-SMR at all? Higher data density Lower energy consumption per TB Better cost per TB Better for sequential workloads
20. HM-SMR Landscape Public Cloud Players On-premise Storage Only a single HM-SMR supported HM-SMR + Btrfs = DM-SMR Can not tolerate aggressive random workload due to low-scale HM-SMR support efforts started in 2019 HM-SMR is officially closed 03/01/2024 by RedHat (now IBM), see https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/55054 Perhaps it is not in IBM interest to create competition to IBM’s Tape Libraries
21. BEFORE SMR technology has been in use for the last decade by hyperscalers only Huge companies had the resources to invest in R&D to adopt SMR in their internal infrastructure Making HM-SMR available on-premises
22. BEFORE SMR technology has been in use for the last decade by hyperscalers only Huge companies had the resources to invest in R&D to adopt SMR in their internal infrastructure NOW Leil Storage makes SMR technology available off the shelf to all companies and institutions All the benefits of using SMR drives are included without the need to engage own R&D team Making HM-SMR available on-premises
23. What makes Leil Storage Green? JUST RELEASED Lower power per TB by 18% with Host-Managed SMRs drives vs other HDD ROLLOUT IN H2 2024 “Power disable” feature to decrease
 storage power draw by 25% and more Leil Storage is a commercial closed-source product that extends SaunaFS distributed file system with these unique and proprietary green features to enhance its performance, efficiency and energy consumption.
24. Data Distribution Challenge: Traditional storage solutions distribute data evenly, making it hard to power down drives Why no broader adoption happened: No scale-out (scale-up) No software-defined storage (HW raid) No workload focus (trying to support any workload) HDD Power-Off: Why not MAID?
25. Infinite Cold Engine (ICE) Phase 1: HM-SMR support,18% total energy savings Phase 2: Write-group conception Y2024, 43%* Phase 3: Popular Data Concentration (PDC), Y2025, 50%* Phase 4: AI-driven background service, Y2026, 70%* The Arctic Forest Concept Elevates security and provides a novel marketing edge Additional immutability layer enhances the already robust immutability features, presenting a ground-breaking and exclusive market offering ICE as Our Take on MAID * Projected total energy savings
26. Phase 2: Write-group conception Y2024, 43%* SMR disks across servers are grouped, with an 8-disk cross-section for 8 servers. Disks deactivate when full and reactivate for data reads, leaving parity disks off. Phase 3: PDC conception, Y2025, 50%* The Popular Data Concentration (PDC) method distributes data by use likelihood, initially storing data on staging disks for classification by file attributes and user behaviour. This data then moves to main storage in batches. ICE phases 2 & 3
27. Gathering data on power use, user behaviour, and system changes for energy savings Testing data classification parameters through simulation and experimenting with combinations Comparing actual versus simulated pre-installation energy use and providing recommendations to align with theoretical outcomes AI-driven background service
28. Leil Storage Architecture Data Scheme: EC6+2, 8 nodes up to 15 PB usable in a single rack (now with 28TB Host-Managed SMR drives).
29. What is SaunaFS? SaunaFS is a robust distributed open-source POSIX file system meticulously designed to revolutionize storage solutions by offering unmatched efficiency, security, and redundancy. SaunaFS is an underlying software-defined storage platform for products like Leil Backup & Archive storage but can handle various use cases as well. Versatile Use Cases Open-source & No Vendor Lock-in Enhanced Data Integrity with CRC Copy-on-Write Snapshots & Immutability Detailed Access Logging with zero performance impact
30. Leil Storage is a modern storage designed for backup and archival data based on SaunaFS software-defined storage platform. Leil Storage = SaunaFS + ICE + Arctic Forest Concept The Arctic Forest Concept elevates security and provides a novel marketing edge, is built on the foundation of SaunaFS Copy-on-Write snapshots. This additional immutability layer enhances the already robust immutability features, presenting a ground-breaking and exclusive market offering. Infinite Cold Engine (ICE) enables rapid data retrieval, which is crucial due to the current pace of data growth, without compromises on performance and saves energy. How is Leil Storage related to SaunaFS?
31. Technology Alliance Program With Leil Storage With SaunaFS See https://saunafs.com/partners See https://leil.io/#product Sarkan is a native storage solution for Kubernetes that is designed to take full advantage and seamlessly integrate with SaunaFS
32. SaunaFS GTM Target Engagement. Focus on industries requiring fast and efficient data storage and retrieval, highlighting cost savings and simplified storage management. Value Proposition. Emphasizes ease of use, lower hardware requirements, and efficient scaling up to 1 Exabyte, making it ideal for enterprises with massive data storage needs. Partner Channel. Works with system integrators, consultancies, and server hardware vendors to optimize performance and ease deployment. Collaborating with partners to develop and tailor SaunaFS-based products for various markets and applications, such as Kubernetes storage and Nearline media storage.
33. Target Markets. Data-intensive organizations across sectors like healthcare, media, and government, focusing on scalable and environmentally friendly archival and backup data storage solutions. Value Proposition. Offering high-performance, greener storage technologies for on-premise deployment, reducing energy consumption and operational costs. Partnerships. Collaboration with system integrators, consultancies, and service providers to tailor solutions for diverse industry needs. Leil Storage GTM
34. Pricing Models Leil Storage https://leil.io Pay upfront for the capacity you need (including hardware, software and support), with options for a 3- or 5-year term. SaunaFS https://saunafs.com Choose from monthly, yearly, or one-time payments for the software license and support, based on raw capacity, also available for 3- or 5-year terms. Hardware is an option to be sold separately if needed.
35. Bringing hyperscalers data storage efficiency to on-premises Aleksandr Ragel Piotr Modrzyk CEO at Leil Storage ar@leil.io +372 56044462 Principal Architect at Leil Storage pm@leil.io +48 602302132