Robin.io - IT Press Tour June 2021

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1. Accelerating Cloud- Native Transformation for Storage & Network Services
2. Robin.io Announces $38 Million Series C Led By Rakuten Capital ROBIN Rapid Growth Built highly differentiated technology with at least 2 years head start over competition Marquee customers Under Embargo Till 6/16, 7 AM Pacific Time
3. robin.io Confidential – Restricted Distribution Robin MDCAP (for Metal-to-Service Automation) Robin Cloud-Native Platform (CNP) (for 5G & Edge use cases) Robin.io Offerings Robin Cloud-Native Storage (CNS) (for any Stateful Applications) Accelerate deployment of any & all Stateful apps on Kubernetes Simplify Day-2 operations without becoming Storage Experts: Snapshots, Clones, Backups Best TCO of any Storage Solution True app-centric multi-cloud app portability Any app-as-a-service with private app store Automate management of Baremetal Servers Metal-to-Service orchestration and automation
4. Robin Cloud Native Storage
5. robin.io Confidential – Restricted Distribution Robin Cloud Native Storage (Robin CNS) Baremetal, VMs AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Any infrastructure Robin Cloud Native Storage Storage & Data Management K8S, OpenShift, Anthos, IBM, GKE, AKS, EKS Any Kubernetes RDBMS, NoSQL, Queues, Timeseries, Big Data Any Stateful App
6. robin.io Confidential – Restricted Distribution Robin.io: Leader & Outperformer for K8S Storage and Data Protection GigaOm Radar: Robin is Leader & Outperformer for Kubernetes Storage GigaOm Radar: Robin is leader and outperformer for Kubernetes Data Protection
7. robin.io Confidential – Restricted Distribution Robin.io: Recognized As An Innovator For Container Storage IDC: Robin is called out as Innovator for Containerized Application Storage
8. Fortune 100 Financial Services Company Runs on Robin: Elastic Stack as a Service ▪ Eliminated provisioning delays and created agile DevOps model ▪ Reduced server footprint by 50% and eliminated SAN storage while maintaining performance ▪ Dramatically reduced operational overhead CONFIDENTIAL © 2020 8 11 Billion Security Events per Day 53 Billion Financial Records 35% Utilization 2 Months To Deploy 80% Utilization 2 Hours To Deploy Before ROBIN Automation Reduced Risk DevOps Agility
9. robin.io Confidential – Restricted Distribution Hybrid Cloud Storage For IBM Cloud: Across IKS and Satellite Baremetal, VMs AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Any infrastructure Robin Cloud Native Storage Storage & Data Management IBM Cloud Satellite Container Management RDBMS, NoSQL, Queues, Timeseries, Big Data Any Stateful App IBM Cloud IKS, OpenShift
10. robin.io Confidential – Restricted Distribution Pay As You Go Flexibility For Private and Hybrid Clouds Use Cases: • Enables fast experimentation and ephemeral workloads • AI/ML – feature extraction, model training • Ad-hoc analytics
11. Robin’s Service Provider Solutions
12. 12 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Automated Workload Placement - Everywhere Declarative, Intent- based, Input Robin Models Your Intent Robin Discovers resources across Clusters and DCs Deploys the Model – Configures For You Manages The Lifecycle MDCAP Regional DC Staging CNP Edge DC Far Edge DC CNP CNP CNP CNP I P H L H D I P H L H D I P H L H D
13. 13 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Robin Provider Mobile, Edge & Private Solutions EDGE FAR-EDGE CENTAL DC O-RAN Private 5G/LTE 5GC/EPC MEC
14. 14 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Open RAN Backbone of all future networking EDGE FAR-EDGE CENTAL DC O-RAN Largest Scale Automation & Complexity, as-a-Service deployment Resource Restricted: Infrastructure utilization Remote NF performance tuning: throughput, latency, reliability Multi-vendor: Legacy NF and Virtualization Interop, LCM, monitoring Closely tied to bare-metal infrastructure management
15. 15 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Mobile Core 5G/4G Legacy cores will be around for another decade or more EDGE FAR-EDGE CENTAL DC 5GC/EPC Automation: Heal, Migrate, Deploy – less dynamic then MEC and RAN Closely tied to bare-metal infrastructure management – less dynamic NF Performance Tuning: reliability, throughput, latency Kubernetes Migration - Network modernization Multi-vendor: Legacy NF and Virtualization Interop, LCM, monitoring
16. 16 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) OTT services are the key to rapid revenue growth EDGE FAR-EDGE CENTAL DC MEC Application Hosting: Multitenancy, RBAC, Infrastructure utilization Closely tied to bare-metal infrastructure management Remote NF performance tuning: throughput, latency, reliability Multi-vendor: Legacy NF and Virtualization Interop, LCM, monitoring Automation: Heal, Migrate, redeploy new designs, migrate services
17. 17 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Private Mobile Networks Multiple design models and change over time, managed and unmanaged EDGE FAR-EDGE CENTAL DC Private 5G/LTE Automation: Heal, Migrate, redeploy new designs, migrate services Closely tied to bare-metal infrastructure management Application Hosting: Multitenancy, RBAC, as-a-Service deployment Multi-vendor: Legacy NF and Virtualization Interop, LCM, monitoring Remote NF performance tuning: throughput, latency, reliability
18. 18 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Robin Provider Advantages Remote NF Performance Tuning -as-a-Service Deployment Declarative Workload Placement Advanced Automation & Monitoring VM - Container Harmonization Bare-metal Metal to Services Orchestration Advanced Networking
19. 19 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Robin Product Overview Robin MDCAP (for Metal-to-Service Automation) Robin Cloud-Native Platform (CNP) (for 5G & Edge use cases) Robin Cloud-Native Storage (CNS) (for any Stateful Applications) Accelerate deployment of any & all Stateful apps on Kubernetes Simplify Day-2 operations without becoming Storage Experts: Snapshots, Clones, Backups Best TCO of any Storage Solution True app-centric multi-cloud app portability Harmonize containers and VMs Any app-as-a-service with private app store Performance tune NFs and applications Automate management of bare-metal servers Monitor, migrate and heal services Unified workflows
20. Robin Cloud Native Platform
21. 21 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL VMs and Containers – Breaking Silos Frees you from your vendor’s containerization roadmaps • VMs and Containers in the same cluster • Unified Operations – APIs – Lifecycle management – Resource monitoring – Monitoring – Troubleshooting – Blast radius detection – Auto-scale/migrate • Completely shared resource pools One Platform Shared Resource Pools Containers & VMs Container
22. 22 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Declarative Modeling Interface NUMA-aware, Auto-discovered Resources Deploy Data Analytics Application Pipeline Entire Application Pipeline is up and running in minutes, not weeks K8S components auto created (StatefulSets, PVC, Services, ConficMaps, Secrets, …) Storage & Networking provisioned Data-locality, anti/affinity, NUMA- aware policies enforced Run workflow hooks to customize application Enable Service Components Specify Compute Specify Storage Specify Scale Specify Data-locality, Anti/Affinity Constraints and Placement Hints One Common deployment workflow for any 5G/MEC NF, Big Data, NoSQL, Database, AI/ML and supporting applications
23. 23 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Modeling – Elements Enables large scale, Hyper-automation Inventory Policy Healing Health Discovery Life Cycle Mgmt. I P H L H D
24. 24 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Advanced Networking Provider NFs need robust connectivity options • IP Persistency across start, stop, heal and migration • SR-IOV underlay networks for high throughput, low jitter, redundancy as well as NF interconnect • Open vSwitch underlays to extend corporate operations networks to NFs • CNI plugin customization • Per-pod Multi-IP Network Support (Multus) • NIC Bonding for redundancy and throughput • IPv4/v6 Support • Built in metalLB load balancer OSS, BSS, Management Networks Applications, NFs
25. 25 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL HW-SW NF Performance Tuning Every vendor has specific requirements – onboarding must be automated • Operating System (OS) versions and configuration • Basic Input/Output Services (BIOS) versions • Field Programmable Application Integrated Circuits (FPGA) updates • Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) affinity between cores, memory and network underlays • Isolated sibling processors • Real-time Kernel specifications, for better scheduling control • Command line parameters when executing the program • Logically and physically diverse Single Root Input Output Virtualization (SR-IOV) underlay networks for high throughput with low jitter/latency • HugePages support • Multiple IP address requirements • Storage network configuration modeling
26. 26 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Robin CNP Provides Self-Service Provisioning to End Users Select the App in your private “App Store” Provide simple inputs Your Kubernetes cluster is provisioned within minutes Auto-discovered resources and easy to use modeling Robin CNP the hunting, configuring and workload placement for you!
27. Multi-Datacenter Automation Platform
28. 28 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Robin MDCAP Bare-Metal To Services Orchestration 10’s of Robin Clusters 10,000’s of Robin Clusters 1,000s of Robin Clusters OSS RAN-as-a-Service (Deploy, Heal, Monitor, Scale, Upgrade) Edge 1 Edge 2 Edge N BBU 1 BBU N DU EMS CU BareMetal-as-a-Service (BIOS, OS, FPGA, Robin K8S Install, Monitor, Upgrade) EDGE RADIO CORE ROBIN MDCAP MOPs Manager (Highly scalable and extensible MOPs Management across 100s of 1000s of Network Elements) Centralized Management of 10,000s of RAN, Edge & Core clusters Policy based Closed-loop Automation Define & Execute Complex DAG based Workflows across RAN, Edge, Core RIC 5GC-as-a-Service (Deploy, Migrate, Heal, Monitor, Scale, Upgrade) 5GC MEC MEC MEC-as-a-Service (Deploy, Heal, Monitor, Scale, Upgrade) CU
29. 29 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Problem Statement DU CU EMS 1 2 3 RAN A very well understood problem statement at scale Lots of small problems .. in different domains .. across distributed sites ..
30. 30 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL MDCAP Solution DU CU EMS 1 2 3 • Server SKU discovery • Connectivity checks • Hardware health • Inventory Management • BIOS setting • Firmware upgrade • OS Install • Network setup (SRIOV) • ROBIN Cluster Install • Bundle / Helm repo add • Back repo (S3/GCS) add • RAN-as-a-Service • Application-as-a-Service • Closed loop Automation • Monitoring • Multi-Cluster Management I P H L H D I P H L H D I P H L H D I P H L H D I P H L H D I P H L H D
31. 31 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Bare-Metal To Service Orchestration, At Scale ROBIN Multi-Data Center Automation Platform (MDCAP) OSS/BSS Clouds ~100s On- prem Edge 100s Co- location Edge 100s Far Edge 100ks Edge Central 10ks Edge Local 10ks Core 1ks Bare metal Life cycle management • BIOS, BMC configurations • NIC, SSD, FPGA, NVMe, RAID firmware upgrades • OS installation, Drivers, Services and Software Packages • Upgrades – BIOS, Firmware, Drivers and OS • Prep for observability • Multiple Server Vendors, SKUs and Profiles Cluster Life Cycle Management • Choice of cluster – Anthos, OpenShift, k8s, Robin, Rancher • Design clusters and profiles • Cluster instantiations, scaling, healing and termination • Upgrades • Prep for observability Network Function Life Cycle Management • Helm charts, Operators, YAML, Custom • Instantiation, Healing, Scaling, Upgrades • Prep for observability Network Service Life Cycle Management • Design Network Service across clusters • Instantiation, Healing, Scaling, Upgrades Application Life Cycle Management • Instantiation, Healing, Scaling, Upgrades • Data Management – Snapshot, Clone, Backup, Restore, Import • Migrate to other clusters Inventory Management • Discovery, Health, Liveness and Readiness probes • Network Service to hardware component visibility • Version control Methods Of Procedures Management DU DU CU-CP CU-UP d UPF d SMF d AMF c UPF MEC LB, DB, Q, ELK, CDN Analytics AI/ML Cassandra Hadoop Redis, Graph DB Inventory MOPs
32. 32 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Unified Workflows Across Domains OCHESTRATOR Bare-metal Servers Virtual Machines Network Switches Robin K8s Clusters ELEMENTS Racks RAN & 5G EXECUTORS Ansible IPMI REST API Custom API SSH Git Object Store Config Database Jenkins CONFIGURATION Setup BIOS Install OS Configure Networking Power Cycle Upgrade OS Deploy Robin FUNCTIONS Workflow Studio Scale Parallelism Log Storage Inventory Reports CI/CD Git Bring Up New Srvc Upgrade Cluster Change Configs Migrate Cluster WORKFLOWS
33. 33 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Automated Workload Placement - Everywhere Declarative, Intent- based, Input Robin Models Your Intent Robin Discovers resources across Clusters and DCs Deploys the Model – Configures For You Manages The Lifecycle MDCAP Regional DC Staging CNP Edge DC Far Edge DC CNP CNP CNP CNP I P H L H D I P H L H D I P H L H D
34. 34 © 2021 robin.io CONFIDENTIAL Customer Proven Results Proven efficiencies , CAPEX & OPEX • First production containerized 5G stack with millions of subscribers • 40% reduction in OpEx scalable orchestration & automation for RAN and Core • 50% reduction in CapEx by enabling Open RAN and Core on commercial hardware • 80% reduction in deployment time: from 10 days to minutes • 30% Faster for running VNF & CNFs Trusted and proven platform at scale • 6 Petabytes big data apps • 2.5 Petabytes ELK, Kafka, 300 nodes • 400 Production Databases
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