2. Who Is Xiotech?
Success, stability, and growth
Largest privately held storage company
13+ years of growth
Thousands of customers &
systems deployed
400+ employees
Strong investment partners
Oak Investment Partners
Seagate Technology
World-class development centers
Eden Prairie, MN
Colorado Springs, CO
Hyderabad, India
Global customer service organization
Customer service in US
NOP results at 96% customer satisfaction
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4. A Few of Our Satisfied Customers
Healthcare/Medical
• Baptist Healthcare Federal Government Financial/HR/Insurance
• Firelands Regional Medical Center 100+ federal agencies, including: • Argus Information & Advisory Svcs
• Intermountain Healthcare • US Department of State • Austin Ventures
• Kelsey-Seybold Clinic • US Department of Defense • CAPIS
• ProHealth Care • US Navy - SCSC & NSWC • Capital Bank
• Univ of FL, Jacksonville Physicians • US Air Force - Randolph AFB • ICMA Retirement Corp
• Univ of Arkansas Medical Sciences • US Army • Moody’s
• Washington Univ Dept of Surgery • Library of Congress • NBT Bancorp
• ZirMed • US Bureau of the Census • NuUnion Credit Union
• Morton Plant Mease • US General Accounting Office • Penson Financial Services
• Tampa General Hospital • Civilian Agencies: IRS, USDA, etc. • Wells Fargo
• Tampa General Hospital
State & Local Government Manufacturing/Power
Education 200+ agencies within state and local • Orlando Utilities Commission
• A.T. Still University government, including: • Forbes Energy Services
• Beeville ISD • Cities: Corona, Flagstaff, Fresno, • Edison Electric Institute
• Garland ISD Altamonte Springs, Salisbury, etc. • The Energy Authority
• Rollins College • Counties: Cherokee, Mohave, San • Masco Corporation
• Long Beach Unified School District Joaquin, Sedgwick, Yuma, etc. • Nuconsteel
• Texas A&M University, Vet School • States: CA, FL, ID, IL, IN, KS, LA, • Oglethorpe Power
• University of Florida MI, MN, NJ, NY, OH, TX, UT, WA, WI • TRW Automotive
• University of Kansas • WL Gore
• University of Southern California Technology
• Washington University in St. Louis • Bechtel Other
• Cypress Semi • AutoVIN
Entertainment/Publishing • HDR • Clark Thomas Winters (legal)
• Blood-Horse Publications • Holonyx • HD Direct LLC (retail sales)
• Dayspring Cards • Lockheed Martin • Heritage Galleries (auctions)
• Harcourt • Microsoft • Joyce Meyer Ministries (ministry)
• Hard Rock Park • MIT Lincoln Labs • Mesa Airlines (airlines)
• Newsweek • Seagate Technology • Movie Gallery
• Penn National Gaming • Sypris Electronics
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6. Why do we need a new foundation?
• We need more value from storage
• We need a next generation storage building block
Not the same old SCSI + RAID
• We need a new entity – the non-stop virtual disc
• We need a 100x increase in MTBF and MTBSE
• We need NO storage-related downtime
planned or unplanned
• We need NO SERVICE over the life of the storage
subsystem
no service needed is better than good service
• Spans all compute environments from SMB to HPC
• Will be the element used in future grid/cloud
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7. Head ESDI
Track ST506
Cylinder
80’s/90’s
ESDI Enables RAID to move into
SCSI Array with abstract API
ST506
DEVOLUTION
90’s- Present
Scale and New SCSI
Or EVOLUTION?
interconnects added
External value-added functionality
SCSI RAID
has historically been incorporated
into next-generation Storage
Peripherals….
Storage Area Network
Monolithic Storage
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9. • Environmental
Vibration/Heat
Human Error
• Drives are too big!
• Capacity
• Drives are too small!
• Form Factor
• Controller software is dated
Failing to control variability
Advanced Error Checking needed
• Intelligence is in the wrong places
Cache/RAID & Drive Management don’t scale Diotisalvi
• Fixing what “isn’t broken!”
50-85% of failed HDD are NTF
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10. Seagate Heritage
ISE Technology • 5 Years in development
Power Power • 100 leading engineers
Supply Controllers Supply
/ Fan / Fan • 80 hardware and software patents
DataPac Business Impact
• 114+ Times More Reliable
• Correlation of telemetries improves
data flow over entire drive
• Reads drive telemetry to diagnose
errors
• Can remanufacture drives in place
fixing or rerouting around problem
areas
• Ansi T10-DIF data integrity standard
• Scalable from 1TB to 1PB
• DAS, NAS and SAN Building Block
• Standalone - Emprise 5000
A complete, self enclosed virtualized
storage solution with industry leading
performance
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11. Different Datapacs for Different Applications - Value
One electro-mechanical footprint regardless of drive form factor or interface!
High Performance Balanced High Capacity Future Possibilities
• High RPM (15K) • High RPM (15K) • High capacity (1 • 450GB Balanced
High density 73 GB Variable capacity TB) Low RPM • 1.5 TB Capacity
2.5” Enterprise (146GB, 300GB) (7200) 3.5”
Drives 3.5” Enterprise Enterprise Drives • SSD (SLC Flash)
• Hardware IOPS Drives • Sequential • SSD (DRAM)
acceleration for • Random & Performance • Selective spindown
high access Sequential Enhancements • Infiniband i/f
density (IOPS/GB) Performance • Snapshot • 10GE i/f
• 20 drives per Enhancements
• 10 drives per
Datapac • Snapshot Datapac
• 10 drives per
Datapac
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12. Improves Drive Environment DataPac (2 per ISE)
• Poor Vibration (~25 rads) • Counter rotation for reduced
vibration (~2 rads)
• Poor air flow and cooling
due to obstructions • Excellent airflow and cooling
across electronics, obstructions
designed out
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14. Conventional RAID ISE RAID
• Done in increments of whole • Done in increments of drive
drives heads (surfaces)
• Partly because physical drive • Because physical drive locations
locations can vary don’t change
• When a drive fails the entire • Patented In-situ head sparing
drive has to be rebuilt from
parity including unallocated Only the affected head(s) are
space rebuilt and only if they have
allocated space.
This takes days with large
drives Rebuilds take place in parallel
If multiple drives fail they are Significant reduction of rebuild
rebuilt one at a time. time on large drives
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16. “Sealed” DataPacs Benefits
• Larger foundational storage
element
10-20 times larger than drives • Easier to manage
• Sealed DataPac managed as one
element: • Easier to scale
3½” drives (Ten per DataPac)
• Reduced complexity
2½” drives (Twenty per DataPac)
• Fewer FRU’s • Higher reliability and availability
8 instead of up to 30 per
standard enclosure
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17. For the Do It Yourselfers…
IBM 2311
Ability for the user to
• Replace Individual
Platters
• Replace Heads
• Available Summer, 1964!
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18. Replaced by:
“Winchester” 1973
IBM 3350 Direct Access Storage
From the Product Description:
“non-removable disk packs were
sealed and included the head
and arm assembly.”
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19. Made Possible by Controlling
Variability Benefits
Code does not have to deal with • Simpler and more efficient
variability from controller code
• Drive relocation • Drives work together
• Manufacturer mix • Less qualifying to achieve bug
free interaction between
• Drive generations controller and groups of discs
• Firmware differences • More efficient striping and
performance algorithms
Result: 25-30% greater
performance per drive
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22. With traditional storage systems… as utilization goes up,
performance drops
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23. With the competition… as utilizationup, performance
With ISE… as utilization goes goes up, performance
drops
stays strong
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24. Made Possible by Controlling
Variability Enormous Flexibility in Scaling.
• Each ISE’s adds additional • Frees the array controller for
cache higher functions such as:
• Performance scales linearly • virtualization
• Cache is close to the storage • host connectivity
where it should be.
• system management
Each ISE has redundant hardware
RAID controllers • Increases in storage capacity do
not reduce resources on a per-
• Each manages it’s own fixed drive basis
number of discs.
• Adding more storage adds • Array controllers can scale much
more RAID controllers further as a result
• Controllers are close to the
storage they manage.
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27. Drive Reconditioning
Preventative and remedial Actual Results
• Automatic processes • 208 ISE’s running 5,900 drives
for 19 months with known bad
• Reset drive drives:
• Power Cycle drive • Zero service events
• Remanufacture drive • Equivalent number of SBODs
and drives:
• Recalibrate servos/heads
• Would expect 65 service
• Reformat events with good drives
• Rewrite servo/data tracks • Elimination of over 100 service
events
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47. Emprise 7000 - SAN Storage System
Industry leading Reliability, Performance, Value
• Scalable from 1TB to 1PB within a
single system
• Highly reliable
• Leading performance
• 100% Usable Capacity after RAID
• Features full featured SAN
capabilities
ICON Manager
TimeScale replication solutions
• Fibre channel and iSCSI within a
single system
• Five year warranty
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49. Xiotech’s ISE technology provides the best value of
ANY storage offering on the market today.
• Maximum usable storage capacity: 100% storage
capacity use with NO drop in performance.
• More performance with less hardware: The
industry’s most efficient performance and scalability.
• Half the ongoing storage costs: Five-year warranty
and lower management expense.
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50. Ongoing operating costs account for more than 60%
of a typical SAN’s total cost of ownership.
• Maintenance expenses, particularly after the warranty expires
• Downtime events
• Resource utilization, such as power, cooling, and floor space
• Administration / labor costs
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51. ICON Manager dramatically simplifies storage
management, saving you time and money.
• Perform most common
storage tasks quickly and
accurately using wizards.
• Create volumes and assign
them to servers and VMs
with just a few clicks – from
a single pane.
• Manage a lot more storage
and still have time to focus
on other important projects.
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