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1. SCALE COMPUTING
Enterprise Mass Storage

2. What We Do
Scale Computing offers enterprise mass storage through our Build-a-Grid
storage module, a low cost, high availability, truly scalable, migration-less
solution to scaling storage.

3. Addressing the Challenges: Delivering
Fortune 100 features at an SMB Price
Scale’s Build-a-Grid architecture delivers the best combination of capabilities
across the storage spectrum that includes enterprise-class grid scalability
with the simplicity of a cloud storage solution at a compelling price.

4. Disk Storage Market

5. Affordability & Scalability
Storage Solutions Price/TB Initial TB Total Initial Cost Scalability
(useable)
requirement
Scale SG 100 $3,834 3 TB $11,502 HPC
Scale SG 200 $2,500 6 TB $15,000 HPC
IBM XIV $11,250 80 TB $900,000 HPC
Compellent $7,700 6 TB $46,200 Control Unit
EqualLogic $24,286 .7 TB $17,000 Array
LeftHand $6,882 5 TB $34,410 Grid
EMC Clarion AX4 $10,000 1.7 TB $17,000 Array
Understanding the storage market requires a review of the total solution
entry price, not just a cost/TB comparison. Scale offers High Performance
Clustering (HPC) scalability only found in the high-enterprise, highly
expensive IBM XIV—for 1/100 of the price.

6. Two Customer Use Cases
Key Needs Key Needs
Log files, back-up, e-mail
Using Virtualization to cut costs
archive, images , video
Conforming to VMWare Best Practices
The challenge: create a low-cost, simple solution that addresses many
challenges faced by archiving and virtualization practices.

7. Two Customer Use Cases
Key Archiving Challenges
Storage is growing at 60% per year and IT budgets are
tightening
Challenge:
• Higher end capabilities are needed to backup, manage and
expand storage systems.
• Capacity planning becomes an art and leads to overbuying
and inefficiencies.
Fast Fact: In today’s economic times, budgets are tightening, storage needs
are growing and thin budgets are stretched to meet enterprise demands and
requirements.

8. Two Customer Use Cases
Key Virtualization Challenges
• Expensive VMWare Best Practices—No single point of failure
• Performance bottlenecks increase as more nodes connect
• HA and DR solutions need to be deployed, but are expensive
• High performance requirements
• May be overspending on high performance hardware
Fast Fact: Many customers are attempting to build their own solutions in an
effort to maximize capabilities and stretch their budgets.

9. Scale’s Core: Supercomputing Power
1 HPC Supercomputer storage technology
2. Off-the-shelf hardware
3. Supports: CIFS, NFS, iSCSI protocols
4. Easy to use UI
Scale’sBuild-a-Grid architecture includes close to 80% of the most wanted
enterprise features at nearly 10% of the entry price.

10. Products
Storage Grid 100 1TB Storage Grid 200 2TB
Througput Power Capacity & Throughput
Scale’s Build-a-Grid architecture allows you to dial-in your performance
needs with our flexible storage solutions.

11. Build-a-Grid Appliance
Storage Grid 100 & 200 Features
Key Features Key Benefits
No need to over buy Incremental, as needed growth from 1TB
Scales to more than 2.2 PB Virtually Unlimited scalability
Enterprise-Class Grid Architecture Easy, automatic node-to-node scalability
Migration-less No requirement to migrate data
Uses HPC Core Trusted, stable, supercomputing core
CIFS, NFS, iSCSI protocols Supports all at the same time
The Build-a-Grid appliance can be used as both a SAN and a NAS at the
same time.

12. Build-a-Grid Appliance
Storage Grid 100 and 200
Additional Features
Single, easy management UI
Auto load balancing & self healing
50MB/sec/node – Dial in throughput
No Bottlenecks or single point of failure
Data is mirrored and striped across bricks
The Build-a-Grid appliance is simple and easy to manage. With no single
point of failure, it is the best HPC solution on the market for the price.

13. Thank You,
Alan Hahn
VP of Worldwide Sales
alan@scalecomputing.com