Join Storage Switzerland and Data Direct Networks (DDN) for this on demand webinar: "Getting Beyond Flash 101 - Flash 102 Selecting the Right Flash Array”. We discuss the different types of flash storage and compare them, why vendors want to replace your SAN instead of enhance it and what you can do to not only protect your current storage investments but also prepare a path to the future.

1. Flash University - Go Beyond Flash 101
Flash 102 - Selecting the Right Flash Array
Join us to learn:
On Demand Webinar
● What are the best Use Cases for
Flash
● What capabilities, beyond the
basics, should you be looking
for
● How the right SDS solution can
make your SAN better!
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/Flash101

2. Our Speakers
George Crump is the founder of Storage
Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on
the subjects of big data, solid state storage,
virtualization, cloud computing and data protection.
He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers,
and videos on such current approaches as all-flash
arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined
storage, backup appliances, and storage networking.
He has 25 years of experience designing storage
solutions for data centers across the US.
Speaker bio

3. ● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud
and virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets is gained
through product testing and interaction
with end users and suppliers
● The results of this research can be
found in the articles, videos, webinars,
product analysis and case studies on
our web site:
http://storageswiss.com
Who Is Storage Switzerland?

4. Our Speakers
Molly Rector has 15 years of leadership experience in the HPC,
Media and Entertainment, and Enterprise IT industries, and serves
as DDN’s Chief Marketing Officer responsible for product
management and global marketing. Molly is responsible for the
delivery of product vision and industry insight into how to solve the
most complex data challenges users are experiencing today.
Molly serves on the Board of Directors for the Active Archive
Alliance and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).
She also holds certifications as CommVault Certified System
Administrator; Veritas Certified Data Protection Administrator; and
Oracle Certified Enterprise DBA: Backup and Recovery.

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6. Flashes Education Stall
• Vendors convinced IT that
Flash is fast, then they
stopped
• Most Flash Vendors sell
one-type of Flash Storage
• The reality is that each use
case is different

7. The Anatomy Of Performance
• IOPS
• Bandwidth
• Latency

8. What Are IOPS
• The number of transactions
that a system can respond
to per second
• Highly over-rated because
most data center can’t
generate the IOPS that
Flash can sustain
• Yet Vendors use it as THE
performance measurement

9. The IOPS Use Case
• Not all databases but High
Transaction Databases
• Average database generates
far fewer than 20,000 I/O
requests per second
• A situation where millions or
trillions of small files need to
be read rapidly

10. What Is Bandwidth
• The amount of data that can
be written to or read from
the Flash Array per second
• Heavy writes could be
substantially slower than
heavy reads
• Hard disks may be just as fast

11. Bandwidth Use Cases
• Large Data ingest or
data read situations
• The individual chunk of
data being read is
large (i.e. not millions
of small files but few
really big files)

12. What Is Latency
• The time it takes for the
system to respond to an
individual I/O

13. Latency Use Cases
• Almost every use case benefits from
decreased latency
• General purpose workloads (virtualization,
VDI, home directories)
• Extremely latency sensitive environments
may benefit by the removal of other latency
generators (network, operating system)

14. Matching Use Cases To Solutions
• Most Data Centers will have a mixture of the above
• Solve the big problem first, bring other use cases along for the ride
• High IOPS requirement - High performance flash array
designed for millions of IOPS
• High Bandwidth
• Network I/O of the system
• Efficiency in managing writes
• Low Latency
• General purpose Flash or Hybrid Array
• Could be a server side solution for extremely latency sensitive situations

16. Benchmark Data
Native API, Single Shared File IOR with Segments
GB/sec IOPS

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▪ Add 1, 2, 4, 5, 10 or 20
▪ 84 Drives Each
Connectivity Options
▪ EDR/FDR ports
▪ 10/40/100 GbE
▪ DDN Omni-Connect
Hyperconverged
Architecture
▪ Embedded File System
and Applications

19. DDN Storage
Designed to Reduce Latency & Accelerating Applications

21. “We needed a storage platform that could support our needs in two areas: first, ingesting data quickly into the
research environment and secondly, simplifying our ability to analyze the data…”
Dr. Nidhan K. Biswas,
Computational Biologist and Young Biotechnologist Awardee at NIBMG
ReACT
Competition
DDN Storage
Evolution of Mixed IO Performance

22. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
gcrump@storage-switzerland.com
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23. Flash University - Go Beyond Flash 101
Flash 102 - Selecting the Right Flash Array
For Complete Audio and Q&A please register
for the On-Demand Version at
http://bit.ly/Flash101