Dimitri WaeyaertTechnical Director

Exablox, Re-imagining Storage

dimitri.waeyaert@switchpoint.be

Who is Exablox?

• Simple, affordable, feature rich, scale-out storage device for

SMB/SME

• Founded 2010– 3 founders (Tad/Frank/Matt = Lucent/Bell Labs in 90’s)

• VC – Dell, NVP, DCM, USVP– VC total = $45.5M (2/2015 Series C - Dell & others – $16M)

• HQ – Sunnyvale, CA

• 100+ of global customers, 6+ PBs

Company Highlights

• Founding PrincipleDeliver feature-rich, affordable, scale-out storage that eliminates storage management complexity

• Industry’s first Cloud-managed, Fully-featured, Enterprise-class storage– Address $2+ Billion market (Gartner), growing 23+%– OneBlox Scale-out storage for mid-sized enterprises

• Converged storage for primary and backup data • 12 Patents on file

– OneSystem Manage on-premises storage exclusively from the cloud• Visibility, control and security without cost/complexity of traditional management

• Enables easy deployment of storage managed services

• Strong VC funding with notable wins– Norwest Ventures – $5B in 550 companies, including PeopleSoft & Rackspace– USVP - $2.7B in 450 companies, including Checkpoint, SanDisc, Sun, & GoPro– Doll Capital - $2.5B invested, including Fortinet & Foundry,

It Would:

• Scale out

• Dedupe

• Snapshot

• Replicate

• Be simple yet powerful

• Be managed from anywhere

Enterprise class storage – Affordable, Integrated solution

The Exablox Answer – Do it the Web Scale Way

800TB & 10X Perf.200TB & 3X Perf.50TB

Yes, you can have the best of both worlds

Standardized access

Horizontal scalingMultiple copy protection

SMB/NFS

Applications

NAS using Object Storage

• Simple, traditional data access• Compatible with almost all

current enterprise applications

✔• Excellent scalability• Simple storage management

with unified storage access

✔

All the advantages of traditional NAS with superior properties of Object Storage

Advantages of Object StorageAdvantages of Traditional NAS

Imagine a World of Zero Configuration

Powerful. OneBlox Simple. OneSystem• 100% Secure storage management and

control

• Cloud-based, multi-tenant monitoring, reporting, and management

• 95% of storage management tasks require zero configuration

•Initial OneBlox installation is less than 5 minutes

•Bring Your Own Drives– Mix and match any 3.5” SAS or SATA drive

•Scale-out in any direction in 5 minutes– Capacity, Performance, and Availability

OneBlox Features

OneBlox 4312• Industry’s first Scale-out storage

appliance with– Inline de-dupe– Real-time Replication– Continuous data protection– Disaster recovery– Less then 5 minutes to set up and use

• 12 x 3.5” HDD/SSD bays– Up to 72TB raw using 6TB disks– Supports mix of drive technologies

• Clusters up to 7 nodes (now)– Raw capacity of 504-TB

OneBlox

Ring

OneBlox

Inline Deduplication, Continuous Data Protection,

Real Time Replication

Imagine A World without the Limitations of RAID

• Zero configuration inline deduplication for primary storage & disk-based data protection

• Continuous data protection with user accessible recovery ensures the last write is recoverable

• All data is replicated, and redistributed across drives and/or nodes

• Dozen+ patents pending around Exablox’s distributed object-based file system

Data Block

SMBNFS

No RAID. No LUNs. No Volumes. No Hassle.

Distributed Object-based File System

How do these objects work?

Data arrives into ring

How do these objects work?

Data arrives into ring

Data divided into objects

How do these objects work?

Data arrives into ring

Data divided into objects

Objects identified

How do these objects work?

Data arrives into ring

Data divided into objects

Objects identified

Duplicate objects discarded

Objects distributed

What happens when a drive fails?

What happens when you add nodes?

What happens when you add nodes?

Contact details SWITCHPOINT NV/SA:

SWITCHPOINT NV/SAIndustriepark 15D 9031 DrongenBelgium

T.: +32 (0)9/240 77 00F.: +32 (0)9/240 77 09E.: info@switchpoint.be