Introducing Symantec FileStoreBuilding on Symantec’s SaaS Expertise

October 2009

Agenda

• Symantec Cloud Strategy

• Leveraging SaaS Expertise

• Introducing Symantec FileStore

• Key Takeaways

• Q&A

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Symantec Cloud Strategy

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DeliverSaaS

Offerings

EnableCloud

Infrastructure

Provide Hybrid

Solutions

Deliver Symantec hosted services for

securing and managing information for

consumers and enterprises.

Provide Symantec infrastructure software

and professional services to enterprises

and service providers building massively

scalable and highly automated cloud

computing environments.

Optimize Symantec software and

hosted services to enable customers

to derive maximum value from their

architecture through innovative hybrid

deployment models.

• Symantec is the Global Storage SaaS Leader

• Symantec FileStore

• Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows

• Veritas Cluster Server

• Symantec Endpoint Protection

• Altiris DeploymentServer

40 PB managed storage

Symantec Online Backup Services

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Introducing Symantec FileStore(October 5 Global Announcement)

• Symantec FileStore is a new storage platform for delivering storage services… including private cloud

• Leveraged internally to manage online backup storage

• Delivers benefits of cloud architecture & cost structures

• Industry leading performance & scalability

• Native integration with Symantec NetBackup and Symantec Endpoint Protection

• Enhanced Performance, Availability & Security

• Simplified Operations

• FileStore is immediately available

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Symantec FileStore Continues

Symantec’s File System Leadership

File System1992

Clustered File System 2001 2009

Object File

System Future

App

SF

App

SF

App /

Clustered NFS

CFS

Veritas Storage

Foundation• First journaled UNIX

file system

• Advanced volume

management

App

Symantec

FileStore

App

Veritas Cluster File

System• Mission critical apps

(Oracle RAC, SAP, Tibco)

• < 1 minute failover

• Best in class performance

Symantec FileStore

• Optimized for file serving

• Soft appliance form factor

• Availability, performance,

info services

Symantec FileStore

“S4”

“S4”

• Massive scale

• Highly resilient with

commodity infrastructure

• Multi-tenant architecture

Symantec FileStore

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Storage ArraysFileStoreClients

(…up to 16 nodes)

NFS

HTTP

FTP

CIFS

Public / Private CloudFC & iSCSI SAN

SAS

Symantec FileStore

Performance and

Scalability

• Diverse workload

support

• Industry-leading

performance

• Near linear

performance

scaling

Availability

• Complete active –

active design

• Fast failover for

data access

• Non-disruptively

add performance

and capacity

Performance Scaling:

– Industry-leading performance

– Up to 16 nodes serving a common set of data

– Excellent small and large file performance

Capacity Scaling:

– 200 million files per file system

– Multiple file systems per cluster

– 2PB+ clusters

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Exceptional Scaling of Both

Performance and Capacity

SPEC SFS 2008 IOPS Testing

• Will exceed current #1 published result by

NetApp in August 2009

• Symantec results are currently in peer

review by SPEC SFS 2008 committee

• FileStore near linear scalability

• 98% throughput, 93% IOPS

0 4 8 12 16

NFS Ops

MB / sec

100% Scale

MB / Sec

NFS Ops

(K)

FileStore Nodes

Simplify archiving with Enterprise

Vault on Symantec FileStore

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Native Integration with Symantec

Solutions

Dynamic Storage Tiering

Intelligently move data to

low-cost disk (and back)

Security

Reduce costs with native

virus scanning

Data Protection

Decrease backup windows with

embedded NetBackup

Archiving

Dri

ve

Pri

ce

SAS SATA

• Higher performance-no NDMP

• Simpler administration

• Integrated media server

AV

Symantec

FileStore

Enterprise Vault

SSD

Symantec

Endpoint

Protection

Symantec

FileStore

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A Flexible Storage Platform for

Diverse Application Requirements

Symantec FileStore Customers

Scale Requirement

10TB 2PB

Perf

orm

an

ce

Req

uir

em

en

t

*Regional

Hospital (PACS)

*Top-3 Mobile

Provider (Media

Delivery)

*Largest Storage

SaaS Provider

(Symantec)

*Shanghai Ocean

University

*Taobao

(Leading Internet

Retailer)

*Internet Game

(Live Game

Sessions)

Key Takeaways

• Symantec FileStore is a new storage platform for delivering storage services… including private cloud

• Leveraged internally to manage online backup storage

• Delivers benefits of cloud architecture & cost structures

• Industry leading performance & scalability

• Native integration with Symantec NetBackup and Symantec Endpoint Protection

• Enhanced Performance, Availability & Security

• Simplified Operations

• FileStore is immediately available

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