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Utilizing Ultra-Low Latency Within Enterprise Architectures

Page Tagizad, Product Marketing - Enterprise Storage Solution

April 22, 2014

SNIA Data Storage Innovations – April 22, 2014


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A Global Leader in Flash Storage Solutions Rankings Trailing 4 Qtr Financials* Global Operations Leading Retail Brand°

$6.2B Revenue

$3.6B Net Cash*

$0.7B R&D Investment 5,500 Employees†

#1 Global Retail Revenue Share

All Leading Smartphone & Tablet Manufacturers use SanDisk

SanDisk Client & Retail SSDs Approved Supplier to All Leading PC Manufacturers

*Financials as of Q4, ‘13. Net Cash = [Cash + cash equivalents + short-term & long-term marketable securities] less [debt at maturity value] as of the end of Q4, ‘13. †Headcount as of Jan., ‘14. NPD Estimate, Nov., ‘13. Estimates of the memory card & USB markets from NPD (Nov. ‘13) and GfK Retail and Technology, Sep., ‘13.

Qualified at

6 of the Top 7 Server & Storage OEMs

Enterprise SSDs and Storage Software

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Enabling Flash Storage from Wafer to Software

Close to Half of Industry Bit Output Together with manufacturing partner Toshiba

Fabs: World class NAND capacity

CONTROLLER SCALE ASSY, TEST & PACKAGING

SSD SOFTWARE NAND TECH NAND DIE FLASH MGMT

World-Leading Innovator

4,900+ Patents

1991 2013

Patents as of Oct., ‘13; NPD Estimate, Nov., ‘13. Gartner: NAND Flash Supply & Demand, WW 1Q ‘12-4Q ‘14, 3Q ’13. Update Dec., ‘13.

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The Path to Ultra Low Latency and Scalable Performance

100s

IOPS

100 100,000 1,000,000

SA

S/S

ATA

/FC

P

CIe

D

DR

Flash

Storage

on the

high

speed

memory

bus

Late

ncy (

µsec)

1s

10s

1000s

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Scalable I/O Performance, Constant Latency

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

0

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

1 2 4 8

La

ten

cy (u

s)

(K)

IOP

S

Number of ULLtraDIMM™ Devices

400G

800G

1600G

3200G Demonstrated

at the Open

Compute

Summit

– Jan 2014

IBM 3650 2-socket

server running Red Hat

version 6.3

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The World’s First Flash Storage Device on the Memory Channel

Enterprise Class

Reliability, Endurance

& Support

Cost Effective Memory Channel

Interface

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Combining MCS™ and Guardian Technology™ Platform

Enterprise level endurance with MLC 10 drive writes per day

5 year warranty

Guardian Technology™

Back up power circuitry Full data path protection

Enterprise class MTBF

Enterprise Class Reliability

DDR3 protocol Configured as block device

(through device driver)

Memory Channel Interface

Lowest write latency (less than 7 usec) Scalable performance by adding additional

ULLtraDIMMs

Ultra Low Latency, High Performance

200, 400 GB Scalable architecture

19nm flash technology (MLC)

Scalable, Cost Effective Media

8

DDR

to

SATA



Guardian Technology™ Platform Is a Key Enabler

Deep Flash

Characterization

Understanding

Flash Capability

Aggregated

Flash

Management

Use Each Flash

Device to its

Full Capability

Advanced Signal

Processing

Optimizing Flash

Settings Over

Product Life

Value Based

High Performance

High Endurance

Enterprise Class SSD

0.5 DWPD Up to 10 DWPD

19nm MLC NAND ULLtraDIMM

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ULLtraDIMM

Usage Model Ultra low latency + scalable IOPS

Capacity 200GB, 400GB

Form Factor RDIMM

Endurance (Random) 10 DWPD

Warranty 5 years

Software Drivers

Linux RedHat Linux SuSe Microsoft Windows Vmware ESX

6.3 SLES 11 SP1 2008R2 5.1U1

6.4 SLES 11 SP2 2012 5.1U2

6.5 SLES 11 SP3 2012 R2 5.5

ULLtraDIMM Series

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Utilizing Existing Server Infrastructure

Scalable I/O & Capacity DDR3 Interface & Protocol

Example: IBM

x3850 X6 server

Scalable up to 32

ULLtraDIMMs

Up to 12.8TB

capacity

>4.5M IOPS in

a single server

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Customer Validation

Source: IBM Redpaper ‘ Benefits of IBM eXFlash Memory Channel Storage in Enterprise Solutions’; Author: Ilya Krutov; February 24, 2014; IBM form# REDP-5089-00

Lower is better Near Linear Scaling

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Benefits to Applications

Block device

Low, predictable latency

Fast interactive data analysis

Block device/ memory extension*

Increase transactions per second

Memcached consolidation

Block device

Increased VMs per node

Faster response times per VM

Block device

Utilizes empty DIMM slots

Enables high density storage blades

Memory extension*

Reduce response times for analytics queries

Financial Services

Database/ Cloud Virtualization

Blade Server

In Memory Compute

* Future roadmap

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Benefits to Applications

Latency

Sensitive

Write

Intensive

Read

Intensive

Bandwidth

Intensive

IOPS

Intensive

Good for

ULLtraDIMM

OLTP database

No SQL database

Virtual desktop

High frequency trading

Web 2.0

Lowest latency SSD solution in the market

Near linear scalability in IOPS and bandwidth w/ parallel processing architecture

Source: IBM Redpaper ‘ Benefits of IBM eXFlash Memory Channel Storage in Enterprise Solutions’; Author: Ilya Krutov; February 24, 2014; IBM form# REDP-5089-00

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Reduced Latency Enables Real-Time Analytics

Time

Latency (usec) 2500

2000

1500

1000

500

0 Consistent Latency

AMPS Messaging Suite by 60 East

PCIe SSD

ULLtraDIMM™ SSD

Low Latency, Predictable Performance will win the trade

*Source: http://www.informationweek.com/wall-streets-quest-to-process-data-at-th/199200297 and 60East Technologies presentation at Low Latency Summit, 2013

50/50 Log/Playback

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First enterprise-class SSD that utilizes the memory bus

ULLtraDIMM takes advantage of the ultra-fast memory bus lanes

Lowest write latency SSD in the market

Parallel architecture allows high IOPS and bandwidth performance

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Summary





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Enterprise IP LLC. Guardian Technology and ULLtraDIMM are trademarks of SanDisk Enterprise IP LLC. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their

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