Expedio

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Expedio

• Next Generation
• Super File Server Appliance

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Mission

• Establish leadership in the high-performance
  storage application server market by introducing
  Super File Server Appliance for high-end data
  centers.

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Team

• CEO, Rajat Roy
• Founder/VP Product Dev., CopperCom, AMD, Siemens
• CS, Sukesh Patel, Ph.D.
• - CTO Ahsoon, Hotsafe, Manage, Xerox
  (PARC/FXPAL), Lockheed
• COO, Bal Singh
• VP Operations CopperCom, IBM, ATT
• VP Software/Engineering, K K Rao
• VP Storage IBM
• Director Technology-Hardware, V Parisi
• System Architect Cisco, Founder Monterey
  Networks, AMD
• Sr. Director Strategic Marketing/ BD, John
  Karendi
• Dir Strategic Mktg. Server-I/O Systems HP

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Need for Super Storage Application Server

• Companies willing to spend more for larger
  servers Forrester
• Server spending driven by consolidation 90B
  2003IDC
• Rapid market growth - NAS CAGR 133 Appliance
  CAGR 73 SRC

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Goal

• Build a super file server that provides an order
  of magnitude performance and scalability
  improvement over the state-of-the-art File
  servers
• Lower total cost of operations
• Manage fewer servers
• Lower management cost and complexity
• Support incremental scalability
• Improve service quality
• Provide QoS guarantees
• Provide carrier-class reliability

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SSA Features / Benefits

• Unprecedented system scalability and throughput
  performance
• Carrier class reliability for supporting SLAs
• Centralized multi-customer management with lower
  TCO for provisioning
• Customer specific Performance, Fault, and Address
  isolation
• Hot pluggable, incremental scalability
• Support for multiple LAN/WAN/Storage interfaces
• Support for Greenfield and Legacy customers

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Target Customers

• Data centers that require demanding performance
  (capacity, throughput, reliability) from
  incrementally scaleable centralized storage
  initiatives
• Enterprise data centers for the Financial
  services industry (E-Trade, Merryl Lynch, Goldman
  Sachs), Oil/Gas exploration, etc.
• Storage service providers
• Intranet data centers of medium/large enterprises

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Why File Servers

• Ubiquitous abstraction familiar to users and
  application developers
• Commonly used functionality - needed by
  web-servers, application-servers, database
  servers, clients, etc.
• Standardized protocols allow adoption of new
  servers without changes to client/application
  code

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Deployment Today
Internet/Intranet
Load Balancer
Load Balancer
FS
SAN
WS
WS
FS VM
LAN
FS
AS
AS
SAN FC
FS VM
FS
DBS
DBS
FS VM
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Problems with todays deployment

• Server attached storage difficult to manage
• Detrimental to storage consolidation initiatives
• Operational cost too high
• Server attached centralization software is
  inefficient
• 30 overhead (FS VM) for each server
• Difficult to upgrade

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Future Deployment
Internet/Intranet
WAN
Load Balancer
Load Balancer
LAN
WS
WS
Networked Storage
AS
AS
FC/IP
DBS
DBS
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Difficulties scaling GPC File Servers

• GPC based file servers are difficult to scale
  (I.e., performance and capacity)
• Processor is on the data path
• Memory/bus bandwidth contention
• Sequential processing of operations
• No specialized resources to accelerate
  data/control path
• New thinking is required to resolve the file
  server bottleneck

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Technical Approach

• Strategic Do to GPC file servers what Cisco did
  to GPC routers
• Eliminate File system bottlenecks with
  specialized hardware and software resources
• Tactical
• Break file server operations into primitives
• Distribute primitives over a switched
  interconnect
• Configure/deploy primitives dynamically
  (n-tiered) to provide functionality
• Pipelined/Parallel execution of primitives

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The NGFS Logical Architecture

• Uses a switched networking core
• Eliminates the storage bandwidth limitations of
  conventional servers
• Separates data and control paths
• Increases scalability
• Increases throughput
• Reduces latency
• Acceleration used in both the data and control
  paths
• protocol stack processing on network service
  modules
• directory operations (e.g. filename search) on
  the file system service modules

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Advantages of Distributing Primitives
Interconnect
Interconnect
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Next Request Waits
Next Request Starts Immediately
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Competitive Analysis
Expedio
System Granularity
Synchronization/Message Overhead
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Competitive Analysis (Continued)
Expedio
Performance
File System Capacity
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Product Roadmap
Phase 3 Multiple Distributed Release
Beta
FCS
Phase 2 Shared File Server Release
Beta
FCS
Phase 1 Single Server Release
Alpha Demo
Beta
FCS
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2
Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3
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Summary

• Storage Explosion
• Storage demand doubling every year
• Move to storage consolidation
• Build Super Storage Application Server
• Eliminate inefficiencies like Cisco did for GP
  routers
• Based on innovative next-generation architecture
• Team is ready to execute
• Stellar track record of high-technology
  accomplishments
• Executes with blazing speed and competency