THE EMC

ISILON STORY
Big Data In The Enterprise
2012

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Big Data In The Enterprise

Isilon Overview
Isilon Technology
Summary

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What is
Big Data?

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The Big Data Challenge

File Shares
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and Archives

Bioinformatics

Financial
Services

Design and
Simulation

Media &
Entertainment

Oil and Gas

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70

EXABYTES

60
50
40
30
20
10
0

2009

2010

2011

File Based: 61.8% CAGR

2012

2013

2014

Block Based: 23.7% CAGR

By 2013, 80% of all storage capacity sold will be for file-based data
Source: IDC Whitepaper June 2011 Scale Out Storage In the Content Driven Enterprise: Unleashing the Value of Information Assets
referencing IDC's 2010 Enterprise Disk Storage Consumption Model

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CIOs Turning To Scale-Out To Deal With

Massive File-Data Growth
THE #1 AND #2 CONCERNS
OF CIOS

ARE DRIVING ADOPTION

OF SCALE-OUT!

Data Growth

47%
System Performance
& Scalability

37%

CIO Study October 2010: Key Trends Shaping the

Future of Data Center Infrastructure Through 2011

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Already using
or planning to
use scale-out
within the next
24 months

Scale-out NAS Market Survey, November, 2010

Big Data In The Enterprise

Isilon Overview
Isilon Technology
Summary

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EMC Isilon

Setting The Standard For Scale-Out NAS

Broad adoption in many markets

Corporate IT
Commercial HPC

Over 3,000 global customers

100% Y/Y growth rate
EMC #1 NAS market (Gartner 2012)

OneFS Software
6th generation, industry-proven,
innovative scale-out operating
environment

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EMC Isilon Scale-Out Innovation

Single Storage Pool For Application Consolidation
Simple to Scale
Manage 15+ PBs like 1 TB drive

Predictable Performance
Grows linearly

Efficient to Operate
Maximize utilization to 80%+
Automate tiering

Available Always
Survives multiple failures

Enterprise Proven
Management and protection
tools customers expect

No Data Migrations

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EMC Isilon

Ease of Use And Management

IDC: Isilon Improves IT Productivity by 48%, Reduces OPEX*

*Results of an IDC Business Value Strategy Analysis - 28 November 2011

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EMC Isilon Customers

Reduced Big Data Storage Costs by 40%

Average Annual Cost Per TB in Use
$2,500

$2,000

$1,500

$1,000

$500

$0

Traditional
OPEX IT Staff

Isilon
CAPEX

Source: IDC Whitepaper Quantifying the Business Benefits of Scale-Out. October 2011

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Big Data Apps Need Big Data Storage

Traditional Isilon Workflows

Medical Imaging

Gene Sequencing

Seismic Exploration

Media & Entertainment

Satellite Images

Product Development

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Enterprise IT Needs Big Storage

Enterprise IT Workloads

LARGE-SCALE HOME DIRECTORIES

LARGE-SCALE ARCHIVES

LARGE-SCALE VIRTUALIZATION

LARGE-SCALE ANALYTICS

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EMC Isilon Growing Momentum

3000+ Customers

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Big Data In The Enterprise

Isilon Overview
Isilon Technology
Summary

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EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS Architecture

NFS

CIFS

HTTP

FTP

HDFS
for
Hadoop

Servers

Servers

Client/Application Layer

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Ethernet Layer

Single FS/Volume

Servers

OneFS Operating
Environment

Intra-cluster
Communication Layer

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EMC Isilon Core Innovation

OneFS Scale-Out Operating System

Single Filesystem

High Performance

Multi-Tier

Single volume for

management simplicity

Over 100 GB aggregate

throughput

Auto-tiering and
AutoBalance

80%+ Efficiency

Easy Growth

Linear Scalability

Scale in <60 Seconds

with no downtime

Scale performance and

capacity up to 15.5 PBs

Industry-leading raw
storage utilization

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EMC Isilon

Scale-Out NAS Product Family

S-Series

Purpose-built for IOPSintensive, random access

file-based applications

Linear Scaling of Performance & Capacity

X-Series

A flexible solution to
accelerate highconcurrent and sequential
throughput applications

NL-Series

Purpose-built for
cost-effective, large
capacity storage

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Isilon, Scale-Out NAS for Big Data

Single File System, Single Volume Simplicity For Active,

Persistent, And Archive Data
Virtualized
Servers

Quota
management

X-series

High speed replication

Disaster recovery

Thin provisioning

Backup
Accelerator

Business continuance

Virtualized Servers
File immutability

Network

S-series

WAN/LAN

Protection from
deletion/change

Clients
NL-series
Load balancing

Instant recovery

Seamless failover

Data protection

Performance zones

Client/Application
Layer

Automated
storage tiering

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NL-series

Primary &
Nearline Storage

Local/Remote
Archive

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Comprehensive Enterprise Software

DATA PROTECTION
INNOVATIONS

DATA MANAGEMENT
INNOVATIONS

Snapshot IQ

SmartPools

SyncIQ

SmartQuotas

SmartConnect

Insight IQ

SmartLock

Isilon for vCenter

Unlimited and flexible snapshots

Fast and flexible asynchronous
replication
Policy-based client failover with load
balancing
Policy based immutability

Backup Accelerator

Policy based automated tiering

Quota management and thin
provisioning
Analytics platform to maximize
performance and resource utilization
VMware integrated management
features

Scalable backup to tape

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EMC Isilon Storage Efficiency

Single volume spans all nodes

EFFICIENCY

Directories and files striped across

the cluster

Auto-balance capacity and

performance
Automation:
NO manual intervention
NO reconfiguration
NO server or client mount point or
application changes

Storage efficiency inherently

optimized at 80+%

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SPECsfs2008 CIFS Performance

Aggregate Vendor Performance

ISILON
RECORD-BREAKING
PERFORMANCE

June 27, 2011, http://www.spec.org/sfs2008/results/sfs2008cifs.html

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SPECsfs2008

Linear, Predictable Scalability

Predictable SLAs

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Largest & Most Scalable File System

More Scalable than Traditional Storage Systems

OneFS Scales From 18 TB To Over 15.5 PB In A Single

File System, Single Volume
Under 60 seconds to scale with no downtime
Worlds fastest performance and capacity scaling

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Gain New Levels of Efficiency

AutoBalance
BALANCED
EMPTY
FULL
BALANCED
EMPTY
FULL
BALANCED
EMPTY
FULL
BALANCED
EMPTY
FULL
BALANCED
EMPTY

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Automated data balancing across

nodes reduces costs, complexity
and risks for scaling storage

AutoBalance migrates
content to new storage
nodes while system is online
and in production
NO manual intervention,
NO reconfiguration, and
NO server or client mount
point or application changes
Eliminates Hot Spots

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Unmatched Protection & Availability

Built-In High Availability Clustered Architecture

With N+2,
N+3, and
N+1 protection,
N+4
protection,
Data Is
100% Available
data
available
Even is
If 100%
A Single
Drive
if
drives or
Ormultiple
Node Fails
nodes fail

100%
100%
FAILED

100%
100%
100%

And Isilon Offers The

Industrys Fastest Drive
Rebuild Times
In about 2-3 Hours!

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100%
100%
FAILED

100%

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Powerful, Flexible, & Scalable Backup

& Disaster Recovery
SyncIQ Replication
Architecture
Sync IQ benefits:

Disaster recovery
Business continuance
Disk to disk backup
Remote archive

Block efficient, file

specific
Scales with cluster
Leverages SnapshotIQ
Per-directory policies and
granularity
Unlimited snapshots per
cluster
Minimal performance
impact
Allows tiered snapshots

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Optimize Resources With

SmartPools Automated Tiering
I/Ops

MB/s

Archive

Reduced cost/TB

Innovation
Single point of management
Single file system
Single volume
Tiers of performance

Automatic data movement

I/Ops

I/Ops

I/Ops

I/Ops

NL Archive
Throughput
NL Archive
Throughput
NL Archive
Throughput
NL Archive
Throughput
Throughput
Throughput

NL Archive

NL Archive

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Policy-based movement
Transparent reallocation
NO application-changes

Investment protection

Eliminate data migration

Scale any application
Completely transparent
Pay as you grow

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Industrys First & Only Scale-Out Storage

Solution With Native Hadoop Integration
Accelerate the Benefits of Hadoop for the Enterprise
Proven Hadoop solution, faster implementation
Greater interoperability with enterprise applications through
multi-protocol parallel access from any client (NFS, CIFS, and
HDFS)

Reduce Risk
Eliminates Hadoop Name Node single point of failure

Enterprise data protection

Fast backup and recovery
Simple, reliable data replication for disaster recovery

Ultimate Flexibility
Scale compute and storage separately

EMC Innovation
Worlds 1st scale-out storage solution with native HDFS integration

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Big Data In The Enterprise

Isilon Overview
Isilon Technology
Summary

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EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS

Value to Customers

Scales to over 15 PB in a single file system

Over 100 GB/s throughput, 1.6M SPECsfs Ops
>80% storage utilization, and automated storage tiering
Efficient backup & recovery, reliable disaster recovery, and WORM data
retention, N+1 thru N+4 redundancy
Single file system, single volume, global namespace
Integrated support for a wide range of industry-standard protocols
including NFS, SMB, HTTP, FTP, iSCSI and HDFS

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