Begin Your SDS Journey with ScaleIO: Software-Defined Server SAN

Begin Your SDS
Journey with ScaleIO:
Software-Defined Server SAN
START
“There is no question that EMC ScaleIO is at
the leading edge of software-defined storage.
The current functionality and feature set is
certainly ahead of the marketplace.”
—David Sampson, EVP and CTO,
Itrica Corporation
How is Your
Storage Environment
Performing .Now?
.Now
is the IT world you
are living in today. The costs to
manage and run your business
are skyrocketing. You need to
quickly and seamlessly respond
to rapid change and uncertainty,
and a traditional, siloed
infrastructure defined by Servers,
Network and Storage (SAN) has
inherent issues that compound
the challenges you face.
HardwareDefined
Storage
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Living in .Now leads to inefficient
capacity planning, higher costs
and longer time to market
because of:
Unpredictable
Performance
• Inflexible Architecture:
Limited Scale & Elasticity
Complexity
Flexibility
• Infrastructure Silos:
Management Complexity &
Operational Inefficiency
• Dedicated Workloads:
Finite Performance &
Bottlenecks
Skyrocketing
TCO
Minimal
Scalability
Elasticity
There is a better way to do things. EMC®
ScaleIO® Software-Defined, Scale-Out Server
SAN is a simple, cost-effective solution that
solves the problems of .Now.
Welcome to .Next!
Reaching .Next: You Need
Options. ScaleIO Delivers.
Organizations
need to advance and optimize
existing applications and infrastructure while also investing in nextgeneration platforms and technologies to enable business transformation. They
need to “REDEFINE.NEXT.”
The journey to .Next is easy with EMC ScaleIO. Designed with enterprise-grade
resiliency, ScaleIO is the only solution that provides the flexibility to deploy a
software-defined SAN or complete hyper-converged infrastructure depending
upon your business and IT demands and objectives.
You can start your journey by implementing a two layer model, leaving
applications running on dedicated servers, delivering software-defined,
scale-out, block storage on commodity hardware.
This is what we call “SAN.Next.”
ScaleIO also enables organizations to simplify their applications, compute
and storage to deliver a hyper-converged infrastructure.
We call this “Infrastructure.Next.”
Business Benefits of ScaleIO
Remove
storage and
application silos
Maximize
utilization
of resources
Reduce
infrastructure
complexity
and cost
Easily create
performance tiers
(Flash, SSD,
HDD, etc.)
Eliminate
capacity
planning and
migrations
Linear
performance
growth as
resources
are added
Non-disruptive,
on-the-fly compute
and capacity
provisioning
BLUE CENTRAL
ACHIEVES INCREDIBLE
PERFORMANCE WITH
SCALEIO
“As a provider of enterpriseclass infrastructure,
performance per dollar
and maintaining linear
performance at scale were
key considerations for
us. ScaleIO reached one
million IOPS in testing
and we’re consistently
recording about 466,000
IOPS. You can’t do that
on a typical storage
array without spending
millions of dollars.”
—George Kazangi,
Managing Director,
Blue Central
Optimize
operational
efficiency
Blue Central is one of Australia’s
leading managed infrastructure
experts with established offices
and data centers in Sydney,
Melbourne and Brisbane.
Top Use Cases for
ScaleIO Server SAN
EMC
ScaleIO is a perfect fit for many block-based use cases. From next-generation
databases to IaaS to traditional enterprise applications, ScaleIO can provide the scalability,
performance, flexibility and elasticity required by these various workloads.
SAN.Next:
ScaleIO enables customers to transform
their SAN-based IT infrastructure to a nextgeneration, software-defined Server SAN
to solve the problems associated with their
current environment.
Infrastructure.Next:
ScaleIO can be deployed as a
hyper-converged solution where
customers can run applications,
storage and compute in a single layer
to maximize TCO and simplicity.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service:
ScaleIO enables service providers and
enterprises to build public and/or
private clouds. ScaleIO’s scalability,
flexibility and pay-as-you-grow licensing
model enables customers to expand at
their own pace.
Traditional Enterprise Applications:
ScaleIO can provide the performance,
elasticity and enterprise-grade capabilities
required for SAP, Oracle and Microsoft
applications.
Next-Generation Applications:
ScaleIO is optimized to run
next-generation applications powered by
NoSQL, MongoDB and Cassandra, as well
as analytics platforms like Splunk.
DELTARES DRIVES
KNOWLEDGE AND
INNOVATION WITH
SCALEIO
Throughout the world, Deltares works
on smart solutions, innovations and
applications for people, environment
and society. Deltares relies on ScaleIO
to process massive amounts of
research data quickly and efficiently.
“Using ScaleIO for all our
storage, we’re realizing a lot of
benefits, not least of which is
the huge improvement in I/O
performance. Now, our models
are running almost 2 times
faster—1.8 times, to be exact.
This is all due to the high
performance of ScaleIO.”
—Gert-Jan Schotmeijer
Data Strategy Manager, Deltares
Read the full case study >
Reduce Complexity and
Increase Performance
with SAN.Next
CHECK POINT
REDUCES COST AND
SCALES SEAMLESSLY
WITH SCALEIO
Software-Defined
Storage
ScaleIO helps Check Point Software
Technologies reduce cost and
complexity, resolve customer issues
and focus on its core mission.
—Jorge Steinfeld, Vice President of
Information Systems,
Check Point
“ScaleIO gives us the
confidence that we can
concentrate on our core
mission without having
to constantly worry about
storage. For Check Point,
this represents a major win.”
—Joseph Morales,
Systems and Help Desk,
Check Point
Significantly
Reduced TCO
Increased
Performance
Minimized Complexity
Flexibility
“ScaleIO is just what Check
Point needs to reduce both
cost and complexity while
increasing performance
and scalability. And a
tremendous benefit that
comes with the ScaleIO
offering is the excellent
support that the ScaleIO
customer care team provides.”
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Improved
Scalability
Elasticity
If
you are looking to address your “.Now” challenges and are ready to
re-architect your storage environment, then you are ready for SAN.Next.
SAN.Next is about removing dependency on traditional SAN hardware and
moving toward a software-defined, scale-out, server SAN infrastructure.
Improve Application Performance
• Easily achieve 31M IOPS for 100% reads, 8x faster than traditional SAN.
• Gain linear performance improvements in IOPS, bandwidth and latency.
• C
onfidently run high-performance enterprise applications like SAP HANA
and Oracle RAC.
Rapidly Deploy and Reduce Complexity
• S
tart small (three nodes minimum) and grow on demand to ensure
efficient and optimized growth.
• Simplify management with auto-rebuild and auto-rebalance capabilities.
• Eliminate need for capacity planning or migrations.
Significantly Reduce Costs
• Attain 60% better TCO compared to traditional SAN.
Read the full case study >
• Utilize commodity server infrastructure.
• Buy what you need, when you need it with true pay-as-you-grow storage.
Optimize TCO and
Improve Service with
Infrastructure.Next
Customers
are looking for
ways to move to a hyper-converged architecture
to optimize TCO, reduce complexity and transform
their data center to support traditional and
next-generation applications.
Optimized
TCO
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EMC ScaleIO is the only product on the market
that gives organizations the ability to move to
software-defined SAN (SAN.Next) and hyper-converged
infrastructure (Infrastructure.Next) with a single
software solution. You can choose software-defined
SAN to start and then move to hyper-converged, or
go all in on hyper-converged from the start.
Guaranteed
Performance
Infrastructure.Next combines the storage, compute
and applications in a single layer with ScaleIO.
Infrastructure.Next has all the benefits of SAN.Next
plus greater agility, lower costs and greater
operational efficiency due to hyper-convergence.
SoftwareDefined
Data Center
Flexibility
Absolute
Simplicity
Unlimited
Scalability
Elasticity
INFRASTRUCTURE.NEXT CASE STUDY: SWITZERLAND’S LEADING TELECOM
PROVIDER SWISSCOM TAKES CLOUD SERVICES TO A NEW LEVEL WITH SCALEIO
Before
Local and remote data centers required
Swisscom needed
dedicated
hardware and management.
a software-only,
hardware-agnostic
storage solution for a
Centralized data coupled with
third-generation cloud
centralized
storage which required
initiative. Requirements
upgrades to both simultaneously.
included high I/O
demand and big
Expensive management
data analytics.
and maintenance.
Read the full
case study >
After
A software-only, Infrastructure.Next solution that
runs in Swisscom data centers and onsite with their
customers and is decoupled from the hardware.
Distributed data center environment
with centralized storage.
Significantly lower cost per gigabyte
with both OPEX and CAPEX benefits.
Declining revenues, limited ability to
tap into new market opportunities.
Full support for Swisscom’s plans: next-gen cloud
services, high I/O demand and big data analytics.
Limited ability to develop
new applications in house to
meet changing market needs.
A rich API set right out of the box—exactly what
Swisscom needs to build additional application
functionality in a self-service manner.
ScaleIO: The Best Choice
for Your SDS Journey
In
a recent research study,
Wikibon predicted the overall
growth of Server SAN to be
about a 23% compound annual
growth rate (CAGR) from 2014
to 2026 and 38% from 2014 to
2020. EMC ScaleIO is uniquely
positioned to lead the way to
software-defined storage and
hyper-converged infrastructures.
According to an IDC report, “The ScaleIO
product is differentiated in the market
by its ability to run as a hyper-converged
storage platform and support multiple
hypervisors, operating systems, and
computing hardware.” Additionally,
ESG Lab confirmed, “The impressive
scalability of the ScaleIO cluster validated
by ESG Lab with commodity hardware
certainly places ScaleIO at or near the
top of the price/performance lists of
competitive offerings.”
.Now
A Pervasive Approach
to IT Transformation
Driven by the
Third Platform
(May 2015)
EMC ScaleIO: Proven
Performance and
Scalability
(May 2015)
Wikibon Server SAN
2012-2026 Report
(July 2015)
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“ScaleIO is the ultimate storage
solution for our customers. It allows
us the flexibility to use commodity
hardware and to build solutions
that are purposed to meet our
customers’ requirements. We are
able to realize performance levels
that were previously only achievable
with an all-flash infrastructure. Our
cost of storage is down 50% and our
operating overhead has been reduced
significantly. We see this as the
ultimate storage platform.”
—David Samps0n
EVP and CTO, Itrica Corporation
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SERVICE PROVIDER ITRICA
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Itrica is a global provider of hosted private
cloud and managed hosting services.
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Unprecedented Flexibility=
Amazing Value
Whether
you would like to bring your own commodity hardware or take advantage of
simpler purchasing/deployment options with the VCE VxRack System 1000 FLEX and VxRackTM Node,
ScaleIO can provide a powerful way to transform your IT infrastructure, lower your TCO and enhance your
ability to run traditional and next-generation applications.
Massive Scalability:
ScaleIO scales from three to over 1000
servers while providing one large
pool of storage. Customers can adopt
a pay-as-you-grow buying model so
that storage growth is aligned with
application needs.
Extreme Performance:
ScaleIO’s parallel I/O architecture
has multiple data paths so workloads
are evenly shared among all servers.
There are no bottlenecks and
performance scales linearly with
negligible impact on applications.
ScaleIO can easily attain 10M+ IOPS
with sub-millisecond latency.
Unparalleled Flexibility:
ScaleIO provides the unique ability
to choose the server operating
environment, media type and
deployment mode. The ability to
dynamically deploy different resources
provides vastly improved measures of
IT agility for demanding environments.
Supreme Elasticity:
With ScaleIO, capacity is added (or
removed) on-demand, on-the-fly, in
small or large increments with no
interruptions to ongoing operations.
This means that capacity planning and
migrations are practically eliminated.
Compelling Economics:
With ScaleIO, the use of commodity
hardware drives down your CAPEX,
while its innate elasticity and
elimination of data migrations lower
OPEX by as much as 60% TCO savings
compared to traditional IT.
Consumption models/flavors:
ScaleIO Software on Commodity:
VxRack Node:
VxRack FLEX:
Leverage your x86 server resources
and use ScaleIO software to transform
them into an intelligent Server SAN.
Let us provide the hardware as well as
the ScaleIO software to simplify the
purchasing and support process.
Purchase a fully
engineered, hyperconverged solution
that runs ScaleIO
software.
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Who Have Already
Downloaded ScaleIO.
Start Your Journey Today.
The
value of EMC ScaleIO comes from its
software-defined architecture that transforms your
IT infrastructure by providing massive scalability,
extreme performance, unparalleled flexibility and
supreme elasticity. Whether you are an enterprise
or service provider, ScaleIO is perfect for the block
storage applications and workloads you depend on.
Many customers have realized the benefits of
ScaleIO. Others are just beginning to understand
the potential that ScaleIO can provide for their IT
infrastructure transformation. The momentum is
building and we want to make it easy for you to
get access to ScaleIO. That’s why you can get the
full non-production version today for free—to try it
out and experience the power of ScaleIO. We are
convinced that once you try it, you’ll love it!
Go to www.emc.com/productssolutions/trial-softwaredownload/scaleio.htm
to get started with ScaleIO today!
“ScaleIO gives us a competitive
edge in our marketplace and will
grow as we need it. This, plus the
assurance of the EMC brand, made
our decision quite easy.”
—Ruben van der Zwan
CTO, AMSIO
AMSIO is a leading provider of cloud and
managed services in the Netherlands.
TM
“Wikibon strongly recommends that CTOs &
CIOs initiate Server SAN pilot projects in 2015,
particularly for applications where either low
cost or high performance is required.”
—David Floyer, CTO & Co-founder, Wikibon
“In 2017, more than 40% of Global 2000
enterprises will be involved in Proof of Concept
studies for Software-Defined Storage solutions
compared with 17% today.”
—Gartner, “How to Determine Whether Software-
Defined Storage Is Right for Your Organization,”
Julia Palmer, 13 July 2015
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