1. © 2015 IBM Corporation IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family Cancer Center Achieves Agility with Cloud Infrastructure Built on IBM System Storage Rich de Michele thinkASG Session 1530

2. IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family 1 Enterprise IT Consulting company driven by a passion to Create Clients for Life. We help align technology with the goals and objectives of the business. 21+ years as IBM Elite Partner Who We Are

3. IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family 2 Begins to Deliver IT as a Service Focus on the Outcome, not the Infrastructure Flexibility, Capacity, Security, Cost, Open Why Cloud? Easier is better, right?

4. IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family 3 Unique consulting process called yourBusiness. yourCloud – Where to put my workloads/apps yourData – Unlock ways to better manage my business data yourSupport – Is everything I need to run my business supported yourMobility – Support my expanding mobile workforce yourSecurity – Is my business protected Our Approach

5. IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family 4 What do these have in common?

6. IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family 5 What do these have in common? They allow you to Set It and Forget It Automation IBM Virtualization and Easy Tier

7. IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family Customer Case Studies 6 IBM Cloud Storage Case Study examples Cancer Center Fortune 10 customer Healthcare Manufacturing Media and Entertainment Automotive Finance Genomics Distribution

8. IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family 7 Pre-IBM Infrastructure snapshot Source:If applicable, describe source origin

9. IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family 8 Pre-IBM IT Challenges Not ‘Cloud Ready’ Lack of Tier 1 for mission critical applications Terrible Performance – latency & IOPs Complexity Uptime/reliability Zero Agility Cost of Management

10. IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family 9 yourBusiness solution objectives Seek out new infrastructure with the following criteria Cloud Ready –Agility –Accessibility –Provision, don’t procure Reliability – Enterprise class data availability & protection Failure Protection – Ability to recover from single component failure Simplicity of Management Performance Scalability

11. IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family IBM Cloud Technologies 10 Private Cloud Enabling Technologies: IBM SVC SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center EasyTier HA/DR Replication Ready Infrastructure IBM XIV Cost and speed is unparalleled true Grid Technology IBM FlashSystem Storage Ultra fast, lowest latency EMR, Database and Enterprise Applications on IBM Tier 0 (FlashSystem)

12. IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family 11 End State Vision Source:If applicable, describe source origin XIV

13. IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family IBM Cloud Delivered Benefits 12 Elasticity – The Private Cloud solution enables client to scale their infrastructure on-demand to quickly meet new requirements, challenges and growth. Self-Provisioning – users and researchers have the ability to Self-Provision compute and storage resources On- Demand. This delivers a speed to business requirements in minutes vs. days/weeks/months. Researchers are now able to execute and provision resources immediately and at anytime. Ubiquitous Access – Secure access anytime, anywhere and from any device.

14. IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family IBM Cloud Delivered Benefits 13 Security – All the benefits of the Cloud while still retaining 100% control for security and compliance purposes. Cost – The new Private Cloud solution is delivering greater than a 70% compression ratio, which significantly reduced the amount of storage needed thus lowering the overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Performance – The new virtualized storage system is providing <1ms access and 500K+ IOPS thanks to Easy Tier and all-flash array for frequently accessed data.

15. IBM Confidential Until Announcement of the IBM Spectrum Storage family 14 Consulting Partner Don’t do it alone and reinvent the wheel. Engage an expert partner with deep experience. thinkASG spends the time up front to really understand what your vision, goals and restrictions are before designing anything. We are focused on our customers and how to make them more successful.

16. Thank You Rich de Michele thinkASG 714-514-6109 rich@thinkasg.com