1. 1 © 2013 IBM Corporation Aprovechando el valor de la información crucial en la organización FlashSystem Family Adrian Restuccia High End Storage Technical Sales restucc@ar.ibm.com

2. © 2013 IBM Corporation 2 2009 800,000 petabytes 2020 35 zettabytes as much Data and Content Over Coming Decade 44x Business leaders frequently make decisions based on information they don’t trust, or don’t have 1 in 3 83% of CIOs cited “Business intelligence and analytics” as part of their visionary plans to enhance competitiveness Business leaders say they don’t have access to the information they need to do their jobs 1 in 2 of CEOs need to do a better job capturing and understanding information rapidly in order to make swift business decisions 60% Of world’s data is unstructured 80% Information is at the Center of a New Wave of Opportunity… … And Organizations Need Deeper Insights Smarter Computing

3. © 2013 IBM Corporation 3 Consider Big Data within an enterprise’s information supply chain and storage infrastructure. External Information Sources Transactional & Collaborative Applications Business Analytics Applications Smarter Computing IBM FlashSystems

4. 4 © 2013 IBM Corporation 4 Smarter Computing Demands Flash “The more we have flash for consumer devices...” “...the more we need flash for our data centers...”

5. 5 © 2013 IBM Corporation 5 Why Flash Storage…….. Timing is Perfect! In the last 10 years… CPU Speed: Performance increase roughly 8-10x DRAM Speed: Performance increase roughly 7-9x Network Speed: Performance increase of 100x Bus Speed: Performance increased roughly 20x Disk speed: Performance increased 1.2x IBM FlashSystem ™

6. © 2013 IBM Corporation 6 IT Infrastructure Challenges From 1980 to 2010, CPU performance has grown 60% per year * …and yet, disk performance has grown ~5% per year during that same period ** From 1980 to 2010, CPU performance has grown 60% per year * …and yet, disk performance has grown ~5% per year during that same period ** CPU performance has grown 10x in the last decade While storage has grown capacity it has been unable to keep up in performance Systems are now Latency & IO bound resulting in a significant performance gap CPU performance has grown 10x in the last decade While storage has grown capacity it has been unable to keep up in performance Systems are now Latency & IO bound resulting in a significant performance gap * IBM study of CPU performance ** IBM study of disk performance Performance Gap

7. © 2013 IBM Corporation 7 Most Costly & Volatile Time Consuming, Very Expensive & Risky Wasteful, Expensive & Ineffective with Storage Latency Issues Expensive & Ineffective for Storage Performance Issues Client Responses to Performance Gap Add More Memory Typical Performance Mitigation Tactics HDD Performance Enhancement Add CPUs Tune & Modify Application

8. © 2013 IBM Corporation 8 All Flash is About Economics Improve Performance Reduce Costs Enable New Opportunities Leverage the “Economies of Scale” of Flash –Accelerate Application Performance –Gain Greater System Utilization –Lower Software & Hardware Cost –Save Power / Cooling / Floor Space –Drive Value Out of Big Data

9. © 2013 IBM Corporation 9 No application Or architecture Changes Benefits & economics outweigh disk Reduce floor space, power & cooling Servers, Applications and Databases are FASTER! Understanding Application Efficiency using FlashSystem CPU Utilization & App. Efficiency 4% Total Application Processing Time 5,200us (5.2ms) 5,000us (5ms) 200us (.2ms) Application Processing Time Time Waiting for I/0 (Waiting for Array) Time Processing Data (Server CPU) Disk/Hybrid/SSD IBM FlashSystem CPU Utilization & App. Efficiency 50% Total Application Processing Time 400us (.4ms) 200us (.2ms) What do you do with the Extra Time?

10. © 2013 IBM Corporation 10 Race to Zero Latency Tape Drives Hard Drive Disks Solid State Disk IBM FlashSystem Seconds 5-15 milliseconds ~1 milliseconds 200 microseconds, 1U up to 40 TB Zero Latency With each new gen. of storage, comes performance gains in order of magnitude

11. © 2013 IBM Corporation 11 Supplement your existing infrastructure. Assign the heaviest, most critical workload to IBM FlashSystem. Decrease overall response times. Increase efficiency/utilization across the IT stack. Completely eliminate storage performance issues IBM FlashSystem – Remove I/O BottleNeck

12. © 2013 IBM Corporation 12 IBM FlashSystem attaches to a Server, SAN Fabric, or SVC IBM FlashSystemappears as a block storage device Installation in under 60 minutes Slide into Rack/attach FC or IB Plug in Ethernet for GUI Define LUNS / Allocate files No RAID Groups/No Tuning Controls Management Port provides real time statistics IBM FlashSystem –Easy Deployment

13. © 2013 IBM Corporation 13 Industry Vertical Use Case Where Do You Best Use Flash Today Typical Use Cases and Verticals Cloud-Scale Infrastructures OLTP Databases Virtual Infrastructures Computational Applications Analytical Apps/OLAP Government Financial Telecom High Performance Computing eCommerce

14. © 2013 IBM Corporation 14 Where Do You Best Use Flash Today

15. © 2013 IBM Corporation 15 Exadata Example

16. © 2013 IBM Corporation 16 ASM Preferred Read

17. © 2013 IBM Corporation 17 HANA Example

18. © 2013 IBM Corporation 18 HANA Example

19. © 2013 IBM Corporation 19 © 2014 International Business Machines Corporation CAPI – an open invitation to innovate on POWER FPGA Power Processor Coherent Attached Processor Proxy (CAPP) in processor Unit on processor that extends coherency to an attached device On processor directory responds on behalf of off-chip device (Filtering snoops) Coherency protocol tunneled over standard PCIe Eliminates the need for special I/Os and protocol logic –CAPI utilizes standard Posted Write and Non-posted Reads Reduces the complexity and bandwidth requirements of the attached device Enables attached device to be a peer to the processor Simplifies programming model between application Enables device to use same effective address as application running in processor Eliminates the cumbersome I/O Device Driver requirements –Pinned memory not required POWER8 Synergy – CAPI ( Coherence Accelerator Processor Interface)

20. © 2013 IBM Corporation 20 © 2014 International Business Machines Corporation CAPI Attached Flash Optimization  Issues Read/Write Commands from applications to eliminate 97% of instruction path length CAPI Flash controller Operates in User Space Pin buffers, Translate, Map DMA, Start I/O Application LVM Disk & Adapter DD Read/Write Syscall strategy() iodone() FileSystem strategy() iodone() Interrupt, unmap, unpin,Iodone scheduling < 500 Instructions Application Posix Async I/O Style API User Library Shared Memory Work Queue aio_read() aio_write() 20K Instructions Attach flash memory to POWER8 via CAPI coherent Attach POWER8 Synergy – CAPI ( Coherence Accelerator Processor Interface)

21. 21 © 2013 IBM Corporation IBM FlashSystem Family FlashSystem V840FlashSystem 840

22. 22 © 2013 IBM Corporation IBM FlashSystem 840 Data Center Optimized 1.1M IOPS 8 GB/s Bandwidth Multiple connectivity interfaces -16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel -40Gb QDR InfiniBand -10Gb FCoE Fully redundant and hot swappable architecture: - Flash modules, power supplies, batteries, interfaces, fans Non-disruptive maintenance and updates - Concurrent code load, highly serviceable design Encryption 2U form factor- minimal footprint for best of breed ROI Low power 625 watts Field upgradeable, granular capacity -4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48 Reduce installation and management time with intuitive standardized GUI Low Latency 135/90 µs R/W Purpose-built, highly parallel design Maximize host CPU efficiency and productivity Macro Efficiency MicroLatency ™ Enterprise Reliability Extreme Performance

23. 23 © 2013 IBM Corporation IBM FlashSystem 840: Hardware View Flash Modules (12) RAID Controllers (2) Battery Modules (2) Power Supplies (2) Fan Modules (4) Interface Modules (4) Management Modules (2) Canisters (2) Improved RAS features  Front/Back accessible Hot-swap Flash Modules, Power Supplies, Batteries, Fans, Controllers w/ interface cards and Canisters  Non-disruptive maintenance and firmware updates (concurrent code load) Improved RAS features  Front/Back accessible Hot-swap Flash Modules, Power Supplies, Batteries, Fans, Controllers w/ interface cards and Canisters  Non-disruptive maintenance and firmware updates (concurrent code load)

24. © 2013 IBM Corporation 24 IBM FlashSystemMidrange SSD-based Array Source: SPC-1/E Result #AE00006 (IBM FlashSystem 820), 8/16/2013, and SPC-1 Result #A00134 (HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 Storage System (with SSDs)), 5/23/2013. Data indicated by * is derived from SPC data, not reported directly. More footnotes coming…AE00006A00134 Price per GB Latency (minimum) PowerSpace Capacity density (GB/U) IOPS density (IOPS/U) 75% better 45% better 30% better 75% better 97% better 67% better Optimization Drives Data Economics SPC-1 Comparison – FlashSystem vs. SSDs Under Embargo Until Nov. 19, 2013

25. © 2013 IBM Corporation 25 IBM Flash Storage Impact on Systems Economics 85% Reduction in batch processing times 85% Reduction in batch processing times 50% Reduction in Software Licenses 50% Reduction in Software Licenses 80% Reduction Energy Usage 80% Reduction Energy Usage 75% Reduction in footprint;1 Petabyte on1 floor tile. 75% Reduction in footprint;1 Petabyte on1 floor tile. Better Economics Without Re-architecting Applications 100 µs Latency No more bottlenecks 100 µs Latency No more bottlenecks Enterprise Reliability High Availability, 2D Flash RAID & IBM Variable Stripe RAID TM Enterprise Reliability High Availability, 2D Flash RAID & IBM Variable Stripe RAID TM The data below are based on average operating conditions that may or may not be representative of a particular customer’s operating environment. The use case measurements are from TMS customers using the flash technology that has been integrated into IBM’s systems

26. © 2013 IBM Corporation 26 John the Datacenter Owner

27. 27 © 2013 IBM Corporation FlashSystem Family GRACIAS!! Adrian Restuccia High End Storage Technical Sales restucc@ar.ibm.com