The All-Flash Array for the
Next Generation Data Center
About
SolidFire
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Founded in 2010
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Born out of one of the world’s largest cloud infrastructures
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HQ: Boulder, CO
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$150M raised to date
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World-class executive team
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Rackspace, 3PAR, Isilon Systems, LeftHand Networks,
Skype
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275+ employees globally
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700% y/y growth in 2013
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Strong original IP portfolio
Gartner Recognized SolidFire as a “Visionary” in 2014 Magic
Quadrant Ranks #1 Overall in Gartner Critical Capabilities Study
“SolidFire is highly differentiated from its competitors through its scale-out
capabilities, rich software features and ability to guarantee storage
performance.”
“The QoS and multi-tenancy allow customers to run multiple workloads in
isolation with guaranteed performance, eliminating disruption or degradation
from unwieldy workloads.”
-Gartner
Gartner Identified SolidFire Strengths
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High Scalability
High Performance
Emphasis on Keeping Costs Low
Included In-line Efficiency Features
Guaranteed QoS
Design for Multi-Tenancy
All-inclusive, Simple Pricing
Rich Software Features
o Report analyzes 13 SSAs across six high-impact
use cases
o Quantifies product attractiveness against seven
critical capabilities that are important to IT
leaders.
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Overall Use Case
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Online Transaction Processing
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Server Virtualization
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
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High Performance Computing
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Analytics
Scale Capacity & Performance 1U at a time in a linear fashion. Grow
your infrastructure at the same pace as your business needs.
Dial in performance at a volume level. Software adjust Storage
Capacity and IOPS independently to service the changing
application needs.
Automate the entire system via REST-based APIs – just as easily
as it is with compute in the cloud today.
High Availability that provides consistent performance in good times
and bad
Deduplication, Compression and Thin Provisioning.
Global, inline and no impact to performance.
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Scale-Out Architecture
Starter 5 node SF2405 configuration
Linear Scalability
69 TB
400,000 IOPS
60 TB
350,000 IOPS
52 TB
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300,000 IOPS
43 TB
250,000 IOPS
43 TB
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 Nodes are added / removed as demand dictates
 Performance and capacity instantly available to all volumes
 Non-disruptive expansion - No stopping, starting or reconfiguring of services
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Operational Efficiency (compares
173TB of effective capacity)
 Reduce rack space
 Consume less power
 Increase performance
375,000 IOPS
52,000 IOPS
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SolidFire & Orchestration
Native multi-tenant architecture, best-in-class integrations
Flexibility
Control
Mixed Workloads
Time to Value
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Primary Data Center
VDI Success Story – Large Global Telco
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• 3000 user VDI POD – 200K+ Deployment 2YR
Total Compute:
• Selected solution after having analyzed and
completed Proof of Concepts of(18) Hybrid,
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• Replaced existing standard POD which took up 2
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The All-Flash Array for the
Next Generation Data Center
For more information visit www.solidfire.com or email
dell@solidfire.com
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