This document provides an overview and agenda for an Orange Information Systems Group Technology Update meeting on July 5th, 2012. It introduces Atlantis Computing, a software company focused on I/O optimization for virtualized environments. The document summarizes Atlantis Computing's technology, customers, and partnerships. It then provides details on how Atlantis addresses costs and performance issues for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments through its ILIO software. The technical overview section explains how ILIO works to reduce storage usage and improve performance. Finally, there is information on an upcoming demo and question and answer session.
2. Agenda
Introduction Company Background, Focus and Customer Success Stories
Technical Overview Deep Dive into technology and benefits
Demo Overview of testing completed and results
3. Atlantis Computing
§ Software Company focused on I/O optimization for virtualized environments
§ HQ in Silicon Valley – Mountain View, CA
§ Offices in North America, Europe – London, Amsterdam
§ Partnerships with over 70 resellers globally
§ Venture Capital funded
§ Strategic Relationships with Key Industry vendors
§ Industry experts on Large Scale Desktop Virtualization Deployments
4. Atlantis Addresses VDI Costs and User Acceptance
§ Software only! - Complements Citrix, Microsoft and VMware
§ Cuts VDI CAPEX & OPEX – below PC cost!
§ Use less storage – Over 90% less storage needed
§ Use any storage – Shared SAN/NAS, local disks, or SSDs
§ Deploy with NO storage – Any server with ILIO Diskless VDI
§ Delivers fastest VDI – better than PC, even with iPads
§ Mitigate Operational Risks
§ Use same infrastructure to move from persistent to stateless desktops
§ Address Win7 IOPs and A/V issues
5. Atlantis Addresses VDI Costs and User Acceptance
§ Software only! Virtual Machine (VM)
§ VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, and Microsoft Hyper-V
§ No agents or changes to desktop images
§ Cuts VDI CAPEX & OPEX – below PC cost!
§ Use less storage – Over 90% less storage needed
§ Use any storage – Shared SAN/NAS, local disks, or SSDs
§ Deploy with NO storage – Any server with ILIO Diskless VDI
§ For Stateless and Persistent deployments
§ Supports Windows XP and Windows 7, Server 2003/2008
§ Accelerates Application Virtualization – ThinApp, App-V, etc.
6. Existing
Relevant Customers
Overview Established Customer, 65,000 users in production
Cost effective, high performance solution without Shared Storage
Overview Initial 10,000 users for internal use and Desktop-as-a-Service
Completely diskless architecture for lowest cost and best performance
Overview Hit performance issues with SAN – needed better than a PC
ILIO provides huge performance improvements – no further storage
Overview Strategic Engagement for Desktop Transformation
Global VDI initiative for 40,000 users
8. Atlantis ILIO: How
Identify and map Intelligent NTFS
block to file Processing
semantics
Shared Storage
Local Storage
Or Memory
Intelligent IO Scatter/Gather
Characterization Characterization
I/O De-duplication Processing Coalescing
Atlantis ilio
Eliminate duplicate Sequentialize
Write Requests on reduced I/O streams
wire & on disk for efficient writing
VDI Session Servers
9. Atlantis ILIO: Why
Virtualization-Aware Virtualized
Borderless Network Collaborative Workspace
Cisco Virtualization
Cisco® Experience Clients
MS Office
Identity
AnyConnect
Services
Engine Cisco VXC 6215
Thin Client
PC
Hypervisor
Cisco VXC 4000
PC Client
AnyConnect WAAS
Thin Client
Tablet
§ Storage IOPS traffic reduction in Compute – up to 90% reduce
Windows NTFS IO traffic processed locally to greatly reduce storage traffic
§ Inline Deduplication for VDI Workloads – 90-99% Reduction
Deduplicates Windows Image components “on-the-wire” before reaching storage
10. Atlantis ILIO Diskless
Citrix
VDI
XenDesktop
Or
VMware View
Server / Blade And WITH JUST
SOFTWARE
VMware ESX
§ Scale with servers and software only! à No SAN, No SSD and No drive
§ NO storage to run desktops à CAPEX below $200/user and low OPEX
§ High performance end-user experience @360 IOPS / user
§ Simple to set up and scalable on demand
11. Simplest Way to Deploy VDI
§ Simpler design Desktop Density
§ Eliminates risks in storage sizing and networking Cisco B230 M2 Blade – 160
virtual desktops per blade
§ No PCI-e cards or SSD’s to install or support Chassis (6U) – 1,280 virtual
desktops per chassis
§ Simpler deployment Rack (30U) – 6,400 virtual
desktops per rack
§ ILIO Fast Clone feature provisions a new desktop
– Full Clone every 5 seconds
§ Go from 0 to 100’s of desktops in just minutes
§ Simpler at scale
§ No storage to provision, monitor, or maintain Read whitepaper at
§ VMware vCenter and Atlantis ILIO Center to manage large bit.ly/ciscoatlantisdisklessvdi
scale deployments
12. Atlantis ILIO for XenApp
Atlantis ILIO for XenApp
Performance
Bringing benefits of Atlantis ILIO to virtualised XenApp (12 XenApp Instances)
server workloads 45
40
§ 97% faster provisioning and 4x faster boot time 35
30
§ Provides faster user access to XenApp
Time (Minutes)
25
20
§ Increases user density – 16% more 15
10
§ Saves on storage – 10x storage user density 5
0
Provisioning Time Boot Time
Before Atlantis ILIO After Atlantis ILIO
Boot time Source: Independent Testing by Shawn Bass, CTP
Provisioning Source: Internal Atlantis Computing Testing
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