1. Welcome!

3. Time to give back!
• Write down your favorite charity
• We’ll draw 3 for a donation on behalf
of the Flash Forum
• Tell us about your charity!

4. Intros and Agenda
Agenda:
9:00 Keynote
9:30 Virident
10:00 Pure
10:30 Break
11:00 Tegile
11:30 Tintri
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Nutanix
1:00 Nimble
1:30 break
1:45 Violin
2:15 Solidfire
2:45 Q & A panel
3:30 Conclusion & prizes
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5. The “Flash Dancers”
[Presenters]
Keith Norbie
@keithnorbie
David Payne
@_davepayne
Ken Grohe
@LeverageFlash
Joel Lockbaum
@VLockbaum
Mike Recker
@tegile
Jim Nonn, CIO
Justin Lauer
@Justin_Lauer
Tony Holland
@tonyholland00
vRad @vrad
Steve Lytle
@nimblestorage
Don Milner
@violinmemory

6. Or is it more like this….

7. Beyond Hype: Get Informed
Get Informed
• Flash as a technology
• Differentiation
• Raid
• Wear management
• Tiering
• Categories
• Efficiencies
Prepare Decision Criteria
• Financial
• Political
• Operational
• Technical
• Vendor Background

8. Great Source: Pure Booklet

9. Info from Booklet
“4 Things to know about Flash”
1. Cells wear out
1. Different flavors
1. It fails differently
2. Writes are expensive, reads are free

10. Info from Booklet + my
diagram
“Classifications”

11. Interesting effect towards
Moore’s Law…
What’s an architecture bound by? CPU, Network, Disk, Flash, Cache destaging, etc.

12. Decision Criteria Shaping
Scalability
•Out
•Up
•Capacity
•Performance
Efficiencies
•Dedupe
•How granular?
•Inline or post?
•Thin Provision? Why?
Flash Technology
•Wear leveling past 5 years?
•Workload Management
•How does it handle workloads?
•Snapshots, Replication
•Brand of NAND, type?
Affinity
•VMware
•App optimization
•VDI
Fault Tolerance
•What happens with a hardware
failure during a write?
•Cell, drive, node, controller, etc
•Caching/Tiering during HA event?
Vendor Strength
•Fiscal
•Leadership
•Momentum
•References, Case Studies
•Use Cases
Security/Compliance
•Do you support encryption?
Ease of Manageability
•Single pane for PB’s?
•Software Defined?
•Automation
Financial
•ROI/TCO?
•Justification?

13. Where does the Channel Fit?
Top 5 ½
1. Services!
1. Product details
1. Ecosystem insight
1. Third party vantage
1. Long term relationship – Trusted Advisor, Partner
5.5 Pricing & Supply Chain Efficiencies

14. Workload Profiles
E-Tailing
NoSQL, Mongo DB
SQL, Oracle

15. Speaking of Interesting
Workloads…..
Minnesota’s one and only Cloud
Storage Sensation!
David Payne
Director, Systems Engineering