Provisioning

2. Roadmap

9. Program Notes

12. Appendix

13. ST9990V SPC-1 Performance Results October 1, 2007 News Release: The ST9990V platform achieves the highest SPC-1 benchmark result in enterprise storage history , eclipsing results of every single enterprise storage system ever tested with 200,245K SPC IOPS. This nearly doubles the performance levels achieved by competing enterprise storage systems with a single controlle r. Leads industry with 3.5M peak cache IOPS. A 75% - 300% advantage over other enterprise systems in the market. # 1 in Performance

14. ST9990V SPC-1 Performance Results What this new SPC-1 benchmark result means for customers is: Greater Productivity : Sustain significantly more business transactions than any other enterprise storage system in the market, boosting sales and profitability Increased Efficiency : Greatly improve application response time to single digit millisecond levels and s upport more users, more applications, and handle more capacity on a centrally managed platform that leverages years of mature and reliable microcode Lower TCO : Run a multitude of applications, such as Microsoft Exchange and Oracle Database 11 g , concurrently on a single storage controller Reduced Risk : If your applications don’t perform well then your business suffers—performance definitively matters to business success .

16. Appendix

17. New/Interesting

19. ST9985 V Switched Loop Details ST9985 V introduces a switched back-end, where the drives are still on arbitrated loops but the switch logic bypasses all targets on that loop except for the one disk being addressed

22. Architecture

23. Hardware Comparison of ST9985V vs ST9985 – Hi-Star Net Data Data path bandwidth of Crossbar Switch architecture Net: 8.5GB/s Data path bandwidth of Crossbar Switch Architecture Net: 8.5GB/s ST9985 ST9985 V

24. Hardware Comparison of Crossbar Switch Architecture Net Control Control path bandwidth of Crossbar Switch Architecture Net: 3.6GB/s The number of paths from CHA/MIX to each SM is 12. Shared memory is installed on BASE PCB Control path bandwidth of Crossbar Switch Architecture Net : 4.8GB/s The number of paths from channel adapter/disk adapter to each SMA is increased from 12 to 16. Shared memory is installed on SMA PCB. ST9985 ST9985 V

25. Hardware Comparison – Cache Memory In order to improve access performance to CM, CMA, ST9985V raised the transfer rate of the memory path, advanced memory control method, and achieved twice the hardware performance as compared with Network Storage Controller Model ST9985 . ST9985 ST9985 V

27. Competition

28. ST9985V/90V vs Competition EMC DMX-4 & IBM DS 8xxx / 68xx   VMware ESX Server / Thin Provisioning   VMware ESX Server / External Storage   VMware ESX Server / Internal Storage   Thin Provisioning / External Storage   Thin Provisioning / Internal Storage   Tier 1 Storage & Virtualization  64 ports  64 ports  16 ports  112 ports ESCON Connectivity  128 ports  48 ports  16 ports  112 ports FICON Connectivity 1024/ 128 360 240 1152 Max HDD's SVC Invista!?  FC-SAN – Storage Virtualization Controller only     Tier 1 FC SAN (FC & SATA) IBM DS 8xxx / 68xx EMC DMX-4 950 ST9985V ST9990V

29. ST9990V SPC-1 Performance Results October 1, 2007 News Release: The ST9990V platform achieves the highest SPC-1 benchmark result in enterprise storage history , eclipsing results of every single enterprise storage system ever tested with 200,245K SPC IOPS. This nearly doubles the performance levels achieved by competing enterprise storage systems with a single controlle r. Leads industry with 3.5M peak cache IOPS. A 75% - 300% advantage over other enterprise systems in the market. # 1 in Performance

30. ST9990V SPC-1 Performance Results What this new SPC-1 benchmark result means for customers is: Greater Productivity : Sustain significantly more business transactions than any other enterprise storage system in the market, boosting sales and profitability Increased Efficiency : Greatly improve application response time to single digit millisecond levels and s upport more users, more applications, and handle more capacity on a centrally managed platform that leverages years of mature and reliable microcode Lower TCO : Run a multitude of applications, such as Microsoft Exchange and Oracle Database 11 g , concurrently on a single storage controller Reduced Risk : If your applications don’t perform well then your business suffers—performance definitively matters to business success .

31. Program Notes

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35. Competition

38. EMC

41. IBM

44. The Competition How They Stack Up! (see notes page for detailed annotations) NO NO NO YES #15 YES Scalability NO YES YES YES ? ? ? ? NO #4 YES EMC InVista Dynamic Volume Mobility NO YES YES NO NO YES #13 NO NO NO #5 YES #2 VERITAS VxVM NO YES YES #16 MF support YES YES YES Open Systems support YES YES YES Heterogeneous support YES NO YES Leverage virtualization platform ( required for efficient data volume migration ) NO YES YES #14 Extensive selection criteria ( enabled by device mgmt. integration ) YES #12 YES #11 YES #10 Application/host level support ( required for deep selection criteria ) YES #9 NO YES #8 Integrated with configuration manager ( supports deep selection criteria ) YES #7 NO YES #6 Tiered storage support ( mgmt interface for data volume migration ) NO #4 NO #3 YES Storage controller based migration ( based on virtualization architecture ) YES YES #1 YES Non–disruptive IBM SVC Migration Softek TDMF HiCommand Tiered Storage Manager Migration Function

52. Program Notes