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WELCOME TO YOUR MODERN DATA CENTER Transformed by XtremIO The World’s #1 All-Flash Array XTREMIO – MUCH MORE THAN SPEEDS AND FEEDS. IT’S ABOUT BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION. Your data center struggles with competing requirements from your lines of business and the finance, 0110101100 security and IT departments. While 1101100011 some executives want to lower cost 001100 110011 and increase efficiency, others want 001100 110101 00100110 business growth and responsiveness. 10110011 01100011 But today, most data center teams are just trying to keep up with application service levels, complex workflows, 0010011010110 0110110001101 and sprawling infrastructure and support costs. These processes are anything but agile, often requiring: 00100110 • Up to 10x the storage footprint to 10110011 01100011 001100110 support a single application across 011001100 110101010 010101101 its production and non-production 0110101100 lifecycles 1101100011 001100110 • Hours or days to generate analytics 011001100 110101010 on what you need to know now • Long development and testing 100101 011010 cycles where only partial data sets 1010110 and user loads are used in order to contain costs If this seems familiar to you, data storage is likely a bottleneck in your business. There’s a solution. With XtremIO all-flash arrays (AFAs), you can have a dynamic data services platform. XtremIO: Storage reinvented to unlock innovation and agility 2 WHAT’S A MODERN DATA CENTER? ONE THAT MOVES AS FAST AS YOUR BUSINESS. • In IT circles, agility is a common but elusive goal, especially when you are Modern data center benefits from XtremIO managing initiatives such as private/ Infrastructure hybrid cloud, Database-as-a-Service, VDI or broad consolidation for Oracle, • Linear scale-out performance – always consistent, sub- SAP and Microsoft applications. To be millisecond agile in a complex environment, your storage must be able to: • Pooled storage and on-demand expansion • Consolidate workloads • Mixed-workload consolidation across production/ non- to get the performance and scale production and workflow applications to run everything on a single array with headroom for tomorrow’s • Incredibly easy to use – nothing to configure or tune application demands. Applications • Eliminate storage “sprawl” Applications through advanced copy data • Exceed the toughest SLAs for consolidated and growing management features, and deliver workloads all-flash performance across entire workflows, not just for production. • Enable real-time analytics and agile dev/test • Automate storage and • Self-service operations for infrastructure and application application processes teams so you can quickly and easily create copies, map them to appropriate • Unparalleled array-based copy data management servers and refresh development and test instances at will – all instantly Business and without a hiccup in performance. • Data-center-driven business innovation Only XtremIO offers these capabilities • Up to 50% lower OPEX and CAPEX in an all-flash array. And with them comes a new world of possibilities that • 2x longer storage product lifecycles have never been attainable until now. Hollard Insurance Group gets agile “The ability to consolidate the BI platform for our HBM division onto XtremIO has proved so successful that we are now planning on consolidating all BI, data and analytics workloads onto XtremIO, eliminating separate physical environments for BI and analytics.” -Marc Nicholson See full case study video 3 TOP USE CASES FOR XTREMIO ALL-FLASH ARRAYS The solution areas and use cases for XtremIO AFAs continue to proliferate. ¢Customers often begin with a single workload, but once they experience the transformational workflow first hand, they come back for more. In fact, about 50 percent of XtremIO’s typical sales come from repeat customers. Private⁄hybrid cloud Enterprise Business Microsoft Exchange and mixed workloads Applications Server XtremIO enables the first true database- Sap, Oracle, and Microsoft Exchange server Are you as-aservice And application-as-a-service applications power virtually every experiencing mailbox and message solutions. Whether it’s private cloud, business, but they struggle with Volume sprawl? XtremIO instantly hybrid cloud or a physical environment, performance at peak times. XtremIO makes your Exchange server XtremIO transforms them all together. Visit delivers consistent performance with environment more agile and Scalable. our private⁄hybrid Cloud Solution page. sub-millisecond latency, enabling you It fundamentally changes how the to meet all your SLAs 24 X 7 X 365. Exchange application and databases Databases and analytics Visit our enterprise applications page. consume Capacity, resulting in unprecedented efficiency, Workflow XtremIO provides a revolutionary speed and consistent user performance. scale-out Database storage platform that Virtual Desktop Visit our Exchange Servers page. consolidates and accelerates production, Infrastructure (VDI) dev⁄test, and BI⁄analytics Workflows XtremIO enables complete Electronic Medical with incredible data reduction and copy enterprise-scale (VDI) for all your users Services. XtremIO transforms databases across all desktop types. It offers a Records (EMR) including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, consistent local-flash user experience XtremIO delivers what epic, Meditech NOSQL databases like MongoDB and coupled with data reduction efficiencies and ¢Cemer customers have sought for Cassandra, and analytics platforms such as that make it more cost effective than years: consistent, predictable latency at SAS and Splunk. Visit our databases and traditional storage. New initiatives massive scale, under huge loads, with analytics page. Including BYOD, 3D graphics, or multiple consolidated instances for the Desktop-as-aservice (DaaS) are easy most productive healthcare experience Software DevOps with XtremIO’s scale-out performance and regulatory compliance. Visit our XtremIO can dramatically lower and radical simplicity. Visit our VDI EMR solution page. build times, increase testing coverage, solution page. launch products faster and improve deployment sprint, test and iteration cycles. Visit our software DevOps solution page. All of the above and more Many XtremIO customers combine multiple mixed workloads in their agile data centers. Every day, XtremIO customers are discovering new use cases and solution areas. What will you innovate? CLAL Insurance recovers $900,000 in lost business and productivity This leading insurance company was challenged by Monthly and annual reporting, which prevented its Customers and 600 internal users from accessing The system for approximately a whole day each Month. By setting up a virtualized environment with Dell EMC XtremIO, VPLEX and RecoverPoint, reporting times improved dramatically. Read the case study. 4 SOLUTION SPOTLIGHT: TRANSFORM YOUR DATABASE AND BUSINESS APPLICATION WORKLOADS WITH ICDM. Case study: Moen modernizes it’s SAP Integrated Copy workloads with iCDM Data Management The #1 US kitchen and bath faucet manufacturer consolidates its SAP land- (iCDM): scapes with XtremIO to deliver improved storage efficiency, performance, and business decision making. The XtremIO all-flash array consolidates your mission-critical application landscapes, Performance Efficiency Productivity eliminating storage sprawl and delivering the modern data center. Far more than Before: Inconsistent Before: Hours to create full Before: lost just performance, it enables consolidating performance with clones of SAP landscapes and developer production and copy data using integrated performance threshold large amounts of SAP storage productivity waiting copy data management (iCDM) to unlock misses driving up data center footprint for 2 day sandbox 1) competitive agility with real-time analytics refreshes. & accelerated development/test, 2) With XtremIO: 37% With XtremIO: 75% infrastructure agility, and 3) TCO with 50% decrease in SAP dialog reduction in SAP copy time, With XtremIO: response time and a 9x 16x capacity reduction, and 4-hour sandbox lower CapEx and OpEx. increase in SAP batch 70% reduction in floor space refresh process performance requirements with high Only XtremIO can deliver all this with its performance copies unique XtremIO Virtual Copies (XVC) for development scale-out architecture, and in line always- environments. on data services. Storage is no longer the bottleneck, but enables database lifecycle acceleration, SAP landscape consolidation, Reporting Business Process Impacts private/hybrid clouds adoption, software Dev/Ops, VDI, and Healthcare EMR Before: Reports take 2-3 hours to • Redesigned backup infrastructure optimization. complete and DR plan. • On-demand self-service portal With XtremIO: Reports are run And XtremIO’s unique AppSync integration created for database copy requests. in minutes. Improved inventory delivers application automation and planning and production efficiency • Moen can now run “what-if” testing orchestration services that allows your team via access to more accurate and without impacting production. to deploy as many copies as frequently as they want. The result is not only simplified timely data • Improved inventory planning and infrastructure at much lower costs, but production efficiency via access to true workflow agility across the entire more accurate and timely data application lifecycle. Typical database storage vs XtremIO with iCDM Limited copies Limitless copies Partial copies Full datasets for superior testing Brute-force copy creation Instant