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Open Source in Storage – Myth or Reality? Nithya Ruff, Director of Solutions Marketing and Alliances

SanDisk Enterprise Storage Solutions

June 3, 2014 Silicon Valley Database Meets SSD Meetup

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Outline

• State of Storage Just a Few Years Ago

• Disruptions and Changing Environment

• Tomorrow’s World

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Myth or Reality? Forbes Article

Computer Science vs. Engineering

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2013/10/22/why-hasnt-open-source-taken-over-storage/

Don Woods, Contributor, Forbes

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Reality of Storage Just a Few Years Ago

• Considered infrastructure and plumbing and not so interesting

• Mainly Block and File storage solutions

• Primarily hard drives and tapes

• Beginning of some Flash in cashing, Flash in hybrid solutions and all flash arrays

• A few dominant vendors with highly engineered solutions for mission critical use • Data services – Date Replication, Data Protection, Data Compression, etc. • Commanding high prices and under price pressure • Mostly proprietary

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Disruptions and Changing Landscape

• Big Data Volume, Variety and Velocity

• The Era of Cloud

• Virtualization

• Software Defined Storage and Datacenters

• Hyperscale Companies and DIY

• Flash Economics

• Favorable Demand and Supply Conditions

Source: Gartner on Big Data: Nexus; IDC on Third Platform

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Demand

• More DIY technologies and self service – Customers and Suppliers working together

• Object Storage

• Cloud Infrastructure Technologies

• Elasticity and inter-operable software to work across public, private and hybrid

• Software Defined Datacenter Framework

• Lower cost of ownership and acquisition

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Supply

• Maturing of Open Source Models

• DIY Users Creating Solutions and Making these Open

• Commercial-Open Pairing; Open, Closed and Open Source Plus* Models

• Consortia and frameworks to drive interoperability across the solutions • OpenStack Foundation, Linux Foundation

• Trained and knowledgeable Open Source developers

• Flash becoming more prevalent and accessible

* Term used by IBM to describe value added open source

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A Cross Section of Open Source Projects in Storage

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Room for Open Source and Commercial Company Partnership and Monetization

Community

• Rapid innovation

• Focuses on core features and functionality, missing last mile

• Great for evaluation

• Community based collaborative development model

• Cross company and cross ecosystem problem solving

Commercial

• Open Source based products

• Integration and testing value-add

• Optimization of the product for a certain market or use-case

• Single point of support and services

• Optimization for hardware like Flash

• Hire open source developers

• Influence direction

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SanDisk EMS Open Source Strategy

SanDisk is committed to Open Source and Open Standards through open source based innovation, contributions and memberships in consortia that support and nurture rapid innovation.

Faster Innovation Flexibility Interoperability Lower TCO

Community Membership

• Linux Foundation

• openstack Foundation

Philosophy

• Stay mainlined

• Add Enterprise grade value

• ‘Flash Optimize’

Projects

We believe that open source is the lifeblood of innovation in the new datacenter and for cloud architectures, rapid innovation & transformed IT.

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The Reality is…

• Open Source is in the data center, especially the cloud and hyperscale data centers

• Open Source alone may be insufficient for enterprise grade use-cases

• An Open Source Plus model is needed • Partnership between Open and Commercial

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