TRANSFORM YOUR DATABASE INFRASTRUCTURE

ACCELERATE, CONSOLIDATE, AND SIMPLIFY

All-Flash Arrays (AFAs) are the preferred choice to accelerate high-performance

OLTP and decision support/analytics applications on Oracle and Microsoft SQL

Server databases. But not all AFAs are equal. Performance is just one dimension.

XtremIO excels in all.

• XtremIO’s unique clean-sheet scale-out architecture offers powerful inline and

always-on data services with consistent performance. This architecture allows

for the simplification and consolidation of production, real-time analytics,

development and testing, and the broader database infrastructure.

• Not all AFAs have snapshots. Where snapshots are available, they are not space-

efficient, have huge performance and metadata overhead, and cannot scale.

XtremIO’s full-performance snapshots are metadata and capacity space-efficient

as well as inherently writeable.

XtremIO combines the above with enterprise-class availability and reliability,

allowing you to virtualize and consolidate thousands of instances/copies on an

optimal footprint. The result is increased agility in business intelligence,

innovation, and IT efficiency at Petabyte-scale effective capacity.

SCALE AND ACCELERATE DATABASES

OLTP transactions/queries and data warehouse/analytics jobs are severely impacted

by storage that is not capable of delivering consistent and predictable low latency and

high bandwidth for varying IO profiles. XtremIO’s architecture delivers consistent and

predictable performance for any IO workload—large or small block, sequential or

random access, physical or virtual servers, and for both parents and their

clones/snapshots. With XtremIO, you can run your OLTP transactions/query, business

intelligence analytics, and reports significantly faster, at lower total cost, and with

consistent and predictable response times.

Do more with existing infrastructure: XtremIO’s consistently low IO latency

drastically improves the servers’ CPU utilization, often freeing up 50-100% more

cycles for database use. Database infrastructure utilization can be improved by

increasing concurrent queries and users and broadening the analytics scope with

existing server/CPU infrastructure.

Databases like Oracle and SQL Server demand consistently low latency and exceptional I/O performance to respond instantly to OLTP queries/transactions and shrink Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence batch processing times. Hence, consolidating and virtualizing databases has been considered a risky initiative for any enterprise.

With it’s unique and easy to scale architecture, the XtremIO All-Flash Array delivers consistent performance for database environments demanding hundreds of thousands of IOPS and consistent sub-millisecond latency. XtremIO is integrated into your favorite EMC data protection, availability, and virtualization solutions, making database storage more simple and powerful than ever before.

CONSOLIDATE DATABASE INSTANCES AND STORAGE SILOS It’s time to move away from the inefficient traditional methods of overprovisioning

storage silos for multiple database instances, creating brute-force copies, and explicit

application silos. While these methods evolved to address storage performance

issues and preserve production service level agreements, they are wasteful in both

capital and operational costs. Even worse, they fundamentally slow key business

agility objectives like on-demand reporting and flexible test/dev deployment models.

XtremIO eliminates these traditional storage overprovisioning, tuning, performance,

and scalability issues. Data reduction technologies like inline deduplication and inline

compression reduce capacity need for deploying larger databases and multiple

database copies. Powerful space-efficient writeable snapshots enable workflow and

infrastructure consolidation for data warehouses, analytics, and test/dev

infrastructures with production databases without compromising SLAs. Finally, the

scale-out architecture of XtremIO enables your storage infrastructure to keep up with

consolidation efforts and application/data growth. The compounding effects of

deduplication, compression, snapshots, and scale-out design mean unprecedented

scale in a tiny datacenter footprint. What does this mean for you?

Test/Dev Efficiency: Accelerate your business innovation cycles by deploying as

many copies for as many developers for any database instances you want using full-

performance space-efficient writeable snapshots. With unrestricted high-performance

test/dev environments, you can reduce application rollout times and increase

production quality.

On-Demand Analytics & Reporting: XtremIO’s copy services deliver on the promise

of real-time analytics and on-demand data marts, with full-performance snapshots

and clones that can be instantly created and rapidly deleted with no capacity or

performance impact on the production database instance. Accelerate your decision

support cycles without separate storage silos, unnecessary ETL, and SLA risks.

Virtualization at Last: XtremIO removes the storage bottlenecks and SLA concerns

that have been holding back your database virtualization plans. Virtualize your

database infrastructure with confidence with XtremIO to get scalable, consistent, and

predictable performance for your business critical applications, even when virtualized.

XtremIO All-Flash Arrays not only deliver levels of performance previously unachievable, but also make databases and their related analytics and applications workloads simple and sustainable, even as user demands grow: • Consistent and predictable

performance— Support any level of low latency transactional IO with XtremIO’s scale-out design.

• Faster application rollouts—

XtremIO is simple to deploy and provision without any complex setup or tuning steps. Create instant space-efficient database clones for development and test efforts with the same high performance levels.

• Virtualize databases with ease—

With XtremIO, IO intensive databases can be virtualized without risk of performance or SLA issues. IOPS density helps with consolidation of even the highest performance databases.

Best-In-Class Production Availability & EMC Portfolio Integration Business-critical applications require a high degree of availability and reliability along

with enterprise features like non-disruptive upgrades and integration with your

availability, protection, and virtualization solutions.

XtremIO’s unique N-way active-active controller architecture offers the industry’s

leading AFA reliability and availability, with field deployments achieving more than

99.999% availability. No hardware component is a single point of failure. Non-

Disruptive Upgrades (NDU) of the software are an integral part of the architecture.

XtremIO Data Protection (XDP) provides protection against multiple SSD failures.

XtremIO offers powerful integration with EMC’s best-of-breed solutions like, VPLEX,

RecoverPoint, PowerPath, ViPR, SRM Suite, and more. XtremIO is the only AFA in

leading converged infrastructure solutions like VSPEX and VCE Vblocks.

Superior Total Cost of Ownership

XtremIO’s database customers achieve significant savings in their storage, server, and

licensing capital expenses, and major improvements in operational costs. Through

best-in-class inline data reduction and usable capacity, XtremIO is the most cost-

effective all-flash solution for databases, allowing large amounts of effective capacity

on a small physical flash footprint. For many workloads, server and related

infrastructure costs are lowered due to decreased need for server resources and

potentially fewer licenses. Improved business agility and productivity across-the-

board significantly reduce the overall cost of running the database infrastructures.

XtremIO delivers Petabyte-scale effective capacities in a single floor tile, with major

savings in power, cooling, and floor space. Administrative costs are dramatically

reduced with the most simple to manage, no-tuning, scalable storage platform on the

market. Learn more about how XtremIO can transform your database and analytics

workloads at www.xtremio.com.

IT Efficiency benefits of database consolidation on XtremIO

For More Information:

www.XtremIO.com

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XTREMIO ADVANTAGE VALUE FOR DATABASES BUSINESS BENEFITS Consistent Low Application Response Times

• Consistent sub-millisecond response times for all kinds of IO, at scale

• Less I/O wait means more CPU cycles for your applications

• Faster time to business insights & report generation

• Faster transactional response • More users and queries & larger analytics

scope • Safely mix production & other instances • Virtualize with confidence

High IOPS Density • Database, analytics, & dev/test instance consolidation

• Oracle RAC & SQL Server node consolidation

• Virtualize all databases and applications • Save on database servers and licensing • Smaller footprint • Reduced management complexity

Inline Data Reduction — Deduplication and Compression

• Different database components can be compressed

• Eliminate duplicate blocks on large updates and database copies

• Reduce overall cost of storage • Better OLTP/load performance • Array-based data reduction frees up host

CPU for database

Scale-Out Architecture • Keep up with database growth and workload consolidation

• Consolidate multiple silos into smaller footprint

• Virtualize I/O intensive databases

Flash-optimized XtremIO Data Protection (XDP)

• Better reliability and space efficiency

• Better reliability with double parity • Nearly 2X better performance than RAID 1 • Better capacity efficiency than RAID 5 • Longest flash lifespan

Simple to Deploy and Manage • Quickly deploy new database and copies

• Simple provisioning with no complex pre-planning and tuning