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BeyondRAID – RAID Without Regrets

IP ExpoOctober 2010

Paul Thackeray – VP/GM of EMEA

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Agenda

Business Challenges of SMBs

Limitations of Traditional RAID

Key Benefits of BeyondRAID

About Data Robotics

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Business Challenges of SMBs

Data storage is too complex to manage – requires the ability to predict future storage needs

Storage failure cause downtime and massive loss of productivity and revenue

Limited budgets are not sufficient to keep up with exploding data growth - SMB storage continues to be overpriced

Small, overworked IT staff tend to be generalists and are unlikely to have in-depth knowledge of storage

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There is a need for safe, expandable storage…

SoHo and Remote Workers

Small and Medium Business Servers

Digital Home Theatre Media Center PCHi-Def

Small and Medium Business Applications

External Storage Solutions

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…Yet RAID remains the only alternative

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Traditional RAID

✔Protection Against Hard Drive Failure

however.........

✘Complicated to Configure

✘Difficult to Expand

✘Inflexible - Requires Identical Drives

✘Inefficient - Requires Dedicated Hot Spare

✘Antiquated – 25 Year Old Technology

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What if you could...

Not have to configure or manage RAID levels

Switch between RAID levels with a single click

Utilize any size drive from any manufacturer

Instantly expand by adding a larger drive

Never have to manage capacity at the volume level

Have RAID arrays that manage and heal themselves

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BeyondRAID – RAID Without Regrets

Heterogeneous – mix drive sizes, vendors Auto detecting and configuring Instant expansion Self-healing Change between RAID levels instantly No provisioning required, ever No skilled management required Determine real usage at a glance - “data aware” Operations (e.g. rebuilds) happen much more quickly

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RAID 1

RAID 5

RAID 6

BeyondRAID

Single Disk Redundancy ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔Dual Disk Redundancy ✔ ✔

Instant Expansion ✔Smart Volumes™ ✔Data Aware ✔Proportional Rebuild Times ✔Automatic Healing ✔Mixed Drive Size Utilization ✔Thin Provisioning ✔ ✔ ✔Self-Managing Storage ✔

BeyondRAID vs. Traditional RAID

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Not All Thin Provisioning is Created Equal

Most thin provisioning pulls storage from specific drives

Still requires LUN-level capacity management

Limited-to-no ability to reclaim blocks from deleted data

Smart Volumes pull storage from common pool of drives

Common pool eliminates need for LUN-level capacity management

Smart Volumes “stay thin” by reclaiming deleted data blocks

CommonDrive Pool

LUN 1 LUN 2 LUN 3 SV 1 SV 2 SV 3

90%Full15%

Full25%Full

RAID BeyondRAID

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About Data Robotics

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Provide SMB and Departmental Enterprise customers with the best storage experience ever

Easier to use and manage Affordability for the value that is

unprecedented Safer and smarter regarding

data protection Expandable in an easy and

perpetual manner

Expandability

Security

Affordability

Ease of use

Drobo Value Proposition

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Shipped first product mid-2007

100% year-year growth rates

>150,000 units sold

>50 Industry Awards

Started with Prosumers and Creative Professionals

Expansion to business (SOHO, SMB) products

Global: Offices in UK, US, Germany, Singapore

Rapid Growth

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Drobo Customers Range Beyond the SMBBusiness Government Education

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Data Robotics Business Products

Model DroboPro DroboPro FS DroboElite

Pricing Starting at £959 Starting at £1,279 Starting at £2,739

Primary UsageDAS - Single Server

StorageNAS – Shared File

Storage

SAN - Multiple Server Storage for SMBs and

Departments

Capacity 8 Drives / 16TB 8 Drives / 16TB 8 Drives / 16TB

Redundancy Single or Dual Drive Single or Dual Drive Single or Dual Drive

Volumes Up to 16 Auto Up to 255

Hosts Single Up to 25 Active Up to 16

Interfaces Gigabit Ethernet (iSCSI), FireWire 800, USB 2.0

Dual Gigabit Ethernet (SMB/CIFS & AFP)

Dual Gigabit Ethernet (iSCSI)

New

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Award-Winning DroboPro

Single server storage for creative professionals and SMBs

Over 10,000 units installed iSCSI, FireWire, and USB interfaces Eight (8) drive capacity Supports up to 16 Smart Volumes Single or dual-drive redundancy Ideal for single server storage, disk-

based backup, or online archive

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Customer Validation of BenefitsDroboPro

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DroboElite – World’s First Self-Managing iSCSI SAN Multiple server storage for SMBs and departments Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports offer best-in-class performance Eight (8) drive capacity with single or dual drive redundancy Supports up to 255 Smart Volumes and up to 16 hosts Symantec and VMware Certified Perfect for email storage (<100 mailboxes), virtual machine

storage, disk-based backup, multiple-machine media editing Savings up to 90% compared to other iSCSI solutions

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Customer Validation of BenefitsDroboElite

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UpgradeForever

Pay As You Grow

DataAware

Mix n’ MatchDrives

SimpleManagement

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